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Speaker 3: No organization seen as more first class than.
Speaker 2: The San Antonio Spurs.
Speaker 3: They are held up as one of the best organizations
Speaker 3: in the league in terms of talent evaluation, in terms
Speaker 3: of development, in terms of coaching, in terms of success.
Speaker 3: There are more head coaches in the NBA right now
Speaker 3: that come from the Greg Popovich tree than anyone else
Speaker 3: in the league. They are the gold standard of pop
Speaker 3: r c Buford. First class organization exactly the words that
Speaker 3: de Jontay Murray once used to describe the team when
Speaker 3: he was traded to the Hawks last week.
Speaker 2: I think that was last week. That's why and that's
Speaker 2: what makes.
Speaker 3: This new news so bizarre. So we know this is
Speaker 3: what we know if you're paying attention. Spurs are currently
Speaker 3: in tank mode. We know this why every piece that
Speaker 3: they had on their team that was of any value
Speaker 3: they've moved off of. They've gotten away from LaMarcus Aldridge,
Speaker 3: they got rid of DeMar Derosen, they got rid of
Speaker 3: Derek White, they got rid of de Jon sat Murray,
Speaker 3: they got rid of Lonnie Walker, all in the span
Speaker 3: of a little more than a year.
Speaker 2: That's not for no reason.
Speaker 3: They are tanking for a guy named Victor Wambayana Wamba
Speaker 3: wem Banana, wem Banyama.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: Seven to five, Kid out of Paris plays like knowing
Speaker 3: you've ever seen, and they want So that's fair. And
Speaker 3: they're probably going to be rebuilding for a minute because
Speaker 3: they're getting a lot of first first round draft picks
Speaker 3: and they're trading off these pieces. So the final shoot
Speaker 3: to drop where we knew they were tanking for real,
Speaker 3: for real was Dejonte. Many people thought, oh, even if
Speaker 3: they're rebuilding, they'll build around de Jonte. He's like the
Speaker 3: SGA for Oklahoma City. Wrong, that's wrong. This is when
Speaker 3: we know that's their plan. No, we're not maxing out
Speaker 3: de jontey. He's on a totally different timeline than Victor
Speaker 3: wamba Yama. There's no reason and they know this. There's
Speaker 3: more team should know this. There's no reason to be
Speaker 3: a ten seat in the West. There's no reason to
Speaker 3: be a ten seat in the East. You should either
Speaker 3: be the bottom or you should be striving for the top.
Speaker 2: In the middle area, you're just.
Speaker 3: Getting like the tenth or eleventh pick in the draft,
Speaker 3: which is probably no. One very good, and you're just
Speaker 3: in the land of mediocrity. You might as well go
Speaker 3: full rebuild at that point, which is what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Tank for a high draft pick, sell your assets off
Speaker 3: for future draft capital, which you can either package for
Speaker 3: a star or someone who you think is going to
Speaker 3: be a star, and then figure out a way to
Speaker 3: get back to the pinnacle.
Speaker 2: So everything seemed fine.
Speaker 3: Dejonte seem fine with it. He said many nice things.
Speaker 3: He said he was elated to be playing with Tray Young,
Speaker 3: that they wanted to play with one another, he wanted
Speaker 3: to play in Atlanta, who is currently in win now mode,
Speaker 3: and that he loved his time in San Antonio and
Speaker 3: a story, right, No, not in a story curiously, in
Speaker 3: what initially seemed at first glance like a departure from
Speaker 3: tank mode, the San Antonio Spurs signed Caldon Johnson, a
Speaker 3: twenty two year old player that casual fans probably have
Speaker 3: no idea who he is, to a four year, seventy
Speaker 3: four million dollar deal, a very big deal, and a
Speaker 3: deal similar to de Jontay Murray's original deal, a deal
Speaker 3: that would signify to those who weren't paying attention that
Speaker 3: maybe Caldon Johnson was the future of the Spurs, and
Speaker 3: maybe they were using him as their new de jon Taymurray,
Speaker 3: their new centerpiece to what they were building.
Speaker 2: Younger, cheaper, and an Olympian.
Speaker 3: But dumb fans can't peep that this is what's not
Speaker 3: happening in San Antonio. They have decided to structure his
Speaker 3: deal to make him another trade piece.
Speaker 2: Right, So this troll.
Speaker 3: Said, try to get under Dejontay Murray's skin on ig
Speaker 3: and it worked. He said, bye bye fly, little birdie,
Speaker 3: good luck getting to the second round.
Speaker 2: At least we got picks.
Speaker 3: And we're building around Keldon. Dejonte decided, fuck taking the
Speaker 3: high road, I'm gonna pop back. I'm going to air
Speaker 3: out what's going on in San Antonio. I'm gonna take
Speaker 3: back everything I ever said nice about this team. He said,
Speaker 3: the way that system is set up, you're gonna be
Speaker 3: losing for the next fifteen years. It's a problem bigger
Speaker 3: than basketball. Then when another fan said that he would
Speaker 3: regret leaving like Kawhi, he responded with four laughing emojis
Speaker 3: and said, you're mad lmao, followed by a clown emoji.
Speaker 3: A problem bigger than basketball.
Speaker 2: Sheesh. I did a little.
Speaker 3: Digging, and I'll give you my thoughts in a second,
Speaker 3: but I want to talk really quickly about this Keldon
Speaker 3: Johnson deal and why de Jontay Murray should not feel
Speaker 3: salty about Calden getting this money right now. Caldon's seventy
Speaker 3: four million dollar contract is set up where he's paid
Speaker 3: less and less money over time, so the back end
Speaker 3: of his contract is actually cheaper than what he's getting
Speaker 3: right now. So Keldon will be significantly underpaid in years
Speaker 3: three and four compared to what the market will be. Specifically,
Speaker 3: considering that we're going to get a new CBA agreement
Speaker 3: with larger salary casts and a seventeen million dollar player
Speaker 3: is probably going to be some guy that's basically a
Speaker 3: two AG league guy. People are gonna get getting paid
Speaker 3: like ninety million dollars a year, So seventeen in the
Speaker 3: Kelvin Johnson schemes of things pretty ideal. So now they
Speaker 3: have control over Calvin Johnson for another four years, and
Speaker 3: they'll most likely trade them in three years time for
Speaker 3: three future firsts, just like they did Jonte So of
Speaker 3: course in this day and age. De Jon taytmurray then
Speaker 3: deleted his comments screencaps will live forever. He then clarified
Speaker 3: his statement a few hours later by tweeting, you have
Speaker 3: no clue how deeply I love the fans and we'll
Speaker 3: do whatever for real fans. Me saying what I said
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with the fans. All that inside shit,
Speaker 3: fake though, for real, for real. So he's like, Yo,
Speaker 3: all that stuff I said about san Antonio, I still
Speaker 3: stand by that shit. They are whack problems bigger than basketball.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be terrible for fifteen years. Probably the biggest
Speaker 3: sorry not sorry tweet I've seen in the long ass time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I meant everything I said about san Antonio. That organization sucks.
Speaker 3: They're really the worst team to play for period, for real,
Speaker 3: for real, and you can tell he the for real
Speaker 3: for real is what got me right. The second for
Speaker 3: real was when I was like, maybe he's really for real,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe maybe something's going on there.
Speaker 2: Maybe I need to make a couple of calls.
Speaker 3: So I did a couple of Little Big Jay journaling
Speaker 3: what I gather. Maybe it's not all hearts and rainbows
Speaker 3: in San Antonio. Question is when is Pop gonna retire?
Speaker 3: No one knows. I asked multiple people at in at
Speaker 3: Summer League, and I was like, hey, do you guys
Speaker 3: know if Pop's retiring anytime soon? Because it doesn't seem
Speaker 3: like he would want to stick around for a full rebuild.
Speaker 3: He's a million and some people said yes about he
Speaker 3: literally looks like he created the constitution, like plus lived
Speaker 3: when the dinosaurs did. And it's like he's got one
Speaker 3: foot in, he's got another foot watching Slovenian tape for
Speaker 3: the next Olympics. You know, he's kind of checked out
Speaker 3: and doesn't even matter if he's coaching this team. We're
Speaker 3: trying to lose games. I don't need to coach. It's
Speaker 3: kind of a perfect time to be a coach.
Speaker 2: In the NBA.
Speaker 3: Literally just chill, tell them nothing, teach them nothing, let
Speaker 3: them do whatever they want.
Speaker 2: Becky Hammond dipped. She's like, I can't wait.
Speaker 3: Anymore for this founding father to dip off into the sunset.
Speaker 3: And on top of that, another thing that I've heard
Speaker 3: another word that was used to describe this franchise and
Speaker 3: the culture was militant. Yes, militant. I don't know that
Speaker 3: a young kid like the Jantet Murray would particularly resonate
Speaker 3: with a militant culture. Greg Popovich, like coach K former
Speaker 3: military guy, runs a very tight ship. We're talking curfews
Speaker 3: on the road where you're not seeing anyone but your
Speaker 3: team on the road, that's enforced, curfews for grown men,
Speaker 3: more strictly enforced than it was at the Walt Disney bubble.
Speaker 3: So practices that feel like top gun Maverick, Like you
Speaker 3: got the big, wide open room with desks and somebody
Speaker 3: up there and making sure you're locked and loaded all
Speaker 3: the way in.
Speaker 2: No talking on the team bus on the way to games.
Speaker 2: Things I can't even believe.
Speaker 3: Things that I had to shake my head and say,
Speaker 3: am I being fed a load of shit?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 3: I mean, that's all good and fine when you're winning championships,
Speaker 3: but the they haven't won a championship since twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: Strict rules hit a little different when you're in the
Speaker 3: playing tournament, you know what I'm saying, Like it's all
Speaker 3: good when you got champagne and goggles and everybody's eating
Speaker 3: steak and drinking wine and sharing personal stories to make
Speaker 3: you cry, and like Greg Papovitch's.
Speaker 2: Giving you hugs. No, this is not that anymore. So
Speaker 2: I tell you what.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty three projected number one overall pick Victor Wanbayama one.
Speaker 3: Number one, they better fucking get them, and number two
Speaker 3: you better be the second coming Michael Jordan, because de
Speaker 3: Jontay Murray might be right.
Speaker 2: The Spurs might.
Speaker 3: Be in a fifteen year losing drought and just rebuild
Speaker 3: after rebuild after rebuild, with Pop collecting checks that he
Speaker 3: maybe shouldn't even cash. Like his name is Steve Nash.
Speaker 2: It's losing time.
Speaker 1: H m hmm