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Speaker 2: Let's look at the reaction from the respective teams fan bases.
Speaker 2: Starting in Portland, things are looking good. Things are rosy,
Speaker 2: universal celebration. People are buying Milwaukee Bucks jerseys, probably tickets
Speaker 2: to Deer Park. We all wanted to do right by
Speaker 2: Dame as long as it was right for the Blazers
Speaker 2: and guess what here it is And on top of that,
Speaker 2: big fuck you to the heat fans. Vast majority of
Speaker 2: Blazer fans are excited. They have four reactions. One relief,
Speaker 2: it's over real, It's over Blazer fans, It's done. We
Speaker 2: don't have to think about this ever again. Genuine relief
Speaker 2: from rip City that Portland was not bullied into taking
Speaker 2: a bit deal and they no longer have to worry
Speaker 2: about Damian and Willard saying mean things about us on
Speaker 2: media Day. Two. Appreciation for Joe Cronin. He was put
Speaker 2: in a terrible position and somehow found a path so
Speaker 2: that all the people who mattered actually became happy moderately
Speaker 2: at least three of course we're putting out memes. We're
Speaker 2: putting out tweets, appreciation, pots, gratitude for Dame. He's the best.
Speaker 2: He's the best. It was the best a Blazer fan
Speaker 2: could ever hope for ten toes down was here a decade,
Speaker 2: did everything that he could to win us a ring.
Speaker 2: I love Dame as a person, I love Dame as
Speaker 2: a player. He's the best Blazer in my mind to
Speaker 2: ever suit up. And I loved r. Vitus a bonus
Speaker 2: I loved I loved Clyde Drexler. But boy, oh boy,
Speaker 2: were they not Dame so many moments that he gave us.
Speaker 2: I infamously said that I don't want Dame to win
Speaker 2: a chip if he goes anywhere else. Really, what I
Speaker 2: meant is I don't want a Dame to I didn't
Speaker 2: want Dame to win a chip if he went to Miami. Really,
Speaker 2: what I meant that was just me being bitter about Miami.
Speaker 2: I couldn't stomach the fact that pat Riley would win,
Speaker 2: because he always wins. Watch winning time. It's just gross,
Speaker 2: a little slip back. He just smug And for Portland
Speaker 2: fans feel happiness over the fact that Nurk is not
Speaker 2: there anymore, and that contract's not there anymore, and you
Speaker 2: get a young number one overall draft pick from a
Speaker 2: few years ago who's got a lot left a potential
Speaker 2: in the tank. DeAndre Ayden didn't get a great shake
Speaker 2: in Phoenix, and now you get him and Drew who
Speaker 2: will result in a Hall. And yes, I think that
Speaker 2: that's a great way to set the Blazers up for
Speaker 2: the future. So I say, I think it's safe to
Speaker 2: say that Blazer Nation is pretty good. If you're a
Speaker 2: Milwaukee fan, you've gotta be fucking stunned. You just stunned.
Speaker 2: How did we get this? We didn't even know. We
Speaker 2: thought it was July and it's Christmas. We woke up
Speaker 2: in the middle of July and there's a room full
Speaker 2: of presents for us under a tree we didn't even
Speaker 2: know should be there. Every Buck site, every Bucks podcast
Speaker 2: is like, huh, how what we thought we were losing? Giannis?
Speaker 2: And all I see is how GM John Big Bass
Speaker 2: Horse pulls some shit off like this. Although Mark Spears
Speaker 2: mentioned that the Bucks had preliminary talks with the Blazers,
Speaker 2: no one saw it coming. Just like with the Drew trade.
Speaker 2: La la la la, Holy shit. Woj bomb uh Bucks
Speaker 2: fans also appreciative. They love Drew Holliday. They don't want
Speaker 2: to let him go, but you can't say no to
Speaker 2: Dame time. AKA it's now called freak time, Pauls. No
Speaker 2: one thinks it's a bad trade. The idea of Dame
Speaker 2: keeping defenses from collapsing on Giannis is gonna be great.
Speaker 2: Of course, they've got unbridled giddy excitement. They've moved from
Speaker 2: the fourth favorite plus six hundred to the leader in
Speaker 2: the clubhouse in one minute, in literally a minute. If
Speaker 2: I didn't know how happy this fase was, the hundreds
Speaker 2: of variations of I'm glad I wore white pants today
Speaker 2: joke would have been a dead giveaway. And rightly so,
Speaker 2: this combo is going to be deadly. Number one duo
Speaker 2: in the East, probably number one duo in the NBA.
Speaker 2: If you're a Sixers and Celtics fan, you're like, how
Speaker 2: are we guarding that? We used to just build a
Speaker 2: wall around Giannis and now like this, the wall doesn't
Speaker 2: work anymore. It does not work. A brief pit stop
Speaker 2: also in Phoenix, as facilitators of this deal, they it
Speaker 2: was just never gonna work with DeAndre Aid and they
Speaker 2: hated him. I don't know why, but they did. They
Speaker 2: got Vogel. Vogel was saying all the right things. I
Speaker 2: think Vogo could have turned eight and into a nice center,
Speaker 2: and they just they just were like, Yeah, let's stop
Speaker 2: trying to make DeAndre Eighten happen. It's not happening. I
Speaker 2: love him, I love Eighton. I think he's awesome. I've
Speaker 2: always loved Dayton since he was I loved Dayton since
Speaker 2: he was fifteen years old when I saw him at
Speaker 2: the Adda's Nations. That's how long. So this is a
Speaker 2: fresh for him. He finally gets the respect he wants.
Speaker 2: He's already changed his two K jersey and putting it
Speaker 2: online to Portland. Hell yeah, the Suns pick up badly
Speaker 2: needed depth. They get in this yere little. They get
Speaker 2: Keon Johnson and they get NRK's gonna know his role.
Speaker 2: He's gonna shut his mouth and he's gonna play with KD.
Speaker 2: He's gonna love it too. Everyone's everyone in Phoenix has
Speaker 2: got to be pretty much over the mood. Finally, we
Speaker 2: end in Miami, where fans are starting to cannibalize on
Speaker 2: one another. It's bad out there on the streets. They're
Speaker 2: like ready to turn on pat Riley. They're saying he's
Speaker 2: a slappy when they were saying he was the smartest
Speaker 2: facilitator league exec. Ever, how much changes in an hour
Speaker 2: as wild It's whoa. The entire fan base was convinced
Speaker 2: they were getting damned. They would have staked their beating
Speaker 2: heart on it. And now rug is out from under
Speaker 2: him and they're looking around like Will Smith in an
Speaker 2: empty room. How is the heat in their fan base
Speaker 2: taking the news? Let's look into it. Uh, what's the emotions?
Speaker 2: Do we really care what their emotions are? Do we
Speaker 2: really care about them? No, but we'll go into it.
Speaker 2: Number one is anger. They're just shocked and angry. A
Speaker 2: whole lot of angry posts across social mediing like how
Speaker 2: did this happen? They've whipped on one star after another
Speaker 2: to add to Jimmy and bam Nobile even though that
Speaker 2: what Phoenix got him for peanuts. There were some pat
Speaker 2: Riley as eighty and these losses Fastball he needs to
Speaker 2: retire posts. Someone tweeted that it was Joe Cronin's fault,
Speaker 2: it was Danny Ainge's fault, it was Clutch's fault. It
Speaker 2: was everybody's fault except for pat Riley's. If the whole
Speaker 2: league is against them, maybe we should replace him with
Speaker 2: someone that can actually get along with people. Whoa WHOA
Speaker 2: hold on. Now, settle down, Heat fans, Remember you told
Speaker 2: me everything was fine and you were just in the
Speaker 2: finals last year, so seems like Everything's. Number two emotion
Speaker 2: is rage rage at the Blazers, which I gotta say
Speaker 2: is my favorite emotion of them all. Much more common
Speaker 2: were Heat fans believing that the Blazers did this out
Speaker 2: of straight pettiness, which I don't know whether that's true,
Speaker 2: but if it is, that's awesome. That's awesome. They're big
Speaker 2: mad folks, big mad, and they're blaming Joe Cronin. This
Speaker 2: fan base is delusional. They really, they really are. The
Speaker 2: fact that Joe Cronin would take a worse deal just
Speaker 2: screw over Miami is ridiculous. Like I said, if it's
Speaker 2: a jump ball, it's fuck you. Number three is resignation.
Speaker 2: I think they're starting to realize that they've got nothing.
Speaker 2: They've lost multiple role players, guys that played, two guys
Speaker 2: that played in the starting lineup for the entire playoffs,
Speaker 2: and those guys are gone. The heat heatles, heat over
Speaker 2: heat a verse. I guess we'll call it felt, a
Speaker 2: whole lot of uh, just resignation over the news. They
Speaker 2: kept be being told that they can't go all in
Speaker 2: on a superstar because the next star down the road
Speaker 2: is the one. That's what the genius about Joe Cronin
Speaker 2: really is though, because the next Domino was supposed to
Speaker 2: be honest, and now they've taken them both away and
Speaker 2: one fell swoop and they've actually taken three away because
Speaker 2: let's be real, the next Domino guard that they wanted
Speaker 2: was Drew Holliday, and guess what, you're not getting him either.
Speaker 2: So Option one gone, Option two gone, Option three gone
Speaker 2: fuck you. That means there's only one possibility for them
Speaker 2: on the table and the Jimmy bam Era, and that's
Speaker 2: Joel Embiid. And folks, if that's your backup plan, I
Speaker 2: hate to tell you. The seventy six ers are in
Speaker 2: the market for Drew Holliday, and boy, oh boy, do
Speaker 2: I see Joe Cronin making that move, which would be
Speaker 2: about checkmate check mate. I think there are two things
Speaker 2: Heat fans can take away from today. One, this team
Speaker 2: signed R. J. Hampton, which is a personal favorite player
Speaker 2: of mine, considering that I watched Davion Mitchell cook him
Speaker 2: for an entire Summer League game, telling us about all
Speaker 2: of the ways he was just trash. You got that
Speaker 2: going for you, which is nice. And the team tweeted
Speaker 2: out that Josh Richardson will wear the number zero for
Speaker 2: the heat. Wow. If that's not putting, oh god, if
Speaker 2: that's not throwing in the towel, I don't know what
Speaker 2: is silver linings, heat fans, silver linings. My personal feeling
Speaker 2: on a more we'll call it Sincere and Oe is
Speaker 2: that I'm incredibly happy that this is the duo we
Speaker 2: got because these are two of the most loyal guys
Speaker 2: in the NBA, and they both were kind of pushed
Speaker 2: to the brink and now because they said something, Hey,
Speaker 2: I need to win, they got put together Dame and Yannis.
Speaker 2: And the truth is, Dame, no matter how much he
Speaker 2: said he wanted to be in Miami, said this along
Speaker 2: time ago about Janice, and I think it still rings
Speaker 2: true today.
Speaker 1: If you were to pick a player that would help
Speaker 1: you win a championship, who would you pick? I would
Speaker 1: pick I hope he would get to play with Giannis
Speaker 1: at some point, those two would be a very very
Speaker 1: nice time, Bob. I mean, I would say, just the dominance.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody that's gonna get to the rim. He's
Speaker 1: a good playmaker, good defender, disruptive, and his the way
Speaker 1: he plays compliments the way.
Speaker 2: I play, Yes, sir, and so I like that for
Speaker 2: Dame a lot. I think he deserves. Maybe you guys
Speaker 2: thought I really meant that he did not deserve to
Speaker 2: have basketball happiness, But I really think this is good
Speaker 2: for both of them. They're two of the most likable
Speaker 2: guys in the league, and I wish them all the best.
Speaker 2: It's a lot easier. Also, another thought that I had
Speaker 2: about this is just it was so much easier for
Speaker 2: Milwaukee to do this for j honest than it was
Speaker 2: for Portland to do this for Dame, because big guys
Speaker 2: like Jannis really really hard to find, hence the reason
Speaker 2: he's a two time MVP Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 2: and Greek freak. Than it is to do that when
Speaker 2: you've got a guard, which are a lot easier to replace.
Speaker 2: And I think Dame obviously I consider him a top
Speaker 2: three guard in the league, but star players ask out
Speaker 2: a lot more when they're guards. That's just the truth. Embeid.
Speaker 2: As much as he's been quote unquote unhappy, he's been rocking,
Speaker 2: you're not getting a Yo kic. You're not getting ay honest,
Speaker 2: because teams don't want to give up on those dudes.
Speaker 2: I am also happy that Miami did not get what
Speaker 2: they wanted. I think I've said that multiple times on
Speaker 2: this podcast, but it's worth saying again. I am happy
Speaker 2: that they are left holding their dicks. Their fans were insufferable,
Speaker 2: and guess what, Like, I'm more upset that there were
Speaker 2: legit Miami quote unquote journalists that were trying to manipulate
Speaker 2: the information to make it seem like there was nothing
Speaker 2: that Portland could do. I do hope that if Dame
Speaker 2: gets a ring in my Milwaukee, that that he gets multiple.
Speaker 2: I hope that they stay together forever. I would not
Speaker 2: mind if they were title contenders and they were running
Speaker 2: through the East. For a minute, I thought that Cronan
Speaker 2: has a new GM, did a fantastic job. He played
Speaker 2: his cards to his vest. There was no leaks. There
Speaker 2: were plenty of people who were saying that Joe Conan
Speaker 2: had dick, and you know what he knew He didn't,
Speaker 2: But he didn't say a word. He kept things closed,
Speaker 2: and that's what good gms do. It's a great day
Speaker 2: also for the NBA. Why if Dame had gone to Miami,
Speaker 2: every star player would be like yeah, and every agent
Speaker 2: would say, I can get my client wherever I want
Speaker 2: to go and wherever they want to go, whenever I
Speaker 2: want to go. And that's just what you cannot have
Speaker 2: if you're Adam Silver. So a good day for the logo,
Speaker 2: great day for the logo. I am happy for Dame.
Speaker 2: I really don't think the Blazers did right by Dame,
Speaker 2: and that's not Joe Cronin's fault, so I'm glad that
Speaker 2: they have found an end to this chapter. I am
Speaker 2: happy for watching Dame on the East Coast because ten
Speaker 2: pm from the East Coast is a rough fucking beat
Speaker 2: forty one times. For Dame to play at ten thirty
Speaker 2: is disgusting. And it's a great day for the league,
Speaker 2: good day for Blazer fans, good day for Dame, and
Speaker 2: good day for fans of the entire league. And if
Speaker 2: it's not a good day for you, you're a Heat fan.