Speaker 1: The Utah Jazz Nia Cinderella team. Let's be honest, Glass
Speaker 1: Slipper is coming at any moment. They're turning into a
Speaker 1: pumpkin any second. Now you're about to guess what probably
Speaker 1: have the best situation happened to your franchise that you
Speaker 1: could possibly imagine. After a really really good start, the
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz are this is still a pretty good team,
Speaker 1: but they've definitely fallen back to Earth right fifteen and twelve.
Speaker 1: They're very good at home. But what we now know,
Speaker 1: according to the rumors, is that there are going to
Speaker 1: be sellers at the deadline, despite what Trader Danny has
Speaker 1: to say. According to insiders, they have got more pieces
Speaker 1: than Gary Ve looks at a car and thinks that
Speaker 1: he can sell like more of those. They have so
Speaker 1: many pieces that they are going to move for the
Speaker 1: right price. It's insane. There are pieces that they are
Speaker 1: going to move for the right price. There's Colin Sexton, right,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get much run in Utah. There's Kelly Olynok,
Speaker 1: he's been very very good this year. He can help
Speaker 1: a contender absolutely, That's why that's why Danny Range got him.
Speaker 1: You've got Mike Conley, right, He's got probably more value
Speaker 1: than Lowry d Rose and Patrick Beverley combined. You've got
Speaker 1: Rudy Gay, who would be of interest to a lot
Speaker 1: of teams, and then you've got Malik Beasley. I think
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley's probably the best out of all of them
Speaker 1: in terms of just like what you can get from
Speaker 1: a middle of the road, high end starter. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be good for a team with playoff hopes. But two
Speaker 1: players now all of a sudden who are going to
Speaker 1: not be on the move that we thought might be
Speaker 1: one Lori Markinen, who is just a beast, just an
Speaker 1: absolute out of his mind wing defender. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with him. We'll talk more a little
Speaker 1: bit later in this episode about JB. Bickerstaff and how
Speaker 1: he turned Lori market into version of a beast on
Speaker 1: top of him playing for Team Finland. But wow, is
Speaker 1: he the kind of piece that you want to build
Speaker 1: around blossoming in Utah. And then the other player that's
Speaker 1: apparently not on the move that even shocks me more
Speaker 1: because I thought he was trying to get the fuck
Speaker 1: out because he's like such a pretty boy and he
Speaker 1: loved La, which is where he got drafted Jordan Clarkson.
Speaker 1: Jordan Clarkson is a huge surprise. He's not gonna be
Speaker 1: on the move. I don't understand it, but I like
Speaker 1: his game. He was the twenty twenty twenty one six
Speaker 1: Man of the Year. He had twenty three games of
Speaker 1: twenty points or more from the bench. But the craziest
Speaker 1: thing is he's one of the favorite players of the owner,
Speaker 1: Ryan Smith because he never complains about his role and
Speaker 1: he likes to play in Utah. God forbid anyone want
Speaker 1: to do that. I don't understand it, but this is
Speaker 1: what it is. So I think the Jazz are gonna
Speaker 1: lock him up to a long term contract, which is crazy,
Speaker 1: just crazy, because it looked like he was going to
Speaker 1: be on the move as well. So we know this, right,
Speaker 1: We know that the Jazz aren't a playoff team. Probably
Speaker 1: they might be a play in team, but they might not, right,
Speaker 1: depending on how many pieces they move. But that's not
Speaker 1: gonna stop this season from being the success. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: Danny Ainge is doing exactly what his nickname is, trade
Speaker 1: Trader Danny. He has turned Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell
Speaker 1: and he will end up turning them into probably fifteen
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen first ROUMP picks. That's crazy, Like that
Speaker 1: is nuts. And then you talk about Jared Vanderbilt as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, is he gonna be on the move at
Speaker 1: some point? You could probably get a first round for him,
Speaker 1: So props to him. He might have just put Utah
Speaker 1: on the driver's seat for the next five years. He's
Speaker 1: probably the new OKC thunder Have the New York Knicks
Speaker 1: pulled the plugs on this season because the latest reports
Speaker 1: coming out of the Garden are that there are not one,
Speaker 1: but four Knicks players on the trade block. We already
Speaker 1: talked about Derrick Rose being shopped. He's a veteran point guard.
Speaker 1: A lot of teams could probably use his experience right
Speaker 1: to run the SA second unit. According to Fred Katz,
Speaker 1: there are also three other players. Would you believe it? Uh?
Speaker 1: The Knicks are looking to move first? Is Evan Fournier? Shocker? Shocker?
Speaker 1: Uh doesn't surprise anyone. He's terrible, terrible contract, terrible player,
Speaker 1: like probably shouldn't be a starter. He's a good fit
Speaker 1: on like a French national team, but other than that,
Speaker 1: he's fucking awful. His shot spot, shooting ability, could probably
Speaker 1: help some contenders down the stretch. But the problem is
Speaker 1: he has another year on his contract at nineteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: He's probably a negative asset, like they are talking about
Speaker 1: trading other decent players with Evan Fournier because he's Evan Fournier.
Speaker 1: Like that, You're not an asset at that point, you
Speaker 1: are a liability. The most surprising player though right now
Speaker 1: on the trade block em Manual Quickly. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to be this big part of the next future, but
Speaker 1: he's basically played himself out of the rotation. Tibbs doesn't
Speaker 1: like him. He doesn't play defense, he's shooting awful. Like
Speaker 1: the Knicks are seeking a first rounder in return for him.
Speaker 1: But then when you pair him with Evan Fournier, it's
Speaker 1: probably like you receive one, you give one who knows right.
Speaker 1: Least surprising trade twer target is and we knew this
Speaker 1: before he even got to the Knicks. Cam Reddish. Cam
Speaker 1: Reddish is on the move, baby. He was on the
Speaker 1: move in Atlanta. He was on the move before he
Speaker 1: got to New York. He is on the move. Trey Young,
Speaker 1: Cam Reddish, same guy. Uh, the Knicks are working with
Speaker 1: Cam redsh to find him a new home, and the
Speaker 1: latest is the Lakers. The Heat and the Bucks are interested.
Speaker 1: It took a first rounder to get Cam Reddish. Just
Speaker 1: don't forget that they paid a first rounder for Cam
Speaker 1: Reddish and he is out of this team less than
Speaker 1: a year later with very limited playing time. Very interesting
Speaker 1: that Tims could never Tims could never find an effective
Speaker 1: way to use him, which would make him the third
Speaker 1: coach in Cam Reddish's career to be enamored with his
Speaker 1: skills and yet somehow not find a way to you
Speaker 1: said skills on the basketball court in any way to
Speaker 1: have him win games. What does all this mean? Well,
Speaker 1: the Knicks are under five hundred at this point. The
Speaker 1: East is a monster. We are hearing some whispers about
Speaker 1: Tom Thibodau being fired. We're hearing a lot of whispers
Speaker 1: about multiple players being traded. Looks like it's time to
Speaker 1: close up shop out in New York. Tickets for the
Speaker 1: Garden might just be going down very very soon. Three
Speaker 1: folks veteran guards, Derrick Rose, Patrick Beverley, and Kyle Lowry
Speaker 1: all rumored right now to be on the trade walk.
Speaker 1: The question that I have who of these veterans have
Speaker 1: the best value Rose. I like Derck Grosse. He's a trooper,
Speaker 1: he's a tipsy does what he's supposed to do. He
Speaker 1: can give you fifteen twenty minutes when healthy. Unfortunately, when
Speaker 1: he's healthy isn't all that often. And how much is
Speaker 1: he getting paid? Checks notes? Sixteen million dollars? That is
Speaker 1: a ton. That is a ton for a thirty four
Speaker 1: year old point guard with bad knees. Patrick Beverley also
Speaker 1: on the trade block, making thirteen million dollars a year
Speaker 1: shooting twenty seven percent from the floor. That's fucking horrible.
Speaker 1: You can play defense. At this point, he has been
Speaker 1: the lowest rated player in the NBA. Lowest in the NBA. Like,
Speaker 1: think about all the scrubs and he's the worst right now.
Speaker 1: He's also thirty four. Finally, the Heat are now tired
Speaker 1: of Kyle Lowry. They have made him available for trades.
Speaker 1: Lowry when healthy whenever that is or not dealing with
Speaker 1: personal issues has been okay, but he has not been
Speaker 1: healthy and he has not been available. Plus how much
Speaker 1: does he make twenty nine point three million dollars? Wow?
Speaker 1: Twenty imagine being that overpaid? God damn, I want to
Speaker 1: be overpaid like that thirty six years old, making twenty
Speaker 1: nine point three million dollars and not healthy and not available,
Speaker 1: not much in the tank. There's always a premium on
Speaker 1: the point so there should be some interest in point guards.
Speaker 1: Right Here's where I would rank them. It took me
Speaker 1: a long time because I said to myself, which of
Speaker 1: these three would I want? If I was a team?
Speaker 1: Who would I want to trade for? None? The answer
Speaker 1: is none for all different reasons. But the ranking is this.
Speaker 1: Derek Rose, good team guy, good rotation guy, doesn't complain,
Speaker 1: can give you some buckets down the stretch. Probably a
Speaker 1: great guy in the locker room, doesn't make that much money.
Speaker 1: Probably that number one. Kyle Lowdery number two, because maybe
Speaker 1: you say, I give him a go, take him to
Speaker 1: a place where he gets healthy, maybe send him to
Speaker 1: OKC for the veteran rehab program, and then they can
Speaker 1: ship him back out like they did Al Horford. Like
Speaker 1: I would say, Kyle Lowry's probably number two. And then
Speaker 1: Patrick Beverly, who I've always liked, does a culture fit.
Speaker 1: Probably number three. He's been awful. But listen, like I said,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take any of these guys. Honestly, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: three guys on the trade blocks, and you wouldn't take
Speaker 1: any that's bad. They make too much money, they do
Speaker 1: too little. Lowry and Rose too brittle. Like, think about this,
Speaker 1: Gary Payton, was he make twelve Gary Payton the second
Speaker 1: twelve million dollars making less than half than Kyle Lowry.
Speaker 1: I would one hundred thousand percent rather have Gary Payton
Speaker 1: a second than Kyle Lowry. That's where we're at on them.
Speaker 1: Someone's gonna bite at the deadline because there's always a
Speaker 1: sucker in every single room. Where do you think they land?
Speaker 1: Let me know in the DMS or in the comments. Finally,
Speaker 1: Britney Griner has been freed. Let me say that again.
Speaker 1: Britney Griner has been freed two hundred and ninety four.
Speaker 1: It took being held as a prisoner in a Russian prison.
Speaker 1: Not gonna get into the background. You probably already know
Speaker 1: the details. Vate Pen pretty much the only thing you
Speaker 1: need to know vate Pen and Russia. We covered that
Speaker 1: on the show before. I hate people who are like,
Speaker 1: this is a bad trade. This is not a fucking
Speaker 1: video game, right, it is not. You put it in
Speaker 1: a trade generator and you're like, oh, arms dealer, too
Speaker 1: high of a price for Britney Grinder. Fuck you like
Speaker 1: if that's you, fuck you say, like, oh it is
Speaker 1: it traded for this Russian arms deal? Or bad deal?
Speaker 1: Bad deal? You know what? Honestly, like back back to
Speaker 1: what I just said. Fuck off. You do not care
Speaker 1: about this issue. You don't care about Britney Grinder. You
Speaker 1: do not care about political issues and global domination and
Speaker 1: what an arms dealer should get back like, you do
Speaker 1: not care. Like you do not care at all except
Speaker 1: for that it's Britney Grinder and you don't like Britney Grinder.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Do not virtue signal to me. The truth
Speaker 1: is if you don't like Brittney for any number of reasons.
Speaker 1: Could be her politics, could be her sexual orientation, could
Speaker 1: be her race, could be a myriad of things that
Speaker 1: I really don't care about at all. But the point
Speaker 1: of the matter is is it fair that are Americans
Speaker 1: that are still in foreign jails? No, it's not. That
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with this though, like the fact
Speaker 1: that there is a marine in jail right now in
Speaker 1: Russian prison, has nothing to do with Britney Grinder. Zero.
Speaker 1: The US did what was necessary to get Britney grinder back,
Speaker 1: And the point of the matter is if this was
Speaker 1: Lebron James, because Britney Griner isn't Lebron James of the WNBA,
Speaker 1: but she's a top ten player in the WNBA. So
Speaker 1: if that was the case, top ten player in the NBA,
Speaker 1: they'd be out in about twenty six hours, not two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety six days. So we don't want her
Speaker 1: having to figure out whether she's gonna survive in the
Speaker 1: goolog for the rest of her life. Like the amount
Speaker 1: of trauma that she's probably gonna have to try to
Speaker 1: rehabilitate from after three hundred days near in a Russian
Speaker 1: prison is unimaginable. Adam Silver gave out the perfect response.
Speaker 1: He said, Brittany has had to endure dure the unimaginable situation,
Speaker 1: and we are thrilled that she is on her way
Speaker 1: back home to her family and threat friends. We thank
Speaker 1: the members of the WNBA and the NBA community who
Speaker 1: never wavered in their efforts to raise awareness of Britney
Speaker 1: Griner's unjust circumstances. No, it's about the only good thing
Speaker 1: Adam Silver's done recently. And if you're using what should
Speaker 1: be universally celebrated as a way to try to coin
Speaker 1: political points. Go fuck yourself. That is all the time
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