1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. Let's get to Kevin Durant. 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,319 Speaker 1: He's headed to his fourteen in four years? 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 2: Is that correct? Thirteen thirteen? Sorry for the Rockets even 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: they borrowed your strategy. It's the Landam that you pitched 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: on your show. 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it was my exact trade. Just to be clear, 9 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:29,319 Speaker 1: everybody was throwing out do they have to include Jabari Smith? 10 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: Do they have to include Taris? And the trade that 11 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: I put out on first Things first that was roundly 12 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: mocked was Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks and Phoenix's twenty twenty 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: seven first going back to Phoenix. The trade that just 14 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: happened was Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks and Phoenix's twenty twenty 15 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: five first going back to Phoenix plus some second rounders. 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: It was the exact trade. And for the record, the 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: trade that I put out there for the Timberwolves to 18 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: offer was Gobert, Devincenzo and Dillingham for Kevin Durant. What 19 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: was reported today was the trade the Timberwolves offered was 20 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: Gobert Devincenzo, Dillingham and one first round pick for Durant. 21 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: I listen, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to 22 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: infringe on Bill Simmons' territory of the Picasso of the 23 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 1: trade machine. But you know, some are saying the torch 24 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: has been passed. Some are saying it like you just 25 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: go go and check the archives of what the actual 26 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: teams were offering and compare them to all the trades 27 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 1: I came up with on first things, and see what 28 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: other people were describing on their platforms, and just you know, 29 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: let history be the judge, all right, but go ahead, 30 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: sorry about that, since it's injury. 31 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, he's won a grand total of two 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: playoff series. Do you think the Rockets does sound like 33 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 2: you think the Rockets are a real contender or do 34 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: you think they'll end up like previous teams that he's 35 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 2: ended up laying on, like nets of the Suns. 36 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: So listen, it's different situations, right the Nets, he was 37 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: unbelievable In twenty twenty one postseason with the Nets Unbelievable 38 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: lost a historic series to Jannisianis goes on to win 39 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: the title. Since then, nothing's gone right and the Suns 40 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: never were going to be a contender. It was a 41 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: terribly built team. It was him and Booker and Beale 42 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: never made sense. And listen, Katie is older, He's not 43 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: the defender he once was, and his injury concerns are real. 44 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: With that, said Demonse, I think that. I think that 45 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: right now, this moment, I'd pick the Rockets to win 46 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: the West. Now that might change, most notably if the 47 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: Lakers are able to handle their center situation. But your 48 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: starting five is going to be Fred Van Vliet, I'm 49 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: in Thompson, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith, Alpern Shinghoon off the bench. 50 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: You are going to have Terry Eesen, Steven Adams, who 51 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: we saw Adams and Shangoon play really well in that 52 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: two big lineup, Cam Whitmore, and Reed Shepherd, who was 53 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: a top five pick last year that is a sniper 54 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: from three and that Udoka just didn't play because he 55 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: couldn't defend and was a rookie. So now you go 56 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: from a team that didn't have shot making that has 57 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: Kevin freaking Durant and potentially Reed Shepherd getting minutes. They 58 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 1: are deep, they are well coached, they are great defensively. 59 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: Jalen Green was an abomination in the playoffs. Wait and 60 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: now Kevin Durant steps in for him. 61 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 2: There was a trend. It was halliburden I can't I remember. 62 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 2: I forget the other guy. But I mean, what if, 63 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 2: what if Jalen Green turns out to be a star, 64 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 2: like you know, if he just needed a little bit 65 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 2: of a little bit of a trackway and he just 66 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 2: ends up being I mean, Katie, what do you say 67 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 2: thirty six years old? 68 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:49,039 Speaker 1: He's thirty seven. I am not a Jalen Green, believe 69 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: and so the I am. 70 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 2: Oh it was Sga. It was Halliburdon and Sga. Those 71 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 2: are the two players because they think they traded him 72 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 2: for old stars. As Paul Joyan, I think, oh, okay, yeah, yeah. 73 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah so I I think Jalen Green 74 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: is a bit of an empty calories guy. He's a 75 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: decent shooter, not a great shooter. From threes thirty five 76 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: percent last year, thirty four percent for his career. He's 77 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: not that efficient. Outside of his threes, he's forty two 78 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: percent last year and the year before and the year 79 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: before that. And I don't love when my young players 80 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: aren't showing market improvement. He year two, Jalen Green twenty 81 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: two a game, year three, twenty a game, year four, 82 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: twenty one a game. So I and I certainly don't 83 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: see what Phoenix is like. Phoenix is just like they 84 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: have one hundred guards and nothing else, but they don't 85 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: know what they're doing. That's fine. It is a short 86 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: term bet for sure, Demonse. But it's a short term 87 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: bet that I could net them a finals. Now for Durant. 88 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: Durant his last six years in Oklahoma City made four 89 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: conference finals and one NBA finals. His three years in 90 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: Golden State obviously made all three conference finals, made all 91 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: three NBA finals. He he then leaves there and as 92 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: you mentioned, has won two series total and not been 93 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 1: out around two. I would love to see Kevin Durant 94 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: with one more deep playoff run. I would love to 95 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:49,799 Speaker 1: see Durant remind people how great he still is because 96 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: he is man and all. 97 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 2: And I love that he went to the Rockets, the 98 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 2: team that the Golden You know, the Rockets couldn't get 99 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 2: over Golden State. Katie's like, I'm gonna help you guys. 100 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: That well, And and here's the other thing. The Rockets 101 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: couldn't get over Golden State, and who are the Rockets 102 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: trying to get over? Now Oklahoma City, Katie's old team, 103 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: and so there is some nice kind of storylines there. 104 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect fit. And they didn't give 105 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: up too much. They kept their depth, they kept their flexibility. 106 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: I think oddly they actually still if he were to 107 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: come available mid season, might have the ability to still 108 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 1: trade for Giannis and like that. I don't think that's 109 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: off the board. The who were you saying trade for 110 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: your honest the Rockets? The Rockets. Yeah, I think let me, 111 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 1: I can try to do this on the fly real quick, 112 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: and then we're gonna have to move on. But I 113 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: think I think we can make the salaries work because 114 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: you so let me turn this off. Fred van Vliet 115 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: is forty four million, Giannis is fifty four. So if 116 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: you if you were to send, for instance, Fred van 117 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: Vliet read Shepherd, let me just see if that if 118 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: that works, so the salaries I believe Fred van Vliet 119 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 1: and Shepherd work, and then Houston would have to include 120 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: all the Phoenix picks that they have twenty twenty nine 121 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: and twenty twenty seven, the Brooklyn pick that they have 122 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:53,599 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven, Like you could make a trade, 123 00:08:53,800 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: that is, if you are, if you're the Rockets, where 124 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: you are sending out Fred van Vliet read Shepherd and 125 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: the following picks, you could send them the what picks 126 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: would they probably want? 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But the most memorable piece of this is 174 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: his injury. And so I said almost all of this 175 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: on TV, but I want to reiterate it here. It's 176 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 1: two things. One is, you know I am not going 177 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: to run from or pretend that after game six I 178 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: didn't have real questions. No, I definitely hold on that 179 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: that didn't happen. I did. At no point did I call. 180 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 2: Him, No, you didn't see You were like, if you're 181 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 2: if you're moving around like you got to play in well. 182 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 1: And what I said was he didn't look hurt. That 183 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: it seemed like like it was. I said that for 184 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 1: a guy to have a calf strain and supposed to 185 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: be out a month or a few weeks, which is 186 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: what the reporting, was pretty much right to injure it 187 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 1: and then play after the injury in game in game five, 188 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: played twenty seven minutes after the injury, and then in 189 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: game six was awesome. I said, like, is unlike any 190 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: calf strain I've ever seen. 191 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 4: Now. 192 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: I actually was watching game seven with some active NBA 193 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 1: players and when it happened, everybody all reacted the same, 194 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: but I, I just said, I was like, how I 195 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: was like, if it was that close to tearing, how 196 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: did he move like that in game six? And what 197 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: one player in particular said to me was said two 198 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 1: things that I thought were fascinating. He said, in our league, 199 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: the calf strain is the new torn MCL, like a 200 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 1: scary precursor of a potential devastating injury. And the other 201 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: thing they said was the calf strain, it's not it's 202 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: not like a hamstring, where it when it happens, you 203 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: just simply can't save as well, right, right, But it's 204 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: it's that he's like with a hamstring or a groin, 205 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: you can see that impact it has. Because of how 206 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 1: NBA players move, they can't move as well. They're like 207 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: with a calf, you can move a lot of times 208 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: like okay, and you won't see it. But the only 209 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: way to get it to heal it is to stay 210 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: off it, right, He was, like, it has if you 211 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: get a calf strained, it's got to be what I 212 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: was he told me, was three or four weeks of nothing, 213 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 1: of just flatly staying off it or else you risk that. 214 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: And so I listen. I didn't know that. And so 215 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: when I saw Hallie moving around like he was in 216 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: game six, like the timeline of my Halliburton takes where 217 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: game five I in Demon's disagreed with me on it. 218 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: I didn't really cut him a lot of slack for 219 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: a zero field goal, oh for six performance, uh, because 220 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: he was playing and in game six he was so 221 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: fluid and so good. I thought, okay, like he's you know, 222 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: dodge the bullet here. Of course he's gonna play game seven. 223 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: Of course he was gonna play game six and then 224 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: in game seven minutes and he tears his achilles. So 225 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: all that happened right, and people can judge it however 226 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: they want, like that's fair, is fair? The here is 227 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: my updated if you will opinion that maybe people will 228 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: judge this as well. It's good that he played. He 229 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: was supposed to play, he wanted to play, and he 230 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: took a risk that he was supposed to take. When 231 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: you and people were like, well, it cost them all. 232 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: It cost him and them all of next year. If 233 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: the goal of team sports is to win a championship, 234 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: games six and seven of these NBA Finals, Demonse had 235 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:16,639 Speaker 1: more championship equity attached to him the next season in 236 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: its entirety for the Indiana Pacers, like when you are 237 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:26,680 Speaker 1: that close, like those games are worth more in your 238 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: chance to win a championship than the entirety of next season. 239 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: They just are and the goal your mindset, and also 240 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: just for your teams, like for the Pacers, the what 241 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: Halliburton's performance in game six and even just the five 242 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: minutes of game seven added more to the Pacers championship 243 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 1: probability than him having a full all NBA season next year, 244 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: because even if that happens, like you still have to 245 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: get through the whole tournament and get there, and so 246 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: they were there. So the only and qualifier I think 247 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: that one would put on it is yes, that's all true. 248 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: The goal of team sports to win a championship, with 249 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: the goal of anyone in what they do for a 250 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: living is to make a living for them and their family. 251 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:29,119 Speaker 1: So if Tyrese Haliburton were in the final year of 252 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: a rookie contract and hadn't been you know, re signed, 253 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: then you do have to do some personal math on 254 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: what this means for me and the people I care 255 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: about and all of that. But when you are Tyrese 256 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: Haliburton and you are in the first year of a 257 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 1: five year, two hundred and fifty million dollar contract and 258 00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:03,359 Speaker 1: you can play and play well through the injury while 259 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: risking catastrophe, which is what happened, playing is the right thing. 260 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: He made the right call. It went terribly for him, 261 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,120 Speaker 1: but he made the right call. And by the way, 262 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: I said this on TV yesterday and then he today 263 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: or last night tweeted this well, tweeted a lot. But 264 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: one of the things he wrote is the following I'll 265 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: just read you the whole thing. Man. Don't know how 266 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: to explain it other than shock. Words cannot express the 267 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:50,160 Speaker 1: pain of this letdown. The frustration is unfathomable. I've worked 268 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: my whole life to get to this moment, and this 269 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,159 Speaker 1: is how it ends. Makes no sense. Your heart breaks 270 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 1: like for real, now that I've gotten the surgery of 271 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: wish you could count the number of times people will 272 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 1: tell me I'm going to quote come back stronger. What 273 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: a cliche. Lol, This shit sucks. My foot feels like 274 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: dead weight, fam But what's hurting most, I think is 275 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 1: my mind. Feel like I'm rambling. But I know this 276 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: is something I'll look back on when I'm through this 277 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: as something I'm proud I fought through. It feels good 278 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,600 Speaker 1: to let this shit out without y'all seeing the kid 279 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 1: ugly cry. At twenty five, I've already learned that God 280 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: never gives us more than we can handle. I know 281 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: all come out better on the other side of this, 282 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 1: a better man and a better player. And this is 283 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: the part that I speaks to what I was saying, 284 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: And honestly, right now, torn Achilles and all, I don't 285 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: regret it. I do it again and again after that 286 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,879 Speaker 1: to fight for this city and my brothers for the 287 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: chance to do something special. And he goes on from 288 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: there and everybody like people can check it out on Twitter. 289 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And the point I made at 290 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: the top of the show that Brew made yesterday that 291 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: I think it was worth revisiting is I always go 292 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:21,679 Speaker 1: back to that quote and it's guy. It's from the 293 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: guy who wrote The Road, never under who wrote the Road. 294 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 1: The road author uh Cormack McCarthy, and the quote is, uh, 295 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: never underestimate the awful luck that your bad luck saved 296 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: you from. And that has I That to me is 297 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 1: like a very from like a mental well being standpoint, 298 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: a very useful quote that I and for me as 299 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 1: a parent, I I it has helped me a ton. 300 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: The only really tough instance in uh my life since 301 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,800 Speaker 1: I've started really kind of leaning on that kind of 302 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 1: mind frame that that didn't help at all with was 303 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,520 Speaker 1: last year when our friend passed. Because there's no there's 304 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 1: no like silver lining to that. It's not like, oh well, 305 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 1: because it's the sudden death of a friend is you know, 306 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 1: it's as rough as it gets. But I had some 307 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: you know, anything bad that's happened to a loved one. 308 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: I've thought, I've tried to use that as a silver 309 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: lining or bad that's happened to me. And when I 310 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 1: see when I'm bringing up with Halliburn, is. 311 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:56,159 Speaker 5: This the the the road not taken for Halliburton is 312 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:03,480 Speaker 5: don't play keep the's intact and for the rest of 313 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 5: your career, wonder what if and did you let your 314 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 5: teammates down? 315 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: Did you let the city down? Did you was that 316 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: your what would you have gotten through it without getting hurt? 317 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: What did you leave your championship on the board? And 318 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: when I say, never underestimate the awful luck your bad 319 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,840 Speaker 1: luck saved you from. Would that demonse have changed him 320 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 1: fundamentally as a player, a guy whose rep for this 321 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: postseason was the most cold blooded assassin at the end 322 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 1: of games? Would that decision tree have altered him? And 323 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: while his achilles would have been intact, would have changed 324 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: him forever? Maybe? Absolutely? Maybe so? I so I think 325 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: that he clearly made the right decision, even though it 326 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: was a tragic decision. 327 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: The MAVs took Cooper Flag with the first pick, so 328 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 2: they extended Kyrie and Gafford. The question is if Kyrie 329 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 2: ends up healthy. Do you think that Dallas's contenders for 330 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 2: Dallas are contenders? 331 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: Do you think they are? Yes? 332 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: I do. 333 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: I knew you. I could tell just from the look 334 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 1: in your face, So go ahead. 335 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I was just telling the guys this morning. 336 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 2: The balance of defense and offense on that team also 337 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 2: paired in with the way I know it's your guy, 338 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 2: but the way that Luca was looking in the playoffs 339 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: last year, it just kind of seems like Beakole might 340 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 2: have had a grasp on the situation and what was 341 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 2: going on over there. And I like that team, Like 342 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 2: if Cooper flag pans out nicely, I hate that it 343 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 2: worked out for him, and you know he got that 344 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 2: they ended up with the number one pick. 345 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,679 Speaker 1: But with that number one pick, that's a that's a 346 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: squad right there. So so that let's go with a 347 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,719 Speaker 1: Nico piece of this and then we'll get to the team. 348 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: Because Nico had a quote. Nico said, Fortune favors the 349 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: bold and on behalf of MAVs fans everywhere. I wanted 350 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 1: to break a TV. You do not. You do not 351 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: get to Trey Luca hold a press conference saying we 352 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:31,400 Speaker 1: did this for this year because we think we are 353 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,399 Speaker 1: better right now to win a championship this year or 354 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: next year, and then end up bad enough that you're 355 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,920 Speaker 1: in the lottery and all lass backwards into the number 356 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: one pick and then be like all part of the plan. 357 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 1: If at that listen, honest to god, if at that 358 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: press conference he had said, listen, we are all about championships. 359 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: I even though we thought last year's finals appearance was 360 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: fool's gold, and we traded for Anthony Davis knowing he's 361 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: injured and by the way, he's going to take some 362 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: time to come back this year. This is not about 363 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: this season, and we may or may not even be 364 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 1: back in the playoffs this year. We're okay with this 365 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: because this is a long term play. And then you 366 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 1: end up with Cooper Flag then you can say, told 367 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 1: you a part of the plan. Didn't expect number one pick, 368 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: but we were going to add an impact player. Fine, 369 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: you don't get to be like we are doing this 370 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: to contend right now. You fall into the and then 371 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,320 Speaker 1: be in the play in and be trying to win 372 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: the play in, lose, fall into the lottery, get the 373 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 1: number one pick, and be like Bang told you so. 374 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: That's first of all, but they are where they are. 375 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well, yeah, Just to be clear, I don't 376 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:51,679 Speaker 1: want to give Nico. I don't want to. 377 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 2: Give him any credit for this, like it, no, the 378 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: Luca piece of it, Like I kind of can see 379 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 2: he's a little bit on something. It was a crazy trade, 380 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 2: but with it work painting out the way it did 381 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 2: and then getting that first pick. 382 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: I think they have quite the squad on them right now. Okay, 383 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: so that's the real question is do they And my 384 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 1: answer to that question is I think right now they 385 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: are more than a touch over rated. And here's why 386 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 1: I listen. I heard and again this is not picking 387 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: on him. I think other people thought this, but I 388 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: heard this from I heard Stephen A yesterday say that 389 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: they think that he thinks they could be Oklahoma City's 390 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: biggest competitor. I disagree. And the reason I disagree is this, 391 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: I do. 392 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 4: Not care. 393 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: How good you are, how what your profile is. In 394 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: the modern MBA, in particular, rookies that have to be 395 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 1: the focal point of a team's offense do not contribute 396 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: to winning flatly. They just don't. Like I understand, Magic 397 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:14,679 Speaker 1: was great as a rookie, he was not the focal 398 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 1: point of the team's offense. Kareem was lebron as unbelievable 399 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: as he was. That Cavs team missed the playoffs. Michael 400 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: Jordan as a rookie I think, averaged twenty eight points 401 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: a game. That Bulls team won thirty eight games. Okay, 402 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: like asking rookies, hell take the MAVs with Luca that 403 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 1: Luca's first year he was Cooper, Flag's not going to 404 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: be better than Luca year one Luca. When year two 405 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: Luki was First Team All NBA, they won thirty three games. Now, 406 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: obviously those guys didn't have Anthony Davis on that on 407 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: their team and eventually Kyrie Irving, but so they should 408 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: be better than those records. But the point that I 409 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: am making is, as long as Kyrie is out and 410 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: I do not think Kyrie, I think expecting Kyrie to 411 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 1: be back before the All Star break is foolish. I 412 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 1: think Kyrie Irving, given his you know, knee history and 413 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: injury history and his size, in his age and you 414 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: just signed him to an extension, rushing him back would 415 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: be foolish. And until Kyrie comes back, you are going 416 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: to be asking your primary ball handler and your primary 417 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 1: creator to be an eighteen year old. Like I love 418 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: Flags Upside because of his age, but he's eighteen. He 419 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: turns nineteen in December, and you know, maybe Clay as 420 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: a bounceback year. He is not creating. Anthony Davis is awesome. 421 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 1: He is not creating. Gafford and PJ. Washington and Derek 422 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: Lively are all useful players, they are not creating. You 423 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: traded away a guy who could create a bit in 424 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: Quentin Grimes for reasons I don't totally understand to bring 425 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: in Caleb Martin. So like your secondary main creator is 426 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: gonna be Max Christie, the other part of the A 427 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: D trade until Kyrie gets back, and he is He's 428 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: just not good at creating shots. No, I don't dinwitt 429 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,760 Speaker 1: Am I wrong? I thought Dinwitty was a free agent. 430 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 1: Maybe I'm the I don't so. I think Dinwitty right 431 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: now is the Uh maybe they bring him back, but 432 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: he's so, He's not on the roster right now, so 433 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: they I mean so, and Dinwitty is. I mean, there's 434 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 1: a reason that Dinwitties last few last contract was for 435 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: the league minimum, you know what I mean? Like he he. 436 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 4: Can be a microwave offense, but he is it's if 437 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 4: it's for the purpose of making it to where Cooper 438 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,719 Speaker 4: Flag isn't your main guy, then you know, if well 439 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 4: Dinwitty's the alternative. 440 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: Sure something, and maybe that's something. And free agency hasn't 441 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: happened yet, and they obviously will you know, add some 442 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: some pieces. They will add something. I understand that, but 443 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: I I do not think it is rational to expect 444 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: the MAVs this next year with Kyrie playing. I don't know. 445 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: I would say thirty games at best, and I would 446 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 1: take the strong under on that with Anthony Davis. And 447 00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,520 Speaker 1: you know, if you if you right now as a 448 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: MAVs and if you were like, hey, ad is gonna 449 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: play sixty five games on the nose, you would be 450 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: like take it, like you know, I'll sign up for 451 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: that immediately. And with Cooper Flag being the youngest kid 452 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: in this draft class and you know, having a lot 453 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: on his plate, I don't think in twenty twenty this 454 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:27,880 Speaker 1: coming season the MAVs are contenders. I do think that 455 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:35,640 Speaker 1: if Kyrie comes back from that knee injury and looks 456 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: like he did before the knee injury, and Cooper Flag 457 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: is the guy that a lot of people think he 458 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: can be that in the season after this one, they 459 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: can be really good. So I don't. If I am 460 00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 1: power ranking the West going into this coming season, I 461 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: personally would power rank it thunder Rockets, Lakers with an asterisk. 462 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: The asterisk being I'm assuming they are going to add 463 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: a major piece in the next ten days. Nuggets, Minnesota 464 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 1: four five, Golden State six, and then Dallas alongside the 465 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 1: Clipper Clippers seven eight. That's where that's where I think 466 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,720 Speaker 1: they will be for next year. Now, in two years, 467 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,040 Speaker 1: I think that could be different.