Speaker 1: Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. Let's get to Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: He's headed to his fourteen in four years?
Speaker 2: Is that correct? Thirteen thirteen? Sorry for the Rockets even
Speaker 2: they borrowed your strategy. It's the Landam that you pitched
Speaker 2: on your show.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was my exact trade. Just to be clear,
Speaker 1: everybody was throwing out do they have to include Jabari Smith?
Speaker 1: Do they have to include Taris? And the trade that
Speaker 1: I put out on first Things first that was roundly
Speaker 1: mocked was Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks and Phoenix's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven first going back to Phoenix. The trade that just
Speaker 1: happened was Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks and Phoenix's twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five first going back to Phoenix plus some second rounders.
Speaker 1: It was the exact trade. And for the record, the
Speaker 1: trade that I put out there for the Timberwolves to
Speaker 1: offer was Gobert, Devincenzo and Dillingham for Kevin Durant. What
Speaker 1: was reported today was the trade the Timberwolves offered was
Speaker 1: Gobert Devincenzo, Dillingham and one first round pick for Durant.
Speaker 1: I listen, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: infringe on Bill Simmons' territory of the Picasso of the
Speaker 1: trade machine. But you know, some are saying the torch
Speaker 1: has been passed. Some are saying it like you just
Speaker 1: go go and check the archives of what the actual
Speaker 1: teams were offering and compare them to all the trades
Speaker 1: I came up with on first things, and see what
Speaker 1: other people were describing on their platforms, and just you know,
Speaker 1: let history be the judge, all right, but go ahead,
Speaker 1: sorry about that, since it's injury.
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, he's won a grand total of two
Speaker 2: playoff series. Do you think the Rockets does sound like
Speaker 2: you think the Rockets are a real contender or do
Speaker 2: you think they'll end up like previous teams that he's
Speaker 2: ended up laying on, like nets of the Suns.
Speaker 1: So listen, it's different situations, right the Nets, he was
Speaker 1: unbelievable In twenty twenty one postseason with the Nets Unbelievable
Speaker 1: lost a historic series to Jannisianis goes on to win
Speaker 1: the title. Since then, nothing's gone right and the Suns
Speaker 1: never were going to be a contender. It was a
Speaker 1: terribly built team. It was him and Booker and Beale
Speaker 1: never made sense. And listen, Katie is older, He's not
Speaker 1: the defender he once was, and his injury concerns are real.
Speaker 1: With that, said Demonse, I think that. I think that
Speaker 1: right now, this moment, I'd pick the Rockets to win
Speaker 1: the West. Now that might change, most notably if the
Speaker 1: Lakers are able to handle their center situation. But your
Speaker 1: starting five is going to be Fred Van Vliet, I'm
Speaker 1: in Thompson, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith, Alpern Shinghoon off the bench.
Speaker 1: You are going to have Terry Eesen, Steven Adams, who
Speaker 1: we saw Adams and Shangoon play really well in that
Speaker 1: two big lineup, Cam Whitmore, and Reed Shepherd, who was
Speaker 1: a top five pick last year that is a sniper
Speaker 1: from three and that Udoka just didn't play because he
Speaker 1: couldn't defend and was a rookie. So now you go
Speaker 1: from a team that didn't have shot making that has
Speaker 1: Kevin freaking Durant and potentially Reed Shepherd getting minutes. They
Speaker 1: are deep, they are well coached, they are great defensively.
Speaker 1: Jalen Green was an abomination in the playoffs. Wait and
Speaker 1: now Kevin Durant steps in for him.
Speaker 2: There was a trend. It was halliburden I can't I remember.
Speaker 2: I forget the other guy. But I mean, what if,
Speaker 2: what if Jalen Green turns out to be a star,
Speaker 2: like you know, if he just needed a little bit
Speaker 2: of a little bit of a trackway and he just
Speaker 2: ends up being I mean, Katie, what do you say
Speaker 2: thirty six years old?
Speaker 1: He's thirty seven. I am not a Jalen Green, believe
Speaker 1: and so the I am.
Speaker 2: Oh it was Sga. It was Halliburdon and Sga. Those
Speaker 2: are the two players because they think they traded him
Speaker 2: for old stars. As Paul Joyan, I think, oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah so I I think Jalen Green
Speaker 1: is a bit of an empty calories guy. He's a
Speaker 1: decent shooter, not a great shooter. From threes thirty five
Speaker 1: percent last year, thirty four percent for his career. He's
Speaker 1: not that efficient. Outside of his threes, he's forty two
Speaker 1: percent last year and the year before and the year
Speaker 1: before that. And I don't love when my young players
Speaker 1: aren't showing market improvement. He year two, Jalen Green twenty
Speaker 1: two a game, year three, twenty a game, year four,
Speaker 1: twenty one a game. So I and I certainly don't
Speaker 1: see what Phoenix is like. Phoenix is just like they
Speaker 1: have one hundred guards and nothing else, but they don't
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. That's fine. It is a short
Speaker 1: term bet for sure, Demonse. But it's a short term
Speaker 1: bet that I could net them a finals. Now for Durant.
Speaker 1: Durant his last six years in Oklahoma City made four
Speaker 1: conference finals and one NBA finals. His three years in
Speaker 1: Golden State obviously made all three conference finals, made all
Speaker 1: three NBA finals. He he then leaves there and as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, has won two series total and not been
Speaker 1: out around two. I would love to see Kevin Durant
Speaker 1: with one more deep playoff run. I would love to
Speaker 1: see Durant remind people how great he still is because
Speaker 1: he is man and all.
Speaker 2: And I love that he went to the Rockets, the
Speaker 2: team that the Golden You know, the Rockets couldn't get
Speaker 2: over Golden State. Katie's like, I'm gonna help you guys.
Speaker 1: That well, And and here's the other thing. The Rockets
Speaker 1: couldn't get over Golden State, and who are the Rockets
Speaker 1: trying to get over? Now Oklahoma City, Katie's old team,
Speaker 1: and so there is some nice kind of storylines there.
Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect fit. And they didn't give
Speaker 1: up too much. They kept their depth, they kept their flexibility.
Speaker 1: I think oddly they actually still if he were to
Speaker 1: come available mid season, might have the ability to still
Speaker 1: trade for Giannis and like that. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: off the board. The who were you saying trade for
Speaker 1: your honest the Rockets? The Rockets. Yeah, I think let me,
Speaker 1: I can try to do this on the fly real quick,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna have to move on. But I
Speaker 1: think I think we can make the salaries work because
Speaker 1: you so let me turn this off. Fred van Vliet
Speaker 1: is forty four million, Giannis is fifty four. So if
Speaker 1: you if you were to send, for instance, Fred van
Speaker 1: Vliet read Shepherd, let me just see if that if
Speaker 1: that works, so the salaries I believe Fred van Vliet
Speaker 1: and Shepherd work, and then Houston would have to include
Speaker 1: all the Phoenix picks that they have twenty twenty nine
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty seven, the Brooklyn pick that they have
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven, Like you could make a trade,
Speaker 1: that is, if you are, if you're the Rockets, where
Speaker 1: you are sending out Fred van Vliet read Shepherd and
Speaker 1: the following picks, you could send them the what picks
Speaker 1: would they probably want? Yeah, there we go. You could
Speaker 1: send them if I'm reading this properly, Fred van Vliet
Speaker 1: read Shepherd and Brooklyn's first in twenty twenty seven, Phoenix
Speaker 1: is first in twenty twenty seven, Dallas is first in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine, Phoenix is first in twenty twenty nine,
Speaker 1: and Houston's first their own first in twenty thirty. Those
Speaker 1: are valuable, prime first round picks. And so my point
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Speaker 1: the point is it's not like by going for Durant
Speaker 1: they hunted on any chance at Yannis, and I think
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Speaker 3: dot co, slash audio tyres Haliburton.
Speaker 2: Try to play through that injury obviously towards Achilles. You
Speaker 2: committed him on first scens first or playing through that
Speaker 2: is his injury in game seven. The single biggest story
Speaker 2: of the finals or the playoffs included.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. The story has to be
Speaker 1: the champion. But the most memorable piece of this is
Speaker 1: his injury. And so I said almost all of this
Speaker 1: on TV, but I want to reiterate it here. It's
Speaker 1: two things. One is, you know I am not going
Speaker 1: to run from or pretend that after game six I
Speaker 1: didn't have real questions. No, I definitely hold on that
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. I did. At no point did I call.
Speaker 2: Him, No, you didn't see You were like, if you're
Speaker 2: if you're moving around like you got to play in well.
Speaker 1: And what I said was he didn't look hurt. That
Speaker 1: it seemed like like it was. I said that for
Speaker 1: a guy to have a calf strain and supposed to
Speaker 1: be out a month or a few weeks, which is
Speaker 1: what the reporting, was pretty much right to injure it
Speaker 1: and then play after the injury in game in game five,
Speaker 1: played twenty seven minutes after the injury, and then in
Speaker 1: game six was awesome. I said, like, is unlike any
Speaker 1: calf strain I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: I actually was watching game seven with some active NBA
Speaker 1: players and when it happened, everybody all reacted the same,
Speaker 1: but I, I just said, I was like, how I
Speaker 1: was like, if it was that close to tearing, how
Speaker 1: did he move like that in game six? And what
Speaker 1: one player in particular said to me was said two
Speaker 1: things that I thought were fascinating. He said, in our league,
Speaker 1: the calf strain is the new torn MCL, like a
Speaker 1: scary precursor of a potential devastating injury. And the other
Speaker 1: thing they said was the calf strain, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not like a hamstring, where it when it happens, you
Speaker 1: just simply can't save as well, right, right, But it's
Speaker 1: it's that he's like with a hamstring or a groin,
Speaker 1: you can see that impact it has. Because of how
Speaker 1: NBA players move, they can't move as well. They're like
Speaker 1: with a calf, you can move a lot of times
Speaker 1: like okay, and you won't see it. But the only
Speaker 1: way to get it to heal it is to stay
Speaker 1: off it, right, He was, like, it has if you
Speaker 1: get a calf strained, it's got to be what I
Speaker 1: was he told me, was three or four weeks of nothing,
Speaker 1: of just flatly staying off it or else you risk that.
Speaker 1: And so I listen. I didn't know that. And so
Speaker 1: when I saw Hallie moving around like he was in
Speaker 1: game six, like the timeline of my Halliburton takes where
Speaker 1: game five I in Demon's disagreed with me on it.
Speaker 1: I didn't really cut him a lot of slack for
Speaker 1: a zero field goal, oh for six performance, uh, because
Speaker 1: he was playing and in game six he was so
Speaker 1: fluid and so good. I thought, okay, like he's you know,
Speaker 1: dodge the bullet here. Of course he's gonna play game seven.
Speaker 1: Of course he was gonna play game six and then
Speaker 1: in game seven minutes and he tears his achilles. So
Speaker 1: all that happened right, and people can judge it however
Speaker 1: they want, like that's fair, is fair? The here is
Speaker 1: my updated if you will opinion that maybe people will
Speaker 1: judge this as well. It's good that he played. He
Speaker 1: was supposed to play, he wanted to play, and he
Speaker 1: took a risk that he was supposed to take. When
Speaker 1: you and people were like, well, it cost them all.
Speaker 1: It cost him and them all of next year. If
Speaker 1: the goal of team sports is to win a championship,
Speaker 1: games six and seven of these NBA Finals, Demonse had
Speaker 1: more championship equity attached to him the next season in
Speaker 1: its entirety for the Indiana Pacers, like when you are
Speaker 1: that close, like those games are worth more in your
Speaker 1: chance to win a championship than the entirety of next season.
Speaker 1: They just are and the goal your mindset, and also
Speaker 1: just for your teams, like for the Pacers, the what
Speaker 1: Halliburton's performance in game six and even just the five
Speaker 1: minutes of game seven added more to the Pacers championship
Speaker 1: probability than him having a full all NBA season next year,
Speaker 1: because even if that happens, like you still have to
Speaker 1: get through the whole tournament and get there, and so
Speaker 1: they were there. So the only and qualifier I think
Speaker 1: that one would put on it is yes, that's all true.
Speaker 1: The goal of team sports to win a championship, with
Speaker 1: the goal of anyone in what they do for a
Speaker 1: living is to make a living for them and their family.
Speaker 1: So if Tyrese Haliburton were in the final year of
Speaker 1: a rookie contract and hadn't been you know, re signed,
Speaker 1: then you do have to do some personal math on
Speaker 1: what this means for me and the people I care
Speaker 1: about and all of that. But when you are Tyrese
Speaker 1: Haliburton and you are in the first year of a
Speaker 1: five year, two hundred and fifty million dollar contract and
Speaker 1: you can play and play well through the injury while
Speaker 1: risking catastrophe, which is what happened, playing is the right thing.
Speaker 1: He made the right call. It went terribly for him,
Speaker 1: but he made the right call. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I said this on TV yesterday and then he today
Speaker 1: or last night tweeted this well, tweeted a lot. But
Speaker 1: one of the things he wrote is the following I'll
Speaker 1: just read you the whole thing. Man. Don't know how
Speaker 1: to explain it other than shock. Words cannot express the
Speaker 1: pain of this letdown. The frustration is unfathomable. I've worked
Speaker 1: my whole life to get to this moment, and this
Speaker 1: is how it ends. Makes no sense. Your heart breaks
Speaker 1: like for real, now that I've gotten the surgery of
Speaker 1: wish you could count the number of times people will
Speaker 1: tell me I'm going to quote come back stronger. What
Speaker 1: a cliche. Lol, This shit sucks. My foot feels like
Speaker 1: dead weight, fam But what's hurting most, I think is
Speaker 1: my mind. Feel like I'm rambling. But I know this
Speaker 1: is something I'll look back on when I'm through this
Speaker 1: as something I'm proud I fought through. It feels good
Speaker 1: to let this shit out without y'all seeing the kid
Speaker 1: ugly cry. At twenty five, I've already learned that God
Speaker 1: never gives us more than we can handle. I know
Speaker 1: all come out better on the other side of this,
Speaker 1: a better man and a better player. And this is
Speaker 1: the part that I speaks to what I was saying,
Speaker 1: And honestly, right now, torn Achilles and all, I don't
Speaker 1: regret it. I do it again and again after that
Speaker 1: to fight for this city and my brothers for the
Speaker 1: chance to do something special. And he goes on from
Speaker 1: there and everybody like people can check it out on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. And the point I made at
Speaker 1: the top of the show that Brew made yesterday that
Speaker 1: I think it was worth revisiting is I always go
Speaker 1: back to that quote and it's guy. It's from the
Speaker 1: guy who wrote The Road, never under who wrote the Road.
Speaker 1: The road author uh Cormack McCarthy, and the quote is, uh,
Speaker 1: never underestimate the awful luck that your bad luck saved
Speaker 1: you from. And that has I That to me is
Speaker 1: like a very from like a mental well being standpoint,
Speaker 1: a very useful quote that I and for me as
Speaker 1: a parent, I I it has helped me a ton.
Speaker 1: The only really tough instance in uh my life since
Speaker 1: I've started really kind of leaning on that kind of
Speaker 1: mind frame that that didn't help at all with was
Speaker 1: last year when our friend passed. Because there's no there's
Speaker 1: no like silver lining to that. It's not like, oh well,
Speaker 1: because it's the sudden death of a friend is you know,
Speaker 1: it's as rough as it gets. But I had some
Speaker 1: you know, anything bad that's happened to a loved one.
Speaker 1: I've thought, I've tried to use that as a silver
Speaker 1: lining or bad that's happened to me. And when I
Speaker 1: see when I'm bringing up with Halliburn, is.
Speaker 5: This the the the road not taken for Halliburton is
Speaker 5: don't play keep the's intact and for the rest of
Speaker 5: your career, wonder what if and did you let your
Speaker 5: teammates down?
Speaker 1: Did you let the city down? Did you was that
Speaker 1: your what would you have gotten through it without getting hurt?
Speaker 1: What did you leave your championship on the board? And
Speaker 1: when I say, never underestimate the awful luck your bad
Speaker 1: luck saved you from. Would that demonse have changed him
Speaker 1: fundamentally as a player, a guy whose rep for this
Speaker 1: postseason was the most cold blooded assassin at the end
Speaker 1: of games? Would that decision tree have altered him? And
Speaker 1: while his achilles would have been intact, would have changed
Speaker 1: him forever? Maybe? Absolutely? Maybe so? I so I think
Speaker 1: that he clearly made the right decision, even though it
Speaker 1: was a tragic decision.
Speaker 2: The MAVs took Cooper Flag with the first pick, so
Speaker 2: they extended Kyrie and Gafford. The question is if Kyrie
Speaker 2: ends up healthy. Do you think that Dallas's contenders for
Speaker 2: Dallas are contenders?
Speaker 1: Do you think they are? Yes?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I knew you. I could tell just from the look
Speaker 1: in your face, So go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I was just telling the guys this morning.
Speaker 2: The balance of defense and offense on that team also
Speaker 2: paired in with the way I know it's your guy,
Speaker 2: but the way that Luca was looking in the playoffs
Speaker 2: last year, it just kind of seems like Beakole might
Speaker 2: have had a grasp on the situation and what was
Speaker 2: going on over there. And I like that team, Like
Speaker 2: if Cooper flag pans out nicely, I hate that it
Speaker 2: worked out for him, and you know he got that
Speaker 2: they ended up with the number one pick.
Speaker 1: But with that number one pick, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: squad right there. So so that let's go with a
Speaker 1: Nico piece of this and then we'll get to the team.
Speaker 1: Because Nico had a quote. Nico said, Fortune favors the
Speaker 1: bold and on behalf of MAVs fans everywhere. I wanted
Speaker 1: to break a TV. You do not. You do not
Speaker 1: get to Trey Luca hold a press conference saying we
Speaker 1: did this for this year because we think we are
Speaker 1: better right now to win a championship this year or
Speaker 1: next year, and then end up bad enough that you're
Speaker 1: in the lottery and all lass backwards into the number
Speaker 1: one pick and then be like all part of the plan.
Speaker 1: If at that listen, honest to god, if at that
Speaker 1: press conference he had said, listen, we are all about championships.
Speaker 1: I even though we thought last year's finals appearance was
Speaker 1: fool's gold, and we traded for Anthony Davis knowing he's
Speaker 1: injured and by the way, he's going to take some
Speaker 1: time to come back this year. This is not about
Speaker 1: this season, and we may or may not even be
Speaker 1: back in the playoffs this year. We're okay with this
Speaker 1: because this is a long term play. And then you
Speaker 1: end up with Cooper Flag then you can say, told
Speaker 1: you a part of the plan. Didn't expect number one pick,
Speaker 1: but we were going to add an impact player. Fine,
Speaker 1: you don't get to be like we are doing this
Speaker 1: to contend right now. You fall into the and then
Speaker 1: be in the play in and be trying to win
Speaker 1: the play in, lose, fall into the lottery, get the
Speaker 1: number one pick, and be like Bang told you so.
Speaker 1: That's first of all, but they are where they are.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well, yeah, Just to be clear, I don't
Speaker 1: want to give Nico. I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Give him any credit for this, like it, no, the
Speaker 2: Luca piece of it, Like I kind of can see
Speaker 2: he's a little bit on something. It was a crazy trade,
Speaker 2: but with it work painting out the way it did
Speaker 2: and then getting that first pick.
Speaker 1: I think they have quite the squad on them right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's the real question is do they And my
Speaker 1: answer to that question is I think right now they
Speaker 1: are more than a touch over rated. And here's why
Speaker 1: I listen. I heard and again this is not picking
Speaker 1: on him. I think other people thought this, but I
Speaker 1: heard this from I heard Stephen A yesterday say that
Speaker 1: they think that he thinks they could be Oklahoma City's
Speaker 1: biggest competitor. I disagree. And the reason I disagree is this,
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: Not care.
Speaker 1: How good you are, how what your profile is. In
Speaker 1: the modern MBA, in particular, rookies that have to be
Speaker 1: the focal point of a team's offense do not contribute
Speaker 1: to winning flatly. They just don't. Like I understand, Magic
Speaker 1: was great as a rookie, he was not the focal
Speaker 1: point of the team's offense. Kareem was lebron as unbelievable
Speaker 1: as he was. That Cavs team missed the playoffs. Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan as a rookie I think, averaged twenty eight points
Speaker 1: a game. That Bulls team won thirty eight games. Okay,
Speaker 1: like asking rookies, hell take the MAVs with Luca that
Speaker 1: Luca's first year he was Cooper, Flag's not going to
Speaker 1: be better than Luca year one Luca. When year two
Speaker 1: Luki was First Team All NBA, they won thirty three games. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously those guys didn't have Anthony Davis on that on
Speaker 1: their team and eventually Kyrie Irving, but so they should
Speaker 1: be better than those records. But the point that I
Speaker 1: am making is, as long as Kyrie is out and
Speaker 1: I do not think Kyrie, I think expecting Kyrie to
Speaker 1: be back before the All Star break is foolish. I
Speaker 1: think Kyrie Irving, given his you know, knee history and
Speaker 1: injury history and his size, in his age and you
Speaker 1: just signed him to an extension, rushing him back would
Speaker 1: be foolish. And until Kyrie comes back, you are going
Speaker 1: to be asking your primary ball handler and your primary
Speaker 1: creator to be an eighteen year old. Like I love
Speaker 1: Flags Upside because of his age, but he's eighteen. He
Speaker 1: turns nineteen in December, and you know, maybe Clay as
Speaker 1: a bounceback year. He is not creating. Anthony Davis is awesome.
Speaker 1: He is not creating. Gafford and PJ. Washington and Derek
Speaker 1: Lively are all useful players, they are not creating. You
Speaker 1: traded away a guy who could create a bit in
Speaker 1: Quentin Grimes for reasons I don't totally understand to bring
Speaker 1: in Caleb Martin. So like your secondary main creator is
Speaker 1: gonna be Max Christie, the other part of the A
Speaker 1: D trade until Kyrie gets back, and he is He's
Speaker 1: just not good at creating shots. No, I don't dinwitt
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? I thought Dinwitty was a free agent.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm the I don't so. I think Dinwitty right
Speaker 1: now is the Uh maybe they bring him back, but
Speaker 1: he's so, He's not on the roster right now, so
Speaker 1: they I mean so, and Dinwitty is. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a reason that Dinwitties last few last contract was for
Speaker 1: the league minimum, you know what I mean? Like he he.
Speaker 4: Can be a microwave offense, but he is it's if
Speaker 4: it's for the purpose of making it to where Cooper
Speaker 4: Flag isn't your main guy, then you know, if well
Speaker 4: Dinwitty's the alternative.
Speaker 1: Sure something, and maybe that's something. And free agency hasn't
Speaker 1: happened yet, and they obviously will you know, add some
Speaker 1: some pieces. They will add something. I understand that, but
Speaker 1: I I do not think it is rational to expect
Speaker 1: the MAVs this next year with Kyrie playing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would say thirty games at best, and I would
Speaker 1: take the strong under on that with Anthony Davis. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you if you right now as a
Speaker 1: MAVs and if you were like, hey, ad is gonna
Speaker 1: play sixty five games on the nose, you would be
Speaker 1: like take it, like you know, I'll sign up for
Speaker 1: that immediately. And with Cooper Flag being the youngest kid
Speaker 1: in this draft class and you know, having a lot
Speaker 1: on his plate, I don't think in twenty twenty this
Speaker 1: coming season the MAVs are contenders. I do think that
Speaker 1: if Kyrie comes back from that knee injury and looks
Speaker 1: like he did before the knee injury, and Cooper Flag
Speaker 1: is the guy that a lot of people think he
Speaker 1: can be that in the season after this one, they
Speaker 1: can be really good. So I don't. If I am
Speaker 1: power ranking the West going into this coming season, I
Speaker 1: personally would power rank it thunder Rockets, Lakers with an asterisk.
Speaker 1: The asterisk being I'm assuming they are going to add
Speaker 1: a major piece in the next ten days. Nuggets, Minnesota
Speaker 1: four five, Golden State six, and then Dallas alongside the
Speaker 1: Clipper Clippers seven eight. That's where that's where I think
Speaker 1: they will be for next year. Now, in two years,
Speaker 1: I think that could be different.