WEBVTT - What's Wright - Best Of - Mavs contenders with Flagg? Durant traded to Rockets, Haliburton made "right decision" 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:02.840 Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.520 with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:11.000 week on the show. Enjoy. Let's get to Kevin Durant. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.319 He's headed to his fourteen in four years? 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:18.160 Is that correct? Thirteen thirteen? Sorry for the Rockets even 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:21.120 they borrowed your strategy. It's the Landam that you pitched 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:21.640 on your show. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.680 I mean, it was my exact trade. Just to be clear, 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.319 everybody was throwing out do they have to include Jabari Smith? 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.400 Do they have to include Taris? And the trade that 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.120 I put out on first Things first that was roundly 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:43.000 mocked was Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks and Phoenix's twenty twenty 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.960 seven first going back to Phoenix. The trade that just 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:53.440 happened was Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks and Phoenix's twenty twenty 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:59.000 five first going back to Phoenix plus some second rounders. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:05.440 It was the exact trade. And for the record, the 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:11.480 trade that I put out there for the Timberwolves to 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:18.760 offer was Gobert, Devincenzo and Dillingham for Kevin Durant. What 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:24.720 was reported today was the trade the Timberwolves offered was 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:33.720 Gobert Devincenzo, Dillingham and one first round pick for Durant. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.520 I listen, I'm not trying to I'm not trying to 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.200 infringe on Bill Simmons' territory of the Picasso of the 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.880 trade machine. But you know, some are saying the torch 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.760 has been passed. Some are saying it like you just 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.560 go go and check the archives of what the actual 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.760 teams were offering and compare them to all the trades 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.600 I came up with on first things, and see what 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.200 other people were describing on their platforms, and just you know, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.560 let history be the judge, all right, but go ahead, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.160 sorry about that, since it's injury. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.840 In twenty nineteen, he's won a grand total of two 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.120 playoff series. Do you think the Rockets does sound like 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.080 you think the Rockets are a real contender or do 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.120 you think they'll end up like previous teams that he's 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.880 ended up laying on, like nets of the Suns. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:34.200 So listen, it's different situations, right the Nets, he was 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:41.280 unbelievable In twenty twenty one postseason with the Nets Unbelievable 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.680 lost a historic series to Jannisianis goes on to win 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:52.720 the title. Since then, nothing's gone right and the Suns 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.960 never were going to be a contender. It was a 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:59.520 terribly built team. It was him and Booker and Beale 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:04.440 never made sense. And listen, Katie is older, He's not 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:10.320 the defender he once was, and his injury concerns are real. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:19.880 With that, said Demonse, I think that. I think that 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.600 right now, this moment, I'd pick the Rockets to win 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:30.600 the West. Now that might change, most notably if the 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:36.040 Lakers are able to handle their center situation. But your 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.360 starting five is going to be Fred Van Vliet, I'm 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:48.320 in Thompson, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith, Alpern Shinghoon off the bench. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.000 You are going to have Terry Eesen, Steven Adams, who 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:54.360 we saw Adams and Shangoon play really well in that 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.000 two big lineup, Cam Whitmore, and Reed Shepherd, who was 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.200 a top five pick last year that is a sniper 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:07.120 from three and that Udoka just didn't play because he 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.960 couldn't defend and was a rookie. So now you go 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.160 from a team that didn't have shot making that has 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.080 Kevin freaking Durant and potentially Reed Shepherd getting minutes. They 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.840 are deep, they are well coached, they are great defensively. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.720 Jalen Green was an abomination in the playoffs. Wait and 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.599 now Kevin Durant steps in for him. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.600 There was a trend. It was halliburden I can't I remember. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.520 I forget the other guy. But I mean, what if, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.440 what if Jalen Green turns out to be a star, 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.160 like you know, if he just needed a little bit 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.640 of a little bit of a trackway and he just 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.240 ends up being I mean, Katie, what do you say 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.120 thirty six years old? 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:49.039 He's thirty seven. I am not a Jalen Green, believe 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:53.560 and so the I am. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.280 Oh it was Sga. It was Halliburdon and Sga. Those 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.640 are the two players because they think they traded him 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:02.760 for old stars. As Paul Joyan, I think, oh, okay, yeah, yeah. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:07.800 I got you. Yeah so I I think Jalen Green 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.560 is a bit of an empty calories guy. He's a 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.080 decent shooter, not a great shooter. From threes thirty five 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:19.200 percent last year, thirty four percent for his career. He's 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.360 not that efficient. Outside of his threes, he's forty two 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.360 percent last year and the year before and the year 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:31.440 before that. And I don't love when my young players 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:38.240 aren't showing market improvement. He year two, Jalen Green twenty 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.000 two a game, year three, twenty a game, year four, 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.360 twenty one a game. So I and I certainly don't 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.800 see what Phoenix is like. Phoenix is just like they 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.200 have one hundred guards and nothing else, but they don't 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:53.560 know what they're doing. That's fine. It is a short 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:58.800 term bet for sure, Demonse. But it's a short term 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:06.560 bet that I could net them a finals. Now for Durant. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:12.599 Durant his last six years in Oklahoma City made four 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.880 conference finals and one NBA finals. His three years in 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.840 Golden State obviously made all three conference finals, made all 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:30.839 three NBA finals. He he then leaves there and as 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.400 you mentioned, has won two series total and not been 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.880 out around two. I would love to see Kevin Durant 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.320 with one more deep playoff run. I would love to 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:49.799 see Durant remind people how great he still is because 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.400 he is man and all. 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.800 And I love that he went to the Rockets, the 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.880 team that the Golden You know, the Rockets couldn't get 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.279 over Golden State. Katie's like, I'm gonna help you guys. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:06.360 That well, And and here's the other thing. The Rockets 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.159 couldn't get over Golden State, and who are the Rockets 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:14.960 trying to get over? Now Oklahoma City, Katie's old team, 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.600 and so there is some nice kind of storylines there. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.880 I think it's a perfect fit. And they didn't give 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:27.440 up too much. They kept their depth, they kept their flexibility. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:33.040 I think oddly they actually still if he were to 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:38.960 come available mid season, might have the ability to still 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:44.600 trade for Giannis and like that. I don't think that's 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.840 off the board. The who were you saying trade for 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:54.720 your honest the Rockets? The Rockets. Yeah, I think let me, 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.840 I can try to do this on the fly real quick, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.760 and then we're gonna have to move on. But I 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:03.520 think I think we can make the salaries work because 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:12.040 you so let me turn this off. Fred van Vliet 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:18.120 is forty four million, Giannis is fifty four. So if 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:23.640 you if you were to send, for instance, Fred van 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:30.840 Vliet read Shepherd, let me just see if that if 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:36.280 that works, so the salaries I believe Fred van Vliet 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.079 and Shepherd work, and then Houston would have to include 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.720 all the Phoenix picks that they have twenty twenty nine 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.400 and twenty twenty seven, the Brooklyn pick that they have 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:53.599 in twenty twenty seven, Like you could make a trade, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:09:04.000 that is, if you are, if you're the Rockets, where 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:11.640 you are sending out Fred van Vliet read Shepherd and 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:22.760 the following picks, you could send them the what picks 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.400 would they probably want? Yeah, there we go. You could 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:31.960 send them if I'm reading this properly, Fred van Vliet 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:38.559 read Shepherd and Brooklyn's first in twenty twenty seven, Phoenix 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.600 is first in twenty twenty seven, Dallas is first in 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.840 twenty twenty nine, Phoenix is first in twenty twenty nine, 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.839 and Houston's first their own first in twenty thirty. Those 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:58.520 are valuable, prime first round picks. And so my point 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.840 is I don't think they're going to do that. But 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.920 the point is it's not like by going for Durant 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.280 they hunted on any chance at Yannis, and I think 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:15.959 that's very useful. Let me tell you, guys, hotels in 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.359 Vegas maybe books solid this weekend, but there's one vacancy 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.920 left to be filled. 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You 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.439 committed him on first scens first or playing through that 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.559 is his injury in game seven. The single biggest story 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:20.040 of the finals or the playoffs included. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.520 No, I don't think so. The story has to be 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:28.360 the champion. But the most memorable piece of this is 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:34.120 his injury. And so I said almost all of this 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.880 on TV, but I want to reiterate it here. It's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.199 two things. One is, you know I am not going 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:48.520 to run from or pretend that after game six I 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:56.120 didn't have real questions. No, I definitely hold on that 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.800 that didn't happen. I did. At no point did I call. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.520 Him, No, you didn't see You were like, if you're 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.120 if you're moving around like you got to play in well. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.720 And what I said was he didn't look hurt. That 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.720 it seemed like like it was. I said that for 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.959 a guy to have a calf strain and supposed to 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.520 be out a month or a few weeks, which is 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.520 what the reporting, was pretty much right to injure it 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.080 and then play after the injury in game in game five, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.320 played twenty seven minutes after the injury, and then in 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:38.080 game six was awesome. I said, like, is unlike any 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.360 calf strain I've ever seen. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:39.800 Now. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:51.640 I actually was watching game seven with some active NBA 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:57.760 players and when it happened, everybody all reacted the same, 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.280 but I, I just said, I was like, how I 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:07.160 was like, if it was that close to tearing, how 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.640 did he move like that in game six? And what 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.840 one player in particular said to me was said two 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.000 things that I thought were fascinating. He said, in our league, 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:25.280 the calf strain is the new torn MCL, like a 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:31.480 scary precursor of a potential devastating injury. And the other 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:36.840 thing they said was the calf strain, it's not it's 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:43.440 not like a hamstring, where it when it happens, you 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:48.600 just simply can't save as well, right, right, But it's 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.960 it's that he's like with a hamstring or a groin, 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.520 you can see that impact it has. Because of how 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.400 NBA players move, they can't move as well. They're like 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.400 with a calf, you can move a lot of times 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:09.480 like okay, and you won't see it. But the only 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:15.000 way to get it to heal it is to stay 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.760 off it, right, He was, like, it has if you 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.040 get a calf strained, it's got to be what I 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.920 was he told me, was three or four weeks of nothing, 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.880 of just flatly staying off it or else you risk that. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.880 And so I listen. I didn't know that. And so 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.120 when I saw Hallie moving around like he was in 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:39.320 game six, like the timeline of my Halliburton takes where 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.920 game five I in Demon's disagreed with me on it. 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:45.320 I didn't really cut him a lot of slack for 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:51.040 a zero field goal, oh for six performance, uh, because 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.520 he was playing and in game six he was so 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.440 fluid and so good. I thought, okay, like he's you know, 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.040 dodge the bullet here. Of course he's gonna play game seven. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.520 Of course he was gonna play game six and then 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.360 in game seven minutes and he tears his achilles. So 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:15.440 all that happened right, and people can judge it however 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.240 they want, like that's fair, is fair? The here is 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.080 my updated if you will opinion that maybe people will 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:32.720 judge this as well. It's good that he played. He 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:39.680 was supposed to play, he wanted to play, and he 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:46.760 took a risk that he was supposed to take. When 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.440 you and people were like, well, it cost them all. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:56.720 It cost him and them all of next year. If 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.920 the goal of team sports is to win a championship, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:09.320 games six and seven of these NBA Finals, Demonse had 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:16.639 more championship equity attached to him the next season in 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:21.240 its entirety for the Indiana Pacers, like when you are 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:26.680 that close, like those games are worth more in your 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.000 chance to win a championship than the entirety of next season. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:37.320 They just are and the goal your mindset, and also 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:43.000 just for your teams, like for the Pacers, the what 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:48.480 Halliburton's performance in game six and even just the five 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:54.920 minutes of game seven added more to the Pacers championship 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:59.920 probability than him having a full all NBA season next year, 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.000 because even if that happens, like you still have to 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.439 get through the whole tournament and get there, and so 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:12.560 they were there. So the only and qualifier I think 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.280 that one would put on it is yes, that's all true. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.280 The goal of team sports to win a championship, with 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.600 the goal of anyone in what they do for a 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.600 living is to make a living for them and their family. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:29.119 So if Tyrese Haliburton were in the final year of 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:33.600 a rookie contract and hadn't been you know, re signed, 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.159 then you do have to do some personal math on 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.000 what this means for me and the people I care 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:46.000 about and all of that. But when you are Tyrese 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.119 Haliburton and you are in the first year of a 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:55.120 five year, two hundred and fifty million dollar contract and 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:03.359 you can play and play well through the injury while 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:09.560 risking catastrophe, which is what happened, playing is the right thing. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.240 He made the right call. It went terribly for him, 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.120 but he made the right call. And by the way, 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:22.440 I said this on TV yesterday and then he today 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:31.760 or last night tweeted this well, tweeted a lot. But 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:39.320 one of the things he wrote is the following I'll 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.280 just read you the whole thing. Man. Don't know how 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.600 to explain it other than shock. Words cannot express the 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:50.160 pain of this letdown. The frustration is unfathomable. I've worked 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:52.240 my whole life to get to this moment, and this 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.159 is how it ends. Makes no sense. Your heart breaks 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:57.919 like for real, now that I've gotten the surgery of 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.000 wish you could count the number of times people will 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.000 tell me I'm going to quote come back stronger. What 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:07.399 a cliche. Lol, This shit sucks. My foot feels like 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.080 dead weight, fam But what's hurting most, I think is 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.480 my mind. Feel like I'm rambling. But I know this 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.520 is something I'll look back on when I'm through this 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.320 as something I'm proud I fought through. It feels good 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.600 to let this shit out without y'all seeing the kid 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.280 ugly cry. At twenty five, I've already learned that God 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.480 never gives us more than we can handle. I know 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.560 all come out better on the other side of this, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.159 a better man and a better player. And this is 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.119 the part that I speaks to what I was saying, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:42.000 And honestly, right now, torn Achilles and all, I don't 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:45.800 regret it. I do it again and again after that 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.879 to fight for this city and my brothers for the 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.960 chance to do something special. And he goes on from 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:57.320 there and everybody like people can check it out on Twitter. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:05.879 That's right, that's right. And the point I made at 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.080 the top of the show that Brew made yesterday that 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:16.199 I think it was worth revisiting is I always go 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:21.679 back to that quote and it's guy. It's from the 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:25.800 guy who wrote The Road, never under who wrote the Road. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:34.440 The road author uh Cormack McCarthy, and the quote is, uh, 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.159 never underestimate the awful luck that your bad luck saved 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:45.040 you from. And that has I That to me is 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:49.159 like a very from like a mental well being standpoint, 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:54.439 a very useful quote that I and for me as 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.880 a parent, I I it has helped me a ton. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:05.200 The only really tough instance in uh my life since 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.800 I've started really kind of leaning on that kind of 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:10.359 mind frame that that didn't help at all with was 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:14.520 last year when our friend passed. Because there's no there's 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.640 no like silver lining to that. It's not like, oh well, 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:22.439 because it's the sudden death of a friend is you know, 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.680 it's as rough as it gets. But I had some 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.680 you know, anything bad that's happened to a loved one. 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.000 I've thought, I've tried to use that as a silver 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:41.960 lining or bad that's happened to me. And when I 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.120 see when I'm bringing up with Halliburn, is. 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:56.159 This the the the road not taken for Halliburton is 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:03.480 don't play keep the's intact and for the rest of 0:23:03.520 --> 0:23:08.800 your career, wonder what if and did you let your 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:09.680 teammates down? 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:14.600 Did you let the city down? Did you was that 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:18.160 your what would you have gotten through it without getting hurt? 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:22.600 What did you leave your championship on the board? And 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:26.480 when I say, never underestimate the awful luck your bad 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:30.840 luck saved you from. Would that demonse have changed him 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:35.719 fundamentally as a player, a guy whose rep for this 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:41.520 postseason was the most cold blooded assassin at the end 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:48.560 of games? Would that decision tree have altered him? And 0:23:48.960 --> 0:23:52.040 while his achilles would have been intact, would have changed 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:59.000 him forever? Maybe? Absolutely? Maybe so? I so I think 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:04.399 that he clearly made the right decision, even though it 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:05.640 was a tragic decision. 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.800 The MAVs took Cooper Flag with the first pick, so 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:18.480 they extended Kyrie and Gafford. The question is if Kyrie 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:21.399 ends up healthy. Do you think that Dallas's contenders for 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:22.639 Dallas are contenders? 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:25.000 Do you think they are? Yes? 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:25.800 I do. 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.040 I knew you. I could tell just from the look 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.360 in your face, So go ahead. 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:33.639 Yeah, I mean, I was just telling the guys this morning. 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:36.840 The balance of defense and offense on that team also 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.120 paired in with the way I know it's your guy, 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.600 but the way that Luca was looking in the playoffs 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:45.000 last year, it just kind of seems like Beakole might 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:47.159 have had a grasp on the situation and what was 0:24:47.200 --> 0:24:49.800 going on over there. And I like that team, Like 0:24:49.840 --> 0:24:52.280 if Cooper flag pans out nicely, I hate that it 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:53.800 worked out for him, and you know he got that 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:55.200 they ended up with the number one pick. 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:57.679 But with that number one pick, that's a that's a 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:02.560 squad right there. So so that let's go with a 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:06.719 Nico piece of this and then we'll get to the team. 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:11.480 Because Nico had a quote. Nico said, Fortune favors the 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:15.480 bold and on behalf of MAVs fans everywhere. I wanted 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:20.159 to break a TV. You do not. You do not 0:25:21.359 --> 0:25:27.640 get to Trey Luca hold a press conference saying we 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:31.400 did this for this year because we think we are 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:35.399 better right now to win a championship this year or 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:39.320 next year, and then end up bad enough that you're 0:25:39.440 --> 0:25:43.920 in the lottery and all lass backwards into the number 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:47.879 one pick and then be like all part of the plan. 0:25:49.040 --> 0:25:52.160 If at that listen, honest to god, if at that 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:59.040 press conference he had said, listen, we are all about championships. 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:03.040 I even though we thought last year's finals appearance was 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:07.760 fool's gold, and we traded for Anthony Davis knowing he's 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:10.040 injured and by the way, he's going to take some 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:12.280 time to come back this year. This is not about 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.960 this season, and we may or may not even be 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:18.320 back in the playoffs this year. We're okay with this 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.199 because this is a long term play. And then you 0:26:21.320 --> 0:26:24.920 end up with Cooper Flag then you can say, told 0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:27.440 you a part of the plan. Didn't expect number one pick, 0:26:27.480 --> 0:26:29.720 but we were going to add an impact player. Fine, 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:33.560 you don't get to be like we are doing this 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:37.720 to contend right now. You fall into the and then 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:40.320 be in the play in and be trying to win 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:43.080 the play in, lose, fall into the lottery, get the 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:45.320 number one pick, and be like Bang told you so. 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:47.960 That's first of all, but they are where they are. 0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:50.320 Go ahead, Well, yeah, Just to be clear, I don't 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:51.679 want to give Nico. I don't want to. 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:54.159 Give him any credit for this, like it, no, the 0:26:55.080 --> 0:26:57.720 Luca piece of it, Like I kind of can see 0:26:57.800 --> 0:26:59.879 he's a little bit on something. It was a crazy trade, 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:02.160 but with it work painting out the way it did 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:03.360 and then getting that first pick. 0:27:04.119 --> 0:27:07.360 I think they have quite the squad on them right now. Okay, 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:11.520 so that's the real question is do they And my 0:27:11.680 --> 0:27:16.080 answer to that question is I think right now they 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:21.040 are more than a touch over rated. And here's why 0:27:21.160 --> 0:27:26.919 I listen. I heard and again this is not picking 0:27:26.960 --> 0:27:29.879 on him. I think other people thought this, but I 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:33.160 heard this from I heard Stephen A yesterday say that 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:36.040 they think that he thinks they could be Oklahoma City's 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:42.440 biggest competitor. I disagree. And the reason I disagree is this, 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:44.240 I do. 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:45.119 Not care. 0:27:47.080 --> 0:27:57.000 How good you are, how what your profile is. In 0:27:57.080 --> 0:28:02.359 the modern MBA, in particular, rookies that have to be 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:06.679 the focal point of a team's offense do not contribute 0:28:06.720 --> 0:28:12.000 to winning flatly. They just don't. Like I understand, Magic 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:14.679 was great as a rookie, he was not the focal 0:28:14.720 --> 0:28:19.440 point of the team's offense. Kareem was lebron as unbelievable 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:26.280 as he was. That Cavs team missed the playoffs. Michael 0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:29.840 Jordan as a rookie I think, averaged twenty eight points 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:36.560