1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to this league uncut in the world of twenty 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: four NBA news. Just do you lose Chris Hanes, Di's 3 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:17,639 Speaker 1: go time, Mark Stein. It's show time, Chris Hans and 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: Mark Stein. This liague uncutting is underway and on fire. 5 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Let's get right to it, everyone, 6 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: because this is why NBA Basketball, rather than Major League Baseball, 7 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: is the hot stove league of the twenty first century. 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: This is why, as the Pelican CJ McCollum sagely tweeted 9 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: in the wee hours of Thursday morning, you don't dare 10 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: go to sleep this time of year. This is why 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: hashtag this league is in the name of this podcast. Friends. 12 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: I'm sure you're still digesting or just catching up now 13 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: on the over night chaos. But Thursday's three pm Eastern 14 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: time NBA trade deadline. It's fast approaching, and I promise 15 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: there will be more, even though there's already enough to 16 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: talk about and dissect to fill up a month's worth 17 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:19,360 Speaker 1: of podcast. This is Mark Stein speaking, by the way, 18 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: if he didn't recognize the voice, regrettably but unavoidably solo 19 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: for this mini pod. We're rushing out because my partner 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: on this league uncut the one and only Chris Haynes 21 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: from Turner Sports. He had to travel cross country on 22 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: this very wild Wednesday. He's going to be at the Arena. 23 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: I still call Staple Center tonight to cover Bucks at 24 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: Lakers for TNT. After covering Suns at Nets in Brooklyn 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. I was working in a TV studio 26 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: myself in Dallas on Wednesday night, So there was really 27 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: no choice for us to concede that our next full 28 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 1: fledged edition of the pod, it's going to have to 29 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: be Friday to the deadline. That's going to be our 30 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: first chance to team up again and dive into all 31 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: this craziness. But I wanted to do a quick soliloquy 32 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: here in the interim after what we witnessed on that 33 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: afore lunch, aforementioned wild Wednesday. Kyrie Irving made his debut 34 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: as Dallas maverick in Los Angeles, leading the MAVs to 35 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: a win over the Clippers, with Luka Doncich watching in 36 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: street clothes, and then, seemingly minutes after the final buzzer 37 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: came the thunderbolt that Brooklyn has now agreed to trade 38 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns, the same Durant who 39 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: Kyrie steered to the Nets in free agency in the 40 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,799 Speaker 1: summer of twenty nineteen, Nets over the Knicks. Remember they 41 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: went as a package deal, and now suddenly, without warning, 42 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: the Nets have completely moved on from Kyrie and kd 43 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: halfway through their fourth season together in Brooklyn, super team 44 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: turned super flop. Now they're both in the Western Conference. 45 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: You've got the Suns pulling this off and teaming Durant 46 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: up with Devin Booker, Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton because 47 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: they consented to trade four unprotected first round picks and 48 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: a pick swap with Mikhail Bridges, Cam Johnson and Jay 49 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: Crowded of Brooklyn. But league's sources say what really happened 50 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 1: here is that the Nets and Durant, after Irving requested 51 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 1: a trade last Friday and then got dispatched to Dallas 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: last Sunday, the Nets Durant they privately agreed to do 53 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: a deal with the Suns as quickly as possible without 54 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: waiting until the offseason. And look, the Suns have this 55 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: exuberant new owner, Matt Ishbia, and exuberant barely covers it. 56 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: If you watched Ishbia's introductory press conference on which also 57 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: happened Wednesday, closer to lunchtime. The matt Ishbia Suns were 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: so clearly eager to announce themselves to the league as 59 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: loudly and splashily as possible, as evidenced again by the 60 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 1: four unprotected first round picks Phoenix tossed into this trade. 61 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: We ended up with a blockbuster so huge that it 62 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 1: rendered a three team trade hours earlier, people featuring the 63 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: Lakers and the two teams that just hooked up in 64 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: July for the Rudy Gobert blockbuster, Utah and Minnesota doing 65 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: business again. The Nets and Suns shoved that pretty significant 66 00:04:32,760 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: trade to absolute undercard status. So Chris and I obviously 67 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: have tons to discuss when we get back together, starting 68 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: with the Nets and the Suns and what their futures 69 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: look like after the mayhem they just cause. How the 70 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: Lakers fared by bringing back D'Angelo Russell, bringing in Malik 71 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: Beasley and Jared Vanderbilt to try to make up for 72 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: their inability to win the Kyrie Irving trade sweepstakes. What 73 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: happens next for future Hall of Famer Westbrook. We know 74 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 1: he's not going to Utah. He's not going to actually 75 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: show in Utah. He is headed there. Theoretically, it will 76 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 1: be his fifth different team. Now in the final year 77 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: of that five year max contract worth an excess of 78 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: two hundred million that he originally signed with the Thunder Thunder, Rockets, Wizards, Lakers, Jazz. 79 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: He'll soon be headed for team number six and the 80 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: buyout mark it when he and the Jazz part whether 81 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: it's just a wave situation or will he get a buyout, 82 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: but we know Russ will be headed to the open market. 83 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: That ensures the headlines aren't going to stop when the 84 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,640 Speaker 1: deadline passes. And look, there will be more trade action today. 85 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: Buckle up, the madness is not over. Maybe we'll see 86 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: nothing more that quite reaches the level of either of 87 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: last night's two trades, but Memphis and New Orleans are 88 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: still presumed to have serious interest in Toronto's Oganna Noby. 89 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: The Nets now have a surplus of wing players they 90 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: could make more moves. Detroit's been looking for an unprotected 91 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: first rounder for Boyon Bogdanovitch. They've said for months, for weeks, 92 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: for months they won't trade Bugdanovitch. Well, unprotected first round 93 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: picks are flying around like crazy. Maybe the Pistons were 94 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: lent there. The Raptors do seem open to trading Anna Noby, 95 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: even after they made a win now move Wednesday by 96 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: swinging a deal to reacquire Yaka Purdle from San Antonio. 97 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: The Warriors are still looking for upgrades that can help 98 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: live them out of a twenty eight and twenty seven lethargy. 99 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: The defending champions have not been able to dislodge themselves 100 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: from Where will the Clippers go? What will they do 101 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: to upgrade after players they coveted, like Kyrie Light de'angelo 102 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: Russell went to rivals. What were the Nuggets the West's 103 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: most consistent force in a season marked by an almighty 104 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 1: jumble in the standings in the West from three to thirteen. 105 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: What are the Nuggets going to do to strengthen their roster, 106 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: presumably by trading bones Highland. I am just generally confident 107 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 1: that this will continue to be a very busy deadline day, 108 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: because as we've seen now over the past half decade, 109 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 1: you really have to take note of this teams all 110 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: over the NBA map, they've embraced taking the biggest of 111 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: swings at the trade deadline than waiting for free agency. 112 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: The NBA's wildest of Wednesday's just slammed home that reality. 113 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: The trade deadline gets more and more significant as we go, 114 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: and I promise Chris and I are going to get 115 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: into it all Friday. We'll have a pod Friday, We'll 116 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: have a pod Monday. Hopefully after those two pods we 117 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: will have been able to sum up the state of things, 118 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: and like I said, I'm fully expecting more significant action 119 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: on this deadline day. Thank you so much for listening 120 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: to this league uncut. Your support and the appetite for 121 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: our first two weeks has been amazing. We are so excited, 122 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: We are so grateful. Please rate and review and subscribe 123 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: to our humble little pod wherever you get your podcasts, 124 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: and again, Chris and I will be back Friday together. 125 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: We will get into it all and try to figure 126 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: out where this league, this wacky league, goes from here. 127 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: Talk to you soon, everybody, and then I'll do it 128 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: for us. See you next time.