WEBVTT - EPISODE 5: Kevin Durant trade REACTION!

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to this league uncut in the world of twenty

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<v Speaker 1>four NBA news. Just do you lose Chris Hanes, Di's

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<v Speaker 1>go time, Mark Stein. It's show time, Chris Hans and

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<v Speaker 1>Mark Stein. This liague uncutting is underway and on fire.

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<v Speaker 1>This should be a good one. Let's get right to it, everyone,

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<v Speaker 1>because this is why NBA Basketball, rather than Major League Baseball,

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<v Speaker 1>is the hot stove league of the twenty first century.

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<v Speaker 1>This is why, as the Pelican CJ McCollum sagely tweeted

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<v Speaker 1>in the wee hours of Thursday morning, you don't dare

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<v Speaker 1>go to sleep this time of year. This is why

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<v Speaker 1>hashtag this league is in the name of this podcast. Friends.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure you're still digesting or just catching up now

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<v Speaker 1>on the over night chaos. But Thursday's three pm Eastern

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<v Speaker 1>time NBA trade deadline. It's fast approaching, and I promise

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<v Speaker 1>there will be more, even though there's already enough to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about and dissect to fill up a month's worth

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<v Speaker 1>of podcast. This is Mark Stein speaking, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>if he didn't recognize the voice, regrettably but unavoidably solo

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<v Speaker 1>for this mini pod. We're rushing out because my partner

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<v Speaker 1>on this league uncut the one and only Chris Haynes

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<v Speaker 1>from Turner Sports. He had to travel cross country on

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<v Speaker 1>this very wild Wednesday. He's going to be at the Arena.

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<v Speaker 1>I still call Staple Center tonight to cover Bucks at

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<v Speaker 1>Lakers for TNT. After covering Suns at Nets in Brooklyn

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<v Speaker 1>on Tuesday night. I was working in a TV studio

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<v Speaker 1>myself in Dallas on Wednesday night, So there was really

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<v Speaker 1>no choice for us to concede that our next full

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<v Speaker 1>fledged edition of the pod, it's going to have to

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<v Speaker 1>be Friday to the deadline. That's going to be our

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<v Speaker 1>first chance to team up again and dive into all

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<v Speaker 1>this craziness. But I wanted to do a quick soliloquy

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<v Speaker 1>here in the interim after what we witnessed on that

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<v Speaker 1>afore lunch, aforementioned wild Wednesday. Kyrie Irving made his debut

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<v Speaker 1>as Dallas maverick in Los Angeles, leading the MAVs to

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<v Speaker 1>a win over the Clippers, with Luka Doncich watching in

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<v Speaker 1>street clothes, and then, seemingly minutes after the final buzzer

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<v Speaker 1>came the thunderbolt that Brooklyn has now agreed to trade

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<v Speaker 1>Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns, the same Durant who

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<v Speaker 1>Kyrie steered to the Nets in free agency in the

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<v Speaker 1>summer of twenty nineteen, Nets over the Knicks. Remember they

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<v Speaker 1>went as a package deal, and now suddenly, without warning,

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<v Speaker 1>the Nets have completely moved on from Kyrie and kd

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<v Speaker 1>halfway through their fourth season together in Brooklyn, super team

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<v Speaker 1>turned super flop. Now they're both in the Western Conference.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got the Suns pulling this off and teaming Durant

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<v Speaker 1>up with Devin Booker, Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton because

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<v Speaker 1>they consented to trade four unprotected first round picks and

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<v Speaker 1>a pick swap with Mikhail Bridges, Cam Johnson and Jay

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<v Speaker 1>Crowded of Brooklyn. But league's sources say what really happened

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<v Speaker 1>here is that the Nets and Durant, after Irving requested

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<v Speaker 1>a trade last Friday and then got dispatched to Dallas

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<v Speaker 1>last Sunday, the Nets Durant they privately agreed to do

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<v Speaker 1>a deal with the Suns as quickly as possible without

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<v Speaker 1>waiting until the offseason. And look, the Suns have this

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<v Speaker 1>exuberant new owner, Matt Ishbia, and exuberant barely covers it.

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<v Speaker 1>If you watched Ishbia's introductory press conference on which also

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<v Speaker 1>happened Wednesday, closer to lunchtime. The matt Ishbia Suns were

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<v Speaker 1>so clearly eager to announce themselves to the league as

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<v Speaker 1>loudly and splashily as possible, as evidenced again by the

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<v Speaker 1>four unprotected first round picks Phoenix tossed into this trade.

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<v Speaker 1>We ended up with a blockbuster so huge that it

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<v Speaker 1>rendered a three team trade hours earlier, people featuring the

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<v Speaker 1>Lakers and the two teams that just hooked up in

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<v Speaker 1>July for the Rudy Gobert blockbuster, Utah and Minnesota doing

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<v Speaker 1>business again. The Nets and Suns shoved that pretty significant

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<v Speaker 1>trade to absolute undercard status. So Chris and I obviously

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<v Speaker 1>have tons to discuss when we get back together, starting

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<v Speaker 1>with the Nets and the Suns and what their futures

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<v Speaker 1>look like after the mayhem they just cause. How the

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<v Speaker 1>Lakers fared by bringing back D'Angelo Russell, bringing in Malik

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<v Speaker 1>Beasley and Jared Vanderbilt to try to make up for

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<v Speaker 1>their inability to win the Kyrie Irving trade sweepstakes. What

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<v Speaker 1>happens next for future Hall of Famer Westbrook. We know

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<v Speaker 1>he's not going to Utah. He's not going to actually

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<v Speaker 1>show in Utah. He is headed there. Theoretically, it will

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<v Speaker 1>be his fifth different team. Now in the final year

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<v Speaker 1>of that five year max contract worth an excess of

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<v Speaker 1>two hundred million that he originally signed with the Thunder Thunder, Rockets, Wizards, Lakers, Jazz.

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<v Speaker 1>He'll soon be headed for team number six and the

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<v Speaker 1>buyout mark it when he and the Jazz part whether

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a wave situation or will he get a buyout,

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<v Speaker 1>but we know Russ will be headed to the open market.

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<v Speaker 1>That ensures the headlines aren't going to stop when the

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<v Speaker 1>deadline passes. And look, there will be more trade action today.

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<v Speaker 1>Buckle up, the madness is not over. Maybe we'll see

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<v Speaker 1>nothing more that quite reaches the level of either of

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<v Speaker 1>last night's two trades, but Memphis and New Orleans are

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<v Speaker 1>still presumed to have serious interest in Toronto's Oganna Noby.

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<v Speaker 1>The Nets now have a surplus of wing players they

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<v Speaker 1>could make more moves. Detroit's been looking for an unprotected

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<v Speaker 1>first rounder for Boyon Bogdanovitch. They've said for months, for weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>for months they won't trade Bugdanovitch. Well, unprotected first round

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<v Speaker 1>picks are flying around like crazy. Maybe the Pistons were

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<v Speaker 1>lent there. The Raptors do seem open to trading Anna Noby,

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<v Speaker 1>even after they made a win now move Wednesday by

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<v Speaker 1>swinging a deal to reacquire Yaka Purdle from San Antonio.

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<v Speaker 1>The Warriors are still looking for upgrades that can help

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<v Speaker 1>live them out of a twenty eight and twenty seven lethargy.

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<v Speaker 1>The defending champions have not been able to dislodge themselves

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<v Speaker 1>from Where will the Clippers go? What will they do

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<v Speaker 1>to upgrade after players they coveted, like Kyrie Light de'angelo

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<v Speaker 1>Russell went to rivals. What were the Nuggets the West's

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<v Speaker 1>most consistent force in a season marked by an almighty

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<v Speaker 1>jumble in the standings in the West from three to thirteen.

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<v Speaker 1>What are the Nuggets going to do to strengthen their roster,

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<v Speaker 1>presumably by trading bones Highland. I am just generally confident

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<v Speaker 1>that this will continue to be a very busy deadline day,

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<v Speaker 1>because as we've seen now over the past half decade,

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<v Speaker 1>you really have to take note of this teams all

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<v Speaker 1>over the NBA map, they've embraced taking the biggest of

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<v Speaker 1>swings at the trade deadline than waiting for free agency.

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<v Speaker 1>The NBA's wildest of Wednesday's just slammed home that reality.

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<v Speaker 1>The trade deadline gets more and more significant as we go,

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<v Speaker 1>and I promise Chris and I are going to get

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<v Speaker 1>into it all Friday. We'll have a pod Friday, We'll

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<v Speaker 1>have a pod Monday. Hopefully after those two pods we

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<v Speaker 1>will have been able to sum up the state of things,

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<v Speaker 1>and like I said, I'm fully expecting more significant action

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<v Speaker 1>on this deadline day. Thank you so much for listening

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<v Speaker 1>to this league uncut. Your support and the appetite for

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<v Speaker 1>our first two weeks has been amazing. We are so excited,

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<v Speaker 1>and again, Chris and I will be back Friday together.

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<v Speaker 1>We will get into it all and try to figure

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<v Speaker 1>out where this league, this wacky league, goes from here.

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<v Speaker 1>Talk to you soon, everybody, and then I'll do it

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<v Speaker 1>for us. See you next time.