Speaker 1: Welcome to this league uncut in the world of twenty
Speaker 1: four NBA news. Just do you lose Chris Hanes, Di's
Speaker 1: go time, Mark Stein. It's show time, Chris Hans and
Speaker 1: Mark Stein. This liague uncutting is underway and on fire.
Speaker 1: This should be a good one. Let's get right to it, everyone,
Speaker 1: because this is why NBA Basketball, rather than Major League Baseball,
Speaker 1: is the hot stove league of the twenty first century.
Speaker 1: This is why, as the Pelican CJ McCollum sagely tweeted
Speaker 1: in the wee hours of Thursday morning, you don't dare
Speaker 1: go to sleep this time of year. This is why
Speaker 1: hashtag this league is in the name of this podcast. Friends.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're still digesting or just catching up now
Speaker 1: on the over night chaos. But Thursday's three pm Eastern
Speaker 1: time NBA trade deadline. It's fast approaching, and I promise
Speaker 1: there will be more, even though there's already enough to
Speaker 1: talk about and dissect to fill up a month's worth
Speaker 1: of podcast. This is Mark Stein speaking, by the way,
Speaker 1: if he didn't recognize the voice, regrettably but unavoidably solo
Speaker 1: for this mini pod. We're rushing out because my partner
Speaker 1: on this league uncut the one and only Chris Haynes
Speaker 1: from Turner Sports. He had to travel cross country on
Speaker 1: this very wild Wednesday. He's going to be at the Arena.
Speaker 1: I still call Staple Center tonight to cover Bucks at
Speaker 1: Lakers for TNT. After covering Suns at Nets in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night. I was working in a TV studio
Speaker 1: myself in Dallas on Wednesday night, So there was really
Speaker 1: no choice for us to concede that our next full
Speaker 1: fledged edition of the pod, it's going to have to
Speaker 1: be Friday to the deadline. That's going to be our
Speaker 1: first chance to team up again and dive into all
Speaker 1: this craziness. But I wanted to do a quick soliloquy
Speaker 1: here in the interim after what we witnessed on that
Speaker 1: afore lunch, aforementioned wild Wednesday. Kyrie Irving made his debut
Speaker 1: as Dallas maverick in Los Angeles, leading the MAVs to
Speaker 1: a win over the Clippers, with Luka Doncich watching in
Speaker 1: street clothes, and then, seemingly minutes after the final buzzer
Speaker 1: came the thunderbolt that Brooklyn has now agreed to trade
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns, the same Durant who
Speaker 1: Kyrie steered to the Nets in free agency in the
Speaker 1: summer of twenty nineteen, Nets over the Knicks. Remember they
Speaker 1: went as a package deal, and now suddenly, without warning,
Speaker 1: the Nets have completely moved on from Kyrie and kd
Speaker 1: halfway through their fourth season together in Brooklyn, super team
Speaker 1: turned super flop. Now they're both in the Western Conference.
Speaker 1: You've got the Suns pulling this off and teaming Durant
Speaker 1: up with Devin Booker, Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton because
Speaker 1: they consented to trade four unprotected first round picks and
Speaker 1: a pick swap with Mikhail Bridges, Cam Johnson and Jay
Speaker 1: Crowded of Brooklyn. But league's sources say what really happened
Speaker 1: here is that the Nets and Durant, after Irving requested
Speaker 1: a trade last Friday and then got dispatched to Dallas
Speaker 1: last Sunday, the Nets Durant they privately agreed to do
Speaker 1: a deal with the Suns as quickly as possible without
Speaker 1: waiting until the offseason. And look, the Suns have this
Speaker 1: exuberant new owner, Matt Ishbia, and exuberant barely covers it.
Speaker 1: If you watched Ishbia's introductory press conference on which also
Speaker 1: happened Wednesday, closer to lunchtime. The matt Ishbia Suns were
Speaker 1: so clearly eager to announce themselves to the league as
Speaker 1: loudly and splashily as possible, as evidenced again by the
Speaker 1: four unprotected first round picks Phoenix tossed into this trade.
Speaker 1: We ended up with a blockbuster so huge that it
Speaker 1: rendered a three team trade hours earlier, people featuring the
Speaker 1: Lakers and the two teams that just hooked up in
Speaker 1: July for the Rudy Gobert blockbuster, Utah and Minnesota doing
Speaker 1: business again. The Nets and Suns shoved that pretty significant
Speaker 1: trade to absolute undercard status. So Chris and I obviously
Speaker 1: have tons to discuss when we get back together, starting
Speaker 1: with the Nets and the Suns and what their futures
Speaker 1: look like after the mayhem they just cause. How the
Speaker 1: Lakers fared by bringing back D'Angelo Russell, bringing in Malik
Speaker 1: Beasley and Jared Vanderbilt to try to make up for
Speaker 1: their inability to win the Kyrie Irving trade sweepstakes. What
Speaker 1: happens next for future Hall of Famer Westbrook. We know
Speaker 1: he's not going to Utah. He's not going to actually
Speaker 1: show in Utah. He is headed there. Theoretically, it will
Speaker 1: be his fifth different team. Now in the final year
Speaker 1: of that five year max contract worth an excess of
Speaker 1: two hundred million that he originally signed with the Thunder Thunder, Rockets, Wizards, Lakers, Jazz.
Speaker 1: He'll soon be headed for team number six and the
Speaker 1: buyout mark it when he and the Jazz part whether
Speaker 1: it's just a wave situation or will he get a buyout,
Speaker 1: but we know Russ will be headed to the open market.
Speaker 1: That ensures the headlines aren't going to stop when the
Speaker 1: deadline passes. And look, there will be more trade action today.
Speaker 1: Buckle up, the madness is not over. Maybe we'll see
Speaker 1: nothing more that quite reaches the level of either of
Speaker 1: last night's two trades, but Memphis and New Orleans are
Speaker 1: still presumed to have serious interest in Toronto's Oganna Noby.
Speaker 1: The Nets now have a surplus of wing players they
Speaker 1: could make more moves. Detroit's been looking for an unprotected
Speaker 1: first rounder for Boyon Bogdanovitch. They've said for months, for weeks,
Speaker 1: for months they won't trade Bugdanovitch. Well, unprotected first round
Speaker 1: picks are flying around like crazy. Maybe the Pistons were
Speaker 1: lent there. The Raptors do seem open to trading Anna Noby,
Speaker 1: even after they made a win now move Wednesday by
Speaker 1: swinging a deal to reacquire Yaka Purdle from San Antonio.
Speaker 1: The Warriors are still looking for upgrades that can help
Speaker 1: live them out of a twenty eight and twenty seven lethargy.
Speaker 1: The defending champions have not been able to dislodge themselves
Speaker 1: from Where will the Clippers go? What will they do
Speaker 1: to upgrade after players they coveted, like Kyrie Light de'angelo
Speaker 1: Russell went to rivals. What were the Nuggets the West's
Speaker 1: most consistent force in a season marked by an almighty
Speaker 1: jumble in the standings in the West from three to thirteen.
Speaker 1: What are the Nuggets going to do to strengthen their roster,
Speaker 1: presumably by trading bones Highland. I am just generally confident
Speaker 1: that this will continue to be a very busy deadline day,
Speaker 1: because as we've seen now over the past half decade,
Speaker 1: you really have to take note of this teams all
Speaker 1: over the NBA map, they've embraced taking the biggest of
Speaker 1: swings at the trade deadline than waiting for free agency.
Speaker 1: The NBA's wildest of Wednesday's just slammed home that reality.
Speaker 1: The trade deadline gets more and more significant as we go,
Speaker 1: and I promise Chris and I are going to get
Speaker 1: into it all Friday. We'll have a pod Friday, We'll
Speaker 1: have a pod Monday. Hopefully after those two pods we
Speaker 1: will have been able to sum up the state of things,
Speaker 1: and like I said, I'm fully expecting more significant action
Speaker 1: on this deadline day. Thank you so much for listening
Speaker 1: to this league uncut. Your support and the appetite for
Speaker 1: our first two weeks has been amazing. We are so excited,
Speaker 1: We are so grateful. Please rate and review and subscribe
Speaker 1: to our humble little pod wherever you get your podcasts,
Speaker 1: and again, Chris and I will be back Friday together.
Speaker 1: We will get into it all and try to figure
Speaker 1: out where this league, this wacky league, goes from here.
Speaker 1: Talk to you soon, everybody, and then I'll do it
Speaker 1: for us. See you next time.