WEBVTT - Draymond Green Speaks About Altercation with Jordan Poole 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.920 You're tuned into Heat Check with Triste Quick. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:11.280 On this episode of the Heat Check, with Draymond Green 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:15.280 set to return to the team today, we will have 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:20.200 the final word on this incident to what I call scufflegates, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.079 and we will have a little news as well from 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.880 around the league. We are also going to break down 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:32.320 ten players you're probably not talking about. I made sure 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.919 that this was under the radar. I made sure if 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:39.280 there are players that are above board, maybe there's a couple, 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.920 but these are all under the radar that are set 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.479 to surprise this year. I can't tell you how happy 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.640 I am that basketball is back. I'm betting the preseason 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.600 and I am winning money. Tell you what, let's drop 0:00:51.760 --> 0:01:04.760 that motherfucking beat. Okay, it's happening. Draymond Green was on Walkabouts. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:12.080 Was he low key suspended? Was it all his choice? 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.680 Steve Kerr said that it was mutual. Anytime someone says 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:21.240 something's mutual, it's really they decided, you know what I mean, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:26.600 or the one party really decided. Draymond Green makes his 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:31.440 debut tonight in the preseason for Golden State after being 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.240 away from the team for seven days receiving a fine 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:41.280 of an unspecified amount. People in Jordan Poole's camp are 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.640 saying that it could be roughly a fine worth around 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:51.440 checks notes sixty million dollars. Cause a guy who's already 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.800 stressed out about how much money he's making and the 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:01.440 contract and is worried about money probably not a fun scenario. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.200 So he's back with the team after what probably is 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.880 gotta be his worst week of his NBA career and 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.960 definitely the worst week of the Golden State Warriors tenure 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.919 as a dynasty, probably Steve Kerr's coaching career as well. 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:22.000 He even hinted at this being just one of the 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:26.519 most tumultuous moments of the entire Warriors dynasty run. Very 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:31.200 sad presser, very bad week for Dre. From the second 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.760 that the video dropped pretty much changed the narrative on everything. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.360 Drey immediately held a press conference where he said that 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.480 he was stepping away from the team on his own volition, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.359 which we now know, according to Steve Kerr, not exactly true, 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:51.359 not exactly accurate. As they say in the presser, Draymond's 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.440 been about eleven minutes talking about why he was stepping 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.359 away from a team, why he punched Jordan Poole kind 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.960 of some context about things that were going on in 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.720 his personal life that he was very sorry. He also 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.760 made it very clear that his reason for coming at 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.680 Pool had nothing to do with the fact and people 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.480 were speculating this that Draymond Green was mad that Jordan 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.240 Poole was about to get paid a lot of money. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.679 Here's what he had to say. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:23.440 On a night where it should be celebration and love 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.200 and it still will be. But there is like this, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.720 this this dark cloud in the room, and I caused that, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.760 you know. So I apologize to his family, uh, and 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.320 just what they've had to deal with over the course 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.960 of the last twenty four to forty eight hours. And 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.360 I will do what I have to do to make 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.880 that right to my family, you know, the things that 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.600 they had they've had to deal with. I know, you 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.160 know my wife is you know, she's getting comments like 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.600 he'll beat you at home and stuff like that, you know, 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.080 as if you know that's the case. And so I 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.360 apologize to my family as well for what they had 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.920 to go through. And then most importantly, my brother's on 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.720 his team who I've had apologize, who I've apologized to already. 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.600 But for me, that is the task at hand to 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:20.120 rebuild trust in our locker room, pull everything back together 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.480 as it needs to be poured together in order to 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:26.520 compete and defend a championship. And although that is the 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.719 least of my worries right now, it has to stay 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:30.920 at the forefront. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.599 He basically said he wasn't going to count the other 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.080 people's money in their pockets. But I think that's fair. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.480 I think Draymond Green deciding to say, hey, I'm going 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.760 through things right now. I'm going through things, and that's 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.920 changing how I react to every circumstance. And from what 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:51.880 I understand, what Draymond is going through is rough and 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:58.159 something that as contracts loom over both of Jordan Poole 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.719 and Draymond Green and all the things that are going 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:07.560 on in his own personal life. Just a bad situation 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:12.880 in a bad set of circumstances where now you've got 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.960 to rebuild trust with your team, and now you've got 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.200 to try to get back to a place where this 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.039 team wants to pay you. And that's tough because if 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.039 you're having any issues personally that make it harder for 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:28.040 a team to pay you, you got to get that 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.640 sorted out. Steve Kerr then followed with his own presser 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:36.480 and man for a guy who's seemingly very open, very jovial, 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.200 very honest, Steve Kerr wanted none of that. Steve Kerr 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.000 wanted to answer no questions. He wanted to say absolutely nothing. 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.839 He was not interested in the least in discussing what happened, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.120 what they're going to do. He was extremely cagey about 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.880 giving support to Draymond or even admonishing Draymond. He was 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.480 pretty much trying to close it all down. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:05.280 Everything is internal. So my answer to that is we've 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:10.719 had those discussions with individuals with the team, and those 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:17.360 discussions will stay private as long as nobody leaks those conversations. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.480 He's already talking about leaks. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.000 Draymond indicated that he is not going to be with 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.120 the team for a while. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.920 Is that his choice or is that a team choice? 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:33.280 Mutual mutual decision based on everything that's happened and discussions, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:35.960 you know behind the scenes. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.040 You guys have been through with stuff with Raymond. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.520 Before you get to a point where you is trust 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.560 in any way compromised already, are you nearing that or 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:48.320 where you get with that? 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:57.000 No comment, Ah, that's the part for me, the no comment. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.640 If we had to add up all of of times 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.919 in Steve Kurr's career as a head coach where he 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.640 has said no comment, I think the number the tally 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.760 is uh check. I think one. I think that one 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.760 right there. I don't think he's ever said no comment 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.360 in the history of being a head coach, to my memory, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.160 very rarely. Let's keep going really quick. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.480 You talked last time about how good the practice was. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.080 Is that you are you getting the same energy that 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.120 did that continue today? Yeah? 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.680 A good practice today, you know, nothing live got a 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.720 game tomorrow, so we got some some good work and 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:40.480 skill work and you know, conceptual stuff and ready to 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:41.160 go for tomorrow. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.880 I don't know if this is this is an internal 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.720 question or not, but just is the team and all 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.760 and he's sort of like having to get through stuff 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.000 in any phase and he, you know, stayed a shock. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.880 I'm sure it's different for each player, but are you 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.840 sensing that this is something the team is still going through? 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:04.040 Yeah? I mean, this is this is why it's so 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:09.840 crucial to keep things in house. I've been in this 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.000 league for thirty plus years. I've seen all kinds of 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:19.760 crazy stuff as soon as things are leaked, you know, 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.040 now all hell breaks loose. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.560 No shit, Steve, all hell did break loose. We all 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.960 want to know what's gonna happen next. Draymond, though, now 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.520 is back with the team. He's got some bridges to build. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.960 Kevon Looney said this, but ultimately to me, and this 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.480 is where I fall on it. Steph is going to 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.880 be Draymond's biggest advocate, Stephan Clay. They've got big time 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.199 trust in Draymond Green, and it's very hard to imagine, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.520 very hard to imagine that this team is better without him. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.160 But I think that this is the biggest adversity of 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.280 the team has ever faced in its dynastic run. Very 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.319 very bad. Was the Kevin Durant Draymond thing, because Kevin 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.040 Durant ultimately left, and we can say probably that had 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.320 a big factor to it. But this is even worse. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.320 And I hate to break it to people who say, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.040 just get rid of Draymond and this team is better 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.440 without Draymond. They are not. They are not better without Draymond. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.760 They are not okay without Draymond. They are not a 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.400 championship caliber team without Draymond Green. Steph would face an 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.200 immense amount of double teams. Without Draymond Green, You've got 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.199 Klay Thompson, who would face an immense amount of double teams. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.480 Without Draymond Green, they would not be able to get 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.720 loose or get busy the same way they do without 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.360 him being able to see the floor, read the defenses, 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.880 and be an elite passer that he is. And also defensively, 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.120 who do you have on this team that can guard 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.480 one through five on the perimeter inside, be a small 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:53.360 ball five who can play against legit centers who outside 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.000 of last playoffs, Draymond Green has been elite. So stop 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.600 the noise with Draymond Green being washed. Stop the noise 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.760 with Draymond Green not being about piece of this championship team. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.560 I would say, if you look at the statistics and 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.680 you look at the wins and losses without Clay, without Draymond, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.400 Draymond is more important to this team than Clay, hands down. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.360 If you want to pay one, and this is outside 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.280 of this nonsense, outside of the scuffle, if you were 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.319 going to pay one, Clay coming up on his new contract, 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.719 where he's at offensively, defensively, and what you have in 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.880 Jordan Poole and Draymond Green you pay Draymond Green over 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.920 Clay Clay, I'm sorry. You already got your bag. You 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.600 sat out two years and never played a game, and 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.679 so now you make the vet minimum and I think 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.439 he would say yes to that. So ultimately, I think 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.800 Draymond is more important than Clay Thompson. And that is 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.439 probably seen as a very hot take. And I mean 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.600 where Clay is right now, not the Clay that we 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.280 had prior to those injuries. That's a totally different story. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.800 Nobody knows where he's supposed to be at on the 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.480 court more than Draymond. He's elite at spacing. He drags 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.079 the other team's bigs out. He screws up their spacing 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.480 big time. His passing, like I said earlier, is on 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.280 another level. People gush over Ben Simmons in his ability 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.720 to pass, but Draymond Green I think he's better in 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.040 terms of IQ passing the ball knowing where defenses are 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.559 supposed to be over a ten game stretch, I look 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.679 this up. Draymond Green had over one hundred assists and 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:19.240 twenty two turnovers over one hundred assists in ten games. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.320 That is ridiculous for a big man. That this is 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.960 not a point guard, he has more. He has more 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.440 assists than Steph Curry. Night tonight, people joke about Draymond 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.800 being a triple single. That, my friends, is what makes 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.760 him a Hall of Famer, nine to nine to nine. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.480 I don't care how many points he scores. Steph Curry 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.800 goes insane, Clay Thomson can go insane. Points wise, Troydon 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.840 Poole can go insane. Hell, You've got other people who 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.240 can pick it up on a night to night basis. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.040 I don't need Draymond Green to score. What I need 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.200 is his rebounds, his assists, and his ability to defend. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.640 And he changed the NBA because of him, the way 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.600 that we play the forward position, the way that we 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.960 see small ball five. There is a reason that guys 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.400 like Zion and Ben Simmons think that they can be 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.000 a point forward. Right, And then on top of that 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.680 two points to make about all of it one, the 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.719 Warriors need Draymond because the offense doesn't function without him. Right. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.199 They were twenty one and seventeen fifty five fifty two 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.480 winning percentage without Draymond Green last year and with him 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.760 thirty two to twelve, that's a seven seventy three percent 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.800 winning percentage with him fifty five percent winning percentage without him. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.559 I'd say that's pretty damn impactful. And on top of that, 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.640 when Draymond was off the court with their injuries, Klay 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:38.160 Thompson was playing. When Draymond was on the court prior 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.559 to his injury, Klay Thompson was knocked. So that'll tell 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.120 you who's more impactful to winning on this team right now. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:45.120 Two. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.880 Yes, the punch was awful. I think it was totally 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:53.200 incomprehensible that we can't defend it in any way. But 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.760 we can say is this We have to keep in 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.480 mind where Draymond Green comes from, Sagan On, Michigan, very 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.400 tough neighborhood, very tough upbringing. Someone puts their hands on you, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.840 which Jordan Poole did. If you're in a bad spot 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.520 and you're going through something and your patience is shortened, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.679 no excuse, but you push me. I hit you in 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.440 the face. Sorry, that's the way it goes. And in 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.920 extreme stress, you revert back to where you came from. 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.480 You revert back to the tendencies that you've worked so 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.000 hard through fit therapy or you know, just personal development 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.120 to work out at you. So the Warriors are internal 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:30.760 right now. Do I think they're gonna be fine? I do, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.440 but they need to figure out how to put this 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.840 all behind them. No matter what. There are gonna be 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.520 questions moving forward. There's gonna be a lot of media 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:44.679 buzz about Draymond Green. Every photo, every video of Draymond 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.720 next to Jordan Poole is going to be scrutinized. That 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.320 is going to be a thing. Are they gonna yell 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.280 at each other on the bench? How is that going 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.120 to be perceived? And I don't see the Draymond Green 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.120 and the Warriors as the biggest story of moving forward 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.080 in the NBA season. I did not see that. But 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:16.280 here we are a couple of the stories though from 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.000 around the league, before we get into our top ten. 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:25.760 This one's interesting to me. Did you know that the 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:32.240 Denver Nuggets mascot makes six hundred and twenty five thousand 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:38.200 dollars per year? How? What has he done? Who does 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.720 he know? Is that shocking? Is anyone else shocked by that? 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:47.400 His name is Rocky, Rocky the Mountain Lion. If you 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.800 didn't know that, Joy the club, Joy the Club? Because 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.680 I didn't know that. I didn't know that that mascots 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.840 had full out names. I didn't know that they made 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.840 that kind of money. Harry the Hawk from Atlanta make 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:05.360 six hundred thousand dollars, Benny the Bull gets four hundred 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:11.320 thousand dollars, and shockingly, Phoenix the Phoenix Gorilla. He's getting 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.840 absolutely short changed. Two hundred thousand dollars for Phoenix the Gorilla. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.040 I tell you what, those stucco homes, the cost of living, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:24.440 parking spots everywhere, grocery bills down to the floor because 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.240 Mexico is just a quick jaunt away. Avocados are like 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.640 twenty five cents per avocado, and Phoenix they are still 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.760 short changing my man. Phoenix the Phoenix Gorilla. He doesn't 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.720 even have a name, Phoenix Gorilla. We got Harry, we 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.920 got Benny, we got Rocky, and then what we got 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:46.080 just Phoenix Phoenix Gorilla. Hugo the Hornets, these are fake names. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.120 Make one hundred thousand dollars, which is what you would 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:55.040 expect when Michael Jordan owns that team. Just cheap shit. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.600 But I digress. Considering that the NBA league minimum is 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.160 one point one million dollars, Rocky actually makes more than 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.400 an NBA player will make on a two way contract, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:09.120 which is insane. That's absolutely insane. Here is a list 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.400 of players that made less than Rocky last year. Moses Brown, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:21.840 Quindarry Witherspoon, Dwayne Washington, Junior Man, my bad, Chris Chiosa. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.160 I know Dwayne's dad. He's if he's listening, shout out 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:31.640 to him, Chris Chiosa, AJ Lawson. Imagine being Isaiah Thomas 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.240 goes five for nine for fifteen points in thirteen minutes 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:40.880 and knowing that the costume guy with the T shirt, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.760 cannon and the sick moves where he's you know, doing 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.680 Shaken and Harlem Shaken. He makes twenty percent more than you. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.000 You're looking at him and like that guy makes more 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:58.920 than me. She It's rough out here on these streets. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.280 It for Rocky must be related to one of the owners, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.360 have to be to pull down a contract of almost 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.320 a million dollars a year. That is a shitload of money. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.960 I'm not saying you can dance, you can entertain entertainments 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:15.679 with this whole thing. Is not saying he doesn't deserve it, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.879 but I want everyone to get a paid check. Isaiah 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.920 Thomas should get paid. If Rocky's getting paid, that's facts. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.080 Let's move forward. Let's take a quick look at what's 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.000 been going on in Chicago. Of course, we've been talking 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.960 about Lonzo Ball. He's nowhere, you're near his return to 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.080 the Bulls. The Balls are going to be in shambles. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.159 They are going to be a dumpster fire this year. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.879 They're not even going to be that fun. But the 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:45.320 lost in the Loonzo news is that this preseason, Patrick Williams, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:49.520 the Bulls number four pick in twenty twenty, and the 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.320 guy that they've been saying for two years is untouchable, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.439 the guy that they want to build around, to the 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.639 point where multiple trades were shut down because they didn't 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.720 they wanted to include Patrick Williams. And the deal has 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.840 now been benched for Javonte Green, a twenty nine year 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:11.000 old journeyman who has spent more time playing in Europe 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.040 than he has in the NBA, and he has never 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.320 averaged more than seven point two points per game. And 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.560 guess what, As one Bulls blog point out, this isn't nothing. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.520 This is something. Indeed, this is something to keep our 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.520 eyes on, especially considering how far the franchise has gone 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.480 out of its way to pitch them to us as 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.280 a cornerstone piece of their franchise moving forward, where he 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.359 should be the guy. What happened, Well, Billy Donovan was 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.880 pretty blunted. This team's better with Javonte than they are 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:49.359 with Patrick Williams. Yikes, yikes. And Patrick Williams, keep in mind, 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.520 benched himself in college. He did. He said, hey, coach, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.600 I'll come off the bench. I'll be the sixth man. 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.040 I don't need to be a starter. Let's just win games. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.240 And that's very cute in college basket. That's not cute 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.639 when we're talking about millions of dollars. We're talking about 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.840 franchise altering pieces. We're talking about trades getting shot down 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:11.639 because of you. We're not shooting down trades for a 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.760 sixth man. I'm sorry. You need to be our second man. 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.200 One of the nicest guys. I think he will help 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.360 someone a lot. I do think this means he could 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.600 be on his way out and when he was such 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.320 a high value trade piece, what is he now? We 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.520 will have to see our big one question in this 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:38.920 episode though we move forward, is this hypothetical who would 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:43.479 be off limits in a trade for Victor Wombanyama. I 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:48.640 was thinking about this because there's not that many names, folks. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.880 He is a generational talent. So my question to you 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:59.600 is who is on your no trade list for him? 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.760 My list is shockingly short. I went through it. I 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.000 looked at all the all stars for the last three 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.360 years and just decided yes, no, yes, no. So here 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.920 are my nose because the list of the list of yes, 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.000 this is too long for me to give it to you. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.520 That's where we're at. The list of nos. Luca no 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:25.920 Lebron James, no, Jahn Morant, no Embiide. 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:27.400 No. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:33.320 But it's all it's a pause. I have to pause. Jannis, 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:41.120 no Steph no Kawhi, it's a pause. No, he's been 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:48.360 injured a lot guys, Kevin Durant, No, Jason Tatum, it's 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.040 a pause. But it's a no. It's a pause, Aunt 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:57.640 Edwards and maybe no one else, and maybe no one 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:02.879 else that includes Dave Lillard. You're gone, sir. I'm sorry. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.800 Oh Jokic. Jokicic is a no. I wouldn't trade Jokic either. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:14.679 Devin Booker, see you later, enjoy wherever you're going. And 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:17.800 I love Devin Booker. He's one of my Paul George absolutely, 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:22.040 see you later. Pack your bags. I mean, the list 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.920 is like ten guys and it's really not close. Rudy Gobert, 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:34.560 Deuces Diamond Mitchell, get your bags and go. I mean 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:40.199 that's just absolutely bonkers, bonkers, bonkers bonkers. Would love for 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.800 you guys to sound off in the comments, get into TikTok, 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:56.760 getting into my Twitter and let me know. All right, 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:00.679 let's move forward to the big segment. Because I was 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:06.080 thinking about this, sitting around thinking about my favorite topic, basketball, 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:08.560 when it occurred to me I wanted to make a 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:11.159 couple of lists, because everybody likes lists, and I like 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.960 to be right. We like to make predictions, and I 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:19.080 wanted to think about players that were not being discussed 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:23.439 enough as maybe guys that will be highlight machines or 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.360 people you should watch could make a big jump, definitely 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:30.400 could make an impact on their team. And after some work, 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:35.119 I narrowed the list down to ten players, all whom 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:37.760 mostly not rookies, who I will be keeping an eye 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:42.360 out for this year. Let's start ten players, ten players, 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:46.160 Let's start in San Antonio. I could do an entire 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.200 segment on San Antonio alone, which is just crazy. This 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:53.879 is the most non competitive San Antonio has been in 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.120 over a decade and the most compelling that they've been. 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:01.359 What does that say like? Is that saying like I 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:05.080 am the most interested in san Antonio I've ever been 0:23:05.119 --> 0:23:09.520 in my entire life. And they're not even close to 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.480 competing for a play in spot, but that's where they're at. 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:20.400 I don't know what that says about them or what 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:24.560 that says about this team, but I'm fully in. I 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:29.080 am fully intrigued. They're literally on my top eight teams 0:23:29.400 --> 0:23:32.560 to watch san Antonio. I made a list today, top 0:23:32.600 --> 0:23:35.639 eight teams. They're all teams that no one cares about, 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:38.920 but I do. Number one on the San Antonio list, 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:43.760 Josh Primo. People came after the San Antonio Spurs, including me, 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:46.560 including myself. It was a head stratch scratcher. There were 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.240 so many guys on the list they could have taken 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:50.840 with a twelfth pick, but they take Josh Primo, the 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.280 youngest player in the draft at Alabama, and a lot 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.520 of draft experts claim that it was a stretch. Where 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:01.600 are they doing? Some saying you after twenty splot slots 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:05.679 too early for him? And guess what, Greg Popovich, he 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.760 may be checked out during all the Olympic cycles but 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:13.240 damn does him and rcb Ford no talent and they 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:16.720 are building something fun down in San Antonio. And I've 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:18.840 got my eye on the Spurs. Like I said, they're 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:22.800 gonna be bricking for vican That doesn't make sense. But 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:26.400 along the way, I think they're gonna win games against older, dustier, 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:29.960 more tired teams on back to backs because these kids 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:32.239 are all like eighteen through twenty one years old and 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:34.560 they don't care. They're just trying to get buckets, trying 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:37.280 to get reps. And Josh Primo, when he gets healthy 0:24:37.280 --> 0:24:39.600 because he just had an MCLs brain kept him out 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:41.920 for the part preseason, he's gonna be a center of 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:43.920 this offense. He had like thirty three minutes a game 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:46.280 last year, so in his second year, I think he's 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:48.720 gonna be very fun. Jerry West loves him, and that's 0:24:48.760 --> 0:24:50.719 just a key piece for me to keep my eye on. 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:54.800 Anybody who unsolicited Jerry West says to keep my eye on, 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:57.960 I listen. I just just like a life lesson for me. 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:01.679 I think he's gonna be very definitely top of my 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.120