Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Speaker 2: On this episode or the heat check trying to turn
Speaker 2: the music down. We look at the final ramifications from
Speaker 2: trade deadline day, including a deep dive and why the
Speaker 2: Knicks couldn't make any deals done at the deadline when
Speaker 2: they had every single player available on the trade block.
Speaker 2: It was very strange, and we also talk about talk
Speaker 2: about more things going on that are strange in New
Speaker 2: York City. We talk about Kyrie's response to the Hard
Speaker 2: and Trade. We all wanted to know, would Kyrie feel
Speaker 2: any feelings about maybe contrition about Hard and bolting Town
Speaker 2: only sixteen games into their trio. Well, I bet you
Speaker 2: can only imagine what he had to say, But we
Speaker 2: will get into that. And finally we talk about the Lakers.
Speaker 2: It's a heavy hitter, dysfunctional show, organizational quote unquote malpractice
Speaker 2: that is happening right now in Lakerland. So Brock, we
Speaker 2: have no time to wait. Let's drop that beat. Let's sun.
Speaker 3: Part good.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Imagine for a second, you move into a new apartment, right,
Speaker 2: buy a bunch of furniture, and you kind of do
Speaker 2: it in a rush, gotta move in. You don't have
Speaker 2: a ton you got a couple of things, but you
Speaker 2: piece it together trying to do it on somewhat of
Speaker 2: a budget. You pay a lot for certain items and
Speaker 2: then you skimp on others, and then you move all
Speaker 2: in and like six months later, eight months later, you
Speaker 2: look around your apartment and you're like, this shit does
Speaker 2: not and this is the func shui of my place
Speaker 2: is not vibing. These items do not fit together well
Speaker 2: at all. I've got a coffee table too big for
Speaker 2: my couch. I've got a rug doesn't even quite fit
Speaker 2: into the room right. My entryways shelving I thought was
Speaker 2: gonna be all clean lines. Now the coats are everywhere.
Speaker 2: You don't even get to see the clean lines of
Speaker 2: this design within reach. Item that I spent like six
Speaker 2: hundred dollars for everything else is kind of schlocky. You
Speaker 2: want to tikea get the rest because you couldn't afford
Speaker 2: everything being top dollar, So you hold a garage sale
Speaker 2: and you're like, everything in here can go. I'm not
Speaker 2: wedded to a goddamn thing. I'm ready to start fresh. Listen.
Speaker 2: I can work around a couch, I know I can
Speaker 2: work around an end table, But this whole setup, I
Speaker 2: just know there's something out right about this setup. And
Speaker 2: then you get some people peeking in the window, they
Speaker 2: touch your stuff, they're chatting, and the end of the
Speaker 2: garage sill ends. You look around and nothing is gone
Speaker 2: and nothing. Nobody wants your shit, no one, no matter what.
Speaker 2: Like what you got some offers, folks for that particle
Speaker 2: board Ikia table that you paid three hundred and twenty
Speaker 2: five dollars for it. You knew it wasn't a great
Speaker 2: pot price, but you couldn't spend seven hundred on one,
Speaker 2: so you just kind of get something. It's particle board, right,
Speaker 2: nobody's gonna spend three hundred and twenty five dollars three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars what you spend three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: It's particle board buyers in some of your stuff, they
Speaker 2: want you to pay them to haul it away, Like, uh, listen,
Speaker 2: Oh this isn't fucking goodwill Ymca March of Dimes. You're
Speaker 2: gonna need to give me fifty dollars to haul that
Speaker 2: piece of shit out the dough That right now, folks,
Speaker 2: is the New York Knicks. A week before trade deadline,
Speaker 2: there was no one more active than the New York Knicks.
Speaker 2: They were trying to get everybody. They went after CJ. McCollum,
Speaker 2: They went after Norm Powell, They went after Harrison Barnes,
Speaker 2: Harrison Barnes, Harrison Barnes, They went after Jalen Brunson. They
Speaker 2: went after Terrence Ross, the Orlando Magic, even Miles Turner,
Speaker 2: the injured Star. You would think they would have learned
Speaker 2: their lesson, given the fact that they have Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 2: who also has foot issues. But nothing, and not a
Speaker 2: thing happened even after the team, even after you saw
Speaker 2: New York Post. Everyone's available, everyone's getta ball on the
Speaker 2: New York Knicks. Even Julish rental the eight hundred dollars entry,
Speaker 2: a piece from Design within Reach. He is even available
Speaker 2: for the right price. No one wanted your stuff. Zero
Speaker 2: people wanted your stuff. Folks. If you are ready to
Speaker 2: get rid of all the furniture and reshuffle, rebuy, figure out,
Speaker 2: maybe do a little swapperoo. That is not a team
Speaker 2: confident about their current roster. That is not someone who's
Speaker 2: happy with the setup of their apartments. Facts Mitchell Robinson
Speaker 2: unrestricted free agent this summer. He's asking out. He's basically
Speaker 2: signal to your team. He's not resigning. You have shocked
Speaker 2: him around because you know you will get nothing for
Speaker 2: him if you don't move him. Now you look around
Speaker 2: and even he is not traded. What gives? What gives?
Speaker 2: What is the mindset of the New York Knicks right now?
Speaker 2: I don't know. But here's what the New York Post
Speaker 2: my man Mark Berman is saying. Being sellers and dumping
Speaker 2: players just to open up summer cap space was considered
Speaker 2: but then scrapped aka garage sale. And this off season
Speaker 2: will now stand as one of the most important ones
Speaker 2: in franchise history. That's a little much, don't you think
Speaker 2: that's a bit of a hyper boil. But you know
Speaker 2: how these New Yorkers are. You know, everything's the fucking
Speaker 2: end of the world, the most important off season in history.
Speaker 2: We'll see poor TIBs though, TIBs, TIBs. They do them wrong.
Speaker 2: They do him so dirty. Here's what he had to
Speaker 2: say about it, the fact that he even needs to
Speaker 2: answer any trade questions as a head coach. Listen, I'm
Speaker 2: not the GM here. Okay, this is what he said.
Speaker 2: We already made a trade earlier on Cam Reddish excuse me, pause,
Speaker 2: do not He was a part. He was the random
Speaker 2: little uh ottoman you picked up off the street and
Speaker 2: you realize very quickly did not fit. Let me just
Speaker 2: throw this thing back outside us business. This shit is
Speaker 2: got mold inside. I'm not sure about this. They trying
Speaker 2: to flip them like that. They literally just got them
Speaker 2: and they tried to flip them immediately. Did not work.
Speaker 2: He said, that's part of it. You look at your
Speaker 2: trade possibilities, free agents, Leon rowse Wes, Scott Perry. They
Speaker 2: look at this in totality. He wants to keep his
Speaker 2: job so bad. It's ongoing, it doesn't end. It's every
Speaker 2: day thinking about how we can improve this team. Propaganda.
Speaker 2: They're short term planning, long term planning, and you're always consistently,
Speaker 2: constantly looking at both. That's Leon's job. He'll continue to look.
Speaker 2: There's always possibilities. Is there different ways you can improve
Speaker 2: the club? And I trust him. I don't know that
Speaker 2: he said it quite like that, but that's the most
Speaker 2: optimistic quote reread. Sounds like they are looking right now
Speaker 2: at the buyout market because the Knicks just finished, or
Speaker 2: getting a open roster spot filled, but they still can
Speaker 2: wave my man Kemba Walker Kemba might be in line
Speaker 2: for a buyout. He is also on sad Boy season.
Speaker 2: This is what he said. Yeah, I'm here, Like I said,
Speaker 2: I mean, what can I do. It's not up to me.
Speaker 2: I'm just a player. I don't make those decisions or
Speaker 2: anything like that. So yeah, yeah, I want to be there.
Speaker 2: That's why I came here to be a part of
Speaker 2: my home team. But it's not really my decision. Oh uh,
Speaker 2: that feels like a change of tone. Does not seem
Speaker 2: like he's skewing optimistic. We'll say that. To say that
Speaker 2: Kemba is not a part of the problem would be
Speaker 2: not true. Not true. He started out bad. Uh, then
Speaker 2: he got benched, and then he got better, and then
Speaker 2: he got worse again. Right now, Kemba has shot I
Speaker 2: can't even believe what I'm looking at. Right now, Kemba
Speaker 2: has shot twenty eight point six percent from the field
Speaker 2: in the last seven games. Yikes, I tell you. Let
Speaker 2: me say it again for the folks in the back
Speaker 2: who aren't quite processing this. Right now, Kemba Walker, New
Speaker 2: York legend, is shooting twenty eight point six percent from
Speaker 2: the field. Not from three, not from twenty five thirty
Speaker 2: five feet out. I mean including like right underneath the
Speaker 2: basket to whatever the furthest distance is that he shot
Speaker 2: all of those together combined on average twenty eight point
Speaker 2: six percent under thirty percent in totality bad. We've already
Speaker 2: talked about Julia's Randalls season that he only seems to
Speaker 2: ball out on Nashley televised games. We've also noted when
Speaker 2: I was talking about the coffee table made at a
Speaker 2: particle board when you could have spent another two three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars on solid wood, that analogy was Evan Fournier.
Speaker 2: He is the particle board coffee table boy. He is
Speaker 2: a model of inconsistency. You only get one move with them,
Speaker 2: like you know those coffee tables. You know you've got
Speaker 2: one move, probably the move from the Ikea to that apartment,
Speaker 2: and nothing else, not the ikea, set it up, build it,
Speaker 2: put it in storage, put it in a No. That's
Speaker 2: Evan Fournier. And that one move was in Tokyo. Literally,
Speaker 2: that was his best version was the first place, Tokyo.
Speaker 2: You took it from Tokyo to New York, and you
Speaker 2: thought that baby was gonna hold your feet up when
Speaker 2: you watch the TV. That shit folded quick shesh. In
Speaker 2: his last fourteen games, Evan Fournier has scored anywhere from
Speaker 2: four points to thirty points, including five games of twenty
Speaker 2: or more good and five games under ten bad. The
Speaker 2: only trade the Knicks made was again for my guy,
Speaker 2: Camriddish aka the poof that you got on the side
Speaker 2: of the road, realized really quick wasn't quite the decor
Speaker 2: you thought it might be when it was free. Same
Speaker 2: guy who left Atlanta is averaging twelve minutes and five
Speaker 2: points per game. During his eleven game stint, he has
Speaker 2: seen four dnps. Tibbs is reportedly not a fan. Reddish
Speaker 2: has actually been pretty good. He played pretty well when
Speaker 2: they beat the Golden State Warriors. They did go on
Speaker 2: the road. They played five games on the road. They
Speaker 2: only won one, and that was the game Cam Reddish
Speaker 2: balled out, played like seventeen nineteen minutes, had a bunch
Speaker 2: of points off the bench. Apparently they tried to trade
Speaker 2: Cam Reddish for Jalen Brunson. If you thought you were
Speaker 2: gonna trade a poof off the side of the road
Speaker 2: for a mid century modern cocktail table from like the
Speaker 2: early nineteen fifties, a Renaissance piece that is peaking right
Speaker 2: now seventy years after. Like Jalen Brunson is an American original,
Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson is one of the better role player point
Speaker 2: guards in this league. Cam Reddish is getting DMPs okay
Speaker 2: poof off the street, mid century modern and table. To me,
Speaker 2: this feels like the Knicks, after being the darlings of
Speaker 2: last year, are at what we would call a fork
Speaker 2: in the road. It's not just me saying it, obviously.
Speaker 2: Mark Berman, as I said, calls this offseason the most
Speaker 2: important Enfranchise history. Could it have something to do with
Speaker 2: a very unhappy fat player living in New Orleans currently
Speaker 2: rehabbing his foot in Portland. We don't even need to
Speaker 2: say his name. You know who I'm talking about. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's Zion. I mean this team is already basically the
Speaker 2: can Tucky East with five UK Wildcats on it, five
Speaker 2: Kevin k Ox, Julius Randall, Michael Kidd, Gilchris didn't know
Speaker 2: he was on there, Nerlan's, Noel and Emmanuel Quickly, this
Speaker 2: could also become the Duke Blue Devil's team with Cam Reddish, RJ. Barrett,
Speaker 2: and Zion Zion Zion Zion. I don't know, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: the Knicks are apparently still aiming for the playoffs, sort
Speaker 2: of aiming for the play in despite being seven games
Speaker 2: under five hundred two and a half back two and
Speaker 2: a half back of the ten seed. Yikes, this seems
Speaker 2: like a team that really should just say take it all.
Speaker 2: We've got a generational piece here. If we go ahead
Speaker 2: and tank Pallo Ban Carrol's right around the corner, Chet
Speaker 2: Holmgern run around the corner, Jabari Smith right around the corner.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's gonna take a lot the next
Speaker 2: to resurrect their season, I tell you what. But you
Speaker 2: know what they did, go on a one and four
Speaker 2: West coast road trip and that one win. I'm pushing
Speaker 2: p I'm trying. I'm trying to find the sun in
Speaker 2: the gray clouds and beating the Warriors. If you're gonna
Speaker 2: win one out of five games, make it against the
Speaker 2: team that has the third best dogs to win the title.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Hope that springs the turtles
Speaker 2: for the knickerbox. That girl only knew he alone, and
Speaker 2: then and then they did. That's what they did. That
Speaker 2: Sean Marks traded Hardened to Philly. She would probably leave
Speaker 2: Hardens for Simmons Traders in the books now as the
Speaker 2: Double Dust. There's like a zillion questions that I have
Speaker 2: a zillion Let's just look at you. First of all,
Speaker 2: we thought in the beginning of this trade the Harden
Speaker 2: signed a player opt in which would give the Philadelphia
Speaker 2: Sixers this season and next season to evaluate whether my man,
Speaker 2: James Harden was or was not washed. But apparently we
Speaker 2: do not think he's washed. I just want to go
Speaker 2: on the record, I do not think James Harden is washed.
Speaker 2: But if I was evaluating him to the point of
Speaker 2: maybe paying him sixty million dollars a year in seven
Speaker 2: and five, four years from now, maybe I would be
Speaker 2: a little less enthusiastic and optimistic as me the hardened
Speaker 2: fan that I am, the huge, completely optimistic hardened fan
Speaker 2: than I am. He didnt d the player contract, so
Speaker 2: you got the twenty five games and then it's time
Speaker 2: is it marriage? Is love and marriage or is it
Speaker 2: time to cut your losses and go elsewhere. I think
Speaker 2: they're gonna I think they're gonna sign them. Regardless they
Speaker 2: paid up too much, that so much has gone on,
Speaker 2: you had Ben Simmons on the books for the next
Speaker 2: four years anyway. I mean, he wasn't gonna play for
Speaker 2: you ever, so who knows. But it is an important detail, nonetheless,
Speaker 2: that everyone thought that a part of that deal was
Speaker 2: him opting in, so that you had a season and
Speaker 2: twenty five games plus this postseason to evaluate. But if
Speaker 2: you're worried as a Sixer fan that he's gonna go
Speaker 2: somewhere else in free agency, do not be worried, at
Speaker 2: least for about this, because James has got nowhere else
Speaker 2: to go. Yeah, you go no place to go. You've
Speaker 2: got the Spurs and you've got the Pistons as the
Speaker 2: two most likely teams to have cap space this offseason.
Speaker 2: And I tell you what, if you're James Harden, you
Speaker 2: push your way out of Houston, you push your way
Speaker 2: out of Brooklyn. You are not gonna be excited about
Speaker 2: playing with de Jonte Murray or Kaid Cunningham. Have you
Speaker 2: seen Kay cunning I'm not even gonna go into Kaid Cunningham.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he had got nowhere else to go. The
Speaker 2: only teams are them, and plus if he were to
Speaker 2: go to the Spurs of the Pistons, he would have
Speaker 2: to sign a deal of four years, two hundred million, right,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of jack. But if he signs with
Speaker 2: the Sixers, he can sign for five years, two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy million. And let me ask you this, riddle
Speaker 2: me this. Do you think if he signs a four
Speaker 2: year deal with another team, somehow in that fifth year,
Speaker 2: they're gonna that's gonna be a seventy million dollars one
Speaker 2: year deal for James Harden when he's thirty seven years old.
Speaker 2: No shot, there's no shot he makes up that money.
Speaker 2: Fascinating stuff, Just a little wrinkle for folks to think
Speaker 2: about in terms of how you want to, I don't know,
Speaker 2: deal with James Harden long term and vice versa. Secondly,
Speaker 2: I personally wanted to know what Kyrie Riving had to
Speaker 2: say about this trade. I personally thought maybe he would
Speaker 2: address feeling I don't know, bad, like sad, like damn.
Speaker 2: Maybe I could have done more. Maybe I could have
Speaker 2: called him and told him I was looking into vegan
Speaker 2: vaccines and it might be coming soon. Who knows, who knows.
Speaker 2: People were asking Kyrie, Kyrie, what'd you think? Would you think?
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like the fact that he's missed most
Speaker 2: of this year despite being healthy enough to play. Maybe
Speaker 2: he would have some self awareness that not being available
Speaker 2: despite being healthy could have pushed James Harden to a
Speaker 2: place where he was feeling like that was in a
Speaker 2: situation he wanted to be in, putting a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure on James, pressure that James didn't no longer want,
Speaker 2: which is why he left Houston to begin with. I
Speaker 2: don't know pressure that Kyrie had the hand on his lever.
Speaker 2: He could change how much pressure up and down all
Speaker 2: you wanted, down, pressure, up, pressure, and he turned that
Speaker 2: volume all the way up. No, James, Now look Kd's out.
Speaker 2: It's all you all by yourself. You and Paote, Nick Claxton,
Speaker 2: just you two know, Joe Harris, It's just you and
Speaker 2: old Wash, Blake Griffin and Harder with me a LaMarcus
Speaker 2: Doldridge and me halftime. So I wanted to know, Kyrie,
Speaker 2: what do you say? Here's what he had.
Speaker 3: To say, player media games with somebody else.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 3: Please I understand that there's a lot growing on a
Speaker 3: reb and I'm here as a human being just like you, Bro.
Speaker 3: Please respect my boundaries. Man, That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 1: Bro.
Speaker 3: There's no guilt that I feel. You know, I'm the
Speaker 3: only player that has to deal with this in New
Speaker 3: York City because I played THEREK If I was anywhere
Speaker 3: else in another city, then it probably wouldn't be the
Speaker 3: same circumstances. But because I'm there, we have Eric Adams,
Speaker 3: we have the New York Mandate, we have things going
Speaker 3: on that are real life circumstances that are not just
Speaker 3: affecting me. Bro. So you asked me these questions. I
Speaker 3: don't feel guilt. I'm just living my life as best
Speaker 3: I can, just like everybody else. The miss these last
Speaker 3: two years. You know, I didn't have a plan in
Speaker 3: place when all this was going on. Didn't know. Like
Speaker 3: I said, the NBA and the MVPA made it very
Speaker 3: clear that there would be things that I would be
Speaker 3: able to do the work around this, and that's off
Speaker 3: the table. So you tell me if I'm just alone
Speaker 3: out here, or do I have support from everybody else
Speaker 3: that's dealing with the same thing.
Speaker 2: Jama James, I'm so glad you got the fuck up
Speaker 2: out of there. I didn't feel that two hours ago
Speaker 2: when I first heard that. But what is he talking about.
Speaker 2: Let's break this down for a second. Kyrie not only
Speaker 2: feels zero guilt, he decided to go on the offensive
Speaker 2: on the media member who asked him, do you feel
Speaker 2: any anything about the fact that the reason potentially that
Speaker 2: James Harden left early was because you were not around
Speaker 2: due to your choices you've made that have impacted the
Speaker 2: team for the to the point where you weren't even
Speaker 2: around the team at all until they needed you because
Speaker 2: guys were dropping like fly, so they allowed you to
Speaker 2: come back for only road games, and you decided, not
Speaker 2: only do I not feel guilt, how dare you even
Speaker 2: imply that I should feel guilt? No, this is something
Speaker 2: that only I have to deal with, because no other
Speaker 2: human being has to deal with a pandemic and the
Speaker 2: decisions that you make by being vaccinated or not vaccinated
Speaker 2: in the city of New York, like even intimating that
Speaker 2: there is a possibility that you were a factor, a
Speaker 2: determining factor, or a catalyst in that decision making. First
Speaker 2: and foremost, you should acknowledge that. Second of all, if
Speaker 2: you were a catalyst for someone leaving and becoming pissed
Speaker 2: off because you're not around because you won't get vaccinated.
Speaker 2: To the point where I've come on the show and
Speaker 2: said James Harden on a press release said, I am
Speaker 2: going to give Kyrie Irving the shot myself in a
Speaker 2: joking but not really so joking manner, to the point
Speaker 2: where you on those role games that you're so able
Speaker 2: to play when you go to Cleveland, you're burning sage
Speaker 2: in front of him, like bad vibes. Get these bad
Speaker 2: vibes out of here, Like you're basically trying to burn
Speaker 2: the COVID away. What the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And secondarily like boundaries, Excuse me, boundaries. We're literally asking
Speaker 2: you questions about something that just happened that you are
Speaker 2: probably directly responsible for, and you're talking about boundaries. Excuse me?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: What about the boundaries that the New York City set
Speaker 2: in place about trying to keep their people safe when
Speaker 2: athletes are going into the stadium, whether they're vaccinated or not.
Speaker 2: What about those boundaries that you don't care to respect.
Speaker 2: What are we even talking about? He was genuinely outraged,
Speaker 2: and I didn't care. The first I heard that like
Speaker 2: six times and I was like, oh, Kyrie, you're so funny,
Speaker 2: And I was like, if I'm James Harden, I'm like,
Speaker 2: fuck this guy, what's he meaning? As a field guilt?
Speaker 2: He's the reason that I left. We were a trio
Speaker 2: that went thirteen and three in sixteen games. We could
Speaker 2: have been an unstoppable offensive force. When all healthy ad
Speaker 2: role players that'll come here and play for us for nothing,
Speaker 2: we're chilling. What are you taking? You forced him out? Period? Yes?
Speaker 2: Was James Harden a bit of a bitch and the
Speaker 2: way that he left? Yes? Were you responsible for him
Speaker 2: taking this downturn and his attitude going from I want
Speaker 2: to play in Brooklyn. That's the place I want to
Speaker 2: go is reunite with Katie, which I was already a
Speaker 2: little suss about to play with who I've heard things
Speaker 2: about all of us together going in one direction like
Speaker 2: a boat unstoppable. But when we're going in different directions,
Speaker 2: we're going absolutely nowhere, which is why they went on
Speaker 2: an eight game losing streak. Kyrie, perfectly healthy, which he
Speaker 2: normally never is, decides you know what, James, it's just
Speaker 2: you out there, go ball out my dog on the road.
Speaker 2: I'll see you in Houston. Are you insane? Back in October,
Speaker 2: Shaun Mark said that there would be no contract extension
Speaker 2: for Kyrie. He signed through next year at thirty six
Speaker 2: million dollars a year. Then maybe we can start talking
Speaker 2: about boundaries at that point. Huh, what if they don't
Speaker 2: sign him when he's able to be extended. How about
Speaker 2: the guilt he might be feeling at that point in times,
Speaker 2: So the three amigos become two amigos, become one amigo
Speaker 2: and holy shit, it's just kd out here by himself
Speaker 2: hoping for chet Holmgren. What a wild, bizarre ending to
Speaker 2: a team that could have been fucking electric, and instead
Speaker 2: we get this fucking multiverse of madness where we have
Speaker 2: to think of alternate realities where this three would have
Speaker 2: been together facing off against Giannis and the Bucks, which
Speaker 2: they certainly could have won that series, in an alternate
Speaker 2: scenario where they play the Warriors or the Phoenix Suns
Speaker 2: in the finals this year, in an alternate reality where
Speaker 2: everyone's healthy and maybe they win not one, not two,
Speaker 2: no three, who knows, maybe two or three. But instead
Speaker 2: we've got the multi verse of madness with a man
Speaker 2: who feels nothing about his role in getting rid of
Speaker 2: one of the most prolific scorers and playmakers we've ever
Speaker 2: seen in this generation. I am see me. I'm not
Speaker 2: asking you what like kind of sex toys you play with?
Speaker 2: I'm asking you whether you feel any emotion. There's no
Speaker 2: longer on the team because of the boundary to the
Speaker 2: young black pulp. So he's want to last focus drinking.
Speaker 2: It ain't trying to hear what I'm kicking linked.
Speaker 1: But so they got the bees accepted what it like
Speaker 1: the secon.
Speaker 2: One little last nugget before the trade deadline. Dealing with
Speaker 2: the Lakers, my man John Hollinger very deep into the
Speaker 2: weeds in terms of cap situations, luxury tax situations, how
Speaker 2: teams run their books. The finance guy, these are assets.
Speaker 2: These assets get moved around, so you pay less money
Speaker 2: as a result of what is happening when you're over
Speaker 2: the salary cap. This is what he said. If the
Speaker 2: Lakers are going to do anything in the buy out
Speaker 2: market at all, pause, which is basically where they're at
Speaker 2: right now, because they made no moves, like I said,
Speaker 2: at the trade deadline, as they claim that they will.
Speaker 2: They're inactivity on minor salary dumps. Was quote borderline organizational
Speaker 2: mail practice. Cream get the money, dollar dollar bills, y'all, No, sesh,
Speaker 2: what does this mean. Let's break it down because this
Speaker 2: is not something that's really being talked about a Ton.
Speaker 2: This is a very niche basketball situation. Sometimes there are
Speaker 2: a little breadcrumbs that if you pay attention and you
Speaker 2: put them into a larger context, they give you an
Speaker 2: idea of where the direction of the franchise is heading.
Speaker 2: Which is what I fucking love to do, So let's
Speaker 2: do it because I don't get a chance to do
Speaker 2: it that often. The Lakers had the ability to send
Speaker 2: some of their players who are doing absolutely nothing away
Speaker 2: from the team, trade them away. They are just taking
Speaker 2: up space on the bench, they're on league minimums. You
Speaker 2: can send them to other teams for cash, which basically
Speaker 2: take DeAndre Jordan, can't take take Kent Baysmore, for example.
Speaker 2: So for the Lakers, for example, would have moved DeAndre Jordan,
Speaker 2: who's had twenty DMPs in the last twenty four games,
Speaker 2: so he's doing nothing, Kent Bazemore who's had twenty five
Speaker 2: DMPs in the last thirty nine games, and cash. The
Speaker 2: Lakers would have saved eight million dollars in luxury tax payments.
Speaker 2: That's a shitload of money, and created two small but
Speaker 2: valuable trade player exceptions. The going rate for this kind
Speaker 2: of transaction is around a million dollars and there were
Speaker 2: many willing partners that were willing to do this deal.
Speaker 2: So the question that I have is why the Lakers
Speaker 2: didn't do this deal. No one seems to have an answer.
Speaker 2: John Holger says in his article he thinks that the
Speaker 2: Lakers are basically quote unquote asleep at the wheel. That's
Speaker 2: not good. That's troubling because Polinka hasn't had any answers
Speaker 2: this entire year. His big splashy move for Russell Westbrook,
Speaker 2: which we talked about a gazillion times, basically crippled this franchise,
Speaker 2: and most of the smaller moves besides Milik Monk have
Speaker 2: been somewhere between mediocre and disastrous. And this particular in
Speaker 2: action seems very ironic and very odd because the Lakers
Speaker 2: just threw away eight million dollars in luxury tax payments
Speaker 2: or savings when they could have when they said this
Speaker 2: past season that the reason that they let Alex Caruso go,
Speaker 2: because they let him walk, was because they couldn't afford
Speaker 2: to pay him the money that would have put them
Speaker 2: over the luxury tax eight million dollars, the exact same
Speaker 2: amount of dollars that they did not want to pay
Speaker 2: was the reason that they kept Alex Caruso away from
Speaker 2: the team and they let him go elsewhere. Wild turn
Speaker 2: of events. Let's face it, the Lakers could use some
Speaker 2: Alex Crusoe right now. That would fix a lot of
Speaker 2: their problems. A disaster. But there's more to this story
Speaker 2: that you can add to the context that makes me
Speaker 2: even more concerned. This is what the athletics said about
Speaker 2: the lakers woes recently when the Lakers were struggling in
Speaker 2: early December. This was supposed to be like an uplifting story,
Speaker 2: but it really is not. When the Lakers were struggling
Speaker 2: in early December, injuries derailing what was supposed to have
Speaker 2: the potential to be a championship season behind James, Anthony
Speaker 2: Davis and Russell Westbrook pause. This article is trying to
Speaker 2: purport the injuries or the reason that they're not a contender.
Speaker 2: Get the fuck out of here anyway. Jeanie Bus, owner
Speaker 2: of the Lakers, consulted Magic Johnson about the direction of
Speaker 2: the franchise. Remember the date of this, mid December, right
Speaker 2: I sat down with Magic Bus told the athletic and
Speaker 2: I said, should I be concerned? What are you seeing?
Speaker 2: And he just talked, you know, the injuries and that
Speaker 2: the team hadn't had a chance to be together. This
Speaker 2: is such a lie. You know, he's very calm and insightful,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate seeing the big picture instead of him
Speaker 2: reacting to every game missus propaganda. Three weeks after this
Speaker 2: supposed meeting, right mid January, Magic Johnson tweeted this after
Speaker 2: they got mollywopped by the Nuggets. They lost by almost
Speaker 2: forty we as at Lakers fans, He's he's tagging these
Speaker 2: people in the Twitter. We as at Lakers fans, can
Speaker 2: accept being outplayed, but we deserve more than a lack
Speaker 2: of effort and no sense of urgency. Owner at Genie Buss,
Speaker 2: you deserve better, Dushy though. Dushy and then he says this,
Speaker 2: I set that tweet out for a reason. It's a
Speaker 2: different standard when you put on the purple and gold.
Speaker 2: So those guys need to understand that, you know, not
Speaker 2: taking a shot at anybody. But that's unacceptable as a
Speaker 2: Laker to not give maximum effort. It's something that would
Speaker 2: have been unthinkable when I was playing, thinking the main
Speaker 2: thing is always about winning. I don't care about anything else. Okay,
Speaker 2: So after that meeting that she had with Magie Johnson
Speaker 2: when he basically don't worry just injuries, think big picture.
Speaker 2: They haven't had time to gell and then three weeks
Speaker 2: later he basically says, you dogshit players won't even get
Speaker 2: up and play against the Jokic led team. He has
Speaker 2: nobody else helping him. You guys got destroyed by forty
Speaker 2: at Lakers. At Genie Bus after that tweet, you have
Speaker 2: three weeks before the trade deadline. Three weeks and Genie
Speaker 2: Buss felt comfortable with the direction of the franchise after
Speaker 2: she had that meeting, after she saw that tweet. She
Speaker 2: didn't come to Rob Plink and say, Yo, we gotta
Speaker 2: figure some shit out. We gotta make a move here.
Speaker 2: This team is trash. This team doesn't even try. I
Speaker 2: don't care what you need to do. Get John Wall.
Speaker 2: If you can't get John Wall, then we need to
Speaker 2: save some of my hard earned not really hard earned,
Speaker 2: but taxpayer money that I'm paying out in luxury tax.
Speaker 2: At least save me some money. These guys are sitting
Speaker 2: on the end of the bench just doing whatever the
Speaker 2: fuck they want, getting DMP after DMP. Get rid of them.
Speaker 2: Save me some money. At least no pressure put on
Speaker 2: the GM to make any changes at the deadline. And
Speaker 2: if she did pressure him and he didn't make changes,
Speaker 2: that's even worse. Are you kidding me? Doctor Buss must
Speaker 2: be rolling in his grave. Something is seriously wrong with
Speaker 2: the Lakers, and I suspect Genie Buss is a bigger
Speaker 2: issue than I might have ever and anticipated. That's all
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