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Speaker 1: the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here on the Fantasy Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Network, alongside Maria Marino and Frank Staffele. I'm Gregaus
Speaker 1: and Maria, did you get this like a camera on
Speaker 1: you this entire time? As you're looking on I? Also,
Speaker 1: I also can't hear you, So it's her Mike is
Speaker 1: definitely on down up here? Is her Mike on down there?
Speaker 1: All right? So, uh, this seems to me the problem
Speaker 1: we always have with this Mike. So I will introduce
Speaker 1: you Frank, and then I will try to interest Maria.
Speaker 1: I will try to I will try to fix the
Speaker 1: problem while you speak. Go ahead, please please go ahead.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome to the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. Maria
Speaker 1: Marino joining us today. I got a little Fantasy Basketball
Speaker 1: edition of the show going on. I mean, you trade
Speaker 1: deadline a few days away here, Maria, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: be diving into that Rodney hood. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw this, got traded to the Portland Trailblazers over
Speaker 1: the weekend. A little bit about that, Anthony Davis, will
Speaker 1: he be traded? You know? The Lakers? I mean the
Speaker 1: Pelicans only asking for six first round picks, your firstborn child,
Speaker 1: your house, your wife, anything else of value. Do you
Speaker 1: have any jewelry? Will take that? Um? You know, did
Speaker 1: you win the championship once? To give us your championship ring?
Speaker 1: Like the Pelicans, they're asking for everything, but they should. Yes,
Speaker 1: we can hear you. We're gonna talk about on me
Speaker 1: when you do that, like shut the mic off because
Speaker 1: it makes all these noises when you go like this,
Speaker 1: we're professing you think that you would think this is
Speaker 1: Marie Rerino's first day and not her last day. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: you're putting it on me that the mic was not working.
Speaker 1: Come on. Now, that's a poor job. I plugged it
Speaker 1: in and plugged the wrong wire in the wrong boo boo. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. That should be a fun show today, Frank,
Speaker 1: this guy everything that's going on, um so it's him.
Speaker 1: It's can be a really good time. Marie Marino, how
Speaker 1: are you. I'm fantastic, happy to be here, happy to
Speaker 1: be part of fantasy BFFs. I feel like I am
Speaker 1: unofficially anyway, whether or not you guys feel that way,
Speaker 1: I still feel that way. So yeah, yeah, Marie, I
Speaker 1: mean you were a best friend of ours before I
Speaker 1: mean the program it existed, like you're an o gbff.
Speaker 1: I'm not so sweet, so sweet. And you can tell
Speaker 1: that she's definitely a fan of the show because five
Speaker 1: seconds before the show started, said are you going to
Speaker 1: sing and dance with us? And she says huge a
Speaker 1: lot of seconds. The only reason I asked that is
Speaker 1: because I wasn't sure if after our old pal Mike
Speaker 1: Florio left the program, if you changed soundtrack. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: if you watched any times last here, you might have
Speaker 1: back in back in. Yeah, you know, you got about
Speaker 1: six months, six months to figure that out. Hey, I
Speaker 1: watched you guys on TV, not just on you too.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Listen, clearly did not catch the intro
Speaker 1: that I did not catch the intro, but I I
Speaker 1: saw you on TV. I took a photo of it.
Speaker 1: I took a video. I sent it to you guys.
Speaker 1: I was like, Yo, I know those guys. So that's great, Maria, Thanks,
Speaker 1: thanks for listen. I'm your biggest fan. You know that.
Speaker 1: That's all right. How's the life treating Maria? How's everything going? No,
Speaker 1: life is Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of that title.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Jerseys go. If you had a moniker for
Speaker 1: New Jersey, what would it be? I don't have a
Speaker 1: moniker Jersey. It's it's the Garden State. It's where you
Speaker 1: come on Friday night. Is the armpit of America. Never
Speaker 1: heard that before. Don't be a hater. It's where you
Speaker 1: come on Friday night. You take the pass train in
Speaker 1: a Hoboken and you place your bets on Fandel and
Speaker 1: all invited you to join me last week, but clearly
Speaker 1: you had better plans because do in the morning that
Speaker 1: I did appreciate the in fight though, and let's rain check. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: I guess this is this is your last day. I
Speaker 1: think you think are the wrenches. It's just weird to say.
Speaker 1: It's just weird to say, yes, I guess it is
Speaker 1: my last it's your last day with us. You've got
Speaker 1: a lot of videos, um, yes, with us for sure,
Speaker 1: and we haven't made you a goodbye video. I'll let
Speaker 1: you know that there is. There is no slide show coming,
Speaker 1: so that's okay. I wasn't expecting like a tribute video
Speaker 1: like they do in the NBA. Now probably should I
Speaker 1: want you to open the show with I want you
Speaker 1: to expect the least because that's what we provide here
Speaker 1: joining the program standing at five ft seven, Yes, Maria Marino,
Speaker 1: and then we should have like hit the tribute video. Agreed,
Speaker 1: and then it would have next time, don't say don't
Speaker 1: say like Saron Glockholm's I Will Remember You, I one
Speaker 1: of you were going to say. I wasn't gonna say that.
Speaker 1: I was going to say the song that you named
Speaker 1: my fantasy team after Maria. That would makes sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: whenever I think of like NBA tribute videos, even though
Speaker 1: though it doesn't make sense, it was only it only
Speaker 1: made sense for like the Carmel Anthony trade is like
Speaker 1: I always think of coming home. It was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it was like the coolest thing ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even though he was like raised in Baltimore like most
Speaker 1: New York when Lebron went back to Cleveland, it was
Speaker 1: that right, that same song they played pretty much any
Speaker 1: kind of the opposite. It's like you're leaving home. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know leaving home, I won't be far
Speaker 1: by the way. Speaking of being far, I heard you
Speaker 1: saw somebody last night. I did. It was very awkward.
Speaker 1: Can you please explain to me why it was so awkward,
Speaker 1: because it definitely was awkward. I heard it was very awkward.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to tell my side? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't you heard about this were talking about.
Speaker 1: So I leave my other job and I'm on the
Speaker 1: subway platform downtown World Trade Center and I'm standing there alone,
Speaker 1: waiting for the train, and I see two girls walk past,
Speaker 1: and one of them I recognize, and it's Judy Greg's fiancee.
Speaker 1: So as I recognize it, and you know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you see someone you recognize, you don't always know whether
Speaker 1: I should whether you should say hi, because it's like
Speaker 1: in passing whatever. But the answer to that is always
Speaker 1: well clearly, And I'll tell you why, because I made
Speaker 1: a split second decision where as she was walking past,
Speaker 1: I said, Judy made yes, Yes, I said Judy. And
Speaker 1: then she she she paused, and she looked at me.
Speaker 1: She looked at me as though she didn't know who
Speaker 1: I was, but I felt that she did. But I
Speaker 1: just she's still gave me that look, and I just
Speaker 1: was like, Maria, you know, Greg's a co worker from
Speaker 1: Fantasy Network. And She's just like yeah, and then she
Speaker 1: just kept walking looks like so here, So here's really
Speaker 1: that's what really happened. So here's my here's the text
Speaker 1: message I received. Do you expect anything less? I would
Speaker 1: be friendly? You don't think I'm like a friendly person
Speaker 1: or subway people, your photo of your headphones on. You
Speaker 1: won't even look people. That's the way things are supposed
Speaker 1: to be in New York. Don't talk to other people.
Speaker 1: That's how everyone really am. Then I shouldn't have deviated it,
Speaker 1: but I was just like in the moment, I was like,
Speaker 1: so here's text message I got. I just saw him,
Speaker 1: Maria on the subway platform. I have no idea who
Speaker 1: that is. I was in deep conversation with Caitlyn about work.
Speaker 1: So it was awkward. I like, I knew who she
Speaker 1: was and I put it didn't and it was uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And she comes up to me and she goes, Hi,
Speaker 1: do you remember me? I worked with Greg. It was
Speaker 1: so awkward. My friend Caitlin was like, w T. And
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh God, you are embarrassing, Judy. You
Speaker 1: are embarrassing. I have to say, like I expected her
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, what's up? How are you? Of
Speaker 1: course like a normal person, but I'm not. But it's
Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me that she didn't do that. I
Speaker 1: was just like, Okay, she's probably, like you said, she's
Speaker 1: probably deep in conversation. She's probably rushing around. You're trying
Speaker 1: to catch the subway. Like I totally get it. You're
Speaker 1: also not incessarily expecting you in that in that context, Now,
Speaker 1: let me share some history. I met Judy a couple
Speaker 1: of times. The last time I saw her was at
Speaker 1: your apartment for Halloween at your party were everyone was
Speaker 1: super fun. Um. But but like, as far as I know,
Speaker 1: you know, we we have a friendly relationship. I have
Speaker 1: to I wouldn't I would be lying. You refused to
Speaker 1: sed to. That's not how it went down formally. Also
Speaker 1: does a Halloween party everything week. I don't know that
Speaker 1: you know rich Penthouse any day of the week, very night,
Speaker 1: but you've been I like your apartment. It's I'd be
Speaker 1: lying if I said though, I'd be invited to the party.
Speaker 1: Who shut up? It's quick around those parts at that
Speaker 1: time on a Saturday night, and he didn't invite core,
Speaker 1: the core as you've seen around Hell's Kitchen on a
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Are you out of your mind? No? I
Speaker 1: was just gonna say, and I know this is completely
Speaker 1: irrational and outlandish. There was a moment, a moment briefly
Speaker 1: where I wondered, does Judy not like me? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was silly exactly then. I mean I quickly dismissed
Speaker 1: it because that was because I was like, why Yo,
Speaker 1: King and I homies? She talked about their love for
Speaker 1: Dean Gregories. King is a very nice person. Why wouldn't
Speaker 1: they hit it off? But Jude is a nice person.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we didn't hit it off. We just
Speaker 1: didn't like like King. And I felt like I was
Speaker 1: like talking the same person. It was just like I
Speaker 1: was starting to I don't know what what I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what's going on?
Speaker 1: Where is this going mess? Stuff from Judy man? I agree?
Speaker 1: Do you strike me as a guy, like a highbrow
Speaker 1: like me? Yeah, I'm not gonna talk to Marie. I
Speaker 1: say hi to everybody. I walk in and talk to
Speaker 1: every doormat and every build they've ever been Like, hey,
Speaker 1: I walk in here. You probably don't even talk to
Speaker 1: Justin at the bread dust. Do you know? I don't
Speaker 1: talk to anything exactly. I'm the hither Row guy you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be. I talked to Julio downstair. I talked
Speaker 1: the guy I talked to Justin. I talked to my man,
Speaker 1: ed who do you talk to? And I'm the highbrow
Speaker 1: Gary as a fellow New Yorker, isn't it better to
Speaker 1: just here, don't have a mic like I feel like
Speaker 1: Corey would side of me. You're supposed to just mind
Speaker 1: your own business on the talk to other people. Okay,
Speaker 1: who is a pretty friendly person. He's on the corner
Speaker 1: of now you know what, Greg is a Greg will
Speaker 1: come in and he will speak to everybody, and like
Speaker 1: Mike called on a whole walk in this joint and
Speaker 1: don't speak to nobody, say goodbye Michael walking to from
Speaker 1: with fifteen people and don't say nothing to nobody, And
Speaker 1: to be fair and whine news about Corey because Corey
Speaker 1: walks in every morning, walks downstairs. How's everybody doing, how's
Speaker 1: everybody feel? What's going on? What's going every single day
Speaker 1: Corey does? Yeah, for sure, we don't really work with
Speaker 1: the people, Frank, people goes to the bar, to the hostesses,
Speaker 1: every kind of the waitresses every day. I'm a mayor.
Speaker 1: This is what this comes with politics. To be clear,
Speaker 1: I did not have an alterior motive, all right. To
Speaker 1: be clear, I didn't want this to turn into bashing
Speaker 1: of Judy because I'm not bashing because, like Frank said,
Speaker 1: you don't talk to people in New York. Nine times
Speaker 1: that time somebody talks to me, I'm like, get away
Speaker 1: from me. But because right, we're friends, well, because we've
Speaker 1: met before. You know, I thought it would been a
Speaker 1: little bit more warm more warmth. But it's all right.
Speaker 1: You know, I think it still don't take it per
Speaker 1: by your story and by the text messages that I received,
Speaker 1: I think this is more. I think this is more
Speaker 1: of a cases like not realized seeing like seeing this
Speaker 1: person in this spot at this time, it didn't make sense.
Speaker 1: It didn't make sense. She saw you like she came
Speaker 1: for lunch for whatever reason, she saw you. Oh my god, yes,
Speaker 1: but she was. She was mid big conversations, she was
Speaker 1: rushing around, she was talking with subway platforms. I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. Okay, Sorry, Judy, I'm sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 1: She's going to be That's why I wrote it up.
Speaker 1: You didn't bring it up. You did. I brought it up.
Speaker 1: I meant to text you about it, but you didn't.
Speaker 1: You're probably like, oh, Goddy hates me. I'm not texting
Speaker 1: him feeling where this went anyway, I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: You always so, how is King of though? King is good.
Speaker 1: She's doing very well. She just got a new job. Really,
Speaker 1: you didn't tell me that fantastic, my sugar, mama. Now
Speaker 1: that's great. Say that loud and proud. Don't be mumbling
Speaker 1: so proud. I'd be like, this is great. I'm staying
Speaker 1: home the rest of my life. That's where Frank wants
Speaker 1: to like, So I got text from I think it
Speaker 1: was you were the tweeting or you texted me last night.
Speaker 1: I remember what it was Frankie. But like Frank was
Speaker 1: deep diving into baseball. Like I remember, I had like
Speaker 1: the TV on. I was eating dinner and Frank was
Speaker 1: just I think it was you were tweeting a baseball. Um,
Speaker 1: you can tell when I'm deep diving. I got like
Speaker 1: pre and post injury stats on labor tour. That's what.
Speaker 1: That's what it was. It was like labor Tour was
Speaker 1: last night. I was like Frankie diving. I was just
Speaker 1: thinking because I was sitting there eating dinner. I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, so King is here. This all went through
Speaker 1: my mind. So kingas hanging out at home and Frank's
Speaker 1: just staring deep like deeper. It was like eight o'clock o'clock. Alright,
Speaker 1: That's why I just had in my head. I was
Speaker 1: only I do that after she goes to bed, like
Speaker 1: ten o'clock, fair enough, So I thought it was like
Speaker 1: eight o'clock in my head. In my head, I was
Speaker 1: like eating dinner. Frank's like stereo at computer, and Kings
Speaker 1: just like Frank Frank and he's just like pouring over
Speaker 1: glabor tour. No, No, it wasn't that earlier. I was
Speaker 1: actually just got a new Mac maybe it'll make a
Speaker 1: debut on the show this week. So I was trying
Speaker 1: to like figure out how to work that thing. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's totally different stuff. There's a touch idea can unlock
Speaker 1: the back with my that I was messing around a
Speaker 1: little bit with the little laptop. I will admit he
Speaker 1: asked me to like wash dishes while she was cooking tacos.
Speaker 1: That's great talking any talking money. It's better Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 1: But she did ask me, and I was just like,
Speaker 1: eventually did it? But did you? At least? It's very
Speaker 1: mad at me. Did you respond? I mean being ignored
Speaker 1: as like I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Just excuse me. A couple of seconds. I understanding. I can,
Speaker 1: I can. I can deal with that. It was great
Speaker 1: last nights for me. So Judy was watching The Bachelor
Speaker 1: in her friend's place. So I just had like leftover
Speaker 1: zuper bowl washing watch basketball last night, watching nets in
Speaker 1: the bucks, was watching Raw. It was awesome. I was
Speaker 1: very She got home eleven and then it really went
Speaker 1: terribly because she has just like um, she has like
Speaker 1: a sinus infection right now. She's just caught for like
Speaker 1: a straight hour as we're trying to go to bed,
Speaker 1: and this is ridiculous because like drink water can sleep
Speaker 1: on the couch again. I was gonna get up Gregan
Speaker 1: Judy do this thing that whenever one of them is sick,
Speaker 1: the other one sleeps on the couch. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what to get sick. Understandable. Why why would you do that?
Speaker 1: Why do you want to get sick? I think it
Speaker 1: depends on your level of sick too. I had the flu. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that. I can understand. You have the flu, you
Speaker 1: need the sick couch, get the master cuddle over here.
Speaker 1: The power of cuddling can heal your significant over Yeah.
Speaker 1: But see also you sick, dude. Take it from somebody
Speaker 1: who's been on the couch. Mania Knights on the couch.
Speaker 1: The couch is not a fun place, whether you think
Speaker 1: at healthy. But I've gotten used to the couch, and
Speaker 1: you know what, I've made the best of it. You
Speaker 1: have to. I mean, I appreciate the sentiment. Frank with
Speaker 1: the cuddling. Not super really, Marie's definitely a big cutler.
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Frank Stafell of course with me
Speaker 1: as lovely Marie her final day here with us. We
Speaker 1: didn't give any of these just like riffing and hanging.
Speaker 1: We didn't a very seriously. Oh you know why because
Speaker 1: our schedules have been so like jam packed and all
Speaker 1: the content that we're putting out there right the n
Speaker 1: b A. I think that's what you're gonna miss the most.
Speaker 1: Like W n B A stuff I am going to
Speaker 1: miss that. I'm gonna miss kind of just talking about
Speaker 1: whatever I want to talk about, whatever I want. You
Speaker 1: still can't you have our phone numbers? I know, well,
Speaker 1: I mean just in general on the air and like
Speaker 1: with the content that that we put out there. But no, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys aren't going to get rid of me. I'll
Speaker 1: be gonna be. Yeah, I got your numbers. Um, I
Speaker 1: will be around. I'm sure you will be. You don't
Speaker 1: work that far away, yeah, I mean I might run
Speaker 1: into you on the subway platform. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: go down there. It's so far, you know. I'm just
Speaker 1: all right, let's get back in the NBA. And I
Speaker 1: mean we've we've been hanging out and I want to
Speaker 1: talk to some sports guys. And the big question, it
Speaker 1: was our poll question of the day. And this time
Speaker 1: next week, what uniform Anthony Davis be wearing Pelicans Lakers.
Speaker 1: I'll see the knixes on there, clippers and the box.
Speaker 1: So I think it's interesting. And the rumor was that
Speaker 1: I think Martino told me this today. It might have
Speaker 1: been you, Frank, but I think it's Martina that told
Speaker 1: me the Evidently Anthony Davis wanted to play last night,
Speaker 1: and it's clear right now that he's healthy, Like, he's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this finger injury wasn't nearly the big of
Speaker 1: a deal that we originally thought it was. But he's fine,
Speaker 1: he's ready to rock. And it's very clear that Pelicans
Speaker 1: are not going to trade this dude, not not play
Speaker 1: this dude if he's still on the team until after
Speaker 1: the trade deadline, because there's no reason to um at
Speaker 1: this moment. So you think your best guests at this
Speaker 1: time next week, Maria, what uniform? What Anthony Davis be wearing.
Speaker 1: I I voted in this poll, and I voted Pelicans.
Speaker 1: I'm starting Here's here's here's my problem with it. Like
Speaker 1: I've I've been preaching all along that the Pelicans should
Speaker 1: wait and not rush into making a deal for Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis before the trade deadline. But then when I see this,
Speaker 1: this deal that the Lakers throw out to them, I
Speaker 1: start to get tempted. I start to wonder, is this
Speaker 1: the best deal that they're gonna get for him? And
Speaker 1: should should they just? Should they just do it? And
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying that the best thing for the Lakers,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe it is the best thing for the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: I don't know, So like I'm hedging a little bit
Speaker 1: because I feel like maybe I could see the Lakers,
Speaker 1: but I still feel strongly about it would be the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: You know, It's amazing, Frankie, because I've gone so many
Speaker 1: different ways in this I who did it? Hollard? And
Speaker 1: I stopped my feet and I screamed, really a fright
Speaker 1: that was, like, it makes no sense to trade for
Speaker 1: the Pelicans. To do this right now, Wait until every
Speaker 1: team is available in the summer, mainly the Celtics, and
Speaker 1: and see what you can get. But I'm with you, Maria.
Speaker 1: You see the rumors. We have no idea what they
Speaker 1: were really offered. These are the rumors of this trade
Speaker 1: where it's basically every core member of the Lakers outside
Speaker 1: of Lebron James and the latest incarnation of the trade
Speaker 1: was those bats bats and it was every other cork
Speaker 1: member of that team. Plus we'll take on your worst
Speaker 1: contract in Solomon Hill. Plus we'll give you four draft picks.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Pelicans wanted, but wanted for drafts.
Speaker 1: We don't know what kind of protection was on those
Speaker 1: US will give you? I would imagine there was no protection.
Speaker 1: Plus we'll give you picks. I wouldn't who knows who
Speaker 1: the number is. But plus we'll give you picks. And
Speaker 1: if that's true, you're just like, what else can they
Speaker 1: possibly get? Now, the answer to that question before I
Speaker 1: go over to you, Frank, the answer to that question is, Okay,
Speaker 1: picks are awesome, cash spaces even better. But it's really
Speaker 1: hard to get people to go play for the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans. It's not the Lakers, it's not the Warriors
Speaker 1: at this point, right, it's it's the New Orleans Pelicans.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have that lineage of the Celtics, doesn't have
Speaker 1: the history. So fine, Okay, it's tough. You already know
Speaker 1: a Lonzo Baha has no interest in playing there. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying brandon Ingram or Kyle Kuzma doesn't. But as
Speaker 1: it's pointed out to me today, Kyle Kuzma is years
Speaker 1: old and he's not exactly a dude that is twenty
Speaker 1: years old. So is Kyle Khosma going to become this
Speaker 1: All Star? Or is this what we have? Not that
Speaker 1: was a bad player, but like Kuzma what he is
Speaker 1: right now? The wild right, the wild card is Brandon Ingram,
Speaker 1: who is still extremely extremely young. Do they believe the
Speaker 1: randon Ingram will become an All Star? Now? You can
Speaker 1: look and I saw on Twitter day a guy like
Speaker 1: DiAngelo Russell, who in year two is like twenty years old.
Speaker 1: You were thinking when he was with the Lakers, like
Speaker 1: what does he really become? Two years later with the Nets.
Speaker 1: He's an All Star. But I'm not saying he's an
Speaker 1: All NBA player because he's not. But he's an All Star.
Speaker 1: Do the Pelicans believe that any of the players they're
Speaker 1: getting back that will that won't cause a you know,
Speaker 1: massive catastrophe with this team, like Alonzo Ball probably will
Speaker 1: will become an All Star. I mean someone to build around.
Speaker 1: That's the big question where it comes back. I think
Speaker 1: the Lakers deal because if you wait for Boston, the
Speaker 1: one big question you have with Boston isn't about picks,
Speaker 1: isn't about cap space. It's about who can you get
Speaker 1: back because the one guy you want is Jason Tatum
Speaker 1: because you believe that Jason Tatum is that one guy
Speaker 1: that in two years or one year whatnot, will become
Speaker 1: an All Star that right now, he's in the precipice
Speaker 1: of that. If you believe the Celtics will trade you
Speaker 1: Jason Tatum in a deal, you probably wait because he's
Speaker 1: the one guy out of Kuzma, out of ball that
Speaker 1: you believe in. But if they're not going to trade him,
Speaker 1: if the Boston's like, listen, we're not training you Tatum,
Speaker 1: and it makes no sense of Boston, tell them that
Speaker 1: now you want them to think they will. If you
Speaker 1: believe that they will trade you Jason Tatum, you have
Speaker 1: to wait it out. You have no choice. But if
Speaker 1: they don't, will the offer ever get better than what
Speaker 1: it may be right now? I think these are all
Speaker 1: the questions that Dell Demps has to think about over
Speaker 1: the next too many days, your thoughts and all this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so when you hooted and hollered last week, you were
Speaker 1: very adamant about the Pelicans waiting until the summer to
Speaker 1: get the Celtics involved and see what kind of trade
Speaker 1: offer they can give. But things change. Based on the
Speaker 1: quote that we got from Anthony Davis's dad last Friday,
Speaker 1: right talking about how he doesn't want his son son
Speaker 1: to play for the Celtics. He doesn't want him to
Speaker 1: sign their long term because of the way that they
Speaker 1: treated Isaiah Thomas that they don't have any loyalty to
Speaker 1: their players. If you're the Celtics, why are you taking
Speaker 1: that chance and time? If you're if you're up at
Speaker 1: Jayson Tatum and Jalen Brown and a draft pick or
Speaker 1: multiple draft picks, why are you taking that chance? If
Speaker 1: you have his dad right then and they're telling you
Speaker 1: he's not gonna sign long term, So then you don't
Speaker 1: play at Anthony Davis for a one year rental. Maybe
Speaker 1: in that one year you could win a championship. What
Speaker 1: are you really gonna do that for a one year rental.
Speaker 1: I get it, he's like a top five, top ten
Speaker 1: player in the NBA, But you can't take that risk
Speaker 1: without knowing that he's not He's gonna sign or not.
Speaker 1: You need to know before you make this trade that
Speaker 1: he wants to sign. There on top of it, frank like,
Speaker 1: going along with that point on the reported extended list
Speaker 1: of teams that he would be interested in going to
Speaker 1: the Celtics were not honest. But don't you see Lakers,
Speaker 1: the Knicks, the Clippers, the Clippers, and you know, I
Speaker 1: thought gave made a great point today, right, all this
Speaker 1: talk about Anthony Davis wanting to play for a contender, No,
Speaker 1: it's not true, like maybe the only contender on that
Speaker 1: teams box. Basically, you want to play with one contender
Speaker 1: or a major media market, that's what you want. Like,
Speaker 1: let's stay honest about this. Because the Knicks, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have cap space. Guess what space doesn't win you championships?
Speaker 1: Do have to you have to execute and free ative.
Speaker 1: But that list that you see, you gotta I think
Speaker 1: we all have to take a step back and like,
Speaker 1: know what's happening here? Right, Like, all right, here's the list, right,
Speaker 1: the Knicks they have nothing to trade the Pelicans anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't, they don't. They just don't have it. And
Speaker 1: they would already unprotected first round pick this year. The hope,
Speaker 1: the hope, the prayer of getting Zion. But you need more,
Speaker 1: you need more. You need do have some young assets,
Speaker 1: like you could attach Kevin Knox, you can attached. Still
Speaker 1: not enough, still not enough. It might not be, but
Speaker 1: I think it's a competitive offer, Okay Knox, Frankielkina maybe
Speaker 1: and if they wanted Dennis Smith Jr. Right, I know,
Speaker 1: you just got him. But if that's what it took
Speaker 1: to get Anthony David, those young assets and the possibility
Speaker 1: of getting a top three pick in this year's draft,
Speaker 1: I think it's a competitive offer. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: look at the offer that the Lakers put out, there
Speaker 1: doesn't seem all that competitive. I agree with you, and
Speaker 1: and they already turned down. They turned it out an
Speaker 1: offer that would have included Kristaps porzingis not that we
Speaker 1: know the details behind that. So here's what we here's
Speaker 1: what we do know. Right, So I agree with you
Speaker 1: or they said nothing to offer. In my opinion, the
Speaker 1: Bucks the way that they are constructed, they also don't
Speaker 1: They also have nothing to offer, So that can is
Speaker 1: an expiring free agent, right Eric Bledsoe expiring free expiring
Speaker 1: free agents like in the Primate's career. So who are
Speaker 1: the books? So who is New Orleans getting in that
Speaker 1: trade to build around Nobody? Absolutely nobody. So again there's
Speaker 1: there's no star there. Now you're with the Clippers and
Speaker 1: you're with Lakers. The Clippers have some young players, for sure,
Speaker 1: Will they want to take on the cap space of
Speaker 1: a Solomon Hill I don't know. To geld say, Gil
Speaker 1: just Alexander and your first round picks. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: competitive offer to is A. I agree with you, but
Speaker 1: my point was his list of four really is a
Speaker 1: list of two. It's in l A and I don't
Speaker 1: think you know, if you're comparing even the Lakers, if
Speaker 1: it's Tatum and Brown right for the Celtics versus Kuzman Ingram,
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's that far off because what
Speaker 1: we've seen from Tatum, Yes, there's a lot to be
Speaker 1: excited about. How about last year when Brandon Ingram in
Speaker 1: the second half of the year, Remember they didn't have
Speaker 1: a point guard, they traded Friday Thomas, but like he
Speaker 1: was in and out of the lineup, he was playing
Speaker 1: point forward for them. And look at some of these
Speaker 1: number from last year post All Star Break five nine
Speaker 1: field goal percentage, fifteen points, five assists, Like Brandon Ingram
Speaker 1: could be this next incarnation of like a point forward.
Speaker 1: But then you have a legit twenty plus points. But
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying, So I agree with If I
Speaker 1: got Lonzo Ball in the deal, I would take him,
Speaker 1: but I would just try and flip him the Phoenix,
Speaker 1: try and get some other job there too. Why are
Speaker 1: you doing that, you said Phoenix because LaVar is re
Speaker 1: questioning Phoenix, who gives a crap? But they have young
Speaker 1: players if they were interested in him, right, Because I mean,
Speaker 1: I thinkno ball can actually make sense in Phoenix having alongside.
Speaker 1: I happen to agree with you, but I'm not just
Speaker 1: training if Phoenix LaVar wants that, right, he hasn't earned
Speaker 1: the class. I keep him for half a year and
Speaker 1: then explore, like where you can trade him in the
Speaker 1: off season? Right? But really, that much young talent, Kuzma, Ingram,
Speaker 1: Lonzo and this contract and two first round picks, the
Speaker 1: whole question. Know that the Celtics offers better than I
Speaker 1: agree with you. The whole question is the only question
Speaker 1: in my mind remaining. If the Lakers are gonna take
Speaker 1: on Solomon Hill, if the Lakers are gonna give you
Speaker 1: multiple draft picks, if the Lakers are giving you all
Speaker 1: of these players, The only question I have remaining is
Speaker 1: does brandon Ingram is? Do you believe in brandon Ingram
Speaker 1: enough to not wait to see if you can get Tatum?
Speaker 1: That is the only question. Any of those guys, He's
Speaker 1: years old, he's just nine, He's still super skinny, He's
Speaker 1: gotta put on weight, there's no doubt about it. But
Speaker 1: the guy has over seven foot windspan. He's got to
Speaker 1: work on his jump shot. But I'm telling you what
Speaker 1: I saw last year. When he's able to kind of
Speaker 1: like play that combo like point forward and have good
Speaker 1: enough vision as a player to you know, nearly average
Speaker 1: six assists per game as a guy of his size
Speaker 1: and you know, not turning the ball over that much,
Speaker 1: I see upside. Man Like, to me, you could build
Speaker 1: around a young core of Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma
Speaker 1: and and you know, if you have first round draft picks,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna have your own first round draft
Speaker 1: pick this year. If you trade away Anthony Davis, you're
Speaker 1: not going anywhere this year. You're gonna have a lottery pick.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not, you know, top five, but in the
Speaker 1: eight to ten range, you probably have a draft pick
Speaker 1: there this year. I told look, that's the recipe for
Speaker 1: these small market teams. That's the recipe, right, you have
Speaker 1: to build through the draft. You've seen it with a
Speaker 1: with a franchise like Oklahoma City Thunder. They were actually
Speaker 1: able to retain Russell Westbrook and because of that, they
Speaker 1: were able to sign Paul George. But normally a team
Speaker 1: like the Oklahoma City Thunder is not a big player
Speaker 1: and free you can see. So what you need to
Speaker 1: be able to do is build through the draft. And
Speaker 1: that's why, you know, I look at a team like
Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings. The Sacramento Kings haven't been a desirable
Speaker 1: franchise in terms of landing big name free agents. Not
Speaker 1: a lot of big name free agents want to go
Speaker 1: to Sacramento for once. And I know it feels like
Speaker 1: it's been forever since Sacramento has been even slightly relevant.
Speaker 1: Even when they had Boogie Cousins and he was amazing,
Speaker 1: they weren't even close to relevant. Look at what they're
Speaker 1: doing right now, a great young core. They're on the
Speaker 1: verge of making the playoffs this year, but for years
Speaker 1: to come. I mean, look at three sixty Alley. You's
Speaker 1: last night from Marvin Bagley. You got Daron Fox, you
Speaker 1: have a young stud point guard. You have a knockdown shooter,
Speaker 1: Buddy Heals. I believe it was you who mentioned the
Speaker 1: stat the other day. Greg, He's about to break the
Speaker 1: record for like the most three Porters made like the
Speaker 1: first three seasons of career, and they have bogged on
Speaker 1: bog Danvich, a guy who can come off the bench,
Speaker 1: like they are doing it the right way. When you
Speaker 1: are a smaller, you know, less desirable market in the NBA,
Speaker 1: you have to build through the draft, and we're seeing
Speaker 1: right now the New Orleans Pelicans are not a player
Speaker 1: in free agency. They can't even retain a player like
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. They tried to make it work, it hasn't worked.
Speaker 1: They are a team that needs to build through young
Speaker 1: assets and through the draft. I really like this trade
Speaker 1: for perspective with the Lakers. You're saying you want the
Speaker 1: Pelicans to make this deal if it's everyone thinks the
Speaker 1: question is how much better do you think Jayson Tatum is?
Speaker 1: And I think you look at the two it's kind
Speaker 1: of like making a fantasy trade, right because in my opinion,
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram and Kyle k Kuzma are better than Jalen Brown.
Speaker 1: Jalen Brown is a good player and he can be
Speaker 1: a key peace on a winning team. It could be
Speaker 1: like the third fourth option on a winning team. But
Speaker 1: to me, if I were ranking the players in the trade,
Speaker 1: it would be Tatum, Ingram, Kuzma, Ingram and Kuzma very
Speaker 1: close and in Jalen Brown fourth. So if you think
Speaker 1: about it from like a fantasy trade, right and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like, yeah, you're giving up the best player
Speaker 1: in the deal, but you're getting the two next best players,
Speaker 1: like you're getting the better death and anger, and Ingram
Speaker 1: still has a lot of upside to remember, He's a
Speaker 1: six nine forward who proved to me, even though a
Speaker 1: small sample size, that he can kind of be a
Speaker 1: point forward for an NBA team. Here's my question about Ingram,
Speaker 1: Like when I look at Jayson Tatum, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: just because of the opportunities that he's had with the
Speaker 1: Celtics where they've gotten deep into the postseason, so we've
Speaker 1: been able to see kind of how he steps up
Speaker 1: in those big moments, intangibles like all those things that
Speaker 1: you mentioned like stats and stuff aside like upside. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like I feel like Jayson Tatum is never
Speaker 1: too big for the moment. I feel like he has
Speaker 1: that clutch gene. I feel like he has that killer
Speaker 1: which is crazy to be only a second year player,
Speaker 1: but he did prove some of that in the But
Speaker 1: I just I just see it, like he just screams
Speaker 1: like NBA star to me, And maybe it's um not
Speaker 1: really fair to say that because I'm not really going
Speaker 1: on anything but the eye test, But do you get
Speaker 1: that same vibe from Ingram as far as like can
Speaker 1: get in there and and just like have that ice
Speaker 1: water in his veins? I think watching Jayson Tatum, does
Speaker 1: he strike you as like a plus defender or anything?
Speaker 1: Because to me, I don't think he's like a plus defender, right,
Speaker 1: Like how far off is Kyle Kuzman from being Jayson
Speaker 1: Tatum Because Jason Tatum to me is like a score. Yes,
Speaker 1: he has a clutching. Kyle Kuzma hasn't really had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to show whether or not he has a clutching
Speaker 1: or not. He didn't get to play in the playoffs
Speaker 1: last year, and maybe that's the detriment to him. But
Speaker 1: to me, like, and I don't want to downplay Jayson
Speaker 1: Tatum because I think he's very talented, but Kyle Kuzman
Speaker 1: a talented score as well. I think Kusma the best
Speaker 1: out of the three. Does Jayson Tatum really does he
Speaker 1: offers something to a franchise other than scoring, I guess
Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to get at. Like, can he
Speaker 1: become this next like point score, you know, six seven
Speaker 1: rebounds and five six assists per game? Can you really
Speaker 1: get there? I don't know if that's part of his game,
Speaker 1: so I think it could be. Remember he's super young
Speaker 1: as well, and the reason that and even Kyle Kuzma
Speaker 1: and like him the best. But I think those Lakers players, right,
Speaker 1: I think my issue with Kuzma is that what we
Speaker 1: see is what we're getting. I don't think, as I
Speaker 1: mentioned his age, and I don't think he's gonna all
Speaker 1: of a sudden improved to be what Frank mentioned Jayson
Speaker 1: Tatum give me, not that we're comparing kuson maintainum, but
Speaker 1: like I think Tatum, the answer to your question Frank
Speaker 1: is yes, I think there is a chance he could
Speaker 1: be developed into that twenty five point score with a
Speaker 1: bunch of rebounds, with a bunch of assists. I do
Speaker 1: think in order to be a playmaker, though, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know that I've seen enough from a passing perspective,
Speaker 1: from the willingness to get others involved, and that hasn't
Speaker 1: really been ast of him say that on that team,
Speaker 1: that's not his role at all. I've seen Brandon Ingram's
Speaker 1: ability to do it, but average five six. You put
Speaker 1: Tato on the Lakers last year, it's completely completely different,
Speaker 1: Like Kusma on a bad Lakers team without Lebron this year,
Speaker 1: Like you saw what he could do and it was
Speaker 1: score very very well, probably nothing else. I think he
Speaker 1: would take them. There you see a lot, I think.
Speaker 1: And to me looking at Brandon Ingram and I mentioned
Speaker 1: defensively with Jayson Taintum, like I think he has length
Speaker 1: and maybe he can work himself into being a defender
Speaker 1: if he wants to be right, Like he has that athleticism,
Speaker 1: he has the length to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: Brandon Ingram, it is all upside, but look at his length,
Speaker 1: like he's he's already a guy who's disruptive in past
Speaker 1: lanes and he's able to block shots. He needs to
Speaker 1: put on weight. If if brandon Ingram puts, he's the
Speaker 1: only one. But he has side defensively but twenty one,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like this is about his third peer. Yes,
Speaker 1: I feel like he should have put on weight by now.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong, And Nevin Durant did it already by
Speaker 1: this time when he was and he's you mean he's
Speaker 1: done growing so, but to me, there's more upside, especially
Speaker 1: ill take a break here. When we come back, let's
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Speaker 1: The NBA pre pretty much took over the Super Bowl conversation,
Speaker 1: which it seems to be doing a lot lately the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Don't we seem to be getting
Speaker 1: a lot of these NBA wode bombs right around the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl time, taking the luster off of it. This
Speaker 1: is new in the last five years as well. The
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Speaker 1: were just talking about it during the break and that
Speaker 1: was the fact that Rodney Hood treated once again trade
Speaker 1: last year deadline traded this year at the deadline went
Speaker 1: from Utah to Cleveland last year, and it goes back
Speaker 1: to the Western Conference and Goo was over to Portland's
Speaker 1: initial instant guys after this trail was goodrey for Portland
Speaker 1: who are always trying to look to help out their bench,
Speaker 1: always trying to solidify that second unit. And then Frank
Speaker 1: kind of poo pood like into it. Frank, No, that's
Speaker 1: all right. I mean from a fantasy perspective, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really mean much. I think you'll get more of an opportunity.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the sixth man for this team. They
Speaker 1: needed someone who could come off the bench and score.
Speaker 1: Because yes, they have Lillard to have mc collumn, they
Speaker 1: have nerd kids to have, you know, a lesser version
Speaker 1: of a Big three, but they have their own version
Speaker 1: of it. But they needed to fortify that bench. You know,
Speaker 1: as as great as you want Jake Layman to be,
Speaker 1: Greg he's a former turpret as as great as you
Speaker 1: want them to be, any help on the bench, So
Speaker 1: I think Rodney Hood will help them out this. So
Speaker 1: I think the difference guys this year when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Blazers is they made a concerted effort to
Speaker 1: not stagger McCollum and Lillard. They wanted to play together more.
Speaker 1: They thought that had a big advantage when they played
Speaker 1: them more together, and they're doing so, which means the
Speaker 1: entire second unit is basically having Turner and like Seth
Speaker 1: Curry correct. And that's fine, But if you want to
Speaker 1: be a player in a play, you just need another threat.
Speaker 1: And I think it's what Rodney Hood provided you've already
Speaker 1: saw he has the ability to carry the load in
Speaker 1: Utah and and certainly be a spark off the bench
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. So I think this trade it's good. I
Speaker 1: think it only helps I think for the purposes that
Speaker 1: it's trying to serve, which is just being another spark
Speaker 1: plug off the bench. Mury, I think it works totally.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Cleveland sellers at the trade deadline obviously,
Speaker 1: and uh, it makes sense to get something back for
Speaker 1: a player like Rodney Hood, and I agree it only
Speaker 1: helps the depth of Portland. And we know kind of
Speaker 1: what happened, We know what happened with them last year
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They just need they need more. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm good with it. Now. You mentioned Cleveland being sellers
Speaker 1: the deadline obviously and that and I asked before the
Speaker 1: break that what other big names could be traded in
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. I think a good one
Speaker 1: to bring up is Kevin Love, Right, Kevin Love size
Speaker 1: his extension with Cleveland, even Aathan Lebron leaves um he's
Speaker 1: been basically injured for that entire extension. Obviously, Cleveland's rebuilding
Speaker 1: from scratch here. I mean, it's it's Colin Sexton, it's
Speaker 1: Chitty Osman. There's not much here unfortunately, and Kevin loved
Speaker 1: being here for what, right, Like, that's a contract. They
Speaker 1: want to get off their books, they want to improve,
Speaker 1: get more draft picks, get more cap space. There's Kevin
Speaker 1: Love a name, Maria that you think it will be
Speaker 1: traded in the next couple of days. He he should be,
Speaker 1: but he's not someone that's really come to mind. And
Speaker 1: I think it's just because it's like you said, Um,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played much, he's been injured, UM, And I
Speaker 1: just don't know if he's on a lot of people's radar,
Speaker 1: like what is his status right now healthwise? He's close
Speaker 1: to returning. Um, he's been he's returned to practice. He
Speaker 1: will not play in tonight's game against the Celtics, but
Speaker 1: the fact that they're even mentioning that means that he's
Speaker 1: probably close to point. Then in that case, I think
Speaker 1: there's definitely got to be a team out there that
Speaker 1: could use him. Here's the problem. If you if you
Speaker 1: can squint in here, you see the money that Kevin
Speaker 1: Love is owed over the next five seasons Greg three,
Speaker 1: He's owed between twenty eight and thirty one million dollars
Speaker 1: per season, so age thirty by the end of this contract,
Speaker 1: he'll be, you know, thirty four, thirty five depending on
Speaker 1: what is his birthday September, so he'll be he'll be
Speaker 1: thirty four at the end of this contract, but between
Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars a year, Like that's essentially another
Speaker 1: Max contract play that you're taking on, another big money deal,
Speaker 1: no doubt. So you know, maybe Kevin Love would probably
Speaker 1: make sense being traded to a team that thinks they're
Speaker 1: like a fringe contender but can't sign free agents, like
Speaker 1: maybe some of these small market teams, Like if this
Speaker 1: were next year, for example, I would say Sacramento, right,
Speaker 1: he would probably fit right in there because they're not
Speaker 1: a free agent destination. Maybe they could trade away, you know,
Speaker 1: one young player, but not like blow it up, and
Speaker 1: then they would have a combination of Darren Fox and
Speaker 1: Bagley and you add some outside shooting with like a
Speaker 1: Kevin Love. That to me is what makes sense, Like
Speaker 1: a fringe team that's kind of pushing for the playoff
Speaker 1: that is not a desirable destination for big name free agents.
Speaker 1: Denver maybe something like that, But I don't think they
Speaker 1: need him. Do they need him? That's the question. The
Speaker 1: whole mill snap is not like a great player. Probably
Speaker 1: he's an expiring contract as well, so maybe it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense. Kevin Love Denver is not a bad one.
Speaker 1: Denver's not a bad one. They're not you know, they're
Speaker 1: not a fringe team. They're better than a French team.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're the second best record record in
Speaker 1: the Western Last night was a reminder Greg and this
Speaker 1: is what I've said about Denver. They're not consistent enough. Detroit,
Speaker 1: you know, you need I don't know, they're dealing with
Speaker 1: injuries right now. This is kind of like a weird
Speaker 1: time for NBA players because they're kind of like milking
Speaker 1: it in until they get to the All Star Break.
Speaker 1: But to go in and get destroyed by the Detroit
Speaker 1: Pistons and you want to try and like establish yourself
Speaker 1: as a player in the Western Conference, that's a bad look, man.
Speaker 1: I I agree, I totally agree. Didn't we pick them
Speaker 1: in our NBA pick did not didn't do Denver Detroit,
Speaker 1: we did not. It starts Wednesday, Wednesday. Every Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I mentioned Kevin Love at Utah for Kevin Love, Does
Speaker 1: that make sense, Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert. Yes, So I
Speaker 1: got Kevin Love, who's not a great defender next to
Speaker 1: Rudy Gobert. Makes sense? Actually, Yes, I like that a
Speaker 1: lot like these are the teams. Utah is not attracting
Speaker 1: anybody in from agency, you know, totally, that's one of
Speaker 1: the teams. Utah and Denver are both good, Frank, And
Speaker 1: that brings up my next potential player to be traded,
Speaker 1: and it's another big man, and it's Mike, Mike, it's
Speaker 1: Mark Gasol. Oh, the Memphis Grizzlies. This is another team
Speaker 1: that's unfortunately going nowhere. Good defensive team as they've always
Speaker 1: been one of the best defensive teams in the NBA
Speaker 1: as always, but not enough offensive. You look at this
Speaker 1: team and you kind of look at the way it's built,
Speaker 1: They're like, all right, what are they going to wind
Speaker 1: up doing? I'll start with Frank this time. Marcus al
Speaker 1: gonna get traded? And if so? Where Marcus Sole an
Speaker 1: interesting one. I was looking into a lot of trade
Speaker 1: rumors over the weekend, and he has a player option
Speaker 1: where he can get paid close to thirty million dollars
Speaker 1: till one season next year. It's it's only one year, um,
Speaker 1: but I think Memphis would like to move both him
Speaker 1: and Mike Conley. Makes sense, right, because again they want
Speaker 1: to get inside the top eight picks this year, because um,
Speaker 1: anything outside the top eight picks goes to Boston. Boston
Speaker 1: has wear pick, but it's top eight protected. What deal
Speaker 1: is that? Remember, I don't know how how did that happen?
Speaker 1: I don't remember that. You can look into it, but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually have something pulled up with like the Celtics
Speaker 1: picks the next couple of years. A couple of years,
Speaker 1: they have the King's Pick, which is a top one
Speaker 1: protective picks, so they're gonna get that pick and the
Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies. If the pick falls outside the top eight,
Speaker 1: that would be that would go to Boston and then
Speaker 1: next year it would it would move to next year,
Speaker 1: but then it would be top six. So Memphis is
Speaker 1: a team that I think they want to They want
Speaker 1: to use that pick this year. They don't want it
Speaker 1: to go to Boston. They want to finish inside the
Speaker 1: top eight in the lottery, seems so I think that
Speaker 1: they're going to be very very active try and move
Speaker 1: Mike Conley and Mark a Soul. The problem with trying
Speaker 1: to move Mike Colley's he has a very big contract
Speaker 1: as well. So this is this is one of those
Speaker 1: situations where and I asked this question last night on
Speaker 1: Twitter and you it's always weird when we see teams
Speaker 1: that are like, we need to attract our we need
Speaker 1: to attach our bad contracts to our young players in
Speaker 1: order to move them. And it's like we when we
Speaker 1: saw them Mike Conley contract at the time we all
Speaker 1: kind of thought, like Mike Conley, max contract player. For
Speaker 1: a time, he was the highest paid player in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And on paper, it's like anyone can realize that it's
Speaker 1: not a good it's not a good signing. But when
Speaker 1: you get into it, for a team like Memphis to
Speaker 1: to bring back a player like that, that's what they
Speaker 1: need to be able to do. They need to they
Speaker 1: have to sign a guy like Mike Mike Conley who
Speaker 1: maybe isn't worth a max contract and getting the paid
Speaker 1: the same amount of money that like Lebron James is.
Speaker 1: But if Memphis wants to bring back players like that,
Speaker 1: that's what they need to be able to do. So now,
Speaker 1: if they want to move Mike Conley, they even they
Speaker 1: might have to attach like some of the younger players,
Speaker 1: which I mean I don't Grizzlies don't really have a
Speaker 1: lot of young talent right now, and they're not They're
Speaker 1: not moving Jaren Jackson, that's for sure. I've seen the
Speaker 1: Pacers interested in a guy like Mike Conley that getting
Speaker 1: from next year two and then you would have like
Speaker 1: the future would be like Turner and Turner. The problem
Speaker 1: is if about the other power forward on the team.
Speaker 1: But no, that's exactly what I'm getting at. He would
Speaker 1: be part of the trade. You would have to give
Speaker 1: up some bonus because he's a young player and he's talented,
Speaker 1: but you gotta give something to get something. Oh No,
Speaker 1: but he'd be able to shine in Memphis. Yeah, Triple
Speaker 1: J And then that's a nice little front court school
Speaker 1: bonus and Jaren Jackson Jr. That school about what about
Speaker 1: Cossul Maria. Where's a good landing spom for him? It's
Speaker 1: I think it's very similar to what Frank said about
Speaker 1: Kevin Love, where it's a team that would have trouble
Speaker 1: kind of um attracting free agents maybe like kind of
Speaker 1: on the brink on the cusp, like could use some
Speaker 1: veteran leadership. But again it's this the same situation as
Speaker 1: as far as the contract. If you want to, if
Speaker 1: you want to take that money, like you know exactly
Speaker 1: what he is, you're not, there's no there's no upside really,
Speaker 1: um that you're banking on. It's just it is what
Speaker 1: it is, you know, if they had anything left to trade,
Speaker 1: I think Dallas is a great spot from Marcasol, Like,
Speaker 1: that's a perfect spot for the only thing is that
Speaker 1: they're not going to compete this year, you know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, even but even next year you saw with Christops,
Speaker 1: with Luca like Pam next to la Marcus Aldridge, I
Speaker 1: mean next to like taking it back. That's kind of
Speaker 1: like more of a traditional NBA lineup, where like you
Speaker 1: have two big men in it. If there's anyone who
Speaker 1: can do it, it's probable san Antonio Mike Conley also
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense too. But they're not gonna
Speaker 1: take on that contract. That's the problem. They do have
Speaker 1: some young players, right you give up like a Derek
Speaker 1: White or something like that. Let's going back to what
Speaker 1: you said, frank It's like the problem with the system
Speaker 1: in essence, because you have to give these these big
Speaker 1: contracts to retain these players. But then when your plan
Speaker 1: doesn't work out the way you hope it's going to work,
Speaker 1: and then you have to shed this contract, then it
Speaker 1: becomes difficult to to make good deals and and get
Speaker 1: a lot back in return. What other big name guys
Speaker 1: can be traded that I have not named yet, Frankie
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense with the Orlando Magic, he's
Speaker 1: having a fantastic, fantastic years. You want Obama to be
Speaker 1: the guy of the future. I think, you know on
Speaker 1: that same team, Aaron Gordon. I've seen his name floated
Speaker 1: out there as well. I know he just signed a
Speaker 1: four year contract in the off season, But what I
Speaker 1: was reading about him is that his contract is very
Speaker 1: trade friendly because as the further it goes into the contract,
Speaker 1: the most money gets less, so it's like kind of
Speaker 1: like front loaded money. So it actually makes a guy
Speaker 1: like Aaron Gordon easier to trade. But with Orlando, they
Speaker 1: haven't made the playoffs in so long, like they could
Speaker 1: probably sneak into the Eastern Conference like playoffs this year.
Speaker 1: You're obviously not going to do anything with that, but
Speaker 1: it kind of needs something for the to show their fans. Right,
Speaker 1: it's been so long since they've been relevant and in
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so they're they're a weird Steve, they could
Speaker 1: either be buyers or sellers. I think they're kind of
Speaker 1: like one of those wild card teams that Steve Clifford has.
Speaker 1: Clifford has the magic currently three games three games out,
Speaker 1: but they have a few teams to pass. Three teams
Speaker 1: to pass, unfortunately for them. Yeah, but they could pass Washington,
Speaker 1: like they're given a half back in Detroit. They are
Speaker 1: three games back in Miami. I mean Detroit. Detroit's probably
Speaker 1: a team that should be active at trade deadline. I
Speaker 1: think I've seen Mike Conley's name as well. Isn't it
Speaker 1: crazy how this time last year everything with Blake Griffin.
Speaker 1: I think I actually came on the show this time
Speaker 1: last year when that happened, and I was thinking, like, Wow,
Speaker 1: Detroit could actually, like you, get in the playoffs, they
Speaker 1: could actually do something. And now it's all it's all
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Speaker 1: I'll think the last couple of minutes and talking locally
Speaker 1: for us, where's on the radio now? So let's just
Speaker 1: do our thing right. Uh, let's have all of a
Speaker 1: sudden gotten a little cold here. They've lost three in
Speaker 1: a row, six and four, which is okay in their
Speaker 1: last time, but they have lost three in a row.
Speaker 1: Harris LeVert could be back as soon as next week.
Speaker 1: I think he'll probably come back right after the All
Speaker 1: Star break more than likely, um special June when you
Speaker 1: hopefully will come back at some point. I think we
Speaker 1: all knew that the Nets would um come back down
Speaker 1: to earth a little bit. But what is that ceiling
Speaker 1: this year for them? Area? Well, I think the sling
Speaker 1: is actually I still feel pretty good about them. Um.
Speaker 1: As Frank mentioned before, this is that sort of time
Speaker 1: right before the All Star break where teams are banged up.
Speaker 1: They're just they're really limping into that break. Um. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Spencer Denuities should be back by early March the latest,
Speaker 1: and then Caris LeVert will be back shortly. And I
Speaker 1: just I only think that they're going to get better
Speaker 1: from that, I don't think whatever um sort of chemistry
Speaker 1: they've tapped into is going to be at risk because
Speaker 1: of that. I think the more options for them the better. UM.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be kind of in the lower
Speaker 1: half of the playoff conversation UM in the playoff race.
Speaker 1: But I I still really like what this team is
Speaker 1: doing and and can do, and I feel good about them.
Speaker 1: I think they're ceiling is the five seed in the
Speaker 1: Eastern Conference because the Indiana Pacers are occupying that spot
Speaker 1: right now. But they have kind of fallen apart here
Speaker 1: frankly without Oladipo, so maybe they make a move from
Speaker 1: So they have won their last two and they're gonna
Speaker 1: and you want to note that must have been last week.
Speaker 1: Then it's like every time I looked up at the
Speaker 1: box where they were getting blown. Pacers are seven games
Speaker 1: up with the nets right now a lot. That is
Speaker 1: a lot. That is a lot, Yeah, but actually it's there.
Speaker 1: There was actually be hard for them to stay afloat
Speaker 1: though without I do I do think this, but the
Speaker 1: Pacers were a lot of people have talked to them
Speaker 1: kind of coming back down Oladipo. They're tied of the
Speaker 1: three see they're tied of Boston and Philly right now.
Speaker 1: They I understand they probably cannot keep up with their
Speaker 1: pa that pace, but a lot of credit goes out
Speaker 1: to Indiana what they've been doing this year. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just think that's the ceiling. That's the ceiling for the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets this year. You know, looking at the roster,
Speaker 1: I think Kevin Love could actually make sense there as well.
Speaker 1: I know that they're going to try and be players
Speaker 1: in free agency. They I feel like people have floating
Speaker 1: around Jimmy Butler as a possibility in Brooklyn. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: like they have they have young they have young players
Speaker 1: on the team. The next step is they need stars,
Speaker 1: right and I think, you know, Daniel Russell is kind
Speaker 1: of developing into that. He's not necessarily there yet. He's
Speaker 1: gonna play in his first All Star Game, and rightfully
Speaker 1: so have good pieces. They have Din Witty Jared Allen,
Speaker 1: a rim protector, kind of classic style center. Uh. They
Speaker 1: have Chabad's Napier. They have some depth on the bench.
Speaker 1: And please put some respect on Cares Lavert's name. You know,
Speaker 1: let's not forget what he was doing early on in
Speaker 1: the season. I know it was a small sample size,
Speaker 1: but this is gonna be a big addition once they
Speaker 1: get him back. Remember he was the closer for this team.
Speaker 1: He won them a few games single handedly down the
Speaker 1: stretch where you know, a little some some drives, uh,
Speaker 1: scoring at the last second to win games. He's a
Speaker 1: good two way player as well. And this is a
Speaker 1: team that has frankly has has uh. They've they haven't
Speaker 1: necessarily done it through the draft. I know they drafted LeVert,
Speaker 1: but they've They've made some shrewd smart man to get
Speaker 1: to Angelo Russell, to pick up Dinwitty when he was
Speaker 1: just like laying around on waivers and no one else
Speaker 1: in the NBA wanted himself. Credit to them, have done
Speaker 1: a great job. Kenny Atkinson, I think is a very
Speaker 1: good coach. Their ceiling this year, I think is the
Speaker 1: five seed. I do think that they'll make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I know that they've scuffled. I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna fall out of it. But if they really wanted
Speaker 1: to do a little bit more, maybe they're active at
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. But Laverte coming back is gonna be
Speaker 1: huge for them. I don't I don't think they need
Speaker 1: to be active at the deadline personally, like, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think they're kind of ahead of schedule, their head
Speaker 1: of schedule right now. This is kind of the house,
Speaker 1: kind of like the Atlanta Braves of baseball last year,
Speaker 1: the Yankees the year before that. I very much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the fact that if they if they make you know,
Speaker 1: five six seed or so in the playoffs, that it
Speaker 1: would be huge for them. That'd be amazing. I'm really
Speaker 1: really excited about this Brooklyn team. Yeah. I think Tina
Speaker 1: just plays together. That doesn't have that superstar and the
Speaker 1: question will be can they get it. If I think
Speaker 1: they should get If they could get one free agent
Speaker 1: this summer, they have one person to come there, everything
Speaker 1: everything changes open. I don't know if that will happen.
Speaker 1: You know, I can actually see a guy like Jimmy
Speaker 1: Butler though no fitting in in New York, whether it's
Speaker 1: within Nicks. Wasn't Jimmy Butler going to Brooklyn? Then just
Speaker 1: piss everybody off on that team because you have such
Speaker 1: good camaraderie and such good chemistry on that team. Jimmy Beltok,
Speaker 1: just blow that whole thing up. They don't have anything.
Speaker 1: I just see him going to Brooklyn and just blowing
Speaker 1: it all. Yeah. I mean there's um. Jammy Butler has
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of heat for like the way he's reacted,
Speaker 1: the way that he holds people, you know, accountable. He's
Speaker 1: a fiery dude man, and he's talked about it. I
Speaker 1: know there was an interview either last week or a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago where he was talking about when
Speaker 1: he first came in the league. The reason he is,
Speaker 1: the reason he is this way is because like players
Speaker 1: like Joakim Noah and like that team in like Louil Dank,
Speaker 1: they always see yelled at each other and screaming each
Speaker 1: other and hold people accountable. This is just kind of
Speaker 1: like fitting into the way everything is today where everyone's soft. Unfortunately,