WEBVTT - Draymond Returns To Warriors, The RFA Squeeze & Drafting The Worst NBA Nicknames 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:10.160 Good morning, swirld, and welcome to the No Dunks Podcast, 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:13.800 presented by Fan Duel. It's Wednesday, July twenty ninth, twenty 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:16.880 twenty six. I'm Jay Skeith, back in the Classic Factory 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:18.720 and alongside me as always task. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.720 Milists podcast listeners, this is for you. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.760 Next to him, it's my top shot hot. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.440 Boy, Trey Kirby, he Ao and over Yonder right over 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:29.680 there making the magic happen. Super producer jd Hello, there 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:30.280 he is here. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:30.560 We are. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.880 Hello to everybody joining us on YouTube. Hit the like button, 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:38.600 subscribe podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. On today's show, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.320 we're going to take a look at the remaining free agents. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:43.960 Who's left on the market. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.400 Not a lot of guys, not a lot, not a 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:48.240 lot of guys. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.519 Intel and new sort of rumors around some of the 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.720 restricted freegin guys. We'll get into that. We'll also have 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.840 some fun by drafting the worst NBA nicknames of all time. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.560 We'll do five rounds of I guess crappy nicknames. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.800 There's a lot of bad nicknames. I know a lot 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:07.160 of them. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.960 Yeah there is, But I gotta know, did anything happen 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.440 while I was away in Croatia on vacation. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:19.520 Any big news. You saw the Jani Broom salary dump. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:20.240 Do you see that? 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.880 Yeah, yes, yeah, spot cleared for KCP on the Sixers. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.000 That was their big move. That was six year that's 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.800 all they did. Okay, they made a couple of moves. 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.560 Yeah, that was that was fun to see you guys. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.800 I guess we worked out timing wise for you after 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.240 you did that Friday Drop podcast. Yeah, and what tray 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.440 you said, like twenty twenty five minutes after you had 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:41.600 wrapped up, here comes the Lebron news perfect seventy six ers. Yeah, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:42.240 so you're all. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.080 Here, thanks Lebron. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.679 Yeah, that was nice of them, and it was well 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.400 it was a sham's tweet, it was, but also some 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.480 other tweets exact that they had obviously choreographed. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.400 He hasn't podcasted about it yet, though, has he no 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.160 think upset upset alert? 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.400 Yeah, crazy. That was very fun to find out over 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.040 on the other side of the world. It was weird. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.600 One of those weird things where I'm like get the 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.600 news and I'm like, looking around, is anybody else reacting 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.520 here at the beach club I met they were all 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.880 waiting for nobody cared, I guess nobody was on their phone, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.400 but I was excited to get your coverage, guys, and 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.480 you did a great job. Not really a ton to 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.280 add you guys already went through like how he's gonna 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.639 fit offensively, can they hold up defensively, all the other things. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.839 But I gotta say pumped as an East Coast guy 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:34.359 that on our side for those early start times. I mean, 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.400 that's fun. But man, that was a swerve. It was 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.640 a swarf. As you guys addressed and everybody's addressed, I 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.519 think him going to Philadelphia quite lower on the list 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.000 of the options because like you're like like all the 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.080 other ones felt like, I guess the best way to 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.799 put is like easier options, Like you could go to 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.760 Golden State and just golf with your buddy. Yeah, that'd 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.679 be sort of fun. Get the little Team USA match 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.200 up him and Curry again. You could just go to Miami, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.840 let Yanna and Bam carry the defensive burden and you 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.920 sort of slot in there. You could obviously just go 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.679 back to Cleveland. It'd be like the lowest stakes of 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.600 all time. Really, I mean, it would be like just 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:10.360 the Swan song. 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.359 But said he goes Philly yeah, I mean he will. Obviously, 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.400 he wanted to sign with the Knicks, but the next 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.560 won the championship, so he's like, I'll do the next 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:19.760 best thing. I'll still live in New York and I'll 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.560 help break your curse for a team. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.560 So he's gonna try and do here, uh, And yeah, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.480 I mean it's gonna be fun. Obviously. It makes an 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:30.400 already exciting offseason even more exciting with all the movement 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:34.519 here in Philadelphia now suddenly as like, I guess a contender, Yeah, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.240 I keep forgetting Jill and Brown is on the Philadelphia 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:38.800 Soty six Ers. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:43.080 Yep, I'm sure he loves that. Yeah, it's very, very weird. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.400 So we'll see if Lebron can do what no player's 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.720 ever done before and try and lead a fourth team, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.560 uh to a fourth championship obviously four different franchises, I guess, 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.480 yeah like that. Yeah, that's got to be a part 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.760 of the thinking too, right, I guess as he chased 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:58.800 the ghosts of Michael. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.440 Does that mean anything to you winning now? No, but 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:04.400 it's on different teams. Not to me, really, that means like, oh, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:05.720 you've jumped to a lot of teams. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.800 Yeah, yeah, it doesn't mean much to me either, when 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.480 we're all having this discussion in our chats, has there 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.200 been any guy who's done it with four teams? It's 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.320 not one of those things that just weighs on your 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.360 mind when it comes to sports really or basketball specifically. 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.120 Who's done it? To me? 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.719 As you slipped in there leads a fourth team? I 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.760 think that's important here. He's going to a team where 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.719 he's going to be looked at as a bit of 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.039 a leader instead of going with Steph Curry. Like Draymond 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:34.960 Green just sat on his podcast, I understand why it 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.440 didn't come to Golden State. Didn't want to be a 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 Kevin Durant. I agree with Draymond Green and his podcast 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.360 take and that part of it. And Philly just hasn't won. 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.839 So is he going to be the best player playing 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.000 with Jalen Brown and Tyr's Max and Joelmby debatable, but 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.680 it's at least it's a debate. That's a big part 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:52.960 of it. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.080 I wanted to get your opinion finally before we move 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:56.800 on from Lebron because there's been a lot of that talk. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.640 In his post to X He's said he was like 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.880 grappling with basketball mortality, here at the end of his 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.560 last season, the twenty five to twenty six campaign, and 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.200 he said, I thought I was done when the season ended. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:12.719 Do you buy that at all? 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.280 No? No, okay, I never. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.680 Thought Lebron was retiring last season, literally never. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.119 So he's just straight up lying. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.599 He's I think it's called controlling the narrative when Lebron 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:22.840 does it. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.320 You, Yeah, I don't buy that he thought he was done. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.400 I mean when he stepped off the court, did he think, 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.599 oh man, this could be it, like for a minute, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.560 maybe right, all right, right, depends on how you look 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.800 at it. But as far as the narrative goes, we 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.960 just alluded to it was just four tweets, Like he 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.080 didn't go all out a guy who we think will 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.680 enjoy his last year getting every single ovation in every 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.760 single arena, just four tweets. Well, you know, collabing with 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.000 tops or whatever. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:56.440 He did. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.640 Yeah, I got a brand deal. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.760 Yeah, he sold four hundred thousand cards instantly. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:02.560 Yeah. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.200 I mean he's also making a documentary. Yeah, that was 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.160 not the only time we're gonna hear about Lebron joining 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.599 the Sixers. I don't think that's true. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.159 Well, yes, and yeah, maybe that's why I took twenty 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.400 seven days or whatever. It took a lot of docs 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.679 being shot. Yeah, yeah, footage. 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.479 Well, let's talk about Draymond Green. That was the big 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.039 news from yesterday. Draymond Green has agreed to return to 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.360 the Warriors on a one year, twenty seven point seven 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.520 million dollar deal. So Green turned down is basically identical 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:34.880 player option earlier this summer to help try and land Lebron. However, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.960 after Lebron eventually decided to head to Philly, Draymond and 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:42.080 the Warriors moved forward on the new deal here. But 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.480 I think a lot of people expected maybe he would 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.680 sign a multi year deal. So the eye opening part 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.640 is that it is just a one year deal here 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:50.760 for Draymond Green. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.680 Your reactions to me, this just means it's going to 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.839 be a lot of Golden State this year, saying, Okay, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.120 where do we get our star? Like you said, it's 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.400 a one year option here, So they're gonna be waiting 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.800 until probably next year. They're gonna try throughout this season 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.760 to go get somebody. But it's a lot of rinse 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.560 repeat with this team. That's just what it is. They're 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.240 gonna have options to be able to trade to go 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.320 get a start to help him and Steph. Essentially, they 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.600 do have like a Kristaps Porsing is twenty million dollars contract, 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.360 Here you go Pelicans, Trey Murphy is he available? 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:29.800 Here you go. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.640 Kristaps Porzing is plus draft picks, so they have options. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.280 But really this is what it is. As you said, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.200 one year, So it's him and Steph signed for one year. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.880 They can hope that Jimmy Butler comes back. They can 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.480 hope that Draymond Green helps out Yaxel Londenborg, who's gonna 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.360 be twenty four and look really good in summer league. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.760 So there's that excitement. If Lebron comes and joins him, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.120 this team could be good. But really it's just one 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.040 more year to me and hopefully for them they get 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.560 it during the season rather than next offseason. 0:07:58.680 --> 0:07:59.880 But that's what it is to be. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.480 I mean, they're running back a thirty seven win team 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.320 and they added a twenty four year old rookie. That's 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.800 not exciting if you're a Warriors fan, but it does 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.000 mean you're at least getting the band back together one 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.320 more time. I guess Steve Kerr has two years on 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:17.440 his deal. Steph Curry becomes extension eligible on August twenty ninth. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.720 We'll see what he decides to do. But they do 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.880 have Draymond Stephan Jimmy. He is still there for at 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.400 least another season. But the windows closed for the Warriors. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.200 Like I don't care if they pull off a trade 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.080 for Trey Murphy, that would be awesome. He would be 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.400 a great help to them. That doesn't put them in 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.320 the conference in the conversation in the Western Conference for me, 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.880 the Warriors have missed the playoffs in four of the 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.439 last seven seasons. They've missed it in two of the 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:43.800 last four seasons because they keep having to go into 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.520 the play in. Their last real move to try and 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.680 be a championship contender was Jimmy Butler. Yeah, the team 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.080 looked good, yep, they were winning, and then Steph got 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.400 hurt in the playoffs. That season was over. They come 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.880 back next year. They're twenty five and nineteen. On January nineteenth, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.920 twenty twenty six, Jimmy Butler tears a ACL and that's 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.640 the end of the era for the Warriors, especially if 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.559 they're not going to be chipping in these future picks 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.480 that they obviously could trade if they want to. But 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.880 they're just eyeing a time when Steph Curry is no 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.719 longer going to be a Warrior. They've been doing that 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.120 for basically five seasons, looking ahead to when Steph is 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.360 going to be retired. That means he might play for 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.480 another team. I don't think it's likely, yeah, but it 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.880 definitely is interesting that he's going to be extension eligible. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.280 If he doesn't sign it on August twenty ninth, people 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.760 will start going crazy on the fake trades with this guy. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.320 Oh, I mean they've already started. I mean, the whole 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.080 entire conversation after Lebron has gone to Philly is now 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.280 all eyes on Golden State and what's going on with 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.280 Curry and this idea of like, yeah, they failed him? 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.080 Have they failed him? Have they just been looking too 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.160 far ahead? Did they botch? It feels like the Warriors 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.760 front office did a lot of what I did in Croatia. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:54.200 Just treadwater, Just treadwater and the Adriatic Sea. Baby, you know, 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.760 Salty's buoyant helps you there. But that's like what they're 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.240 doing here, and it's sort of it's sad if you're 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.600 a Curry fan of the Warriors fan going this guy 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.880 still was at an elite level, maybe even still is 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.400 of course, and what have they done. They just seem 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.160 to strike out, miss out on every big name that's 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.640 possibly on the market, from like your lowry marketings to 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:18.079 your Giannises to obviously now even Lebron. But they're three 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.800 highest paid players, Curry, Jimmy and Draymond. They could all 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.920 enter free agency in twenty twenty seven, and then their 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.679 fourth highest player, Porzingis, that deals only guaranteed for three 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.560 million in twenty seven twenty eight, so there could be 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.920 a super hard reset here. But then they do other moves, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.800 like even the Porzingis and the Horford of it all, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.520 it's like, well, what are you doing? You're not really 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.840 picking the lane and you're sort of just again treading 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:43.079 water is a way to put it. Yeah, so I frustrating. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.800 It is odd to see Porzingis signed again when he 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:50.560 wasn't successful there, but he becomes one of those tradable 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.960 contracts at twenty million. It's a nice number if you 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.959 want to try and push forward with something around Steph Curry. 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.160 But yeah, you can go into next free agency with 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.160 all those guys coming off the books essentially and try 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.040 and get somebody. So yeah, August twenty ninth will be 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.760 interesting if he resigns. It'll also be interesting to see 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.040 how much he plays this season, Like does he go 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.920 all out and play eighty games, you know, seventy five 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.800 games whatever it is after only playing forty three games last. 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:20.640 Year, because he's really really good. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.920 As our man Marcus Thompson pointed out on the Athletic 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.640 when Steph talked to him, after having limited number of 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.520 games that he plays, his next season is really really 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.120 good and so. 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:31.720 He only played half the year last year. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.199 It'll be interesting to see if he's kind of slows 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.280 play it, slow plays it, and then we can see 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.600 what Jimmy Butler looks like in January February when he 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:40.080 comes back. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.800 That's the issue too of their like whatever top seven 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.520 guys are like not going to be playing for a 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.480 majority of the season, and Jimmy Butler in moody, Yeah, it's. 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.280 Like Jimmy's really old, so how's he going to bounce back? 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.800 Like their top six paid players are all thirty five 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.520 in the year, it's not a surprise when these guys 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.719 miss fifteen to twenty games at a time. So I 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.800 get the Warriors a lot of credit for actually going 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.719 for Jimmy Butler. That was the one time they were 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.760 able to actually get the guy they were going after. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.160 But they've struck out on Jalen Brown, Lebron Giannis Ad. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.160 They could have won after Kawhi if they wanted this summer, 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.280 siakam Og, Paul George Lowry, Markinin they got Jimmy Butler. 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.719 He's old and he got hurt within a year of 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.959 them trading for him. So that's what happens when you 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:24.560 stack with older players. And the unfortunate way with the 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.640 way that the NBA salary cap works is like Curry 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.000 is just getting more and more expensive. He's still a 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.840 great player. He's not an MVP candidate right now. He's 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.640 not like a top five player, but he's going to 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.800 be paid like a top three player when it all 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.720 comes said and done. So you go and look at 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.360 the guys who ended up being lifers. Recently, Kobe's last 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.120 season on the Lakers, they won seventeen games. Dirk's last 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.760 season on the MAVs, they won thirty three games. When 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.360 you get to that stage, when you're that highly paid 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.800 but you're not quite at the level you were, it 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.640 becomes impossible to build a real team around you. So 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.439 if Steph Curry goes and signs like a sixty five 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.200 million dollar extension, it's just going to be a tribute 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.600 act until the end. And you know what, that's fine. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.080 I'd rather see Steph Curry win thirty eight games for 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.599 the Warriors than when forty five games playing for the 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:09.679 Charlotte Hornets next year. 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.680 Yeah, it's unlikely that they're able to support him with 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.400 a second player, but they do have the options. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.319 Now, they have the options this summer. That's the thing 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.679 with the Warriors. They always have the options. They can 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.000 go after the same guy. So not only are they 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.000 running back at thirty seven win team, they're running back 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:26.560 Oh we're going to trade for the next big star 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:27.559 as well, do it? 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:33.200 Yeah yeah, yeah, those guys that you mentioned. Yeah, it'll 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.200 all comes down to which guy are you giving up 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:38.240 and the draft picks and so yeah, we can get 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:41.600 into it. Jalen Brown was apparently available according to ESPN 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.720 that they were able to offer a trade for in February. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.559 That was a rumor. So, yeah, there's lots of lots 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:51.400 of options here. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.520 They said at the draft too, and the Warriors basically 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:56.320 said four first rounders. That's too much for us. And 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:58.520 the Sixers said, not for us, And they got Jaylen 0:13:58.520 --> 0:13:59.559 Brown and Lebron. 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.400 And that's the big one. If you had gotten Jail 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:04.040 Brown to. 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.640 And Paul George two draft picks in Paul George. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.400 These numbers that were there thrown out, Oh, the Golden 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:12.840 State Wars could have given up before. Yeah, if they 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.440 could have these are all just rumors, that's all I mean. Yeah, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.000 they could have given up four picks. It only took 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.760 two in Paul George for Philadelphia. I mean, it's it's 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.560 just these these lookers all they are all just rumors. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.680 Again, Okay, but you don't think it's worth it for 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.960 four first round picks and Jimmy Butler contract to get 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:31.760 Jalen Brown. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.560 It's yeah, it's a lot. The Sixers didn't even do it, 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.560 you know what I mean. It's like that makes more 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.560 sense if it is two picks, two draft picks and 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.360 Paul George. Anyway, all I'm saying is that it's all 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.320 just these rumored numbers and all that. So I do 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.800 think they do have the flexibility. Yeah, we are here 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.120 again with the Golden State Wars. 0:14:54.160 --> 0:15:01.160 There's no doubt flexibility optionality is oh yeah, and they 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.920 all they did this year was bringing in a twenty 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:03.760 four year old rookie. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.720 That's it with their optionality. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.320 Yeah, maybe that's not a good yeah me and look 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.240 and then I mean not that we need to regurgitate it, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.880 but it's like all the picks they've had over these 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.440 last couple of seasons, like I'm going back now, they 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.600 struck out on a couple of them. And maybe it's 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.760 different if it's not James Wiseman or even Kaminga and 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.160 you know they nail one two of those, it's different 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:27.240 because now there's young players that you either grow up 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.280 alongside you're still court or you trade those guys and 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:31.560 stuff like that, so or. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:32.320 You can trade your court. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.800 Literally, Draymond Green's contract is tradable, and it's always been 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.520 as a rumor to be tradeable. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.160 Doesn't he make the exact same amount of money as 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:42.080 a Trey Murphy? 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.800 It's similar? Yeah? 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.720 Yeah, all right, let's go to the best free agents 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.640 available here and the latest intel. Because Lebron made the 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.360 NBA's most intriguing off season decision when he signed with 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.280 the Sixers last Friday, the free agency still marches on. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.280 Maybe you know, other dominoes start to fall here. I 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.760 guess Draymond Green did yesterday because we sort of I 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.600 don't know, is a large batch. Probably that's a bit 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.240 of a stretch. Some intriguing players still remain available. We 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.960 got restricted free agents caught in some contentious contract standoffs. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.360 We got former superstars that are like just trying to 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.280 extend their careers here. And we got some proven role 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.240 players that could maybe help a team. So let's go 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.200 through some here, ranking them. I guess you know the 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.400 most impressive name still available. It's jail And Durant, restricted 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.360 free agent with the Pistons. We've talked about this now 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.280 here for weeks, but during the regular season, this guy 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.920 was pretty impressive, looked like one of the best bigs 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.080 in the league, especially considering his age. He earned an 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.320 All NBA selection that made him eligible for a rookie 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.400 Max extension. And then the postseason happened and his scoring 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.880 drop from like twenty points per game to ten. His 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:55.600 field goal percentage plummeted, his turnover rates skyrocketed, his rebounding 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:58.200 rate dropped. I mean, he was and this was against 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.840 what Wendell Carter Junior, and then the Calves so it 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.880 was bad for him. You lost a lot of money. Now, 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.560 Jake Fisher spoke to two gms this week who were 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.520 of the impression that Duran's widely anticipated return to Detroit 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.520 might not get finalized until closer to the start of 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.520 training camp. So this could go on a while here, 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.480 and mark Stein said, league sources tell him Durhan is 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.959 waging the unappealing prospect of playing out the twenty six 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.400 to twenty seven season on a qualifying offer. You're seeing 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.480 a lot of that now, Duran, maybe Peyton Watson, this 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.600 idea of just hell of a gamble. It would be, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.320 you know, especially if you got injured, just taking the 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.160 minimal money here, not locking up a big term contract 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.840 to then test unrestricted freegency. But what do you think here, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.400 tasks Jillen Duran as number one on our list. 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.080 I don't think either of those guys you mentioned, Duran 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.240 or Watson ends up taking just a qualifying offer for 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.080 next season. I think they end up saying signing a 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.520 long term deal. Although restricted free agency ain't all that appealing, 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.240 it's the least sexiest term that we throw out there 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.760 in July and August September, as you said, because it lingers. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.800 It ain't sexy anymore under this new CBA. I think 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.840 Jayallenduran ends up signing with the Trick because there ain't 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.040 no other options for somebody who's going to sign him 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.600 anywhere close to the dollars that he wants. 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.960 Yeah, it's all. It's all a figure. Does he get 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:17.520 up to two. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:22.640 Hundred for five years? Seemingly it's gonna gonna get way 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:23.840 lower than that, right. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.359 That's what I would of course, I believe his camp 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:31.040 wants that forty plus million dollar annual average, and I'm 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.560 sounds like the Pistons tray one closer to the thirty 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.119 the thirty two maybe sort of range here, and this 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.240 is the difference. Pretty big gap, honestly. 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.600