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Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to what you need to know for

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Speaker 1: March twenty six. Welcome to everybody who is joining me live.

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Speaker 1: I'm learning so many things from you just reading the comments.

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Speaker 1: Commodity coffee is what the cool kids are calling coffee

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Speaker 1: these days. While I'm learning so much from you. All Right,

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Speaker 1: besides that, I'm going to do something a little different

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Speaker 1: here and grade the moves that weren't made at the

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Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline for Kyle Lowry, Lonzo Ball, and John Collins.

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Speaker 1: The busiest NBA trade deadline in history is in the books.

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Speaker 1: It felt like it could be a bit of a dud.

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Speaker 1: The morning of. Things were sleepy early on, no movement,

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Speaker 1: But then the trades start coming in. Seventeen trades on

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Speaker 1: the day. Now everyone is evaluating those, But what about

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Speaker 1: the trades that didn't happen? I want to grade those ones.

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Speaker 1: How can I grade a non trade? How can I

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Speaker 1: possibly know who is offered by either side? Well? I don't,

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Speaker 1: but that has never stopped a talking head before, and

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Speaker 1: I've got some knowledge in the old brain. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's get to it. You guys, comment, chime in, let

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Speaker 1: me know what you're thinking. Let's take Kyle Lowry. For instance,

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Speaker 1: the Sixers, Heat and Clippers made other guard moves instead

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Speaker 1: of grabbing thirty five year old champ Kyle, who will

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Speaker 1: be a free agent this offseason. The Sixers got George Hill,

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Speaker 1: the Clippers got Rajon Rondo. Miami got Victor Oladipo, none

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Speaker 1: as good as Kyle Lowry. Now it's about fit. The

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Speaker 1: initial reaction from you guys out there might be that

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Speaker 1: Oladepo is scoring this year in Houston, averaging over twenty

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Speaker 1: per game, but he's not shooting that well thirty two

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Speaker 1: percent from three, and he isn't the same Victor Oladipo.

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Speaker 1: Lowry would be a better fit and take the back

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Speaker 1: seat to Tyler Hero handling or Jimmy Butler doing his thing.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Miami got to the finals because the piece

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Speaker 1: is fit, and although Oladipo wants to be in Miami,

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Speaker 1: he's not the same fit as Lowry. But the Heat

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Speaker 1: didn't offer what Raptors GM Massai Ujeri wanted. If the

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Speaker 1: package was highlighted by shooter Duncan Robinson, he'll also be

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Speaker 1: a free agent this offseason. Ugerie wanted a younger, cost

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Speaker 1: controlled player, but Ugeri didn't have control doesn't have control

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Speaker 1: over Lowry this offseason either. So what's the grade here?

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Speaker 1: Because Lowry's going to be in demand this offseason along

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Speaker 1: with guys like Dennis Shruter and Lonzo Ball. But the

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Speaker 1: Raptors get a B plus. Yes, this talking head understands

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Speaker 1: the Raptors runner risk that he could go to somewhere

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Speaker 1: like Miami. In the offseason. Miami retained their salary cap

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Speaker 1: space by trading for Oladipo, who expires this offseason just

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Speaker 1: like Kyle. But there's plenty of goodwill between Lowry and

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Speaker 1: the Raps organization. A sign and trade could happen, although

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Speaker 1: it's rare, or they sign him back and they do

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Speaker 1: this all over again in February. I guess I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: a thirty five year old plus eleven months Lowry will

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Speaker 1: still have plenty of trade value come February that Caboose

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Speaker 1: just does an age and if he leaves. The downside

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Speaker 1: is they missed out on someone like Duncan Robinson. Although

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Speaker 1: Robinson's a very solid player, the Raptors just aren't close

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Speaker 1: enough to a championship to value everything Robinson does. Ujerie

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Speaker 1: was holding up for somebody who could change the trajectory

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Speaker 1: of the franchise a little bit more like Tyler Hero.

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Speaker 1: The same can probably be said of Lonzo Ball with

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Speaker 1: the Pelicans. The Pelicans held on to the soon to

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Speaker 1: be free agent, but Ball will be in high demand

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Speaker 1: this offseason. The Knicks didn't go hard at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: They're waiting to push their chips in this offseason. That's

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Speaker 1: what makes me grade this a C for New Orleans.

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Speaker 1: Ball is having a career year, but isn't playing with

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Speaker 1: the ball handling responsibilities. He'd like Imo with Eric Bledsoe

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Speaker 1: and Zion Williamson handling the rock man, I sound like

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Speaker 1: LeVar Ball. Uh oh, too much talking head over here,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to little nuts. I'm talking like LeVar. But

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Speaker 1: Ball will be a restricted free agent, so the Pelicans

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Speaker 1: can match any offer he gets in free agency, say

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Speaker 1: from the Knicks. Okay, so you know that's that's something

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Speaker 1: the Pels have in their court. If New York offers

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Speaker 1: Ball the Max Pelicans just match him, bring him back,

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Speaker 1: no questions asked. But I don't think they do that,

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Speaker 1: considering their obligations to brandon Ingram Steven Adams and future

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Speaker 1: MAX obligations to Zion Williamson. Ball is twenty three. His

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Speaker 1: point guard competition in this year's marketplace will likely be

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Speaker 1: Dennis Shrewder and Lowry. He'll get paid a lot, and

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Speaker 1: unlike the connection Lowry has with Toronto, Ball, doesn't have

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Speaker 1: that in New Orleans. I say he lands in New York,

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Speaker 1: where he'll get a huge market, more spotlight to rival

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Speaker 1: Lamello Ball, and he'll be on the opposite coast of

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Speaker 1: Papa Ball. He'll show dead that he's his own man

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Speaker 1: us boys, we all have our daddy issues, don't we. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the Hawks John Collins, where I presume

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Speaker 1: to know what he'll do in the offseason. I'm giving

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Speaker 1: this non move in a I think he sticks around

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta this offseason. I'm working off some recency bias here.

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Speaker 1: He recently said on a postgame Zoom press conference that

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Speaker 1: he wants to stay, doesn't want a max contract like

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Speaker 1: he wanted before. He already rejected a ninety million dollar

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Speaker 1: contract extension in January twenty twenty from the Atlanta Hawks.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the pandemic can change it. Man. Change

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Speaker 1: has changed a lot of things. So why am I

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Speaker 1: buying what a player says in a Zoom presser why

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Speaker 1: will he accept less money to say in Atlanta? Well,

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Speaker 1: it could change from John collinside. It also could change

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Speaker 1: from the front office side. The Hawks could sign him

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Speaker 1: to a MAX deal this offseason when he's a restricted

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Speaker 1: free agent, then they can trade him later on. They

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Speaker 1: got off some future money by trading Rondo at the deadline.

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Speaker 1: The coaching change in Atlanta may have affected Collin's future outlook,

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Speaker 1: but it all comes down to the dollars. And even

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Speaker 1: though they likely paid Tray Young max dollars in the future,

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Speaker 1: they don't have money tied up like the Pelicans do.

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Speaker 1: I think John Collins could come back on some sort

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Speaker 1: of contract and the Hawks at some point can say, listen,

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Speaker 1: even if we signed you to a max or close

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Speaker 1: to a max, we can trade you later on. I

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Speaker 1: think both sides will come to an agreement and the

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Speaker 1: Hawks get an A for not moving on John Collins.

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Speaker 1: Smart move, smart move there. So went through a few

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Speaker 1: grades there. Everybody evaluating all the trades that have happened,

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Speaker 1: including us on No Dunks yesterday and later on today.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check out a full No Dunks episode

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