WEBVTT - The NBA Draft Lottery & Deandre Ayton Rumors 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:00.520 That. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.840 So my Super Bowl was Tuesday. Me as a Portland 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.280 Trailblazer fan the NBA lottery, It's been a long time 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:21.040 since I've paid attention that close quickly. This is another 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:22.919 side road. Is it just me? Or would we rather 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:24.919 see the ping pong balls come out? Because I know 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.200 I would. Like, there's just something about like an Oscar 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.280 style and the winner of the fifth pick goes to 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:34.760 the Orlando matt Like. I don't like that. There just 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:39.000 feels something very sus about that, And I've looked into it. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.200 It seems like they've got a whole team of accountants 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.559 and lawyers and media members ensuring that this thing is legit. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.960 But at the end of the day, I need to 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.479 see the ping pong balls myself, and I need to 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.440 feel the weight of them in my hands to know 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.480 that there's not one that's heavier than the other. Transparency, Accountability, 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:02.840 Where is it, folks? Where is it? Anyway? So, my 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:07.800 team Portland, we were the sixth worst, sixth worst team 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.399 this year, and boy did we try hard for worse. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:17.680 Like we said everyone, we couldn't even play Josh Hart, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.720 we couldn't play Eric Bledsoe. Like the amount of fake 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.720 injuries that we made up for these guys to not play. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:32.600 Like at one point, what's that kid's name, Keljin Blevins, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.679 He couldn't even play Blevins, the guy that I thought 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.679 was a fake name. We had to sit him because 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.200 it was we were winning games we weren't supposed to 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:49.080 be winning. It literally was like four time Ten Day 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.720 All Star. Drew was his name, Drew U Banks, Drew 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.120 U Banks, and like, of course Anthony Simons wasn't Blak. 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.320 Of course Dame wasn't playing. Of course NRK wasn't playing. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.800 But I'm talking about like guys I've never heard before 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.560 had to be benched for us to get to a 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.360 place where we could maybe get in the top four 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.600 and maybe hopefully this is a bridgeier for us and 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.280 we can get back to some level of not prominence, 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:20.560 but like whatever, middle of the road, and it's you know, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.560 like we're bad right now. And then of course the 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.120 Pelicans pick didn't convey to us. It ended up going 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.040 to Charlotte. And then of course the LA pick that 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.200 we could have maybe made a back door for that 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.080 went to the Pelicans didn't go to us either. So 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.919 one pick we had a thirty nine percent chance of 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:42.200 getting in the top four, almost forty percent chance almost 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.200 half almost to pick them to get in the top four. 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.560 And I had all the excitement of a little kid 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.120 on Christmas. Tuesday came and when they don't do the 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.160 ping pong thing, that goes by fast, because they did 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.920 a pregame of the Miami Heat Game one series, and 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.959 I'm like, yo, that took seven minutes, Like what was that? 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.080 So that took all the air out of my balloon? 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:07.120 As well. I wanted Paolo, as everyone knows, like very 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.959 very badly. I want Paolo. I've had visions of him 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.840 and Dame, I've seen him up close. He's like Bigfoot. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.400 He's so big, so strong, so athletic, so his hops 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.240 so high. And to my disheartenment, did we get the 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.919 first pick? No? Did we get the second pick? No? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.639 Third pick? This is where it starts like getting interested. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.960 No fourth pick? Could we just get four? Maybe we 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.119 just trade up once? 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:39.080 No, we get the seventh pick seven, And you might say, Trista, 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.080 Steph Curry went seven, Like it's not I don't know 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:43.800 that we're getting that. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.560 I don't know that we're getting Steph Curry, babe. So 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.360 all that resting of guys, all that fee, all of 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.080 that shame for a pick that might not even help 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.800 Dame one bit. So let's recap. I think Brock needs 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:02.960 to take notes on where I cussed, because we have 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:07.400 to cut these things into segments. Amazing. I literally watch 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.800 him ride them down at Curry at five twenty. He 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:13.920 has to do it again every time. I do it, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.400 all right, So let's recap where everyone finished and who 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.040 had the best luck, who had the worst luck. Number 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.120 one Orlando Magic. They get the number one pick for 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.720 the first time, or for the first time in like 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.800 four years. I mean, they just keep getting the first pick. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.280 Okse gets two. The odds of them getting two were 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.440 like ridiculously low. I think that they should have gotten 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.400 like the eighth pick something like that was their highest likelihood. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:46.000 Houston Rockets get the third pick, Sacramento gets the fourth pick. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:55.120 Detroit five Pacers, six Blazers, seven Pelicans, eight Spurs, nine Wizards, 0:04:55.240 --> 0:05:01.600 ten Nicks, eleven, Thunder Again twelve, Charlotte Hornet's thirteen, which 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.120 should have been our pick by the way. It was, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.280 by the way, that was supposed to be ours in 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.760 the fourteen. I think they might have to never mind. 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.480 I think they got the fifteen from Pelicans carry on 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.680 and the Cleveland Cavaliers at fourteen. That's got mad there, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:21.039 all right. So to me, the low key biggest winner's 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.520 gotta be one. Okay, See, they're gonna get somebody that's 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.240 gonna change the franchise again. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.880 After they got after they got I tried to fix 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:35.160 it after they got over last year when they ended 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.200 up taking Josh Giddy at six, which ended up being 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:37.920 a very good pick. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.840 But I think they thought they would be one, two 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:43.000 or three. I think they thought they might get Evan Mobley, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:48.200 which could have helped them tremendously. Then you get the Pelicans. Uh, 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.799 they end up getting a good pick. They by getting 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.000 the Lakers pick in the ad trade, which I think 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.279 was gonna go to them outside of the top four 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:03.680 something like that. Sacramento, they get incredible luck, even though 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.440 we know that they're just gonna mess it up. We 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.280 know that, like they had the fifth worst record, they 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.920 get the number four pick, even on they had only 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.960 a thirty percent chance of getting the top four. We 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.599 had a forty percent chance. They had a thirty percent chance. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.200 Teams that got screwed of course me of course, Blazers 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.760 number one pretty much the only one that I can 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.120 that I can make note of. Uh No. But truthfully, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.400 Detroit also they had the number, they had the first 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.440 best odds for a top four spot and they get five, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.720 So that's screwed. Wizards get the tenth spot. You see 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:41.360 Wes on sale looking just furious. He's just so mad stoic, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:49.039 but like agitated. It would be, it would be kind 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.240 of the way to describe it. So yeah, I would 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.599 say that that's kind of like where the cookie crumbles. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:07:01.599 You've got Portland, Detroit, and Washington getting screwed. Best best pickups, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.960 best lottery luck, OKC, Sacramento and Pelicans. I did a quick, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.600 little early impression mock, which will speed through because I've 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.800 done a little mokin up to my pick one through 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.880 seven mockin early impressions. I think Orlando takes Chet. It 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.400 makes the most sense for them. I think he fits 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.200 more with them than somebody like Jabari Smith does for 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.360 a variety of different reasons. I think him and Franz 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.040 Wagner would work very well together. I'm not necessarily sure 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.800 how they would want to use Jabbari versus how they 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.360 want to use somebody like Chet. They need a center. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.280 They don't have very good centers. They're off on Mobamba, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.440 They're off on Jonathan Isaac. I think Chet plays more 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.000 versatile role with the roster that they currently have, and 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.520 I do know that he's not slated to be the 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.000 number one overall consensus pick. I think Jabari is. I 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.480 think Jabari is minus one ten. I think Chet is 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.440 plus one forty. So I think that's the first upset 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.040 to me, feels like an upset. I think okay See 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.560 takes Jabari. Presty says he wants this team to have 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.560 the ability to create a new defensive identity that pushes 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.840 them to be more physical in the future. To accomplish this, 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.760 That to me sounds like if Chet is taken, they're 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.600 gonna go for a pesky perimeter defender to pair with 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:17.560 lou Dort. We know Shay Gil just Alexander doesn't like 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.080 to play a lot of defense, so they gotta get 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.680 another guy on the perimeter to do so. Gonna be 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.400 a toss up, But I like Jabari. If he's gonna 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.440 be available, Houston, I think they trade back. I don't 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.640 think they take that pick. I don't think they want 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.480 Paolo even though I would I would take Powlo in 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.160 an instant, and maybe, just maybe they'd be interested in 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.640 trading with Portland for the third pick. I don't know. 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.040 Like they are a team that is constantly rebuilding. They're 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.680 a team that's just like I think. Random scouts have 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.040 come on the record recently and say that Houston might 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.719 be the worst place to be drafted by an organization 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.640 if you're a new pick, because they're just a dumpster fire. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.560 They have no organizational credibility. They're again a team that 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.600 is not built very effectively, and they are a bunch 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:01.560 of young gunnahs that are fun but probably aren't gonna 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.000 win a lot of games anytime soon. Maybe I'm wrong. 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.040 I hope I'm wrong because they're fun. But doesn't that 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.960 sound perfect for Anfrety Simons? Like? To me, that sounds 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.400 exactly like what Anfrey Simons? Who cares you have two 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.679 other anforty Simons and Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Junior. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.559 I don't care. That sounds like a fun little experiment 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.000 to me. Sacramento kinks, doesn't it seem like to you 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.160 for the fourth time in five years, they'll take another 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.200 guard Like, let's try it again. Why not. We know 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.240 that Davion may or may not have worked out. We 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.600 know we took Tyree Salibert and we traded him for Demonis. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.000 But like, let's do the Jade and Ivy thing. Let's 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.360 do that. Who knows, Like I know that Jade and 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.400 Ivy's perfect? How do I know he's perfect for Sacramento One. 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.679 He folds up in big time moments, and he's never 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.079 gonna receive big time moments in the future because he's 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.080 gonna be playing for Sacramento. You're never gonna need to 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.280 have any of the expectations that you will need going 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.760 to a place like I don't know Indiana. Indiana's gonna 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.920 want you to be the next Malcolm Brogden. And Malcolm Brogden, sir, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.719 you are not God. I hope. I don't regret saying that. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:09.199 Detroit team very fun, very long, very Rangeye. Troy Weaver 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:13.720 is a good evaluator of talent. I think he's gonna 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.480 do what the Toronto Raptors did and surprise some people 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.000 with the fifth pick. Even before the ping Pong Bass 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.440 came out, he said, listen, I'm happy with five. If 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.920 I get five, there's there's not a three team. There's 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.120 not a three person draft for me. There's a lot 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.080 of value out there that I like, And you're like 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.040 that kind of scares me, Like what do you know 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.319 that I don't know? He said, I don't see it 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.400 as a big three. I think that there are tremendous 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.680 players all along the board. We're gonna pick the best 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.959 player for us, and I think that he's gonna come 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.360 and work out for us. I don't see a scenario 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.000 where we don't get the guy we want. What kind 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.360 of what kind of kahonees is that you got the 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.800 fifth pick and you don't see any scenario. Who are 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.559 they gonna get? Maybe Shade and Sharp feels like that's 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:57.880 a possibility. There's reports that they might go after keiging Murray, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:59.719 but I don't see why they would do that other 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.599 than the fact that he's quote unquote NBA ready. He 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:07.240 doesn't feel he doesn't feel like a pick for Detroit. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.640 But my pick for chaos because I don't even know 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.719 what Indiana would do if Kigan Murriy's not there. My 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:18.000 pick for Chaos is them taking Keigan Marie quickly. Indiana 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.199 must move their pick if Keegan is not there because 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:24.199 there's no shot in hell that I looked at the 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.360 notepad again to make sure that it's okay. I think 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.120 that one's okay. If Keegan's not there, there's no way 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.040 they take Shaden Sharp. Like is Shaden Sharp like a 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.240 kid who wouldn't even play one year at Kentucky decided 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.760 to do one and done without doing the one and 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.360 like he's gonna go into the draft after just sitting 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.680 on the bench for coach cal Do you see him 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.440 being an Indiana pacer one of the most conservative, like 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.840 low paying franchises with a guy running the company, like 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:57.520 owning the franchise. It's like ninety No, Shady Sharp is 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.200 not an Indiana Pacer. If they were to take him, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.079 I mean, didn't it make perfect sense when they went 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:07.239 out and got Chris d'Arte, a high predigree, older, immediate impact, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:13.000 light skinned Indiana Man, they've got a type. I ain't 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.720 got no type they do, though they do Portland. This 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:22.360 is where it gets interesting for me. I've come to terms. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.200 I've come to Jesus with who I think we will take. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.239 I think we're gonna take Benedict Matherrin from Arizona. Benedict 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.439 Mathern is six to six. Benedict Matherne can score at 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.120 all different levels. He can defend, He's got a pretty 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:44.760 long wingspan. He can immediately contribute. John Hollinger has Benedict 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:48.240 Mathern as the number five best player in the draft. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.160 I think he's a sleeper. I loved him when he 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.600 played at Arizona. He pops off the screen. He's a 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.400 very hard working guy who shows up in huge. If 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.880 Sacramento was smart, they would take Benedict Matherin at four. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.880 Would they would trade back and they would take him 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.680 at four. But they're not smart, so we know we 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.199 won't do that. Another side pick would be if he's 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.520 available as Shaden Sharp. That feels like another Anthony Simon's 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:19.800 long score different levels. He can actually play defense, unlike Anthrony. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.960 I'd be interested to see what he would look like 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.280 with Dame. He's pretty big. I think he's sixty six 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.440 to sixty seven as well, or possibly Johnny Davis at 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:30.959 a Wisconsin Johnny Davis. He's a guy who can get 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.280 it in the mid range. He's not a He's not 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.360 like a Brandon Roy, but he kind of moves like 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.880 Brandon Roy, like like molasses, but like just shifty enough 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.000 where he gets open. I like him. He's a high 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.079 IQ player. He can defend like he's known for his defense. 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.880 You see where I'm going with this. Blazers get somebody 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.320 who can guard more than a part car police. Gonna 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.560 be very very interesting to see what happens at the 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.200 combine in the pre draft process. As we know, nothing 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.840 is set and like the NFL draft was, it's completely 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.760 wide open. Oh, let's move forward really quickly and talk 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.760 about this recent tea on my man DeAndre Jordan. No, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.640 he hasn't been relevant since twenty twelve. Let's talk about 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.640 the recent tea on my man DeAndre Ayton DA Right now, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.079 most people who love hoops know that there was some 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.600 kind of scuffle or to do going on in Game 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.560 seven of The Sun's mav series right between Monny Williams 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.360 and Ayton. Skip Bayless, like I said in last episode, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.960 reported that Lil Wayne crazy that he and Lil Wayne 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.680 are actually friends. Were they text Like there's a world 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:37.640 Skip Bayless and Lil Wayne are friends. Just think about 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.880 that for a second really quick. Anyway, according to sources 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:46.000 named Little Wayne who was at the game, he told 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.240 him that he watched court side what happened between Mani 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.240 and Ayton, and Ayton was like, I'm not going back in, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.680 and then Manni yelled at him, you're quitting on us, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.880 you quit on our team, and the two were screaming 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.080 at each other and had to be broken up. Trouble 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:06.160 in Paradise, babe. Uh yikes. Yike's ugly outcome from an 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.600 ugly game. And for sure we know that Ayton didn't 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.080 play at all in the close out game, really getting 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.520 under twenty minutes. Full disclosure because I'm about to give 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.080 my bias here. I've had my Twitter bio for a 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.280 long time. I recently took it out. DeAndre Ayton deserves 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.880 to be maxed out. I am very clear. I've never 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:28.680 done that for a player before. DeAndre Ayton deserves all 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:33.440 the money. He is so underrated. I am an Aighton fan. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.320 I think he's top five best center in the league. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:40.200 I think he's being used completely out of out of 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.640 the realm of reason, and it's probably the best thing 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.560 that could have ever happened to DeAndre Ayton fans, because 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.360 maybe you can get him in a way that you 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.520 never were going to be able to. Number One overall pick. 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.680 He's been a phenace since he's been fifteen years old. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.240 I've watched him play up close when he was fifteen, sixteen, 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.520 seventeen years old, and the Sons have just used him 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.640 like some scrub role player, like you're not Clint. He's 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.640 not Clint Capella. Okay, Like DeAndre Ayden can pay play 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.800 face up to the basket, he can tween tween, he 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.720 can put the ball on the floor, he can shoot 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.160 mid range, he can shoot the three, he can go up, 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.840 up and under. DeAndre Ayton has moves, he can spin. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.720 He's not Embid, so I'm not gonna say he's Embid, 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:22.480 but he can do a lot of the things that 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:25.080 Mbid can do. He's not as big as Embid, dominant 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.040 as Embiid, but he's got really good footwork. He's a 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.760 hard worker and when he thinks you believe in him, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.680 as we a lot a lot as a society feel like, 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.720 if we feel you have our back and you believe 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.120 in us, we're gonna work so much harder. Right, And 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.360 as soon as the Suns didn't max him out, he 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.400 was basically like, I mean, you'll get me in the 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.360 good times and not in the bad times, and that's fair. 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.920 And like they've used him as a rim roller, as 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.520 a guy who sets screens and gets Devin Booker and 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.680 Chris Paul open. He maybe gets a random lob here 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.520 or there. If it gets thirty, it's because it happened 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.880 by happenstance, not by design. He gets put backs and rebounds. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:06.520 He's just like a solid, solid role player who could be, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:11.239 in my opinion, a star. Shack decided he wanted to 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.879 weigh in on the eight and stuff, So let's quickly 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.600 talk about that if that's still allowed. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.920 And that's all he would say. Shed no more light 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.280 on on why DeAndre Eaton played so little. Yeah, I'm 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.679 in game seven if I'm a sorver. The kid did 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.960 it the respectful way. Me, I'm different. Oh you're not 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.600 gonna pay me, all right, I don't worry about it. 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.200 He didn't complain, He made one statement about it, and 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.720 he played and he played his tail off, played like 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.960 a true big man. Get a kid what he wants. 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.960 You got other people talking about signing four for two seventy. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.600 They don't deserve it. Get his kid what he wants. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.640 He had a great year. Just one of those nights 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.280 to night. Phoenix had a great year, just one of 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.119 those nights tonight. This is a classy organization, it's a 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.720 classy team. Can't say bad things about him. They played hard. 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.800 It's just listen again. Even great players have one of 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.280 those nights. I've been in twenty years. I probably at 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.080 fifteen where just it just couldn't go fifteen what fifteen? 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.080 Fifteen times where you know it just wasn't going. Oh 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.640 you had word board, yeah boy, fifteen, Well I still 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.720 got four round. You played bad boy in fifteen times? 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.440 You're talking about yes dot Com No, no, no, no, 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.640 all that stuff. Don't tell me that you have enough. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.719 You have a fifteen bad games and in twenty years, yes, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.359 fifteen bad games. Oh yeah, okay, that's not that that. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:30.959 I don't give a man what he wants, give him 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.080 what he wants. So I decided I would go through. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.520 And so this is no shade the people who are 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:38.280 currently getting paid. I just want to say that for 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.280 everyone currently getting paid, you are getting paid what you deserve. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.600 You got what you got, your agents did their job, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.000 and you accepted it. But I decided to go through 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.080 the top forty salaries and ask myself, would I rather 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.560 have this player for this money or DeAndre Eyton right now, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.560 and it will surprise you. I would rather have eight 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.480 and over half of the top max guy's crowing playing 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.080 in the NBA right now. Steph Curry of obviously no, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.080 James Harden yes, John Wall yes, Russell Westbrook yes, Kevin 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:16.640 Durant no, Lebron, no Jannis, no Lillard maybe Age Durability 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:23.240 ball dominates. Kawhi Leonard No, Paul George Maybe maybe he 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.320 gets hurt a lot too. He's not always available and 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:30.840 his mind's not always available. Klay Thompson, probably not so. No, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.399 Jimmy Butler no, Tobias Harris Hell yes, Chris Middleton no, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:42.440 Anthony Davis yes, Rudy Gobert yes, Kyrie Irving maybe, Bradley 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:48.320 Beal yes, Pascal Siakam yes, Ben Simmons absolutely yes. That's 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.800 a lot of yeses for DeAndre Ayton. I mean there's 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.920 barely any nos. I paused for a long time when 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.479 it came to Dame, when I first thought about it, 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.120 and I have to admit, as much as I love Dame, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.879 I would probably trade him for eight and in a heartbeat, 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.160 because I don't trust his health. He's thirty two years old. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.959 He's had an abdominal injury that does not go away. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.719 That's not like a tweak of an inkle. And I 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.800 think you could probably build a more versatile roster around 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.040 DeAndre right now. And I'm not saying that they should 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:18.879 trade Dame. I want everyone to know who's listening to 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:20.959 the podcast, I'm not advocating for that, so do not 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:26.080 say that. But if you could get eighton for Dame 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:30.400 in four first round picks or something, I would think 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.359 about it. I would think about it. James Jones thinks 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.880 that the gem for the Suns, thinks that the riff 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.840 can be healed. He said, DeAndre had an amazing season. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.639 He's progressed every year he's been here. So he's a 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.479 big part of what we do. Doesn't sound all that enthused. 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.760 His future with us is something that we will address 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:56.080 at the proper time. The time, James is last summer. Uh, 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:57.959 he's a free agent, and I've said all along, he's 0:20:57.960 --> 0:20:59.960 about the same things what we're about, which is winning. 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.760 We'll address it at the proper time. Let's be honest. 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.920 Let's be honest. What's the proper time when the league 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.120 comes out and says Robert Sarver must sell the team. 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.760 It's very hard to get a guy into a max contract, 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:19.360 puts yourself into a luxury tax situation, and then okay, 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:21.040 you're selling the team to someone. They're like, yo, you 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.720 guys are paying one hundred and seventy million dollars in 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:26.240 roster right now, I have to pay what Electree text? 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.800 Oh yeah, no, I'm I'm good. I'm good. So yeah, 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:31.840 I see that. There's a lot of complexity here, but 0:21:31.880 --> 0:21:35.920 that's not DeAndre Ayton's job. His job is to get 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:37.680 paid what he deserves and to get as much money 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.119 as he can. So I tell you what Portland is 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:43.480 salivating for him. Right now. We have a max spot open, 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:48.320 we've made the time, We've cleared the space, relinquish rights 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:51.760 to whoever for DeAndre Ayton. I don't know how him 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:53.679 and Dame are gonna work, but I know Dame's on 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:56.360 the tail end and DeAndre is on the up end. 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.119 So it's gonna be fascinating. Game seven in the Valley 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.880 disaster is going to have long term ramifications. And if 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:07.040 you get Ayton in the West, you've removed some strengths 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.639 from your competitor in the West. As well as added, 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:14.080