Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: So my Super Bowl was Tuesday. Me as a Portland
Speaker 2: Trailblazer fan the NBA lottery, It's been a long time
Speaker 2: since I've paid attention that close quickly. This is another
Speaker 2: side road. Is it just me? Or would we rather
Speaker 2: see the ping pong balls come out? Because I know
Speaker 2: I would. Like, there's just something about like an Oscar
Speaker 2: style and the winner of the fifth pick goes to
Speaker 2: the Orlando matt Like. I don't like that. There just
Speaker 2: feels something very sus about that, And I've looked into it.
Speaker 2: It seems like they've got a whole team of accountants
Speaker 2: and lawyers and media members ensuring that this thing is legit.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I need to
Speaker 2: see the ping pong balls myself, and I need to
Speaker 2: feel the weight of them in my hands to know
Speaker 2: that there's not one that's heavier than the other. Transparency, Accountability,
Speaker 2: Where is it, folks? Where is it? Anyway? So, my
Speaker 2: team Portland, we were the sixth worst, sixth worst team
Speaker 2: this year, and boy did we try hard for worse.
Speaker 2: Like we said everyone, we couldn't even play Josh Hart,
Speaker 2: we couldn't play Eric Bledsoe. Like the amount of fake
Speaker 2: injuries that we made up for these guys to not play.
Speaker 2: Like at one point, what's that kid's name, Keljin Blevins,
Speaker 2: He couldn't even play Blevins, the guy that I thought
Speaker 2: was a fake name. We had to sit him because
Speaker 2: it was we were winning games we weren't supposed to
Speaker 2: be winning. It literally was like four time Ten Day
Speaker 2: All Star. Drew was his name, Drew U Banks, Drew
Speaker 2: U Banks, and like, of course Anthony Simons wasn't Blak.
Speaker 2: Of course Dame wasn't playing. Of course NRK wasn't playing.
Speaker 2: But I'm talking about like guys I've never heard before
Speaker 2: had to be benched for us to get to a
Speaker 2: place where we could maybe get in the top four
Speaker 2: and maybe hopefully this is a bridgeier for us and
Speaker 2: we can get back to some level of not prominence,
Speaker 2: but like whatever, middle of the road, and it's you know,
Speaker 2: like we're bad right now. And then of course the
Speaker 2: Pelicans pick didn't convey to us. It ended up going
Speaker 2: to Charlotte. And then of course the LA pick that
Speaker 2: we could have maybe made a back door for that
Speaker 2: went to the Pelicans didn't go to us either. So
Speaker 2: one pick we had a thirty nine percent chance of
Speaker 2: getting in the top four, almost forty percent chance almost
Speaker 2: half almost to pick them to get in the top four.
Speaker 2: And I had all the excitement of a little kid
Speaker 2: on Christmas. Tuesday came and when they don't do the
Speaker 2: ping pong thing, that goes by fast, because they did
Speaker 2: a pregame of the Miami Heat Game one series, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, that took seven minutes, Like what was that?
Speaker 2: So that took all the air out of my balloon?
Speaker 2: As well. I wanted Paolo, as everyone knows, like very
Speaker 2: very badly. I want Paolo. I've had visions of him
Speaker 2: and Dame, I've seen him up close. He's like Bigfoot.
Speaker 2: He's so big, so strong, so athletic, so his hops
Speaker 2: so high. And to my disheartenment, did we get the
Speaker 2: first pick? No? Did we get the second pick? No?
Speaker 2: Third pick? This is where it starts like getting interested.
Speaker 2: No fourth pick? Could we just get four? Maybe we
Speaker 2: just trade up once?
Speaker 3: No, we get the seventh pick seven, And you might say, Trista,
Speaker 3: Steph Curry went seven, Like it's not I don't know
Speaker 3: that we're getting that.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we're getting Steph Curry, babe. So
Speaker 2: all that resting of guys, all that fee, all of
Speaker 2: that shame for a pick that might not even help
Speaker 2: Dame one bit. So let's recap. I think Brock needs
Speaker 2: to take notes on where I cussed, because we have
Speaker 2: to cut these things into segments. Amazing. I literally watch
Speaker 2: him ride them down at Curry at five twenty. He
Speaker 2: has to do it again every time. I do it,
Speaker 2: all right, So let's recap where everyone finished and who
Speaker 2: had the best luck, who had the worst luck. Number
Speaker 2: one Orlando Magic. They get the number one pick for
Speaker 2: the first time, or for the first time in like
Speaker 2: four years. I mean, they just keep getting the first pick.
Speaker 2: Okse gets two. The odds of them getting two were
Speaker 2: like ridiculously low. I think that they should have gotten
Speaker 2: like the eighth pick something like that was their highest likelihood.
Speaker 2: Houston Rockets get the third pick, Sacramento gets the fourth pick.
Speaker 2: Detroit five Pacers, six Blazers, seven Pelicans, eight Spurs, nine Wizards,
Speaker 2: ten Nicks, eleven, Thunder Again twelve, Charlotte Hornet's thirteen, which
Speaker 2: should have been our pick by the way. It was,
Speaker 2: by the way, that was supposed to be ours in
Speaker 2: the fourteen. I think they might have to never mind.
Speaker 2: I think they got the fifteen from Pelicans carry on
Speaker 2: and the Cleveland Cavaliers at fourteen. That's got mad there,
Speaker 2: all right. So to me, the low key biggest winner's
Speaker 2: gotta be one. Okay, See, they're gonna get somebody that's
Speaker 2: gonna change the franchise again.
Speaker 1: After they got after they got I tried to fix
Speaker 1: it after they got over last year when they ended
Speaker 1: up taking Josh Giddy at six, which ended up being
Speaker 1: a very good pick.
Speaker 2: But I think they thought they would be one, two
Speaker 2: or three. I think they thought they might get Evan Mobley,
Speaker 2: which could have helped them tremendously. Then you get the Pelicans. Uh,
Speaker 2: they end up getting a good pick. They by getting
Speaker 2: the Lakers pick in the ad trade, which I think
Speaker 2: was gonna go to them outside of the top four
Speaker 2: something like that. Sacramento, they get incredible luck, even though
Speaker 2: we know that they're just gonna mess it up. We
Speaker 2: know that, like they had the fifth worst record, they
Speaker 2: get the number four pick, even on they had only
Speaker 2: a thirty percent chance of getting the top four. We
Speaker 2: had a forty percent chance. They had a thirty percent chance.
Speaker 2: Teams that got screwed of course me of course, Blazers
Speaker 2: number one pretty much the only one that I can
Speaker 2: that I can make note of. Uh No. But truthfully,
Speaker 2: Detroit also they had the number, they had the first
Speaker 2: best odds for a top four spot and they get five,
Speaker 2: So that's screwed. Wizards get the tenth spot. You see
Speaker 2: Wes on sale looking just furious. He's just so mad stoic,
Speaker 2: but like agitated. It would be, it would be kind
Speaker 2: of the way to describe it. So yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say that that's kind of like where the cookie crumbles.
Speaker 2: You've got Portland, Detroit, and Washington getting screwed. Best best pickups,
Speaker 2: best lottery luck, OKC, Sacramento and Pelicans. I did a quick,
Speaker 2: little early impression mock, which will speed through because I've
Speaker 2: done a little mokin up to my pick one through
Speaker 2: seven mockin early impressions. I think Orlando takes Chet. It
Speaker 2: makes the most sense for them. I think he fits
Speaker 2: more with them than somebody like Jabari Smith does for
Speaker 2: a variety of different reasons. I think him and Franz
Speaker 2: Wagner would work very well together. I'm not necessarily sure
Speaker 2: how they would want to use Jabbari versus how they
Speaker 2: want to use somebody like Chet. They need a center.
Speaker 2: They don't have very good centers. They're off on Mobamba,
Speaker 2: They're off on Jonathan Isaac. I think Chet plays more
Speaker 2: versatile role with the roster that they currently have, and
Speaker 2: I do know that he's not slated to be the
Speaker 2: number one overall consensus pick. I think Jabari is. I
Speaker 2: think Jabari is minus one ten. I think Chet is
Speaker 2: plus one forty. So I think that's the first upset
Speaker 2: to me, feels like an upset. I think okay See
Speaker 2: takes Jabari. Presty says he wants this team to have
Speaker 2: the ability to create a new defensive identity that pushes
Speaker 2: them to be more physical in the future. To accomplish this,
Speaker 2: That to me sounds like if Chet is taken, they're
Speaker 2: gonna go for a pesky perimeter defender to pair with
Speaker 2: lou Dort. We know Shay Gil just Alexander doesn't like
Speaker 2: to play a lot of defense, so they gotta get
Speaker 2: another guy on the perimeter to do so. Gonna be
Speaker 2: a toss up, But I like Jabari. If he's gonna
Speaker 2: be available, Houston, I think they trade back. I don't
Speaker 2: think they take that pick. I don't think they want
Speaker 2: Paolo even though I would I would take Powlo in
Speaker 2: an instant, and maybe, just maybe they'd be interested in
Speaker 2: trading with Portland for the third pick. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Like they are a team that is constantly rebuilding. They're
Speaker 2: a team that's just like I think. Random scouts have
Speaker 2: come on the record recently and say that Houston might
Speaker 2: be the worst place to be drafted by an organization
Speaker 2: if you're a new pick, because they're just a dumpster fire.
Speaker 2: They have no organizational credibility. They're again a team that
Speaker 2: is not built very effectively, and they are a bunch
Speaker 2: of young gunnahs that are fun but probably aren't gonna
Speaker 2: win a lot of games anytime soon. Maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm wrong because they're fun. But doesn't that
Speaker 2: sound perfect for Anfrety Simons? Like? To me, that sounds
Speaker 2: exactly like what Anfrey Simons? Who cares you have two
Speaker 2: other anforty Simons and Jalen Green and Kevin Porter Junior.
Speaker 2: I don't care. That sounds like a fun little experiment
Speaker 2: to me. Sacramento kinks, doesn't it seem like to you
Speaker 2: for the fourth time in five years, they'll take another
Speaker 2: guard Like, let's try it again. Why not. We know
Speaker 2: that Davion may or may not have worked out. We
Speaker 2: know we took Tyree Salibert and we traded him for Demonis.
Speaker 2: But like, let's do the Jade and Ivy thing. Let's
Speaker 2: do that. Who knows, Like I know that Jade and
Speaker 2: Ivy's perfect? How do I know he's perfect for Sacramento One.
Speaker 2: He folds up in big time moments, and he's never
Speaker 2: gonna receive big time moments in the future because he's
Speaker 2: gonna be playing for Sacramento. You're never gonna need to
Speaker 2: have any of the expectations that you will need going
Speaker 2: to a place like I don't know Indiana. Indiana's gonna
Speaker 2: want you to be the next Malcolm Brogden. And Malcolm Brogden, sir,
Speaker 2: you are not God. I hope. I don't regret saying that.
Speaker 2: Detroit team very fun, very long, very Rangeye. Troy Weaver
Speaker 2: is a good evaluator of talent. I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: do what the Toronto Raptors did and surprise some people
Speaker 2: with the fifth pick. Even before the ping Pong Bass
Speaker 2: came out, he said, listen, I'm happy with five. If
Speaker 2: I get five, there's there's not a three team. There's
Speaker 2: not a three person draft for me. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of value out there that I like, And you're like
Speaker 2: that kind of scares me, Like what do you know
Speaker 2: that I don't know? He said, I don't see it
Speaker 2: as a big three. I think that there are tremendous
Speaker 2: players all along the board. We're gonna pick the best
Speaker 2: player for us, and I think that he's gonna come
Speaker 2: and work out for us. I don't see a scenario
Speaker 2: where we don't get the guy we want. What kind
Speaker 2: of what kind of kahonees is that you got the
Speaker 2: fifth pick and you don't see any scenario. Who are
Speaker 2: they gonna get? Maybe Shade and Sharp feels like that's
Speaker 2: a possibility. There's reports that they might go after keiging Murray,
Speaker 2: but I don't see why they would do that other
Speaker 2: than the fact that he's quote unquote NBA ready. He
Speaker 2: doesn't feel he doesn't feel like a pick for Detroit.
Speaker 2: But my pick for chaos because I don't even know
Speaker 2: what Indiana would do if Kigan Murriy's not there. My
Speaker 2: pick for Chaos is them taking Keigan Marie quickly. Indiana
Speaker 2: must move their pick if Keegan is not there because
Speaker 2: there's no shot in hell that I looked at the
Speaker 2: notepad again to make sure that it's okay. I think
Speaker 2: that one's okay. If Keegan's not there, there's no way
Speaker 2: they take Shaden Sharp. Like is Shaden Sharp like a
Speaker 2: kid who wouldn't even play one year at Kentucky decided
Speaker 2: to do one and done without doing the one and
Speaker 2: like he's gonna go into the draft after just sitting
Speaker 2: on the bench for coach cal Do you see him
Speaker 2: being an Indiana pacer one of the most conservative, like
Speaker 2: low paying franchises with a guy running the company, like
Speaker 2: owning the franchise. It's like ninety No, Shady Sharp is
Speaker 2: not an Indiana Pacer. If they were to take him,
Speaker 2: I mean, didn't it make perfect sense when they went
Speaker 2: out and got Chris d'Arte, a high predigree, older, immediate impact,
Speaker 2: light skinned Indiana Man, they've got a type. I ain't
Speaker 2: got no type they do, though they do Portland. This
Speaker 2: is where it gets interesting for me. I've come to terms.
Speaker 2: I've come to Jesus with who I think we will take.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna take Benedict Matherrin from Arizona. Benedict
Speaker 2: Mathern is six to six. Benedict Matherne can score at
Speaker 2: all different levels. He can defend, He's got a pretty
Speaker 2: long wingspan. He can immediately contribute. John Hollinger has Benedict
Speaker 2: Mathern as the number five best player in the draft.
Speaker 2: I think he's a sleeper. I loved him when he
Speaker 2: played at Arizona. He pops off the screen. He's a
Speaker 2: very hard working guy who shows up in huge. If
Speaker 2: Sacramento was smart, they would take Benedict Matherin at four.
Speaker 2: Would they would trade back and they would take him
Speaker 2: at four. But they're not smart, so we know we
Speaker 2: won't do that. Another side pick would be if he's
Speaker 2: available as Shaden Sharp. That feels like another Anthony Simon's
Speaker 2: long score different levels. He can actually play defense, unlike Anthrony.
Speaker 2: I'd be interested to see what he would look like
Speaker 2: with Dame. He's pretty big. I think he's sixty six
Speaker 2: to sixty seven as well, or possibly Johnny Davis at
Speaker 2: a Wisconsin Johnny Davis. He's a guy who can get
Speaker 2: it in the mid range. He's not a He's not
Speaker 2: like a Brandon Roy, but he kind of moves like
Speaker 2: Brandon Roy, like like molasses, but like just shifty enough
Speaker 2: where he gets open. I like him. He's a high
Speaker 2: IQ player. He can defend like he's known for his defense.
Speaker 2: You see where I'm going with this. Blazers get somebody
Speaker 2: who can guard more than a part car police. Gonna
Speaker 2: be very very interesting to see what happens at the
Speaker 2: combine in the pre draft process. As we know, nothing
Speaker 2: is set and like the NFL draft was, it's completely
Speaker 2: wide open. Oh, let's move forward really quickly and talk
Speaker 2: about this recent tea on my man DeAndre Jordan. No,
Speaker 2: he hasn't been relevant since twenty twelve. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: the recent tea on my man DeAndre Ayton DA Right now,
Speaker 2: most people who love hoops know that there was some
Speaker 2: kind of scuffle or to do going on in Game
Speaker 2: seven of The Sun's mav series right between Monny Williams
Speaker 2: and Ayton. Skip Bayless, like I said in last episode,
Speaker 2: reported that Lil Wayne crazy that he and Lil Wayne
Speaker 2: are actually friends. Were they text Like there's a world
Speaker 2: Skip Bayless and Lil Wayne are friends. Just think about
Speaker 2: that for a second really quick. Anyway, according to sources
Speaker 2: named Little Wayne who was at the game, he told
Speaker 2: him that he watched court side what happened between Mani
Speaker 2: and Ayton, and Ayton was like, I'm not going back in,
Speaker 2: and then Manni yelled at him, you're quitting on us,
Speaker 2: you quit on our team, and the two were screaming
Speaker 2: at each other and had to be broken up. Trouble
Speaker 2: in Paradise, babe. Uh yikes. Yike's ugly outcome from an
Speaker 2: ugly game. And for sure we know that Ayton didn't
Speaker 2: play at all in the close out game, really getting
Speaker 2: under twenty minutes. Full disclosure because I'm about to give
Speaker 2: my bias here. I've had my Twitter bio for a
Speaker 2: long time. I recently took it out. DeAndre Ayton deserves
Speaker 2: to be maxed out. I am very clear. I've never
Speaker 2: done that for a player before. DeAndre Ayton deserves all
Speaker 2: the money. He is so underrated. I am an Aighton fan.
Speaker 2: I think he's top five best center in the league.
Speaker 2: I think he's being used completely out of out of
Speaker 2: the realm of reason, and it's probably the best thing
Speaker 2: that could have ever happened to DeAndre Ayton fans, because
Speaker 2: maybe you can get him in a way that you
Speaker 2: never were going to be able to. Number One overall pick.
Speaker 2: He's been a phenace since he's been fifteen years old.
Speaker 2: I've watched him play up close when he was fifteen, sixteen,
Speaker 2: seventeen years old, and the Sons have just used him
Speaker 2: like some scrub role player, like you're not Clint. He's
Speaker 2: not Clint Capella. Okay, Like DeAndre Ayden can pay play
Speaker 2: face up to the basket, he can tween tween, he
Speaker 2: can put the ball on the floor, he can shoot
Speaker 2: mid range, he can shoot the three, he can go up,
Speaker 2: up and under. DeAndre Ayton has moves, he can spin.
Speaker 2: He's not Embid, so I'm not gonna say he's Embid,
Speaker 2: but he can do a lot of the things that
Speaker 2: Mbid can do. He's not as big as Embid, dominant
Speaker 2: as Embiid, but he's got really good footwork. He's a
Speaker 2: hard worker and when he thinks you believe in him,
Speaker 2: as we a lot a lot as a society feel like,
Speaker 2: if we feel you have our back and you believe
Speaker 2: in us, we're gonna work so much harder. Right, And
Speaker 2: as soon as the Suns didn't max him out, he
Speaker 2: was basically like, I mean, you'll get me in the
Speaker 2: good times and not in the bad times, and that's fair.
Speaker 2: And like they've used him as a rim roller, as
Speaker 2: a guy who sets screens and gets Devin Booker and
Speaker 2: Chris Paul open. He maybe gets a random lob here
Speaker 2: or there. If it gets thirty, it's because it happened
Speaker 2: by happenstance, not by design. He gets put backs and rebounds.
Speaker 2: He's just like a solid, solid role player who could be,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, a star. Shack decided he wanted to
Speaker 2: weigh in on the eight and stuff, So let's quickly
Speaker 2: talk about that if that's still allowed.
Speaker 4: And that's all he would say. Shed no more light
Speaker 4: on on why DeAndre Eaton played so little. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: in game seven if I'm a sorver. The kid did
Speaker 4: it the respectful way. Me, I'm different. Oh you're not
Speaker 4: gonna pay me, all right, I don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: He didn't complain, He made one statement about it, and
Speaker 4: he played and he played his tail off, played like
Speaker 4: a true big man. Get a kid what he wants.
Speaker 4: You got other people talking about signing four for two seventy.
Speaker 4: They don't deserve it. Get his kid what he wants.
Speaker 4: He had a great year. Just one of those nights
Speaker 4: to night. Phoenix had a great year, just one of
Speaker 4: those nights tonight. This is a classy organization, it's a
Speaker 4: classy team. Can't say bad things about him. They played hard.
Speaker 4: It's just listen again. Even great players have one of
Speaker 4: those nights. I've been in twenty years. I probably at
Speaker 4: fifteen where just it just couldn't go fifteen what fifteen?
Speaker 4: Fifteen times where you know it just wasn't going. Oh
Speaker 4: you had word board, yeah boy, fifteen, Well I still
Speaker 4: got four round. You played bad boy in fifteen times?
Speaker 4: You're talking about yes dot Com No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: all that stuff. Don't tell me that you have enough.
Speaker 4: You have a fifteen bad games and in twenty years, yes,
Speaker 4: fifteen bad games. Oh yeah, okay, that's not that that.
Speaker 2: I don't give a man what he wants, give him
Speaker 2: what he wants. So I decided I would go through.
Speaker 2: And so this is no shade the people who are
Speaker 2: currently getting paid. I just want to say that for
Speaker 2: everyone currently getting paid, you are getting paid what you deserve.
Speaker 2: You got what you got, your agents did their job,
Speaker 2: and you accepted it. But I decided to go through
Speaker 2: the top forty salaries and ask myself, would I rather
Speaker 2: have this player for this money or DeAndre Eyton right now,
Speaker 2: and it will surprise you. I would rather have eight
Speaker 2: and over half of the top max guy's crowing playing
Speaker 2: in the NBA right now. Steph Curry of obviously no,
Speaker 2: James Harden yes, John Wall yes, Russell Westbrook yes, Kevin
Speaker 2: Durant no, Lebron, no Jannis, no Lillard maybe Age Durability
Speaker 2: ball dominates. Kawhi Leonard No, Paul George Maybe maybe he
Speaker 2: gets hurt a lot too. He's not always available and
Speaker 2: his mind's not always available. Klay Thompson, probably not so. No,
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler no, Tobias Harris Hell yes, Chris Middleton no,
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis yes, Rudy Gobert yes, Kyrie Irving maybe, Bradley
Speaker 2: Beal yes, Pascal Siakam yes, Ben Simmons absolutely yes. That's
Speaker 2: a lot of yeses for DeAndre Ayton. I mean there's
Speaker 2: barely any nos. I paused for a long time when
Speaker 2: it came to Dame, when I first thought about it,
Speaker 2: and I have to admit, as much as I love Dame,
Speaker 2: I would probably trade him for eight and in a heartbeat,
Speaker 2: because I don't trust his health. He's thirty two years old.
Speaker 2: He's had an abdominal injury that does not go away.
Speaker 2: That's not like a tweak of an inkle. And I
Speaker 2: think you could probably build a more versatile roster around
Speaker 2: DeAndre right now. And I'm not saying that they should
Speaker 2: trade Dame. I want everyone to know who's listening to
Speaker 2: the podcast, I'm not advocating for that, so do not
Speaker 2: say that. But if you could get eighton for Dame
Speaker 2: in four first round picks or something, I would think
Speaker 2: about it. I would think about it. James Jones thinks
Speaker 2: that the gem for the Suns, thinks that the riff
Speaker 2: can be healed. He said, DeAndre had an amazing season.
Speaker 2: He's progressed every year he's been here. So he's a
Speaker 2: big part of what we do. Doesn't sound all that enthused.
Speaker 2: His future with us is something that we will address
Speaker 2: at the proper time. The time, James is last summer. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's a free agent, and I've said all along, he's
Speaker 2: about the same things what we're about, which is winning.
Speaker 2: We'll address it at the proper time. Let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest. What's the proper time when the league
Speaker 2: comes out and says Robert Sarver must sell the team.
Speaker 2: It's very hard to get a guy into a max contract,
Speaker 2: puts yourself into a luxury tax situation, and then okay,
Speaker 2: you're selling the team to someone. They're like, yo, you
Speaker 2: guys are paying one hundred and seventy million dollars in
Speaker 2: roster right now, I have to pay what Electree text?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I'm I'm good. I'm good. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I see that. There's a lot of complexity here, but
Speaker 2: that's not DeAndre Ayton's job. His job is to get
Speaker 2: paid what he deserves and to get as much money
Speaker 2: as he can. So I tell you what Portland is
Speaker 2: salivating for him. Right now. We have a max spot open,
Speaker 2: we've made the time, We've cleared the space, relinquish rights
Speaker 2: to whoever for DeAndre Ayton. I don't know how him
Speaker 2: and Dame are gonna work, but I know Dame's on
Speaker 2: the tail end and DeAndre is on the up end.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be fascinating. Game seven in the Valley
Speaker 2: disaster is going to have long term ramifications. And if
Speaker 2: you get Ayton in the West, you've removed some strengths
Speaker 2: from your competitor in the West. As well as added,
Speaker 2: so gonna be awesome. It's gonna be interesting. Either he's
Speaker 2: gonna get his max money or he's walking. That's pretty
Speaker 2: much it. There's no in between. It's not gonna be
Speaker 2: a scenario where you're like, oh, DeAndre Ayton took a
Speaker 2: team friendly deal that is off the table, folks, and
Speaker 2: that will change everything for the Suns if he is
Speaker 2: outing