Speaker 1: What would a Kyrie trade be? Without checking in on
Speaker 1: what the newly crowned NBA scoring leader Lebron James thought,
Speaker 1: I want to know what does he think about something
Speaker 1: that did not affect him at all? What does he
Speaker 1: think about something a trade that did not happen that
Speaker 1: he thought was going to happen for him? Because ESPN,
Speaker 1: through Michael Wilbon, out to interview Lebron James one on
Speaker 1: one to get I don't know, like to just get
Speaker 1: his perspective on the trade, the non trade for them
Speaker 1: and the trade to Boston or to Dallas. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: So when Kyrie asked out Lebron, this is the timeline,
Speaker 1: Lebron responded by tweeting a crown and a big eye emoji.
Speaker 1: That's hilarious, hilarious. That's like Lebron in Twitter for him,
Speaker 1: that's what he is. He's just setting the stage up
Speaker 1: for what he thinks is going to happen. He's getting excited.
Speaker 1: And I just have never seen this sit down for
Speaker 1: something that's like a non trade. Never seen it. Just
Speaker 1: Braun candidly came out and said he was disappointed that
Speaker 1: they did not get Kyrie irving and made sure to
Speaker 1: say that he thought Kyrie Irving and him would win
Speaker 1: championships together, and which is again part of the reason
Speaker 1: that I don't think he's in Dallas long. This is
Speaker 1: what was said.
Speaker 2: Well, definitely disappointed. I can't sit here and say I'm
Speaker 2: not disappointed on not being able to land such a talent,
Speaker 2: but someone that I had great chemistry with and no,
Speaker 2: I got great chemistry with on the floor. That can
Speaker 2: help you win, you know, championships in my mind, in
Speaker 2: my eyes. But my focus is shifted now. My focus
Speaker 2: has shifted back to where it should be, and that's
Speaker 2: that's his club now. And what we have in the
Speaker 2: locker room is got pivot. Lebron's a quick pivot, quick pivot.
Speaker 2: It don't take me long. It don't take me long, don't.
Speaker 2: I don't get too excited about the possibilities of things
Speaker 2: that can be. I kind of envisioned myself on what
Speaker 2: it can but I don't I don't invest it all
Speaker 2: the way into until I know what's happening, and when
Speaker 2: it does not happen, I'm back locked in on the
Speaker 2: job at hand. So you know, we had an opportunity.
Speaker 2: I think our names was out there the Lakers name
Speaker 2: was out there, we had an opportunity, didn't happen. We
Speaker 2: move on and we finished the season strong to try
Speaker 2: to get a bid into the postseason, where I feel.
Speaker 1: A bid into the postseason is the only thing that
Speaker 1: matters right now. He is just throwing Russell Westbrook under
Speaker 1: the bus because he knows that he was going to
Speaker 1: be in the trade for sure, like absolutely was going
Speaker 1: to be in the trade. Bron This is so strange
Speaker 1: to me in this interview because he just never does
Speaker 1: anything randomly. You know, he just is one of those
Speaker 1: strategic players. He broke the scoring record at home. He
Speaker 1: made sure that get set in place with Clutch whenever
Speaker 1: he's dropping. Even with Brownie's announcement about where he's going
Speaker 1: to go to college, it's all gonna be done strategically.
Speaker 1: This interview was done strategically. I am disappointed we did
Speaker 1: not get Kyrie Irving. I think we can win championships together.
Speaker 1: I think we have great chemistry. I think we still
Speaker 1: will have great chemistry, and but I'm moving on. I'm
Speaker 1: a good teammate, I am a good team player, and
Speaker 1: we are now going to try to get into the
Speaker 1: playing tournament now that we don't have Kyrie Irving. That
Speaker 1: is something very funny. That's just something that you've never
Speaker 1: seen before in history. Is an athlete come out and say, Hey,
Speaker 1: I am mad that we didn't trade for this guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a one on one sit down with
Speaker 1: Mike Wilbon, one of the most premier commentators in all
Speaker 1: the NBA, who's been in this business for a long
Speaker 1: long time, writes books for players, all that, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna come out and see me so that I can
Speaker 1: say I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed we didn't get Kyrie. That's wild.
Speaker 1: The Lakers that were smart. I don't think they should
Speaker 1: have it. I don't think they should have given up
Speaker 1: all those pieces, Max Christy, Austin Reevees, two first round picks,
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook's coming off, the buck books, whatever it's coming
Speaker 1: off regardless. So if you can use those picks and
Speaker 1: get Jared Vanderbilt and Mike Conley Jr. And Malik Beasley,
Speaker 1: and then you can just get Kyrie in the offseason
Speaker 1: for whatever it is that it's going to be. I
Speaker 1: think maybe a two year deal or a three year
Speaker 1: deal while at like, while keeping Max Christy and keeping
Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, and who knows what you can do with
Speaker 1: resigning Jared Vanderbilt, who's awesome. He's another good defender who
Speaker 1: can score a little bit. Malik Beasley can score a lot.
Speaker 1: That's that's a really good team. Or you could have
Speaker 1: just spent all that for Kyrie when you can just
Speaker 1: get him in the free agency. So but with Braun
Speaker 1: now the scoring record holder, it's going to be fascinating
Speaker 1: to see if the Lakers do anything at the deadline
Speaker 1: at all. Windhorse just tweeted that the Lakers have two options.
Speaker 1: Trade Russ and improve marginally but grew over their cap
Speaker 1: space immensely, or keep Russ, maintain cas space and signed
Speaker 1: Kyrie this summer because that's where he wants to be.
Speaker 1: I think option two is what's happening. Lakers aren't doing
Speaker 1: anything of the deadline. WOJ also just reported that Darvin
Speaker 1: Ham and Russell Westbrook just got into a heated argument
Speaker 1: at halftime at the OKC game over Russ apparently lingering
Speaker 1: on the court after getting pulled. Yikes, how does this
Speaker 1: change things? Are they tired of us? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: But it's just weird. The whole thing is weird as
Speaker 1: Wendy notes moving Russ would probably be a mistake, so
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll do it. I think they have
Speaker 1: become a more competent franchise. They're just trying to fix
Speaker 1: their incompetence from the past. But the Lake Show and
Speaker 1: their dysfunction never disappoints. Moving on. So we're going to
Speaker 1: dissect the entire trade deadline on our next show. Keith
Speaker 1: Smith's gonna come on as well for probably thirty forty
Speaker 1: minutes to tell us kind of how it all went down,
Speaker 1: what things didn't happen, etc. But I did want to
Speaker 1: address a couple of the rumors floating out give you
Speaker 1: my opinion ahead of time. So we did have another
Speaker 1: major trade, a shocking a but we'll call it a
Speaker 1: buzzy trade. You know, like they had to massage this
Speaker 1: deal in order to make it work, if you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So Miami ships Dwayne Deadman to San
Speaker 1: Antonio for a bag of chips and a they gun.
Speaker 1: So let's get into some of the trade rumors as well.
Speaker 1: This one's hot off the wires. Brian Windhorst just reported
Speaker 1: this on his podcast, and I am shook big one.
Speaker 1: This is huge, and I don't mean Dwayne Deadman to
Speaker 1: this burs. I mean, like a real trade. Now that
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving has been traded, maybe the next position on
Speaker 1: not trading Kevin Durant as it really was kind of
Speaker 1: last summer may change. That is an interesting development that
Speaker 1: has happened over the past forty eight hours since the
Speaker 1: Kyrie trade. From the people that I have talked to,
Speaker 1: why isn't this bigger news? Is anybody talking about I
Speaker 1: haven't seen this on First Egg. I haven't seen anything
Speaker 1: on NBA today. Nobody, no Shams, no Chris Haynes. Where
Speaker 1: are we at with this? Does Kyrie? Does Kyrie move
Speaker 1: everything for the Brooklyn Nets? Is kad going to legitimately say, yo,
Speaker 1: I'm out. I know you guys have Cam Thomas and
Speaker 1: he's dropping forty seven on against the Wizards, but I
Speaker 1: got to go. I goes to go. Does that mean
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is gonna be on the move like now,
Speaker 1: like before tomorrow. I don't think he's gonna be trade.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna be able to get a
Speaker 1: deal done by then. But the off season is fascinating
Speaker 1: to me. The entire trade deadline again gets hijacked by
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant as usual, he likes to you know, easy
Speaker 1: money sniper, just likes to lay in the weeds and
Speaker 1: funck shit up. So no one is gonna risk throwing
Speaker 1: away their assets when they could get Kevin Durant. So
Speaker 1: we might have a very dead deadline in advance of
Speaker 1: this off season, which I think is really interesting. Every
Speaker 1: year there's a bizarre rumor that sometimes turns out to
Speaker 1: be true. Well, this year it is the buzz that
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton might get traded. What what'd you talking about?
Speaker 1: Wollo's According to something called Wolfele's press Box, this NBA
Speaker 1: officials believe there's a chance that the Bucks may move
Speaker 1: Middleton before the deadline. Why who would they get back
Speaker 1: in return? Really? I mean, they were bad without Chris Middleton.
Speaker 1: What are they gonna be without them? Again? Not good?
Speaker 1: I don't know where this rumor came from. This feels
Speaker 1: like fake news to me. This feels like when I
Speaker 1: ate the garbage on a tweet about James Wiseman officially
Speaker 1: asking out, which made perfect sense but also wasn't true factually,
Speaker 1: James Wiseman, speaking of which rumored to one out, I
Speaker 1: do not think that's true. He has very little trade value,
Speaker 1: but the only reason and incentive that the Warriors would
Speaker 1: want to trade him is cap space. He would help
Speaker 1: them out with one hundred and thirty one million in
Speaker 1: salary and penalties over the next two years. The question
Speaker 1: for y'all, is Wiseman worth sixty five I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't even I can't even get it out. Is Wiseman
Speaker 1: worth sixty five million dollars a year? I think you
Speaker 1: know the answer to that. Truthfully, that is just short
Speaker 1: of the sixty eight million that they had to pay
Speaker 1: Kelly Oubray to be on the Warriors. There's been some
Speaker 1: bad deals for the Dubs, for our dubs, excuse me.
Speaker 1: Seems impossible, though, the Warriors will hold on to him,
Speaker 1: considering how much money he's going to cost and how
Speaker 1: little he does. He's basically a Santa Cruz Warrior for
Speaker 1: the rest of his career, as long as he's there
Speaker 1: moving forward. Another player who asking for a trade makes
Speaker 1: no sense because what kind of leverage do they really
Speaker 1: have is Ferkmond cork Moss. He has demanded a trade
Speaker 1: from Philly. Okay, does anyone care about that? Furkhon cork
Speaker 1: Moss has demanded the trade. He wants out. No one
Speaker 1: knows why, probably because his role is diminishing, and it
Speaker 1: would because he stinks. Fresh off of getting jumped by
Speaker 1: the Georgia national team. Everyone thought he might break out.
Speaker 1: Has not happened this year. He's looking for a new home.
Speaker 1: See you later, frick on Cork Moss. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: The Raptors moving on easily, looking like the most active
Speaker 1: team at the deadline. No one knows though. I actually
Speaker 1: think maybe Masaiu Siuri does nothing at all. Ognnoby's been
Speaker 1: rumored to be on the move. Fred van Fleet has
Speaker 1: rumored to be on the move. Pascal Siakam rumored to
Speaker 1: be on the move. That's a lot of picks you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get for those three guys. Pascal Siakam
Speaker 1: and og An Andobi are elite wings. This is a
Speaker 1: wing driven league. If you're moving Pascal and og you
Speaker 1: better get six seven picks. You better get what Utah
Speaker 1: got for Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. I tell you what.
Speaker 1: That would be an upgrade for any team who gets them.
Speaker 1: I'm very, very fascinated Fred van Fleet. He's rumored to
Speaker 1: be on the move. I think actually that's probably a
Speaker 1: more likely scenario given the fact that he's on inexpiring.
Speaker 1: He's gonna want a lot of money and Clippers are
Speaker 1: the potential landing spot for him moving forward. Portland. Portland's
Speaker 1: got to do something right. They have to. They are
Speaker 1: linked to Neurlins. No well, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: of that moves the needle. Mobama just fresh off of
Speaker 1: his fight with Austin Rivers, the team pr representative for
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Jake Crowder. I don't know how
Speaker 1: that helps him. I don't This team is going nowhere.
Speaker 1: I think Josh Hart could probably be on the move
Speaker 1: as well. Nuggets definitely are trading Bones Highland. The other
Speaker 1: rumor that's in the mix on that is Alex Caruso
Speaker 1: to the Nuggets. I think that works probably for Bull teams.
Speaker 1: I don't think it makes Chicago any better. I think
Speaker 1: Alex Crusoe is a key piece of the what the
Speaker 1: Bulls want to do moving forward. Miami apparently is done
Speaker 1: with Kyle Lowry. That trade stinks. That is a horrible trade.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been healthy. We all know that Kyle Lowry
Speaker 1: is kind of fat and the truth is Time is undefeated.
Speaker 1: You know, Father Time continues to win. So that's where
Speaker 1: thirty eight year old Kyle Lowry is at when he
Speaker 1: doesn't take care of his body. So he's probably on
Speaker 1: the move to where who will want him. I do
Speaker 1: not know. Matist Thaibel seems to also be on the move.
Speaker 1: A lot of suitors, Hawks, Kings, Warriors, Pacers, Blazers, Bocks, Mavericks, Hornets,
Speaker 1: Raptors and sons pretty much all interested. Matist Staible, his
Speaker 1: attitude is not very good. I would be very curious
Speaker 1: to see how he looks on another team with another
Speaker 1: identity in another role. Clippers apparently, well we know not.
Speaker 1: Apparently they need another point guard. They need to figure
Speaker 1: it out. They're looking at d Lo, They're looking at
Speaker 1: Eric Gordon, They're looking at Fred Vanfleet. So that's all
Speaker 1: the rumors. We'll see what happens. We've got one day
Speaker 1: and about twelve hours left to go. We will bring
Speaker 1: on Keith right after the deadline. That will go up
Speaker 1: Friday morning very early. I will have my thoughts Friday
Speaker 1: sort of mid morning early afternoon East Coast time, so
Speaker 1: we'll drop that as well. But that is all the
Speaker 1: time that we have for the Heat Check. Come back
Speaker 1: Friday for an all new episode recapping the trade deadline.
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