WEBVTT - The Drop | Early Over/Under Picks, New Kawhi Scandal Smoke, Suns Extend Dillon Brooks 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:10.000 Good mornings, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.720 Podcast presented by fan Duel. It's Friday, August seventh, twenty 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.800 twenty sixth. This is the drop I'm Jay Skeets here 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.959 in the Classic Factory. Next to me. It's my top shot, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:23.240 hop Bo Boy, Trey Kirby, Hey, ay, and over Yonder 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.880 making the magic happen. Super producer JD. There he is, 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.360 Hello here, we are no task today. He'll be back 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.960 next week, don't you worry. 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They were calling it alien. 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.839 I can see that looks like a place that should 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.040 have a ski ball machine. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.600 But I mean maybe it didn't. I don't know very 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.399 well everything. No, we did it, No, we did it. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.880 But first we have some NBA news and uh we're 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.240 starting with fun guy. That's right, Pablo Torre also a 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.920 fun guy. But I'm talking about Kawhi. Pablo Torre finds 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.840 Out reported last night that Kawhi Leonard had a second, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:39.360 undisclosed sponsorship deal while with the Clippers. So the podcast, 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:44.200 citing multiple anonymous sources, reported that Kawhi had a previously 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:49.160 unknown deal with Daktronics, which is a company that actually 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:55.640 manufactured the into It domes incredible Halo video board. They 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.920 are in the business of making these incredible village That 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.320 makes more sense. I thought Daktronics was Dak Prescott's conscious 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:08.519 hip hop project, Daktronics. No, it's the video board. That's 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.480 maybe the tie here to the Clipper. Yeah, baby. So 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.760 Pablo interviewed someone identified again as an anonymous high level 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.880 source under contract for the Intuit Dome, who alleged that 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:25.440 the sponsorship deal was quote one thousand percent a way 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:29.640 to circumvent the salary cap. It was funneling, funneling money 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:34.680 from the Clippers through Daktronics back to Kowhai so is 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:40.760 some similarities, possibly to the whole Aspiration cap circumvention. And remember, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.160 in mid July the Athletic did report that the NBA's 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:51.440 investigation and investigators had examined a previously unreported endorsement deal 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.640 with another company. And then we got Pablo having this 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.799 whole Rhode Island Football Club thing, but that I don't 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.000 think was the one here. It seems like it has 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.600 that's contacted by the investigation. That's right. That's right. So 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:04.720 it feels like it's this one. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.400 Feels like it's this one, yeah, because this is basically 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.360 the exact same playbook as the Aspiration side of things, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.639 at least how it seems. We got a struggling company 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.120 that is involved with the construction of the into a dome. 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.240 Steve Balmer steps in, gives him some money, and then 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:28.320 suddenly there's some Kawhi Leonard endorsement deal that exists for 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.600 millions of dollars, which Kuhi is doing nothing for. You 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.160 throw in the fact that Daktronics is like a brand 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:35.839 brand thing. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:39.040 They've never had a celebrity endorser. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.120 Right, and the entirety of their like sixty years as 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.360 a company together, you can't imagine a world where you 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:48.640 need an endorser for a jumbo tron company. It's not 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.480 like you're watching Game of Thrones and they give you 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.840 thirty seconds beforehand. Hey, you want a new Halo board 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.760 for your house? Right, we got Kawhi Leonard to pitch. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.640 It doesn't make any sort of sense that this one 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.720 would happen. But this is part thirteen of the scandal 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.280 via Pablo. I guess this is now that we're in August. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.880 Is it month eleven? However long this is happening, I 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.280 think it started in September of last year. How much 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.760 smoke is there going to be before Silver just decides 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.119 to invoke the clause? That's the question to me, because 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.359 there are so many things, this being the second one, 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.040 this to me is more along the lines of the 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.760 aspiration thing than the ri IFC thing was. Even in 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.719 Pablo's podcast today, him and me and are basically saying like, yeah, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.120 we didn't really actually tie back the ri if C 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.840 to the Clippers. It just seemed odd and maybe it 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.200 is weird because why does Kawhi Leonard have part of 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.320 a team in a second division in Rhode Island? 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:51.000 Wow? Yeah, why you know, like expanding the portfolio exactly. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:55.560 Yeah, he's into trees, halo boards, and second tier soccer. 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:59.320 Hey man, everybody knows that about everywhere. But there's a 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:00.279 lot going on. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.360 And this one feels so similar to the first one 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.359 we found about that it's like a uh oh, this 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.080 seems even worse for the Clippers. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.480 Yeah, this one might be more damning in a way 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.400 because at least with the Aspiration scandal, like, well, they 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.760 were scam artists, you know, they were crooks. They went 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.000 to jail, that whole thing. So there's like the that 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.520 sort of like muddles up everything. And even even the 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.160 Clippers I guess are sort of on record or balm 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.800 are like, well we got scammed like they got us, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:28.200 you know, as well as other people. And there were 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.880 other celebrity endorsements with Aspiration from what we know right now, 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.000 Like you said, they've never done this Dktronics, Why would 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.599 they have another celebrity endorser. So if Kauhi is the 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.240 only one that is extremely weird, yes, and maybe does 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.160 not look good. Again, if the money is like being funneled, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.120 because that's the thing, there's nothing really from what I 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.240 can tell, there's nothing actually illegal. If Kawhi and his 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.680 representatives had some weird endorsement deal with Dektronics or whatever company. Right, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.040 that's fine, yes, even if you don't do it for them. Weird, 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.960 but still fine. But if the money, of course is 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.760 being sent from the Clippers and Balmber through these companies 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.440 to then get to Kauai, well that's allegal under the CBA, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.920 and you can should be And we don't know if 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.400 he will be, but could be penalized. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.279 Yeah, I guess we'll see, because weren't there reports last 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:24.000 week that the investigation was nearing a close and it 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.920 was just a matter of Adam Silver deciding what kind 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:32.240 of punishment would be acceptable to Steve Balmer from his 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.000 side of things, considering they're gonna have the money to 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:40.080 appeal go into litigation with regards to whatever the league 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.799 decides should be the punishment coming down. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:44.120 But I don't know. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.839 At the very least, it's like everybody who is not 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.960 part of the investigation thinks the Clippers are guilty, right, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:56.440 Like who is really defending the Clippers here outside? I'm 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.240 sure there's Clipper fans and I'm sure there's people who 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.920 are like, there isn't a smoking gun and maybe that 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.120 that's why the investigation is taking so long. Maybe it's 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.839 hard to find the equivalent of the email that buried 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:07.880 Joe Smith and the timberwalls back in the day, like that, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.559 maybe that doesn't exist. So they have to keep looking 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.800 for stuff, keep looking for stuff. But I just keep 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.760 coming back to Silver can use this clause. That's like, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.160 if there's no other explanation, we got to do something 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.240 about it. And just so much is happening with Pablo 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:25.080 that we're like, there's a second second investigation. That one 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.320 that we thought was the second investigation wasn't even that, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.680 you know, So I just think something has to happen soon. 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.400 And I don't know. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.160 How you feel, has a Raptors fan, like do you 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.200 just want the Raptors to back out of this? 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.840 I don't know at this one, Like I guess I 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:44.160 keep coming down to it really is how much is Kawhi, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:45.880 if at all, going to be penalized for any of this, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.920 Like the Clippers side, again, there's so much smoke to this, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.760 even when you go back to Uncle Dennis obviously, who 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.440 was sort of the representative for Kawhi, who's been let 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.760 go by the way, Sure convenient, right, obviously see you later. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.320 Uncle Dennis, you were me one of the shady characters 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.840 in all this asking for the moon, because you're on 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.640 record asking the raptors. You're asking the Lakers like hey, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.600 we want this, we want that, we want this, and 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.320 they're like, we can't legally do that, man, So it's 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.600 not that far fetch to then like okay, well then 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.040 they ask the Clippers and maybe they go, oh, we 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.200 can't give you this or we can't give you a 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.120 stake in this, but you know what we could do, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.120 Like it's not that sa unreasonable. See how you can 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:29.280 maybe get there anyway. I just wonder like Kawhi himself, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.000 I still feel like is not going to be penalized 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.760 all that much because he's always gonna have the buffer 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.520 of representation too, very true, right, yeah, Like he gets 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.840 to go, well that was Uncle Dennis, or that was 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.680 my rest and my agent's like so, I mean, whether 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.080 you believe it or not, that's up to you. But 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.000 it feels like the Clippers are the one that have 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.560 to get like just smoked here with obviously the million 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.440 dollar fine or whatever he can get up to. He 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.760 is allowed to uh silver and the CBA because of 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.320 their deal. The violation strip them of draft picks obviously, Yeah, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.880 again penalized Balmer and I guess you could get to 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.559 the voiding of the contract and all that, but I 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.160 don't know. I think it's really good the Clippers that 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.199 should and will get nailed here eventually. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.920 Yeah, definitely, they are the party who's going to be 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.560 most at fault and at worst, like maybe they avoid 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.160 Kauwhi's contract, but then he can just sign with another team. 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.240 He probably wouldn't be able to sign specifically with the Clippers. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:19.760 That's fine. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.000 He's already been traded away from the Clippers. So maybe 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.080 the Raptors do just wait this out. But it's like 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:26.000 it's gonna be close. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.400 To the NBA season soon. It's August. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.360 Yeah, next thing you know, they're gonna be reporting for 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.840 training camps. We've heard that this might go on into 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.280 twenty seven. We're getting new information. Maybe this is not 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.720 new information to the investigation, but it just feels like 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.760 it should have been wrapped up. We were talking about 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.440 it being wrapped up at the trade deadline. We were 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.000 talking about it being wrapped up at All Star weekend 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.839 for into It Dome. That's half a year ago. At 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.520 this point, it doesn't feel like it's going to stop 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:50.079 anytime soon. 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.280 And I've said before already on the podcast here and 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.360 sort of answer your question again about Kwai of it all, 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.520 like I am a little terrified that this is going 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.920 to completely derail a Raptors seasure, whether he's there or not, 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.520 or Ingram and Grady dicker back to, like, I'm sorry, 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.480 that's not how you want to start a season where 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.360 you had some promise, some potential building off the last 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.280 year's playoff performance, Like I would think that would have 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.280 some effect on the makeup of the team, the locker room, 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.200 the roster, just the vibes of it all, if you 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.080 want to get as simple as that. So yeah, as 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.720 a RAPS fan, no, this is not great great, not 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.800 great Bob at all. So we'll see, Uh, we'll see 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.880 what happens in part fourteen of Pablo's investigation here. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.880 I don't know if there will be a better line 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.560 than when Amine said Halo board man gets paid. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.080 Yeah, that was bar I didn't think it mean had 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.959 the greatest impersonations in last's episode. I didn't think he 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.160 brought his a game there, But that was a good line. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.760 The Halo boarder, he gets paid. All right, we'll leave 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:48.360 it there. Let's hear your thoughts. I mean people, Yeah. 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.800 Next Friday, which QUI investigation I'll be talking about. It's 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:51.959 like a weekly thing at this point. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.120 Oh yeah, yeah what Oh that's a that'd be a 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.080 fun game. Try and predict the next weird company that 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.720 maybe the Clippers. We're allegedly funneling money to Kawai. Like 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:06.720 you said, we got the trees, We've got a Rhode 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.880 Island football club in a league I didn't even know existed. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:15.960 And then now we've got this the Dektronics video board company. Yeah, what, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.599 very very cool. Where could we go from here? You know? 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.080 I would like to see though Pablo Tory finds out 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:26.319 on the intoit domes Halo board. Wouldn't you like to 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.080 watch an episode? Yeah, I'd love to. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.960 I couldn't believe it, man, he said that the like, 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:35.199 if you add up all of the square footage of 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.040 the Halo board, it's bigger than an acre. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.959 It's freaking huge. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.400 Yeah yeah, I have an acre a land of my house, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.720 let alone, video boards. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.280 Massive, man, A lot of toilets, big board, baby toilets, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.520 big board. All right, let's get into some other news. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.920 In the last couple of days, Phoenix Suns forward Dylan Brooks, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.160 good old Canadian boy, Good old Canadian boy, maybe not 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.959 the village. Dylan Brooks, Canadian boy, agreed to a three year, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:04.320 seventy three million dollar contract extension through twenty nine thirty. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.760 So Dylan Brooks for now staying with the Phoenix Suns. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.280 There tka your reaction to this. 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.080 This is a good deal I think for both sides. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.840 Dylan Brooks is gonna be signed from basically aged thirty 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:17.199 one to thirty four with the Suns at essentially twelve 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.920 to fourteen percent of the salary cap of the seventy 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.360 three million dollars looks crazy for Dylan Brooks, but the 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.680 fact that it's you know, less than even twenty percent, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:27.440 I think is a good deal for the Suns and 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:28.320 still a lot of money. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.040 Obviously for Dylan Brooks. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.360 He's a good player, had a great season last year 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.800 for the Suns, a great culture setter. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.040 If you throw out the first couple. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.520 Of years of his career, He's played on a winning 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.400 team the last six seasons. I also think this is 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.040 a tradable deal. He's got twenty million on his contract 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.600 this year, followed by twenty two, twenty four to twenty six. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.959 I just love those even number bumps. That's really nice. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:54.240 But twenty million dollars for a team that decides, like, yeah, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.000 we could use a wing stopper, a guy who can 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.839 score a little bit. Maybe the Suns are able to 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.000 get some draft picks back if they decide to change 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.000 up their team, Like I think they're going forward basically 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.880 running it back last year. They've got the big, huge 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:09.080 deal for Devin Booker up top. They lost Grayson Allen, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.760 they lost Royce O'Neil, Luke Canard come on down. That 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.040 guy's gonna be looking so tan. Only thirty two games 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.040 for Jalen Green last year, So the Suns are, like, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:20.240 I don't know, they are running it back. They had 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.120 forty five wins last year. I saw their over under 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.240 his thirty eight and a half. That's quite a drop 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.600 off considering they're bringing everybody back. 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:27.400 I don't know. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.320 I guess the lack of tanking teams maybe is part 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:32.520 of the reason for that. But I think they can 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.920 be decent. But if they ever decide this just ain't working. 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.000 We don't like being stuck in, you know, six through 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.840 eleven or whatever they may be in the Western Conference, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.160 they could move off of Dylan Brooks. 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.560 I think he's a player that would be valuable to 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.440 other teams as well. I agree with that. Love him 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.640 or hate him, he is a floor racer. He just 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.560 absolutely is. He's proven that in all these spots, like 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.280 you said, Memphis, Houston, now in Phoenix, he helped establish 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.560 that new culture there. He helped lead them to forty 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.319 five wins. He scored twenty points per game. Now he 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.199 missed some time, but that's pretty impressive because he's known 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.600 more for his defensive side of the floor, and Phoenix 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.760 went from what they were like near the bottom of 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.520 the league defensively the year before, he came to top 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:15.280 ten on defensive part. So that's him as the primary 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.000 wing defender. I mean, he is always taking the best 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.480 player on the other team, so he obviously has a 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.560 part in that. So that's impressive. You know, I saw this, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.520 You're right, you see three year, seventy three million. It 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.800 looks like a lot. But then when you you know, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.480 sort of break it down, you're like, well, he was 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.640 actually not making I mean he was making almost similar number. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:32.960 Like he was coming off like a twenty one and 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.600 a half million dollars deal, so it's like in the ballpark, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.800 and he had a great year, so it's not bad. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.360 As Bright Side of the Sun put it to, this 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.440 extension is about far more than keeping a productive rotation player. 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.160 It's a bet on identity and the Suns have spent 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.320 this past year or so trying to establish this culture 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.760 of toughness, accountability, competitiveness and stuff like that, and he's 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:55.320 been at the center of it, and he should be 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.320 paid for that. And you can always trade it. You 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.480 always trade it. All these contracts that they've done here, 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:03.400 these extensions, Dylan Brooks three years seventy three million, Mark 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.280 Williams three years thirty eight million, Colin Gillespie four years 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.000 forty eight million, and Jordan Goodwin three years nineteen million. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.880 Those are all good players and they all could be moved, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.600 packaged together or not, so it's like they're not hanged. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.680 I don't think any of those will be oh my god, 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.440 you've sunk your team and you'll never be able to 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.480 get off those unless you attach a pick or something 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.400 like that. I think they'll all be tradable if you 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.480 even want to. And they're all rotation players, so good 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.120 work here. It's just now. Yeah, forty five wins last year, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.680 you said the over unders much lower. That's why I 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.160 avoided that one. When we got to overrunder picks. I'm 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:39.640 not going to touch that one. I don't you know. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.600 I feel like they shouldn't be that much worse. But 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.040 where's the growth in this team? I think it's jelling 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.160 Green is what you're hoping for. Yeah, you only played 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:48.440 thirty two games last year. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.600 There were times when he was the only scorer for 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:53.840 the Suns out there when Booker was missing some time. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.760 So I would actually probably go over thirty eight and 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.960 a half wins for the Suns. They were decently hell 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:04.120 last year. It's it's weird because I do like all 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.240 of the deals that they've done, except for their top 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.440 three deals. Like Devin Booker, I'm sorry, it's not gonna 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.640 be worth sixty eight million dollars in twenty thirty. Jalen 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.640 Green not a fan of his contract in Miles Bridges 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.800 just not a fan period, right, But once you get 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.800 to like four through twelve, I'm like, hey, let's guys, 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:17.360 they're all good. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.320 Players, good deals. Yeah, it's a good point, like gives 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.640 them a lot of flexibility without like those, like you said, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.640 four through twelve deals, very traitable contracts. You would expect 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.440 most of them to hold positive value. So so we'll see. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.160 But Dylan Brooks this got paid. You know, I can't 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:36.480 imagine his next deal will be bigger. No annual year. 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.520 Yeah, but they were sending this guy to China after 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.280 he was leaving in Memphis. Turns out he wasn't the 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.880 problem and the team completely fell apart when he left. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:50.680 Just something I noticed. Dylan Brooks man gets paid, all right. Also, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.960 they're gonna wait on this guy, the Wizard's big man, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:58.120 Anthony Davis. He became eligible to sign an extension yesterday 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.760 August sixth. But according to our guy, Josh Robbins at 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.760 the Athletic, any meaningful talks between eighty and the Wizards 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:08.359 about a possible extension are going to occur during the 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.040 twenty six twenty seven season, not before. Because we were wondering. 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.399 We were keeping an eye on that date, that August sixth. Okay, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.080 that's when you can do it. So they say, hey, 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.600 both sides, I guess want to sort of see what 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.560 we're working with here. When we get to the actual season, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:23.840 and I think that makes some sense. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.480 I think this is smart for both sides, especially for 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.159 the Wizards. I think Sham's additionally reported that they're going 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.280 to wait like twenty games, which I think is pretty funny. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.199 They're like, yeah, we'll decide by December. Maybe you'll get 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.040 a nice Christmas present. But the Wizards basically just want 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.879 Anthony Davis to prove that he can stay healthy. Thirty 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.439 three years old. The last three seasons, he's played twenty 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:47.159 forty two and fifty one games. They want him to 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.320 demonstrate I guess twenty games worth of your playing on 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.680 the floor before we're giving you this gigantic deal. From 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.120 Anthony Davis's perspective, the Wizards have to prove a little 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:01.040 something to him that they're building something. He gets a chance, 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.399 I guess, to earn his last big contract. But I 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.040 am I'm a little nervous for the Wizards because I 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.240 see the scam here. Oh he's gonna get healthy. Yeah, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.080 they're gonna be like nice man, Anthony Davis, Trey Young, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:14.680 we've taken a step forward. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:15.680 We got aj Debonsa. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.560 They're gonna give Anthony Davis a big deal and he 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.840 will immediately request a trade. Yeah, and I think that's 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:24.040 maybe part of this as well. He's saying, Okay, I 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.520 can buy my time here for twenty games. Let's see 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:30.640 what happens with Joel Embiid. Let's see if he's able 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.760 to stay healthy for twenty games. Or the Sixers are like, hey, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.800 let's revisit that Embiid for Anthony Davis swap. 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:37.679 So I don't know. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.199 Anthony Davis apparently is eligible for a four year, two 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.720 hundred and seventy five million dollar extension, which would run 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.520 into aj Debonca's second deal. That could be a problem 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.280 down the line, but I think this is smart to 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.560 kind of just like, let's see if you can play buddy. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.640 I mean, could they have tried to play him last year? 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.520 Of course they could, yes, but they didn't want to. 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.399 No, no, because you know, you want to hit that 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.480 number one pick. It worked and it worked out. It 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.760 did work out. Yeah, And even from eighty side, like 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:03.960 you said, I almost get him wanting to wait a 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.479 little bit too, because how good is this team? How 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.400 good are these kids? Along with Trey Young, Like, at 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:12.800 this point, you gotta assume he does want to win 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.880 when he's out there on the floor. He previously expressed 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.600 skepticism about the wizards like ability to go from basically 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.000 the league's worst team to like a contending team, a 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.200 team even in the playoffs. So everybody's just gonna wait 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.800 and see. But I'm with you, Like, if you're doing 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.560 a fantasy basketball here, I feel like Anthony Davis could 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.560 be a sneaky sneaky, like not sleeper pick because he 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.239 obviously puts up numbers, but like he could have some 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.840