Speaker 1: On this episode of the Heat Check, the NBA Finals end,
Speaker 1: the Draft ends, and yet we seem to be getting
Speaker 1: a more important, more hectic, chaotic, busy season. Already we
Speaker 1: had the draft, we have free agency that leads directly
Speaker 1: in the summer league. And you know how I feel
Speaker 1: about my guy Young Hansen out of the Portland Trailblazers.
Speaker 1: A girl can't catch a break, but we love it
Speaker 1: so much to cover ranging from a top GM getting fired,
Speaker 1: a guy that everybody thought for a long time is untouchable,
Speaker 1: another GM being a snake snake, you shady little snake.
Speaker 1: You you all former agent you uh, an important piece
Speaker 1: on the roster opts out of a lucrative player option,
Speaker 1: to a betting scandal with another role player that threatens
Speaker 1: to shake the league to its very foundation. So much happening?
Speaker 1: Why dot that motherfucking beat the tibby Rihanna. You're listening
Speaker 1: to the Hottest, the Hottest in the a podcast out here.
Speaker 1: I said what I said, It's the Heat chat Check.
Speaker 1: It's today. We're talking free agency. If you miss the
Speaker 1: draft coverage, go back to the feed. Three and a
Speaker 1: half hours, me and Jermaine aka Chill Tony aka fluent, fluent,
Speaker 1: chill all the details, my live reactions to every part
Speaker 1: of the first thirty picks, which was just hectic. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about some free agency and we
Speaker 1: got a lot going on. But before there, before we
Speaker 1: do that, we've got a couple of pieces of breaking news. First,
Speaker 1: an ill omen for the league Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley,
Speaker 1: not Milwaukee Bucks. Malik Beasley, who was about to get
Speaker 1: done with a three year, forty two million dollar extension
Speaker 1: which is now on hold. UH is now part of
Speaker 1: an official investigation into the East District of New York
Speaker 1: for gambling related issues. That's horrible. I've seen some film.
Speaker 1: I've seen some highlights. I've seen some low lights. There
Speaker 1: was one game where Malik Beasley rattled off seven straight
Speaker 1: points in the last like sixteen seconds. There was another
Speaker 1: one where Malik Beasley let his guy fly by him
Speaker 1: to the rim that led to a I believe either
Speaker 1: a cover or a blown cover. Just parable stuff. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I know, this isn't like he's not a star. Some
Speaker 1: people don't even know what teeny places for, so you
Speaker 1: know he's not a star. Okay, because we don't even
Speaker 1: track where he's going. He's not a ten day either, though,
Speaker 1: he's not a guy tanking his one and a half
Speaker 1: points that is on his prop points. The man was
Speaker 1: second in the NBA in three point percentage. I believe
Speaker 1: he holds the record for three points in Detroit Piston's history.
Speaker 1: He was a nine year vet. He had six hundred
Speaker 1: games under his belt. He averaged sixteen to three and two.
Speaker 1: Think this last year. Maybe it's not the Milwaukee Maybe
Speaker 1: it's the Milwaukee Buck stats. And now the latest is
Speaker 1: that he's caught up in this federal investigation due to
Speaker 1: defrauding a sports betting company. People are going through his
Speaker 1: game log. They found a game where his team was
Speaker 1: down nine with four seconds left and he sprint it
Speaker 1: up to the court for a layup at the buzzer
Speaker 1: covering the line of eight and a half. Was that
Speaker 1: Malik Beasley doing what we know Malik Beasley to do,
Speaker 1: which is hunting stats? Or was that fixing games? Who knows?
Speaker 1: What we do know is at some point betting companies
Speaker 1: involved alerted authorities due to unusual betting activities. These sports
Speaker 1: books have it down to a science. If you think
Speaker 1: you as a player who can control the outcome of
Speaker 1: the game can get away with this when there are
Speaker 1: people who are very smart, with very sophisticated models that say,
Speaker 1: oh we Thelik Beasley's way outside of what he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing. Oh wow, there's a bunch of games
Speaker 1: getting covered by elite. They will sniff this out. That's
Speaker 1: what happened with Johntay Porter. That's what seems to be
Speaker 1: happening here. And how extensive and how far back this
Speaker 1: goes remains to be seen. But I tell you what,
Speaker 1: you do not want to go down the Johntay Porter
Speaker 1: route because let me fill you in on where Johntay
Speaker 1: Porter is right now in jail. That's where he is.
Speaker 1: He's not playing anymore, but he's also behind bars. More
Speaker 1: on this soon. Uh. Speaking of Toronto Raptors, because that's
Speaker 1: where Johntay Porter used to play. Toronto fired massaiu Zierie
Speaker 1: their GM. Well, I think he was likely there president
Speaker 1: of basketball operations, but he was the architect right for
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, he was their GM. He was
Speaker 1: the architect of the franchise is only title from early reports.
Speaker 1: This is very similar to the Calvin Booth situation where
Speaker 1: there was a power struggle within the organization. You have
Speaker 1: mayple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Keith Pelly. He said
Speaker 1: the reasoning was behind it was that Jeri was there
Speaker 1: a long time and that you can't fight change, and
Speaker 1: that everything was good and fine with the franchise. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's true. I don't Two of those three
Speaker 1: things just are positively false. The man that he betted
Speaker 1: heads with, Edward Rodgers, is now complete and con charge,
Speaker 1: completely in charge. And remember back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: we had a situation where they were fighting over the
Speaker 1: extension and there was a power struggle there in terms
Speaker 1: of who was making decisions when, how long, how much money,
Speaker 1: And we were like, ooh, that doesn't seem very good.
Speaker 1: And now we come to the end of the road.
Speaker 1: Like boys to men, Rogers wants a Rodgers fought against
Speaker 1: that five year extension of twenty twenty one. Rogers wants
Speaker 1: that strong, top down organization. He does not love Ugerie's deal,
Speaker 1: which gave him a ton of power, and now he
Speaker 1: has no power. What's insane about this move is that
Speaker 1: Ugerie got to make his draft selection even though he
Speaker 1: knew he was fired. He was like Hey, just what,
Speaker 1: Why don't you keep me on until the end of
Speaker 1: the draft, And they said yes. I cannot believe they
Speaker 1: said yes. They must have been so flat footed to
Speaker 1: allow a guy on his way out to make wild
Speaker 1: ass picks like now, Colin Murray Boyles makes sense. Fuck you, guys,
Speaker 1: I had someone else in mind, but now I'm going
Speaker 1: to select Colin Murray Boyle's for you. So yeah, he
Speaker 1: balked at this guy. Rogers balked at the fifteen million
Speaker 1: dollars price tag for Zuri. And let's be honest, mss
Speaker 1: I hasn't done a lot since twenty twenty one. This
Speaker 1: team has been hot ass, so I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: give this man fifteen million dollars either. A lot of
Speaker 1: people think he's overrated and overpaid. They want to replace
Speaker 1: him with a cheaper, more compliant, more you know, docile
Speaker 1: demure GM. Simple as that, Usuri will be in great demand.
Speaker 1: Whether he's truly a winner or not is up for debate.
Speaker 1: Whether his roster building strategy is sound. That six' seven
Speaker 1: thing that he, did we all thought that was, cute
Speaker 1: but did it? Work it did. Not where he ends
Speaker 1: up will be fascinating to see moving on turning the
Speaker 1: page to player, Movement let's start on the trade, market
Speaker 1: which is just heating. Up free agency is. Here we've
Speaker 1: got some interesting. Moves let's look at trades. First first of,
Speaker 1: All utah has begun the process of cleaning. HOUSE i
Speaker 1: kind of love. IT i also don't understand. It they
Speaker 1: Move Colin sexton and a second round pick To charlotte
Speaker 1: four use Of Nurkic for use Off, nurkic you had
Speaker 1: to attached picks With Colin sexton to get a guy
Speaker 1: that was bought out By. PHOENIX i guess he got,
Speaker 1: traded but not for. Much nirk has gotten, older he's gotten,
Speaker 1: slower he's gotten more, expensive and now three teams in
Speaker 1: the last calendar year couldn't wait to get rid of his,
Speaker 1: ass mostly because he's making twenty. Mems twenty ms they'd
Speaker 1: nineteen point three seventy five. Million that is so much For.
Speaker 1: Nirk that is just, terrible just. Terrible he is now
Speaker 1: This hornet's second center to get moved After Mark williams
Speaker 1: was dealt to The, suns which is also funny Because
Speaker 1: nurkish was on The. Suns as For, charlotte what are they?
Speaker 1: Doing what do they Need Colin sexton for they take
Speaker 1: On Colin. Sexton probably they, think, Oh LaMelo's not gonna be.
Speaker 1: Healthy they take On sexton and two years and thirty
Speaker 1: seven million dollars of his contract That utah had to
Speaker 1: attach a pick to. Move, Also Colin sexton is a
Speaker 1: Little Terry, rozierish isn't? He this is like spark plug
Speaker 1: up the bench can get you twenty three six man,
Speaker 1: ish but also sometimes it gets you four. Points he
Speaker 1: disappears on, defense doesn't do a goddamn. Thing sexton is,
Speaker 1: flashy BUT i don't trust. HIM i don't trust that decision.
Speaker 1: Making he's just LIKE i, Said Terry, roziersh not a
Speaker 1: winning basketball player in my. Estimation he also did cancel
Speaker 1: on me on the podcast back in twenty twenty. One
Speaker 1: SO i will never forget You Colin sexton for fucking snubbing. Me.
Speaker 1: Anyway that's not to say that that affects my viewpoint
Speaker 1: or opinion or estimation or analysis On Colin. Sexton another
Speaker 1: interesting trait not counting the thunder Swapping Dylan jones to
Speaker 1: The wizards For Colby, jones Which jones On Jones jones
Speaker 1: is The bulls now Moving Lonzo ball to The cavs
Speaker 1: For Isaac. Acro oh, man we got to start With.
Speaker 1: Chicago they are so fucking. Terrible they just make bad
Speaker 1: move after bad. Move just imagine. This The bulls Had Alex,
Speaker 1: Caruso DeMar Derozen Zach, levine And Lonzo ball and turned
Speaker 1: them Into Josh, Giddy, Isaacacuro Kevin, Herder Zach, Collins Chris,
Speaker 1: dworte their own five first round pick and two second round. Picks,
Speaker 1: yes the only first round pick that they ended up
Speaker 1: getting to get rid of those players was their own draft.
Speaker 1: Pick they were offered a first round pick For Lonzo
Speaker 1: ball and they said no at the, deadline and they
Speaker 1: turned him Into. Isaaccorro who did you See isaaccorro doing
Speaker 1: whatever the fuck he was doing in the, playoffs which was?
Speaker 1: Nothing do you know how many Times i've Seen Isaac
Speaker 1: ucoro turn into a pumpkin right before my very? EYES
Speaker 1: i Thought Isaac corro should have been moved for my
Speaker 1: Man DeAndre. Hunter they don't trade my, Guy George niang
Speaker 1: And carrislaburg Trade Isaac. Corro he doesn't do anything but,
Speaker 1: Defend and now you got, him you can't shoot was
Speaker 1: what are they? Doing what are they doing? Now the
Speaker 1: only player in that list that they're gonna have it
Speaker 1: starts as. Giddy who's now gonna cost them? All these left,
Speaker 1: tests the cole and their own left? Testicle what are they?
Speaker 1: Doing what are they fucking? Doing everything they do makes no.
Speaker 1: Sense didn't get a pick for De, rozan didn't get
Speaker 1: a pick For, caruso didn't get a pick For. LAVIGNE
Speaker 1: i mean. Wow as For, CLEVELAND i like the. MOVE
Speaker 1: i like the. Move good backup point, guard big can
Speaker 1: defend six,' five can shoot threes off, the dribble off.
Speaker 1: The catch he's a much better Defender Than. LaMelo ball
Speaker 1: very HIGH. Basketball iq if you can, stay healthy this
Speaker 1: is a nice. LITTLE pickup i. Like, that also breaking breaking.
Speaker 1: ALERT alert i didn't even see THIS until i looked.
Speaker 1: This down who will? Will you? Will you? Woo shit, Go?
Speaker 1: Ahead nuggets you finally fucking? Did it y'll finally did It.
Speaker 1: THE nuggets i know the energy, ramped UP but i
Speaker 1: just got. This News the nuggets Are trading Michael mediocre.
Speaker 1: Porter junior if you can't spark from in, the room you're.
Speaker 1: The mark if you can't spot the mark in. The
Speaker 1: room you're. The mark They're trading Michael Mediocre porter junior
Speaker 1: and an unprotected twenty Thirty, two wow first. Round pick
Speaker 1: jogic will be long GoF. By then jogic will be
Speaker 1: with the Horses in serbia by then To The brooklyn
Speaker 1: Nets For. Cam johnson, let's, Go baby i've. BEEN trying
Speaker 1: i need to make. A call i need to text.
Speaker 1: Some FOLKS they i heard a month or in change
Speaker 1: ago this team will not be, the SAME and, i,
Speaker 1: said well the only player you, can move to my
Speaker 1: Estimation Is Michael. Porter junior that's the guy you. Gotta.
Speaker 1: Move listen now here's the, crazy, THING though I would i, would,
Speaker 1: think honestly you can get back More For Michael porter
Speaker 1: Junior Than. Cam johnson you have to attach a first
Speaker 1: round pick to get rid of a guy who is
Speaker 1: a top ten pick in the draft and was like
Speaker 1: one of the most potent three point shooters in. The,
Speaker 1: LEAGUE listen I Like. Cam johnson, holy Shit Is Michael
Speaker 1: porter junior's value just gone into. THE dumps i need
Speaker 1: to make. SOME calls, i, SAID listen i don't even
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get, For them and, THEY said
Speaker 1: I Think michael. PORTER junior i think his value is
Speaker 1: more than. You THINK and i, said REALLY and i, Was, right, Wow,
Speaker 1: wow wow. That's crazy that is a crazy. Ass trade
Speaker 1: let's look at some recent signings in. The league gms
Speaker 1: have been very busy trying to stay below that hard to,
Speaker 1: cap pause, hard cap get it hard cap ai e The.
Speaker 1: Second apron here's some of the most important chatterings signings
Speaker 1: this week in the first hours of. Free agency as
Speaker 1: it's only seven to Twenty pm Eastern as i'm, recording
Speaker 1: this the most important News Is, lebron james for the
Speaker 1: first time ever in, his career has opted in to
Speaker 1: the last year of. His deal eight other times he had,
Speaker 1: this opportunity and eight other times he declined his player
Speaker 1: option and extended or just fucking see you later but not,
Speaker 1: so fast or he's like canceled. The contract he's. Also
Speaker 1: canceled he's not, only extended but he's never opted into
Speaker 1: his last. Year Ever, rich paul Though, of clutch made
Speaker 1: it very Clear that lebron still wants to win and
Speaker 1: he wants to go wherever that is. More likely here's
Speaker 1: why that is so fascinating. To me my man just
Speaker 1: opted into something where he's got a no. Trade clause
Speaker 1: so what are we? DOING here I don't i don't.
Speaker 1: Get That So rich, paul says we understand the difficulty
Speaker 1: in winning now while preparing for. The future we do
Speaker 1: want to evaluate what's Better for lebron at this stage
Speaker 1: in his life. And career that's not all. He said
Speaker 1: he said something else that was even more sort of striking.
Speaker 1: To me, he said We know lebron Knows the lakers
Speaker 1: are building for the Future, aka luca but he values
Speaker 1: a realistic chance of winning. It all, but wow the
Speaker 1: butt is doing a lot, of legwork you KNOW what,
Speaker 1: i mean doing a lot. Of massaging, basically, saying hey
Speaker 1: we know what y'all are trying, to do but this
Speaker 1: is what we're trying. To do when you give, a
Speaker 1: butt that means we are in direct opposition to what
Speaker 1: you're saying over There IN, Part A part b is
Speaker 1: our perspective that is different than. Your perspective hence the
Speaker 1: butt and not. The end but what are we gonna?
Speaker 1: Do here what are? We doing lebron's not? Going anywhere we.
Speaker 1: KNOW that i think something online that it, was like
Speaker 1: oh IF if i was in uh The dark night
Speaker 1: And the joker tried to help hold. Me hostage i'd, be,
Speaker 1: like fine Fucking Kill maggie chillinghall and that whole that,
Speaker 1: whole group that whole boat full. Of people let. It
Speaker 1: burn i'll give. A fuck That's What rob pulinkuld probably,
Speaker 1: is saying thank you, Very Much lebron james for that
Speaker 1: perspective about where you're at in. Your career if that was,
Speaker 1: your perspective you could have been a free agent and chose.
Speaker 1: Your destination we look forward to seeing you. At, camp basically,
Speaker 1: Fuck you what are you? Gonna do we've got no
Speaker 1: trade cause so we can't trade you unless we lose
Speaker 1: you for a bag of. Potato chips so why would
Speaker 1: we move you? At all. We wouldn't what are you?
Speaker 1: Gonna do you're? Gonna, retire Fine go lebron has. No
Speaker 1: leverage if you had, any leverage he would have. Used
Speaker 1: it but opting out and becoming a. Free agent if
Speaker 1: you care so much about going to, a contender you
Speaker 1: would have taken the veteran minimum and Gone to Dallas or.
Speaker 1: Clean whatever i'll take a million dollars. A Year but
Speaker 1: lebron's not. Doing that we know he's not. Doing that
Speaker 1: lebron wants the money and the. Competitive spirit, i'm, sorry
Speaker 1: sir but there aren't any teams that can take your
Speaker 1: fifty something million dollars fifty four point six million dollars
Speaker 1: without eliminating everything that we've got going on. For us
Speaker 1: and on top, of that you're always injured and your.
Speaker 1: OLDEST fuck i don't care what. He says he's not.
Speaker 1: Going anywhere this is much ado, about nothing and if
Speaker 1: he does, go somewhere it will be. A Disaster, ENJOY cleveland,
Speaker 1: i Guess but i'm Not. TRADING jerry, i mean. It's
Speaker 1: terrible it's. Just. Terrible Uh houston rockets just continue to
Speaker 1: be one of the most savvy teams IN. The Nba
Speaker 1: jabari smith signs for, five years one hundred and twenty two.
Speaker 1: Million dollars former number three pick in, the draft doesn't test.
Speaker 1: Free agency he was on An expiring they lock. Him
Speaker 1: up he becomes a part of the corps. Moving forward
Speaker 1: there's a lot of upside. For him he hasn't really,
Speaker 1: delivered yet but we think we he CAN and i
Speaker 1: think he will slide in to a role That Maybe
Speaker 1: dylan brooks. Was in he's definitely been consistent his per
Speaker 1: thirty six minutes are almost identical all the, same years
Speaker 1: all the three years that he's been around fifteen nine
Speaker 1: and one and. A half, not spectacular but also like,
Speaker 1: we think we believe, In You, Jabari SMITH so i
Speaker 1: like This, for houston they just continue to do. Incredible
Speaker 1: things same Thing with Fred, van fleet Who The houston
Speaker 1: rockets opted out of a team contract or a, team deal.
Speaker 1: Team option, excuse me they opted out of their team
Speaker 1: option To get Fred van fleet around forty, something million
Speaker 1: And now Fred van fleet takes a twenty million dollars,
Speaker 1: pay cut and now he'll be making about twenty something
Speaker 1: million dollars. Per year so all the Moves that houston
Speaker 1: is making are just very Very. Savvy clippers What Was
Speaker 1: james harden? Gonna do what were they gonna Do With?
Speaker 1: Kawhi leonard were they going to blow? It up were
Speaker 1: they going to try? To Add james harden opts out
Speaker 1: of his, Player option he resigns for two years and eighty.
Speaker 1: One million the Grift Of james harden never ceases to. Amaze,
Speaker 1: me remember We Thought james harden was gonna get like
Speaker 1: a mid level when he wasn't playing that well and
Speaker 1: he looked kind of old. And slow now this man's
Speaker 1: still pulling in forty ms In The lord's year of twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty five is pulling in forty ms per year for,
Speaker 1: two years, and honestly he was one of the team's
Speaker 1: best players, last year which and one of the league's.
Speaker 1: Best players he MADE all nba so solid Playoffs Until
Speaker 1: james harden Did the game seven thing that he continues
Speaker 1: to do and is pretty much his. Entire legacy but
Speaker 1: he returns To the clippers Along With, nick batum who
Speaker 1: declined his player option but signed a, two year eleven
Speaker 1: and a half million. Dollar extension also In The lord's
Speaker 1: year of twenty. Twenty Five nick patombs still. Getting checks he's.
Speaker 1: So old he is. So Old the clippers are looking for,
Speaker 1: more scoring which is why they're thinking about Training For
Speaker 1: anthony simon's and looking to applies on a solid second
Speaker 1: second half of. LAST year i wonder if they're gonna
Speaker 1: get Off Of norm powell And Trade norm Powell For,
Speaker 1: anthony simon's, get younger, get cheaper and get on an Expiring. The,
Speaker 1: timberwolves wow what are? They? Doing wow paying people is what.
Speaker 1: They're doing timberwolves send a message to the league and to.
Speaker 1: The players you can. Fleece us you can fleece us
Speaker 1: if you're a decent player and you're in, the building
Speaker 1: we're paying you the maximum we can pay you where there's,
Speaker 1: no haggling there's no, fucking around there's. No hardball, they're,
Speaker 1: like Oh, nas reed you want twenty five million dollars,
Speaker 1: a Year nas reid for, five years will pay, you That,
Speaker 1: Nas reed, go Ahead. Nas read we know that you
Speaker 1: probably aren't a realistic first option for us at the,
Speaker 1: center position but we'll pay twenty five million dollars to our,
Speaker 1: backup center Even Though rudy gobert is like. Never, injured
Speaker 1: fine we'll. Do That julius randall signs a, three year
Speaker 1: one hundred. Million dollars that's like a. DECENT offer i
Speaker 1: guess that's a. Decent deal it's about what he was.
Speaker 1: Making before at least he didn't get a. PAID bump
Speaker 1: I Expected julius radn'll get a. Pay bump, so yeah
Speaker 1: now they Can't Sign Nikaol, alexander walker who out of
Speaker 1: those three is probably my. Favorite player they say they want. To,
Speaker 1: win now enjoy that. Second apron enjoy that. Second, Apron
Speaker 1: Also Nikkel alexander walker probably Going. To ATLANTA and i
Speaker 1: just want to say THIS because i DON'T think i
Speaker 1: have this anymore in my plans to. Speak About but
Speaker 1: atlanta just got smart all of. A sudden they're actually.
Speaker 1: Doing Stuff. Ausie salah turns out you can't just Be
Speaker 1: A golden state beat reporter and also then just like
Speaker 1: turn INTO the gm Of The atlanta hawks because you're
Speaker 1: friends with the. Owner's son turns out that's not a.
Speaker 1: Great strategy turns out that you're gonna make some dumb.
Speaker 1: Ass MOVES so I like asie sala and everything that
Speaker 1: he's doing and. His lieutenants everything's been going really hi.
Speaker 1: I qish you Know what, I'm saying hi. I Qish
Speaker 1: So joe ingles also back on a, one year three
Speaker 1: point six million. Dollar deal do you See what, I'm?
Speaker 1: Saying timberwolves what Do we why is this? Man retired
Speaker 1: why is HE getting i have better knees and Ankles Than.
Speaker 1: Joe ingles do you really need a veteran Leader Like
Speaker 1: eudonnis Haslam but australian in your? LOCKER room i don't think.
Speaker 1: You do moving over to, the heat they're just continuing
Speaker 1: to warm hot dogs over the fire and a barrel under.
Speaker 1: The freeway they're, Just dead they're just. So gross they're just.
Speaker 1: A hobo they're just a. Hobo organization you KNOW what,
Speaker 1: I Mean, DUNCAN robinson i don't mean it truly like a.
Speaker 1: Whole bubble they're. Operating Desperate duncan robinson opted out of
Speaker 1: a twenty million dollar buyout that would have made him a,
Speaker 1: free agent and now he's working With the heat on
Speaker 1: a new team. Friendly deal, Why Why, Duncan robinson you're
Speaker 1: not getting any. Playing Time davion mitchell got his money,
Speaker 1: two years twenty four. Million dollars i'm very Happy. For
Speaker 1: daveyon but these are just not moves that make. Any
Speaker 1: sense these are not moves that move the needle in
Speaker 1: any Way. For miami other teams are locking down all
Speaker 1: stars or making moves Trading for hall. Of famers miami it's.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighties just like the rest of, their infrastructure they just.
Speaker 1: Grew Stuck and, he's, like wow it was Popping in
Speaker 1: miami in nineteen. Eighty four and that's pretty much what's
Speaker 1: going on for the basketball team. As well rough rough
Speaker 1: offseason so far For. The, heat okay see he continues
Speaker 1: to do their. Smart things they cut off a big
Speaker 1: piece of Check To jalen williams with the why, three
Speaker 1: years twenty four. Million dollars jay will. GETS Paid aj
Speaker 1: mitchell gets paid three years nine. Million dollars and that's
Speaker 1: awesome Because Only sam presty could have every first round
Speaker 1: pick in the book and still managed to find a
Speaker 1: guy who's a mid second round pick Of The New
Speaker 1: york knicks and trade for him on. DRAFT night I Love.
Speaker 1: Sam presty he's. So smart he just is like running
Speaker 1: circles around, everybody else and you wonder, to, yourself like is?
Speaker 1: Anyone Smart But sam Presty And kevin pritchard en. Be
Speaker 1: cannon but you Know what. I'M saying aj gets. Job
Speaker 1: security he's reveling the fact that he's only The second
Speaker 1: belgian ever to win a championship IN. THE nba i
Speaker 1: hope the third Is To. Monty kamara That's a. Blazer
Speaker 1: Reference so cleveland not only Trade For, lonzo ball But
Speaker 1: they Sami Signed. Sam Merrill, sam merril that's so. Much money,
Speaker 1: four years thirty. EIGHT million i texted somebody in the
Speaker 1: League sam merril and they go face palm emoji face
Speaker 1: palm emoji For? Sam merril why is he getting paid that?
Speaker 1: Much money, my Man sam merrill had me choking all.
Speaker 1: OVER myself i had to take a small. Chronic break
Speaker 1: he was sixtieth overall drafted in. TWENTY twenty i honestly
Speaker 1: forgot he, was drafted consistent forty, percent shooter major bench
Speaker 1: piece On. The cavaliers but nine and a half million
Speaker 1: dollars not like that's as just normal people who don't talk.
Speaker 1: About IT the nba consider nine and a half. Million
Speaker 1: Dollars bobby portis returns To the bucks on a, three
Speaker 1: year forty four million. DOLLAR deal i know a lot
Speaker 1: of people are gonna feel some kind of way, about
Speaker 1: this and the way they feel about it will be
Speaker 1: how the entire yannest thing. Ends up there are rumors
Speaker 1: we don't know what he's, gonna do where he's. Gonna
Speaker 1: Go is janni's gonna be on? The move sean said
Speaker 1: that there are a bunch of big teams just hoarding,
Speaker 1: their assets squirreling them away For the what is it
Speaker 1: the rainy Day that yannis decides. To leave poor designing,
Speaker 1: means Something if janna stays it. Means nothing if you.
Speaker 1: Honest goes that's pretty much everything That the bucks do
Speaker 1: meaningful in no Way if JANNIS decides i want out,
Speaker 1: Of here but you kind of, want To Like jeremy grant.
Speaker 1: This deal you kind of want to like get the
Speaker 1: people Around that yannis Wants while jannis is. Still deciding
Speaker 1: but just know That when, yanni's dips you gotta keep.
Speaker 1: Those players and then three years later, you're like, wely
Speaker 1: shit we can't get Rid Of. Jeremy grant we might
Speaker 1: have to attach something to get rid. Of them so
Speaker 1: just know. About That santi aldama gets paid. As well,
Speaker 1: three years fifty two million. Dollar Deal the grizzlies have
Speaker 1: to sign someone and he's already got a. Home there
Speaker 1: they used Their caption inigans To Sign. Jaron jackson he
Speaker 1: gets his two hundred and forty MILLION. Dollars max so
Speaker 1: much Money For. JARON jackson i don't think he's, worth,
Speaker 1: It Behay the grizzlies are gonna be a. Fun Team
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies Gave ti jerome three years and twenty, eight
Speaker 1: million which is the same per Year As. Sam merrill
Speaker 1: so you know which direction That the cavs wanted. To
Speaker 1: Go sam merrill Over. Tied jerome. That's Insane ti jerome
Speaker 1: gets nine point three million dollars. Per. Year wow Finally
Speaker 1: the nets entered the week sixty million below the. Salary
Speaker 1: floor they gave some of it to young players who
Speaker 1: are not relevant in. Any Way dyaron sharp, two years,
Speaker 1: Twelve Million, zia williams he comes back on a, two
Speaker 1: year twelve million. Dollar deal let's go Over, to portland
Speaker 1: who have seen the shock the world by Buying Out,
Speaker 1: DeAndre ayton the former number one overall player in the
Speaker 1: draft who came here For the. DAMELIELLER trade I Love.
Speaker 1: DeAndre ayton i met him as a. Young Kid. HE'S
Speaker 1: caribbean i don't know what that says about his, work
Speaker 1: ethic but his, work ethic his rumor to not be.
Speaker 1: That good there's a lot of ice jokes about him
Speaker 1: not being able to make it to a game when.
Speaker 1: It's snowing i'm not slandering him at all to say
Speaker 1: that his tenure has. Been spotty his roller. Coaster production
Speaker 1: sometimes is giving you a. Double double sometimes he's giving
Speaker 1: you fifteen points at halftime and sixteen points at the
Speaker 1: end of. THE game i Fucking Love. DeAndre ayden i'm
Speaker 1: gutted to find that a number one overall pick at
Speaker 1: the prime of his youth is getting. Bought out but
Speaker 1: that tells me How much portland is In on Young.
Speaker 1: And hanson they, love him they want minutes. For him,
Speaker 1: They Said DeAndre ayton is not clogging. Things Up rich, paul,
Speaker 1: says hey get this guy out, of here and. They
Speaker 1: did that's. Fucking wild the, rumor though is that this
Speaker 1: is a backdoor deal With, the lakers who will then
Speaker 1: sign him once he clears waivers and Then trade Ruiy
Speaker 1: And dalton Connect For. Jeremy grant so it Would Be
Speaker 1: Ruey dalton Connect For jeremy Grant And. DeAndre ayden i don't.
Speaker 1: HATE it i don't. Hate it And then portland gets
Speaker 1: off of. Both contracts. Let's See the jazz are also
Speaker 1: Buying Out, jordan clarkson who's been Popular in utah, for many.
Speaker 1: Many years, IN fact i forgot he was still on.
Speaker 1: This team he's been wanting out for. Many years the
Speaker 1: Eleven year vet was A six man Of. The year he,
Speaker 1: averaged sixteen three, and four but he so owed a lot.
Speaker 1: Of money he sowed a lot, of money thirty million
Speaker 1: over the next two Years. And utah they don't need
Speaker 1: any more guards clogging things up for Our Man Walter
Speaker 1: clayton junior and Our Man. Ace bailey so he has.
Speaker 1: TO go i wonder where he's, gonna sign and that's gonna.
Speaker 1: Be fascinating he can help a lot, of teams and
Speaker 1: a team Like, the celtics he could help a lot
Speaker 1: a team like let's see a team Like The. Orlando
Speaker 1: magic he could help a team Like The. Denver nuggets
Speaker 1: he could. Really help so he's actually a very very
Speaker 1: important piece on. The chessboard so something also we need
Speaker 1: to talk About. The lakers they Bring In. Jake lauravia
Speaker 1: that's a great, little deal, two year. Twelve million but
Speaker 1: something weird is going on and It Surrounds Dorian, finney
Speaker 1: Smith the laker forward who Played with Luca, in dallas
Speaker 1: and you would think he would want to Play with
Speaker 1: Luca in. La again he played For. The lakers he
Speaker 1: had a fifteen point four million dollar player option and
Speaker 1: largely he should and you would think he would pick.
Speaker 1: It up but. He didn't he. Declined IT and i
Speaker 1: didn't see. It coming nobody else saw. It coming and
Speaker 1: the question is why did you? Do it now it's
Speaker 1: coming out that none Other Than, anthony irwin former producer
Speaker 1: of this podcast In The lakers lounge spill the teeth first,
Speaker 1: and foremost We Had trevor lane on his, little podcast
Speaker 1: not his, little POCKET but i Think On twitter, Live,
Speaker 1: saying hey there's a Reason That Dorian finney smith is
Speaker 1: declining his player OPTION and i don't want to, say
Speaker 1: why but it has to do with. Something personal now
Speaker 1: we know what. It Is Dorian finney smith was getting
Speaker 1: slandered out here on these Streets By. Rob, Polenka, Snake
Speaker 1: Snake rob polenka trying to tank, his value saying that
Speaker 1: he has a bad knee or, bad ankle, excuse me
Speaker 1: bad ankle to try to get him back on a.
Speaker 1: Cheaper price. That's disgusting what are, You? Doing rob what are?
Speaker 1: YOU doing i had multiple people text me that this.
Speaker 1: Is True Dorian finney smith is One of luca's, closest
Speaker 1: friends and you want to fuck around with his value
Speaker 1: because you're worried about the. Second apron you better figure, It,
Speaker 1: out rob you were Gifted. A ferrari now you're leaving
Speaker 1: it in the rain with the. Windows open luca, Might,
Speaker 1: Leave okay luca. Might go if you guys don't figure,
Speaker 1: this out and he. Sees it it's as bad of
Speaker 1: a culture as we already know. It. Is yikes So
Speaker 1: Now Dorian phinney smith signs With, the Rockets the rockets
Speaker 1: just continue to make moves right after. Free agency four
Speaker 1: years fifty three million dollars thirteen point twenty five million dollars,
Speaker 1: per year much less a couple million dollars less than his.
Speaker 1: Player option but, four years what a solid? Fuck you
Speaker 1: and guess what and, guess what no state Tax, in
Speaker 1: texas so it's even bigger of. A savings, goodness gracious.
Speaker 1: All right so also these are moves that happened in
Speaker 1: the first forty minutes of recording. The podcast We Got
Speaker 1: clint capella To. The rockets Are the rockets? Getting everyone
Speaker 1: Are The houston rockets hunting? For bear who is even on?
Speaker 1: This team We Got, steven adams We Got, Clint capella
Speaker 1: We Got, alprin shangoun We, got jabari WE. Got dfs
Speaker 1: we Got Also, Kevin durant oh, my, goodness gracious we
Speaker 1: got a lot of. Perimeter defense who's scoring on? THIS
Speaker 1: team i. Don't know We've Got. D'Angelo, russell, goodness gracious
Speaker 1: signing a, two year thirteen million dollar deal With. The
Speaker 1: mavericks you need a. Little scoring they don't have anybody.
Speaker 1: TO create i don't, hate it don't. Love it not.
Speaker 1: My favorite, But Hey karris lavert, two years twenty nine
Speaker 1: million dollars Of the pistons To Replace. Milake beasley, Holy,
Speaker 1: shit malik you fumbled. The bag. My guy pretty good Bet.
Speaker 1: FOR detroit I Like. Kris lvert he's. A Bucket, Kevin
Speaker 1: porter i'm gonna beat. Your. Ass, junior uh he's. A
Speaker 1: buckey he's buckey. His bucket he signed a, two year
Speaker 1: eleven million deal in return The. Bucks Man the bucks
Speaker 1: are down so bad when you're going back to the
Speaker 1: well with the guy who was waived for, THROWING soup i.
Speaker 1: DON'T know i. Don't Know, Trey Jones tias, jones's brother
Speaker 1: who's not nearly, as good Goes to chicago for three
Speaker 1: years and twenty four. Million dollars that'll get you forty
Speaker 1: one wins and. A Plan bruce brown goes back To
Speaker 1: the nuggets on a one. Year DEAL oh i love
Speaker 1: that For. My NUGGETS oh i. Love That. GO bruce
Speaker 1: i don't know how much the, money IS but i
Speaker 1: know it's not what they originally let him walk for
Speaker 1: From The indiana pacers who. Signed him. Incredible Stuff kevon
Speaker 1: looney goes To the pelicans after a Decade In. Golden State,
Speaker 1: LUKE cornett i actually like That For. Keavon loney you
Speaker 1: gotta get a change. In scenery What Is golden state
Speaker 1: gonna Do for? CENTER now i don't? Like Goodness the
Speaker 1: center market's right though we know. It's Deep the rockets can't,
Speaker 1: Get Everybody, luke cornett, four years forty one Million To.
Speaker 1: San antonio, my lord this player movement. Is Wild. The
Speaker 1: celtics what you about? To do because Also our orford
Speaker 1: not coming back To. The celtics do we even know
Speaker 1: What the celtics? Are doing are they FULL of i.
Speaker 1: Don't know this is all. So fascinating we might come
Speaker 1: back tomorrow and break. More down this is all the
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