WEBVTT - Free Agency is Underway! 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:04.640 On this episode of the Heat Check, the NBA Finals end, 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.639 the Draft ends, and yet we seem to be getting 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:14.800 a more important, more hectic, chaotic, busy season. Already we 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.360 had the draft, we have free agency that leads directly 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.319 in the summer league. And you know how I feel 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.959 about my guy Young Hansen out of the Portland Trailblazers. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.239 A girl can't catch a break, but we love it 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:30.840 so much to cover ranging from a top GM getting fired, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.400 a guy that everybody thought for a long time is untouchable, 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:39.000 another GM being a snake snake, you shady little snake. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.960 You you all former agent you uh, an important piece 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.000 on the roster opts out of a lucrative player option, 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.600 to a betting scandal with another role player that threatens 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.159 to shake the league to its very foundation. So much happening? 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:59.120 Why dot that motherfucking beat the tibby Rihanna. You're listening 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.640 to the Hottest, the Hottest in the a podcast out here. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.319 I said what I said, It's the Heat chat Check. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:13.400 It's today. We're talking free agency. If you miss the 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.080 draft coverage, go back to the feed. Three and a 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:21.880 half hours, me and Jermaine aka Chill Tony aka fluent, fluent, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.960 chill all the details, my live reactions to every part 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.440 of the first thirty picks, which was just hectic. But 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.880 we're gonna be talking about some free agency and we 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.600 got a lot going on. But before there, before we 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:38.240 do that, we've got a couple of pieces of breaking news. First, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:46.759 an ill omen for the league Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:51.800 not Milwaukee Bucks. Malik Beasley, who was about to get 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.760 done with a three year, forty two million dollar extension 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.640 which is now on hold. UH is now part of 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.920 an official investigation into the East District of New York 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.760 for gambling related issues. That's horrible. I've seen some film. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.640 I've seen some highlights. I've seen some low lights. There 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.959 was one game where Malik Beasley rattled off seven straight 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.280 points in the last like sixteen seconds. There was another 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.880 one where Malik Beasley let his guy fly by him 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.519 to the rim that led to a I believe either 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.440 a cover or a blown cover. Just parable stuff. Oh no, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.560 I know, this isn't like he's not a star. Some 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.840 people don't even know what teeny places for, so you 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.560 know he's not a star. Okay, because we don't even 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.960 track where he's going. He's not a ten day either, though, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.840 he's not a guy tanking his one and a half 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.360 points that is on his prop points. The man was 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.880 second in the NBA in three point percentage. I believe 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:53.360 he holds the record for three points in Detroit Piston's history. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.480 He was a nine year vet. He had six hundred 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.760 games under his belt. He averaged sixteen to three and two. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.520 Think this last year. Maybe it's not the Milwaukee Maybe 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.240 it's the Milwaukee Buck stats. And now the latest is 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.600 that he's caught up in this federal investigation due to 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.360 defrauding a sports betting company. People are going through his 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:15.680 game log. They found a game where his team was 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.720 down nine with four seconds left and he sprint it 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.520 up to the court for a layup at the buzzer 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.760 covering the line of eight and a half. Was that 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.120 Malik Beasley doing what we know Malik Beasley to do, 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.960 which is hunting stats? Or was that fixing games? Who knows? 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.919 What we do know is at some point betting companies 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:38.920 involved alerted authorities due to unusual betting activities. These sports 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.200 books have it down to a science. If you think 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.360 you as a player who can control the outcome of 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.240 the game can get away with this when there are 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.320 people who are very smart, with very sophisticated models that say, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:55.920 oh we Thelik Beasley's way outside of what he's supposed 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.680 to be doing. Oh wow, there's a bunch of games 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.120 getting covered by elite. They will sniff this out. That's 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.600 what happened with Johntay Porter. That's what seems to be 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:10.240 happening here. And how extensive and how far back this 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.000 goes remains to be seen. But I tell you what, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.200 you do not want to go down the Johntay Porter 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.360 route because let me fill you in on where Johntay 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:20.080 Porter is right now in jail. That's where he is. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:24.400 He's not playing anymore, but he's also behind bars. More 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.160 on this soon. Uh. Speaking of Toronto Raptors, because that's 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:32.760 where Johntay Porter used to play. Toronto fired massaiu Zierie 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.239 their GM. Well, I think he was likely there president 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.719 of basketball operations, but he was the architect right for 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.919 all intents and purposes, he was their GM. He was 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:45.839 the architect of the franchise is only title from early reports. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.840 This is very similar to the Calvin Booth situation where 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.760 there was a power struggle within the organization. You have 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.719 mayple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Keith Pelly. He said 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.360 the reasoning was behind it was that Jeri was there 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.360 a long time and that you can't fight change, and 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.520 that everything was good and fine with the franchise. I 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.480 don't think that's true. I don't Two of those three 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.200 things just are positively false. The man that he betted 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.159 heads with, Edward Rodgers, is now complete and con charge, 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:21.080 completely in charge. And remember back in twenty twenty one, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.680 we had a situation where they were fighting over the 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.360 extension and there was a power struggle there in terms 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.200 of who was making decisions when, how long, how much money, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.840 And we were like, ooh, that doesn't seem very good. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.400 And now we come to the end of the road. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.919 Like boys to men, Rogers wants a Rodgers fought against 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.440 that five year extension of twenty twenty one. Rogers wants 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.840 that strong, top down organization. He does not love Ugerie's deal, 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.640 which gave him a ton of power, and now he 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.480 has no power. What's insane about this move is that 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.960 Ugerie got to make his draft selection even though he 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.120 knew he was fired. He was like Hey, just what, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.680 Why don't you keep me on until the end of 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.520 the draft, And they said yes. I cannot believe they 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.000 said yes. They must have been so flat footed to 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.800 allow a guy on his way out to make wild 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.200 ass picks like now, Colin Murray Boyles makes sense. Fuck you, guys, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.479 I had someone else in mind, but now I'm going 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.680 to select Colin Murray Boyle's for you. So yeah, he 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.800 balked at this guy. Rogers balked at the fifteen million 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.200 dollars price tag for Zuri. And let's be honest, mss 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.800 I hasn't done a lot since twenty twenty one. This 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.560 team has been hot ass, so I wouldn't want to 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.320 give this man fifteen million dollars either. A lot of 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.040 people think he's overrated and overpaid. They want to replace 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:43.200 him with a cheaper, more compliant, more you know, docile 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:49.279 demure GM. Simple as that, Usuri will be in great demand. 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.440 Whether he's truly a winner or not is up for debate. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:58.480 Whether his roster building strategy is sound. That six' seven 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.839 thing that he, did we all thought that was, cute 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.280 but did it? Work it did. Not where he ends 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:08.120 up will be fascinating to see moving on turning the 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.840 page to player, Movement let's start on the trade, market 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.560 which is just heating. Up free agency is. Here we've 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.240 got some interesting. Moves let's look at trades. First first of, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:22.440 All utah has begun the process of cleaning. HOUSE i 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.160 kind of love. IT i also don't understand. It they 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.840 Move Colin sexton and a second round pick To charlotte 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:32.160 four use Of Nurkic for use Off, nurkic you had 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.480 to attached picks With Colin sexton to get a guy 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.640 that was bought out By. PHOENIX i guess he got, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.080 traded but not for. Much nirk has gotten, older he's gotten, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.440 slower he's gotten more, expensive and now three teams in 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.840 the last calendar year couldn't wait to get rid of his, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.680 ass mostly because he's making twenty. Mems twenty ms they'd 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.800 nineteen point three seventy five. Million that is so much For. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:08:00.400 Nirk that is just, terrible just. Terrible he is now 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:05.000 This hornet's second center to get moved After Mark williams 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.040 was dealt to The, suns which is also funny Because 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.920 nurkish was on The. Suns as For, charlotte what are they? 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.040 Doing what do they Need Colin sexton for they take 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.120 On Colin. Sexton probably they, think, Oh LaMelo's not gonna be. 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.000 Healthy they take On sexton and two years and thirty 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.960 seven million dollars of his contract That utah had to 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.240 attach a pick to. Move, Also Colin sexton is a 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.600 Little Terry, rozierish isn't? He this is like spark plug 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.240 up the bench can get you twenty three six man, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.800 ish but also sometimes it gets you four. Points he 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.400 disappears on, defense doesn't do a goddamn. Thing sexton is, 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.160 flashy BUT i don't trust. HIM i don't trust that decision. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.320 Making he's just LIKE i, Said Terry, roziersh not a 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:51.800 winning basketball player in my. Estimation he also did cancel 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.000 on me on the podcast back in twenty twenty. One 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.240 SO i will never forget You Colin sexton for fucking snubbing. Me. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:05.040 Anyway that's not to say that that affects my viewpoint 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.760 or opinion or estimation or analysis On Colin. Sexton another 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.280 interesting trait not counting the thunder Swapping Dylan jones to 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.760 The wizards For Colby, jones Which jones On Jones jones 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.800 is The bulls now Moving Lonzo ball to The cavs 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.800 For Isaac. Acro oh, man we got to start With. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:31.600 Chicago they are so fucking. Terrible they just make bad 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:39.040 move after bad. Move just imagine. This The bulls Had Alex, 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:48.280 Caruso DeMar Derozen Zach, levine And Lonzo ball and turned 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:57.760 them Into Josh, Giddy, Isaacacuro Kevin, Herder Zach, Collins Chris, 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:04.560 dworte their own five first round pick and two second round. Picks, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.720 yes the only first round pick that they ended up 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:12.320 getting to get rid of those players was their own draft. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:17.520 Pick they were offered a first round pick For Lonzo 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.760 ball and they said no at the, deadline and they 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:25.160 turned him Into. Isaaccorro who did you See isaaccorro doing 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.320 whatever the fuck he was doing in the, playoffs which was? 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.600 Nothing do you know how many Times i've Seen Isaac 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.920 ucoro turn into a pumpkin right before my very? EYES 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.280 i Thought Isaac corro should have been moved for my 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.520 Man DeAndre. Hunter they don't trade my, Guy George niang 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.480 And carrislaburg Trade Isaac. Corro he doesn't do anything but, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.160 Defend and now you got, him you can't shoot was 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.640 what are they? Doing what are they doing? Now the 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.800 only player in that list that they're gonna have it 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.720 starts as. Giddy who's now gonna cost them? All these left, 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.559 tests the cole and their own left? Testicle what are they? 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.160 Doing what are they fucking? Doing everything they do makes no. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.319 Sense didn't get a pick for De, rozan didn't get 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.599 a pick For, caruso didn't get a pick For. LAVIGNE 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.640 i mean. Wow as For, CLEVELAND i like the. MOVE 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:21.319 i like the. Move good backup point, guard big can 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.640 defend six,' five can shoot threes off, the dribble off. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:29.000 The catch he's a much better Defender Than. LaMelo ball 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.600 very HIGH. Basketball iq if you can, stay healthy this 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:36.040 is a nice. LITTLE pickup i. Like, that also breaking breaking. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.960 ALERT alert i didn't even see THIS until i looked. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:44.600 This down who will? Will you? Will you? Woo shit, Go? 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.640 Ahead nuggets you finally fucking? Did it y'll finally did It. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.360 THE nuggets i know the energy, ramped UP but i 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:57.079 just got. This News the nuggets Are trading Michael mediocre. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:01.360 Porter junior if you can't spark from in, the room you're. 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.640 The mark if you can't spot the mark in. The 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.679 room you're. The mark They're trading Michael Mediocre porter junior 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.400 and an unprotected twenty Thirty, two wow first. Round pick 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:17.240 jogic will be long GoF. By then jogic will be 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.840 with the Horses in serbia by then To The brooklyn 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.400 Nets For. Cam johnson, let's, Go baby i've. BEEN trying 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.720 i need to make. A call i need to text. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:33.320 Some FOLKS they i heard a month or in change 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.560 ago this team will not be, the SAME and, i, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.360 said well the only player you, can move to my 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.720 Estimation Is Michael. Porter junior that's the guy you. Gotta. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:49.560 Move listen now here's the, crazy, THING though I would i, would, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:55.560 think honestly you can get back More For Michael porter 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.000 Junior Than. Cam johnson you have to attach a first 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.760 round pick to get rid of a guy who is 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.960 a top ten pick in the draft and was like 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.640 one of the most potent three point shooters in. The, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.120 LEAGUE listen I Like. Cam johnson, holy Shit Is Michael 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:17.240 porter junior's value just gone into. THE dumps i need 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.040 to make. SOME calls, i, SAID listen i don't even 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.400 know what you're gonna get, For them and, THEY said 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.960 I Think michael. PORTER junior i think his value is 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.640 more than. You THINK and i, said REALLY and i, Was, right, Wow, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.880 wow wow. That's crazy that is a crazy. Ass trade 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.080 let's look at some recent signings in. The league gms 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.600 have been very busy trying to stay below that hard to, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:44.400 cap pause, hard cap get it hard cap ai e The. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:49.160 Second apron here's some of the most important chatterings signings 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.400 this week in the first hours of. Free agency as 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.000 it's only seven to Twenty pm Eastern as i'm, recording 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.120 this the most important News Is, lebron james for the 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.280 first time ever in, his career has opted in to 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.640 the last year of. His deal eight other times he had, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.720 this opportunity and eight other times he declined his player 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:16.160 option and extended or just fucking see you later but not, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:20.320 so fast or he's like canceled. The contract he's. Also 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.760 canceled he's not, only extended but he's never opted into 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:28.840 his last. Year Ever, rich paul Though, of clutch made 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:33.720 it very Clear that lebron still wants to win and 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.600 he wants to go wherever that is. More likely here's 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.840 why that is so fascinating. To me my man just 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.240 opted into something where he's got a no. Trade clause 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.840 so what are we? DOING here I don't i don't. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:53.080 Get That So rich, paul says we understand the difficulty 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:58.600 in winning now while preparing for. The future we do 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.520 want to evaluate what's Better for lebron at this stage 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:06.520 in his life. And career that's not all. He said 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:11.440 he said something else that was even more sort of striking. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:16.840 To me, he said We know lebron Knows the lakers 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:22.880 are building for the Future, aka luca but he values 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:29.920 a realistic chance of winning. It all, but wow the 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.200 butt is doing a lot, of legwork you KNOW what, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.080 i mean doing a lot. Of massaging, basically, saying hey 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.640 we know what y'all are trying, to do but this 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.480 is what we're trying. To do when you give, a 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.640 butt that means we are in direct opposition to what 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.040 you're saying over There IN, Part A part b is 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.760 our perspective that is different than. Your perspective hence the 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.840 butt and not. The end but what are we gonna? 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:58.920 Do here what are? We doing lebron's not? Going anywhere we. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.800 KNOW that i think something online that it, was like 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.080 oh IF if i was in uh The dark night 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.520 And the joker tried to help hold. Me hostage i'd, be, 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.800 like fine Fucking Kill maggie chillinghall and that whole that, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.560 whole group that whole boat full. Of people let. It 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.800 burn i'll give. A fuck That's What rob pulinkuld probably, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.400 is saying thank you, Very Much lebron james for that 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.040 perspective about where you're at in. Your career if that was, 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:25.520 your perspective you could have been a free agent and chose. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:30.280 Your destination we look forward to seeing you. At, camp basically, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.080 Fuck you what are you? Gonna do we've got no 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.800 trade cause so we can't trade you unless we lose 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.080 you for a bag of. Potato chips so why would 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.880 we move you? At all. We wouldn't what are you? 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.720 Gonna do you're? Gonna, retire Fine go lebron has. No 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.600 leverage if you had, any leverage he would have. Used 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.760 it but opting out and becoming a. Free agent if 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.480 you care so much about going to, a contender you 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.600 would have taken the veteran minimum and Gone to Dallas or. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.720 Clean whatever i'll take a million dollars. A Year but 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.840 lebron's not. Doing that we know he's not. Doing that 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:09.960 lebron wants the money and the. Competitive spirit, i'm, sorry 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.000 sir but there aren't any teams that can take your 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.280 fifty something million dollars fifty four point six million dollars 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.640 without eliminating everything that we've got going on. For us 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.800 and on top, of that you're always injured and your. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.679 OLDEST fuck i don't care what. He says he's not. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.880 Going anywhere this is much ado, about nothing and if 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.320 he does, go somewhere it will be. A Disaster, ENJOY cleveland, 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.640 i Guess but i'm Not. TRADING jerry, i mean. It's 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:37.080 terrible it's. Just. Terrible Uh houston rockets just continue to 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.040 be one of the most savvy teams IN. The Nba 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.360 jabari smith signs for, five years one hundred and twenty two. 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:46.240 Million dollars former number three pick in, the draft doesn't test. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.080 Free agency he was on An expiring they lock. Him 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.840 up he becomes a part of the corps. Moving forward 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.359 there's a lot of upside. For him he hasn't really, 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.320 delivered yet but we think we he CAN and i 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.680 think he will slide in to a role That Maybe 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.640 dylan brooks. Was in he's definitely been consistent his per 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.800 thirty six minutes are almost identical all the, same years 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.000 all the three years that he's been around fifteen nine 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.840 and one and. A half, not spectacular but also like, 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.919 we think we believe, In You, Jabari SMITH so i 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.320 like This, for houston they just continue to do. Incredible 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.560 things same Thing with Fred, van fleet Who The houston 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.760 rockets opted out of a team contract or a, team deal. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.560 Team option, excuse me they opted out of their team 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.439 option To get Fred van fleet around forty, something million 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.320 And now Fred van fleet takes a twenty million dollars, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.080 pay cut and now he'll be making about twenty something 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.960 million dollars. Per year so all the Moves that houston 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:49.399 is making are just very Very. Savvy clippers What Was 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.080 james harden? Gonna do what were they gonna Do With? 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.200 Kawhi leonard were they going to blow? It up were 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.800 they going to try? To Add james harden opts out 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.520 of his, Player option he resigns for two years and eighty. 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:05.880 One million the Grift Of james harden never ceases to. Amaze, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.199 me remember We Thought james harden was gonna get like 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.000 a mid level when he wasn't playing that well and 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.000 he looked kind of old. And slow now this man's 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.720 still pulling in forty ms In The lord's year of twenty, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:19.960 twenty five is pulling in forty ms per year for, 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.320 two years, and honestly he was one of the team's 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.200 best players, last year which and one of the league's. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.359 Best players he MADE all nba so solid Playoffs Until 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:33.760 james harden Did the game seven thing that he continues 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.399 to do and is pretty much his. Entire legacy but 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.000 he returns To the clippers Along With, nick batum who 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.400 declined his player option but signed a, two year eleven 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.680 and a half million. Dollar extension also In The lord's 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.560 year of twenty. Twenty Five nick patombs still. Getting checks he's. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.959 So old he is. So Old the clippers are looking for, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.320 more scoring which is why they're thinking about Training For 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.359 anthony simon's and looking to applies on a solid second 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.480 second half of. LAST year i wonder if they're gonna 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.600 get Off Of norm powell And Trade norm Powell For, 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:13.159 anthony simon's, get younger, get cheaper and get on an Expiring. The, 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:19.119 timberwolves wow what are? They? Doing wow paying people is what. 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:23.560 They're doing timberwolves send a message to the league and to. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.480 The players you can. Fleece us you can fleece us 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:28.719 if you're a decent player and you're in, the building 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.520 we're paying you the maximum we can pay you where there's, 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.800 no haggling there's no, fucking around there's. No hardball, they're, 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.000 like Oh, nas reed you want twenty five million dollars, 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:42.800 a Year nas reid for, five years will pay, you That, 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.439 Nas reed, go Ahead. Nas read we know that you 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.919 probably aren't a realistic first option for us at the, 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.200 center position but we'll pay twenty five million dollars to our, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:55.840 backup center Even Though rudy gobert is like. Never, injured 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.040 fine we'll. Do That julius randall signs a, three year 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.800 one hundred. Million dollars that's like a. DECENT offer i 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.280 guess that's a. Decent deal it's about what he was. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.199 Making before at least he didn't get a. PAID bump 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:11.000 I Expected julius radn'll get a. Pay bump, so yeah 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.760 now they Can't Sign Nikaol, alexander walker who out of 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.320 those three is probably my. Favorite player they say they want. To, 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:20.280 win now enjoy that. Second apron enjoy that. Second, Apron 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.159 Also Nikkel alexander walker probably Going. To ATLANTA and i 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.399 just want to say THIS because i DON'T think i 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.760 have this anymore in my plans to. Speak About but 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.000 atlanta just got smart all of. A sudden they're actually. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:38.040 Doing Stuff. Ausie salah turns out you can't just Be 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.600 A golden state beat reporter and also then just like 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:43.879 turn INTO the gm Of The atlanta hawks because you're 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.040 friends with the. Owner's son turns out that's not a. 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.920 Great strategy turns out that you're gonna make some dumb. 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.520 Ass MOVES so I like asie sala and everything that 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:57.000 he's doing and. His lieutenants everything's been going really hi. 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.399 I qish you Know what, I'm saying hi. I Qish 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:04.000 So joe ingles also back on a, one year three 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:05.560 point six million. Dollar deal do you See what, I'm? 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.040 Saying timberwolves what Do we why is this? Man retired 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.040 why is HE getting i have better knees and Ankles Than. 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:14.760 Joe ingles do you really need a veteran Leader Like 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.840 eudonnis Haslam but australian in your? LOCKER room i don't think. 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.719 You do moving over to, the heat they're just continuing 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.320 to warm hot dogs over the fire and a barrel under. 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.919 The freeway they're, Just dead they're just. So gross they're just. 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:31.720 A hobo they're just a. Hobo organization you KNOW what, 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:35.000 I Mean, DUNCAN robinson i don't mean it truly like a. 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:39.480 Whole bubble they're. Operating Desperate duncan robinson opted out of 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.359 a twenty million dollar buyout that would have made him a, 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:44.800 free agent and now he's working With the heat on 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:48.080 a new team. Friendly deal, Why Why, Duncan robinson you're 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.360 not getting any. Playing Time davion mitchell got his money, 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:54.000 two years twenty four. Million dollars i'm very Happy. For 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:56.800 daveyon but these are just not moves that make. Any 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:59.080 sense these are not moves that move the needle in 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:03.640 any Way. For miami other teams are locking down all 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:07.800 stars or making moves Trading for hall. Of famers miami it's. 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.840 Nineteen eighties just like the rest of, their infrastructure they just. 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:13.800 Grew Stuck and, he's, like wow it was Popping in 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:16.840 miami in nineteen. Eighty four and that's pretty much what's 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:20.120 going on for the basketball team. As well rough rough 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:23.400 offseason so far For. The, heat okay see he continues 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:27.240 to do their. Smart things they cut off a big 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.760 piece of Check To jalen williams with the why, three 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:35.879 years twenty four. Million dollars jay will. GETS Paid aj 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.160 mitchell gets paid three years nine. Million dollars and that's 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.240 awesome Because Only sam presty could have every first round 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:44.000 pick in the book and still managed to find a 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:46.399 guy who's a mid second round pick Of The New 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:49.000 york knicks and trade for him on. DRAFT night I Love. 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:52.439 Sam presty he's. So smart he just is like running 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:55.520