WEBVTT - Pre-Free Agency Primer 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:07.280 Come on on this episode of the Heat Check, I 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.920 use the wrong laptop and now the vibes are off. 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.320 We go from an absolute chaotic draft night to bizarro 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.560 Land in NBA pre free agency. This is what we 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.960 call the tampering time. It's tampering time. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:27.320 Are you sitting down, folks? Seriously, the things are moving 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.640 so fast. I literally had to scrap an entire episode 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.839 of Heat Check because things are just going. Yes, we're 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.960 talking about Kyrie, We're talking about KD and the Brooklyn Nets. 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:40.040 So much has happened in the past twenty four hours. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.519 My head is spinning. So we will get all of 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.680 the juicy details in a minute. Of course, more news 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.760 drops and I have to scrap the pod again. That 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.800 might happen. You think I'm mad, Absolutely not. I live 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.680 for this shit. Rock hurry out before news changes drop. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:01:09.840 That moytherfucking beat exactly So I said this in the 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.480 pod that never was so did I even say it 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:12.840 at all? 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:19.080 That's the question. Buckle up, folks. We've now reached bizarro Land. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:26.640 As of yesterday afternoon. According to numerous sources, the Nets 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:32.880 gave Kyrie Irving permission to pursue sign and trade packages. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.800 Also to sign a free agency using the mid level 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:41.920 taxpayer mid level exception, and it appeared that unless the 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.840 Nets paid him max money, he was out this bitch. However, 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.840 turns out Kyrie did opt in to his thirty six 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.320 million dollar contract and blew up all the speculation about 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.800 him and KD finding new homes. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.160 By the way, Kyrie Irving is currently a new. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.040 North Dakota opting into his contract. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.560 Looking at all the scenes and sights. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:11.720 But unless, of course, nothing has actually changed and Kyrie is. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.880 Still on the move, no one knows what's happening, folks. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:20.799 No one, not Woj, not Wendy, who, like me, ended 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.799 up scrapping his podcast as well. He recorded the full 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.079 thing had to start all over again once Kyrie opted in. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.639 Ain't that about a bitch, It's how it goes. Not 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:36.440 even Sham's Sharanya, who has a direct line to Kyrie Irving, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.720 knows what's going on with Kyrie Irving. I'm not even sure, truthfully, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.639 I'm not even sure that Kyrie knows where Kyrie is at. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.760 You know, that's just so human. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.520 You're just going through the decision tree and you're just like, 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:58.240 I know, it's not quite right where I am, but 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.200 I also don't know if I go oh, if it's 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.520 quite right there either. So it's the evil you know 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.960 versus the evil you don't know. And also a trip 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:14.320 to North Dakota to embrace your roots. I do know, however, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:19.240 how we got here one It started out not last season, 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.799 but the season before when Kyrie Irving went on walkabout 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.400 and he got suspended because he went to his sister's 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:31.160 birthday party, wore no mask to the event, went to 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:38.880 Cynthia Nixon's Zoom Zoom activism situation, and at that point 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.440 I spoke with my man Anthony Puccio, who was covering 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:47.280 the nets, and he said, right then is when Josi said, 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.440 I'm kind of tired with Kyrie Irvings antics. That was 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:55.360 before the trade for Harden, so that's kind of where 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.840 Josai is at. He did the trade, said maybe Harden 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.160 is a contingency plan if we are sick and tired 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.240 of Kyrie Irving's antics. And then of course James Harden 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.120 got sick and tired of Kyrie irvings antics first, and 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:09.360 so he was like, I am. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.480 Out this bitch. So Joe, Si, Sean. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.200 Marks, probably Steve nash All thinking to themselves, this guy 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.919 can handle the basketball unlike we've ever seen, but is 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:23.080 he worth it? Is he worth this headache, this lack 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.240 of culture, this bullshit that we have to deal with. 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.520 And then Joe SI publicly. 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:32.440 Stated, Yeah, I am in full support of us not 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.040 paying Kyrie Irving the Max. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:37.200 I am all in on us not doing that. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:42.920 Kyrie Irving offered, apparently the Nets a shorter term deal, 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.359 how about like a two in one, And the Nets 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.360 were like, how about a zero in one? 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.440 How about you just humped in. 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.800 To your men, to your lab that year and we 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.479 can figure it out. And then shit went sideways. Me 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.040 and literally everyone in the NBA media. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.120 Were like, is Kyrie Irving switching teams? 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.000 The NBA offseason went like it does where literally the 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.159 news cycle was like snorting a full line of cocaine. 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.520 Everyone's just bouncing off the fucking walls, not knowing anything. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.800 Let me break it down calmly and rationally. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.599 Here's where we went, and here's where we go. Nets 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:25.920 finalized and offer to Kai. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.360 What was in that offer is unknown. 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.920 According to Zach Lowe, the Nets made a real offer 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.400 to Kyrie Irving. We don't know the exact permutations. There's 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.000 probably several, but this is not a case where it 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.480 was a one year deal and that was it. It 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.760 was offered real stuff. We don't know exactly what they are. Unquote, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.640 he called it a real offer. We do know he 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.840 probably and the Nets probably had provisions. Provisions are the 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.799 keyword for him not playing full games, for him deciding 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:01.120 to go to Cynthia Nixon's birthday party, and also activism campaign. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.640 We all know that Kyrie Irving doesn't play full seasons. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:05.480 That's just never what. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.800 He's not done that since high school. I don't even 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:09.799 think Kyrie Irving played a full season in high school 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:15.040 basketball in New Jersey. So Kyrie gave every indication he 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.359 would only accept the Max deal in order to return 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:17.920 to Brooklyn. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.719 But the new news, the current news, is that. 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.520 He wanted a shorter term deal at Max money and 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:29.080 that was probably a lie. Things began rolling downhill fast. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.080 Zach Low tweeted, the Max deal is not coming for Kyrie. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.039 The Nets will not be held hostage by the threat 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.000 of Kyrie and then Kevin leaving. Brian Windhor says, fuck it. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.840 The Nets are like all in on both gone and 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.240 like we're not dealing with what we had last year. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.720 So if you guys both want to frolic along, then 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.800 that's fine. We have Kevin Durant under a four year deal. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.719 We decide where he goes, and we decide what assets 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.080 come back. You want to pull Ben Simmons, that's fine, 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.520 but we know that Ben Simmons doesn't love basketball. You do, 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.159 so you're not holding out like Ben Simmons. We know 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.200 that Kyrie then pulled the nuclear code, releasing a list 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.360 of teams that he would prefer to be traded to Lakers, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.760 which we knew was gonna happen because Kyrie Irving went 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.320 on some im athlete podcast and said, if it wasn't 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.400 for his ego, him and Lebron James would be playing 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:20.840 basketball still together. 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:28.080 And that was when I said, Scooby, Scooby, is that 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.080 what I think it is? Now? 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:37.040 We're talking Lakers, Clippers, Snicks, heat maths Sixers. Turns out, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.000 numerous reports from Jake Fisher, friend of show, there was 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.920 only one team that was even remotely interested in Kyrie, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.560 and of course it was the Lakers. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.440 What would the offer have been, We don't know. 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.760 That's the big question. If Kyrie left, we all began 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.200 to wonder would Kevin Durant go as well. Sham's the 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.960 ultimate shill of the man said, Kevin Durant is loyal 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:00.400 of the Nets. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.520 He will not be going anywhere, and that is probably 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.080 what It's probably a lie. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.440 He's not gonna be sitting there with a bunch of 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.480 scrubs and no draft picks if you're a lottery team. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.320 And then just like this, the NBA World Exploded nets 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.240 Daily tweeted this, based on conversations this morning, I think 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.240 that the NETS would be very active, very soon, and 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:20.440 not just on Kyrie. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.720 I was told to quote unquote buckle up. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.119 At this point, Kyrie had until Wednesday at five pm, 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.960 which is tomorrow, to decide whether. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.760 He was going to opt into his contract. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.439 All reports were that he was not going to Chaos, 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.800 of course, is in the streets. Two of the seventy 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.840 five best players in the NBA right now, two of 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.760 the seventy five best of all time, potentially going on 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.760 the market at the same exact time. Exactly what is 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.960 happening here, No one knows. Dame Leott Lillard then photo 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.760 shopt the photo of I don't know if he did 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.480 it himself, so don't quote me on him doing it himself. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.520 I don't know that he owns photo shop on his computer, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.680 but that would be amazing. A photo of urged the 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.520 Dame Lillard posted on his own Instagram story of Kevin 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.600 Durant in a Portland Trailblazer's uniform alongside Dame. People are 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.760 freaking out. Parody accounts began Fate, quoting that KD wanted 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.120 to come back to Golden State. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:20.840 The shit is bananas, b ana nas. Then Woes dropped 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:21.240 a bomb. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.280 If Irving declines his thirty six million dollar player option, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.200 he would be eligible to sign with the Lakers for 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:32.920 the six million taxpayer mid level exception, of course, he 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.720 would probably sign this six million dollar MLLE with the 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.360 agreement that he would get a MAX deal from the 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:42.040 team the next year. How serious was this chatter? Christian 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.120 Winfield New York Post reported that the belief among team 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.160 and league execs and players is that Kyrie Irving was 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:49.679 Deuce's peace. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:50.680 Up a town down. 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.840 Having only played one hundred and three games in three years, 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.319 he has missed forty one point four percent of the 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.679 possible games with the nets with all teams excuse me, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.040 since twenty fifteen, that man is operating in a sixty 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:09.080 percent clip. That is, in academia, what we call a 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.520 failing grade. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:12.880 If you're wondering. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.560 How scared the NETS might be about the prospect of 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.000 losing KD. When Horse just reported the Nets would rather 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.280 lose Kyrie and KD both in to go through hell, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.800 that they went in with both of them together, and 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:27.480 that bullshit and that turmoil. In addition to this, the 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.679 cooling between the Nets and KD was something to watch 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.680 as well. Apparently the Nets fired Adam Harrington. Who is 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:38.120 Adam Harrington? You might ask, why does he matter? He 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.720 was Kevin durant shooting coach back in Okase when Kevin 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.320 Durant was there before he went to the Warriors, Kevin 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:49.560 Durant specifically asked for Adam Harrington to be an assistant 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.000 coach of the Nets. He has now been recently fired, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:56.280 and Kevin Durant reportedly was weighing his options and his 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.839 faith and interest in trust in the decision making in 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:08.080 the Nets was starting to come under question. Incredible, and 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:13.880 yet Kyrie Irving does opt in but does not tell 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.880 the Nets he's opting in. He did not even alert them, 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.640 just like he did not even alert them that he was. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:21.840 Going there in the first place. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.960 Do you guys remember that Kyrie Irving chose the Nets 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:29.880 without the Nets choosing him. Kyrie Iruving chose the Nets 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.360 before the Nets offered him whatsoever. They just backed into 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.040 a relationship. It's like if I went to the Oscars 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.400 and then all of a sudden someone came up to 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.480 me and they were like, Michael b Jordan says, he 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.920 wants to date you. He's got an offer, he's got 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.920 a ring, and I'm like, well, I didn't even know that. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.040 Uh, I didn't even know. Wait, excuse me, back this 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.960 up a little bit. So Michael, what wants to do? 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:57.840 What? Like? 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.920 That's the Nets with Kyrie. We also though, it's like 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.320 Michael b Jordan's friend, he's. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.800 Also wants to marry you as well. It's like, hold on, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.240 Kadi and Kyrie are both coming to the Nets. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.000 We didn't even know. So that's a disaster. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.000 On top of the fact the Nets don't have their 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.400 own first round pick for the next five years, all 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.160 of their turmoil, all of the chaos, all of the 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.840 mediocrity spiraling, all of that does is build up the 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.559 war chest for the Houston Rockets and That is why 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.640 Tilman for Tita made a billion dollars off of low 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.040 end shrimp, because he is a man that understands business 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.600 and understand how that assets work. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.600 Here, I don't need any pieces for James. Don't worry 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.360 about that. I don't want I don't want Ben Simmons. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.160 Fuck that. No, I don't want Jared Allen. Fuck that. No, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:52.000 just give me five. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.719 First round picks. Give me four first round picks and 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.240 four pickswalks. How about that. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:56.880 I'll take that. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.600 I can see how things have worked out with you 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.960 when you traded for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pearson. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.440 Toron Williams. We'll just keep our ass over here. 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.080 We don't want these pieces that are not on the 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.920 timeline of our young guns. And then Kyrie had to 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:13.160 go ruining all of our chaos by. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.559 Doing this opt in lak. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.000 Your fans were already planning their parade. Then they went 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.800 into a probably they're in a coma right now. NBA 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.439 media all had to scrap their podcasts, they had to 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.520 scrap their articles, their think pieces. Bet MGM as well 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:30.920 as other sports books had. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.880 To maneuver their odds. And now we've got. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.960 News that opting in makes it even more likely that 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.080 Kyrie is on the move. So if you had to 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.000 ask me what I think is gonna happen, do it? 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.240 Does it seem like I know? Does it seem like 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.839 I even have the foggiest idea what to make out 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.440 of this? Buckle up, folks, We're just fucking getting started. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:51.920 It's June thirtieth. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:14:05.680 Could not come fast. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.920 DeAndre Ayton just wants to be the daily scoop, you know. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.280 He just wants to be loved. He just wants to 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.600 be appreciated. He's been working on his game. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.120 People are sullying his name, saying that he's not reliable, 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.240 saying that he's not a hard worker. The Sons have 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.920 officially tendered and offered to him to the tune of 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.600 sixteen point four million dollars, which is frankly just a 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.040 procedural thing in order for him to be a restricted 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.920 free agent, someone will offer him a max deal and 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:41.080 they will either decide to match it or they won't, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.760 or there's a secondary thing that could happen. They could 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.720 they could do a sign and trade as well. The 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.560 sixteen point four million dollar qualifying offer makes him a 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.160 restricted free agent on July one. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.880 It's kind of shady. It's kind of shady. They're holding 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.360 them down. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:02.200 DeAndre can sign it and be a completely unrestricted free 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:06.720 agent next offseason, or he can allow the poison pill 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.160 of other teams and the Sun's matching that offer to 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.160 come to fruition. But I've never seen an elite player 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:22.000 like this have to suffer the indignity, the despicableness of 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.560 being low balled and having his name get dragged through 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.240 the streets like this. I listen to Vince Goodwill today 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:32.320 and Chris Haynes say, everyone's like it's got a sour 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:36.280 taste in their mouth around DeAndre Ayton. Listen, if I'm 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.240 DeAndre Ayton and we already know that this is what happened. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.440 My whole fucking team has COVID. Guys like they have COVID. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.720 We're playing basketball and there's probably seventy guys who have 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.040 COVID out here against the Dallas Mavericks. There's a weirdness 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.600 around this organization. We got an owner, guys that's under 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.640 scrutiny of. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:58.600 All the isms. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.040 Why am I being drug through the streets here? Can 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:03.320 you just give me my money? 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:10.440 Shits woads reported word for word, though. 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:17.640 The Suns do not value DeAndre Ayton as a max player. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:24.400 DeAndre Ayton's agents say DeAndre Ayton will only sign for 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.920 a max deal. Where does us leave? Where does that 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.080 leave us? 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.600 Yikes? Pretty much? Tons of suitors. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:38.160 Now or early on, the chatter was that Detroit was 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.080 the number one suitor for DeAndre Ayton. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.560 That would be fun as hell. 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.680 Doesn't seem like that's gonna be the case now that 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.200 Jalen Durann is there, maybe they make him move for 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:51.680 DeAndre and maybe Durann is just a backup plan. Don't 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.440 think that's necessarily going to be the case. They're probably 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.920 out now. The latest chatter is Atlanta, Toronto Portland are 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.520 rumored to be the number three, the top three teams 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:06.600 in the mix. Very fluid situation. There is also moving on, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.640 moving forward. There is also who knows what's gonna happen 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.359 DeAndre ad and I don't know. I'm just giving you 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.240 the news. There's also a resolution with their guy, Jay Wall. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.160 He is now free. A lot of free him, free 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.840 John Wall hashtags out there on these streets. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.080 He is now free. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.199 As of now, he has taken a buy out from 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.119 Houston he is on his way to Los Angeles, not 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.680 to be a Laker, to be a Clipper. 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.119 John Wall will be a Clipper. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.880 And damn is this the number one shady move against 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.920 the Lakers. The Lakers, you could have had them, Yes, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.240 you could have. You could have done it, but you 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:50.400 chose to keep on hanging on to my man. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.560 Russell Westbrook. No shade to Russell Westbrook. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.199 But Lebron James is running the thing in LA and 0:17:57.280 --> 0:17:58.840 he wanted john Wall. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:03.440 John Wall. Do you know? Oh, do you know joh Wall. 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.320 We'll do this, talk about this later, talk about his 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.119 defensive I have in my notes later. John Wall is 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:13.000 a good player. This is a game of chicken between 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.720 Tilman for Titta and john Wall. John Wall was gonna 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.680 sit out as long as it took until the buyout 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.600 option was favorable to him, and john Wall clearly won. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.560 Not only did he collect nearly fifty million dollars last 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.040 year to do nothing, the buyout turned out to only 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.199 be six and a half million dollars less then he 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.240 was going to get anyway. So he gets nearly forty 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.000 one million dollars to do nothing, plus the veteran minimum 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.440 that he's going to sign with the Clippers. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.199 Meaning if you do a quick little math school, that 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.200 is nearly ninety million dollars. 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.119 That he stole that he collected from the Rockets in 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.480 the past twelve months and didn't play a single game. God, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.639 I wish I could do that to someone. I wish 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.520 I was good enough. I wish I had potent enough 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:06.640 to steal ninety mil from anyone now, pg Kowhi, Reggie Jackson, 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:14.840 John Wall, Terrence Man, who else, Robert Covington, Norm Powell. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.240 That is a squad that might be the best team 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.679 in the West other than the Warriors of course. Uh. 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.480 The big question, of course is if he has played 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:26.600 just for forty games in four years, how good can 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:27.080 he be? 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.159 John Wall, to me, is still a good player. I 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:33.120 think when you take that. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.919 Much time and sit in a cryogenic chamber, your body 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.880 has to feel pretty damn good. He should flourish as 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.440 a third maybe fourth option with a team like the Clips. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.800 Tylo as we know, one of the best coaches in 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.480 the game going to find a way to integrate him 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.360 into the offense in ways that we can't even imagine 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:56.159 at this moment. Also, let me ask you this, if 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.040 you had to describe John Wall on the defensive side. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:19:59.359 Of the ball. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.440 Would you say he's poor, would you say he's medium, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.439 or would you say he's elite. A lot of people 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:09.119 give him flack, like Colin Cowherd, who's on the misinformation campaign. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.480 Bad week for Colin Cowherd, by the way, he's getting 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.240 strung up right now on social media. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:14.120 God bless him. 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.480 However, Colin cowhard has been anti John Wall since he 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:22.800 was at Kentucky. No idea why but he is, and 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.480 that has been persuasive to the public perception that John 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:29.240 Wall is nothing other than Dougie. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.240 Do and teach me how to Dougie. Teach me, teach 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.480 me how to Dougie. That's all he does. 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.000 He just does that, and he runs fast and transitioned 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:42.120 criss cross dunk whatever people forget. John Wall has a 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.000 lifetime defensive rating of one hundred and six point nine. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:52.160 If you're wondering, how good is that really, Marcus Smart's 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.880 career defensive rating is one hundred and six point eight, 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:56.920 So pretty fucking. 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.679 Good John Wall. Safe to say the Wall can be 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.560 a wall on defense. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.320 Booomch So how big I'm out of control of the day? 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.720 How big is this of assigning is this The Clippers 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:14.200 went from plus seven hundred to plus six plus seven hundred, 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.159 plus seven fifty excuse. 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:16.879 Me, to plus six hundred. 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.000 They are tied with the Buck, Celtics, and Warriors for 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.800 the best odds to win it all. That's how big 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:27.360 of a move it was. Speaking of a move, there 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.240 is now going to be resolution. Let resolution to the 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:34.280 Jalen Brunson saga. Jalen Brunson, as you guys all know, 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.880 came out of Villanova second round pick. No one thought 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.520 he would do a goddamn thing, turned in to be 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.240 a very serviceable, very good point guard for the Dallas 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.040 Mavericks alongside Luka Doncic. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:48.880 How good was he? 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.200 He was so good that he ended up balling out 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.520 while Luka Doncic was nursing nursing a bump calf bomb 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.879 ankle in the early start of the playoffs, won him 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.920 some games against the Utah Jazz, sent Utah Jazz into 0:21:59.920 --> 0:22:03.960 a spiral where their their franchise is now just hiring 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:05.119 random decision makers. 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.679 We don't even know why. So now he's a free agent, 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:11.719 what's going to happen? 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.240 According to reports, the MAVs are now quote unquote resigned 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:20.280 to the fact that the New York Knicks are Jalen 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:28.000 Brunson's preferred destination. Wow, just three days ago the MAVs 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:30.840 thought that they were Jalen Brunson's preferred destination. 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:33.000 Maybe four weeks ago. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.200 Three weeks ago we had Mark Cuban, owner of the MAVs, 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.480