Speaker 1: Come on on this episode of the Heat Check, I
Speaker 1: use the wrong laptop and now the vibes are off.
Speaker 2: We go from an absolute chaotic draft night to bizarro
Speaker 2: Land in NBA pre free agency. This is what we
Speaker 2: call the tampering time. It's tampering time.
Speaker 1: Are you sitting down, folks? Seriously, the things are moving
Speaker 1: so fast. I literally had to scrap an entire episode
Speaker 1: of Heat Check because things are just going. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: talking about Kyrie, We're talking about KD and the Brooklyn Nets.
Speaker 1: So much has happened in the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: My head is spinning. So we will get all of
Speaker 1: the juicy details in a minute. Of course, more news
Speaker 1: drops and I have to scrap the pod again. That
Speaker 1: might happen. You think I'm mad, Absolutely not. I live
Speaker 1: for this shit. Rock hurry out before news changes drop.
Speaker 1: That moytherfucking beat exactly So I said this in the
Speaker 1: pod that never was so did I even say it
Speaker 1: at all?
Speaker 2: That's the question. Buckle up, folks. We've now reached bizarro Land.
Speaker 1: As of yesterday afternoon. According to numerous sources, the Nets
Speaker 1: gave Kyrie Irving permission to pursue sign and trade packages.
Speaker 1: Also to sign a free agency using the mid level
Speaker 1: taxpayer mid level exception, and it appeared that unless the
Speaker 1: Nets paid him max money, he was out this bitch. However,
Speaker 1: turns out Kyrie did opt in to his thirty six
Speaker 1: million dollar contract and blew up all the speculation about
Speaker 1: him and KD finding new homes.
Speaker 2: By the way, Kyrie Irving is currently a new.
Speaker 1: North Dakota opting into his contract.
Speaker 2: Looking at all the scenes and sights.
Speaker 1: But unless, of course, nothing has actually changed and Kyrie is.
Speaker 2: Still on the move, no one knows what's happening, folks.
Speaker 1: No one, not Woj, not Wendy, who, like me, ended
Speaker 1: up scrapping his podcast as well. He recorded the full
Speaker 1: thing had to start all over again once Kyrie opted in.
Speaker 1: Ain't that about a bitch, It's how it goes. Not
Speaker 1: even Sham's Sharanya, who has a direct line to Kyrie Irving,
Speaker 1: knows what's going on with Kyrie Irving. I'm not even sure, truthfully,
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure that Kyrie knows where Kyrie is at.
Speaker 2: You know, that's just so human.
Speaker 1: You're just going through the decision tree and you're just like,
Speaker 1: I know, it's not quite right where I am, but
Speaker 1: I also don't know if I go oh, if it's
Speaker 1: quite right there either. So it's the evil you know
Speaker 1: versus the evil you don't know. And also a trip
Speaker 1: to North Dakota to embrace your roots. I do know, however,
Speaker 1: how we got here one It started out not last season,
Speaker 1: but the season before when Kyrie Irving went on walkabout
Speaker 1: and he got suspended because he went to his sister's
Speaker 1: birthday party, wore no mask to the event, went to
Speaker 1: Cynthia Nixon's Zoom Zoom activism situation, and at that point
Speaker 1: I spoke with my man Anthony Puccio, who was covering
Speaker 1: the nets, and he said, right then is when Josi said,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of tired with Kyrie Irvings antics. That was
Speaker 1: before the trade for Harden, so that's kind of where
Speaker 1: Josai is at. He did the trade, said maybe Harden
Speaker 1: is a contingency plan if we are sick and tired
Speaker 1: of Kyrie Irving's antics. And then of course James Harden
Speaker 1: got sick and tired of Kyrie irvings antics first, and
Speaker 1: so he was like, I am.
Speaker 2: Out this bitch. So Joe, Si, Sean.
Speaker 1: Marks, probably Steve nash All thinking to themselves, this guy
Speaker 1: can handle the basketball unlike we've ever seen, but is
Speaker 1: he worth it? Is he worth this headache, this lack
Speaker 1: of culture, this bullshit that we have to deal with.
Speaker 2: And then Joe SI publicly.
Speaker 1: Stated, Yeah, I am in full support of us not
Speaker 1: paying Kyrie Irving the Max.
Speaker 2: I am all in on us not doing that.
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving offered, apparently the Nets a shorter term deal,
Speaker 1: how about like a two in one, And the Nets
Speaker 1: were like, how about a zero in one?
Speaker 2: How about you just humped in.
Speaker 1: To your men, to your lab that year and we
Speaker 1: can figure it out. And then shit went sideways. Me
Speaker 1: and literally everyone in the NBA media.
Speaker 2: Were like, is Kyrie Irving switching teams?
Speaker 1: The NBA offseason went like it does where literally the
Speaker 1: news cycle was like snorting a full line of cocaine.
Speaker 1: Everyone's just bouncing off the fucking walls, not knowing anything.
Speaker 2: Let me break it down calmly and rationally.
Speaker 1: Here's where we went, and here's where we go. Nets
Speaker 1: finalized and offer to Kai.
Speaker 2: What was in that offer is unknown.
Speaker 1: According to Zach Lowe, the Nets made a real offer
Speaker 1: to Kyrie Irving. We don't know the exact permutations. There's
Speaker 1: probably several, but this is not a case where it
Speaker 1: was a one year deal and that was it. It
Speaker 1: was offered real stuff. We don't know exactly what they are. Unquote,
Speaker 1: he called it a real offer. We do know he
Speaker 1: probably and the Nets probably had provisions. Provisions are the
Speaker 1: keyword for him not playing full games, for him deciding
Speaker 1: to go to Cynthia Nixon's birthday party, and also activism campaign.
Speaker 1: We all know that Kyrie Irving doesn't play full seasons.
Speaker 2: That's just never what.
Speaker 1: He's not done that since high school. I don't even
Speaker 1: think Kyrie Irving played a full season in high school
Speaker 1: basketball in New Jersey. So Kyrie gave every indication he
Speaker 1: would only accept the Max deal in order to return
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: But the new news, the current news, is that.
Speaker 1: He wanted a shorter term deal at Max money and
Speaker 1: that was probably a lie. Things began rolling downhill fast.
Speaker 1: Zach Low tweeted, the Max deal is not coming for Kyrie.
Speaker 1: The Nets will not be held hostage by the threat
Speaker 1: of Kyrie and then Kevin leaving. Brian Windhor says, fuck it.
Speaker 1: The Nets are like all in on both gone and
Speaker 1: like we're not dealing with what we had last year.
Speaker 1: So if you guys both want to frolic along, then
Speaker 1: that's fine. We have Kevin Durant under a four year deal.
Speaker 1: We decide where he goes, and we decide what assets
Speaker 1: come back. You want to pull Ben Simmons, that's fine,
Speaker 1: but we know that Ben Simmons doesn't love basketball. You do,
Speaker 1: so you're not holding out like Ben Simmons. We know
Speaker 1: that Kyrie then pulled the nuclear code, releasing a list
Speaker 1: of teams that he would prefer to be traded to Lakers,
Speaker 1: which we knew was gonna happen because Kyrie Irving went
Speaker 1: on some im athlete podcast and said, if it wasn't
Speaker 1: for his ego, him and Lebron James would be playing
Speaker 1: basketball still together.
Speaker 2: And that was when I said, Scooby, Scooby, is that
Speaker 2: what I think it is? Now?
Speaker 1: We're talking Lakers, Clippers, Snicks, heat maths Sixers. Turns out,
Speaker 1: numerous reports from Jake Fisher, friend of show, there was
Speaker 1: only one team that was even remotely interested in Kyrie,
Speaker 1: and of course it was the Lakers.
Speaker 2: What would the offer have been, We don't know.
Speaker 1: That's the big question. If Kyrie left, we all began
Speaker 1: to wonder would Kevin Durant go as well. Sham's the
Speaker 1: ultimate shill of the man said, Kevin Durant is loyal
Speaker 1: of the Nets.
Speaker 2: He will not be going anywhere, and that is probably
Speaker 2: what It's probably a lie.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be sitting there with a bunch of
Speaker 1: scrubs and no draft picks if you're a lottery team.
Speaker 1: And then just like this, the NBA World Exploded nets
Speaker 1: Daily tweeted this, based on conversations this morning, I think
Speaker 1: that the NETS would be very active, very soon, and
Speaker 1: not just on Kyrie.
Speaker 2: I was told to quote unquote buckle up.
Speaker 1: At this point, Kyrie had until Wednesday at five pm,
Speaker 1: which is tomorrow, to decide whether.
Speaker 2: He was going to opt into his contract.
Speaker 1: All reports were that he was not going to Chaos,
Speaker 1: of course, is in the streets. Two of the seventy
Speaker 1: five best players in the NBA right now, two of
Speaker 1: the seventy five best of all time, potentially going on
Speaker 1: the market at the same exact time. Exactly what is
Speaker 1: happening here, No one knows. Dame Leott Lillard then photo
Speaker 1: shopt the photo of I don't know if he did
Speaker 1: it himself, so don't quote me on him doing it himself.
Speaker 1: I don't know that he owns photo shop on his computer,
Speaker 1: but that would be amazing. A photo of urged the
Speaker 1: Dame Lillard posted on his own Instagram story of Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant in a Portland Trailblazer's uniform alongside Dame. People are
Speaker 1: freaking out. Parody accounts began Fate, quoting that KD wanted
Speaker 1: to come back to Golden State.
Speaker 2: The shit is bananas, b ana nas. Then Woes dropped
Speaker 2: a bomb.
Speaker 1: If Irving declines his thirty six million dollar player option,
Speaker 1: he would be eligible to sign with the Lakers for
Speaker 1: the six million taxpayer mid level exception, of course, he
Speaker 1: would probably sign this six million dollar MLLE with the
Speaker 1: agreement that he would get a MAX deal from the
Speaker 1: team the next year. How serious was this chatter? Christian
Speaker 1: Winfield New York Post reported that the belief among team
Speaker 1: and league execs and players is that Kyrie Irving was
Speaker 1: Deuce's peace.
Speaker 2: Up a town down.
Speaker 1: Having only played one hundred and three games in three years,
Speaker 1: he has missed forty one point four percent of the
Speaker 1: possible games with the nets with all teams excuse me,
Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen, that man is operating in a sixty
Speaker 1: percent clip. That is, in academia, what we call a
Speaker 1: failing grade.
Speaker 2: If you're wondering.
Speaker 1: How scared the NETS might be about the prospect of
Speaker 1: losing KD. When Horse just reported the Nets would rather
Speaker 1: lose Kyrie and KD both in to go through hell,
Speaker 1: that they went in with both of them together, and
Speaker 1: that bullshit and that turmoil. In addition to this, the
Speaker 1: cooling between the Nets and KD was something to watch
Speaker 1: as well. Apparently the Nets fired Adam Harrington. Who is
Speaker 1: Adam Harrington? You might ask, why does he matter? He
Speaker 1: was Kevin durant shooting coach back in Okase when Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant was there before he went to the Warriors, Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant specifically asked for Adam Harrington to be an assistant
Speaker 1: coach of the Nets. He has now been recently fired,
Speaker 1: and Kevin Durant reportedly was weighing his options and his
Speaker 1: faith and interest in trust in the decision making in
Speaker 1: the Nets was starting to come under question. Incredible, and
Speaker 1: yet Kyrie Irving does opt in but does not tell
Speaker 1: the Nets he's opting in. He did not even alert them,
Speaker 1: just like he did not even alert them that he was.
Speaker 2: Going there in the first place.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember that Kyrie Irving chose the Nets
Speaker 1: without the Nets choosing him. Kyrie Iruving chose the Nets
Speaker 1: before the Nets offered him whatsoever. They just backed into
Speaker 1: a relationship. It's like if I went to the Oscars
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden someone came up to
Speaker 1: me and they were like, Michael b Jordan says, he
Speaker 1: wants to date you. He's got an offer, he's got
Speaker 1: a ring, and I'm like, well, I didn't even know that.
Speaker 2: Uh, I didn't even know. Wait, excuse me, back this
Speaker 2: up a little bit. So Michael, what wants to do?
Speaker 1: What? Like?
Speaker 2: That's the Nets with Kyrie. We also though, it's like
Speaker 2: Michael b Jordan's friend, he's.
Speaker 1: Also wants to marry you as well. It's like, hold on,
Speaker 1: Kadi and Kyrie are both coming to the Nets.
Speaker 2: We didn't even know. So that's a disaster.
Speaker 1: On top of the fact the Nets don't have their
Speaker 1: own first round pick for the next five years, all
Speaker 1: of their turmoil, all of the chaos, all of the
Speaker 1: mediocrity spiraling, all of that does is build up the
Speaker 1: war chest for the Houston Rockets and That is why
Speaker 1: Tilman for Tita made a billion dollars off of low
Speaker 1: end shrimp, because he is a man that understands business
Speaker 1: and understand how that assets work.
Speaker 2: Here, I don't need any pieces for James. Don't worry
Speaker 2: about that. I don't want I don't want Ben Simmons.
Speaker 2: Fuck that. No, I don't want Jared Allen. Fuck that. No,
Speaker 2: just give me five.
Speaker 1: First round picks. Give me four first round picks and
Speaker 1: four pickswalks. How about that.
Speaker 2: I'll take that.
Speaker 1: I can see how things have worked out with you
Speaker 1: when you traded for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pearson.
Speaker 2: Toron Williams. We'll just keep our ass over here.
Speaker 1: We don't want these pieces that are not on the
Speaker 1: timeline of our young guns. And then Kyrie had to
Speaker 1: go ruining all of our chaos by.
Speaker 2: Doing this opt in lak.
Speaker 1: Your fans were already planning their parade. Then they went
Speaker 1: into a probably they're in a coma right now. NBA
Speaker 1: media all had to scrap their podcasts, they had to
Speaker 1: scrap their articles, their think pieces. Bet MGM as well
Speaker 1: as other sports books had.
Speaker 2: To maneuver their odds. And now we've got.
Speaker 1: News that opting in makes it even more likely that
Speaker 1: Kyrie is on the move. So if you had to
Speaker 1: ask me what I think is gonna happen, do it?
Speaker 1: Does it seem like I know? Does it seem like
Speaker 1: I even have the foggiest idea what to make out
Speaker 1: of this? Buckle up, folks, We're just fucking getting started.
Speaker 1: It's June thirtieth.
Speaker 3: Could not come fast.
Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayton just wants to be the daily scoop, you know.
Speaker 2: He just wants to be loved. He just wants to
Speaker 2: be appreciated. He's been working on his game.
Speaker 1: People are sullying his name, saying that he's not reliable,
Speaker 1: saying that he's not a hard worker. The Sons have
Speaker 1: officially tendered and offered to him to the tune of
Speaker 1: sixteen point four million dollars, which is frankly just a
Speaker 1: procedural thing in order for him to be a restricted
Speaker 1: free agent, someone will offer him a max deal and
Speaker 1: they will either decide to match it or they won't,
Speaker 1: or there's a secondary thing that could happen. They could
Speaker 1: they could do a sign and trade as well. The
Speaker 1: sixteen point four million dollar qualifying offer makes him a
Speaker 1: restricted free agent on July one.
Speaker 2: It's kind of shady. It's kind of shady. They're holding
Speaker 2: them down.
Speaker 1: DeAndre can sign it and be a completely unrestricted free
Speaker 1: agent next offseason, or he can allow the poison pill
Speaker 1: of other teams and the Sun's matching that offer to
Speaker 1: come to fruition. But I've never seen an elite player
Speaker 1: like this have to suffer the indignity, the despicableness of
Speaker 1: being low balled and having his name get dragged through
Speaker 1: the streets like this. I listen to Vince Goodwill today
Speaker 1: and Chris Haynes say, everyone's like it's got a sour
Speaker 1: taste in their mouth around DeAndre Ayton. Listen, if I'm
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton and we already know that this is what happened.
Speaker 1: My whole fucking team has COVID. Guys like they have COVID.
Speaker 1: We're playing basketball and there's probably seventy guys who have
Speaker 1: COVID out here against the Dallas Mavericks. There's a weirdness
Speaker 1: around this organization. We got an owner, guys that's under
Speaker 1: scrutiny of.
Speaker 2: All the isms.
Speaker 1: Why am I being drug through the streets here? Can
Speaker 1: you just give me my money?
Speaker 2: Shits woads reported word for word, though.
Speaker 1: The Suns do not value DeAndre Ayton as a max player.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton's agents say DeAndre Ayton will only sign for
Speaker 1: a max deal. Where does us leave? Where does that
Speaker 1: leave us?
Speaker 2: Yikes? Pretty much? Tons of suitors.
Speaker 1: Now or early on, the chatter was that Detroit was
Speaker 1: the number one suitor for DeAndre Ayton.
Speaker 2: That would be fun as hell.
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like that's gonna be the case now that
Speaker 1: Jalen Durann is there, maybe they make him move for
Speaker 1: DeAndre and maybe Durann is just a backup plan. Don't
Speaker 1: think that's necessarily going to be the case. They're probably
Speaker 1: out now. The latest chatter is Atlanta, Toronto Portland are
Speaker 1: rumored to be the number three, the top three teams
Speaker 1: in the mix. Very fluid situation. There is also moving on,
Speaker 1: moving forward. There is also who knows what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: DeAndre ad and I don't know. I'm just giving you
Speaker 1: the news. There's also a resolution with their guy, Jay Wall.
Speaker 1: He is now free. A lot of free him, free
Speaker 1: John Wall hashtags out there on these streets.
Speaker 2: He is now free.
Speaker 1: As of now, he has taken a buy out from
Speaker 1: Houston he is on his way to Los Angeles, not
Speaker 1: to be a Laker, to be a Clipper.
Speaker 2: John Wall will be a Clipper.
Speaker 1: And damn is this the number one shady move against
Speaker 1: the Lakers. The Lakers, you could have had them, Yes,
Speaker 1: you could have. You could have done it, but you
Speaker 1: chose to keep on hanging on to my man.
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook. No shade to Russell Westbrook.
Speaker 1: But Lebron James is running the thing in LA and
Speaker 1: he wanted john Wall.
Speaker 2: John Wall. Do you know? Oh, do you know joh Wall.
Speaker 1: We'll do this, talk about this later, talk about his
Speaker 1: defensive I have in my notes later. John Wall is
Speaker 1: a good player. This is a game of chicken between
Speaker 1: Tilman for Titta and john Wall. John Wall was gonna
Speaker 1: sit out as long as it took until the buyout
Speaker 1: option was favorable to him, and john Wall clearly won.
Speaker 1: Not only did he collect nearly fifty million dollars last
Speaker 1: year to do nothing, the buyout turned out to only
Speaker 1: be six and a half million dollars less then he
Speaker 1: was going to get anyway. So he gets nearly forty
Speaker 1: one million dollars to do nothing, plus the veteran minimum
Speaker 1: that he's going to sign with the Clippers.
Speaker 2: Meaning if you do a quick little math school, that
Speaker 2: is nearly ninety million dollars.
Speaker 1: That he stole that he collected from the Rockets in
Speaker 1: the past twelve months and didn't play a single game. God,
Speaker 1: I wish I could do that to someone. I wish
Speaker 1: I was good enough. I wish I had potent enough
Speaker 1: to steal ninety mil from anyone now, pg Kowhi, Reggie Jackson,
Speaker 1: John Wall, Terrence Man, who else, Robert Covington, Norm Powell.
Speaker 1: That is a squad that might be the best team
Speaker 1: in the West other than the Warriors of course. Uh.
Speaker 1: The big question, of course is if he has played
Speaker 1: just for forty games in four years, how good can
Speaker 1: he be?
Speaker 2: John Wall, to me, is still a good player. I
Speaker 2: think when you take that.
Speaker 1: Much time and sit in a cryogenic chamber, your body
Speaker 1: has to feel pretty damn good. He should flourish as
Speaker 1: a third maybe fourth option with a team like the Clips.
Speaker 1: Tylo as we know, one of the best coaches in
Speaker 1: the game going to find a way to integrate him
Speaker 1: into the offense in ways that we can't even imagine
Speaker 1: at this moment. Also, let me ask you this, if
Speaker 1: you had to describe John Wall on the defensive side.
Speaker 2: Of the ball.
Speaker 1: Would you say he's poor, would you say he's medium,
Speaker 1: or would you say he's elite. A lot of people
Speaker 1: give him flack, like Colin Cowherd, who's on the misinformation campaign.
Speaker 1: Bad week for Colin Cowherd, by the way, he's getting
Speaker 1: strung up right now on social media.
Speaker 2: God bless him.
Speaker 1: However, Colin cowhard has been anti John Wall since he
Speaker 1: was at Kentucky. No idea why but he is, and
Speaker 1: that has been persuasive to the public perception that John
Speaker 1: Wall is nothing other than Dougie.
Speaker 2: Do and teach me how to Dougie. Teach me, teach
Speaker 2: me how to Dougie. That's all he does.
Speaker 1: He just does that, and he runs fast and transitioned
Speaker 1: criss cross dunk whatever people forget. John Wall has a
Speaker 1: lifetime defensive rating of one hundred and six point nine.
Speaker 1: If you're wondering, how good is that really, Marcus Smart's
Speaker 1: career defensive rating is one hundred and six point eight,
Speaker 1: So pretty fucking.
Speaker 2: Good John Wall. Safe to say the Wall can be
Speaker 2: a wall on defense.
Speaker 1: Booomch So how big I'm out of control of the day?
Speaker 1: How big is this of assigning is this The Clippers
Speaker 1: went from plus seven hundred to plus six plus seven hundred,
Speaker 1: plus seven fifty excuse.
Speaker 2: Me, to plus six hundred.
Speaker 1: They are tied with the Buck, Celtics, and Warriors for
Speaker 1: the best odds to win it all. That's how big
Speaker 1: of a move it was. Speaking of a move, there
Speaker 1: is now going to be resolution. Let resolution to the
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson saga. Jalen Brunson, as you guys all know,
Speaker 1: came out of Villanova second round pick. No one thought
Speaker 1: he would do a goddamn thing, turned in to be
Speaker 1: a very serviceable, very good point guard for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Mavericks alongside Luka Doncic.
Speaker 2: How good was he?
Speaker 1: He was so good that he ended up balling out
Speaker 1: while Luka Doncic was nursing nursing a bump calf bomb
Speaker 1: ankle in the early start of the playoffs, won him
Speaker 1: some games against the Utah Jazz, sent Utah Jazz into
Speaker 1: a spiral where their their franchise is now just hiring
Speaker 1: random decision makers.
Speaker 2: We don't even know why. So now he's a free agent,
Speaker 2: what's going to happen?
Speaker 1: According to reports, the MAVs are now quote unquote resigned
Speaker 1: to the fact that the New York Knicks are Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson's preferred destination. Wow, just three days ago the MAVs
Speaker 1: thought that they were Jalen Brunson's preferred destination.
Speaker 2: Maybe four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Three weeks ago we had Mark Cuban, owner of the MAVs,
Speaker 1: saying that nobody could offer as much money.
Speaker 2: As they could.
Speaker 1: Well, let me just tell you about some numbers, mister Cuban. See,
Speaker 1: if you're down with this, if you dig into Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson's life a little bit, you're gonna say to yourself, well,
Speaker 1: it was always Nicks. We're always a potential destination for him,
Speaker 1: and probably his preferred destination. Ever, the MAVs threw a
Speaker 1: little bit of shade at him. First of all. Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson's father, Rick Brunson, what do you think he does
Speaker 1: for a living? Where do you think he resides?
Speaker 2: Uh? He's an assistant for the New York Knicks. Oh,
Speaker 2: well that's interesting. Uh would have liked to know that.
Speaker 1: If I'm Mark Cuban beforehand, as I'm doing a little
Speaker 1: calculations in a little mass school at the deadline number two,
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson from New Brunswick, New Jersey, just outside of.
Speaker 2: New York City.
Speaker 1: Second of all, Leon Rose, head head decision maker for
Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, the man of mystery.
Speaker 2: We do not see, we do not hear.
Speaker 1: Apparently a lifelong friend of the Brunsons held Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: when he was just a week old. Rick Brunson, Jalen's dad,
Speaker 1: literally Leon Rose, who was a former a literally Leon
Speaker 1: Rose's first client.
Speaker 2: You think that says anything?
Speaker 1: The first client you get, baby is like your first hit,
Speaker 1: your first hit single?
Speaker 2: What not?
Speaker 1: Like your first drug hit? Brock, where's your mind going?
Speaker 1: His son Sam Rose? His son, Sam Rose is currently
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson's agent, Jalen Brunson's first agent.
Speaker 2: If you're doing a little masco in your head, who
Speaker 2: do you think it was? Yeah? It was Leon Rose.
Speaker 1: Before Leon Rose left Cia, Jalen bruns Brunson was his agent.
Speaker 1: There is no fucking way Jalen Brunson is going back
Speaker 1: to Dallas. And if you think about why, in addition
Speaker 1: to all the family ties, how much do you think
Speaker 1: Leon Rose is going to give his first client's son,
Speaker 1: who's like his family member? Do you think he's gonna
Speaker 1: lowball them, the guy that goes to Thanksgiving with him
Speaker 1: and goes to family functions and held him.
Speaker 2: When he was an infant. Do you think he's gonna
Speaker 2: low ball that guy? No, you know he's not.
Speaker 1: The mit Knicks are apparently willing to pay Jalen way
Speaker 1: over market value, which the MAVs believe is his current
Speaker 1: value of.
Speaker 2: Eighty eight million over four years. According to Mark Stein,
Speaker 2: the Knicks are prepared to offer.
Speaker 1: Four years and over one hundred million for Jalen up
Speaker 1: to one hundred and ten million.
Speaker 2: Dollars for four years for Jalen Brunson. Mark that's a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 1: Money for this guy, a guy that was a second
Speaker 1: round pick who literally was hoping for four years fifty
Speaker 1: six million last year.
Speaker 2: At this time of.
Speaker 1: Year, Mark Cuban said that there was no amount of
Speaker 1: money THO would snatch Brunton away from the MAVs.
Speaker 2: And that's a lie.
Speaker 1: Apparently the number is one hundred plus million dollars over.
Speaker 2: Four Bye bye, bitch, bye bye. And what are the
Speaker 2: MAVs do now? I don't know. They're not getting another
Speaker 2: point guard.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to figure it out with Spencer Dinwiddie
Speaker 1: and Luka Doncic.
Speaker 2: Good thing.
Speaker 1: Luca is only twenty one years old, and he's getting
Speaker 1: skinny because the championship window right now does not look
Speaker 1: or appear to be open as of today June twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: We move on to Utah.
Speaker 1: The team that the MAVs destroyed. Since spiraling, they have
Speaker 1: been looking for a head coach.
Speaker 2: As we know.
Speaker 1: Get into that in a minute. Their off season has
Speaker 1: been dominated by either is it gonna be Spider or
Speaker 1: is it gonna be Rudy who leaves? Is it gonna
Speaker 1: be both? Is it gonna be neither? And let me
Speaker 1: tell you, my man, Donovan Mitchell has done nothing to quell,
Speaker 1: to squash, to a swash any of the rumors in Mormon.
Speaker 1: His latest Instagram story, which is how the Young Kids
Speaker 1: I Guess Communicate, is a screenshot of his Spotify profile
Speaker 1: listening to a song. The song, if you ask, is
Speaker 1: by Giveon. The title is called let Me Go. Let
Speaker 1: Me Go. About as subtle as a donkey punch to
Speaker 1: the face as someone who has been subtweeted on more
Speaker 1: than one occasion with song lyrics. I consider myself an
Speaker 1: expert so I wanted to take a closer look at
Speaker 1: the lyrics for the people.
Speaker 2: It's probably nothing right.
Speaker 1: It's probably he's probably going through it with the girl
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: You know, he said, slide slide through.
Speaker 1: I decide if I'm worth the time I caused you.
Speaker 2: Let me know or let me go.
Speaker 1: Try to find the time I'm worth the time caused you.
Speaker 2: Back and forth. I'm exhausted.
Speaker 1: I've got options, but I miss it too much to
Speaker 1: stop it when I see you the memories of the
Speaker 1: time that we touched, So I gotta leave unless you
Speaker 1: want me. Sounds like he's like, you need to get
Speaker 1: rid of this dude, Rudy Gobert fucking fast, or I
Speaker 1: am going to be the bad guy man, Jazz, you
Speaker 1: better get the picture and let this man go to
Speaker 1: New York. You better figure it out. Sheesh, I tell
Speaker 1: you what. Also, if we're wondering how Donnovan Mitchell is
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 2: Feel in Utah Land, we now.
Speaker 1: Know is he going to feel comfortable playing with a
Speaker 1: coach and for a coach who is younger than Mike Conley,
Speaker 1: Because the Utah Jazz just hired the youngest coach in
Speaker 1: the NBA, who you might.
Speaker 2: Ask Will Hardy, Yes, Sir Will Hardy. Will Hardy is.
Speaker 1: An assistant and yet another branch off the Popovich tree.
Speaker 1: He has long been considered Greg Popovich's successor in San Antonio.
Speaker 1: Now that Popovich has decided to coach until he's two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years old, which is in four years
Speaker 1: from now, his.
Speaker 2: Coach is in waiting like Becky Hannon.
Speaker 1: And now Hardy are like listen, I can't wait no more,
Speaker 1: I can't wait no more. Hardy, part of the Hardy Boys,
Speaker 1: is just thirty four years old and signs a five
Speaker 1: year deal. This man is this man's two years younger
Speaker 1: than me? What the fuck am I old?
Speaker 2: Or is he young?
Speaker 1: As my friend would say, a little column may, a
Speaker 1: little column B. Just like Spostra, he got his start
Speaker 1: as a video coordinator with the Spurs, quickly moved his
Speaker 1: way up. He coached San Antonio Summer League teams from
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen to twenty eighteen, significantly impressing pop to the
Speaker 1: fact that he was promoted a full time assistant, and
Speaker 1: then followed fellow popolam my guy Eme Udoka to where well.
Speaker 2: You get the picture.
Speaker 1: Now the next man up hugely important hire in Salt
Speaker 1: Lake franchise stands at a huge crossroads. Do we retool
Speaker 1: or do we break it all down and move away.
Speaker 1: Do they run it back with Rudy and Donovan say
Speaker 1: fuck you to figure it out? Or do they pick
Speaker 1: one side and rebuild?
Speaker 2: That is the big question. They also hire David Fizdale
Speaker 2: to do what you might add to be.
Speaker 1: The fifteenth associate GM, so that when Hardy shits the bed,
Speaker 1: they probably have a coach in waiting just in case.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, but maybe not. Here's where they stand.
Speaker 1: Somehow, someway, they have managed to go through an entire
Speaker 1: NBA draft without either making a trade or making a
Speaker 1: draft pick.
Speaker 2: Do you know hard that is to do with Danny Ainge?
Speaker 2: There trader Danny to do nothing Danny.
Speaker 1: They didn't hire Danny Ainge do nothing to basically say
Speaker 1: nopear good trader Danny is more like a freighter Danny
Speaker 1: shit or get off the pot.
Speaker 2: Utah. And on top of that, I'm not even sure
Speaker 2: you're going to get your All Star game.
Speaker 1: Why you ask because Utah as a state is a
Speaker 1: piece of shit state that doesn't care about allowing a
Speaker 1: woman to have decision making ability.
Speaker 2: Over her own body.
Speaker 1: Call that political. Call out what you want, I'm keeping
Speaker 1: it in the pod. Come at me. And the NBA
Speaker 1: responded with a little memo of their own, saying that
Speaker 1: they are in full agreement that a woman should have
Speaker 1: control over their own body.
Speaker 2: Let's find it.
Speaker 1: The NBA and WNBA believe that women should be able
Speaker 1: to make their own decisions concerning the health of their future,
Speaker 1: and we believe their freedom should be protected. Utah is
Speaker 1: supposed to hold next year's All Star Game.
Speaker 2: Do you think that they will? I think no?
Speaker 1: Does it matter then if you have two All Stars
Speaker 1: when your piece of shit state doesn't have an All
Speaker 1: Star game in it because your piece.
Speaker 2: Of shit activities. No, so maybe get rid of them both.
Speaker 1: What the next move is we don't know, but we
Speaker 1: know it needs to happen soon because the rest of
Speaker 1: the league is making money moves and UTAH keeps doing nothing. Memphis, Minnesota, Denver,
Speaker 1: New Orleans keep on passing them by. And you know
Speaker 1: what feels like a poignant statement by a guy I
Speaker 1: used to I interviewed one time and it stuck with me.
Speaker 1: I said, what's the worst place in the NBA? And said,
Speaker 1: Utah trash Utah.
Speaker 2: That was Nate Robinson. That's all the time that we
Speaker 2: have for the heat Check.
Speaker 1: We'll be back Friday with an all that new episode
Speaker 1: as we had in a free agency in Summer League.
Speaker 1: Follow us as the season comes to an end and
Speaker 1: free agency begins. Do not forget to download, subscribe and
Speaker 1: tell all your friends that Utah is fucking trash, every
Speaker 1: single one of them, and follow us on socialid at
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Speaker 1: heard Adam Silver that you know, Las Vegas might be
Speaker 1: building a new arena, so maybe we should take that
Speaker 1: team away from them all together. We'll see Friday, folks.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for listening.