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Dynasty Sports Life Ep 211 Kostas and 2026 NBA Western Conference changes · Dynasty Sports Life

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  Speaker 1: In this league podcast network, there's Dynasty Sports Life, a
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  Speaker 1: podcast about playing fantasy baseball, basketball, football, and hockey, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five days a year. Here's your host,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Sylvia. Welcome to the Dynasty Sports Life. Jesse Severe
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  Speaker 1: with you to talk about the wonderful world of dynasty
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  Speaker 1: fantasy sports. The calendar has turned into August, and that
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  Speaker 1: means we are getting closer and closer to our favorite
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  Speaker 1: fall sports. I'm sure those of you who play fantasy
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  Speaker 1: are living in the whirlwind of fantasy football talk that
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  Speaker 1: ensues at this time of year, as if it ever ended.
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  Speaker 1: But certainly is it high tide as we come into
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  Speaker 1: the NFL preseason and we hang breathlessly on every single
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  Speaker 1: practice and rotation going on with the teams. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not all. Of course, hockey and basketball are close upon
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  Speaker 1: us and baseball. I'm in some baseball playoffs at this point, people.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of starting the playoffs at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of August so that you can have an even
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  Speaker 1: number of playoffs or even number of matchups for the
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  Speaker 1: other teams. You can have two week playoffs, which is
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  Speaker 1: a decent innovation. I was slow to it at first,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm all for it now and also to skip
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks when things just get crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But in any event, today will not be about baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It will not be about the behemoth of football. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: it will be about basketball because the dust is settled
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  Speaker 1: and this is the time of year where we need
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  Speaker 1: to fill the NBA talk airwaves with a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of talk about what just happened here, what changed in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA landscape. So today cost us one of our
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  Speaker 1: absolute best buddies talking about NBA Western Conference. Hey, it's
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  Speaker 1: been a few months as we've had cost this econom
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  Speaker 1: of ras ball on to talk some NBA basketball. But
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  Speaker 1: we're going to fix that right now. How are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: cost Us?
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  Speaker 2: I'm Greatus. How about you everything?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing great. It's it's the summer, so it
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  Speaker 1: probably you're probably chilling. Probably you need to put on
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  Speaker 1: a light Parker when you go outdoors.
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  Speaker 2: They're in Greece right I'm under an air conditioner right now,
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  Speaker 2: and I need more of that. Okay, it's goes.
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  Speaker 1: We've had an ongoing debate on this show about whether
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  Speaker 1: Europe needs a few more air conditioners, and you and
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  Speaker 1: I think are on the pro column on that for sure.
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  Speaker 2: For sure, I'm sure everyone from the UK and the
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  Speaker 2: Central Europe that was against this this summer they changed
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  Speaker 2: their mind for sure. Ask Craig next time you have
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  Speaker 2: him on the show, ask him his opinion. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: she would love an air condition right now.
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  Speaker 1: I Craig is the one that I push on this matter.
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  Speaker 1: But Craig, we just don't Our houses aren't built. Craig,
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  Speaker 1: air conditioner. It's real simple, buddy. Yeah, I see. I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that you're on the side of the converted cost
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  Speaker 1: us are not even converted, but you're just on the
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  Speaker 1: side of righteousness. Yeah. The NBA, the NBA is kind
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  Speaker 1: of resting right now, but boy, it has not rested
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  Speaker 1: for the last couple of months. Man. Have you been
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the exciting off season NBA action?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, it was an exciting ob season. This
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  Speaker 2: one started with a bang and then took a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a slower race, but then exploded again with the
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  Speaker 2: Jillen Brown and the Dele Brown decision number fifty five
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. It's always nice to see the
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  Speaker 2: roster changes, the horizes, who did good, who did bud?
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  Speaker 1: What I was what I asked you to come on
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  Speaker 1: today to help me do is now that the dust
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  Speaker 1: is settled, and this isn't really the rookie landing spot show.
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  Speaker 1: I know rookies, you're more focused on the pros and
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  Speaker 1: the guys who are more established and moving around, and
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  Speaker 1: not so much the prospects. But really it's those pros
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  Speaker 1: that are going to make the difference in which teams
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  Speaker 1: are winning and losing for a while. The rookies usually
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  Speaker 1: take a little while the simmer. But you and I
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  Speaker 1: are going to go through the Western Division today or
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  Speaker 1: the Western Conference and talk about the changes that have
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  Speaker 1: happened and what has happened in the complexion of these teams.
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  Speaker 1: Who's moving in, who's going to get a bigger role,
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  Speaker 1: who's got a fill in for some minutes, who's going
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  Speaker 1: to get crowded out, all these types of things that
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  Speaker 1: moves like the Jalen Brown one, which of course that
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  Speaker 1: will be in the East section, but that are happening here.
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  Speaker 1: So we're just going to hit every team, even the
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  Speaker 1: teams that don't have a whole lot of action. We
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  Speaker 1: won't try to I won't try to mention every last
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  Speaker 1: stinking contract and everything, but at least the major changes
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  Speaker 1: we can talk about, and we'll start in the Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go alphabetically. The Golden State Warriors. They didn't really
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  Speaker 1: do a whole lot of anything. There was a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of noise around Lebron, and there was a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of noise about re signing Draymond Green, and then
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  Speaker 1: Quintin Post got offer sheeted, I believe by Memphis, and
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  Speaker 1: he actually moved. He actually moved to a different team.
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  Speaker 1: But this team's still where they were. I guess they
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  Speaker 1: just hope that Jimmy is healthier. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: of the war is going to be pretty much what
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  Speaker 1: we saw last year, except maybe healthy Jimmy. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think custos?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess they try to have another go at
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  Speaker 3: it with the same roster. I'm sure they tried to
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  Speaker 3: sign some of the major names but came up short.
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  Speaker 3: They were mentioned both Aid and with Lebron. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that this team, the direction will be decided early
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  Speaker 3: on in decision. If they see that they can win
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  Speaker 3: some games, maybe they will try to wait for Jimmy
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  Speaker 3: Butler to return from his injury and try to have
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  Speaker 3: one last go with the carry and the Draymond Green nucleus.
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  Speaker 3: But I think this is important because all of the
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  Speaker 3: contracts they signed, they're no trade closest waved. I think
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  Speaker 3: Draymond also had his close waved, So I guess there
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  Speaker 3: is always a possibility that if they see that they're
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  Speaker 3: not I'm caliber roster, which is hard to see right now,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they try to blow things up during the season.
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of fantasy, I think it's pretty much
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  Speaker 3: the same projections like last season, minus Jimmy Butler, and
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  Speaker 3: maybe we take a look at Pisantos, the player that
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  Speaker 3: we didn't no one had in mind lass season, but
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  Speaker 3: he got meaning minutes.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just like a replacement of the Jimmy Butler
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  Speaker 2: means for now. But they are sure team to keep
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  Speaker 2: an eye on if they decide to tear everything down.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, even steps on an expiring contract and it's
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  Speaker 1: got a fifteen percent trade pone. You can't trade staff.
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  Speaker 1: For many ways you can't trade staff. But yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing else here is nailed down. Apparently Golden State never
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  Speaker 1: gives up no trades. There's this thing where if you
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  Speaker 1: sign a one year contract in the NBA, you have
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  Speaker 1: a no trade set up unless you waive it because
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  Speaker 1: if you get traded then you would lose your bird
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  Speaker 1: rights and your ability to sign for certain things. So guys,
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  Speaker 1: when you're deals can't be traded without their consent. But
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  Speaker 1: Draymond has already pre waived his consent on that as
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  Speaker 1: part of the deal with them. So yeah, it'll be
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see Golden State finally blowing up. That would
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  Speaker 1: be a thing. Nothing ever blows up with the La Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: Things usually move at a glacial pace. Nothing much exciting
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  Speaker 1: ever happens there. No, they are in complete disarray right
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  Speaker 1: now because all we really know about them is that
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  Speaker 1: they've signed Ruey Hatchimara from the Lakers John Collins, they
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  Speaker 1: signed and traded to the Detroit Pistons, and Bogdan Bogdanovic
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  Speaker 1: left and then the real excitement there is the Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: Leonard trade, and if it goes through, Kawhi is gone
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  Speaker 1: and Brandon Ingram and Grady Dick are there. But we
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  Speaker 1: happy idea at least from a basket because really this
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  Speaker 1: could take long a long time, and nobody knows how
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  Speaker 1: we could hurry up and just figure out this trade
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  Speaker 1: stuff before the season. But what's your thoughts on everything
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  Speaker 1: causes the team, the chaos whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if we try to judge this thing, we have
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  Speaker 3: to take to make the assumption that this trade goes through.
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  Speaker 3: It it might be a huge shock if it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it will go through. But we have
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  Speaker 3: to have something to discuss. And if the trade does
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  Speaker 3: go through, I think there is very much fantasy potential
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  Speaker 3: in this team because there is no clear number one
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  Speaker 3: option there, so there is a lot of usage around
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  Speaker 3: and there are a lot of players that can see
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  Speaker 3: a huge bump in their fundacy value there. We can
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  Speaker 3: see maybe there is Garland taking the number one role
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  Speaker 3: for the first time in his career now with Kawhi
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  Speaker 3: Gon or maybe it's Randon Ingram that he has matured
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  Speaker 3: a lot is in his late basketball career years. Let's
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  Speaker 3: say that he's twenty seventy that something like that. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: he's the go to score there and we have some
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  Speaker 3: more fundacy value there, or it's.
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  Speaker 2: Something entirely different. They have their rookie shooting guard in
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  Speaker 2: Kitton Wagler, who will presumably get more playing time as
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  Speaker 2: the season goes on. And I didn't see this team
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  Speaker 2: making the playoffs or making a major push for the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: So that's something to also consider that maybe they will
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  Speaker 2: try to play some of their younger guys more as
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  Speaker 2: the season goes on. Like Grady Dick.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't show anything substantial in Toronto, but he's still
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  Speaker 3: young and it seems like it's his opportunity to make
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  Speaker 3: or break his NBA career.
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  Speaker 2: So that's another name to watch there.
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  Speaker 3: Everything comes from the quiet trade home, So we wait
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  Speaker 3: and see on this one.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck's the deal with Benedict Mathern, Because at
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  Speaker 1: the time we're recording, he's still not resigned. He's hanging
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  Speaker 1: out there. He's got a qualifying offer on him or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and and like another team could rfam at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't really hear that's a real excitement for
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  Speaker 1: other people. I thought Benedict Mathern was starting to get
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  Speaker 1: pretty good and last year, technically he would be the
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  Speaker 1: third highest paid player on the team through and he
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  Speaker 1: got his cap hold for this year. But I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: is he gonna you think that this is they're just
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  Speaker 1: slow rolling this because they're going to get him on
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  Speaker 1: a low contract. Is he going to have a big
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  Speaker 1: role for this team or is he an afterthought? What's
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  Speaker 1: the deal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like his ceiling in this league is a
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  Speaker 3: microwave six month scorer, which is a valuable role nonetheless,
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  Speaker 3: but the market has dried up and there is no
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  Speaker 3: cup space left, so I don't know either he takes
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  Speaker 3: the qualifying offer or the Clippers work on a sign
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  Speaker 3: and trade.
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  Speaker 2: There are a few players like this around.
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  Speaker 3: At the moment that we're recording, like jill En Durham,
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  Speaker 3: who hasn't yet made a decision with a qualifying offer.
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  Speaker 3: I think the same is from Jonathan Gaminga who is
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  Speaker 3: still waiting on a siding trade or something.
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  Speaker 2: I think that maybe those those those situations can drag.
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  Speaker 3: On as we get closer to the to the training comes.
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  Speaker 2: But if Mathering resigns, he can have.
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  Speaker 3: A great oportunity to at least to put up some
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  Speaker 3: points in the board, and maybe he takes this one
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  Speaker 3: here as a proven contract to get something the more
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  Speaker 3: next season. It's a risk because we've seen players lose
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money when they take those kinds of contracts,
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  Speaker 3: but the market seems a bit too dry right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, It's just I wonder whether I am mistaking the
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  Speaker 1: speed at which the contract is signed with the actual
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  Speaker 1: impact and interest the team will have in him if
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  Speaker 1: they have him. I hope they do because matthern Is
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got some talent. But it's not often
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  Speaker 1: on this show that we can take the one of
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  Speaker 1: the big franchises, one of the money franchises of the league,
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  Speaker 1: and there's actually a lot. They're actually one of the
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  Speaker 1: most exciting to talk about, the freaking Lakers. Many they
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  Speaker 1: have overturned the majority of their roster. They're just they're signing.
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  Speaker 1: They're going nuts like a fantasy team. They're playing NBA
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, NBA thirty five. K I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: they're doing, but they brought in They brought in eight
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  Speaker 1: guys by by what I'm looking at here, and they've
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  Speaker 1: sent out or lost six guys. And that's in addition
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  Speaker 1: to Austin Reeves. Let me give you first of all,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about Walker Kessler. Because Kessler was a huge deal.
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  Speaker 1: They paid him a small for They paid him one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty million dollars for four years and they
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  Speaker 1: traded a lot of stuff to the Utah Jazz to
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  Speaker 1: get him. He's been injured a lot, but he is
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  Speaker 1: a big man who can do big things when he
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  Speaker 1: is at his peak, and it looks like the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: just counting on him to be the man in the
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  Speaker 1: middle to go along with the Luca Austin Reeves Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of Walker Kessler on this team?
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  Speaker 4: Cost us?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember we discussed in the Tradedline podcast we
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  Speaker 3: had with Young Craig that maybe they does take jar
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  Speaker 3: and Jackson because they were landing ahead of losing Kesler,
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  Speaker 3: and they did lose him, but they got a great return.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Laker decided that, I think smartly decided
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  Speaker 3: that it's not gonna work with both Tonsons and Lebron
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  Speaker 3: and they transformed the whole team to match Luca's style,
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  Speaker 3: so they went allowed to get the most matching pieces
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  Speaker 3: with style.
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  Speaker 2: Now, is Kesler the most matching center for Luca. No,
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  Speaker 2: but I think he's good. He's a good fit, and.
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  Speaker 3: Especially defensively, if they try to hide the Luca's questionable defense,
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  Speaker 3: Kesler can.
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  Speaker 2: Help for sure. It's also a matter of durability.
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  Speaker 3: I think if he can can stay on the floor,
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  Speaker 3: I think he will be a very good addition and
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  Speaker 3: will for sure benefit from both Luca and osenrieves playmaking,
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  Speaker 3: So if he's healthy, I think he's due for a
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  Speaker 3: bounchback season as a featured player from the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: The other most relevant signings that they had, Quentin Grimes,
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  Speaker 1: comes in from Philadelphia. He's a sort of a medium
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  Speaker 1: level score. He's kicked around quite a bit at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but he's still a fairly young man. Colin Sexton has
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  Speaker 1: had good times in the past. Matisse Tible is a
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  Speaker 1: nice defensive player. Andrew mamush Kabili. My shout out to
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  Speaker 1: my man fam who's listening to this? Who is the
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: Delaware guys? This is the most famous Delaware basketball player ever?
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, there's a few big ones in Jillen Hardy
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  Speaker 1: Matis's table, Kevin Looney kind of hanging around a little
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  Speaker 1: bit behind that, Zire Williams. Out of this whole mess
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. This is going to be the core of
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers rotation. Throw Luca Austin and then for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: Jared Vanderbilt is still there. Otherwise in Jake Lauravia. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: this is it, man, This is the Lakers team out there.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see any of these input guys? Are think
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  Speaker 1: any gonna be big for fantasy do you what do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 3: I think you can safely predict three of the five
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  Speaker 3: starting sports Luka Keesler and the Austin Riffs. But then
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  Speaker 3: I think the three spot and the two forward positions
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  Speaker 3: the small forward position are open for a step in
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  Speaker 3: In terms of fantasy, I am most excited for sandral
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  Speaker 3: Mont glass Ville if he gets the minutes and the
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  Speaker 3: starting position of the four. We saw a season with
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  Speaker 3: Toronto that he can be a valuable fantasy contributor because
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  Speaker 3: he can sue, he can provide some out of position triples,
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  Speaker 3: he can get his rebounds, he has good.
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  Speaker 2: Percentages, so I think it's a name to watch there.
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  Speaker 3: Also, we've seen that Grimes can be a good fantasy
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  Speaker 3: player when he even from his seventy six ers days,
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  Speaker 3: but those were when he had great, great usage. So
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  Speaker 3: I would be more cautious there because the ball will
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  Speaker 3: be more in the hands of Luca and the Ostin Riffs, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: but the Lakers are a team to monitor during recision
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  Speaker 3: to see how the rotation sacks out. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they were going to get the starting spot to Wonder build,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm very unsure that they will give it to
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  Speaker 3: jegular Avia mostly due to defense. So I think Malville
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  Speaker 3: has the real chance to start there and have great
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  Speaker 3: fund of Sivaluo.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he could be a great slipper pick
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  Speaker 2: in this season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. They did lose some guys. I
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  Speaker 1: guess we should come because the gap who's being lost here,
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  Speaker 1: and of course that doesn't matter to the new team.
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  Speaker 1: But DeAndre Ayton, Lebron, Marcus Smart, Ui hat Cha, Mura
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  Speaker 1: Jackson as Lukenard, my lord that that's that was the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: You could have told me that was the Lakers, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Luka Doncev slipped my mind. I would have said, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so this is gonna be some this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: some times. We'll see how the Lakers can come through that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns, never shy about spending money and doing
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  Speaker 1: what they have to do to stay exciting, decided to
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  Speaker 1: They re signed a couple of Mark Williams. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: give him another try, Jordan Goodwin, Colin Gillespie. There's some
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  Speaker 1: good stuff going on there. They traded for Miles Bridges.
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  Speaker 1: That was a big deal, a guy who definitely has
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  Speaker 1: got your stats in the past. And they brought in
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  Speaker 1: Luke Ard from the Lakers, a little three point specialist
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  Speaker 1: action there, and they sent out their three points specialist
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  Speaker 1: Greas and Allen, as well as Royce O'Neil, who's been
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  Speaker 1: a kind of a French contributor for a while. What
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  Speaker 1: do you see with the Suns big incoming or outcoming?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the Suns were not.
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  Speaker 3: They were surprised how well they did last season, so
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  Speaker 3: they I think they went the direction that we try
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  Speaker 3: to improve on what we did last season by shwopping
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  Speaker 3: Grayson Allen and roych and Mill, which our.
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  Speaker 2: Depth piecis for Miles Bridges.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see how this works out now in terms of funders,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: I think it's maybe a latter move for Bridges. He's
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: been on the decline in the last couple of seasons.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Best seasons were when the Sarlot Hornets didn't have anyone
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: to play, so he was the number one.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Option, which was not the case after Mellow returned and
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: Brandon Miller was drafted. There.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I'm not really sure that the Phoenix has what it
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: takes to be a really contributor, but they belie it,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: so who am I to argue with them? They also resigned.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I think yesterday Dalan Brooks a massive contract, so they
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: believe in their core. We will see how it goes
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Mark Williams, as you said, it's also always interesting because
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: they resigned him for three years, so they must be
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: more comfortable with his health than any other team that
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: ever had.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Him in the roster.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: They did try to manage him last season and largely succeeded.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: They played him in back to back games, but they
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: either plaid him less minutes in the first or the
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: second game, so there were some weird box scores, like
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: where he played fifteen minutes there and then thirty something
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: and then again fifteen minutes.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: So he was frustating for fantasy. But it's a good
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: sign at least that they decided to resign him. But
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be the same team as
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: last season, and I also had greater hopes for Jalen
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Green there. But it doesn't seem like it's happening. I
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: know this will this will be sad than my friend Greg,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: but I don't think it's happening for Televinia. We've seen
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: him in a lot of seasons now it doesn't seem
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: like he can play meaningful winning basketball. So he's another
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: player to watch for vidential trades down the line because
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: he still has a lot of years left in his contract.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I don't of all the teams we're going to talk
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: about today, I don't know if any of them don't
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: know what to say about more than the Sacramento Kings.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: So the King's not much really changed on the roster.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: They added Precious Actua. No, they're re signed to guys
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and away Devin Carter and that's it. And it feels
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: like the majority of the moves that they're going to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: make are the teams that are the players that are
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: still on the team. Zach Levigne and Demontes Sabonis are
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: still hanging around there. They still have my boy, Keegan
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Murray hostage. The guys they brought in the draft are
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: not as exciting as maybe what some other teams do.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: All they all I really care about is Dylan Cardwall
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: on this team. Everybody else can just pounce in. I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: need some bonus to get some rebounds for one of
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: my teams, and Kegan Murray is my guy, but Dylan
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Cardwall is my favorite. Yeah, what is going on here?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I heard they tried to trade the Monte Sabonis for
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: RG Barrett last year and it fell through. Was something
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I heard the other day. Tell me about the King Please.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: It's they supposedly from last season's roster. Russell Westbrook is
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: not on the roster yet because I read that they
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: want to bring back a veteran point guard to mentor
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: their rookie a cuff and the names that would have
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: mentioned were Russell Westbrook and Victor Ladipo. Twenty nineteen is
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: calling and they want to know what's up. I don't know.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: This didn't work out at all last season with Westbrook
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: that was on laven. It was a mess. It was
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: a mess.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I think it's pretty clear that Sacramento is trying to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: do a restarted with af as the main guy. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if they tried to trade or resign Sabonis,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: trying to, let's say, have a clean slate again with him,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: because it was very weird how they treated him last
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: season with the minutes and the bench him at some
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: point like he was the problem.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: But whatever. But it's sacramed.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: There's another them that I think will transition to not thanking,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: but to giving more opportunities to younger players soon.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Starting the project. Starting lineup of a calf Lavin, I
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: guess hunted the three Kick and Mary and Sabonis is
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a rough one. So I'm not really excited to watch Sacramento.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: It seems like yesterday when this team was a real
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: contender and they had that that crazy run with the
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: purple buzzer at their arena, that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Was the good times.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: But that the beam like the beam.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, exactly. How could I forget this?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yeah, this I don't know, man, they
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I will say coming into the draft, when I was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: looking at some of these players, and I'm not some
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: intensive scout, but Darius hair Acuff I thought was a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. I was excited where he went. It
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: makes sense to me that he ended up a King
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: because he's gonna he's gonna have the opportunity to do
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the crazy stuff that I feel like he's gonna try
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: to do. Probably nobody will tell him no, but yeah, see,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens this year. I mean, the Kings
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: are usually trying at the end of the season, which
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: kind of makes them. Probably their record at the end
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of the season looks better than it will now when
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: everybody's trying at the end of the season and just
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the bad shines through, because that's that's the danger here.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: There's more bad to shine through with this team, right.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: And I'm no expert in prospects either, but I would
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: guess that the acuff will get all the usage and all.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: The opportunities that he can handle. So that usually means
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: good points good as it's a ton of turnovers, bad percentages.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: So that's that's a question for people, especially in riders.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Maybe those kinds of players are better at the second
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: half of the season where they start to figure things
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: out and they have a good stretch there. But usually
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: you have to be careful and temper your expectations with
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: the rookie points in teams with essentially no other ball handled,
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: because right now, this.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Is the second player, the second lay start is Malik Monk,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: who is shooting that not a point guard? Yeah?
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: This no, this is this is not going to go well, no,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: this is not going to Oh I'm so sorry. Their
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: best hope is that there are three teams that don't
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: have their first round draft pick that don't mind getting
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: relegated to the two ball bottom slots, and they can
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: sneak in it forth. Okay, let's move to the Northwest
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Division cost us and a team that the main free
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: agent story with them is one that is not consummated,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and that is whether Nikola Jokic is going to hang
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: around for the long term. But primarily they brought in
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Marvin Bagley whatever a backup big and they lost Tim
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Hardaway and then they Spencer Jones. Actually that was an
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: offer sheet from the Oklahoma City Thunder for some reason,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and they matched it. So they're really they're real intense
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: about doing that. And let's see Peyton Watson. I don't
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: think is resolved either, and that's like a big deal
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to them. These guys are really still in limbo with
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: what's going on. It feels like costas what's up with Denver.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And they also I think yesterday signed the London
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Walker who spent the last two three years and they
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: usually get yeah to a minimum contact, so they got
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: some depth now, but they have even less cup space
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: now for Peyton Watson, so it's going to be very
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: interesting to see what they do there. I think even
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the offer.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Se it from Oklahoma for Jones was a move from
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: some press to press them even further to press division
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: right well, even father, Yeah, I could buy it totally
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: if he did something like that because the Nuggets had
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: to make a decision quickly, But in terms of fantasy,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: those moves might be a bit irrelevant if the starting
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: five are healthy. If also Peyton Watson resigns, we will
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: see what they decide for their starting lineup because they
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: have both Brown and Cameron Johnson, and I guess Aaron
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Gordon will start if he's healthy, So that's a conundrum
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: that they have to fix. And the both Alpha Dilo
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and Lonie Watcher, the two EuroLeague guys, are very experienced
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: players at this stage of their career, so I wouldn't
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: be shocked to see them have real rotation minutes, especially
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: if injuries come up. So maybe you're in your dynasty
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: rookie drafts if players that are not in the NBA
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: drafts are allowed, you can use a second round pick
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: in for Alpha Dial if you're a contending team, because
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I think he might have meaningful minutes, much more meaningful
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: than any rookie you can draft with the second round pick,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: let's say for this year or the next.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: So that's something to consider as.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Well that I totally agree. Experienced hands like that coming
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: in are like a Loney walker. They're going to get
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: a spot there. And I love the gamesmanship from Presty.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwolves another potential contender for Lebron and did not happen.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Sounds like it didn't really get that close to happening.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Would have been probably super powerful for basketball purposes, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: instead they made one of the biggest splashes by landing
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball. And there were a couple other players that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: they brought in, not necessarily the biggest ones. They traded
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: out Julius Randall and nas Reed naz Reid part of
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the LaMelo deal, and then Mike Conley and Cole Anderson,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: a couple of big veterans they let go and they
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: hung onto Iowa dis Soon. But that's actually a big
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: deal because he blew up in the playoffs and then
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he got hurt toward the end and that really messed
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: them up. But LaMelo is he's the name in lights.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: But that's always been the thing with LaMelo is he's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: bigger in the lights sometimes than he is on the court.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: What do you think when the dust all settles here,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: what do you think is the impact of some of
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: these players and what's going on with the Wolves.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Wolves realized last season because they
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: tried after the Gobert trade to win in a certain
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: way with Colbert and the Randle upfront and giving.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: The ball exclusively to exclusively to Andony Edwards.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So there were some moments in the playoffs last season
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: again where Edwards was completely up and there was no
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: creation apart from him, especially with Donda Davichanzo going down
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: at some point. So they're going to try something different
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: with LaMelo and I guess moving Jedd and McDaniel's to
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: the four spot. I cannot see any other way to
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: make everyone fit there. I mean, you start to consume
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: on the three and the mcdani's at before it's going
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: to be interesting to see. I guess it depends on
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: how willing LaMelo is to start playing winning basketball and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: try to fit in a mold where he's not the.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Number one player.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: And let's be honest, the Charlotte Hornets were never They
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: never had real expectations, so you could see it in
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the way they played. They were very loose, very very
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: very up tempo. And Minnesota has a different style, different
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: expectations with this kind of roster, so it's going to
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: be interesting.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: I think in terms of.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Fantasy Labelo Lamello's assists will decrease and the same will
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: happen a bit for Edwards, but in terms of how
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: many games he will be playing that this is the
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: first season after his season where he might get closer
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: to seventy games per season, which will matter more than
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: one or two assists down per game.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see how all these things work
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: out in Minnesota. And they also got three Lyles.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: From EuroLeague as well after a great season with Real Madrid,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: so in the same vein like Diallo and the Lone Walker,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: you can check him out for bench production, but for
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: deeper leaks he can be useful as well because they
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: lost both Rundle and the Nazid, so they're a bit
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: light in the forward positions.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember last year. Remember for a while Anthony
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Edwards was injured, like we thought maybe he wouldn't be
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: able to make it back and play all the playof
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and I remember tuning in, like I watched as many
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: games as I could, but I remember I tuned in
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: one of the Wolves games. It was like the fourth
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: quarter and Anthony Edwards was just gassed, like he was dead.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, he must be having a really
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: bad game, and then I looked, oh no, he scored
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: forty four points tonight, but it just he couldn't do
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: it all. He had to play some defense. It was
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: just too much for the guy. So I like giving
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it to Mellow, But Mellow feels like the just the
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: most combustible running mate that you could possibly give in
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: terms of is this guy really reliable? Is he really
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: a winner?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, no, it's I agree. I agree with you,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: and it's not the perfect fit. But as you correctly said,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: it was obvious that he needed someone to give the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: ball to. The question is how much it will impact
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: to LaMelo that he's not going to have the ball
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: in his hand to start the offense as he's used
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: his whole.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Career, because it's not gonna be like that.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: But yeah, the tmberbooks, especially after the de Vincenzo injury,
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: they couldn't keep up. Everyone was clogging Edwards and his
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: options were Conley and Boone Island something like that.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Those are no three options for players.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. All right, we're gonna take a brief break
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: come back with more of our.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: NBA trades.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Cost us. Now we are too. I'm used to calling
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: them the champions. I guess you can't call him the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: champions anymore because they got eliminated in the Semis this year.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: But the Oklahoma City Thunder, what do you get the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: team that has everything you really don't need to add
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: anything unless they just feel like screwing with you and
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: making offers on Spencer Jones. But they did lose. They
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: lost Isaiah Joe, Aaron Wiggins, and Lou Lou Dort was
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: starting to be a little bit of a towerp but
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: still was a very valuable defensive player. And so if anything,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City is losing a little bit. But they're just
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: getting younger because there's a bunch of younger guys who
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: are ready to jump into these positions. It feels like
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this is a pretty set rotation, if not even going
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to crowd out some of last year's points by getting
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: hopefully more Jale and Williams in their lives this year.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: But what do you think here? Any changes worth noting
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: for us who are trying to play fantasy or for
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City itself.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: The players that are living were valuable contributors last season,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: and they played real minutes, So I guess you're right.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Chelan Williams should play more now that he's healthy. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: think kind of forgotten player that straight flew a bit
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: under the rada last season, but I think it was
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: an excellent raight for Oklahoma is Zared McCain, who should.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Get a lot more minutes this season.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: He had an explosive start to his career in Philadelphia,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: but then never got the opportunity to play again because
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: of how crowded Philadelphia was in the back court. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I think if a name is to what's there it
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: started m gain, there are still a lot of guys,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: as you said, that can fill in these minutes that
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: the Oklahoma City turned into fifty eight second rounders again,
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: So I would watch that, and apart from that, it's
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: a pretty sat rotation.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Let's move on to the Portland Trailblazers. As a hockey fan,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I've been trying to explain or defend to NBA fans
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: that Tom Dundan actually some of his stuff works, and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Tom Dunnan keeps acting like a Batman villain and completely
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: ruining my ability to make his case in the meantime,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: they made some additions. Primarily they added John Morant. They
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: flipped Jeremy Grant for him, which I guess as a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: play on upside. I guess is again a belief that
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: somehow you can rehabilitate. It's like, it's like the stereotype
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: of a woman who sees a bad buoy and says,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I can fix him. I can fix him, or we
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: can reassemble the jail blazers of Days of yr that's
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: what the city really wants, or somehow alienate the market
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to the extent that they can not be sad that
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: they move. And also Chris Murray left, which only bothers
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: me because again a Murray twin a Hawkeye. We have
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to keep that in mind and have a moment of
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: maybe he'll get a role in Memphis. They don't have
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: any power forwards. All right, let's go on to Portland.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Who what do you think about this team? Is it
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the question of John Morant staying healthy, who's gonna get
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Grant's production, all those things?
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: The main question there is what are they going to
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: do in the backward which is very crowded, And this
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: is very correlated to that.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: What is the condition of Damian Lillard. Is he ready
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: to play major minutes again?
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: And if he is ready to play major minutes, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: because it's we're talking about Portland and Lillards, he can play,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: he will play those minutes. How does this make sense
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: with Moran, Scoot Henderson, Lillard, Drew Holiday, Sidon Sharp a
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: lot of.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Mouths to fit there, and most of them, except for
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Drew Holiday, cannot play without the ball in their hands.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Drew is like a Swiss army knife.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: You can put him everywhere and has proven that he
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: can be valuable in any situation.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: So I'm fine with him. He's no longer so much
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: fun as irrelevant, but he will find his role. But
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: between Scoot, Moran and Lillard, something has to give. I
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: don't know if problem is giving up on Scoot because
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: they didn't start him last season as well, maybe they're
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: not so happy with his overall development, or maybe they
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: thought that the price of just jerm Grant was too
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: good to pass up for Moran.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: But it will be interesting to see how this all
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: will work. I'm not sure this will work out in
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: the end, and I'm a bit sad that this will
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: take away from afdys production, which was a breakout season
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: for him last season.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: But I have trouble seeing how this will work. Maybe
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Morant is motivated from this trade because he was practically
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: given away for for peanuts for one backet of Greek Veta.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: So if he's motivated, maybe they will surprise us. But
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: on paper, it's a tough tough fit to validate.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Look, I would give. I would give an NBA free
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: agent for some Greek feta right now, because if I'm
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: getting it from Athens, that's some dang good feta, is
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: what I've got to tell you, cos you got the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: good stuff around those.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I'm starting an NBA A team for NBA Europe with
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: this business business plan. I'm gonna pay everyone with Veta.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Can I be an early partner with the Yeah, Adam
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Silver will love me. Yeah, Adam, I've never said anything
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: bad about you ever. All Right, Utah Jazz, they finally
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: allegedly are going to try It seems like a lot
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of it is just releasing the kraken that's already on
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the franchise that they hold back every year. They got
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: again some blessings in the draft, but from free agency
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: they got precious little except Jackson, Hayes and Joshua Kogi
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: and then obviously sent away Walker Kessler. It feels like
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: they've got a good coach, They've got some talent here,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: and Will Hardy would accidentally win with it when he
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to in the past. But if they really
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: turn on the switch, is this team going to be good?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: And who are the good fantasy players on it?
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: And it seems like they have all the tools they
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: need to be good decision. The starting lineup is looking good.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: They have good depth, they have young players.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: They got the number two picking these years rough with
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Darren Peterson who was supposedly waiting for one in a year,
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: one half, one and a half year to play in
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: the NBA, and he was taking slow like the youthaaz
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: as you said he wasn't.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Playing he was, Yeah, he was ready for them. He
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: was ready for that exactly, exactly exactly. He was tanking
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the whole time, exactly exactly.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: You never heard of it taking lottery pick.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: This is on paper, it seems like this should be
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: good decision. I like the fit again on paper with
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: because we didn't see it with Jaren Jackson and the
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Lorry Mark and then if you start both of them
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: at the five and the four, you can really space
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the floor, which is very interesting. With and George and
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Darren Patterson in the back court, I don't know who
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: will defend from those guys, But that's another problem. It's
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: usually not such a great problem for hilar season basketball
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: in the NBA, but that's a team that we should
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: watch closely in the precision to see how the roles fit.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Because we had he on the George breaking out last season.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Is it going to be so easy for him to
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: maintain this kind of value With Peterson back and with
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: no longer resting everyone for random illnesses that took thirty
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: five days to cure.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: I think the answer is.
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: No, yeah, And will use of nurkids again be a
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: basketball god for two months and then play one game
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: in seven days.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: No again, I think we'll start from the bench.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: But it was a very interesting season last season for
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: the Jazz, and I hope this is the season they
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: start winning, because it's been a long time coming for
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: you to from the days of I think Theron Williams
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: and Andre Kirilenko they had to really yeah to win
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: a lot, So I'm rooting for them.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: This season.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I've got a fever, and the only thing
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: that will cure it is more jazz basketball. As far
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. One more division to talk about it.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: The Southwest. Dallas starts out the bedding here, and they
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: lost some fringe players. Ryan Nemhart I always thought was interesting.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: The other guys are end of times type of guys.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: But they brought in some interesting players. If you ask
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: me to fill in around Zachary Rishi say, feels like,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: even though he's already being treated as a failed number
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: one overall pick from barely I don't know, a couple
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: of years ago, at this point, feels like maybe he
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: could be revived into something. Santi Aldama, a decent big
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: when he was healthy in Memphis. Marcus Sasser, who I
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: don't know, He was decent at times, an older point
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: guard that came into Detroit but is not going to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: have a role there anymore and definitely got surpassed by
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: whoever that other point guard was in Dallas.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: He should have done the last year.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they bring in they go to your country,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: they go to your content, man, they go straight to
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the Balkans and bring in Tarik Beberovich, so they're they're
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: going for it here. Kyrie Irving, we don't know what's
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: going on there. It sounds like he'll probably be radio
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: role pretty early. What's the deal with these guys?
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like a suddenly very full roster for
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: the Mavericks. They filled out nicely both the forward positions,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: and they got some ball handling with Sasser and with
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: the rookie Sergo de la Rea, who was also playing
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: in Eurolink for Valencia, which was a surprise team decision
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: in EuroLeague. I think he's going to be one of
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: the most ready rookies to play, so keep an eye
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: him as well. And I think that's gonna be a
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: good move a so for Risa because obviously the Hawks
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: gave up on him at the middle point of last season,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: so a change of scenery would be good there, especially
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: if Clay Thompson is not in the roster is the
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: most likely outcome at this point.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe he will be trained or bought out, but.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: The Mavericks seem a very full team both in every
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: position right now. Everything will be just by how healthy
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: careering is, of course, but I think this roster around
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: the Cayrie and the Cooper Flag makes a lot of sense.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: And I'm very excited also for the second decision of
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Cooper Flag because after one or two months that were
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: a bit questioned at the start, which was expected and
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: pretty much anticipated, he seemed to figure it out very quickly.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: And he has all the tools to be exceptional. And
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I think both in real life obviously, but also his
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: fantasy profile is very interesting. It's very interesting, and if
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: he figures it out and has a supporting cast around him,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: that makes sense for him.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: I think he can be very frightening and fantasy. All
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: the movies that the Mavericks did enhanced the spacing because
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: both and al Dama can shoot. It is a s
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: I can also shoot, especially the cuts and shoot guy
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: not so much of the dripple and the Tarkbtovich is,
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: if not the best, one of the best shooters in
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: the EuroLeague in the last three or four seasons. He's
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: a really deadly suitter from all the from all over
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: the court.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: So those make a lot of sense for Dallas. I'm excited.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I'm also excited to see how they save the roster
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: around Cooper Flag decision.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the Cooper team. The Cooper team now, and
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: what Kyrie Irving does is some frosting on that. And
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Kyrie seems to be a good set. Let's keep Kyrie
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: in Dallas. That seems to be working. Okay, he's getting
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: along with them. Everybody's like, let's trade him to another team.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he and if hean flag vibe,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: we could just keep them around the Houston Rockets. The
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Houston Rockets made two huge additions of experienced pros who
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: are gonna make a big difference. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: seeing that Fred Van Vliet and Steven Adams are actually
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: returns from injury, not free agents, but still big additions
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: to this team. I guess. They also brought in Marcus
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Smart and bogdan Bogdanovich lost a couple of guys who've
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: become fringe players in Dorian Finney Smith and Josh Kogi.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: But really, this is a team where some experienced guys
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: are coming back to supplement. Obviously the late stage Kevin
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: durant Alprin Shangoon who is in his prime but as
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: a quirky player, and then Jabari Smith and the newly
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: extended Tarry Eason, and then you still got Amen Thompson.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: You got reached a five minutes ago. This was the
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: other team other than the Oklahoma City Thunder that was
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: just crowded with young excitement. Amen Thompson was supposed to
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: be the greatest thing since sliced bread and fantasy, and
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: that did not happen last year. He's I don't know, man.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I would trade him for some Greek feta,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: but maybe a really good yoburt. So I don't know.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: You tell me what's the deal with the Houston Rockets.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: I guess it's weird because we were having this show
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: last season and we're discussing how full this roster is,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: how everything should click for the Houston Rockets, how excited
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: were to see them, and on paper, this roster got
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: even better this decision because losing Doria Finnie Smith who
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: wasn't really playing, and Dosakosi was playing too much for
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: the team's good and replaced them with Smart and Bogdanovich,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: and obviously having both Adams and the feed back theoretically
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: should make it in better. But I think it was
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: obvious last season that the whole chemistry was not there
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: for Houston.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: The effort was not there.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Who had a lot of reports that the locker room
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: was not very much aligned.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: There were some questionable videos of Durant and Sengun not.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Really vibing with the other with other players, It's.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Something is off in Houston. I don't know what, but
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: it seems weird.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: And now for Ram and Thompson, I think the most
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: interesting thing for him was Okay, he didn't break out,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: and especially.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: His blocks disappeared because in his rookie and in his
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: sophomore season he had one point three blocks and last
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: season was exactly the same as his rookie season with
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: zero point six blocks, with huge difference fantasy obviously, But
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the interesting part was he improved his free throws from
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: sixteen percent to seventy eight percent. This is still belowly gaverage,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: but it's not requiring you to go with the free
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: throw punt, and that's very interesting if we try to
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: build some things for next season, if we see that
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: he can maintain these kind of percentages and maybe he
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: forces us only to a three point punt with a
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: triple span. So this is very interesting for him.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: But it all depends on how Fred van Fleet returns,
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: how ready he is to take minutes and useless from everyone,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: and I guess if everyone is healthy, there are not
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: enough minutes to go around, So I would expect Houston
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: to make some trades early to try and glog this
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: this roster. But on paper it's great, I'm not really
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: sure if the vibes are there.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like Durant has a way of spoiling those from
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: time to time by saying some dumb things in the media.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: No.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was told that Aman Thompson and Reed Shepherd
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: were like the two best rookies from their years in
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: some ways, and now they both barely in the rotation.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: If Fred van Vliet is owning it, it seems like
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: they're in more depth. I don't know. We'll see how
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: all this goes down.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: But Separate was the skipe go to last eason a
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: lot when the Rockets were not playing defense, and he
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: was the easy guy to about for inbi dot com
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: just to get his message across the team. I cannot
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: see how I'm and Thompson does not play his minutes,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: But I can see a world where Redperd is martinal
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: I even more now.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: But will we say.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Memphis Grizzlies are executing Would this be a textbook tearn
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: in I don't know. They actually brought in Jeremy Grant.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: They brought in and Jeremy Grant is the highest paid
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: player on the team by a lot, like thirty four
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: point two million. Second highest paid player on the team
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: is getting fifteen million, So he is the man here.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: And then next year he even has a higher thirty
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: six million dollar contract, which is a player option, so
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: he is going to be back in the following year.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: But they did some really cool things. They traded for
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Beef stew Isaiah Stewart from the Detroit Pistons. That was good.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: He Stuart kind of, I don't know, kind of played
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: his way out of Detroit. I don't think he did
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: as well in the playoffs if I recall correctly. But
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: he's a very valuable and surly regular season player who
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: should fit into the Memphis archetype. D'Angelo Russell's there to
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: take the shots you need D'Angelo Russell to take, because
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: that's what he's declining. But he's still around. He's I
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: don't know, he's not being paid much. I don't know
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: how what kind of a rule, but basically the team
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: seems to be they're trying to coalesce. It around the
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: next guy, who's going to be Cameron Boozer. Obviously, again
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: we're not getting into all the rookies, but this is
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: supposed to be Cam Boozer's team now, and it's Cam
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Boozer plus all bigs. Whoops, all bigs, Jeremy Grant, Isaiah Stewart,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Cameron Boozer, Quentin Post, Taylor Hendrix, Zach Eaedy. I have
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: now named six of the seven top paid players on
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: the team all bigs. Well, yeah, it's all bigs here
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: man all the way down. And yeah, they're trying to
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: stockpile some future picks. They had to stretch KCP. I'm
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: old enough to remember when KCP was supposed to be
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: a huge deal and the key free agent signing for
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: everybody who's trying to go over the top. Yeah, they
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: lost to John Ran. They lost Santi al Dama two
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: who both were useful. Santi Aldama, they really needed a
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: big It's too bad they had to move him. What
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: do you think of this team and what kind of
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: fantasy goodness are we going to get out of this chaos?
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: I think here there's a lot of funders opportunity to
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: but we have to wait and see how this bill materialize.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: I can even see a world with Jeremy Grant is
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: indeed the valuable infantancy, although his founder's profile is not
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: so friendly, let's say, But especially the guard the spots,
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of result of opportunity there, and
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: I think one name we have to keep an eye
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: on is last season's rookie centric coward, who had a
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: good decision last season with the usual rookie bumps. But
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: since this is obviously a rebuild for the Memphis, maybe
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: he gets more use than we anticipate. And I think
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: maybe he will also start at the two positions and
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: don't see someone else winning the spot over him. And
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: it's also going to be very interesting who they started
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: at point guard. They have Tides around, which is a
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: good fantasy player when he's given minutes, and he was
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: very good last season as well, but they didn't allow
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: him to play all the games. He started one game
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: and then sat the next one and then started another,
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: so it was a bit frustating to own him, but
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: I guess this will not be the case decision. They
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: also have Scotty Pippen Junior and the Walter Clayton junior.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: But I think my money would be that the rom
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: style starts the season at the point guard and they
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: see how it goes. And also we have Zachid, as
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: you said, and if he's healthy, maybe we see some
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: more usage going his way, which was not the case
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: so much with Moran on the team. But this is
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: a very interesting fantasy season, a fantasy team to watch.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure the basketball port that will be so
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: enticing this season, but for us fantasy heads, it's gonna
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: be worth a watch.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the I'm looking at the payrolls here.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Memphis seems to have twenty million dollars less of payroll
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: than anybody else in the league. And I think they're
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the only team that's below the cap floor that may
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: not include stretch. I'm not sure how that works. So yeah,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: if anybody needs to unload some salary, call down to Memphis,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: because Tennessee is accepting applications right now. Okay, So the
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans kind of did a whole lot of nothing,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: if you ask me, just bringing in and sending out
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: depth bigs. And I don't know what, what do you
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: have to say the Pelicans?
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: I think we can I think we can skip them.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I think we can skip Them's think.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Of Pelicans we got in New Orleans this series.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: This last season, it's the same thing. Nothing.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe I can dumb it in. I wonder if last
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: year's previews nothing happened. We'll see all right, San Antonio Spurs.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: They are, of course a pretty relevant team, but not
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: a whole lot of excitement going on. It's a pretty
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: full team. I don't know how much you really need
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: to be doing there, but Tobias Harrah is the most
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: is the biggest edition. You get a you get kind
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: of that maybe running made for not quite running made,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: but another big that you can put in that rotation.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Their guard rotation is full. And oh yeah they've got
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: a center. I guess we don't have to worry about that.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: It's kind of that way, that forward position where they
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: could plug somebody in. They're not I don't know if
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: they're incredibly deep at backup center. When you really get
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs and the key moments, you probably don't
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: want to worry about that. All Oh, they kill.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: Kill I think they signed.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they signed the five rookies that play the five
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: and three of them are injured or something.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: I don't remember.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: I think the their highest pick, the Jayden Quentin's is
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: for short playing the five and it is for shut
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: injured for a lot of times.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's not gonna play.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, But I think the other first round pick,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Taris Read is the center and will play.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: So they should be good there with Luke cornetto will.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Luke Cornette, that's yeah, obviously, Luke Cornette. The French
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Vanilla lineup and they get wem Banyama and Cornetta out
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: there together is beautiful. One of the most beautiful nicknames
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: for a situation. One question I've got for you about
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: this team because again not too much drama here, but
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Darren Fox right now the highest paid player on the
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: team until Wemby's contract happens, which is coming soon. Fox
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: really burned a lot of people in the playoffs and
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: in the NBA playoffs, not the Fantasy playoffs, but he
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: is writing a huge contract that's going on for quite
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: a while from here, another four years. I believe he
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: really disappointed people in the NBA playoffs just because he
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: made a couple of kind of bonehead plays at the
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: very end in those Spurs collapses. I thought it was
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: unfair because I thought he was hurt for a lot
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: of those playoffs and he was gaming out games that
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: he would not have done in the regular season. But
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: that doesn't explain silly plays. It probably explains more the
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: plays that he couldn't get to athletic. Do you have
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: any thoughts on whether de Aaron Fox is about to
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: hit a cliff? He's only twenty eight, for Pete's sake.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure it's a cliff, but it seems
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: obvious that with San Adonio having a very full backward
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: with Dylan Haupper and Stephan Castle and Devin Vasell, he's
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: not going to be such a clear number two.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Let's say, as we've had in our mind last season.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: He's use opped.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: From twenty seven to twenty five, which is a notable decline,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: and he's scoring and his field goal attemps dropped, His
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: fiel good attemps dropped by four, his scoring went from
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: twenty three point five to eighteen point six. That's five
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: points less, and that's very easily explained because he played
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: five less minutes. So I think we should adjust our
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: expectations for Fox in terms of fantasy. I don't think
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: he can produce like top thirty seasons like he did
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: for the last five years, I think we should have
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: you in our mind as more like a top eighty
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: top seventy player, which is still good, but I didn't
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: see a run away for him to become that dominant
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: player that used to be drafted like top twenty or
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: top thirty again. And also last season had more close
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: to his career average, so that's something we should keep
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: in mind as well when we draft him for the
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: next season.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: But I think he's a good fit for the Spurs
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: despite all the players controversy, and I think with Tobias
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Harris entering this special rotation which went to the finals
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: to the I like this team a lot more. I
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: think Harris was one of the better to go there,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: so I think they did well.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: When your third guard is getting the highest contract on
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: the team by a multiple of two, and by the way,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: kids out there, if you can guess the second highest
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: contract on the Spurs right now, that's right, Devin Vessel
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: is the second highest contract on the Spurs for this
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: coming year at twenty seven million. When your third guard
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: is only getting and he's going to be getting more
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: than wembin Yama. In actually, throughout the current extension of
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: wemban Yama, at least through twenty nine to thirty, Fox
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: is due to receive more than wemban Yama every year
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: of that contract for four more years. That's not right.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: That's not right. That is a problem, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I had Darren Fox in a league,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: and again I felt like he was a little bit
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: unfairly maligned for his playoff performance. But it's true, he's
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: not what he was and his position is more crowded,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: and it's a salary league cost us. I had to
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: work my butt off to move that guy for any
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: kind of value this offseason, and he still has value.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: If you have plenty of cap room on your team,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: he's going to give you stats. You just have to
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: prepare to take that cap hit for what you're going
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: to get. I had to work hard to move that guy,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: but I did ultimately, and I think the other guy
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: is satisfied too.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: So it's you remember, do you remember the return that
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: you got?
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Let me see, And this was a multi sport trade,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: so it's going.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: To okay, you can let's see.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Oh no, well, yeah, it was some. It was I
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: got Nic Lodolo in baseball, who's a maybe a top
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: hundred pitcher, and I got second round picks in NFL
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: and NBA and a second round pick in NBA. That's
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: going to be like pick for something like that. So okay, yeah,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: to trade a guy at that level, But my cap
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: is dying. I'm up against my freaking cap. It was
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: looking rough. But just imagine in terms of talent, like
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: two years ago, thinking that Darren Fox was worth scraps
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: from for your fantasy team.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they times move fast in the NBA, and the
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: situations can changed so so quickly, and if you take
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: the cup space as well, then it becomes wildly volatile.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: But the other thing is, at some point one would
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: think that san Antonio is going to trade him if
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: they can. It's going to be hard for san Antonio
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: to trade him. But if they were able to trade
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: him for another star, and he was able to go
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: to a lesser team where he could take on a
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: big role again and eat up usage, he could have
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: mid career Russell Westbrook type stuff. I don't know, not
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: quite the same archetype, but still, all right, we've been
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: through all thirty teams. You've been generous with the time,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: and this is good times. Obviously, there's still that one
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: last piece of the Clippers trade and where they're going
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: to end up, but this is good stuff. I am
• 59:42
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• 59:47
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• 59:50
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• 59:51
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• 59:54
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• 59:58
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• 1:00:02
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• 1:00:05
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• 1:00:08
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• 1:00:28
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• 1:00:31
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• 1:00:58
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• 1:01:01
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