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Trae Young to the Wizards?! Why the Hawks “Supermax No” Says Everything About Today’s NBA + Kerr, LeBron, and the Next Face of the League
In this episode of On The Ball, Ric Bucher unloads on the NBA’s most uncomfortable truths: why “tanking” is getting harder to justify, why a rumored Trae Young-to-Washington deal would be less about basketball and more about money + leverage, and why the supermax era is changing (maybe forever). Ric also tackles the loudest Warriors debate—why fans coming for Steve Kerr are missing the point—and explains what Steph’s late-career reality actually means in the new salary-cap NBA.
Then Ric turns his attention to LeBron’s podcast positioning, the optics of “the league is moving away from ISO”…
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