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- Malcolm: Wait, what draft pick did I get this year? Was it four? Five? Thomas: I think it was, I don't even know. didn't get, I don't care. It doesn't matter. The Wizards are actually gonna have a squad next year if AD stays healthy. Malcolm: Let me see. Bro, that's a very big, you have the fourth and the 15th pick. I'm not lie, I can really get some. Yeah, I'm trying to think bro, what you call it? Thomas: Yeah, that's a huge F. Fourth and fifteenth? Malcolm: I've seen reports on about the Wizards. don't know if it's a smoke screen, I have. Now, if you a GM, what are you doing, bro? Because AJ, he really wants to be in Utah. don't know what Utah did to him or why he loves Utah. He's from Utah. Bro, he went to high school in Utah. He played at BYU, which is also in Utah. He had offers from every school in the country. He opted to stay at BYU, which is in Utah. Thomas: He wants, he's from Utah. Utah? Malcolm: Mind you, I think my guy, he's also Nigerian too. I don't think I've ever seen a Nigerian in Utah in my life, but I guess he just loves the state where he's from. Thomas: Is that what happens when you from Utah and you're black and you're actually really good at athletes? Like, do people treat you normal? Because if I go to Utah, I don't. But AJ, guess because he's like a super good athlete. Malcolm: I got each other there there there there. Yeah, I'm gonna say they're gonna do to me But he like he actually wants to, but it's like I've seen it. Cause I think the Jack, like if you were the wizard GM, are you passing up on AJ? If they throwing in, they talking about Ace Bailey and the second pick in the draft. Cause that means you can get Ace and you walk away with Darren Peterson. And Darren Peterson is not no, he's not no like this draft is loaded. Granted. I mean, you go, Kelly Wilson. I don't know if people picking Kelly Wilson over DP in the draft, but Ace Bailey plus DP. Are you doing that? Or Caleb Wilson. Thomas: Kayla Wilson is nice. Honestly, honestly, if I could get Ace Bailey and Kayla Wilson, I'm trying to think how they would fit because Trey. ⁓ Malcolm: But you guys was thinking about the current Wizards too. Thomas: That's what I'm saying, but Trey, he get ten assists a game. Yeah, ace is a liability on defense. Malcolm: but no defense, that's what I'm There is no guarantee that AD gonna be healthy. Alex R, he's okay, but he's not like a anchor of defense by any means. Wilson, I think he's not the best player, like he's not the best out of the top four, but I think he has the most upside. I think that he has the most, I think like the way I kind of like look at them, I think AJ is one of them guys who just can't pass up on. I think he's a... Thomas: Kayla Wilson gonna have to learn how to play defense. Yeah. Malcolm: just going to be like a perennial All-Star score. Like he's going to score at a really elite level in the NBA. That's how I look at him as. I he, but I think he has like, he's like, think Caleb Wilson is the most upside as far as like room to grow, as far as like what he can do in the NBA. I look at Cameron Boozer, like he's not as flashy or like as fancy as the other guys, but he's, think he's the most efficient and like fundamental player. Like I think like he don't do nothing fancy, nothing crazy, but it's like what he does, bro, it's just like, that's going to make him like a very consistent. player in the league. You know what you're getting out of Cameron Boozer every game. And then Akuff, he's obviously a lot smaller in undersizing the rest of them. But I think him on the Clippers, well, I don't know. they need, him and Darius Garland, that's a crazy ⁓ duo. there's zero defense. I don't know, bro. It's a loaded draft, bro. That top five is like, you can't go wrong with none of them. But I don't know what I'm doing if I'm the Wizards GM. Me personally, I'm taking AJ, bro. I don't care where you want to play. I don't care if you want Utah. You're coming back to DC, brother. You don't have a choice, man. ⁓ Thomas: Yeah, for his sake, I hope he get out of Utah. Malcolm: I don't know. I mean, I don't know what it is. think he just, I don't know what he likes about it. I can't really speak to it. I haven't been in Utah. I don't plan on it, but amen. I'm sure some people look at Maryland and how we view PG the same way, but I can't get behind it, but amen. All salute to him, all power to him, bro. He gonna be a star for sure. All of them boys gonna be stars. So we're gonna see, bro. Thomas: I don't have anything good to say. Facts, We gonna see, I think AJ, I don't know, I don't know. I'm looking at the draft predictions. Yeah, don't, Wizards need to be smart, man. Wizards need to be smart here.