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“The 2026 NBA Trade Deadline Will Be Boring…” · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Brace your sales, ladies and gentlemen. The twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline is probably gonna be trash. I'm sorry to
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  Speaker 1: be the bear of bad news man, but it just
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  Speaker 1: feels like we won't get the crazy fireworks of some
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  Speaker 1: other trade deadlines. Now we'll say I'm trying to jinx it.
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  Speaker 1: Three years ago I made a video the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: three NBA trade deadline will be boring, and guess what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Urrant got traded, Kyrie Irving got traded ended up
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  Speaker 1: being insane.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm trying to jinx it.
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  Speaker 1: But based on what we know now in January seventh,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of things is happening. The only real
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  Speaker 1: rumor that we have that feels like an inevitability is
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  Speaker 1: Trey Young is gonna be traded, but to who. Nobody knows,
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  Speaker 1: because before I start filming this episode, Jake Fisher head
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  Speaker 1: a report that I'll bring up Trey Young has shown
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  Speaker 1: interests and potentially joining Brooklyn or Minnesota, but neither team
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  Speaker 1: has showed interests.
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  Speaker 2: Back, like like what you know?
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  Speaker 1: So Trey Young might be the biggest name that we
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  Speaker 1: see moved, and his market is genuinely the Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, raptors hit me up saying they or be interested,
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  Speaker 1: and heat fans have hit me up saying they'd be interested.
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  Speaker 2: But are the franchise interested like the fan base.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, we know what we want, we know what we
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  Speaker 1: think is the right move, but the people in charge.
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  Speaker 2: Have to be the guys that are gonna get it done.
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  Speaker 2: So che up.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the biggest name moved, and maybe the only big
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  Speaker 1: name move because some of the other names that we
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  Speaker 1: thought might be available may not be available at all.
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  Speaker 1: Remember johannest oh Jianness might get traded. No, that's not happening.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis might get traded, and I guess there's still
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  Speaker 1: a possibility. There still are some reports about other teams
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  Speaker 1: being interested, but just feels like it's unlikely that those
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  Speaker 1: bigger names will get moved.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta remember what we.
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  Speaker 1: Are in the NBA world in twenty twenty six with
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  Speaker 1: the Aprons, the first Ape and second Ape, and how
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  Speaker 1: teams are.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to avoid those things.
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  Speaker 1: In a world where teams we're trying to flaunt cat
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  Speaker 1: flexibility knowing damn well, they're not gonna be able to
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  Speaker 1: do anything interesting with cat flexibility and with teams having
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  Speaker 1: draft capital as an all time asset, we just won't
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  Speaker 1: see many, at least in season trades that feel insane.
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  Speaker 1: Like going back to the John's example, again, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think is gon getrad. It feels like the Milwaukee Bucks
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  Speaker 1: are not gonna Tradejiannis unless he verbally says I want
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  Speaker 1: to be traded, which makes sense because he's the greatest
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  Speaker 1: player in franchise history. And what are they fourteen to
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  Speaker 1: nine in the games that Giannis has played or something
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  Speaker 1: alone his lines, and if you're fourteen to nine when
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  Speaker 1: Giannis is playing, and this Eastern Conference is as trash
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  Speaker 1: as it is, where like the Knicks look like the
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  Speaker 1: favorite and they can't win games anymore because the defense
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  Speaker 1: is so trash, and the Detroit Pistons, who we know
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  Speaker 1: in love, are so young that maybe they're not ready.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the Milwaukee Bucks saying, hey, we have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to just sneak into them and make some noise. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna trade Jannis away right now. With Anthony Davis,
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  Speaker 1: there's so many rooms, and again that might be one
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  Speaker 1: that could be available still, But if you are running
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  Speaker 1: the team and first of all, I want to remind
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  Speaker 1: you that as of today, they still have an interim
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  Speaker 1: general manager, an interim guy in charge. And I always
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  Speaker 1: wonder when you fire somebody of importance like that the
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  Speaker 1: GM or basketball operations guy and Nico Harrison during the season,
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  Speaker 1: do you want your interim guy to make the big decision?
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  Speaker 1: Do you want I think it's Michael Finley and a
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  Speaker 1: few other guys. Do you want Michael Finley, who you're
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  Speaker 1: not sure is going to keep the role, to make
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  Speaker 1: the biggest trade, the next big trade post trade in Luca.
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know unless you're gonna take that interim tight
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  Speaker 1: away from him, make him the full time GM.
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  Speaker 2: So do you want him making that decision? And does
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  Speaker 2: the decision make sense?
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  Speaker 1: Because you can spit you as a little bit, say
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  Speaker 1: hum Cooper Flags obviously gonna be as incredible as anybody.
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  Speaker 1: He's been showing that as a rookie. Kyrie Irving is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be back next season, and Anthony Davi's gonna be here.
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  Speaker 1: We running back next season. We still got most of
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  Speaker 1: the role players from the championship run that we had
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  Speaker 1: a couple years ago.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have Luca anymore. By the way, but the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the stuff is still there.
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  Speaker 1: You can be like, hey, you know, you can see
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  Speaker 1: a future where that team is a competitive playoff team
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  Speaker 1: just next season.
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  Speaker 2: So mayboy hang gone to Anthony Davis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, with the cap flexibility in FLNTA, the fans face,
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  Speaker 1: with the aprons being a thing and with the draft
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  Speaker 1: capital being super valuable. Even if we were to see
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  Speaker 1: an all time guy in this hypothetical Yahn and It's
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  Speaker 1: become available, it just is increasingly more difficult to see
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  Speaker 1: those guys get traded in season. You gotta think about
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  Speaker 1: the money that you're outputting when you're inserting a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Jansa to your lineup and to your team.
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  Speaker 2: He's making a ton of money.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are Yiannis and you are the guy
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  Speaker 1: that saying I want out and I want to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship, the team that you're traded to has to
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  Speaker 1: give up somebody that is super valuable to get you.
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  Speaker 1: So you might be having to gut the core that
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  Speaker 1: makes Gianni's interesting and trading for you in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: And with it being in season, you don't really have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to build around before the post he starts.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I think that if we do have more
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  Speaker 1: bigger deals, it would have to be in the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: because again, in this hypothetical, if you're trading for Gianni's,
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  Speaker 1: you still have an entire offseason to fill the roster with,
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  Speaker 1: whether it be minimum guys or mid level guys. In
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  Speaker 1: an end season you bring in Yannis, he's like, all,
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  Speaker 1: you's got to work with what you got. Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that if Yannis said he wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: traded that teams wouldn't call to get it done right now.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying that it just feels like it's
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  Speaker 1: super unlikely. So I'm like, what's gonna happen? Probably nothing,
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  Speaker 1: Nothing happened, because even the guy that I said, I,
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  Speaker 1: if there's anything that is a guarantee when it came
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  Speaker 1: to the trade, that line John the Commutu's gotta get
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  Speaker 1: trade right. He signed a like basically a one year deal,
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  Speaker 1: a show a deal so he could come in and
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  Speaker 1: see if he can help the Warriors. And then he
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  Speaker 1: eventually he's getting more d piece of stuff, and then
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  Speaker 1: he is as he traded on what the fifteenth of
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  Speaker 1: this month, and then then this from Anthony Slater comes
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  Speaker 1: out they're saying the Warriors are willing to keep johnth
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  Speaker 1: Kaminga pass the deadline.
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  Speaker 2: That is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The one guy that we thought was one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: sure getting traded might not get traded, because what does
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  Speaker 1: this even mean? Team sources said in recent days they
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  Speaker 1: be willing to keep Kaminga past the deadline if nothing
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  Speaker 1: appealing enough materializes. Spoiler alert to the people running the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. A lot of material appealing things won't
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  Speaker 1: materialize because the brothers really not playing for you, and
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  Speaker 1: you as a team need a guy I thy can
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  Speaker 1: put pressure on the rim, and y'all still don't think
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  Speaker 1: he's worthy enough to play.
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  Speaker 2: So who are you to believe that John Kamenka is
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  Speaker 2: gonna have this robust market?
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  Speaker 1: Spoiler He didn't have a robust market last season, and
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't played good this season. To make this is crazy.
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  Speaker 1: This is crazy. We always talk about the sunken cost fallacy.
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  Speaker 1: This this is the definition of it. The brother cannot
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  Speaker 1: play for y'all or I'm sorry, he has not really
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  Speaker 1: played for y'all. The last game he played was December eighteenth.
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  Speaker 1: December eighteenth, and I just had to make sure was
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  Speaker 1: he is he injured.
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  Speaker 2: Lower back sowretness. Yeah, yeah, okay, whatever bro No.
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  Speaker 1: Just a few days ago, or Steve Kerr said, JK
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  Speaker 1: is a player Jonathan Kamena who told me this. He's
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  Speaker 1: a player who needs minutes in touches to get his
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  Speaker 1: rhythm going. Steve Kerr on how Johnathan Kamena, who has
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  Speaker 1: nine DMPs in the last ten games, has more success
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  Speaker 1: as a long burst player. But you'd be willing and
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  Speaker 1: that might just be leveraging, right. We know that we
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  Speaker 1: have to trade him, and we know his values low,
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  Speaker 1: but we might be willing to keep him to try
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  Speaker 1: to get an extra asset and you're not getting an
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  Speaker 1: extra asset for him. But you just don't have to
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  Speaker 1: wipe your hands of the situation. But when things get
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  Speaker 1: really interesting, are teams that could be in position to
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  Speaker 1: trade make some trades, but we're not sure if they will.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain teams You look at their team and
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  Speaker 1: look at their their salary cap and their salary sheet,
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  Speaker 1: and you say, hey, man, the New York Knicks just
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of wig room to make a move.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You got some guys like gershon Yabusele could potentially get moved,
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  Speaker 1: but For the most part, you're not gonna see the
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  Speaker 1: New York Nicks pull off anything crazy unless Joannis come
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  Speaker 1: knocking at the no and say I want to go
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  Speaker 1: to the Knicks, which again don't feel like is gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: The Celtics are team that could go maybe either way.
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  Speaker 1: Where you can you can see a report that they'd
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  Speaker 1: be interested in the guy like Zubots and Zubots became available,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also a world where they try to shed
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  Speaker 1: salary to get under the tax, so Infony Simons is
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  Speaker 1: traded for a guy that they could just wave as
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  Speaker 1: a possibility, even though they've been really good. One of
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  Speaker 1: the best teams in the entire Eastern Conference. One of
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  Speaker 1: the most interesting trade teams this season is this team,
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons are right now are twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven and nine, the second best defense in basketball. K
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  Speaker 1: Cunningham is playing an All NBA level, as Stewart is
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  Speaker 1: playing an all defensive slash DPO wide level.
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  Speaker 2: The list go on and on.
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  Speaker 1: So many people are stepping up differently on a nightly basis.
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  Speaker 2: But for the Detroit Pistons.
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  Speaker 1: Skeptics, I can't say you're that crazy, right a team
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  Speaker 1: that definitely has to grit, the hustle, the backbone, the
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  Speaker 1: dog to compete in any seven game series, But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it feels like there are other teams that can out
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  Speaker 1: talent them. Hey, Cunningham is one of the best with
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  Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, but sometimes I feel like
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  Speaker 1: he is over tax and they have had games and
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  Speaker 1: possessions where their second best player fluctuates. It could be
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Jenkins out that he didn't really play for a week,
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  Speaker 1: or it could be in a sar Thompson on a
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  Speaker 1: Tippiing game winner. But I look at what a seven
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  Speaker 1: game series could look like for them and like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they could be a team that can trade away some
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  Speaker 1: pieces and some players and not give up most of
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  Speaker 1: their identity right now or anybody in their true core,
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  Speaker 1: and still looks significantly better now. The question is, if
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  Speaker 1: you are the Detroit Pistons, does it make sense for
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  Speaker 1: you to do that or does it make sense to
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  Speaker 1: just go into the postseason and see what it really
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  Speaker 1: looks like again and then figure out if we're going
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  Speaker 1: to make that big deal or not. Because it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: easy for him to be in conversations for the guys
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  Speaker 1: that we look at as a piece, a guy like
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  Speaker 1: Michael Porter Junr, a guy like Trey Murphy the Third.
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  Speaker 1: If those guys who are available and be like, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: Tobias Harris, j Nivey and some draft capital boom, and
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  Speaker 1: you still got your entire core of Durham of a
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  Speaker 1: star of you can probably even keep rawn in all
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  Speaker 1: these cases and Kate and Stewart and be like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: now we got a jumbo shooter to put it our
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  Speaker 1: three at our four that because of our defensive infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really give a damn if some of those
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  Speaker 1: dudes aren't any lead level defensive player, and we'd still
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  Speaker 1: be able to do some cool things. We got some
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  Speaker 1: of these dudes like Michael Porter Junior's obviously just a
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  Speaker 1: premier shooter in general, but he also has shown some
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  Speaker 1: creation off the bounce, Trey Murfory the third creation off
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  Speaker 1: the bounce, and you could use another player like that,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not just Cad setting up and trying to
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  Speaker 1: score or create for others for every single possession in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason. It could be beneficial. But also they love
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  Speaker 1: Toby Harris, and I know that's easy to like to
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  Speaker 1: poo poo and say like, well, he's to Bias Harris,
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  Speaker 1: he's a He's a even though he's been a starter
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  Speaker 1: for the most of his career, he's played for seven
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  Speaker 1: different teams. Who cares if he's traded away, But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: at locker stuff really does matter to the front office
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  Speaker 1: and to the player. So it seems easy for us
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  Speaker 1: to put Tobias Harrison to a trade to get a
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  Speaker 1: player that's better than him.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe it's not that easy for the Detroit Pistons.
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  Speaker 1: And because this team is so young, you can really
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  Speaker 1: take a step back. And I know they made it
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  Speaker 1: last season, but if you want to put it on
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  Speaker 1: the same level of Oka, see a few years back,
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  Speaker 1: We're OKAC went into their first official postseason and was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, yeah, DA's getting can't play. We're gonna trade
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  Speaker 1: him away for all defense player boom and then they want
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  Speaker 1: a championship again. The Pistons have more postseason experience with
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  Speaker 1: last year compared to that OKAC team, But when you
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  Speaker 1: have such a young core, maybe there is value to
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  Speaker 1: taking a step back and not trying to put the
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  Speaker 1: foot on the gas too much just yet and see
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  Speaker 1: what you have. Because who's to say that even though
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  Speaker 1: we love Trey Murphield. We love Michael Porter Junior. That
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  Speaker 1: a better player is not available in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: He just gave up all these assets to get a
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  Speaker 1: guy that's really good but maybe not amazing. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: that amazing player becomes available, and now you got kid
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  Speaker 1: in another all star, versus kid and a fringe guy
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  Speaker 1: or a caid and a guy that maybe can make.
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  Speaker 2: It one day.
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  Speaker 1: It's a crazy game to play, and that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: so happy I'm an in that general manager and not
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  Speaker 1: a real life gender manager for me. Come on, man,
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  Speaker 1: you said trade Murphy is available in two k here
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  Speaker 1: we yeah said that's right offer, But that's not easily
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  Speaker 1: the case. So the Pissons are one of those teams
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  Speaker 1: that can really make that decision. You could continue to
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  Speaker 1: look down. I'm sure the Raptors would love to make
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  Speaker 1: some type of move, but some of the contracts that
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  Speaker 1: they have on their roster, whether they be Manu Quickly
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  Speaker 1: or bagged up Yaka Purdle, I feel like could just
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  Speaker 1: be too hard to move. I'm not even sure if
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  Speaker 1: Yacko Purdles even eligible to be traded based on when
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  Speaker 1: he signed his extension.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: There The seventy six ers don't really have wiggle room
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  Speaker 1: to make anything big happen.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of tradable first round picks, but all the guys
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  Speaker 1: that you would want to trade away potentially to bolster
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  Speaker 1: up your team are not making any real money, so
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  Speaker 1: it's not really realistic. The Cavaliers are kind of sett
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  Speaker 1: into their core unless they're going to be some secret sellers,
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  Speaker 1: which don't make sense to me. They're Lendo Magic are
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  Speaker 1: set to their core. They don't they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be a secret seller as well. The Miami Heat are
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  Speaker 1: always trying to be buyers, and it makes sense if
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  Speaker 1: you could potentially trade that Terrolls year contract to be
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  Speaker 1: a buyer, but we don't know if they could trade
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  Speaker 1: the Tarro's year contract.
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  Speaker 2: The Chicago Bulls are.
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  Speaker 1: One of the more intriguing teams, but because they're ran
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  Speaker 1: by stuff and people who I'm trying to be nice here,
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  Speaker 1: we have no idea what's gonna happen. The Bulls have
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  Speaker 1: seven expiring contracts on the book right now, and if
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  Speaker 1: all of those guys walk, we have one hundred plus
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  Speaker 1: a million dollars in salary space for this upcoming offseason,
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  Speaker 1: which makes sense, and that's why I said earlier teams
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  Speaker 1: are boaster of cap flexibility to not do anything because
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid with this front off is that if we
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  Speaker 1: did have that cap flexibility, we wouldn't go out there
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  Speaker 1: and sign the right people or acquire the right talent.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the time, when teams have these crazy
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  Speaker 1: amount of expiring contracts, they use, especially a team like
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  Speaker 1: us that are rebuilding and not trying to compete for
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  Speaker 1: anything other than the playing they use the expiring contract
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  Speaker 1: to take on bad money and.
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  Speaker 2: Get future assets. When you look across the league and
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  Speaker 2: be like, what.
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  Speaker 1: Is considered bad money at this point, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the bad money on the books are gonna be expired
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  Speaker 1: relatively soon. These teams have just been better at figuring
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  Speaker 1: out what to pay players. There's a time of like
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  Speaker 1: a end of Gordon Hayrard deal last two years. That's
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  Speaker 1: huge bad money. But I think about okc right, I
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  Speaker 1: always gotta think of Okaye. When Utah Jazz was trying
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  Speaker 1: to clear up some money, they traded away Derrick Favors
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  Speaker 1: in a top eight protected pick to just dump off
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  Speaker 1: Derek Favors contract and eventually Okay see what stretched that contract.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't even matter to them.
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  Speaker 1: And now they have a pick today that is top
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  Speaker 1: eight protected for the Utah Jazz. That's just them taking
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  Speaker 1: on bad money for future assets. And I would love
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  Speaker 1: for my favorite team to do that, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really exist anymore. It's also a world where the Bulls
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  Speaker 1: become ultra buyers of by Low candidates.
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  Speaker 2: But look across the league, who are some Biolo candidates.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Trey Young is obviously a Builo candidate, but the Bulls
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: aren't looking for a point guard.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: You think Zion. People keep saying Zion. I don't know
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: if Zion's by Low anymore. I just don't know.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: So the Bulls are an intriguing team, and maybe they're
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: just intriguing because of this damn hat that I'll be
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: wearing because it's my favorite team. But it could be
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: a team that has so many different directions, and I
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: just don't know which direction they'll go in. Atlanta Hawks
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: obviously are a big team trading away Tree Young, but
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: also maybe trying to buy even though they're four games under.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: The Bucks seem like they're a team that's gonna be buying,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: But what are they buying? Are they gonna be the
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: team that go get zach Lavine for pennies? Maybe the
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: Hornets are still doing some really cool stuff. I think
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: they're ten and six now when they're Big three plays
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: and I'm big three is a lightweight too. When they
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: are three young guys Lamello, Han and Brandon Miller when
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: they play, they're above five hundred. Obviously, getting all three
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: of those guys that play at the same time has
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: not been the case. And they just beat Okay See
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: by gazillion points, even though we like some of their
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: guys and Mousa Diabate and Cohn or I'm sorry, Ryan Kalchbrenner,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: I just feel like there's a center hole there. But
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: it may be just a year too early to be
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: buyers right now. The Brooklyn Nets, who knows, they could
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: sell Michael porta junior, or they could be just chilling.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: The Wizards might get stray young, which we know, and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: then the Pacers are just chilling at a thirteen game
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: losing straight. I've not watched the Pacers game start to finish.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Damn man, It's been over a month, I'll tell you that,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: and like, just straight up sit down, let me watch
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: the pace over a month, watch moments, obviously, watch possessions
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: of certain players, but a straight up forty eight minutes
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: a Pacers ball, No way, don't sign me up for that. Okay, see,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: is never gonna do an n season trade that makes sense,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: or like n C trade is big enough to like
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: shake some things up. I feel like they're just cool
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: what they got right now, even if it's on a
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: two game loser streak. The Spurs are standing pat. No
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: way they break up that core even though they lost
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: to what Cam Spencer yesterday? Or is it Pat always
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: getting mixed up? I think it's Cam. The Lakers are
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: always going to be in conversations. They got a couple
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: expiring contracts. I don't know if they do with those.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: The Nuggets don't have wigger room to make any moves
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: unless it's ecology plays so damn good. While Yokis is
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: out that he becomes an asset all of a sudden,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: which doesn't feel like a case.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: The Raptors are not doing I'm sorry.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: The Rockets are probably not doing anything like this is
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: what we're dealing with when it comes to the trade deadline.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: The Temples seem like they're gonna be interested in some players,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: but point guard became available and they was like, nah,
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: it's not the point guard for us. The Suns, I
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna do anything crazy. They always, or
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: at least in the last year or so, they've been
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: by low players, so maybe they are buying low on players.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: But again, who's the bylow player? The Warriors, we just
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: talk about them kaminga who the hell knows. The Trailblazer
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: are such an interesting team to me. I made this
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: pitch a little while ago, and I don't even know
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: if it's even a possible. I don't know if it's
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: possible because the goddamn Aprons are so confused for even
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: a guy like me who prides himself on knowing contracts
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: and stuff, but because let me look at their salary books.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: So the big thing here is the DeAndre Aid the
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: money that they stretched. Maybe that prevents them from being
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: buyers right now. But the team has been trying to
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: be a postseason team this year, as you can tell.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for them, they started off really good and drew
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: how they got injured to how they scare tea so
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: much money for the next couple years on my goodness,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: but they have a guy Jeremy Grant, who also is
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: always injured. You have Robert Williams who's also injured more
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: times than he's not. So like, in my mind, you
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: even have a t stiple who's always injured. You have
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: an opportunity potentially again again I know, because like your
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: best player and Danny's making no money. Me and Danny
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: got the same god damn contract this season. I'm trolling
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: trust I don't make that was with it. But he's
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: making so little money that it doesn't make sense to
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: try to be a buyer now knowing that Damian Lillard's
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: going to be back. Who who knows what level of
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: player Dame is going to be next season?
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: But Dame, where the hell are you? Dane?
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Oh right there, He's also gonna be making Danny money.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So potentially your two best guys next season are making nothing.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: You have one of the better young Senners and Donald
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Klang who's suiting them three balls everything.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: So is there a war where you are a sneaky
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: buyer right now?
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Like you have some draft capital, you can relinquish the
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: protections on that bulls pick that you're gonna give.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Oh maybe that's why I want them to do stuff.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: You can relinquish the protection that bulls pick and open
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: up some more chances to do some stuff.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: And the question becomes, Kenny, what type of players did
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: they trade for? Right?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: If they are gonna make a trade, I don't have
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the answer to that. That's way above my pay grade.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: But maybe you could be a buyer.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: And this is gonna sound super crazy, and maybe I'm
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: too deep into it. I gotta take a week off.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I had a dream of them trading for Jared Jackson Junior.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I'll just say that I just had a dream of it.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Speaking of them.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: The Grizzyes, who the hell knows they're gonna do. The Mavericks,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the Clippers might be more buyers and sellers since they've
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: been looking better, even though every single game that they
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: win on this street, that post team is shot like
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: thirty percent or less than three. I don't know if
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: that's real or not. Darre Jones God is now down
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: another injury. The Jazz are not doing anything. The Kings
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: may be selling a little bit. And then the Pelicans
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: they have no reason to sail because they don't have
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: their first round pick. So that's the landscape. Of the
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: trade market right now. Nothing is happening, and maybe nothing.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: What I say, nothing happened. This is gonna be all
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: of us the day after the trade deadline, just all
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: of us. Man, nothing happened. Anyway, let me know what
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you think about the landscape. Hopefully I published this video
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and boom.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Big trade after big trade and big trade, and oh
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: my goodness, the bulls are now contenders for the first over.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: I'll pick