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Charles Barkley Reacts to Kevin Durant Trade Rumors & Knicks HC Search · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Real quick, busy news day.
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  Speaker 2: As we get said.
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  Speaker 1: For Game three tonight, Celtics announced that Jalen Brown will
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  Speaker 1: be ready for the start of training camp despite going
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  Speaker 1: undergoing knee surgery. Today, multiple media outlets reporting that the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks were denied their request to speak with Dallas head
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  Speaker 1: coach Jason's Kidd. That on top of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they've already been denied speaking with Chris Finch and Email Udoka.
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  Speaker 1: And then the report today out of ESPN that Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Durant is mainly getting interest in terms of essential trades
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  Speaker 1: from Houston, San Antonio, Minnesota, Miami, and New York. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so that is a smorgasbord of the.
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  Speaker 2: Topics here, Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: Of those three is, where would you like to start
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  Speaker 1: on the news of the day in the NBA today?
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  Speaker 2: The Knicks gotta be the stupidest damn people in the world,
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  Speaker 2: Like you don't find no good coach like that, and
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  Speaker 2: don't have a plan, I mean, tips in a hell
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  Speaker 2: of a job. Obviously sum's going on now, but have
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  Speaker 2: a plan and now the three coaches turn you down.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta have a plan, man, And they don't have
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  Speaker 2: a plan now, I mean, I don't know what the
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  Speaker 2: hell they're gonna do, And I don't understand that. During things,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I hear the signs of trying to work
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  Speaker 2: with him. Signs don't need to work with him. They
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  Speaker 2: need to get the best deal possible. If you got
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  Speaker 2: one year left on this deal, gonna try to make
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  Speaker 2: it he it's people gonna try to make it perfect
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  Speaker 2: for him. Screw that. If I'm the Phoenix Sun, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, we gonna make the best deal for
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  Speaker 2: our team, and that like, hey, Kevin, we gotta make
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  Speaker 2: the best deal. We're not trying to find you the
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  Speaker 2: perfect situation for yourself. We're gonna do what's best for
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  Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns. Because my signs are screwed. They probably
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  Speaker 2: all in decision. They gotta make it what they gonna
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  Speaker 2: do with Devin Booker, but they probably struck with Bradley Beal.
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  Speaker 2: The team is gonna suck for the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: They got to start their rebuild. They might, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: have to trade Devin Booker because he's a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a player and start your rebuild right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I won't jump to the conclusion like Chuck
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  Speaker 3: that the Knicks are the dumbest people in the world,
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  Speaker 3: but in a conversation, but you know, it does look man,
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  Speaker 3: it looks bad. It looks almost desperate, and you think, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you can debate whether the decision to fire TIBs was
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  Speaker 3: the right one or not. Clearly you assume they know
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  Speaker 3: more than we know. But to go through this now,
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  Speaker 3: third person, possibly fourth coach or heard they requested permission
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  Speaker 3: from the Atlanta Hawks.
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  Speaker 2: Quinn Snyder.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like, okay, what's going on here? You got
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  Speaker 3: a team knocking on the door, could have been here
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  Speaker 3: right now playing in the finals, and so it's just
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  Speaker 3: not a good look right now. We'll see how that
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  Speaker 3: all plays out. The Durant thing, I think just bigger.
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  Speaker 3: This whole second apron, which is essentially a hard cap
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  Speaker 3: and Phoenix went all in. It didn't work, and there's
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  Speaker 3: consequences when you do that. And so now getting off Durant,
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  Speaker 3: what does it just look like going forward? Are teams
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  Speaker 3: going to go into that second apron? They're gonna take
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  Speaker 3: that risk? Are they gonna roll the dice?
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  Speaker 2: It'll be it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Durant's gonna move this summer and it'll be big news.
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  Speaker 3: More importantly, how does this look going forward with teams,
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  Speaker 3: you know, are they willing to go into that sac
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  Speaker 3: and second Apron?
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  Speaker 2: Indiana?
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  Speaker 3: They got decisions to make this offseason regardless of what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Miles Turner will be a free agent, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, uh Nie Smith is a free agent. Those guys
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  Speaker 3: are gonna make some big money. They'll go into the
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  Speaker 3: Second Apron if you're gonna keep this team together. So
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  Speaker 3: just an interesting time now in the NBA, and interesting
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  Speaker 3: how you assemble a team and how what kind of
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  Speaker 3: runway that team has because of the Second April?
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  Speaker 4: How you speaking of oh speaking of aprons though you
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  Speaker 4: talk about I know we're kind of skipping over the
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  Speaker 4: Jalen Brown news, but what is Boston gonna do? Great point,
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  Speaker 4: because you got Jalen Brown that's undergoing surgery. You have
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  Speaker 4: Tatum that's likely out for all of next year. What
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  Speaker 4: are you gonna do with Drew Holliday? What are you
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  Speaker 4: gonna do with Porzingis? Who are supposed to play off?
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  Speaker 4: Of these two guys, they went all in for the
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  Speaker 4: short window of time to win and have a dynasty
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  Speaker 4: that's probably not gonna be possible for at least next year,
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  Speaker 4: probably the year after that. You're gonna have to continue
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  Speaker 4: to pay these guys. Do you move some of those
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  Speaker 4: pieces to be able to be better once those guys
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  Speaker 4: get healthy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great point.
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  Speaker 3: And what's interesting can is just to continue with that
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  Speaker 3: a year ago when they won, we're thinking they got
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  Speaker 3: four or five years to really get after it and
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  Speaker 3: win multiple championships, maybe like Golden State did in the
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  Speaker 3: late two thousand and twenty tens. And here we are
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  Speaker 3: now talking about this team can't afford to keep this
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  Speaker 3: group together, particularly with the injuries. It's interesting how things
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  Speaker 3: when the.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries messed everything up. But see, I disagree with you
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  Speaker 2: guys on that apron, that second apron. Listen, the signs
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  Speaker 2: put they put three bad dues together. They didn't like
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  Speaker 2: if you're supposed to win with those three guys, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: but they didn't fit. So when I hear guys complain
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  Speaker 2: about the NBA and the second apron, I'm like, if
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  Speaker 2: you get the right three guys or a players, you
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  Speaker 2: should be successful. They just put the wrong three guys together.
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  Speaker 4: We also don't know what was said because to get
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Durant to go there, Maybe it is after if
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  Speaker 4: this doesn't work out, you get to go where you
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  Speaker 4: want to go as a respect element, because when he
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  Speaker 4: came to Phoenix, it was to play alongside Devin Booker
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  Speaker 4: and to get another piece, and.
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  Speaker 2: They got they got the pens. And the.
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  Speaker 3: Thing. Look, I mean, I love Kad. He didn't win
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  Speaker 3: you a championship in Phoenix. He got swept. And I
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  Speaker 3: just think you, you know, I think you got to
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  Speaker 3: do what's best for the franchise with you, But.
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  Speaker 4: You don't know those conversations.
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  Speaker 2: True, And I love Dadi. Why do you think kd
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  Speaker 2: should wind up? Where's a good spot? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't care, but I don't think. But you
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  Speaker 2: got to Phenish Young got to do his best for them.
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  Speaker 2: They gave up all their draft picks for the next
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  Speaker 2: five years to get him. Now they try to get
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  Speaker 2: those draft picks back. They can't let Kevin Durant dictate
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  Speaker 2: where he wants to go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Chuck, here's the thing I mean, I I think
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  Speaker 4: this is kind of following along the lines of a
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  Speaker 4: Brooklyn nets back the day when they traded for KG
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  Speaker 4: and they traded for Paul Pierce franch house and now.
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  Speaker 2: And now were go let him run Phoenix's house. I
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  Speaker 2: mean no grant, grant me and granted right, Phoene's got
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  Speaker 2: to do what's best for them. You can't it ruined
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn's franchise. And if they just take a bad deal
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  Speaker 2: because Kde want to go somewhere, they got to start
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  Speaker 2: their rebuild.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Jared, to answer your question, I would like to
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  Speaker 4: see him in Houston, or I would like to see
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  Speaker 4: him Atlanta out East because oh out East, out East,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like is wide open next year, so I
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  Speaker 4: would like to see him, I mean possibly get to
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  Speaker 4: the next if they're not giving.
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  Speaker 1: Up too many pieces, Well, you probably got to give
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  Speaker 1: up Karl Anthony Towns in terms of making the money.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, if that makes sense for Phoenix, doll okay,
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  Speaker 2: Well I trade Caldunta Towns with Kevin Durant.
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  Speaker 1: Would Phoenix do that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they would.
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  Speaker 4: And this right here is the difference between America and
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  Speaker 4: the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Of the world.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what you know, Kennus, you just said
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  Speaker 2: something really good though that's Eastern conference. Why don't with
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  Speaker 2: with Tatum out in the Philadelphia's situation, it is wide open.
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  Speaker 2: You might be back what the next chop
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  Speaker 1: Shop to the next