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Kevin Durant Just Got Traded To The Rockets · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Kevin Urant was traded to the Houston Rockets. My apologies
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  Speaker 1: on being late. I was running errands and I was
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  Speaker 1: in I was getting my haircut. I won't about to
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  Speaker 1: jump out of the barber seat to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got to record this video, even though it would
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  Speaker 1: have been wild, would have a fake. But here's here's
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  Speaker 1: the details of the trade. Man, Kevin rn is part
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  Speaker 1: of the Houston Rockets. They get back Jaalen Green, Dylan Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: the number ten pick in this year's draft, and five
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  Speaker 1: second round picks. Some of those second round picks convey
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirty twenty thirty two, one of them conveys
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  Speaker 1: this year, but it is the very last pick in
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  Speaker 1: this year's draft, so it is officially done. Now. We've
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  Speaker 1: known Kevin Urrantz preferred that's nations. We've known the teams
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  Speaker 1: that were interested. Could they have waited one extra day
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  Speaker 1: to break this news, probably so we could just focus
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  Speaker 1: on Game seven, something historic happening in the NBA right now.
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  Speaker 1: But no, we do get the Kevin Durrant trade, and
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot to talk about. I actually do
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  Speaker 1: like that. I didn't I wasn't able to record the
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  Speaker 1: video immediately because when I first saw this trade break,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm sitting still to get my lineup, I see
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  Speaker 1: Jayalen Green is in it. And my immediate reactions like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting. But because it got Devin Booker and because
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  Speaker 1: he got Bradley build, Jayalen Green probably gets rerided to
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  Speaker 1: an the team. And I'm thinking in my head, who
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  Speaker 1: can those teams be who would be interested in Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Green at this point based on what he just did
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason last year. But then we got a
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  Speaker 1: report from Gambo that says that it should be in
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  Speaker 1: them planning on keeping Jalen Green. So I would have
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  Speaker 1: came to this video talking about different destinations for Jayleen
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  Speaker 1: Green the only destination that matters to Phenix Suns for him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also happy because, you know, immediate reaction was, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's it now. Obviously, the Sons had zero leverage, Like
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  Speaker 1: zero leverage. We've all known Kevin Rant wanted out. We
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  Speaker 1: all know that they wanted to trade him away. We
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  Speaker 1: all knew that the Suns wanted to complete the trade
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  Speaker 1: before the draft because they wanted some draft capital winning.
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  Speaker 1: So when you think about them having zero leverage, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I still thought like, damn, that's that's just not that's
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  Speaker 1: just not a lot, and then shamp Seraania reports. Then
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  Speaker 1: Shampserania reports one of the other trade offers that were
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  Speaker 1: on the table, which was Hami hak Is, Nicola Jovich,
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  Speaker 1: Hayward Heismith and pick twenty. And I'm like, all right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: used to trade was pretty good. But I can't look
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  Speaker 1: at this trade for the Suns as a won to
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  Speaker 1: one we traded away Kevin Durant because you gotta think
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  Speaker 1: about the six trays that lead it up to the
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  Speaker 1: point where this is. This ends up being a case
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  Speaker 1: with Cam Johnson, with Chris Paul, with Michel Bridges, the
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  Speaker 1: second round picks, in the first round picks they gave
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  Speaker 1: up for it to boil down to Jalen Green, Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Brooks and whoever they draft at ten. I feel bad
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  Speaker 1: the same as a finals team just a few years ago. Man,
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  Speaker 1: that team was lovable in my personal opinion. Now my
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  Speaker 1: favorite player was on the team, but I really enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: watching those teams going at that championship run what they
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  Speaker 1: lost in the finals, but you get what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: that runs to end up being in the finals, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Devin Booker at that point, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: only twenty four years old. It's like, oh, he'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: You get the moment where the Bucks are celebrating the
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker's on the court like damn, and like, don't
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, Dev You're on twenty four, You'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: And now here he is at what now is he what? Age?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty seven? And he looking around like he is
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight almost twenty nine. Damn, book is about to
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  Speaker 1: be thirty. That's nuts, you see. I just run it
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  Speaker 1: enough for him? Man, do I just hate everything that's
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  Speaker 1: been going on in the Phoenix And I've been team
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker stays around. But it's so hard if I'm
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  Speaker 1: Devin Booker and in this camp to look at what's
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  Speaker 1: left of a team that I had my most success with.
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  Speaker 1: After I spent the first hold on, hold on, hold
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  Speaker 1: on your one year, two year, three year, four year, five,
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  Speaker 1: I spent the first five years of my career just
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  Speaker 1: an oblivion teams that will winning nineteen games, twenty one games,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four games, and to be at the age of
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight and now we have to go through that again.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that may have been a world before any
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  Speaker 1: trade happened that like the Suns can recruit some ascess.
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  Speaker 1: So you think to yourself, Okay, maybe this's a one
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  Speaker 1: to two year retooling and we'll be back to not
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  Speaker 1: being contenders like they weren't twenty twenty one, but at
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  Speaker 1: least being competent enough to say we're competing for a
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  Speaker 1: playoff spot. I just don't see that as the case anymore,
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  Speaker 1: given what they got back in this trade. I said
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  Speaker 1: on Just Yesterday's podcast that I may be one of
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  Speaker 1: the last Jalen Green believers, but damn, I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: he'douther to be no superstar nothing. But like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people turned off to Jalen Green based on their
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  Speaker 1: playoff performance, and it's understandable. But I still look at
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  Speaker 1: him as like a twenty three year old guy trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure some things out. But this is one of
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  Speaker 1: his worst scenarios if you ask me, as far as
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who he can become as a
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  Speaker 1: player and how does this impact the Devil. But it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's just a lot, man, It's just a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder if we're ever gonna get like some
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  Speaker 1: of the other teams that were interested, like the Houston Rockets.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently we're interested, Well we're I'm sorry, not Houston Rockets.
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  Speaker 1: The Toronto Raptors were interested figuring out what the hell
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  Speaker 1: that was? What were the sps the Spurs offering? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was picked fourteen and just filler like a Harrison
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  Speaker 1: Barnes and Chains, and none of them had the upside
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  Speaker 1: of maybe what Jalen Green form, it's number two overall
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  Speaker 1: pick to be. I feel for Suns fans, though, I
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  Speaker 1: truly truly do thinking about what this team would look like.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I got Suns fans hit me up,
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  Speaker 1: like the only reason that they accept this trade because
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  Speaker 1: they got an idea that Bradley Beal is gonna get
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  Speaker 1: rid of hiss no trade clause or ship him to
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  Speaker 1: another team. It's like, even if we are being the
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  Speaker 1: most optimistic side of that thing, you ain't getting nothing back, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not like if he says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be traded to Chicago for whatever reason. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like you're about to get somebody's like, Okay, now this
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  Speaker 1: team is interesting. There's no there's nothing interesting about this team, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's interesting, but not a positive interesting, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So this is another tale of new owner syndrome and
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  Speaker 1: how that could really derail an organization. I think Matt
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  Speaker 1: Eshbia's intentions were right, trying to compete and trying to
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  Speaker 1: win championships, but the execution was awful, so awful. And
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  Speaker 1: now he continues to hire these these people that were
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  Speaker 1: from his area, the Michigan, Michigan State area, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like just a bunch of potential, yes, ma'am, and just
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  Speaker 1: don't you don't see the light at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the tunnel. And if report came out for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: that book was looking to express his options that there
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  Speaker 1: can't be a single Sons fan that would I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it probably will be, but they shouldn't feel some type
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  Speaker 1: of way about it. Like I said, he spent the
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  Speaker 1: first five years of his career in oblivion. Before you know,
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  Speaker 1: they go into the bubble and they win eight games
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  Speaker 1: or eight know whatever, it may be, the trade for
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  Speaker 1: Chris Paul and now they're in the finals. And then
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  Speaker 1: he basically just kept like what two three years, three
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  Speaker 1: years of being a competent NBA team before everything went
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  Speaker 1: crashing again. Golly, I's talk about the Houston rocketside thought,
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  Speaker 1: because boy, this is a treat to be able to
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  Speaker 1: walk out of this without mortgaging any of the suit
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  Speaker 1: and again no disrespect to Jayalen Green, mortgaging any of
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  Speaker 1: the super young, intriguing prospects that they already have on
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  Speaker 1: the roster and walk out with Kevin Durant is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did not end up even having to
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  Speaker 1: get with a Cam whitmore and now Cam Wimore team
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  Speaker 1: is probably feeling pretty good because with this trade it
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  Speaker 1: probably opens up more opportunity for him to play with
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  Speaker 1: two wings guard Wings going out and maybe Cam Whitmorgans
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  Speaker 1: and Burn. So they didn't mortgage anything. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the tenth overall pick could be valuable and maybe the
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  Speaker 1: Suns hit on that Picca boom like that at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the tunnel for them. But when you consider you
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  Speaker 1: do still have i'm in Jabbari Tari Read and Cam
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  Speaker 1: where the hell was the tenth overall pick guy gonna
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  Speaker 1: fit in? And all of that, this is just nearly
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  Speaker 1: a flaw as straight because even if it don't work,
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  Speaker 1: even for whatever reason, Kevin Rank comes to the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Rockets and ends up being trashed, they end up losing
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  Speaker 1: more games than they went. No, that's not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: But they were were a fifty one win team last year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say they fall back into a playing team, which
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  Speaker 1: again I don't think is happening. Fine, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Just like that, we still got shit, and
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  Speaker 1: we still got I'm in. I think that this team's
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  Speaker 1: next year ceiling, because I think that's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: what people are trying to have the conversation of, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I think the betting odds just said that the Houston
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  Speaker 1: Rockets jumped up as a number two team in the
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Western Conference, which I guess in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: they were that according to record. But even if everything
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  Speaker 1: goes bad and you still have like i'm in Thompson
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  Speaker 1: and I'm in Thompson's next jump, is gonna be so
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  Speaker 1: critical to match the timelines of a Kevin Durant team
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  Speaker 1: with these dudes. And we just saw I'm and Thompson
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  Speaker 1: look really good in his rookie season, but then looked
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  Speaker 1: like an all defensive player in year number two, and
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  Speaker 1: see some of the other offensive things in the way
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  Speaker 1: he's being utilized as an offensive player. Shift from a
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  Speaker 1: second season now with the added spacing and creation that
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  Speaker 1: is Kevin Durant. I don't know what the hell happens
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  Speaker 1: with I'm and Thompson next, but I guarantee you it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be something positive. This team was a team that
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  Speaker 1: went to the postseason and they took the Golden State
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  Speaker 1: Warriors to seven. They took the Golden State Warriors to
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  Speaker 1: seven with Jimmy Butler first missing that one game. I
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  Speaker 1: forgot about that, without them having somebody on the perimeter
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  Speaker 1: that you felt really comfortable with, like Freddy gave us
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games that were bangers for fred Vanvlee,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to him, but without them having a go
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  Speaker 1: to score and a potential go to closer, they took
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors to seven. But that is nuts. And now
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  Speaker 1: they're adding in a Kevin Durant. I just I love
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  Speaker 1: it for them because again, if it does not work,
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  Speaker 1: it's fine. It's fine because not only do you hold
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  Speaker 1: your own future, you still hold the Phoenix suns is future.
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  Speaker 1: The Sons didn't get back their picks in It's trade
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven for the Sons is still in Yo,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll treasure trove so again, Raphael Stone has been
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  Speaker 1: doing an amazing job over there in Houston, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to see what happens next. It feels weird to
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  Speaker 1: see Kevin Urrant on another team. To see the clips
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  Speaker 1: of them announcing the trade where he was on stage,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty fun. He just did an interview with Kate
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  Speaker 1: Kate Adams where he said he knew that the trade
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  Speaker 1: was about to happen, but it was fun that it
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  Speaker 1: happened on stage. Wow, what a trade. What a trade.
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  Speaker 1: I think that even though they gave up Dylan Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: they still will have the defensive infrastructure to stay great.
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  Speaker 1: And Kevin Urant gave us flashes of really good defense
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  Speaker 1: last season, specifically in the beginning of the season, and
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  Speaker 1: then it just wavered as the season went on. But
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  Speaker 1: he's also thirty seven years old, so I don't expect
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  Speaker 1: him to be the protective deterrent that maybe he was
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  Speaker 1: two years ago. But because they do have a man,
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  Speaker 1: and they will still have a combination of Tarre and
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  Speaker 1: Jabbari and so on and so forth, I don't expect
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  Speaker 1: this team defensively to drop off too much. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they sacrifice some of that, but think about the offensive
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  Speaker 1: upside that Kevin Rant is really bringing to the team.
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  Speaker 1: And I just had to quickly go through with this
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  Speaker 1: because I was like, I remember, you know some things
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  Speaker 1: about Kevin Durant last season. I'm just looking at overall
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  Speaker 1: game log and I'm just sitting here counting they were
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  Speaker 1: three and seventeen when he didn't play last season. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a huge one. Right, that's a huge one. Can
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  Speaker 1: we get Kevin Durant to play more? Right, that's a
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  Speaker 1: big question. Would he be able to stay healthy for
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  Speaker 1: a postseason run? But some of these stretches are really
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  Speaker 1: bad And then you also count them up. They were
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  Speaker 1: thirty three and twenty nine with him last season, So
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  Speaker 1: obviously you know, Kevin ren is still a really good player.
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  Speaker 1: Heah the player that he was in twenty twelve. But
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  Speaker 1: who the hell is right still averages of twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: six fifty forty eighty four. That's a bad man. That's
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  Speaker 1: a bad bad man, and that bad man is now
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  Speaker 1: going to the Houston Rocket. So really excited about how
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  Speaker 1: creative they could get offensively with ke around on the
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  Speaker 1: roster now as like a guy that couldn't be a
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  Speaker 1: decoy and also be like just give me the ball
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  Speaker 1: to let me rock out. I feel like they didn't
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  Speaker 1: really have that too much. Jalen Green did provide a
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  Speaker 1: good amount of like rimp pressure, especially later on throughout
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  Speaker 1: the season. Kevin Wrant doesn't really do that as much.
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  Speaker 1: He still drives a ton, but he is more drive
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  Speaker 1: to pull ups instead of drive to get to the
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  Speaker 1: paint and get two feet in. We'll see if that
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  Speaker 1: maybe shifts. But he also, again is thirty seven years old.
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  Speaker 1: I can't ask him to go out there in attempt
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  Speaker 1: seven free throws a game or thirteen free throws a
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  Speaker 1: game or something. What do you average last year from
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  Speaker 1: the line, he shot six? He shot six. Last year
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  Speaker 1: he shot six. That's fair. That's fair for the old man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean his third year he shot ten and ninety percent.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, bro, hey man. I still appreciate Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Rant and how great he is, even if the team
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  Speaker 1: has been trash. He has. He's played thirty five games,
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  Speaker 1: fifty five games, forty seven games, seventy five games last year,
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  Speaker 1: and then sixty two games. So you just keep your
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  Speaker 1: fingers crossed that you could get a really healthy season.
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  Speaker 1: But again, there's no downside, you know, like usually if
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  Speaker 1: you like Desmond Baine trade, even though I really like
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  Speaker 1: it for the Orlando Magic, the downside is he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: help them get over the hump. And now you just
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  Speaker 1: mortgage five years or for draft picks. You didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't do that in this trade, doll. I love
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  Speaker 1: for when the team is the reciprocate, the reciprocant of
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  Speaker 1: a star player with no value, because more likely than
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  Speaker 1: not that players too really good. Right, Kevin Urrant didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any value, not because he's bad, but because there's
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  Speaker 1: no leverage from the opposing team. If Kevin Durant was
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  Speaker 1: they say, surprise trade candidate. Let's say the Houston the
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  Speaker 1: Suns just won fifty games and for whatever reason, he's
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  Speaker 1: low key available. I promise you the trade package will
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  Speaker 1: be higher. But like, if we're the Rockets and we're
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs and we're Miami, why are we competing against
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  Speaker 1: each other to get the guy that we know has
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  Speaker 1: to be traded anyway? Really excited about what Kevin our
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  Speaker 1: recould do. Jalen Green, starting with Devin Booker, they were
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  Speaker 1: already just such a poor defensive team. Man, they were
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth in defense last year. Still don't know who
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  Speaker 1: their center is gonna be next year. Hell, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know any of their wings. They really are just a
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  Speaker 1: team of guard play guard play, and I oh, I
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  Speaker 1: just remember the Marshawn Brooks things. Remember that Marshawn Brooks
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  Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen got traded but they
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  Speaker 1: thought it was Dylan Brooks. Now they finally get Deler Brooks.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a dub I guess.