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The 2026 Off Season Is Already Insane… · Kenny For Real

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Speaker 1: Before every off season, I'll be convincing myself that this
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Speaker 1: off season is not gonna be that great. A few
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Speaker 1: years ago, I told myself this is about to be
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Speaker 1: a bang or banger offseason, and it was trashed.
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Speaker 2: So since then, I have no expectations and I'm blown away.
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Speaker 2: I'm on the floor every time something big happens.
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Speaker 1: The Knicks just won a championship, by the way, like
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Speaker 1: that feels like it was last week. And in the
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Speaker 1: last seventy two hours, we catch some ridiculous trades. Some
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Speaker 1: of them we've been gearing towards for weeks and that's
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Speaker 1: the Yanna's trade. Some of them come out of nowhere,
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Speaker 1: like Lamello getting traded this morning. I was just in
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Speaker 1: New York City for the NBA Draft, a phenomenal time.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to everybody that I met along that journey.
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Speaker 1: I got a lot of tweets like Kenny, what a reaction.
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Speaker 1: But I'm finally home. I just got home about seven
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Speaker 1: minutes ago. I had a little snack. I said, the
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Speaker 1: people must hear these opinions. So I'm here to talk
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Speaker 1: me set this thing. Late last night, after the second
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Speaker 1: round of the NBA Draft, Sean Sharania went on TV
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Speaker 1: and said that Charlotte Hornets are engaged to LaMelo Ball
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Speaker 1: trade talks, with multiple teams strongly pursuing the Star Guard. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you watch the video, it doesn't feel as though
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Speaker 1: the Hornets are shopping LaMelo Ball, but instead it felt
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Speaker 1: like teams were calling and they were doing the Hornets
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Speaker 1: are doing with any good team, any good gms to do,
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Speaker 1: which is feel the call, just listen to the offers,
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Speaker 1: because as much as we love LaMelo Ball, he's not
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Speaker 1: one of the few on touch with players in all
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Speaker 1: of the NBA.
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Speaker 2: So if of godfather offer comes across the table, then
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Speaker 2: we're willing to accept that offer.
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Speaker 1: He also goes on to say the Minnesota Temples and
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Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors are the two teams that are pursuing
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Speaker 1: him to know. So in my mind, I'm in my
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Speaker 1: hotel room, I'm thinking to myself, I'm going to the
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Speaker 1: trade machine.
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Speaker 2: What could the Raptors give up that would be interesting
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Speaker 2: enough for the Hornets to part ways with?
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Speaker 1: A god that's been there since twenty twenty, a guy
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Speaker 1: that's coming off a really good year, the Hornets at
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Speaker 1: their first really exciting year in a long time, justice
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Speaker 1: past season, Like, what would it take for them to
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Speaker 1: change that?
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Speaker 2: And I thought the Raptors could have put together something
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Speaker 2: pretty interesting. Ultimately it wasn't them. Though.
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Speaker 1: Then I got to the Minnesota Timbles and I'm going
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Speaker 1: through the spow track trade and saying the I'm like, nah, man,
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Speaker 1: the tembleves don't really got much to private LaMelo think
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Speaker 1: about the season he just had, the season that Charlotte had.
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Speaker 1: They were the darlings of the NBA for the whole
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Speaker 1: second half of the year. We got to the NBA
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Speaker 1: in playing and we're like, yo, everybody's hoping that the
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Speaker 1: Charlotte's making because the Charlotte Hornets could maybe push the
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Speaker 1: Detroit Pisses in the first round.
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Speaker 2: That's what we were saying in real time.
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Speaker 1: And then right is on board in my flight the
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Speaker 1: next morning after sham Sharana says that it drops, LaMelo
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Speaker 1: Ball got traded for nas Reed a twenty thirty three
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Speaker 1: first round completely I protected cool three pick swaps, including
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty nine to thirty and then three seconds.
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Speaker 2: Now again, it's been.
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Speaker 1: A few holes since drop, and we learned that some
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Speaker 1: of these swaps are not as interesting as swaps normally
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Speaker 1: can be. They're like partial swaps, meaning that if it's
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Speaker 1: between this picking, this picker goes and this sif between this,
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Speaker 1: it's weird ones. So it boils down to LaMelo Ball
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Speaker 1: and Josh Green. Sorry, ain't mean to snubbed you, Josh Green. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this trade getting traded for nas Reading the first WHOA,
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Speaker 1: I just had a two hour flight to really think
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Speaker 1: about this and try to figure out what the hell
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Speaker 1: is going on.
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Speaker 2: And here's what I would have Here's what I would
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Speaker 2: have saw.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just telling you what I'm expecting the rationalization
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Speaker 1: to be from the Hornets, and I'll tell you whether
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Speaker 1: or not I agree with it later on. LaMelo Ball
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Speaker 1: just had his most healthy season of his career since
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Speaker 1: he was twenty years old. Mind he's twenty four, it's
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Speaker 1: still a young player. But he just had seventy two
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Speaker 1: games played this season, which is phenomenal game. When he plays,
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Speaker 1: they're good spoiler. And then the year before that he
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Speaker 1: played forty seven. He played twenty two. The year before
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Speaker 1: they played thirty six before that.
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Speaker 2: So in their mind, this.
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Speaker 1: Might be getting off of LaMelo Ball at a time
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Speaker 1: where his value is good. But the opposite side of
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Speaker 1: that is that Na's reading the first don't feel like
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Speaker 1: you sold high at least right now, but it don't
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Speaker 1: feel like you so hot. There were times throughout the
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Speaker 1: season where I thought Charles Ley did a really good
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Speaker 1: job of looking at that. Those people in the locker
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Speaker 1: room say, it don't matter if you are best guy
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Speaker 1: or a worst guy. If you're not gonna give the effort,
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Speaker 1: if you're not gonna have a good game, I'm okay
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Speaker 1: with completely benching you. And there are a few games
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Speaker 1: down the stretch where LaMelo balls just didn't close and
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Speaker 1: it made people think that there was some type of
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Speaker 1: tension there, and Charles Ley was like, no, we're just
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Speaker 1: keeping everybody to the same standard. I think that is
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Speaker 1: pretty good as a coach. It doesn't matter if you
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Speaker 1: were formerly a top three pig. Damn it that we're
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Speaker 1: trying to win today, and if you're not helping us
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Speaker 1: do that, then you sit you as on this bench.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they just didn't really love LaMelo that much. And
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Speaker 1: after this, of course they extended Kobe White. Shout out
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Speaker 1: to Kobe. He signs a three year, seventy four million
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Speaker 1: dollar contract, which I'm so happy for Kobe because he
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Speaker 1: had been underpaid for the last couple of years off
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Speaker 1: his Bulls extension.
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Speaker 2: So I'm happy that he got his money.
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Speaker 1: But it just feels like the timing and the reward
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Speaker 1: back Ford just is not right now. LaMelo ball is
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Speaker 1: very far away from a perfect player. LaMelo ball is
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Speaker 1: really good, maybe not great, right, I think this year,
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Speaker 1: he shored up some things that you question over the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years, again with his injury history, and
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Speaker 1: you may say, this seventy two game season is lightning
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Speaker 1: in the body. He'll never be able to do it again,
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Speaker 1: and that's probably one of the things that the Hornets
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Speaker 1: probably feel like.
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Speaker 2: But before that, you talk about the on court.
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Speaker 1: Immaturity is probably the word I would use, where sometimes,
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Speaker 1: as though LaMelo is super super talented, you get to
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Speaker 1: the point where like, man, that's not the shot we take,
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Speaker 1: that's not the paths we make. And of course that
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Speaker 1: happens this year, but it didn't happen as much as
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Speaker 1: the previous seasons. And we all watched at Charlotte Hornets
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Speaker 1: last season, LaMelo, even though bretda Miller had a good
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Speaker 1: year Kaka Nipple had a historic rookie season with his
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Speaker 1: street point shooting, that team did not go unless LaMelo
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Speaker 1: was on the floor. The eye test says that, and
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Speaker 1: you know what, let's see what the actual number says.
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Speaker 2: Here's what happened last season.
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Speaker 1: LaMelo ball played about two thousand minutes with round up
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Speaker 1: a little bit. They were about a net when he
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Speaker 1: was off the floor, they were a net neutral team.
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Speaker 1: As you can see, the offense when LaMelo is on
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Speaker 1: the floor is one of the best, like it truly
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Speaker 1: is one of the best offenses you can get. And
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Speaker 1: then the defense is lackluster. But that offense makes up
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Speaker 1: for when he is not on the court. They have
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Speaker 1: a really good defense but a sub par offense. And
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Speaker 1: that's what the eye test told you. If you go
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Speaker 1: and see like two man units, you can see LaMelo
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Speaker 1: Ball was great with almost everybody.
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Speaker 2: In the team outside of Ryan Kulkburner.
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Speaker 1: For whatever reason, every single two man lineup that LaMelo
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Speaker 1: was a part of was a win. If you go
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Speaker 1: on the opposite side, you say, hey, no LaMelo Ball,
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Speaker 1: but instead, let's get our two other young guys. We
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Speaker 1: really love, Brandon Miller and Conk Nipple. Those two guys
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Speaker 1: are great. But let's say those two guys without LaMelo.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go to a different site for that. There's
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Speaker 1: a lot of sites out here to get you great information.
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Speaker 1: I gotta go to a different site for that one.
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Speaker 1: Secon here we go right down here only in three
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Speaker 1: hundred minutes, but it was Brandon Miller, no Conk Nipple.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Brandon Miller and co k Niple and no
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Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball. The net rating was a minus eight point
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Speaker 1: three to six. The offense had an offensive rating of
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Speaker 1: a one to oh seven. LaMelo really truly was the engine,
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Speaker 1: and I think part of that gets lost throughout it.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying from the front office but.
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Speaker 1: From the fans, because again, con was so efficient and
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Speaker 1: great this season. Brandon Miller, even though he was dealing
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Speaker 1: with all these injuries, still was really good. But at
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Speaker 1: the bear, the core of what their offense was was
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Speaker 1: LaMelo's LaMelo Ball and his connectivity to these shooters, connectivity to.
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Speaker 2: The rim runners. And I don't know how you can
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Speaker 2: make up for that.
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Speaker 1: As much as I love Kobe White's one of my
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Speaker 1: favorite players after Washington in Chicago for I havever many
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Speaker 1: years one of my favorite players, he doesn't provide the
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Speaker 1: same playmaking that LaMelo Ball truly does. So this has
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Speaker 1: to be bigger than basketball at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: because there's no real basketball reason to think that this
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Speaker 1: is a trade that you should do. You can have
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Speaker 1: the arguments, like I think Nick Wright talked about after
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Speaker 1: the Playing Game about LaMelo not being a winning player,
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Speaker 1: which might might have.
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Speaker 2: Some legs considering the history and all, but.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think you can replace that that productivity
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Speaker 1: on this current team. I think if the Charlotte horn
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Speaker 1: is going to this regular season exactly the way they
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Speaker 1: ended last season, we all picked them as a team
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Speaker 1: that is in the postseason next year.
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Speaker 2: And now, though we really.
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Speaker 1: Do love a lot of the pieces over there, you
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Speaker 1: might question it just a little bit, which makes you
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Speaker 1: feel like the Charlotte morn has still got.
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Speaker 2: More work to do.
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Speaker 1: Where they open up this big old trade exception, the
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Speaker 1: biggest trade exception in the history the sport of forty
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Speaker 1: million dollars, and I got my Brian Winhorse fingers up,
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Speaker 1: thinking to myself, what.
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Speaker 2: Does that mean?
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Speaker 1: What could they do with that forty million dollars trade exception?
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Speaker 1: And I'm again on the plane in the trade machine,
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Speaker 1: trying to be like.
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Speaker 2: Hm, is this fit here? Does this fit here?
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Speaker 1: It just not really, So maybe this is a piece
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Speaker 1: for something bigger to happen, But I'm I'm just surprised.
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Speaker 2: I guess surprised the best way I can describe it.
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Speaker 2: And I think about the Toronto Raptors, Well, the.
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Speaker 1: Raptors can beat that that offer, Like the Raptors have
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Speaker 1: real first round picks, not swaps. They have real first
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Speaker 1: round picks they can put together. Maybe they just didn't
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Speaker 1: want to give up multiple for LaMelo Ball because and
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Speaker 1: his injury history and his injury risk. But Lamela Balls
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Speaker 1: going to the Minnesota Timble, So let's let's talk about
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Speaker 1: it again from their perspective, because they are the one
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Speaker 1: getting the jewel of the trade. One thing I would say,
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Speaker 1: I admire Tim Connelly like I've never admired any other
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Speaker 1: gender manager.
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Speaker 2: I love.
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Speaker 1: I love Sam Presty and my admiration for those who
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Speaker 1: guys are high, but it's in a different different way.
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Speaker 1: Sam Presty is so calculated in his decision making. Of course,
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Speaker 1: it's not always gonna be makes. I mean, James already
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Speaker 1: gets ready for you know what I'm saying, So it's
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Speaker 1: not always gonna be the right decision, But he is
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Speaker 1: so calculated in the way he moves. Even during the
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Speaker 1: NBA Draft some of the ways they maneuver through that,
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Speaker 1: so I.
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Speaker 2: Love the way he could do it.
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Speaker 1: And with Shae and them lost in the postseason to
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Speaker 1: the Spurs, they asked, like Shaye, how much of decision
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Speaker 1: making you're gonna be a part of as a superstar player.
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Speaker 2: He said, I'm not gonna do anything.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna let the best general manager of all time
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Speaker 1: be the best general manager.
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Speaker 2: Of all time.
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Speaker 1: I could do this because Sam Press is in the
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Speaker 1: conversation right, so I admire him there, But I admire
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Speaker 1: Tim Condell on a different level because Tim Condley gets
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Speaker 1: shited done. Tim Connley feels like he wakes up like
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna do a big trade today. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go against the Green I'm gonna trade four first
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Speaker 1: round picture road to go be. Everybody gonna call me
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Speaker 1: crazy and boom, We're gona make two conference finals. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I'm gonna trade cars. Well, the
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Speaker 1: corn the Towns was not looking best because card the
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Speaker 1: Towns is wont to be a.
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Speaker 2: Champion a championship. But I'm gonna trade cars in the
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Speaker 2: town so get two pieces back and it might work.
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Speaker 2: And again conference Fins agents.
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Speaker 1: We knew that the Minnesota Tembos had to do something
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Speaker 1: right two Collins Fines appearance and then lost earlier than expected.
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Speaker 1: And this year's postseason, there's already rumblings about LaMelo. I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry about Anthony Edwards uh being frustrated, and the vultures
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Speaker 1: of other general managers are waiting for that moment to
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Speaker 1: bounce in to get Anthony Edwards. And the one thing
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Speaker 1: I admired about Tim Connelly is that he's always gonna try.
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Speaker 1: He's always gonna do something big. Now with this work,
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Speaker 1: Who the hell knows? Again we talk about the entry
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Speaker 1: risk of LaMelo Ball.
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Speaker 2: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: But we all looked at that Minnesota Temples tume over
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Speaker 1: the last couple se he said, Man, they definitely need
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Speaker 1: somebody that can be again a connector as a passer,
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Speaker 1: and they got one of the best passers in the
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Speaker 1: NBA right now in LaMelo Ball. There's still a lot
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Speaker 1: of weaknesses within his roster because I'm assuming that if
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Speaker 1: the regular season were to start today, is LaMelo is Ayo,
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Speaker 1: is Jada McDaniels, and is Rudy Gobert, and Rudy Gobert,
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Speaker 1: in my mind, is still he has been so overtaxed offensively.
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Speaker 1: He's done a really good job there, but fore the
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Speaker 1: time is you know what I'm saying, It's gonna catch up.
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Speaker 1: He can't be a top ten defense by himself forever.
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Speaker 1: Just like what's happening next there is a lot of
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Speaker 1: belief in like Joan Bear and Jay as A as
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Speaker 1: a backup and eventually replacement for Ridy Gobert, because man,
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Speaker 1: this is a this is a huge hu swing. You
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Speaker 1: talk about teams making smaller moves or trying to hit
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Speaker 1: a single or double, No, Tim Conley's.
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Speaker 2: Trying to hit the home runs every single time.
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Speaker 1: And it post a question like when you have a
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Speaker 1: guy as talented as Anthony Edwards, to what extent are
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Speaker 1: you willing to go to put a right team around them,
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Speaker 1: put a competent enough team around them, And sometimes we
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Speaker 1: see teams be kind of scared to put their foot
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Speaker 1: on the gas. Tim connlelly has never been that guy,
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Speaker 1: never really been that guy. I think that their front
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Speaker 1: court depth could use a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: work because right now Jada mcdangel is now sliding up
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Speaker 1: to play the four, and we've seen him get better
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Speaker 1: throughout the course of his s careers.
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Speaker 2: Another big bet on him taking an offensive.
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Speaker 1: Leap and needing to be even though he's already all
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Speaker 1: defensive calidar player, he has to step it up again
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Speaker 1: a little bit more and guard up in size for
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Speaker 1: this next season.
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Speaker 2: That's what makes me feel like this this steal. Both
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Speaker 2: of these seems still have more moves to do.
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Speaker 1: I just don't know what the hell that move is
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Speaker 1: for Minnesota since their treatre trove of picks and swaps
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Speaker 1: is like almost depleted and everything.
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Speaker 2: It's an interesting fit.
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Speaker 1: This is definitely a TikTok edit as backcourt with Anthony
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Speaker 1: Edwards and LaMelo ball Ayo got his bag, so they're
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Speaker 1: gonna ask a lot from Io Asumo as a defender
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Speaker 1: on their perimeter, especially Rudy Gobert. This is somebody that's
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Speaker 1: a big Rudy go Beart guy. We know that his
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Speaker 1: hands have been bad, okay for most of his career.
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Speaker 1: His hands have been all of his careers. I do
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Speaker 1: believe during the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six season
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Speaker 1: his hands look better.
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Speaker 2: And now he's playing with a true lie. I been
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Speaker 2: threat and LaMelo and.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I think that was Trey Kirby who tweeted it
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Speaker 1: that rudygo Bert is gonna have his nose broken via
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Speaker 1: pass this season. Yeah, LaMelo's gonna zip some balls at
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Speaker 1: Rudy and Rudy's not gonna be ready for it, damn it.
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Speaker 2: But I think it is.
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Speaker 1: It is a good match for Rudy to get back
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Speaker 1: with another guard that can really throw it up to
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Speaker 1: him and make the game easier for him offensively. The Hornets,
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Speaker 1: I mean, even though we all believe in Konak Nipple,
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Speaker 1: the horn has put so much more belief in their kid.
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Speaker 1: I just I'm just curious to see what else they
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Speaker 1: have to do, and curious to see because they did.
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Speaker 1: They did draft Christian Andersen, and this his draft, a
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Speaker 1: guy that we I really love. Shout out to Christian Anderson.
14:36
Speaker 1: They also got Hein Steinbach, one of my other really
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Speaker 1: good guys I like, in this draft.
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Speaker 2: So you know, I don't know. The Charlotte Hornton are
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Speaker 2: doing things a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit differently than we expect, and I wonder, again, just
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Speaker 1: speaking aloud, that's what these videos are about. And the
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Speaker 1: instant reacting again the trade happens just a few hours ago.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the times we'll be telling ourselves, like, man,
14:53
Speaker 1: this team waited too long to do this trade. Very
14:56
Speaker 1: rarely do we feel like a team actually is proactive
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Speaker 1: and doing the trades. And then when the team is
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Speaker 1: proactive doing the trade, maybe we're too harsh on them.
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Speaker 1: In real time right, Maybe the Hornets really just did
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Speaker 1: a trade that Again, the fan base is not gonna love.
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Speaker 1: I've already seen tweets from Hornet's fans like, what the hell?
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Speaker 1: Maybe they were being proactive rather than reactive, and that's
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Speaker 1: rear In this game, only time will tail, right. If
15:16
Speaker 1: LaMelo goes to Minnesota and stinks it up for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: it's injured again, you'll look back and.
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Speaker 2: Say, see, we got something for him.
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Speaker 1: I forgot to mention this in the video long flight,
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Speaker 1: but one thing I was asking myself on the ride
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Speaker 1: back here was if not this, then what from Minnesota's perspective, right,
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Speaker 1: if they went into this regular season with the team
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Speaker 1: that they had curated post Julius Randall of Anthony Edwards
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Speaker 1: io Jada McDaniel's NAS reading ride Gobert, would you looked
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Speaker 1: at that team and say, hmm, they got a chance
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Speaker 1: to win the title. The answers probably know, we look
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Speaker 1: at this current roster of LaMelo ball, Anthony Edwards, I
15:46
Speaker 1: you'd assume moved Jada m daniser to go.
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Speaker 2: Bet you ask yourself the same question.
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Speaker 1: You probably feel The answer is the same as is no,
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Speaker 1: But it's that team closer to doing it than the
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Speaker 1: previous team nas read a first round picking some bad swaps.
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Speaker 2: What else could that get you?
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Speaker 1: This might be the best amount of most amount of
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Speaker 1: talent you can get into the door for that trade package.
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Speaker 1: So if you are someone that doesn't like this trade
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Speaker 1: from any source perspective, I can understand that. But my
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Speaker 1: question to you, if not this, then what would you
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Speaker 1: prefer that they set on this little amount of assets
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Speaker 1: into the trade that line and maybe use it somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to figure out. If not this, then
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Speaker 1: one what about Mike Norre getting a one year deal
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Speaker 1: to be a head coach? Is that crazy? I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: one year deal with an option. You never see a
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Speaker 1: team give out a one year deal on any sport,
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Speaker 1: a one year deal to a coach, like, hey, come
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Speaker 1: fix us or die?
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Speaker 2: You might you might not be here next year. How
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Speaker 2: can you be? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Mikenoor is a great coach. He was one of my
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Speaker 1: guys that I was hoping that the Bulls got. I'm
16:37
Speaker 1: happy with Thiago, by the way, but but like he
16:39
Speaker 1: was one of those guys that, like, as a finalist,
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Speaker 1: I was really happy with, So I'm rude of him,
16:42
Speaker 1: But I'm just surprised that that broke and then, like
16:44
Speaker 1: I think Sean's Rizzi reported that it was a multi
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Speaker 1: year deal or somebody else came out and said, now
16:48
Speaker 1: it's a multiyear deal technically, but it's got an option
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Speaker 1: after that first year.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, damn option after the first.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, you let me know what you think about destroy.
16:56
Speaker 1: I feel like there's so many other avenues I can
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Speaker 1: really attack here, but I also got another trads to
17:01
Speaker 1: get to. And again, I do a radio showvery Monday,
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Speaker 1: and then I'll be doing more videos, so if the
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Speaker 1: postseason or off season, and maybe I'll think twice about
17:07
Speaker 1: this and feel differently about it. Donna's got traded and
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Speaker 1: I'm late again. I was, I was gone, so I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't have like a full twenty minutes on it.
17:17
Speaker 1: I think goes back to my one of my last
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Speaker 1: points about being reactive versus proactive. Yanni's had been potentially
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Speaker 1: traded at the deadline and the year before that, and
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Speaker 1: I wonder, you know, it would have been better to
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Speaker 1: trade him away last season. We'll never really know what
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Speaker 1: teams were offering at the deadline or last season, but
17:34
Speaker 1: you think about, you know, homey hoky As Khalel, where
17:37
Speaker 1: Tyler Herro kaspar.
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Speaker 2: S Yaka Shonis to first whatever ended up being, and like.
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Speaker 1: In the vacuum completely okay, again, this is something we've
17:46
Speaker 1: been gearing ourselves up for four weeks at this point,
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Speaker 1: So in the vacuum cool. But like when you see
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Speaker 1: a top five, top four wherever you have Gianna's ranked
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Speaker 1: player get traded, sometimes you just expect more and I
17:58
Speaker 1: guess it's all it's I have the the holder, right,
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Speaker 1: Kaspars Jackasonas literally was the first round pick last season.
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Speaker 2: The year before that, Khaleil Were is a first round pick.
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Speaker 1: So you can say that even though we only get
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Speaker 1: two first round is that we decide on We did
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Speaker 1: just get a guy who Yakashona's failed on draft boards.
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Speaker 1: But like at one point last season, ya Kashonas was
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Speaker 1: like ranked in the top ten, right, Khaleil wear was
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Speaker 1: right outside you know what I'm saying, So you could
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Speaker 1: maybe argue that the picks end up being more. But yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: they probably waited a little bit too long. Now they're
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Speaker 1: in the draft, they end up taking Native Man and
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Speaker 1: Bratton Burry's I don't really know what to feel about
18:28
Speaker 1: that I'm not the biggest college basketball guy. I've watched
18:31
Speaker 1: their tape only time with hell whether or not those
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Speaker 1: are the right picks or not, but it feels weird
18:35
Speaker 1: to see Jannison and it will feel weird to see
18:37
Speaker 1: Joannis in a different jersey, And whether or not, on
18:39
Speaker 1: the opposite side, people are like, man, the Miami, he
18:42
Speaker 1: made this trade and they're not contendous. I think that's
18:43
Speaker 1: completely okay for them not to be contenous right now.
18:46
Speaker 1: This team is struck out on KD. Humembers, the week
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Speaker 1: that Zion's rumored, Damian Lillard, all of these guys and
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Speaker 1: they finally got one and joansp De the coompo and
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Speaker 1: Giannis is getting older, right so we know that, so
18:57
Speaker 1: we can't act like they got ten years to put
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Speaker 1: it together around him. But they got the talent in
19:01
Speaker 1: the door finally, and I'm just happy about that. I
19:04
Speaker 1: feel like the bamout a body. Over the last couple
19:06
Speaker 1: of seasons, though, he has taken steps and rounded out
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Speaker 1: his game a little bit more as being a a
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Speaker 1: three point shooter than it maybe taking a lot less
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Speaker 1: shots at the rim that we want him to do,
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Speaker 1: but becoming a three point shooter, being a guy that
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Speaker 1: can drop eighty three points in a single game. I
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Speaker 1: love the fact that he's not looked at to be
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Speaker 1: an offensive number one guy. There's definitely some overlap and
19:23
Speaker 1: their skill sets offensively, but I think that's gonna be okay.
19:25
Speaker 1: This is one of them trades we had to wait
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Speaker 1: to see what the rest of the russ it looks
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Speaker 1: like around Miami. Will they be able to retain Norman Powell?
19:31
Speaker 1: I think automatically they walk in with a top ten defense,
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Speaker 1: maybe even top five defense, just based on that front
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Speaker 1: line and then Davey I Mitchell at the point of
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Speaker 1: attack with those smaller guards and everything. So pat Riley
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Speaker 1: made the trade, and like I said this during our
19:44
Speaker 1: live show yesterday, a lot of the times you see
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Speaker 1: somebody these bigger trades happen, right the team that is
19:51
Speaker 1: acquiring the biggest name, the big star player, there's gonna
19:54
Speaker 1: be fans to be like, even though I'm happy to
19:56
Speaker 1: have this player, I'm gonna miss player X, like somebody
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Speaker 1: you've really grown attached to over the course of their career.
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Speaker 1: I ain't see a single Miami he fans say I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be I'm a miss Tyler Hero, I'm a miss
20:05
Speaker 1: Kalel where I'm a misk as far as jacksonas I'm
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Speaker 1: a miss him.
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Speaker 2: I ain't see one of them.
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Speaker 1: So like the fansers weren't really attached to those players
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Speaker 1: and they wanted the guy, and the guy ends up
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Speaker 1: being honest. It's a I mean, there's there's inherently risking
20:17
Speaker 1: every single move that you do as a as a
20:19
Speaker 1: big trade like this, but maybe not as big of
20:21
Speaker 1: a risk as people are going out to say. Lastly,
20:25
Speaker 1: Julius Rander got trade and this is part of the
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Speaker 1: reason why they were able to give Iyo his money
20:29
Speaker 1: then eventually trade for LaMelo ball Uh Juleus Round is
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Speaker 1: pretty much a salary dump to the Brooklyn Nets.
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Speaker 2: I think the Brooklyn Nets walked.
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Speaker 1: Out of here pretty pretty good as they getting a
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Speaker 1: player that can help them win some games.
20:39
Speaker 2: Because I keep saying that we have.
20:41
Speaker 1: To rewire our brains when it comes to team building
20:44
Speaker 1: because of those new lottery rules. The Brooklyn Thats only
20:46
Speaker 1: have to pack next season in the first place, But
20:48
Speaker 1: we're in a place now where like even when you
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Speaker 1: are a bad team and you want to win the lottery,
20:52
Speaker 1: it makes more sense to be the sixth worst team
20:53
Speaker 1: versus the first worst team. So a team like Brooklyn
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Speaker 1: that is trying to develop younger talent brings in a
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Speaker 1: true pro. Even though you watched Juless Randall, he can't
21:01
Speaker 1: get selfish on.
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Speaker 2: The court a lot of the times.
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Speaker 1: But Julius Randall has done a few things in his
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Speaker 1: career that like can't, I can't look past. Yeah, his
21:09
Speaker 1: playoff performances majority of the time are lackluster. I understand that,
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Speaker 1: but he went into New York and was the catalyst
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Speaker 1: to eventually help the New York Knicks win a championship.
21:18
Speaker 1: When he got to New York, the Knicks were awful,
21:20
Speaker 1: and he helped them make a postseason. Again, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: very great in that postseason, but he raised that floor
21:25
Speaker 1: then against to Minnesota and you know, some cool things
21:28
Speaker 1: happened in Minnesota before he even got there, but he
21:30
Speaker 1: helped raise that floor when they make multiple conference finals
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Speaker 1: and like, I don't I'm not looking at the breakup
21:35
Speaker 1: that's to say, hey that he about to raise the
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Speaker 1: floor to be a conference finalist, But like, they need
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Speaker 1: somebody that could score basketball and win some basketball games,
21:43
Speaker 1: because again, they don't have their ow first round pick,
21:44
Speaker 1: so there's no reason for them to bottom out completely.
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Speaker 2: And then they moved up a couple of picks in
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Speaker 2: the draft, and I actually, off.
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Speaker 1: The top of mind, I don't remember who they got
21:52
Speaker 1: in the draft. I was there, and somehow it don't
21:54
Speaker 1: ring a bell. Yes, so they got Joshua Jefferson. They
21:58
Speaker 1: got MIKEL Brown at six, obviously, but they got Joshua
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Speaker 1: Jacks Jefferson at twenty eight, a guy that I don't
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Speaker 1: know much about, by the way, So I can't tell
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Speaker 1: you if that trade enough five more picks to get
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Speaker 1: him is a smart thing.
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Speaker 2: A bad thing, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But like they they haven't an interesting enough team, where
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Speaker 1: like Brooklyn Nets fans should be excited about the incoming season.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they have more moves to be done.
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Speaker 1: But like Mike Keil Brown, Jager Jormand or however you
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Speaker 1: pronounce it, I change it every single day, Michael Porter
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Speaker 1: Junior assuming that he doesn't get traded, Julius rand and
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Speaker 1: day Ron.
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Speaker 2: Shark full time starter, Dayroon sharpit dog in that glass.
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Speaker 1: Like that's an interesting enough team, where like opening day
22:29
Speaker 1: Brooklyn fans should be excited to see Mike Hall and
22:32
Speaker 1: and what Jaeger has been doing this offseason and so on.
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Speaker 1: So I like that from their perspective. And this trade
22:37
Speaker 1: also the Bulls take home Nick Clackson, which I I
22:40
Speaker 1: really enjoy. Nicholas Claxton is not coming into Chicago with
22:44
Speaker 1: the idea or we're not looking at him. We shouldn't
22:46
Speaker 1: look at him as a guy that is gonna be
22:48
Speaker 1: our starting center for the future. He is a stop
22:52
Speaker 1: gap center. You you compare him to some of the
22:54
Speaker 1: other centers on the team, which really is just like
22:56
Speaker 1: one guy. Uh, Jayla Smith and James Smith in the
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Speaker 1: phenomenal season. Don't get me wrong, niggas classes just better
23:01
Speaker 1: at least projects to be better, you know. And again,
23:04
Speaker 1: we're not trying to be a bottom three team. I
23:06
Speaker 1: think you look at the Bulls you say, hey, they
23:08
Speaker 1: are candidate to be a bottom three team. So we
23:10
Speaker 1: will be doing moves like this and probably getting on
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Speaker 1: some extra salary and another trade of a guy that's
23:14
Speaker 1: good but maybe not as good enough as gooder or
23:17
Speaker 1: better than the contract that he's getting paid, and say, hey,
23:19
Speaker 1: you're gonna help us be the fifth worst team this year.
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Speaker 1: We gonna go get I don't even know who's in
23:23
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty seven draft. Nicholas Claxton just two years
23:26
Speaker 1: ago before he had all the back issues, was really good.
23:29
Speaker 2: Like he had a year where he got DPO wide votes.
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Speaker 1: Like that's something I'm willing to bet on as a
23:33
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old, and with him being only on
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Speaker 1: the contract for two years.
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Speaker 2: If it doesn't work or he's just not as good
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Speaker 2: as he was a few years ago.
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Speaker 1: Okay, and we already got Caleb Wilson, Modis Bozellis the
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Speaker 1: defense switchability should be pretty interesting. I think we still
23:46
Speaker 1: got more to do, but those are the bigger trades
23:49
Speaker 1: in my reaction to those, again, we got a full
23:51
Speaker 1: offseason where I can flesh some things out a little
23:54
Speaker 1: bit more. I'm assuming we're gonna get more trades, more signs,
23:56
Speaker 1: more craziness in the association. This is the league that
23:58
Speaker 1: we love. Let me know about all three of the trades. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm done,