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Greetings my peeps and welcome to the all things basketball podcast with your boy GD.

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In this episode I'll talk about the MVP of the WNBA.

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They have named someone and we'll talk about it.

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Also Dame Lillard finally gets traded guys so we'll break that down and we'll talk about

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the effects all the way around and also we'll talk about magic a comment he made about owning

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the Knicks so we'll get into that as well so just sit back relax and enjoy the show.

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Okay guys so we are back with all things basketball with GD podcast of course this is yours truly speaking

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and we're going to I thought I was going to have a little hiatus there but have to address

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a few issues here so let's get into it.

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We're going to talk about the WNBA they had their MVP vote all the votes are in and the

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award goes to Breanna Stewart of the New York Liberty kind of like what I predicted but

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I'll get into all that in a minute anyhow so she becomes the first Liberty player to

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win the award and think about it New York Liberty one of the flagship franchises in

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the WNBA never had an MVP up to now you had players there you had a Teresa Weverspoon

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there you had a Cappy Pond Dexter who's a fine player for them Tina Charles Tina Charles

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is a player who still to this day holds the all-time score points for the New York Liberty

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so you had all these players here never an MVP until now so Breanna Stewart gets it I

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gave you all the numbers you can go back and listen to my episodes for that I won't go

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through all the numbers and so forth but here's what I will say it was a very close race in

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fact the margin between the three front runners that I told you about Breanna Stewart, Asia

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Wilson and Alyssa Thomas between those three ladies 13 points separated three 13 points

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I'll get into the scoring as well here's how the scoring went the way they do it you get

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certain amount of points for first place certain amount for second place third place fourth and

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beyond so the way it shook out in terms of first place voting actually Alyssa Thomas got the most

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first place votes among the three with 23 Breanna Stewart gets 20 Asia Wilson 17 then you have

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second place in second place this time Asia Wilson gets most second place with 25 Breanna

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Stewart with 23 and Alyssa Thomas 12 then you go to third place and in that Alyssa Thomas gets

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the most third place votes with 25 and both Asia Wilson and Breanna Stewart gets 17 now the scoring

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is first place 10 points second place seven points third place five points and then you have fourth

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place and oddly enough through reasonings that's beyond me some voter put down Asia Wilson in the

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fourth place with one fourth place vote which is and everybody's been railing about it I'll talk about

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that which is insane to me let let us be clear anybody who watches Asia Wilson on a regular basis

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can clearly tell you she is not the fourth best player in this league she's either one two or three

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depending how you're judging and voting and so forth so fourth place is actually an insult to be

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honest and I think that's where the scoring goes arrive for Asia Wilson because she gets that fourth

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place vote which means if she doesn't get that fourth place vote so let's say she gets a third

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place vote instead that'll give her 18 so the scoring would be a little closer but in the end

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when you do all the mathematics and so forth Breanna gets the most points with four 46 followed

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by Alyssa Thomas with four 39 and Asia Wilson with four 33 so that's how the scoring went

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and then actually one person gave a third place vote to jewel Lloyd of the Seattle storm

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so if you replace the fourth place vote with a third place vote which would put her a little

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closer but in the end Breanna gets it so and I told you guys that in my prediction that voter

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fatigue would be a factor and I think it really came to play I think it came to play just like it

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came to play in the NBA with Joel and B getting it over Nikolai Yogan I think it was voter fatigue

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and I think there's a second big reason that Breanna got it she came to a Liberty team pretty

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much a moribund franchise who was teetering on mediocrity they were hovering around 500 there

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were 500 team prior to all the players that came in John Quill Jones Breanna and Courtney

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Manaslu so they were pretty much a 500 team before she arrived so with her arrival that

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elevated the franchise to their best record ever number one and number two it put them second

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behind the Las Vegas aces in terms of teams so I think that was probably the biggest reason a lot

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of votes went to Breanna Stewart and I think couple with voter fatigue which actually Ryan

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Ruko the voice of the WNBA he does the play-by-play for the major games on ESPN he was on NBA today

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with Malika Andrews and he said voter fatigue may be a factor and he talked about Breanna not

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winning it in 2020 in 2022 so it could be a case where the voters make up for that and so forth

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so that was his reasoning but I do think voter fatigue was a factor I really do and because

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think about it guys Aja Wilson this year she had better numbers than she had last year when she

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got the MVP her scoring was up her field goal percentage was way up she was more efficient

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this year than she was last year blocks were up she led the league and on top of that forget

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the numbers her team was better her team had a better record than last year so where's the drop

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off people say oh you know she's playing with all these players and so forth which is true you know

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she plays with three other all-stars but Breanna Stewart she plays with two other all-stars and

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Sabrina Nescu and Courtney Vannisloot and she playing with a former MVP but what the case for her

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would be the fact that you had to bring all those elements together and make it work on the court

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which happened and you got what you got them having their best record ever so I think that played

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into it and there was a lot of social media social media went crazy over it you had people like Alex

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English he had this tweet who is voting for the WNBA MVP must be the same people that voted for the

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NBA's top 75 which is actually funny because of course he was left out of the NBA's top 75 which

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to me to this day is still a crime how can you leave the man that led the league in scoring for

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an entire decade how can you leave him off the top 75 list but that's an argument for another day

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so that was his tweet then you had Dawn Staley now listen to this tweet congrats to Stewie for

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WNBA player of the year P.O.Y hell of a season Alyssa congrats to you for just being your normal

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beast mode self a you know I heart you well I love you your life and career are favored and

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divinely ordered so your harvest time is coming to the fourth place voter your hate is real and on

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display so that was her tweet there but I'm kind of from the school of Joe Madison where he tells

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you to listen with a third air read with a third eye and if you read the beginning of this she says

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congrats to Stewie for player of the year she doesn't say MVP I thought that was very telling so

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maybe I'm reading too much into it but she says player of the year instead of MVP so I don't know

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if that was a typo or that was a deliberate kind of yeah they gave you player of the year but you

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weren't the MVP I don't know maybe I'm grasping at straws who knows but that's what she wrote and then

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you had tamarin sprawl I guess she's one of the voters and she actually showed her ballot on Twitter

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which had the players in this order she had five players listed she had Alyssa Thomas first

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Asia Wilson second Rihanna Stewart third jewel Lloyd fourth Aliyah boston fifth and she pretty

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much called out the person who gave the four plays vote to Asia she says transparency it's

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important and so forth so you have that dynamic and that's a host of people expressing their

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displeasure with what happened and then Asia herself after the game she talked about those

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around her who was disappointed there's a quote of her saying it hurt like hell I hear her say that

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personally I don't know she wrote it but but I heard her after game she said it is what it is and

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you know the team has a bigger goal in mind of course that's winning another championship

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so with that said let me say this I think these voters kicked over hornets nests by that I mean

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you have now fueled that Las Vegas aces team to really try and get that back-to-back championship

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and I think from what I see from that team I think there's going to be a concerted effort

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because last year when they wanted actually it was Chelsea Gray who got finals MVP I think

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there'll be a concentrated effort this year if they were to continue on the path that they're going

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make it to the finals win it all I think the effort will be to get Asia Wilson finals MVP

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I think that's the mission right now that's their mission so you voters out there those who kind

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of snubbed her I think you kicked over a hornet's nest now because I think she is going to be more

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focused more locked in to get that brass ring and win that back-to-back championship which

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will say a lot about this team in the annals of WNBA history so I think you did that so with that

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said one more thing I want to address Alyssa Thomas she was asked in a post game interview

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about her not winning the award this is what she had to say I think I'm used to it I think I've been

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snubbed so many times in my career that it's a normal thing for me so Alyssa Thomas disappointed

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you could hear the disappointment but she's used to being counted out I still say her career defies

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the odds and they talked about it in the booth how the ligaments in her shoulders and the fact

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that she shoots the way she does is a byproduct of that so for her to master numbers that she does

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is pretty much unbelievable let's just put it that way but nonetheless she's had a brilliant season

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and I think if it wasn't for the fact that Breanna did what she did on one of the biggest stages

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and that's here in New York I think if it weren't that I think Alyssa Thomas probably

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squeezes out and gets it but again Breanna did it on the brightest lights in one of the biggest

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cities so she gets the award so with all of that said congratulations to Breanna Stewart for getting

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the award it wasn't given it was earned let's just say that it's not like she had a slouch season

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she was second in scoring amongst the top three and rebounds amongst the top three and blocks

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also she had the most 40 point games in the season and she scored the most points with 30 minutes

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or less in a game when she dropped the 45 points in like three quarters so and what the team did

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as a whole I think all of that played into her getting the award so definitely kudos to her for

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getting the award let's see what the liberty do in these playoffs now we'll see what happens there so

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that's that for the MVP race in the WNBA now later today the big bombshell in the NBA

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Dame Lilik gets his wish and he's now traded only caveat is he wasn't traded to the place he desired

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he goes to the Milwaukee Bucks and this is the trade guys reported by Adrian Wartianowski so

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wojc of course ahead of the curve as always this is the trade Milwaukee gets Damian Lilik

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Portland gets Drew Holiday DeAndre Aten so it's a three team deal Tamani camera

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a rookie with the Phoenix Suns they picked them in this year's draft they also get Milwaukee's

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2029 first round pick and they get two pick swaps from Milwaukee in 2028 and 2030 and then

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Phoenix gets Joseph Nerkic from the Portland Trailblazers they also get Grayson Allen from

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the Milwaukee Bucks not see a little from the Portland Trailblazers and Keon Johnson I believe

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also from the Blazers so that is your trade guys the pluses for this trade of course you're gonna

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get more offense with a Dame Lilert and you're gonna get a closer something that you're honest

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needs beside him you got a closer now in Dame minuses of course your defense is gonna take a hit

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now because you just traded away you're pretty much starting backcourt and holiday and Grayson

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Allen so so your defense will take a hit but I'm sure for Milwaukee listen we heard the Rumblings

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actually I didn't report on it but I'll talk about it now Giannis kind of voice in his I will say

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consternation about Milwaukee's future and saying look if we're not doing things to make these title

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runs and be competitive I don't know if I signed the super max when my time comes so Milwaukee of

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course hearing that being very nervous because they know how things were before Giannis arrived on

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the scene they don't want to go back to that so they made a move they had to make this is them

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putting all their chips to the middle of the table and when you think about it it's kind of high risk

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because you had a champion point guard and drew holiday that you had to trade in order to make

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this work Grayson Allen you know a young player he can knock it down from outside so I mean they

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gave up what they had to give and of course these future picks as well which you know in a grand scheme

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of things what does it mean if you're a perennial playoff team so so they rolled the dice and they

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said let's do this deal now the Phoenix side you know Deandre Aitman the Sun's organization has had

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this kind of tug and pull relationship so much so that last year when he was a restricted free agent

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Indiana Pacers signed them to an offer sheet Suns felt they had to match it did that so he played

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out the season and we know how the season ended they bowled out in the second round of course

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the coach Monty Williams is out so you figure Aitman's kind of safe now but the fact of the

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matter is and I was talking to my boy D about this Deandre Aitman is a former first overall

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pick in the draft right now if he were to stay with the Phoenix Suns he would be fourth option at

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best because you have Katie there you got Devin Booker there and you just acquired Bradley Beale

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so he's fourth in the pecking order and I kind of understand where he's coming from you know he's

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supposed to be a cornerstone player for that franchise but yet he's the fourth option in the

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offense kind of can blame him to be honest with you but now he gets an opportunity with Portland

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to be that guy now he will probably be I say he probably be second right now you have Anthony

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Simons there you have Jeremy Grant there you got the rookie Scoot Henderson so you know it's a young

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team that he can grow with and he can show what he can do there so Chauncey billips I trust Chauncey

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billips to kind of get the most out of the kids so we'll see what happens there so he gets a brand

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new opportunity in a smaller market than Phoenix so I'm actually expecting some good things from

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him over there so I think all in all Portland did well and what they got back and now they have

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an asset in Drew Holiday because I don't think he's in the Trailblazers future so the more than

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likely to not flip him so we'll see where he goes yeah I'll talk about that in a minute and then

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for Phoenix they get some debt which they needed and they get a starting center who really not

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going to demand the ball he's going to crash the boards he's going to play defense inside block shot

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so this is what you wanted from Aten but it seemed like his shot blocking dissipated as the years

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went by over there in Phoenix so so now you're getting a center who's not going to demand the

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ball as much so it looks good for Phoenix they now have added depth because you get a Grayson

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Allen there who will be coming off your bench and I'll say a little Keon Johnson so you have a

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little bit of depth there so on its face seemed like everybody made out okay here there's tremendous

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pressure though tremendous pressure on Dane now he's in a winning situation so now he has to acquiesce

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and blend in with that winning culture over there so pressures on him pressures on the Milwaukee

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organization especially on Giannis himself now he has to coexist with a Dane Lillard who's a more

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bold dominant point guard than Drew Holiday so you have that dynamic and plus a guard who's not

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going to be the defender that holiday was and to top all that off you now have a rookie head coach

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and Adrian Griffin there so you have that dynamic so a lot of pressure on that first year coach over

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there so we'll see and there's pressure on Phoenix now that you shipped Aten out finally you now have

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the center that you desire playing in the middle you have depth now you have Katie you got Booker

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and Beale health is always the issue with any of those three guys especially Kevin Durant so

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the pressure is on guys in terms of a fantasy basketball outlook because you know I play fantasy

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basketball in terms of Dane I see his production his scoring going down going to Milwaukee will he

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still be a 22 point a game scorer with Milwaukee it's possible that means other guys offense is

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going to have to suffer I think Giannis will not take much of a hit I don't think Chris Middleton

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he'll probably be one that may take a hit as far as production in that regard goes will Dane be more

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of a facilitator now that he has players that can make buckets we'll see what happens so I think

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his production probably in a 10 team league I say if you draft to him second third round is a steal

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second round scenes about right for Dane I think again I think Giannis will take a hit I think

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Middleton may take a hit out of anybody there I love it for Aten as far as fantasy goes wherever

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he's being picked right now I think that'll shift where you could take him around earlier and feel

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good about it I think right now he's probably like fifth or sixth round so if you went fourth round

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on him rolled the dice and took him fourth round I think he could give you fourth round production

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as far as nerc it go I don't think his value takes too much of a hit scoring wise definitely but I

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think the rebound and will be there for him the block shots will be there for him so he'll get all

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the minutes he can take but it's you had a healthy Aten for the most part and now you're getting a

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guy with a injury riddles history so there's you have that dynamic so turns of fantasy yeah

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nerc I don't think his value shifts that much if anything it goes down now like I was saying for

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Drew does he stay in Portland or is he on the move and if he's on the move guys they're talking about

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a number of teams that could be interested in him they talked about Miami because Miami was the big

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loser in all of this guys they wanted to go to Miami course the GM of the Blazers Joe Cronin did

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not want to deal that centered around Tyler hero he got the preferred package he won he got a franchise

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center and Aten so he got what was best for his franchise which is always a good thing Philadelphia

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could be a place where drew end up I think another team that's a loser in all of this because you

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still have to figure out what to do with heart and remember guys what I said about heart and I

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don't think anything happens with heart until dame gets traded dame was traded now so as far as

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heart and goals I don't see any suitors at this moment and my boy he said this today I think he

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has to come into camp be the good citizen maybe offer up a mea culpa for what he said about

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Darrell morrie kind of public apology go in there be the good citizen like I said do all the things

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he needs to do and then with that maybe he gets moved you know he plays a little bit he shows

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himself to be somebody who's willing to toe the line then he'll get traded so we'll see what happens

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with that and like I was saying Miami what does Miami do now this kind of speaks to what Brian

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Windhorse actually talked about I think it was last week where he pretty much said that he's not

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putting all their eggs in the dame lila basket they thought they could take their time wait this out

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maybe get another team involved but I think they probably waited a wee bit too long and now he's on

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the move to morie I thought once the cause previous to this there was talk of Toronto being

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interested in dame and a lot of rumblings about that in fact just today they were talking about it on

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first take and I guess Milwaukee said Toronto no no we need to get them so so they made the move

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but in any event Miami now has to regroup and figure out what they're gonna do they'll be

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competitive but right now the teams that are above them Milwaukee obviously with this trade

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Boston of course with them choir in Christa porzinas apart from that next we'll see what the

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next can do but right now Miami even at its current state is probably amongst the top six teams in

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that conference so if everything bolts right they could be a top 16 there so we'll see what happens

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with that but for sure they need to regroup and figure out things and then with dame going to

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Milwaukee who now starts in the backcourt with him will it be Pat conaton probably more likely

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than not you also have a Malik Beasley there so you have some options there so it'll be interesting

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nonetheless and then what is the pecking order as far as who's your go-to guy who's the second

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option third option over there for Milwaukee probably still be Yana's first followed by dame

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then you have a chris middleton depending on the situation i think it'll be Yana's first and also

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dame so i think that's how that shakes out and here's what dame lilert said on twitter x whatever

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you want to call it these days here's what he said the cashals won't be addressed but the trail

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blazer fans in city of portland that i truly love will be and they will be addressed truthfully

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stay tuned and then he says excited for my next chapter and then he wrote at bucks so actually

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steven a addressed this on his podcast today and he thought when he said the casuals he was talking

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about portland's front office i don't know if i say that sure he doesn't make mention of the

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front office you know the organization as a whole but i think it's probably those who question him

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question the fact that he's wants to be traded and so forth so i think it's more of those people

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than the front office i don't think this is a out and out attack on the front office i could be wrong

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but i don't think that's what this says and then drew holiday he actually said this yesterday

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before this trade happened i'm a buck for life and i mean that like deep in my heart i don't want

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to play for any other team i think we have a chance to continue to do great things as the

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bucks team and organization so i want to be in Milwaukee that sounds a lot like what happened

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in boston where in the christoph porzingis deal where they had to scrap it and then you end up

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moving the guy like marcus smart so i think it's kind of in the same vein there but nonetheless

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you know hope all goes well for drew and he ends up somewhere where he can help a team amongst the

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suitors for drew i mentioned miami i mentioned philadelphia toronto's another team being talked

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about now that they missed out on the dain sweepstakes and la clippers which i don't really understand

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because you already have russell westbrook there but what do i know i think a fifth team you need

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to mention and for some reason nobody's talking about this chicago bulls could definitely use a

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drew holiday without question right now you have a combination of coby white good player i think

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he's more of a combo guard a guard that comes off your bench kind of in the same vein as a

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man you'll quickly i think he's more in that kind of range and oil do some more you still have that

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young point guard over there apart from that chicago could definitely use a drew holiday and

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that would put them in the fast track amongst the top six teams in the east so i don't know why

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chicago's not being talked about here so i would put them in the running as well as a team that

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could use his services so i'm just putting it out there so anyhow so that's pretty much the dame news

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and then there's one more item i want to get to magic johnson saying the only franchise he

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considered owning would be the new york nix of course outside of being with his los angeles

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lacus so he said it would be the nix he said this at a ymca speaking engagement here in new york

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he passed up ownership with other teams teams like the gold state warriors he had a chance there

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the lana hawks even in his hometown of detroit uh the detroit pistons he passed up on that as well

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which i thought was pretty telling but he said the reason he would consider being the owner of the

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nix the passionate fan base he said they're very knowledgeable they're loyal to the soil most of

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them i digress but yeah and he gave that as the reasons so you know that caused nicknation to go

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into a tizzy on social media so got them fantasizing about dolan selling the team and so forth

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speaking of that he has not spoken to james dolan so this is just something that was asked of him

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and he answered but he said if an opportunity ever arose he would be willing to listen to what the

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offer would be and so on and so forth so hey magic knows that if you were to bring a winner to new

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york it would go such a long way and imagine being the owner behind doing something like that

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he got to see up close and personal how things transpired in la for jerry bus the late jerry bus

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when he brought a championship to the city of la so he got a bird's eye view of that so he knows to

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do that in a place like new york city man listen but nonetheless you know we can fantasize about

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that so forth but this comes on the heels of james dolan actually being interviewed by the new

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york times where he says he doesn't like owning sports teams he said the economics of it makes

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him kind of sleepy which you never want to hear that from your owner that's for sure and then of

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course we know about the checkered pass under his watch including banning charles oakley after

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incident with security that's was on film and was an ugly incident and then he had another with

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another situation similar with spike lee not to the point where you were ushering them out but

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just a little misunderstanding as spike lee was coming into the building so forth so you had that

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also you had sexual harassment lawsuit during the isiah thomas tenure and then to bring you up to

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date now with the use of this facial recognition that he uses he does it to keep out lawyers who

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have clients that are suing the garden or so forth and to keep maybe some fans who brought signs and

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fired dolan and so forth so he uses facial recognition for that sort of stuff so i say all that to say

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the fan base of course is getting lavered up about this here's what i will say for those wanting

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dolan out as nicks owner your chance at that has come and gone i think the time where that could

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have actually happened was during that sexual harassment lawsuit that was the time you nail him

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even though it wasn't him personally it was under his watch i think that was the time where you could

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have said look this is a black eye on the league you need to sell david stern shoulda because it was

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david stern at the time i think that was the time to sell now him selling would be the equivalent of

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jeff bezel selling amazon the man is making money hand over fist he's not going to sell the nicks

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franchise he's not going to sell the ranger franchise it would have to be a forced situation

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for james dolan to sell and i don't see that happening so i think like i said that window

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has opened and shut and that will not happen so you know we can fantasize about having magic as

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a owner but that's not coming into fruition anytime soon so so that's that so all right guys so that

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dedicate an episode or two for that and then of course training camps opening up next week so

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nba basketball we're getting closer guys and then of course the w nba playoffs we're in the midst of

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that and then before you know it w nba finals will be here so a lot of basketball to cover guys and

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