Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. I am your host, Justin
Jackson. In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA, what's going on in the
offseason and the summer league. We'll be discussing the NFL, what's happening in their
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Welcome in to the show. It has been a long time, about a month. You guys hear this, it
will be about a month since I last recorded. It took a decent break. It was supposed to
be a couple of weeks, guys. Perfect transparency, which I wasn't really feeling up for the past
couple of weeks. I wanted to get definitely. It seemed like every time I wanted to record,
life happened. But I'm going to make sure I'm back on the consistent once a week, like
you guys like it, like you guys love it. You guys tell me that you enjoy it. So we're going
to go back to our once a week schedule. Took a nice break. Like I said, about a four week
break actually, I checked. The last podcast came out June 13th. You guys will hear this
June 14th. So therefore, like I said, about June 14th or 15th. So therefore, about a month
long break. So hope you guys miss me. But I am back, ready to go, ready to roll. And
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there. But let's jump right into this. We're going to jump right into the NBA and talk
about what's going down there. It is free agency period. And of course, it kicks off
June 30th and the money went flying. Rich Paul made his clients about $600 million in
the first week. He himself, of course, that 3%, he made $18 million in about a week. So
kudos to Rich Paul. We had massive trades go down. We had Chris Paul getting traded
from the Phoenix Suns to the Washington Wizards. And we're going to start off, actually we're
going to start off with staying in Phoenix for a minute. I'm going to start off with
Matt Ispia. Matt Ispia, if you've never heard of him, he's the recent owner, the newest
owner in the NBA. He's been owning the Phoenix Suns of the NBA and the Phoenix Mercury of
the WNBA for all of about six months at this point. He bought in, obviously after Robert
Sarver, the investigation into the Suns practices as far as how they treat people, racism and
things other things of that nature. Robert Sarver was forced to sell and therefore he
sold to Matt Ispia who's in the mortgage lending business by trade. Similar to Dan Gilbert
who has Rocket Mortgage. That's why the Cleveland Cavaliers arenas are Rocket Mortgage arenas
instead of the Quicken Loans arenas like it was in Lebron's day because Dan Gilbert sponsors
his own arena basically. So Ispia came in, 29 out of 30 owners approved it. Dan Gilbert
actually didn't vote and he refused himself due to a potential lack of, potential bias.
I couldn't think of the word I was looking for but potential bias towards Ispia because
they are in the same business and they bumped heads in the business world. And so he refused
himself from voting on if Ispia should be an NBA owner due to this. So I actually respect
Dan Gilbert for that. He's actually seems to be a lot better at least publicly of a
person ever since the Comic Sans letter against Lebron his exit. So kudos to him for that.
But anyway Ispia gets in about 6 months. What does he do basically? Immediately he starts
spending money. He gets very aggressive very quickly. He makes sure that he has Kevin Durant
locked in. He booms the Kevin Durant trade. Shots the entire NBA. It's right after Kyrie
is traded, forces his way to Dallas. He booms the NBA, drops a lot of the Suns preacher
assets off and grabs Kevin Durant. Goes through the rest of the season with that. He comes
out of the season, he decides to part ways with Monty Williams. Very highly respect the
coach. Monty Williams goes and gets a $100 million contract from the Detroit Pistons
along with some of the benefits for his wife. So kudos to Monty and the Pistons for getting
that done. But he parts ways with Monty Williams, he brings in Frank Vogel. Immediately the
question starts to run. So now that we know that James Jones has won the power struggle
in the organization between him and Monty Williams along with Monty clashing heads with
some of the players, Gondra, Aiden specifically. What's going to be the situation in Phoenix
now with Matt Ishby under his helm? Does he continue to spend? Because as we know this
off season and it kind of speaks to a lot of the free agent deals, looking at how they're
actually structured, a lot of them kept in mind the new second tax floor. Which if you
guys don't know, the luxury tax now has two floors. So it had one floor, the people just
blew past it, it didn't matter, it didn't care. Now there's a second luxury tax floor
that's very very, it penalizes teams as they do it. Like it hurts. Now it's increased money
you have to spend on per tax dollar, it restricts your second round picks trade, you cannot
use cash in a deal, you have to go dollar for dollar in a trade, you have to go player
for player and dollar for dollar in a trade. Like it basically, if you blow past the second,
if you one dollar over into the second tax floor, that's your roster. It's almost impossible
to flip. If you're going to do something, the NBA has gotten so popular now with trading
second round picks. To me second round picks aren't valuable in the NBA. At least they
weren't for a very very long time because most people thought a late first round pick
was not valuable. You know, like it wasn't worth, if you weren't getting a pick in the
lottery, you wanted to trade your pick because it wasn't worth it to you. But now we've seen
so many, this team gave up four second round picks and that team gave up five second round
picks. You saw these massive trades now with like second round picks. Like the same five
second round picks got moved around in like a span of three or four days. You know, some
second round picks have become popular now. Well, you can't even use those in a deal.
So most people thought that Phoenix is either going to have to have no bench or MadHB has
to decide screw it. I've got Kevin Durant who's in his mid thirties and I'm just going
to go for broke. Whatever. I'm a new owner. I got a lot of money. I'm going to go for
broke. I'm just going to go for it. And that's what he decided to do. He brings in a Frank
Vogel, defensive minded head coach who led the Lakers to the championship in the bubble.
And then he goes and makes the big trade for Bradley Bill. Okay. This Bradley Bill trade,
as we know, ships Chris Paul to the Washington Wizards. And the Bradley Bill, that was the
big context to make the money work. And then they added filler. Chris Paul, when he got
traded to the Wizards, he never really spoke about, he was doing a media tour actually
for his new book. And he never really spoke about being in Washington, playing in Washington
with. Back from Washington, Chris Piper was interviewing him. Brian Windhorse was the
main one I listened to. Kept being like, I don't think you're ever going to play in Washington.
Like, I don't think you're ever going to play one dribble in Washington. It didn't make
sense for the Washington Wizards. Either you're going to redirect Chris Paul immediately or
you're going to trade him a trade-off and get a massive trade exception. It does you
no good to have Chris Paul on your roster all season because he's going to win you some
games he shouldn't. You're going to be paying 30s of the million dollars and you could probably
use Chris Paul as a fat expiring contract to get a piece. And Washington's in a situation
they were trying to rebuild and it made no sense to have Chris Paul. Turns out, Chris
Paul immediately gets redirected, it took a couple days, but he gets redirected to the
Golden State Warriors for Jordan Poole. Which, for the Wizards, makes ideal sense. Jordan
Poole, with only having a share of the ball with Kyle Kuzma, is probably going to screw
you 25 points a game. He may get 27 or 28 points a game because he's going to get 25,
26 shots a game. 10 to 12 of them are going to be threes. You know what I'm saying? He's
going to get 25 to 28 points a game. He's probably an all-star at Washington because
him and Kyle Kuzma are the only ones that are really going to be shooting the ball.
Danny Advia, I don't know about him, I can't even name anybody else on the Wizards roster.
Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole are going to be the ones shooting the ball. From Golden State's
perspective, I don't get it. Especially knowing now what we know now like games available.
If you're Golden State, why didn't you go get Bradley Bill? In my mind, why didn't I
say, okay, Washington, we'll do Jordan Poole to first, Jonathan, either Kaminga or Moody,
and then you can have four seconds. You know what I'm saying? You go get Bradley Bill.
Now that's a move. If they were to have done that, I would understand. Because then at
that point, you would say, okay, Klay Thompson, look, we love you. You're no longer starting
on this team. It's Steph, it's Bill, it's Wiggins, it's Dre, and it's Looney. That's
a move for Washington. It's a move for Golden State that makes sense. The biggest move is
what do you do with... Dames of Dames popped out available. Dames from Oakland. Steph,
Dames, Klay, Dre, Looney. You probably... I mean, whatever. But you do some combination
where Dames available. You may not have to trade Wiggins to Golden State. Wiggins to
pull to make the money work. But Dames available. Trade Poole and Wiggins for a Dames, Nerkets
maybe, and a bevy of firsts. Come back, you throw it in some seconds. Whatever, you make
it work. Dames available. Now Golden State's in a position where what's Chris going to
do? Chris is going to come off the bench. He's 1600 games in, he's 1600 games starts.
He's never come off the bench. Neither... Klay hasn't for a decade, Dre hasn't for a decade.
Steph, I'm not even bringing Steph up. And Wiggins, Chris can't do what Wiggins can do.
I don't understand the trade for Golden State. They're printing jerseys, they've introduced
him like he's going to be a warrior this year. When he was traded to the Warriors, he began
to think about, oh yeah, he's talked to them team about how to partner to win a title.
They're working together in this situation. I don't necessarily get it, but hey. Let's
go to Golden State Warriors side of the deal. They got older and smaller. Granted, they
come off Chris' contract in a year. They didn't have to pay Jordan Poole that four-year, 140
contract, which by the way, I said was a bad contract, but his Jordan Poole fans didn't
listen to me. As another Warriors, remember when they were saying Dre mon spoke about
his podcast, the Warriors were trying to do something that was hard to do, right? And
it was to be old and go win a title and develop youth. The quote unquote success story out
of that was supposed to be Jordan Poole. Oh yeah, okay. We already traded Weisman. Moody
sucks. I'm just being honest. He's not at NBA level. That didn't work. Kaminga's fine,
but kind of a one or two tool kind of player. Not really a guy you build around. So the
youth moment missed except for Jordan Poole. When Steph's not in, he's 25 a night, 140
million dollar contract. Like it works. And then get dumped him because of this new second
luxury tax floor, which by the way, the Warriors are one of the team it targeted along with
the Clippers and now the Suns. You dumped Jordan Poole for old Chris Paul. I don't understand
that logic. In my view, well, you had to move them because of Dre Mon Grein's punch, which
by the way doesn't happen to an older set. See him? Like you tried to thread this needle.
That's why nobody does it. It's not because it's hard to, it's not just because it's
hard to win and develop. It's hard to mix the old guard with the new guys trying to
move the old guard out the way. And if some of the rumors stuff Jordan Poole said to Dre
Mon was said, that's something he wouldn't say. That's something of 30 year old wouldn't
say to Dre Mon as opposed to a hot brash 23, 24 year old who knows in about four to five
months, $140 million come my way. Like it's already in escrow. It's already in an account
and just going to draw to me every couple of weeks. I have an MBA can pay every week,
whatever. Like that's different. Right. And so from a chemistry standpoint, the Warriors
had to do what they had to do. Now we've gotten out of that business, the sons Warriors business.
Let's move into the big piece of what I want to talk about. And of course you got teams
like the Mavericks are making moves. So we're going to, we're going to go forward and then
go backwards. We're going to come back to Damon Hart and I want to end with them because
I have a trade proposal that solves the MBA period. It solves the MBA right now as it
sits. Everyone's going to leave happy. No one's going to be upset. You may have to tinker
with it, maybe redirect a guy or two. If, but I'll explain that later. Right. We'll go
forward to go back. So a few teams have been making moves in this agency. Obviously I haven't
talked to you guys off agency. So we're going to, like I said, tinker with some teams. We're
going to talk about some teams that made a couple of moves in free agency, right? But
we made a couple of moves in free agency, my apologies. And then discuss those teams.
So the first thing I want to talk about quickly is Dallas Mavericks. They made a couple of
sweet moves. They resigned Kyle Irvin three years, $120 million. His mom negotiated the
contract. She becomes the first black female agent ever to start to finish negotiating
the MBA contract. Kyrie also ends up with ANTA five year massive money. It becomes creative
director. So now Kyrie Irvin has the ability to sign people to the ANTA Kyrie Irvin line.
Sort of like how Jordan can sign. So Jordan is a subsidiary of Nike. Jordan isn't his
own company. Kyrie Irvin now is going to be able to sign people to wear Kyries. So that's
pretty dope. And also the Mavs get Grant Williams from the Boston Celtics. I'm a signing trade.
He ends up netting a four year $54 million deal. One of those mid level exception contracts.
And then they signed Dante Exum, former lobby pick up the jazz a few years ago. Ultimately
flamed out and Utah didn't really work. They went overseas. Actually just finished coming
off, I believe an Italian championship. And they put in an offer sheet from Matisse Thiebaud
three years, $33 million. But that was matched by the Portland Trail Blazers. So Thiebaud
is still in Portland. Which Portland's confusing me, but we'll talk about them in a couple
of minutes. The Eastern Rockets with their new head coach, Emea Adoka. They made a few
moves most notably financial wise, committing about $210 million to Fred Van Vliet and Dylan
Brooks. Fred Van Vliet's deal is on paper, it's three years, $130 million. But the first
two years are guaranteed. The third year is a team option. So it's really two years, $84
million. And the third year is a team option. Dylan Brooks however, who many people thought
after the grisly disaster and the public persona getting smashed and his public relations going
into the toilet, many people thought that Dylan Brooks would be another one of those mid level
exception guys. Four years, 54 was the common number for those MLE guys to get the max amount
of money. Why attract yourself into a contract like that? It gets fishy dynamically. But
four years, 54 was pretty much what people thought he was going to get. He ends up going
four years, 84 with the Houston Rockets and that can be incentivized up to 90. So great
for his agent, great for Dylan Brooks personally. He Brooks himself likens the Rockets down
to the grisly of about two, three years ago. He was like, Oh, I look at Jalen Green, I
see Young Ja, I look at Sengoon and Jabari Smith and I see Jaren Jackson. He was saying
he was just pointing out all these similarities with the Young Rockets as opposed to now the
former Young Grizzlies, Eme Adoka and Taylor Jenkins. It's kind of like this organization
that had success in the past. The Houston Rockets had a chemilogy one obviously, but they had
the James Harden years. They were consistently in the playoffs. The James Harden and Chris
Paul year were there. Chris Paul hamstring away from potentially the NBA finals. And
then of course the Memphis Grizzlies have the Grindhouse years. They have other stuff
in their past, but their most recent past is the Grindhouse years with Z-Bo and Tony
Allen and Marcus Saul and Mike Conley. So those guys in Memphis. But the interesting
part about the Rockets big signings is that for Eme Adoka's logic, I only understand
the Dylan Brooks signing. What do you mean? Dylan Brooks is a defender. Eme Adoka wants
to play defense. That's why the Joe Mazzula hire and retention in Boston and their sub
subprime, which we'll talk about them a little later, make a little to no sense for me because
Boston was built for defense and then they get this offensive coach and they can't play
defense anymore. Eme Adoka had a bunch of offensive guys. Jalen Green, KJ Martin, Josh
Christopher, I believe on that team, Singoon, Tariis and Jabari Smith. A bunch of guys who
can score the ball, a bunch of young guys put the ball in the hole. So he went and got
a veteran defender in Dylan Brooks. Makes sense. Probably overpaid a lot, but it makes
sense. Dylan Brooks is probably getting four year 54. If you go to four year 60, he probably
takes it and runs with it. But who knows? You know, Dylan Brooks comes in and it makes
sense. Fred Van Vliet is a small, inefficient, non-defensive playing guard and I assume he's
starts. Right? I'm fine with that. I'm assuming he starts. I'm good with that. He's not an
efficient shooter. So when Jalen Green has the ball, there's this six foot guy on the
wing who shot 39% last year. That is the second lowest percentage shooting in the NBA last
season for players who qualify. You know, it's only shooter in the NBA worse than Fred Van
Vliet. His new Rockets teammate, Dylan Brooks, they're the only two players in the NBA to
shoot below 40% for decently high volume shooters. And as I say, for those who qualify, they're
decently high volume shooters. They're the only two in the league to go below 40% and
the Rockets have given them about $210 million contractual value. And of course, Fred Van
Vliet has the team option in year three. I don't get that one. I really don't. I don't
want to sound out at all. Makes no sense to me. Don't understand a little bit. But hey,
we will see. I guess. The Lakers retooled reload to LeBron's approval because he announced
in the Esquisse he wasn't retiring and he was also sharing every post about the Lakers
new acquisitions and his new teammates and his old teammates coming back. So Rob Palenka
resigned D'Angelo Russell to a two year, $37 million deal with no trade kickers in it. And
D'Lo basically waived his implied no trade clause. And so he's now tradable. Ruha Chamora
is back with the Lakers. Austin Reeves got the best contract you could possibly get from
the Lakers without another team offering him. And that was four years, 54, but he has a
team player option in year four. He has a 15% trade kicker. He has all kinds of stuff
in his contract. Everything the Lakers could give him legally, Austin Reeves got. And so
he got his payday. And then they go out and sign. Gabe Vinson, three years, 33. Jackson
Hayes got a two year contract with the team option. Torian Prince is a Laker now as well.
And then of course, like I said, like Darvin Ham said, his big weapon is still around.
And that is LeBron James decided that he wasn't going to retire, which I didn't think he was.
I spoke about it when he first put on his showmanship after the series and kind of dangled
in there every time. I knew he wasn't going anywhere. And so kudos to Rob, the Lincoln,
the Lakers for putting that team together. It's going to be a pretty dangerous team.
Oh, and also Jerry Vanderbilt's back. So that's going to be a pretty dangerous team for them.
They have a couple of awesome spots open, or a awesome spot open. And I want to keep
it open because they did a good job with their mid-level exception. The only person on it
is Gabe Benson. He took 11 of the 12.4, which means in the buyout market, you can offer
the vet men plus the rest of the exception for financial. So when a person gets bought
out usually, if they make $27 million, they'll give back the vet men. They'll give back 2.1,
2.4, whatever the million dollars. They'll just say, you can keep it because when they
sign their next contract, they're going to get it back anyway. So it's kind of a way
to say, okay, the team saves $3 million, and I'm going to get $3 million in my vet men
contract. Not $2 million usually. I'm going to get $2 million in my next contract. I make
my same $30 million anyway. Now the Lakers have the advantage of, they can go to that
guy and say, okay, give that $2 million back. We'll give you $2 million back, plus another
million with the MLE. That could be the difference between a knockdown shooter going to Milwaukee
or going to the Lakers. That backup big man, who AD doesn't really want to play some. Maybe
that backup big man decides, man, I was Christian. It could be Christian Woods contract. Christian
Woods signed for the minimum. You still have a minimum spot plus the MLE. It could be very
interesting in Laker land with that last thing. Like I said, being able to keep about $1.4
million with that mid-level exception available. Just a few people who cashed in. Oh, sorry.
Boston made some moves. They acquired more assets along with they made the Chris Asplosingas
move. You spoke about that or I think we spoke about that. They made the Chris Asplosingas
move. I could be wrong, but they made the Chris Asplosingas move and they also signed
him to a two year $60 million contract extension. Pretty much locking them into their roster.
They're way above that second tax floor. Especially when Jalen Brown signs his deal. Jalen Brown
expected to sign his deal, which would be a super max in for without something going
unforeseen. He'll sign his super max. Jalen Brown would sign his next year and they'll
be way above the cap, but they're going for broke. They're going for a title. It's one
of those things where I feel like if they win this year, next year, they sign and trade
poor Zingas out and they just try to retool around Brown and Tatum, but they're going
for broke. Once they're away for two years, you don't hold a title, you blow it up and
you move on. Kind of rebuild it. Boston doesn't usually rebuild, but they did after the reburied
and retired. They did again after the big three was traded to the Nets. That's how they
ended up with Jason Tatum. They did after Bill Russell ultimately retired. They can
rebuild, they just prefer to retool. The Lakers more have a famous 60 retooling as opposed
to rebuilding. I think in two years if the Celtics don't win a title, they just blow
it up. It doesn't suit them to continue to pay a lot of money, especially once you get
past that second luxury tax heaping, just to lose basically. That is something that
the Boston Suburbs should look for. A few people cash in big time contractually. Bruce
Brown signed two years, 45-ish million dollars with the Indiana Pacers. He was thought to
be an MLB contender. He won a rose for a year and 54 deals. It was his first payday, so
he thought he would get that. But it's two years, 45-ish million dollars. There's an
option in the second year, and I can't remember if it's seen by Blair, but there's definitely
an option in that second year. I think it's seen though. Desmond Bain, Lamello Ball, Tyrese
Halliburton, and Anthony Edwards all signed rookie designated extensions. However, Ball,
Halliburton, and Edwards can go up to $260 million. Desmond Bain can go up to $207 million.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's $207 million. Let me double check that one second. Again,
something I should know because I definitely posted it on Justin Times' social media.
Dallas also has Seth Curry. I mean, Dallas Making Moves, they also got Seth Curry. Totally
forgot about that. My apologies to Seth Curry. One second. Desmond Bain. Desmond Bain, yes.
It's five years, 207, because he didn't get the designated match. He's got the rookie
max extension. He didn't get the designated match. Sabonis contract is actually what they
call a renegotiation and extend. The NBA has a clause where in the final year of your contract,
if your team has so much money available, they can do what they call a renegotiation
of your contract. Then you can extend off the new number. You don't have to extend
off the old number. Miles Turner did it last year and kind of knocked him out of a muck
to the trades. He renegotiated way higher than extended off that. Sabonis did it too.
His renegotiation and extension ends up being worth five years, $217 million. Deirdre Rose
is a Grizzly. They were making moves with Marcus Martin. I got Marcus Martin, Deirdre
Rose. That's going to be their step point guards while John Moran gets his life together.
Oh, I forgot to tell you Cam Reddish is a Laker as well in that group. Oklahoma City
Thunder making moves, facilitating trades. They now have just 35 draft picks in the next
seven years. They're going to run into a cap problem so they need to get that figured
out. Anyway, all of that is leading up to what I was about to say. We have a Damian
Lillard who wants to be out of Portland into Miami. We have a James Harden who wants to
be out of Philly and is looking like the Clippers. I made this beautiful trade before that news
came out so I'm going to say that James Harden is available to go anywhere because let's
be honest, Harden wants the Clippers but Harden also wants his money. If a team can trade
for him and he doesn't end up on the Clippers, but let's say he does this trade and he gets
maxed out of his new location or near max, he'll be all right. My trade is a four-team
trade. I may make another one similar. Now that I know Harden wants to put the Clippers,
I'll try to make that work in my trade, but it's a four-team trade. This is just the players.
Whatever pick compensation or swaps, whatever. I don't know. Now, what about that right
now? This is a four-team trade. The Miami Heat is between the Miami Heat, Portland,
Charlie Blazers, New York Knicks, and Philadelphia 76ers. It solves the Dane problem and it solves
the Harden problem all in one fell swoop. The Miami Heat would acquire Damian Lillard.
Based on this, through the NBA trade machine, they say they will increase their win projections
by 12. The Portland Trail Blazers will end up with Tyler Hero, Evan Fornier, and Emmanuel
Quikly. So, what does this does for Portland? It loses seven wins for them, so it puts them
in a better chance to win the lottery. It gives Tyler Hero, who's a very tradeable player,
which is the player I say they may end up bouncing out to, let's say, a Brooklyn. Evan
Fornier is a good vet. Doesn't really need the ball. Not really used to playing either.
You need something for your salary cap floor. And Emmanuel Quikly is a guy you can extend.
So, if you're comfortable playing Scoot and Simons and Dane, Scoot, Simons, and Quikly,
while not being as good, Quikly is a guy you can extend as well. You can have on your team
long term. The New York Knicks would land and then immediately extend James Hart. That
trade for them ups their wins by four, according to the analysis of the trade machine. And then
the Philadelphia 76ers would end up with Duncan Robinson and RJ Barrett. It gives them another
left hand ball hands with score for Joylen B and a knockdown shooter because you lost Seth Curry.
Now you turn Seth Curry into Duncan Robinson. You turn James Hart into a less annoyed RJ Barrett.
And they lose nine wins, however, projection. But I think they would end up with a couple of firsts.
Portland would end up with a bunch of firsts. Miami ends up with no additional picks. New
York may end up with a couple of swaps because New York has like nine charitable firsts. So,
they may end up giving away four of those. The Heat ends up giving their three firsts to Portland.
Swaps fly across the board. Second round picks fly across the board. Whatever. But that is the
gist of the trade. So, like I said, they end up with Miami ends up with Dame. Portland ends up with
Hero Fournier and quickly, Hero probably gets redirected to Brooklyn. New York ends up with,
the Knicks end up with James Harden. And the 76ers end up with RJ Barrett and Duncan Robinson.
So, that is a way for everyone to get kind of what they want. Harden gets a big market and he
gets extended. Dame ends up with Miami. Portland gets picks to build around and charitable assets
like a Tyler Hero. And Philly ends up with RJ Barrett and Duncan Robinson. Duncan Robinson
will play the South Curry. RJ Barrett is 80%, 85% of James Harden these days with a lot less of the
baggage. But up next, we're going to shift to the NFL and talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show. My apologies for the long-winded first segment, but I haven't
talked to you guys in about a month. There was a lot of news I had to get out there. Like I said,
I definitely wanted to highlight that 14 trade in the NBA that I really want to see happen.
And if you guys want to hear more about that, of course, it's back up about five minutes and
you'll be able to get it from the Jump Street. But now we're going to shift into the NFL and
talk about what's happening there. A lot of news surrounding two key free agents. So, the NFL free
agency period, not nearly usually as explosive as the NBA period. Usually it's a lot of teams
because of the stuff like the franchise tag and because of stuff, just the general culture of
football. Usually it's not nearly as explosive as the NBA, not a lot of movement, not from top guys.
The equivalency to a Fred Van Vliet leaving or trying to think of some guy like Kevin Durant
getting traded from Brooklyn or Bradley Beal getting traded from Washington to the Phoenix
Suns in the NFL is like Kirk Cousins getting traded from the Vikings to the insert team here
because they're starting to rebuild. That sort of thing. That doesn't really flow correctly
as well to the NBA as the NFL culture. So, when you get a lot of talent in the NFL, however,
floating around for agency, a lot of these guys end up signing one year deals.
Guys like DeAndre Hopkins. I think DeAndre Hopkins is going to sign a multi-year contract as do I
think Dalvin Cook. But there's guys like Jadevion Clowney, Ezekiel Elliott, Leonard Fornette to name
a few that have not found homes yet that I'm pretty sure are going to sign one year kind of
proving deals. Now, if you're Zeke, you led the league in rushing one year. You've been a pro
bowler. You've been a normal pro. If you're Leonard Fornette, you've got a Super Bowl championship.
You've been a pro bowler. Jadevion Clowney, number one pick in high school prospect in his class,
number one draft pick. Who was supposed to be the other dominant bookie in the DJI.
Injury and some off the field stuff has gotten in the way. But he's a guy that I think is a
12 sack guy waiting on it. Especially in this modern NFL. So a lot of talent out there,
but we're going to focus on DeAndre Hopkins, aka Nuke, aka DeHop and Dalvin Cook. So DeAndre
Hopkins man knew this has been swirling about DeHop probably every day. Probably every day
since he got out of Arizona. And so he was released by Arizona, of course. And now he is
trying to land his next team. And so that's always been kind of interesting because it's one of
situations where it's like, what do you do with DeAndre Hopkins? If you're DeAndre Hopkins,
what do you do? Your whole career, you've been one of the higher paid guys. You really
reset the market so much in football at 33 position that no one's still gotten to your
average annual value yet. You saw that deal years ago. Tyrick Hill with his big extension,
maybe Jamar Chaser, Justin Jefferson passes it. But no one has gotten to it yet.
And so DeAndre Hopkins on May 26th was released by the Arizona Cardinals. He's gone multiple visits.
He went to the Tennessee Titans and the New England Patriots is the two biggest
places he's went. He's also reportedly touched base with the Buffalo Bills. He's also reportedly
touched base with the Kansas City Chiefs. Personally, I'm just going to be honest,
no one wants to see him with the Chiefs. I don't. I don't want to see him with the Chiefs.
That'd be beyond any fair patch in my homes. And as a Patriots fan, I don't want to see him with
the Bills. I think ultimately he lands between the Titans and the Patriots. Now the Titans offer,
a few days ago I reported as well, a couple of other guys that he was deemed as quote unquote
more aggressive. To me, more aggressive signals more guaranteed, fully guaranteed dollars. You
can have guaranteed language in it, especially if it's a multi-year contract. Oh, if you're on the
roster, it's probably the league year. Your sign-up is guaranteed. Or, you know, if you got,
let's say $16 million in 2024, that becomes fully guaranteed. If you're on the roster,
the first day of the league year, if not, it's $5 million. Whatever. You know what I'm saying?
That they can play with the guaranteed language. To me, more aggressive triggers more fully
guaranteed. So when you sign your name on the dotted line, let's say it's for three years,
$600 million, you sign your name on the dotted line, $40 million is fully guaranteed.
That owner has to take that money and put it into escrow. He doesn't have to do that with
guaranteed language money. He has to do it, let's say, at the start of the league year,
he has to put that money in escrow. But he doesn't have to do it when you sign your name.
That's how your signing bonus is a fully guaranteed dollar.
Instead of a fully guaranteed dollars is in the contract. And so I think that's why the Titans
are more aggressive. Also, the Titans know that if Dehop is smart, which I'm going to say he is,
he's going to look around the situation. He's going to say, okay, Julio Jones is going to up a
Titan. Didn't go well for him. AJ Brown starts popping off a receiver and being one of those
dominant guys asked him being a Titan. Randy Moss ended up a Titan. That didn't go well for him.
Jerry Rice, I believe, I've seen a photo of him, ended up a Titan. Didn't go well for him either.
So I know Randy Moss for sure and of course Julio Jones for sure. Ended up extending Titans. That
didn't go well for their careers. They received position. And I personally think Julio and
Randy Moss had better quarterbacks. Ryan Tannehill was a placeholder. Malik Willis, who the team is
thinking about cutting is out playing Will Levis, who the team is thinking about keeping cutting
Willis for. He's out playing Levis right now. I've never believed in Will Levis in college.
His slide in the draft was not surprising to me. It was a little surprising to me because of how
much smoke that the draft analysts pumped out into the sky about what's going to happen with Will
Levis. He was talked about at one point being the second quarterback off the board. It was a lot of
energy for Will Levis. You know he's getting past the radios, all this other stuff. He ended up being
a second round pick to the Titans. Willis played horrible last year and he's out playing Levis.
It's just one of those things that's like, dude, D-Hop, you've made money. I get it. I'm a big
point of view. You never have too much of it. You've made money. Go win. In Houston, when you guys
were starting to figure out how to win, DeAndre Hopkins gets into his nonsense. Patrick Mahomes
shows up. You have him down 24-0 to 99% of quarterbacks ever. The game's over and it wasn't.
Mahomes actually won that game convincingly, going away in the second half. It's ridiculous.
You had him down and you didn't capitalize that. Then after that, you had him down and you didn't
capitalize that. Then after that, the team falls apart. You end up in Arizona with a young guy in
Kyler with the wrong headcoats and Cliff Kingsbury falls apart there. At this point, but you completely
went to the market. They got three years, 81. It was some outrageous, like $27 million, the average
annual value for a receiver when no one else in the league was making $20. It was ridiculous who
he got in Arizona, but he made his money. Now, I look at it from a de-hop perspective of, okay,
the Patriots don't have the best quarterback. That's Patrick Mahomes. If it's purely about
winning, it's easy. Sign on one year, $7 million deal with the Chiefs, go win a Superbowl,
catch 80, 85 pass, Patrick Mahomes for 1,300 yards and 14 touchdowns, and then go into the market and
say the biggest deal wins because I got my ring card. You can go through the bills. You list the
fond days of the best duo on football, Bar None. It passes to me because me, Chase and Higgins is
the best duo right now. Just one and two receiver. I can't think of anybody better than Chase and
Higgins. Jefferson and Thielen had a case, but Thielen's gone now. So Chase and Higgins are the
best duo in the league, in my opinion, top of my head kind of thing. Williams and Allen have a case
in Los Angeles. Travis Kelsey and Tyree Hill, though Kelsey's technically not a receiver. That
was the best duo, but whatever. Wildo and Hill have a case in Miami, but to me, up top of my brain,
Higgins and Chase is the best duo. You go to Buffalo, you're the best duo. To me, de-hop is
top three. Diggs is top five. Or Diggs and de-hop are both top six. You got two of the top six receivers
in the league. So at that point, Josh Allen has Dalton Kincaid. He has a smaller cook, a young
James Cook. De-hop and Diggs, that's Gabe Davis. That's just asking for a recipe of, again, a
situation. You can go there, two years, or one year, $8 million, another $5 million in unreachable
incentives, fully guarantee the $8 million and go play football kind of thing. And then again,
I win my ring, now I go to the market. What's up? What about Cincinnati? Cincinnati has to do
something with these young guys. Chase is going to get his money. So who's leaving Higgins a boy?
I think it's boy. Burrows used to have three people. I say you call up somebody who needs a
receiver, you trade them Tyler Boyd with a third round pick, you give de-hop boy, whatever boy
Tyler is, plus a little extra on the back end, you have Chase, de-hop, and Higgins. There's
most two ways I think de-hop can go, but let's just stick with the Patriots-Titans angle.
The Patriots, the obvious choice. They got the better quarterback, they're more stable,
they have a better football team. And the Patriots are a really weird lateral to Chandler Jones away,
or Ramon J. Stevenson goal line fumbled away from being in the playoffs last season. Either or.
So with a defensive, not even great coordinator, not even a great defensive coordinator calling
offensive plays as the OC, and then the special teams coordinator, foreign special teams coordinator,
who's a horrible head coach and Joe Drudge, as the quarterback coach. It just wasn't, it wasn't
beneficial to Mac Jones at all, and yet they still put together a pretty decent offensive season.
Which is why I say de-hop needs to be in New England. Bill O'Brien is there. Ringing the bells?
Bill O'Brien was the head coach in Houston when de-hop was lighting up the universe. Bill O'Brien
is there. Bill O'Brien was Mac Jones offensive coordinator. They have a good running back,
which they didn't really have in Houston. Aaron Foster kind of fell off when he went vegan, and
says many probably shouldn't say it, but fell off and went vegan. Got some injuries out of the league
very shortly. They've got, I'm gonna do some shoes for now, they've got a couple of weapons that they
kind of spread. They've got Mike Gusecki, Hunter Henry, you know, they put in the other offensive
line in New England. The defense is over there, like it's a much better situation in New England,
and your head coach is better. Wanna know how I know? The head coach of Tennessee played for
the head coach of New England. I mean, so, um, that I'm from de-hop, and I have those two choices,
I'm a New England Patriot. Two year, math, big money, or a three year, pretty decent money,
with a lot of guarantees and some of the incentives in it. Um, is how I kind of picture the deal in my
head. Um, so that is how I go from de-hop. From Dalvin Cook, the exact opposite advice. I want the
bag. I'm a running bag. I want the biggest bag I can get. De-hop's made a hundred million dollars
in contracts, or just about a hundred million dollars in contracts. He's made his money.
Dalvin Cook's rookie contract, and then he got like half the second contract, and he was out.
So, from Dalvin Cook, I want the best possible bag I can get with the most winning possible.
What does that mean? So, for team, let's say it's Miami. They offer us seven million dollars a year,
two years, two years, 18 million dollars, 12 million for the guarantee. We're gonna win in Miami.
We're gonna put up yards. We're gonna put up a track to Miami, because Miami's built
with that zone run scheme to put up numbers. Two is gonna be there, hopefully. Wreak and waddle
below the top of every defense they've ever seen. You know what I'm saying? You have a chance to be
really, really, really special as the running back there, because you have a lot of space to operate.
So, somebody like Carolina may go two years, 22, but Carolina's not gonna win anything.
But, you're a running bag. You need to get as much money as possible. That's why I don't think it's
realistic for DeHop and Darwin to go together, because Darwin said he wants to be with DeHop.
The problem is, there's no feasible location they can land. Ironically, the only place I can think
of off the top of my head is either Houston or Arizona, two of DeHop's former teams. Because
Arizona doesn't have a running back in the building, and they don't really have a number one receiver,
DeHop's gone. Houston traded in a number one receiver way to Brandon Cooks to the Dallas Cowboys,
and they don't have a running back like Michael Pierce, I think, is in a running back like.
So, it's two of DeHop's former organizations. I'm trying to think of any other potential locations.
Kansas City couldn't pay either one of them, but they'd take them both, but they couldn't pay either
one of them. So, I mean, then Kansas City got put check out, and they're trying to figure out what
to do with Cardiff with DeLayer. So, to me, it's unrealistic for them to try to play together.
I just think that it would be dope if they could. That's a hell of a one-two frequency punch. That's
like, you know, getting two stars in the NBA at one time. That's a hell of a one-two punch.
As far as offensive talent, I just don't think it's feasible because I think DeHop's gonna go for
a mix, or should go for rather, a mix of bag and winning, but leaning toward more of the winning.
And I think Davin Cook should be focused on his bag, and if wins, come spectacular.
Because again, he's a running back, so he can get the most fully guaranteed dollars when he signs
his name, should be the place he goes. Probably perfect landing spot for both. From a football
perspective, it's the Chiefs, for both of them. From a, in terms of what they need to do to win
championship, it's the Chiefs for both of them. From a numbers perspective, Davin Cook,
to Buffalo, DeAndre Hopkins, to New England. From a bag perspective, Davin Cook, to, oh wait,
wait, wait, wait, wait, Davin Cook to probably Miami, and DeHop to New England, or Tennessee.
I'm sorry, DeHop to Tennessee. So, it's just, I'm saying, there's no really way, but I say both go
to the Chiefs or both go to the Bills, where their lives really can cross for what they should go
for, given their positional and contractual value. But, I think it's the Chiefs, and both
and contractual value. Given their positional value and their contractual history, I just don't see,
besides like I said, besides them both ring chasing in New England, or both ring chasing in Buffalo,
I don't really see a spot where they can land together and produce, and get financial gain from
it as well. Speaking of a future that apparently is uncertain, Bill Belichick, according to the
Boston Globe, his future is unclear, according to a few, his job security rather, is unclear according
to some close friends of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. I talked about this yesterday
on Twitter. He's won six Super Bowls, been to eight as a Patriots head coach. He's won eight total.
He's two as a defensive coordinator as a New York Giants. This to me feels like one of those
stories that comes out to make the movie. Right? Belichick, age 71, I think. Friends don't know
about his future. Organization was trying to push him out the back door. He can't win without Tom.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he wins the Super Bowl. And that's how the video starts. Remember
when Tom Brady put out the video right after they won? A bunch of Nick Wright saying he was old.
He heard everything based on the video. I think he even said, I heard everything. He had Shannon
in it, Nick Wright in it. He had ESPN in it. Anybody who he was a major voice that spoke
publicly about him, anti him, anti his aid, anti his team, he put it all in the video.
But basically the message is like, I heard it and thank you for the motivation. I think this is a
motivational tactic. Kind of a, okay, how many who bite this? Because the Patriots believe in
bulletin board material. Everyone does, but the Patriots are known for bulletin board material.
To me all year, this is the bulletin board material. It should be outside and right
into the door of his office with the Boston Globe headline that reads Belichick's future uncertain.
Like that should be inside of his door. That's the kind of motivation he feeds on. That's kind
of how I took it. I think Belichick walks when Belichick decides to walk. I don't see Robert
Kraft ever forcing him out of the back door. And so I think he walks when Belichick decides to walk.
But it's one of those situations, one of those stories where someone's going to have to answer
for it somewhere. And I think it's something, it's a distraction piece. It's something people
run with in the middle of July. We're in camp for a month before camp, two months before camp,
whatever. We don't play a football game for two months. So it's a real football game,
not the preseason. But we don't play a real football game for two months. So I think it's
one of those things which is run with the story because it's interesting. It's got some legs to
it. 71 years old, not the best success without Brady. Got some legs too, let's run it. So kudos
to the Boston Globe for running it. Whatever source they got, I commend them as well. But I
just don't think it has much legs to it, if at all. Quinan Williams got the bag. Four years and
98 million dollars. With 66 million dollars in guarantee language in the contract. So
congratulations to Quinan Williams. His brother is also on the Jets, got paid three years,
18 million dollars this year. So both of them are set to life. I'm sure Quinan will help his
brother whatever they need to. But I'm sure they're not doing the Morris twin trick with the Morris
twin, put all their money in one account. But 18 million dollars, probably get another contract
in the league. And Quinan of course got the 98 million dollar contract. So shout out to both of them.
And then some quick hitters. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have brought back the Creamsicle
uniforms. They will debut them this season. They will only wear them one time against the Detroit
Lions. Remember, served me correctly. Alvin Kamara, the New Orleans Saints, his case has been settled.
If you guys remember 2022, he was involved in a domestic incident. Not domestic incident, a,
well, I guess an incident in Las Vegas, where he was seen on video, allegedly, I'm gonna use that
word to avoid lawsuit purposes, allegedly assaulting a gentleman in Las Vegas. The guy sued,
no criminal charges, or criminal charges were filed. The guy sued and Alvin Kamara ultimately
pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of breach of peace. And he will have to do community service,
along with paying a hundred thousand dollars in fines towards the victims medical bills.
And then now he awaits his decision from the NFL regarding what suspension, if any, I'm sure there
will be, will come down. The New York Jets have been selected for hard knocks officially. I spoke
about that on Twitter weeks ago, but it just became official yesterday. Remember, served me
correctly. Aaron Rodgers was not even pleased about it. He was saying that hard knocks were
shoved down their throat, but now they got to deal with it. But they're the most interesting team,
and they were the obvious pick. Now the Lions reportedly was willing to accept it for a second
year in a row, if no one stepped up. But the NFL chose the Jets. They're in New York. They have
Aaron Rodgers at quarterback and it dominated most of the off season headlines with all of a
sudden all these Packer players and Aaron Rodgers friends all of a sudden being, you know, Jets.
And so that's something I'm sure they're going to bring up. You see Aaron Rodgers in, Nathaniel
Hackett's in, Robert Salas in year two, Zach Wilson's Brittany Leung from the starting job,
Sal's Gardner, who many people are beginning to claim is the best corner in the league, is not
entering year two. You see a lot of the Gary Wilson, Bruce Hall coming right from injury,
McKay Beckton trying to lose weight, also coming back from injury, Eliza Veratucka and the rest of
that O-line trying to figure that out. Quinnian Williams fresh off his big bag, his agent Nicole
Lynn, who was the first black female NFL agent. When she got, we got the Jalen Kurtz contract,
she tweeted out something on the lines of, has anyone seen a Brinks truck trying to locate one?
And then she quoted it after the Quinnian Williams did one public and said, don't worry,
I found another one. So kudos to her as well. But you know, all these different storylines in the
deck and this is off the top of my head. I'm not even thinking about anybody on defense. I don't
know what that means on defense so far as sauce. Like this is going to be very interesting hard
knocks. So I'm excited about that. But they have some competition because Netflix has a released
quarterback. This is amazing. Like this is these, this is hard knocks level access voluntarily
though. So hard knocks sometimes guys when they do the interview, they kind of snippy or whatever
during the thing because they really don't want to do it. It's good for a young guy with a brand
like sauce. Oh my God. If he markets himself right, he's going to be a superstar after this.
You know, I'm thinking about a Quinnian Williams, a big personality, a sauce.
I like Mackay Beckton could be one of those guys that could really turn his own narratives. Like
if you're a guy who's either a big personality or can turn on the can work a media room,
oh, hard knocks is perfect for you because this is your chance to do it pretty much unabated.
Quarterback was done voluntarily. And if you guys don't know, if you guys haven't watched it yet,
I'm halfway through episode two myself. And as a person who grew up wanting to play NFL
quarterback, this is like the most all access look besides hard knocks. And that's not really
centered around the quarterback that's centered around the team and you just hear the quarterback
stuff. And of course they're very protective and I'm sure these guys had final edit rights to it.
Or at least it seemed the episode had to approve certain content. Whatever. I'm 99% sure of that.
But this is the most all access look. It's actually so crazy like her cousins in it in the preview
they show for it says like, this is the closest that people ever get. Like they, you're not NFL
quarterback. This is the closest you'll ever get to being besides, you know, of course, CFL, XFL,
whatever, but this is the closest you'll ever get to being the NFL quarterback. And it's,
and it's dope. And I always, those three guys, they're all into the year starters.
The other three quarterbacks are Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Mark and Mary Yoda.
And they found them all and they followed them all three of them last year. They're micing their mics.
Anytime they tap their chest, you can hear the mic in their chest plate. They're miced up during the game.
Patrick Mahomes went crazy on Max Crosby in week one. I mean episode one, I'm sorry.
We've seen Marcus Marriota. I mean, I'm on X, I'm only episode and a half in. We've seen Marcus
Marriota's wife's ultrasound. We hear how they've all met their wives. We hear how
we're seeing their daily life. We're seeing like we've been through Kirk Cousins' house and all his
memories. We've talked about how Patrick Mahomes and his wife met. We've talked about different
things. I think of Marcus Marriota's background being from Hawaii and a Polynesian player and
winning the Heisman and how he was pretty much disgusted being back in the universe to watch
him because it is a rival of Oregon. And I mean, it was just, I mean, there's all the stuff you see
and it's only the first episode and a half. And it's kind of cool because you see it at all three
levels. You see the best quarterback in the league of Patrick Mahomes. His life as a quarterback is
effectively perfect. He is 27, he turns 27 during the show. During this season, he's going to get
his second two bull ring, his second, third MVP. Like he's on a trajectory as a quarterback to be
the greatest, right? Kirk Cousins is in the middle, upper middle, but he's in the middle.
And I would say Kirk Cousins is the top 10 quarterback. I don't know why, because Kirk Cousins
usually in a ranking goes from 10 to 15. The names above him change, the names below him change,
but he usually hangs out anywhere from 10 to 12. I actually had a friend of mine
who's in this space as well. But actually I am a friend of mine. He used to say the NFL is a bunch
of Kirk Cousins and now it's gotten pretty popular on TikTok. He didn't put it on social media. He
probably should have, but it's gotten pretty popular on TikTok that the NFL is just a bunch
of Kirk Cousins. You know, there's fast Kirk Cousins and skinny Kirk Cousins and tall Kirk Cousins,
but Kirk Cousins is actually a pretty good quarterback and the NFL is a bunch of variations
of him, kind of like in the multi-version of the NFL. And he's got a lot of good
players, kind of like in the multi-verse. If Kirk Cousins' life went a different way, whatever,
he'd be that person. That's pretty much how it's set up to be, right? That's pretty much how Kirk,
you know, Kirk's a pretty good quarterback. He's a guy who's routinely, to me he's top 10 because
everybody gets compared to him for the most part. If you blind resume his numbers, blind resume his
performance, he ends up better than a lot of people who in their minds are better. That's why
I say he's a top 10 quarterback, right? And then you got Marcus Mariota who had the number, you know,
Paxman-Holmes wasn't the first pick. Kirk Cousins was the fourth round pick drafted behind the second
pick in the same draft. Marcus Mariota was the number two overall pick in his draft.
It's on his third team. He loses his job during this, like you get to see all three levels. You
get to see my Holmes go to the Super Bowl. Mariota lose his job and Kirk Cousins have a
pretty good year. Which Kirk Cousins always does, right? And so you get the three perspectives of
professional quarterbacking. Two world champion MVP, MVP of the season, lost his job and is trying
to find another one. Average, a pretty good solid year Pro Bowl level player lose the playoff game
go home. You know what I'm saying? And it's a pretty dope, like I said, I'm hooked on it.
I pretty much the only thing stopping me from watching is that I want to talk to you guys again.
And so that is a pretty, pretty amazing, great content so far. Up next, we're going to shift
to best for last, what's going to be the arrival of Victor Wayne Bagnon.
Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to go into best for last, discussing San Antonio
Spurs number one overall draft pick. The seven foot three and a half, a barefoot seven foot five
in shoes. Big man, not a center forward apparently, Victor Win Benyama's arrival in the NBA summer
league. So of course, Wimby, as he's popularly called, I call him Vic, but whatever. I'm going
to go with Wimby for the same purpose of that's what he's called. So that's what I'm going to call
but Wimby of course, came over here with his French team, Metropolitan 92. The way the G
league night, he averaged like 40 in those games, hit all kind of one foot threes and pulled up and
just absolutely dominated. And so many people thought myself included, well, I myself included
at first, he would come over in the summer league and do the same thing. Go get 30, get 30 again,
shut him down kind of thing. But an hour and a half before the game, something changed. I changed.
I didn't mind saying, you know, the first two minutes is going to tell us because at first you
could have been told me he wasn't going to get 30 points, eight rebounds, block five shots, hit like
four or five, three, just rolling up and down the summer league court. Right. And so the first two
minutes is going to tell us, because I remember Brian Winhorse saying, Wimby will have stretches,
even in France, Feeble ball, whatever, he'll have stretches of four or five minutes, well, he doesn't
do much. Kind of going on the court. He may make a layup, may block a shot, but he's not going to be
a dominating force. And then he'll have four or five minutes where he's 16.6 rebounds, two, three
blocks, a couple of great passes. You know, he's a superstar. So after the first couple of minutes
to tell us, I'm like, if he's aggressive early, he makes his first couple of threes, you may get a
35, 40 point up event. I'm like, if he comes on, he's sluggish, he's slow and he's just not there
all the way, we may get 8.9 point of it, you know, just because it's one of those situations where he
is a guy that can be sluggish and slow. And I was watching the first game and I broke down all four
halves of his summer league career on my Twitter and Facebook as well. As I was watching it,
said to myself, this is an environment for him. And I was trying to figure out what was the
difference between the first summer league game and the games against G League Knight.
Let's start off with style of play. The G League Knight doesn't have the raw athleticism as some
of the, not Scoot Henderson's there, but like something like Kai Jones dunked on. No one on
G League ain't going to do that. Also, Stylist, he spoke about it. He said in America, people are
flying. I thought he meant flying as in like running fast, but he literally means flying. He
was like in Europe, it's a slower game, people on the ground. He said slower game, more physical,
people on the ground, where they get fired a lot more, whatever. He said over here, people are
flying and the game is so fast. Threes are coming up from everywhere, et cetera. Now, that's one
difference. Two, the teams he was on. He was on the Spurs summer league team versus Metropolitan
92. Metropolitan 92 was a real team. They had Trimla Water, they had his teammate Bilal Kula Bali.
They had guys who, it was a basketball team. They ran plays, they ran sets, they got Victor in
certain spots. They knew what they wanted to do. They were used to playing with Victor.
That's how they were playing basketball. For the summer league team, those guys trying to get
a roster spot. The only person on that team that played in the summer league that's guaranteed a
roster spot is Victor Wimbayama and Champagne. I think he's going to have a four year dose. He's
going to be on the roster, but out of the 12 people on the team, two of them have roster spots,
Champagne and Victor. Everybody else is very easily cuttable, very easily G-league or worse.
If it came down to I'm one on one, I have a shot, I'm going to swing the ball to Victor in the post,
I'm going to shoot it. If I make it, that could be a remembrance moment. I know pops at these
games. I know staff at these games. I know these fans are watching, probably half the known worlds
watching basketball wise. This is an opportunity for me to either make an NBA roster, a G-league
roster, or to get a good European or Chinese contract, or Australian contract. This is my
chance. I'm going to take this shot. I get it for two on one or three on two fast break. If I got
an angle, I'm going to go for the layup. I'm not going to throw the lock to Victor. I'm going to
take this opportunity. Number two. Number three, that's pressure like no one's ever seen.
For a month, two months, the kid's been compared to everybody. Kareem, LeBron, KD,
name a tall skinny person, Dirk. Anthony Davis, people were saying by year two he's KD plus 80.
That's ridiculous. It's pressure. Zion was the first player to ever sell out
and it wasn't directly to his game, but it was one of those only game that made sense. Zion,
when he came into the NBA from Duke to the Pelicans, sold out the summer they did before.
Games have been days have been ultimately sell out, but not the day before.
Victor became the second player to ever do it. Victor sold two games out because Zion only played
nine minutes in the first one, bumped knees, was out of the game after he stole the Waffle
Care but not dunked it. There was an earthquake. Lots of happened that day. Victor sold out two
days because he played two days later and he sold the second day out too. That's pressure like no
one ever seen before. He spoke about he was tired. He had a fatigue issue. He hadn't put out a
basketball. He'd only practiced with the team two days prior to going to Vegas. He said basically
for a month, since his French season ended, he barely played basketball for a month, month and
a half. It's not something he's usually doing. He's a very routine kid and they did it that way on
purpose. He's been trained and raised that way. He's a very routine. They can care about his sleep.
They care about his diet and things of that nature. You kind of got a rough performance.
Shots didn't go in. He blocked the ball well, but he kind of got a rough scoring performance.
Had a couple of moments. Game two, he got an opportunity to get kind of in a routine.
Okay. Another day of practice. He got sleep in. He turned out a Michael Rubin party. He got his
sleep in. He got his mind right. He got a little bit more used to the NBA style-ish, NBA-ish style
of play up and down and up in the air. He dominated game two. It wasn't a 50-point. It wasn't even a
40-point, but he had, he knocked out threes, pull-up, jumpers, tip dunks to himself, block shots,
laid the ball up. That was more of Wimby Yama. Now, he's going to have some issues. He's trying to
dribble. Chet Holmgren does it too. I don't get it. I know they're seven feet. Chet's like seven
one. Wimby's like seven five. They're big guys. For their size, their handle's amazing, but when
that ball comes down, it equals out the height because it's got to come back up. That's a long
time to come back up. Now, you see Chet's crouched over a little bit trying to dribble. Wimby is
low for his size trying to dribble, but he's still got so much time for that ball to come back up.
He tried to go in lane multiple times dribbling and lost the ball. They're going to have to work
on him with that in the summer. He's going to have to get a real handle because it's going to work
with him on how to get really, really low if that's what he wants to do. He's listed as a forward,
not a forward center, not a center. I'm sure he's going to be on the perimeter a lot this year,
especially that first year where he's working while he adds his muscle. They're not going to
want to get him beat up too, too badly. I'm sure he'll be spaced out from the rim at a pretty decent
distance. All in all, I'd say I was very impressed by game two. Game two looked a lot like
the Wimby that played against G League United for Metropolitan's 92,
especially when somebody's senior in the French League. It looked a lot like that second game.
I'm very excited for his arrival. I'm very excited for him to be in the NBA.
He's another one of those European guys that in two, three years will be like, oh, he's top five.
Then the whole top five is European guys. I'm very excited for him. Popovic signs a five-year
eight in me in all our contract attention right after his first game. He's already had an incident
with a celebrity. He's being Americanized pretty quickly. Kudos to the Spurs for landing their
next superstar. Kudos to the Yama for handling the bad first game with all the pressure with a
pretty great second game. Then of course, the Spurs shut him down. We're not going to see him
again on the court until game one in the Spurs uniform. I'm sure we'll have all the cameras,
all the media attention around the world for his first NBA game. That is all I have for you today.
Thank you guys for rocking out with me. Like I said, you guys are the best. I'm going to be
getting this tomorrow morning. I recorded this Friday evening. You guys get this tomorrow morning.
Shout out to Brandon Ganescu for setting the NBA and WNBA record for most points in a three-point
shootout. I found a round with 37. She only missed two shots or three shots. The whole round, crazy
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