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Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast. I am your host, Justin

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Jackson. In this week's episode, we'll be discussing the NBA, what's going on in the

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Welcome in to the show. It has been a long time, about a month. You guys hear this, it

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will be about a month since I last recorded. It took a decent break. It was supposed to

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be a couple of weeks, guys. Perfect transparency, which I wasn't really feeling up for the past

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couple of weeks. I wanted to get definitely. It seemed like every time I wanted to record,

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to go back to our once a week schedule. Took a nice break. Like I said, about a four week

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there. But let's jump right into this. We're going to jump right into the NBA and talk

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about what's going down there. It is free agency period. And of course, it kicks off

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June 30th and the money went flying. Rich Paul made his clients about $600 million in

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the first week. He himself, of course, that 3%, he made $18 million in about a week. So

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kudos to Rich Paul. We had massive trades go down. We had Chris Paul getting traded

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from the Phoenix Suns to the Washington Wizards. And we're going to start off, actually we're

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going to start off with staying in Phoenix for a minute. I'm going to start off with

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Matt Ispia. Matt Ispia, if you've never heard of him, he's the recent owner, the newest

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owner in the NBA. He's been owning the Phoenix Suns of the NBA and the Phoenix Mercury of

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the WNBA for all of about six months at this point. He bought in, obviously after Robert

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Sarver, the investigation into the Suns practices as far as how they treat people, racism and

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things other things of that nature. Robert Sarver was forced to sell and therefore he

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sold to Matt Ispia who's in the mortgage lending business by trade. Similar to Dan Gilbert

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who has Rocket Mortgage. That's why the Cleveland Cavaliers arenas are Rocket Mortgage arenas

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instead of the Quicken Loans arenas like it was in Lebron's day because Dan Gilbert sponsors

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his own arena basically. So Ispia came in, 29 out of 30 owners approved it. Dan Gilbert

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actually didn't vote and he refused himself due to a potential lack of, potential bias.

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I couldn't think of the word I was looking for but potential bias towards Ispia because

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they are in the same business and they bumped heads in the business world. And so he refused

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himself from voting on if Ispia should be an NBA owner due to this. So I actually respect

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Dan Gilbert for that. He's actually seems to be a lot better at least publicly of a

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person ever since the Comic Sans letter against Lebron his exit. So kudos to him for that.

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But anyway Ispia gets in about 6 months. What does he do basically? Immediately he starts

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spending money. He gets very aggressive very quickly. He makes sure that he has Kevin Durant

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locked in. He booms the Kevin Durant trade. Shots the entire NBA. It's right after Kyrie

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is traded, forces his way to Dallas. He booms the NBA, drops a lot of the Suns preacher

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assets off and grabs Kevin Durant. Goes through the rest of the season with that. He comes

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out of the season, he decides to part ways with Monty Williams. Very highly respect the

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coach. Monty Williams goes and gets a $100 million contract from the Detroit Pistons

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along with some of the benefits for his wife. So kudos to Monty and the Pistons for getting

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that done. But he parts ways with Monty Williams, he brings in Frank Vogel. Immediately the

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question starts to run. So now that we know that James Jones has won the power struggle

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in the organization between him and Monty Williams along with Monty clashing heads with

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some of the players, Gondra, Aiden specifically. What's going to be the situation in Phoenix

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now with Matt Ishby under his helm? Does he continue to spend? Because as we know this

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off season and it kind of speaks to a lot of the free agent deals, looking at how they're

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actually structured, a lot of them kept in mind the new second tax floor. Which if you

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guys don't know, the luxury tax now has two floors. So it had one floor, the people just

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blew past it, it didn't matter, it didn't care. Now there's a second luxury tax floor

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that's very very, it penalizes teams as they do it. Like it hurts. Now it's increased money

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you have to spend on per tax dollar, it restricts your second round picks trade, you cannot

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use cash in a deal, you have to go dollar for dollar in a trade, you have to go player

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for player and dollar for dollar in a trade. Like it basically, if you blow past the second,

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if you one dollar over into the second tax floor, that's your roster. It's almost impossible

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to flip. If you're going to do something, the NBA has gotten so popular now with trading

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second round picks. To me second round picks aren't valuable in the NBA. At least they

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weren't for a very very long time because most people thought a late first round pick

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was not valuable. You know, like it wasn't worth, if you weren't getting a pick in the

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lottery, you wanted to trade your pick because it wasn't worth it to you. But now we've seen

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so many, this team gave up four second round picks and that team gave up five second round

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picks. You saw these massive trades now with like second round picks. Like the same five

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second round picks got moved around in like a span of three or four days. You know, some

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second round picks have become popular now. Well, you can't even use those in a deal.

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So most people thought that Phoenix is either going to have to have no bench or MadHB has

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to decide screw it. I've got Kevin Durant who's in his mid thirties and I'm just going

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to go for broke. Whatever. I'm a new owner. I got a lot of money. I'm going to go for

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broke. I'm just going to go for it. And that's what he decided to do. He brings in a Frank

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Vogel, defensive minded head coach who led the Lakers to the championship in the bubble.

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And then he goes and makes the big trade for Bradley Bill. Okay. This Bradley Bill trade,

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as we know, ships Chris Paul to the Washington Wizards. And the Bradley Bill, that was the

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big context to make the money work. And then they added filler. Chris Paul, when he got

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traded to the Wizards, he never really spoke about, he was doing a media tour actually

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for his new book. And he never really spoke about being in Washington, playing in Washington

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with. Back from Washington, Chris Piper was interviewing him. Brian Windhorse was the

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main one I listened to. Kept being like, I don't think you're ever going to play in Washington.

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Like, I don't think you're ever going to play one dribble in Washington. It didn't make

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sense for the Washington Wizards. Either you're going to redirect Chris Paul immediately or

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you're going to trade him a trade-off and get a massive trade exception. It does you

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no good to have Chris Paul on your roster all season because he's going to win you some

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games he shouldn't. You're going to be paying 30s of the million dollars and you could probably

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use Chris Paul as a fat expiring contract to get a piece. And Washington's in a situation

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they were trying to rebuild and it made no sense to have Chris Paul. Turns out, Chris

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Paul immediately gets redirected, it took a couple days, but he gets redirected to the

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Golden State Warriors for Jordan Poole. Which, for the Wizards, makes ideal sense. Jordan

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Poole, with only having a share of the ball with Kyle Kuzma, is probably going to screw

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you 25 points a game. He may get 27 or 28 points a game because he's going to get 25,

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26 shots a game. 10 to 12 of them are going to be threes. You know what I'm saying? He's

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going to get 25 to 28 points a game. He's probably an all-star at Washington because

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him and Kyle Kuzma are the only ones that are really going to be shooting the ball.

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Danny Advia, I don't know about him, I can't even name anybody else on the Wizards roster.

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Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole are going to be the ones shooting the ball. From Golden State's

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perspective, I don't get it. Especially knowing now what we know now like games available.

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If you're Golden State, why didn't you go get Bradley Bill? In my mind, why didn't I

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say, okay, Washington, we'll do Jordan Poole to first, Jonathan, either Kaminga or Moody,

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and then you can have four seconds. You know what I'm saying? You go get Bradley Bill.

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Now that's a move. If they were to have done that, I would understand. Because then at

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that point, you would say, okay, Klay Thompson, look, we love you. You're no longer starting

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on this team. It's Steph, it's Bill, it's Wiggins, it's Dre, and it's Looney. That's

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a move for Washington. It's a move for Golden State that makes sense. The biggest move is

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what do you do with... Dames of Dames popped out available. Dames from Oakland. Steph,

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Dames, Klay, Dre, Looney. You probably... I mean, whatever. But you do some combination

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where Dames available. You may not have to trade Wiggins to Golden State. Wiggins to

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pull to make the money work. But Dames available. Trade Poole and Wiggins for a Dames, Nerkets

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maybe, and a bevy of firsts. Come back, you throw it in some seconds. Whatever, you make

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it work. Dames available. Now Golden State's in a position where what's Chris going to

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do? Chris is going to come off the bench. He's 1600 games in, he's 1600 games starts.

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He's never come off the bench. Neither... Klay hasn't for a decade, Dre hasn't for a decade.

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Steph, I'm not even bringing Steph up. And Wiggins, Chris can't do what Wiggins can do.

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I don't understand the trade for Golden State. They're printing jerseys, they've introduced

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him like he's going to be a warrior this year. When he was traded to the Warriors, he began

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to think about, oh yeah, he's talked to them team about how to partner to win a title.

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They're working together in this situation. I don't necessarily get it, but hey. Let's

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go to Golden State Warriors side of the deal. They got older and smaller. Granted, they

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come off Chris' contract in a year. They didn't have to pay Jordan Poole that four-year, 140

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contract, which by the way, I said was a bad contract, but his Jordan Poole fans didn't

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listen to me. As another Warriors, remember when they were saying Dre mon spoke about

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his podcast, the Warriors were trying to do something that was hard to do, right? And

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it was to be old and go win a title and develop youth. The quote unquote success story out

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of that was supposed to be Jordan Poole. Oh yeah, okay. We already traded Weisman. Moody

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sucks. I'm just being honest. He's not at NBA level. That didn't work. Kaminga's fine,

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but kind of a one or two tool kind of player. Not really a guy you build around. So the

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youth moment missed except for Jordan Poole. When Steph's not in, he's 25 a night, 140

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million dollar contract. Like it works. And then get dumped him because of this new second

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luxury tax floor, which by the way, the Warriors are one of the team it targeted along with

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the Clippers and now the Suns. You dumped Jordan Poole for old Chris Paul. I don't understand

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that logic. In my view, well, you had to move them because of Dre Mon Grein's punch, which

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by the way doesn't happen to an older set. See him? Like you tried to thread this needle.

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That's why nobody does it. It's not because it's hard to, it's not just because it's

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hard to win and develop. It's hard to mix the old guard with the new guys trying to

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move the old guard out the way. And if some of the rumors stuff Jordan Poole said to Dre

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Mon was said, that's something he wouldn't say. That's something of 30 year old wouldn't

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say to Dre Mon as opposed to a hot brash 23, 24 year old who knows in about four to five

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months, $140 million come my way. Like it's already in escrow. It's already in an account

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and just going to draw to me every couple of weeks. I have an MBA can pay every week,

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whatever. Like that's different. Right. And so from a chemistry standpoint, the Warriors

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had to do what they had to do. Now we've gotten out of that business, the sons Warriors business.

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Let's move into the big piece of what I want to talk about. And of course you got teams

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like the Mavericks are making moves. So we're going to, we're going to go forward and then

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go backwards. We're going to come back to Damon Hart and I want to end with them because

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I have a trade proposal that solves the MBA period. It solves the MBA right now as it

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sits. Everyone's going to leave happy. No one's going to be upset. You may have to tinker

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with it, maybe redirect a guy or two. If, but I'll explain that later. Right. We'll go

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forward to go back. So a few teams have been making moves in this agency. Obviously I haven't

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talked to you guys off agency. So we're going to, like I said, tinker with some teams. We're

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going to talk about some teams that made a couple of moves in free agency, right? But

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we made a couple of moves in free agency, my apologies. And then discuss those teams.

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So the first thing I want to talk about quickly is Dallas Mavericks. They made a couple of

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sweet moves. They resigned Kyle Irvin three years, $120 million. His mom negotiated the

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contract. She becomes the first black female agent ever to start to finish negotiating

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the MBA contract. Kyrie also ends up with ANTA five year massive money. It becomes creative

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director. So now Kyrie Irvin has the ability to sign people to the ANTA Kyrie Irvin line.

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Sort of like how Jordan can sign. So Jordan is a subsidiary of Nike. Jordan isn't his

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own company. Kyrie Irvin now is going to be able to sign people to wear Kyries. So that's

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pretty dope. And also the Mavs get Grant Williams from the Boston Celtics. I'm a signing trade.

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He ends up netting a four year $54 million deal. One of those mid level exception contracts.

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And then they signed Dante Exum, former lobby pick up the jazz a few years ago. Ultimately

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flamed out and Utah didn't really work. They went overseas. Actually just finished coming

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off, I believe an Italian championship. And they put in an offer sheet from Matisse Thiebaud

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three years, $33 million. But that was matched by the Portland Trail Blazers. So Thiebaud

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is still in Portland. Which Portland's confusing me, but we'll talk about them in a couple

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of minutes. The Eastern Rockets with their new head coach, Emea Adoka. They made a few

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moves most notably financial wise, committing about $210 million to Fred Van Vliet and Dylan

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Brooks. Fred Van Vliet's deal is on paper, it's three years, $130 million. But the first

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two years are guaranteed. The third year is a team option. So it's really two years, $84

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million. And the third year is a team option. Dylan Brooks however, who many people thought

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after the grisly disaster and the public persona getting smashed and his public relations going

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into the toilet, many people thought that Dylan Brooks would be another one of those mid level

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exception guys. Four years, 54 was the common number for those MLE guys to get the max amount

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of money. Why attract yourself into a contract like that? It gets fishy dynamically. But

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four years, 54 was pretty much what people thought he was going to get. He ends up going

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four years, 84 with the Houston Rockets and that can be incentivized up to 90. So great

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for his agent, great for Dylan Brooks personally. He Brooks himself likens the Rockets down

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to the grisly of about two, three years ago. He was like, Oh, I look at Jalen Green, I

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see Young Ja, I look at Sengoon and Jabari Smith and I see Jaren Jackson. He was saying

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he was just pointing out all these similarities with the Young Rockets as opposed to now the

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former Young Grizzlies, Eme Adoka and Taylor Jenkins. It's kind of like this organization

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that had success in the past. The Houston Rockets had a chemilogy one obviously, but they had

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the James Harden years. They were consistently in the playoffs. The James Harden and Chris

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Paul year were there. Chris Paul hamstring away from potentially the NBA finals. And

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then of course the Memphis Grizzlies have the Grindhouse years. They have other stuff

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in their past, but their most recent past is the Grindhouse years with Z-Bo and Tony

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Allen and Marcus Saul and Mike Conley. So those guys in Memphis. But the interesting

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part about the Rockets big signings is that for Eme Adoka's logic, I only understand

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the Dylan Brooks signing. What do you mean? Dylan Brooks is a defender. Eme Adoka wants

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to play defense. That's why the Joe Mazzula hire and retention in Boston and their sub

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subprime, which we'll talk about them a little later, make a little to no sense for me because

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Boston was built for defense and then they get this offensive coach and they can't play

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defense anymore. Eme Adoka had a bunch of offensive guys. Jalen Green, KJ Martin, Josh

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Christopher, I believe on that team, Singoon, Tariis and Jabari Smith. A bunch of guys who

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can score the ball, a bunch of young guys put the ball in the hole. So he went and got

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a veteran defender in Dylan Brooks. Makes sense. Probably overpaid a lot, but it makes

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sense. Dylan Brooks is probably getting four year 54. If you go to four year 60, he probably

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takes it and runs with it. But who knows? You know, Dylan Brooks comes in and it makes

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sense. Fred Van Vliet is a small, inefficient, non-defensive playing guard and I assume he's

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starts. Right? I'm fine with that. I'm assuming he starts. I'm good with that. He's not an

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efficient shooter. So when Jalen Green has the ball, there's this six foot guy on the

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wing who shot 39% last year. That is the second lowest percentage shooting in the NBA last

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season for players who qualify. You know, it's only shooter in the NBA worse than Fred Van

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Vliet. His new Rockets teammate, Dylan Brooks, they're the only two players in the NBA to

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shoot below 40% for decently high volume shooters. And as I say, for those who qualify, they're

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decently high volume shooters. They're the only two in the league to go below 40% and

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the Rockets have given them about $210 million contractual value. And of course, Fred Van

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Vliet has the team option in year three. I don't get that one. I really don't. I don't

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want to sound out at all. Makes no sense to me. Don't understand a little bit. But hey,

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we will see. I guess. The Lakers retooled reload to LeBron's approval because he announced

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in the Esquisse he wasn't retiring and he was also sharing every post about the Lakers

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new acquisitions and his new teammates and his old teammates coming back. So Rob Palenka

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resigned D'Angelo Russell to a two year, $37 million deal with no trade kickers in it. And

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D'Lo basically waived his implied no trade clause. And so he's now tradable. Ruha Chamora

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is back with the Lakers. Austin Reeves got the best contract you could possibly get from

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the Lakers without another team offering him. And that was four years, 54, but he has a

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team player option in year four. He has a 15% trade kicker. He has all kinds of stuff

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in his contract. Everything the Lakers could give him legally, Austin Reeves got. And so

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he got his payday. And then they go out and sign. Gabe Vinson, three years, 33. Jackson

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Hayes got a two year contract with the team option. Torian Prince is a Laker now as well.

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And then of course, like I said, like Darvin Ham said, his big weapon is still around.

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And that is LeBron James decided that he wasn't going to retire, which I didn't think he was.

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I spoke about it when he first put on his showmanship after the series and kind of dangled

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in there every time. I knew he wasn't going anywhere. And so kudos to Rob, the Lincoln,

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the Lakers for putting that team together. It's going to be a pretty dangerous team.

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Oh, and also Jerry Vanderbilt's back. So that's going to be a pretty dangerous team for them.

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They have a couple of awesome spots open, or a awesome spot open. And I want to keep

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it open because they did a good job with their mid-level exception. The only person on it

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is Gabe Benson. He took 11 of the 12.4, which means in the buyout market, you can offer

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the vet men plus the rest of the exception for financial. So when a person gets bought

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out usually, if they make $27 million, they'll give back the vet men. They'll give back 2.1,

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2.4, whatever the million dollars. They'll just say, you can keep it because when they

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sign their next contract, they're going to get it back anyway. So it's kind of a way

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to say, okay, the team saves $3 million, and I'm going to get $3 million in my vet men

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contract. Not $2 million usually. I'm going to get $2 million in my next contract. I make

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my same $30 million anyway. Now the Lakers have the advantage of, they can go to that

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guy and say, okay, give that $2 million back. We'll give you $2 million back, plus another

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million with the MLE. That could be the difference between a knockdown shooter going to Milwaukee

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or going to the Lakers. That backup big man, who AD doesn't really want to play some. Maybe

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that backup big man decides, man, I was Christian. It could be Christian Woods contract. Christian

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Woods signed for the minimum. You still have a minimum spot plus the MLE. It could be very

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interesting in Laker land with that last thing. Like I said, being able to keep about $1.4

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million with that mid-level exception available. Just a few people who cashed in. Oh, sorry.

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Boston made some moves. They acquired more assets along with they made the Chris Asplosingas

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move. You spoke about that or I think we spoke about that. They made the Chris Asplosingas

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move. I could be wrong, but they made the Chris Asplosingas move and they also signed

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him to a two year $60 million contract extension. Pretty much locking them into their roster.

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They're way above that second tax floor. Especially when Jalen Brown signs his deal. Jalen Brown

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expected to sign his deal, which would be a super max in for without something going

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unforeseen. He'll sign his super max. Jalen Brown would sign his next year and they'll

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be way above the cap, but they're going for broke. They're going for a title. It's one

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of those things where I feel like if they win this year, next year, they sign and trade

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poor Zingas out and they just try to retool around Brown and Tatum, but they're going

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for broke. Once they're away for two years, you don't hold a title, you blow it up and

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you move on. Kind of rebuild it. Boston doesn't usually rebuild, but they did after the reburied

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and retired. They did again after the big three was traded to the Nets. That's how they

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ended up with Jason Tatum. They did after Bill Russell ultimately retired. They can

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rebuild, they just prefer to retool. The Lakers more have a famous 60 retooling as opposed

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to rebuilding. I think in two years if the Celtics don't win a title, they just blow

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it up. It doesn't suit them to continue to pay a lot of money, especially once you get

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past that second luxury tax heaping, just to lose basically. That is something that

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the Boston Suburbs should look for. A few people cash in big time contractually. Bruce

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Brown signed two years, 45-ish million dollars with the Indiana Pacers. He was thought to

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be an MLB contender. He won a rose for a year and 54 deals. It was his first payday, so

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he thought he would get that. But it's two years, 45-ish million dollars. There's an

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option in the second year, and I can't remember if it's seen by Blair, but there's definitely

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an option in that second year. I think it's seen though. Desmond Bain, Lamello Ball, Tyrese

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Halliburton, and Anthony Edwards all signed rookie designated extensions. However, Ball,

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Halliburton, and Edwards can go up to $260 million. Desmond Bain can go up to $207 million.

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Actually, I'm pretty sure it's $207 million. Let me double check that one second. Again,

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something I should know because I definitely posted it on Justin Times' social media.

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Dallas also has Seth Curry. I mean, Dallas Making Moves, they also got Seth Curry. Totally

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forgot about that. My apologies to Seth Curry. One second. Desmond Bain. Desmond Bain, yes.

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It's five years, 207, because he didn't get the designated match. He's got the rookie

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max extension. He didn't get the designated match. Sabonis contract is actually what they

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call a renegotiation and extend. The NBA has a clause where in the final year of your contract,

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if your team has so much money available, they can do what they call a renegotiation

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of your contract. Then you can extend off the new number. You don't have to extend

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off the old number. Miles Turner did it last year and kind of knocked him out of a muck

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to the trades. He renegotiated way higher than extended off that. Sabonis did it too.

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His renegotiation and extension ends up being worth five years, $217 million. Deirdre Rose

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is a Grizzly. They were making moves with Marcus Martin. I got Marcus Martin, Deirdre

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Rose. That's going to be their step point guards while John Moran gets his life together.

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Oh, I forgot to tell you Cam Reddish is a Laker as well in that group. Oklahoma City

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Thunder making moves, facilitating trades. They now have just 35 draft picks in the next

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seven years. They're going to run into a cap problem so they need to get that figured

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out. Anyway, all of that is leading up to what I was about to say. We have a Damian

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Lillard who wants to be out of Portland into Miami. We have a James Harden who wants to

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be out of Philly and is looking like the Clippers. I made this beautiful trade before that news

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came out so I'm going to say that James Harden is available to go anywhere because let's

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be honest, Harden wants the Clippers but Harden also wants his money. If a team can trade

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for him and he doesn't end up on the Clippers, but let's say he does this trade and he gets

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maxed out of his new location or near max, he'll be all right. My trade is a four-team

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trade. I may make another one similar. Now that I know Harden wants to put the Clippers,

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I'll try to make that work in my trade, but it's a four-team trade. This is just the players.

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Whatever pick compensation or swaps, whatever. I don't know. Now, what about that right

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now? This is a four-team trade. The Miami Heat is between the Miami Heat, Portland,

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Charlie Blazers, New York Knicks, and Philadelphia 76ers. It solves the Dane problem and it solves

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the Harden problem all in one fell swoop. The Miami Heat would acquire Damian Lillard.

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Based on this, through the NBA trade machine, they say they will increase their win projections

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by 12. The Portland Trail Blazers will end up with Tyler Hero, Evan Fornier, and Emmanuel

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Quikly. So, what does this does for Portland? It loses seven wins for them, so it puts them

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in a better chance to win the lottery. It gives Tyler Hero, who's a very tradeable player,

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which is the player I say they may end up bouncing out to, let's say, a Brooklyn. Evan

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Fornier is a good vet. Doesn't really need the ball. Not really used to playing either.

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You need something for your salary cap floor. And Emmanuel Quikly is a guy you can extend.

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So, if you're comfortable playing Scoot and Simons and Dane, Scoot, Simons, and Quikly,

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while not being as good, Quikly is a guy you can extend as well. You can have on your team

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long term. The New York Knicks would land and then immediately extend James Hart. That

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trade for them ups their wins by four, according to the analysis of the trade machine. And then

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the Philadelphia 76ers would end up with Duncan Robinson and RJ Barrett. It gives them another

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left hand ball hands with score for Joylen B and a knockdown shooter because you lost Seth Curry.

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Now you turn Seth Curry into Duncan Robinson. You turn James Hart into a less annoyed RJ Barrett.

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And they lose nine wins, however, projection. But I think they would end up with a couple of firsts.

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Portland would end up with a bunch of firsts. Miami ends up with no additional picks. New

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York may end up with a couple of swaps because New York has like nine charitable firsts. So,

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they may end up giving away four of those. The Heat ends up giving their three firsts to Portland.

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Swaps fly across the board. Second round picks fly across the board. Whatever. But that is the

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gist of the trade. So, like I said, they end up with Miami ends up with Dame. Portland ends up with

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Hero Fournier and quickly, Hero probably gets redirected to Brooklyn. New York ends up with,

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the Knicks end up with James Harden. And the 76ers end up with RJ Barrett and Duncan Robinson.

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So, that is a way for everyone to get kind of what they want. Harden gets a big market and he

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gets extended. Dame ends up with Miami. Portland gets picks to build around and charitable assets

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like a Tyler Hero. And Philly ends up with RJ Barrett and Duncan Robinson. Duncan Robinson

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will play the South Curry. RJ Barrett is 80%, 85% of James Harden these days with a lot less of the

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baggage. But up next, we're going to shift to the NFL and talk about what's going down there.

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Welcome back into the show. My apologies for the long-winded first segment, but I haven't

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talked to you guys in about a month. There was a lot of news I had to get out there. Like I said,

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I definitely wanted to highlight that 14 trade in the NBA that I really want to see happen.

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And if you guys want to hear more about that, of course, it's back up about five minutes and

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you'll be able to get it from the Jump Street. But now we're going to shift into the NFL and

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talk about what's happening there. A lot of news surrounding two key free agents. So, the NFL free

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agency period, not nearly usually as explosive as the NBA period. Usually it's a lot of teams

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because of the stuff like the franchise tag and because of stuff, just the general culture of

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football. Usually it's not nearly as explosive as the NBA, not a lot of movement, not from top guys.

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The equivalency to a Fred Van Vliet leaving or trying to think of some guy like Kevin Durant

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getting traded from Brooklyn or Bradley Beal getting traded from Washington to the Phoenix

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Suns in the NFL is like Kirk Cousins getting traded from the Vikings to the insert team here

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because they're starting to rebuild. That sort of thing. That doesn't really flow correctly

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as well to the NBA as the NFL culture. So, when you get a lot of talent in the NFL, however,

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floating around for agency, a lot of these guys end up signing one year deals.

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Guys like DeAndre Hopkins. I think DeAndre Hopkins is going to sign a multi-year contract as do I

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think Dalvin Cook. But there's guys like Jadevion Clowney, Ezekiel Elliott, Leonard Fornette to name

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a few that have not found homes yet that I'm pretty sure are going to sign one year kind of

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proving deals. Now, if you're Zeke, you led the league in rushing one year. You've been a pro

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bowler. You've been a normal pro. If you're Leonard Fornette, you've got a Super Bowl championship.

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You've been a pro bowler. Jadevion Clowney, number one pick in high school prospect in his class,

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number one draft pick. Who was supposed to be the other dominant bookie in the DJI.

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Injury and some off the field stuff has gotten in the way. But he's a guy that I think is a

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12 sack guy waiting on it. Especially in this modern NFL. So a lot of talent out there,

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but we're going to focus on DeAndre Hopkins, aka Nuke, aka DeHop and Dalvin Cook. So DeAndre

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Hopkins man knew this has been swirling about DeHop probably every day. Probably every day

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since he got out of Arizona. And so he was released by Arizona, of course. And now he is

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trying to land his next team. And so that's always been kind of interesting because it's one of

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situations where it's like, what do you do with DeAndre Hopkins? If you're DeAndre Hopkins,

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what do you do? Your whole career, you've been one of the higher paid guys. You really

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reset the market so much in football at 33 position that no one's still gotten to your

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average annual value yet. You saw that deal years ago. Tyrick Hill with his big extension,

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maybe Jamar Chaser, Justin Jefferson passes it. But no one has gotten to it yet.

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And so DeAndre Hopkins on May 26th was released by the Arizona Cardinals. He's gone multiple visits.

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He went to the Tennessee Titans and the New England Patriots is the two biggest

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places he's went. He's also reportedly touched base with the Buffalo Bills. He's also reportedly

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touched base with the Kansas City Chiefs. Personally, I'm just going to be honest,

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no one wants to see him with the Chiefs. I don't. I don't want to see him with the Chiefs.

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That'd be beyond any fair patch in my homes. And as a Patriots fan, I don't want to see him with

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the Bills. I think ultimately he lands between the Titans and the Patriots. Now the Titans offer,

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a few days ago I reported as well, a couple of other guys that he was deemed as quote unquote

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more aggressive. To me, more aggressive signals more guaranteed, fully guaranteed dollars. You

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can have guaranteed language in it, especially if it's a multi-year contract. Oh, if you're on the

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roster, it's probably the league year. Your sign-up is guaranteed. Or, you know, if you got,

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let's say $16 million in 2024, that becomes fully guaranteed. If you're on the roster,

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the first day of the league year, if not, it's $5 million. Whatever. You know what I'm saying?

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That they can play with the guaranteed language. To me, more aggressive triggers more fully

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guaranteed. So when you sign your name on the dotted line, let's say it's for three years,

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$600 million, you sign your name on the dotted line, $40 million is fully guaranteed.

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That owner has to take that money and put it into escrow. He doesn't have to do that with

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guaranteed language money. He has to do it, let's say, at the start of the league year,

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he has to put that money in escrow. But he doesn't have to do it when you sign your name.

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That's how your signing bonus is a fully guaranteed dollar.

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Instead of a fully guaranteed dollars is in the contract. And so I think that's why the Titans

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are more aggressive. Also, the Titans know that if Dehop is smart, which I'm going to say he is,

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he's going to look around the situation. He's going to say, okay, Julio Jones is going to up a

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Titan. Didn't go well for him. AJ Brown starts popping off a receiver and being one of those

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dominant guys asked him being a Titan. Randy Moss ended up a Titan. That didn't go well for him.

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Jerry Rice, I believe, I've seen a photo of him, ended up a Titan. Didn't go well for him either.

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So I know Randy Moss for sure and of course Julio Jones for sure. Ended up extending Titans. That

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didn't go well for their careers. They received position. And I personally think Julio and

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Randy Moss had better quarterbacks. Ryan Tannehill was a placeholder. Malik Willis, who the team is

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thinking about cutting is out playing Will Levis, who the team is thinking about keeping cutting

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Willis for. He's out playing Levis right now. I've never believed in Will Levis in college.

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His slide in the draft was not surprising to me. It was a little surprising to me because of how

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much smoke that the draft analysts pumped out into the sky about what's going to happen with Will

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Levis. He was talked about at one point being the second quarterback off the board. It was a lot of

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energy for Will Levis. You know he's getting past the radios, all this other stuff. He ended up being

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a second round pick to the Titans. Willis played horrible last year and he's out playing Levis.

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It's just one of those things that's like, dude, D-Hop, you've made money. I get it. I'm a big

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point of view. You never have too much of it. You've made money. Go win. In Houston, when you guys

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were starting to figure out how to win, DeAndre Hopkins gets into his nonsense. Patrick Mahomes

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shows up. You have him down 24-0 to 99% of quarterbacks ever. The game's over and it wasn't.

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Mahomes actually won that game convincingly, going away in the second half. It's ridiculous.

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You had him down and you didn't capitalize that. Then after that, you had him down and you didn't

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capitalize that. Then after that, the team falls apart. You end up in Arizona with a young guy in

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Kyler with the wrong headcoats and Cliff Kingsbury falls apart there. At this point, but you completely

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went to the market. They got three years, 81. It was some outrageous, like $27 million, the average

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annual value for a receiver when no one else in the league was making $20. It was ridiculous who

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he got in Arizona, but he made his money. Now, I look at it from a de-hop perspective of, okay,

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the Patriots don't have the best quarterback. That's Patrick Mahomes. If it's purely about

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winning, it's easy. Sign on one year, $7 million deal with the Chiefs, go win a Superbowl,

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catch 80, 85 pass, Patrick Mahomes for 1,300 yards and 14 touchdowns, and then go into the market and

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say the biggest deal wins because I got my ring card. You can go through the bills. You list the

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fond days of the best duo on football, Bar None. It passes to me because me, Chase and Higgins is

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the best duo right now. Just one and two receiver. I can't think of anybody better than Chase and

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Higgins. Jefferson and Thielen had a case, but Thielen's gone now. So Chase and Higgins are the

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best duo in the league, in my opinion, top of my head kind of thing. Williams and Allen have a case

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in Los Angeles. Travis Kelsey and Tyree Hill, though Kelsey's technically not a receiver. That

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was the best duo, but whatever. Wildo and Hill have a case in Miami, but to me, up top of my brain,

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Higgins and Chase is the best duo. You go to Buffalo, you're the best duo. To me, de-hop is

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top three. Diggs is top five. Or Diggs and de-hop are both top six. You got two of the top six receivers

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in the league. So at that point, Josh Allen has Dalton Kincaid. He has a smaller cook, a young

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James Cook. De-hop and Diggs, that's Gabe Davis. That's just asking for a recipe of, again, a

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situation. You can go there, two years, or one year, $8 million, another $5 million in unreachable

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incentives, fully guarantee the $8 million and go play football kind of thing. And then again,

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I win my ring, now I go to the market. What's up? What about Cincinnati? Cincinnati has to do

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something with these young guys. Chase is going to get his money. So who's leaving Higgins a boy?

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I think it's boy. Burrows used to have three people. I say you call up somebody who needs a

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receiver, you trade them Tyler Boyd with a third round pick, you give de-hop boy, whatever boy

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Tyler is, plus a little extra on the back end, you have Chase, de-hop, and Higgins. There's

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most two ways I think de-hop can go, but let's just stick with the Patriots-Titans angle.

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The Patriots, the obvious choice. They got the better quarterback, they're more stable,

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they have a better football team. And the Patriots are a really weird lateral to Chandler Jones away,

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or Ramon J. Stevenson goal line fumbled away from being in the playoffs last season. Either or.

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So with a defensive, not even great coordinator, not even a great defensive coordinator calling

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offensive plays as the OC, and then the special teams coordinator, foreign special teams coordinator,

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who's a horrible head coach and Joe Drudge, as the quarterback coach. It just wasn't, it wasn't

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beneficial to Mac Jones at all, and yet they still put together a pretty decent offensive season.

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Which is why I say de-hop needs to be in New England. Bill O'Brien is there. Ringing the bells?

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Bill O'Brien was the head coach in Houston when de-hop was lighting up the universe. Bill O'Brien

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is there. Bill O'Brien was Mac Jones offensive coordinator. They have a good running back,

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which they didn't really have in Houston. Aaron Foster kind of fell off when he went vegan, and

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says many probably shouldn't say it, but fell off and went vegan. Got some injuries out of the league

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very shortly. They've got, I'm gonna do some shoes for now, they've got a couple of weapons that they

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kind of spread. They've got Mike Gusecki, Hunter Henry, you know, they put in the other offensive

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line in New England. The defense is over there, like it's a much better situation in New England,

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and your head coach is better. Wanna know how I know? The head coach of Tennessee played for

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the head coach of New England. I mean, so, um, that I'm from de-hop, and I have those two choices,

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I'm a New England Patriot. Two year, math, big money, or a three year, pretty decent money,

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with a lot of guarantees and some of the incentives in it. Um, is how I kind of picture the deal in my

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head. Um, so that is how I go from de-hop. From Dalvin Cook, the exact opposite advice. I want the

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bag. I'm a running bag. I want the biggest bag I can get. De-hop's made a hundred million dollars

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in contracts, or just about a hundred million dollars in contracts. He's made his money.

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Dalvin Cook's rookie contract, and then he got like half the second contract, and he was out.

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So, from Dalvin Cook, I want the best possible bag I can get with the most winning possible.

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What does that mean? So, for team, let's say it's Miami. They offer us seven million dollars a year,

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two years, two years, 18 million dollars, 12 million for the guarantee. We're gonna win in Miami.

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We're gonna put up yards. We're gonna put up a track to Miami, because Miami's built

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with that zone run scheme to put up numbers. Two is gonna be there, hopefully. Wreak and waddle

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below the top of every defense they've ever seen. You know what I'm saying? You have a chance to be

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really, really, really special as the running back there, because you have a lot of space to operate.

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So, somebody like Carolina may go two years, 22, but Carolina's not gonna win anything.

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But, you're a running bag. You need to get as much money as possible. That's why I don't think it's

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realistic for DeHop and Darwin to go together, because Darwin said he wants to be with DeHop.

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The problem is, there's no feasible location they can land. Ironically, the only place I can think

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of off the top of my head is either Houston or Arizona, two of DeHop's former teams. Because

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Arizona doesn't have a running back in the building, and they don't really have a number one receiver,

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DeHop's gone. Houston traded in a number one receiver way to Brandon Cooks to the Dallas Cowboys,

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and they don't have a running back like Michael Pierce, I think, is in a running back like.

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So, it's two of DeHop's former organizations. I'm trying to think of any other potential locations.

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Kansas City couldn't pay either one of them, but they'd take them both, but they couldn't pay either

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one of them. So, I mean, then Kansas City got put check out, and they're trying to figure out what

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to do with Cardiff with DeLayer. So, to me, it's unrealistic for them to try to play together.

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I just think that it would be dope if they could. That's a hell of a one-two frequency punch. That's

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like, you know, getting two stars in the NBA at one time. That's a hell of a one-two punch.

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As far as offensive talent, I just don't think it's feasible because I think DeHop's gonna go for

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a mix, or should go for rather, a mix of bag and winning, but leaning toward more of the winning.

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And I think Davin Cook should be focused on his bag, and if wins, come spectacular.

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Because again, he's a running back, so he can get the most fully guaranteed dollars when he signs

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his name, should be the place he goes. Probably perfect landing spot for both. From a football

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perspective, it's the Chiefs, for both of them. From a, in terms of what they need to do to win

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championship, it's the Chiefs for both of them. From a numbers perspective, Davin Cook,

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to Buffalo, DeAndre Hopkins, to New England. From a bag perspective, Davin Cook, to, oh wait,

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wait, wait, wait, wait, Davin Cook to probably Miami, and DeHop to New England, or Tennessee.

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I'm sorry, DeHop to Tennessee. So, it's just, I'm saying, there's no really way, but I say both go

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to the Chiefs or both go to the Bills, where their lives really can cross for what they should go

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for, given their positional and contractual value. But, I think it's the Chiefs, and both

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and contractual value. Given their positional value and their contractual history, I just don't see,

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besides like I said, besides them both ring chasing in New England, or both ring chasing in Buffalo,

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I don't really see a spot where they can land together and produce, and get financial gain from

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it as well. Speaking of a future that apparently is uncertain, Bill Belichick, according to the

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Boston Globe, his future is unclear, according to a few, his job security rather, is unclear according

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to some close friends of New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. I talked about this yesterday

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on Twitter. He's won six Super Bowls, been to eight as a Patriots head coach. He's won eight total.

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He's two as a defensive coordinator as a New York Giants. This to me feels like one of those

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stories that comes out to make the movie. Right? Belichick, age 71, I think. Friends don't know

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about his future. Organization was trying to push him out the back door. He can't win without Tom.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he wins the Super Bowl. And that's how the video starts. Remember

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when Tom Brady put out the video right after they won? A bunch of Nick Wright saying he was old.

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He heard everything based on the video. I think he even said, I heard everything. He had Shannon

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in it, Nick Wright in it. He had ESPN in it. Anybody who he was a major voice that spoke

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publicly about him, anti him, anti his aid, anti his team, he put it all in the video.

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But basically the message is like, I heard it and thank you for the motivation. I think this is a

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motivational tactic. Kind of a, okay, how many who bite this? Because the Patriots believe in

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bulletin board material. Everyone does, but the Patriots are known for bulletin board material.

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To me all year, this is the bulletin board material. It should be outside and right

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into the door of his office with the Boston Globe headline that reads Belichick's future uncertain.

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Like that should be inside of his door. That's the kind of motivation he feeds on. That's kind

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of how I took it. I think Belichick walks when Belichick decides to walk. I don't see Robert

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Kraft ever forcing him out of the back door. And so I think he walks when Belichick decides to walk.

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But it's one of those situations, one of those stories where someone's going to have to answer

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for it somewhere. And I think it's something, it's a distraction piece. It's something people

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run with in the middle of July. We're in camp for a month before camp, two months before camp,

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whatever. We don't play a football game for two months. So it's a real football game,

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not the preseason. But we don't play a real football game for two months. So I think it's

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one of those things which is run with the story because it's interesting. It's got some legs to

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it. 71 years old, not the best success without Brady. Got some legs too, let's run it. So kudos

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to the Boston Globe for running it. Whatever source they got, I commend them as well. But I

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just don't think it has much legs to it, if at all. Quinan Williams got the bag. Four years and

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98 million dollars. With 66 million dollars in guarantee language in the contract. So

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congratulations to Quinan Williams. His brother is also on the Jets, got paid three years,

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18 million dollars this year. So both of them are set to life. I'm sure Quinan will help his

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brother whatever they need to. But I'm sure they're not doing the Morris twin trick with the Morris

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twin, put all their money in one account. But 18 million dollars, probably get another contract

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in the league. And Quinan of course got the 98 million dollar contract. So shout out to both of them.

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And then some quick hitters. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have brought back the Creamsicle

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uniforms. They will debut them this season. They will only wear them one time against the Detroit

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Lions. Remember, served me correctly. Alvin Kamara, the New Orleans Saints, his case has been settled.

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If you guys remember 2022, he was involved in a domestic incident. Not domestic incident, a,

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well, I guess an incident in Las Vegas, where he was seen on video, allegedly, I'm gonna use that

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word to avoid lawsuit purposes, allegedly assaulting a gentleman in Las Vegas. The guy sued,

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no criminal charges, or criminal charges were filed. The guy sued and Alvin Kamara ultimately

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pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of breach of peace. And he will have to do community service,

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along with paying a hundred thousand dollars in fines towards the victims medical bills.

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And then now he awaits his decision from the NFL regarding what suspension, if any, I'm sure there

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will be, will come down. The New York Jets have been selected for hard knocks officially. I spoke

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about that on Twitter weeks ago, but it just became official yesterday. Remember, served me

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00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:42,880
correctly. Aaron Rodgers was not even pleased about it. He was saying that hard knocks were

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shoved down their throat, but now they got to deal with it. But they're the most interesting team,

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and they were the obvious pick. Now the Lions reportedly was willing to accept it for a second

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year in a row, if no one stepped up. But the NFL chose the Jets. They're in New York. They have

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Aaron Rodgers at quarterback and it dominated most of the off season headlines with all of a

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sudden all these Packer players and Aaron Rodgers friends all of a sudden being, you know, Jets.

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And so that's something I'm sure they're going to bring up. You see Aaron Rodgers in, Nathaniel

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Hackett's in, Robert Salas in year two, Zach Wilson's Brittany Leung from the starting job,

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Sal's Gardner, who many people are beginning to claim is the best corner in the league, is not

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entering year two. You see a lot of the Gary Wilson, Bruce Hall coming right from injury,

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McKay Beckton trying to lose weight, also coming back from injury, Eliza Veratucka and the rest of

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that O-line trying to figure that out. Quinnian Williams fresh off his big bag, his agent Nicole

560
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Lynn, who was the first black female NFL agent. When she got, we got the Jalen Kurtz contract,

561
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she tweeted out something on the lines of, has anyone seen a Brinks truck trying to locate one?

562
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And then she quoted it after the Quinnian Williams did one public and said, don't worry,

563
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I found another one. So kudos to her as well. But you know, all these different storylines in the

564
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deck and this is off the top of my head. I'm not even thinking about anybody on defense. I don't

565
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:11,760
know what that means on defense so far as sauce. Like this is going to be very interesting hard

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knocks. So I'm excited about that. But they have some competition because Netflix has a released

567
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quarterback. This is amazing. Like this is these, this is hard knocks level access voluntarily

568
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:33,840
though. So hard knocks sometimes guys when they do the interview, they kind of snippy or whatever

569
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:38,640
during the thing because they really don't want to do it. It's good for a young guy with a brand

570
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:43,920
like sauce. Oh my God. If he markets himself right, he's going to be a superstar after this.

571
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You know, I'm thinking about a Quinnian Williams, a big personality, a sauce.

572
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:53,280
I like Mackay Beckton could be one of those guys that could really turn his own narratives. Like

573
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if you're a guy who's either a big personality or can turn on the can work a media room,

574
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oh, hard knocks is perfect for you because this is your chance to do it pretty much unabated.

575
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Quarterback was done voluntarily. And if you guys don't know, if you guys haven't watched it yet,

576
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I'm halfway through episode two myself. And as a person who grew up wanting to play NFL

577
00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:19,040
quarterback, this is like the most all access look besides hard knocks. And that's not really

578
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centered around the quarterback that's centered around the team and you just hear the quarterback

579
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stuff. And of course they're very protective and I'm sure these guys had final edit rights to it.

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Or at least it seemed the episode had to approve certain content. Whatever. I'm 99% sure of that.

581
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But this is the most all access look. It's actually so crazy like her cousins in it in the preview

582
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:44,880
they show for it says like, this is the closest that people ever get. Like they, you're not NFL

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quarterback. This is the closest you'll ever get to being besides, you know, of course, CFL, XFL,

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00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:55,120
whatever, but this is the closest you'll ever get to being the NFL quarterback. And it's,

585
00:57:56,560 --> 00:58:00,640
and it's dope. And I always, those three guys, they're all into the year starters.

586
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:04,720
The other three quarterbacks are Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Mark and Mary Yoda.

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And they found them all and they followed them all three of them last year. They're micing their mics.

588
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Anytime they tap their chest, you can hear the mic in their chest plate. They're miced up during the game.

589
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Patrick Mahomes went crazy on Max Crosby in week one. I mean episode one, I'm sorry.

590
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We've seen Marcus Marriota. I mean, I'm on X, I'm only episode and a half in. We've seen Marcus

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Marriota's wife's ultrasound. We hear how they've all met their wives. We hear how

592
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we're seeing their daily life. We're seeing like we've been through Kirk Cousins' house and all his

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memories. We've talked about how Patrick Mahomes and his wife met. We've talked about different

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things. I think of Marcus Marriota's background being from Hawaii and a Polynesian player and

595
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:54,720
winning the Heisman and how he was pretty much disgusted being back in the universe to watch

596
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him because it is a rival of Oregon. And I mean, it was just, I mean, there's all the stuff you see

597
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:03,520
and it's only the first episode and a half. And it's kind of cool because you see it at all three

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levels. You see the best quarterback in the league of Patrick Mahomes. His life as a quarterback is

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effectively perfect. He is 27, he turns 27 during the show. During this season, he's going to get

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his second two bull ring, his second, third MVP. Like he's on a trajectory as a quarterback to be

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the greatest, right? Kirk Cousins is in the middle, upper middle, but he's in the middle.

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And I would say Kirk Cousins is the top 10 quarterback. I don't know why, because Kirk Cousins

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usually in a ranking goes from 10 to 15. The names above him change, the names below him change,

604
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but he usually hangs out anywhere from 10 to 12. I actually had a friend of mine

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who's in this space as well. But actually I am a friend of mine. He used to say the NFL is a bunch

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of Kirk Cousins and now it's gotten pretty popular on TikTok. He didn't put it on social media. He

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00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,800
probably should have, but it's gotten pretty popular on TikTok that the NFL is just a bunch

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01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:07,520
of Kirk Cousins. You know, there's fast Kirk Cousins and skinny Kirk Cousins and tall Kirk Cousins,

609
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:12,000
but Kirk Cousins is actually a pretty good quarterback and the NFL is a bunch of variations

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of him, kind of like in the multi-version of the NFL. And he's got a lot of good

611
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,920
players, kind of like in the multi-verse. If Kirk Cousins' life went a different way, whatever,

612
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he'd be that person. That's pretty much how it's set up to be, right? That's pretty much how Kirk,

613
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:30,480
you know, Kirk's a pretty good quarterback. He's a guy who's routinely, to me he's top 10 because

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everybody gets compared to him for the most part. If you blind resume his numbers, blind resume his

615
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:41,280
performance, he ends up better than a lot of people who in their minds are better. That's why

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I say he's a top 10 quarterback, right? And then you got Marcus Mariota who had the number, you know,

617
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Paxman-Holmes wasn't the first pick. Kirk Cousins was the fourth round pick drafted behind the second

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pick in the same draft. Marcus Mariota was the number two overall pick in his draft.

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It's on his third team. He loses his job during this, like you get to see all three levels. You

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get to see my Holmes go to the Super Bowl. Mariota lose his job and Kirk Cousins have a

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pretty good year. Which Kirk Cousins always does, right? And so you get the three perspectives of

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professional quarterbacking. Two world champion MVP, MVP of the season, lost his job and is trying

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to find another one. Average, a pretty good solid year Pro Bowl level player lose the playoff game

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go home. You know what I'm saying? And it's a pretty dope, like I said, I'm hooked on it.

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I pretty much the only thing stopping me from watching is that I want to talk to you guys again.

626
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And so that is a pretty, pretty amazing, great content so far. Up next, we're going to shift

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to best for last, what's going to be the arrival of Victor Wayne Bagnon.

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Welcome back into the show. And now we're going to go into best for last, discussing San Antonio

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Spurs number one overall draft pick. The seven foot three and a half, a barefoot seven foot five

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in shoes. Big man, not a center forward apparently, Victor Win Benyama's arrival in the NBA summer

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league. So of course, Wimby, as he's popularly called, I call him Vic, but whatever. I'm going

632
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to go with Wimby for the same purpose of that's what he's called. So that's what I'm going to call

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but Wimby of course, came over here with his French team, Metropolitan 92. The way the G

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league night, he averaged like 40 in those games, hit all kind of one foot threes and pulled up and

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just absolutely dominated. And so many people thought myself included, well, I myself included

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at first, he would come over in the summer league and do the same thing. Go get 30, get 30 again,

637
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shut him down kind of thing. But an hour and a half before the game, something changed. I changed.

638
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I didn't mind saying, you know, the first two minutes is going to tell us because at first you

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could have been told me he wasn't going to get 30 points, eight rebounds, block five shots, hit like

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four or five, three, just rolling up and down the summer league court. Right. And so the first two

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minutes is going to tell us, because I remember Brian Winhorse saying, Wimby will have stretches,

642
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,640
even in France, Feeble ball, whatever, he'll have stretches of four or five minutes, well, he doesn't

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do much. Kind of going on the court. He may make a layup, may block a shot, but he's not going to be

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a dominating force. And then he'll have four or five minutes where he's 16.6 rebounds, two, three

645
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blocks, a couple of great passes. You know, he's a superstar. So after the first couple of minutes

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to tell us, I'm like, if he's aggressive early, he makes his first couple of threes, you may get a

647
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:16,640
35, 40 point up event. I'm like, if he comes on, he's sluggish, he's slow and he's just not there

648
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all the way, we may get 8.9 point of it, you know, just because it's one of those situations where he

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is a guy that can be sluggish and slow. And I was watching the first game and I broke down all four

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halves of his summer league career on my Twitter and Facebook as well. As I was watching it,

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said to myself, this is an environment for him. And I was trying to figure out what was the

652
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difference between the first summer league game and the games against G League Knight.

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Let's start off with style of play. The G League Knight doesn't have the raw athleticism as some

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of the, not Scoot Henderson's there, but like something like Kai Jones dunked on. No one on

655
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G League ain't going to do that. Also, Stylist, he spoke about it. He said in America, people are

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flying. I thought he meant flying as in like running fast, but he literally means flying. He

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was like in Europe, it's a slower game, people on the ground. He said slower game, more physical,

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people on the ground, where they get fired a lot more, whatever. He said over here, people are

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flying and the game is so fast. Threes are coming up from everywhere, et cetera. Now, that's one

660
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:40,720
difference. Two, the teams he was on. He was on the Spurs summer league team versus Metropolitan

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92. Metropolitan 92 was a real team. They had Trimla Water, they had his teammate Bilal Kula Bali.

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They had guys who, it was a basketball team. They ran plays, they ran sets, they got Victor in

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certain spots. They knew what they wanted to do. They were used to playing with Victor.

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That's how they were playing basketball. For the summer league team, those guys trying to get

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a roster spot. The only person on that team that played in the summer league that's guaranteed a

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01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:11,520
roster spot is Victor Wimbayama and Champagne. I think he's going to have a four year dose. He's

667
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going to be on the roster, but out of the 12 people on the team, two of them have roster spots,

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Champagne and Victor. Everybody else is very easily cuttable, very easily G-league or worse.

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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,

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I'm going to shoot it. If I make it, that could be a remembrance moment. I know pops at these

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games. I know staff at these games. I know these fans are watching, probably half the known worlds

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watching basketball wise. This is an opportunity for me to either make an NBA roster, a G-league

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roster, or to get a good European or Chinese contract, or Australian contract. This is my

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chance. I'm going to take this shot. I get it for two on one or three on two fast break. If I got

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an angle, I'm going to go for the layup. I'm not going to throw the lock to Victor. I'm going to

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take this opportunity. Number two. Number three, that's pressure like no one's ever seen.

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For a month, two months, the kid's been compared to everybody. Kareem, LeBron, KD,

678
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name a tall skinny person, Dirk. Anthony Davis, people were saying by year two he's KD plus 80.

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That's ridiculous. It's pressure. Zion was the first player to ever sell out

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and it wasn't directly to his game, but it was one of those only game that made sense. Zion,

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when he came into the NBA from Duke to the Pelicans, sold out the summer they did before.

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Games have been days have been ultimately sell out, but not the day before.

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Victor became the second player to ever do it. Victor sold two games out because Zion only played

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nine minutes in the first one, bumped knees, was out of the game after he stole the Waffle

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Care but not dunked it. There was an earthquake. Lots of happened that day. Victor sold out two

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days because he played two days later and he sold the second day out too. That's pressure like no

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one ever seen before. He spoke about he was tired. He had a fatigue issue. He hadn't put out a

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01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:17,680
basketball. He'd only practiced with the team two days prior to going to Vegas. He said basically

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for a month, since his French season ended, he barely played basketball for a month, month and

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a half. It's not something he's usually doing. He's a very routine kid and they did it that way on

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purpose. He's been trained and raised that way. He's a very routine. They can care about his sleep.

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They care about his diet and things of that nature. You kind of got a rough performance.

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Shots didn't go in. He blocked the ball well, but he kind of got a rough scoring performance.

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Had a couple of moments. Game two, he got an opportunity to get kind of in a routine.

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Okay. Another day of practice. He got sleep in. He turned out a Michael Rubin party. He got his

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sleep in. He got his mind right. He got a little bit more used to the NBA style-ish, NBA-ish style

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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

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40-point, but he had, he knocked out threes, pull-up, jumpers, tip dunks to himself, block shots,

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laid the ball up. That was more of Wimby Yama. Now, he's going to have some issues. He's trying to

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dribble. Chet Holmgren does it too. I don't get it. I know they're seven feet. Chet's like seven

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one. Wimby's like seven five. They're big guys. For their size, their handle's amazing, but when

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that ball comes down, it equals out the height because it's got to come back up. That's a long

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time to come back up. Now, you see Chet's crouched over a little bit trying to dribble. Wimby is

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low for his size trying to dribble, but he's still got so much time for that ball to come back up.

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He tried to go in lane multiple times dribbling and lost the ball. They're going to have to work

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on him with that in the summer. He's going to have to get a real handle because it's going to work

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with him on how to get really, really low if that's what he wants to do. He's listed as a forward,

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not a forward center, not a center. I'm sure he's going to be on the perimeter a lot this year,

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especially that first year where he's working while he adds his muscle. They're not going to

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want to get him beat up too, too badly. I'm sure he'll be spaced out from the rim at a pretty decent

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distance. All in all, I'd say I was very impressed by game two. Game two looked a lot like

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the Wimby that played against G League United for Metropolitan's 92,

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especially when somebody's senior in the French League. It looked a lot like that second game.

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I'm very excited for his arrival. I'm very excited for him to be in the NBA.

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He's another one of those European guys that in two, three years will be like, oh, he's top five.

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Then the whole top five is European guys. I'm very excited for him. Popovic signs a five-year

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eight in me in all our contract attention right after his first game. He's already had an incident

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with a celebrity. He's being Americanized pretty quickly. Kudos to the Spurs for landing their

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next superstar. Kudos to the Yama for handling the bad first game with all the pressure with a

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pretty great second game. Then of course, the Spurs shut him down. We're not going to see him

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again on the court until game one in the Spurs uniform. I'm sure we'll have all the cameras,

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all the media attention around the world for his first NBA game. That is all I have for you today.

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Thank you guys for rocking out with me. Like I said, you guys are the best. I'm going to be

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getting this tomorrow morning. I recorded this Friday evening. You guys get this tomorrow morning.

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Shout out to Brandon Ganescu for setting the NBA and WNBA record for most points in a three-point

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shootout. I found a round with 37. She only missed two shots or three shots. The whole round, crazy

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impressive. All videos on my social. I hope you guys have a great rest of the day. This is your host.