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[00:00:00] Yes, you are now listening to the sound of Sports Reports's Ordered. Of course that means I am here. Slank the Bye, the one at home. Born in Texas raised in the VA, brothers bit in New Jerusalem a whole lot better than Chicago, Peterson.
[00:00:25] You got to break feelings to a fat fight. Don't do it. He is just a lot. You're... And then come and lock the Alamo where there should be an NFL team. Your unorthodox status dish to five. Born in left, so much.
[00:00:49] Actually, what beyond a wilder should have listened to me. Stuff. Good evening, grandma. Like, revives. The fried. Do all the good things. Do all of the free things. Enjoying us from getting off my chest. You're... Yeah, we've got another show. We've been gone for a minute.
[00:01:13] I hope everybody enjoyed the holiday weekend. I enjoy mine. For multiple reasons. One thing I always say sometimes, you got to celebrate yourself. I know it may come off as you be in cocky.
[00:01:24] But sometimes, you've got to sit in the room and let people know which of voice. Listen, this is why I'm hot. This is why this is why this is why I'm hot. This is why I'm proud of myself. This is why I'm proud of my accomplishments.
[00:01:38] So what that being said. I got my degrees. Now it's been got them framed up on nice. Yeah, I mean, so like listen. Sometimes you've got to show it. Show people like, oh, this will hard work looks like I am the embodiment of hard work.
[00:01:56] I have to personify hard work. I have to signify growth and I think that is comes from the people you have around you. I think having smart people that communicate with them a week the basis. I talked to Michael at the time.
[00:02:09] I like having conversations with smart people. Just the degrees don't make you. It's just something that marks I listen. You went out and said a goal for yourself. Men have to do hard things. And the only way you can get hard things accomplished.
[00:02:21] You've got to have good people in your corner. Family supported me when I was doing my homework and taking my time. People let me alone. Quiet, shut up the Verizon keep in the Wi-Fi on fleek. So doing all my homework online.
[00:02:32] I started to my job to like not bother me when I was trying to use the 36th of Smotted to do all my papers. Now, I mean, so just like I said, I just want to, I just want to, you know,
[00:02:42] have a second to shut up my motherfucking self. So here we go. Mass is a public administration. Bachelors and criminal justice. Let's go. Well done, sir. Well done, sir. And it's so fitting that you know, we both finished at the same time too. Yeah.
[00:03:00] That's so crazy how that works. And we didn't even coordinate that. You know, say, but yo, yeah, congrats. You don't say well done, well deserved. Well, respect it. You know, say, show my man some love. You know, sir. So getting off my chest.
[00:03:17] I'ma do something a little more traditional. Getting off my chest. So let's talk about the one and only LeBron James Jr. You know, sir, Mr. Paper towel himself. He knows that he came out the other day. I was excited. Like I actually literally.
[00:03:36] I was driving home from somewhere. The wife called me and was like, yo, can you go pick up some chick filet? And I was like, yo, I know you ate about to have me in the middle of traffic About the die watching a summer league game.
[00:03:49] So, you know, say as I was watching the one and only LeBron James Jr. And anticipation of what was to come. So of course he didn't have the best game to for nine. You know, he did get over some screens in a good way.
[00:04:04] You know, he got crossed up a little bit. You know, he some things happened. You know, Ed then I got disgusted for two reasons. All involved in Brontie. One positive one negative. So you know, my man, my man hit the behind the back.
[00:04:21] Pull up jumper kind of look like his daddy a little bit. And I said shit. I could not escape that clip. All day long all I saw was Brontie hit that one shot over and over and over again.
[00:04:37] And I mean, I guess that's all I was going to see because that was his only highlight. You know, the me but then you know, say I got the other side of it. Where was just like, oh yeah, Brontie James. I knew he was a bum.
[00:04:51] I knew he was all come out here and stake it up. And I'm sitting up here like look man. Okay, I get it. He's LeBron son. I know that LeBron is polarizing. There's a little Caitlin Clark to this story. You know, where you get burned out real quick.
[00:05:06] You know, you on one side of the fence or the other. I get it. But then there was a guy by the name of a donness arms. Who looks like he has the arms of an adonis. I'm at 3211. Then there was Mr. logical in my guy.
[00:05:22] You remember Antoine Davis? He was the guy from Detroit. That was three points away from breaking pistol pizza record. You know, he put up 20 in that game. You know, there was Blake hits into one. Brontie's own team that showed up.
[00:05:36] There was so much going on that we could have celebrated. But then we turned around and brought it back to. Departism. Does he belong? And then of course, what you know at Boogie Ellis went out in score at 17 points.
[00:05:52] So that just made it hit home even more because people are saying, That's the USC player that the liquor should have drafted. Look, man. We knew Brontie was going to be a project. We knew that LeBron wanted to play with his son. Correct. Just enjoy the ride.
[00:06:10] Yeah, that's that's my thing. Like we knew for two years from a time. Me today interview that if he had an opportunity, he was going to play with a sign. If the leakers would have treat,
[00:06:24] if the leakers would have taken him in the first round with that 70th overall pick with truly better talent on the board out of the legal. Okay, that was a bad move for your organization.
[00:06:36] But there was a guy that the the magic drafted in 2005 from Spain in the second round. And kept him on ice. And he retired in Spain. He never came across the pond. Like he just didn't he didn't like Orlando.
[00:06:54] He didn't like the he said he went on a visit to New York and then like the city. So a lot of the second round guys don't even come over and join their MBA squad. You knew they were going to take Brontie at 55 if it was available.
[00:07:09] So people told me all the Brontie has some as cruel to much power whatever the case would be. If the NCAA or if the MBA would have changed the rule, so Brontie could come out straight from high school and play with the bronze.
[00:07:22] And I'd like you know that's that's different because they literally certainly been in the process of a place to appease him as an individual. But he didn't wait it they gave them they gave us some terrible drag grades.
[00:07:34] It wasn't like they were up there trying to get scorn on region. It was like they were trying to get them drafted higher. They were literally saying like we think he's a bottom of the second round.
[00:07:43] Pick from the beginning from the initial even no matter how well he performed at the basketball combine. It was like yeah, it was just a project bottom of the second round but they got him into bottom of the second round.
[00:07:54] You knew who was going to go to his last team they got him into bottom of the second round. I'm not sure what people act in all crazy over the nepotism so far. So I'm considering that Mike Dunlavy Jr.
[00:08:06] Is the GM of the champion ship organization Golden State Warriors and he is batching it. And no one says anything.
[00:08:16] You know so just like that's that's my only piece like I said I can get it if you if you I really can't even understand like an articulated reason why people don't like it.
[00:08:26] Yeah, I mean if my if my granddaddy went to Princeton I tell y'all to kiss my ass and I'd be walking across the Ivy League. Yeah, like let's keep let's keep it a buck right the Kansas City Chiefs won the A to championship.
[00:08:40] Four times in the last six years. What's the name of the trophy? The Lamar Hunt trophy gets handed to Lamar Hunt Jr.
[00:08:52] Four times in the last six years and the only reason he gets the trophy is because his dad owned the team and they made the damn trophy after him. And he gets handed to a guy named after the dude those names.
[00:09:05] That's the trophy was named after no one says anything. But Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, Jeannie Buster, let's go zone. I mean they got on and off. They got Linda Rambus up in there doing whatever she doing.
[00:09:18] I mean the best thing she did all year was give LeBron a bicep massage. I mean Kevin McKale treated Kevin Gardenett to the boss and so it's exgeri was treated Paul and so on to the L.
[00:09:29] L. Lakers it's like come on man like if you recognize it and you're always upset by it. Like if you always have post about like, yeah, I can't believe Jeannie Buster's running the lakers and now the LeBron thing happens. Okay, I'll rock with it.
[00:09:44] But if you never said anything like that's the part that I don't get. There's like right it's literally par for the course my sons. I had three peak four people in my board of my nonprofit. It's my boy of noices 2001 from f.t. Shout out, Dre.
[00:09:59] And my two sons. They don't know anything about running a non-profit organization. We're all learning at the same time but I didn't go get to adults and try to pay them.
[00:10:09] Like I got my two sons on the board so when this thing blows like if spans and we can help the community the way I envision. They'll learn along with me. The same way Jerry Jones got his daughter up there making football decisions.
[00:10:23] The same way that David Tepper's wife given him puts on draft. Yeah, so don't make no dance. The more he do, the better he does. Yes, we do.
[00:10:38] But you know, but yeah, like it's just I don't know like people just want to find something to be upset about. And if they can't reach it, it's forced your outrageous force. Like just simply say, I'm sick of the bra and getting his way.
[00:10:54] If that's what your father is like, I guess what I understand it. But like as far as a bat as far as the impact on basketball, I don't think the LeBron James Junior pick had that much of an impact on basketball. So check it out. Mr. logical right.
[00:11:12] Mr. rational. I'm tired of LeBron getting his way to. But I want Bronny to succeed. You know, say it how about that? You know, but anyway, yo, we got some free agency as a trade to talk about.
[00:11:27] Mr. Rutley, how do you feel now that the one and only defraught defrausing? Oh yeah, forget you called him that. Is that a permit okay? I think it's just a bunch of teams.
[00:11:43] Remember like they said, it had this rumor Larry Burl walking to the locker room during the three-point contest to say, Who's here for second place? Yeah. I feel like a lot of teams that are making moves after post championship. Jason Tim getting his money. Philly's couple of moves.
[00:12:01] Okay, sees move. Minnesota getting dealing him during the draft. I'm not sure exactly how that plays with. And let's say going to make him a six-man and just let him just catch fire off the bench.
[00:12:14] Maybe by Connie Junior stays and he can kind of teach him how to play as an undersized guard in the league. Denver kind of like, you know, they lost a piece of here too. I feel like a lot of teams are playing for fourth to sixth place.
[00:12:33] A lot of the moves I don't think put most of these teams out of the space of four. Like I don't think any of these moves get anybody above four. I don't think the the margin rows and move gets Sacramento and to.
[00:12:49] I'm not even saying championship because I think people just kind of you can eliminate most teams if you simply say championship. I'm just talking about just, I think the top three teams and each conference are pretty much set. Maybe maybe four if you go out in the west.
[00:13:04] But best case scenario a lot of these teams are making moves to go from seven. And because of the way the other teams already set up, the best you're going to get is four.
[00:13:16] Like that's like unless if you have like an outstanding run Minnesota's going to be Minnesota because they kept their pieces. They're in they had like their playoffs run and you know the whole the narrative that you know you've had this run you should be better to follow.
[00:13:31] You especially if you run it back a lot of your pieces. You might be able to get a team like Phoenix to kind of slide a little more maybe that makes room for you.
[00:13:40] You know takes the pressure off because they're doing so poorly, but I think Houston if they can figure out what all the talent that they have with their coach I think they might be able to move up but I don't think anybody's moving.
[00:13:52] Above four with any of these moves even filly to me is a fringe because it has a caveat of it healthy.
[00:13:58] So the margarosa and like we talked about NBA like I don't I'm not a big fan of everybody shoot three is all the time, but the margarosa shoots on his career 1.6 a game it makes half so it's like.
[00:14:12] He's he's in like you have the air in fox who can blow by anybody in the league, but if you know you don't have to guard the margarosa and at 22 feet.
[00:14:22] Maybe you sag off a little bit and you kind of get in the air and face because you know if you kick out the rose and the rose is not going to just pull up.
[00:14:28] He's going to dribble right back in his face but how would it deepness was so you you're familiar with DC comics right. vaguely alright so you got the flash you got reverse flash. You know so Sacramento is nothing but reverse flash Phoenix.
[00:14:52] You know Phoenix has David booker Kevin Durant the mid range gods you know I imagine Kevin Durant is faster than the rose and but fox is faster than booker.
[00:15:03] You know but all they did was sign up the beat the next team to get swept by the team wolves.
[00:15:09] This year they made it to the play in you know they beat gold estate you know Clay Thompson's last game was a warrior and then they lost to New Orleans without Zion with the chance to get to the first round of the playoffs so all they did.
[00:15:30] To me was finished sixth in the west to get swept by the third CT wolves next year. That's all I see here so the margarosa is a better player than Harrison Barnes.
[00:15:41] You know but Harrison Barnes stretches the floor he shoots the three I'm not saying he's good at it but he does it.
[00:15:47] You know what I mean so it gives the defense something else to think about you know we'll see how they look what Malete bought back as well.
[00:15:54] But the good news for Sacramento if you're Sacramento King fan do you know that you now have the top two players and fourth quarter points from this season.
[00:16:06] The martyr rose number one and the Aaron Fox number two and then if you go back to gear before that they were number two and number three and reverse order fox number two and the rose number three.
[00:16:16] Yeah, but that's because they're on different teams running dribbling to the same spot. Now they're clogging up each other. That's the bad news. Yeah that's the bad news so you know so if you're Sacramento I'm able if I'm the owner if I'm the leadership of that organization.
[00:16:33] I get to tell my fans I didn't just sit on the fence. You know they just like I talked about the clippers last week we laugh out of now you know they failed but they went out.
[00:16:46] They put up their picks they gave up SGA who we didn't know was SGA at time you know and they said yeah we go in for this. Yeah, yeah, I that's I that wouldn't work anyway.
[00:16:58] It didn't they needed they needed to keep depth for the fact that they brought in a guy who pretty much hadn't played much for two years. Like so aside from that that Toronto run.
[00:17:13] And I mean why the last couple of years in San Antonio were just kind of barred with reports that he was healthy. Right. And it's been one play right so if that's the case if I'm bringing that guy in I'm like well if you want to load manage.
[00:17:27] I need to be able to bring three or four guys in so on games where you're not playing at all. I don't have to throw the scout there for the first time he's never just you know he's never been in a starting lineup.
[00:17:38] So I need to keep this depth and get these guys out there and get them you know acclimated to the responsibility that I'm trying to give them.
[00:17:44] But he's like not sending them away and bringing Paul George the other injury guy so it is possible for somebody's biggest strength to be their biggest weakness right. That is a thing right that like that's a possibility. That that your biggest strength can be your biggest weakness. Collaborate.
[00:18:04] You know like. If you excel at something. You can rely on it and go to the well to the point that it fails because you can't pivot. So with that being said Sacramento ain't doing shit until they get another center that's not to Montez the bonus.
[00:18:24] And it's not even because he's a bad player. He's just not a center. He's just not effective enough defensively down there. The Memphis move just get real big in there and let your versatile four five guy play four board and five.
[00:18:40] Right, and then as much as I love absolutely love Devon Carter the fact that they drafted Devon Carter they got to be on Mitchell lot of there.
[00:18:49] I got to find out that Devon Carter has had his soul shoulder surgery. I could never say that shoulder surgery and now is possibly going to miss the start of the season. So if you go to Sacramento just Sacramento dam it.
[00:19:02] I mean Mike Brown, I think I like Mike Brown's attitude. I think his temperament is great. I think he's a kind of coach who need there because and we're going to talk about this with info ball.
[00:19:15] I think sometimes certain personalities and positions is for like certain people as individuals. They bring immediately an expectation of like championship or over like over success of like your whatever parts you have. And I think certain coaches if Steve curve would go to another team.
[00:19:41] There will be this expectation that he's going to turn them into what he didn't go in the state.
[00:19:46] No matter what team he can go to Charlotte and they'd like you know what these guys kind of remind me of playing stuff if you could just you know Steve curve bring this magic boy blind and then you have this expectations than you do fire and him and he was by.
[00:20:00] I think Mike Brown just has a perfect temperament for Sacramento. I don't know if the ownership group has that same temperament because making this move. I think like you said leverage this expectation on Sacramento to be amongst of the the upper echelon of the West.
[00:20:19] I think that's a good idea because the move looks like it fits that that elk in that brand and it's like.
[00:20:29] It's top three teams are pretty much locked in and then you got Memphis bringing back their star and they got you know the best player in cause basketball. I think that's the worst part of the world.
[00:20:42] And so it's just you're going to have less space in the West. To to rise to the way and I think getting a five might be your best bet but this this trade may think may have fans ready like the beam.
[00:20:58] They can they're going to be top three because you look at okay see oh there young they're young and then we didn't make this move is like yeah but then we still has a. Yeah, Memphis aka allowed me to reintroduce myself you know the base of it.
[00:21:11] I was looking around you know hearing all the chatter and allegedly our guy you know Brandon anger him. You know is potentially on to move you know New Orleans just pulled off the trade for the John T. Mary a couple of weeks ago.
[00:21:25] I've we both have question can be I and Zion be a long term team together. I don't think so so so down. I don't I I blame I don't say blame.
[00:21:40] I think you could have worked I don't know how because it's not like they do completely different things. For a basketball team no matter what team if you put Zion like Zion and Brennan and Grim on any team should work one guy attacks the room rebounds.
[00:21:57] Plays you know he's like a bit of a mismatch because he's stockies like more athletic charge Barkley and then in Grim does play that mid range game a lot but.
[00:22:07] That's that's too separate like entities of the game as soon as I replace that styles and it's like I don't know how it didn't work other than someone like Mike said like maybe he ain't it or maybe just one of things where if you want to go to work.
[00:22:23] If you want to be there you'll be there and you'll show what different enthusiasm you know why because. Brad and I'm is the E. Or version of Kyle Kuzma. Okay okay I I get a young young Kyle Kuzma like you know before the championship Kyle Kuzma.
[00:22:46] But be I just never grew up. I just don't it might be one of the things where he needs to change the scenery or just a change of environment certain senses like for instance like you know my son is going to a sophomore year.
[00:23:00] And throughout the school year like as alarm goes off I can hear through the wall I get up I go wake him up he gets up. But when he had.
[00:23:10] When they began to gear when you have football and he had practice after school he was up like boom ready to go back pack then it went from football to basketball up boom back pack but then he had track and track was more like just because he wasn't a senior like mainly seniors and juniors competing.
[00:23:27] And it wasn't as motivating like he did it because he wanted you know getting shape and football. So they were just in Vegas this whole weekend I picked him up this morning they landed like 7.30.
[00:23:40] 7.40 something like that gets in the car and fill me drive straight from the airport to his school for summer football practice gets out of the car goes into the gym and practice starts in his coaches like.
[00:23:53] Where were you at all weekend he was like I was in Vegas he's like when did you get in here he was like around 7.30 7.40 this morning he was like and you made it to practice so if he could make it here at the fly across country then you.
[00:24:05] And he took everything out of the car and said you guys should be motivated to do it if he could fly across country a sophomore going to the sophomore year leading low up.
[00:24:14] Just that kind of like desire to be there like he literally was like that make sure you pack my cleats in the car fresh off the plane no sleep straight to practice. Branding or wouldn't play the ages because it's like I don't want to be here.
[00:24:28] Yeah, it was like that last year because season season McCullum kind of do a little shot at them because then you had Zion probably night Zion probably could have played he was out there doing a window dumps the year before we're planning to play in and then at the end.
[00:24:47] And then they said Mike. So be I got to see the McCullum they said when season McCullum guys wouldn't play through injuries you know I've been playing a broken finger for this whole time.
[00:24:58] And you just stuck there all these other guys are being able to miss games you blame me don't me but yet this guy's supposed to be the franchise play in Zion you gave them more you gave them a hundred eighty two million dollars.
[00:25:09] And he doesn't play but yet when I'm hurt and I can't play I'm getting shots five dealing with the local media they want local people so it might just be a situation where he needs to change soon we but what that contract on the line he probably should have played a little bit more.
[00:25:25] You probably should have just fought more of his his inner demons and played tougher and played harder that way it's it looks like a viable deal because I think the fear is the next team's got to give him a four year to an eight million dollar extension.
[00:25:42] Right and I don't know if he's done enough because we talked about the guys in house that are getting deals with top of our friends, while I got his deal you know Jayland Jason Tatum and then who else got a big deal this all season quickly got a big deal.
[00:25:57] I don't know we got one at a no we got a big deal but they got a big deal from in house.
[00:26:03] You know said it's gonna be hard it's gonna be hard to get two hundred eight million dollars from another team so so with that being said you know are there any teams that.
[00:26:13] You can see him that that would make sense if I'd take not knowing their financial situations. I think who could use golden I think golden state maybe because I think they need a guy. But it's really nice but this he made Kamega redundant.
[00:26:44] I mean I'm not sure if you think it's growth or stop the Migos group or does he make Kamega.
[00:26:50] I think Kamega is a commodity at the trade deadline for a team that's teetering and that four five six rings in the eastern conference and they think they need to make a move to get over the hump like does. The ingram playing well and go to state allow.
[00:27:08] Kamega to end up in Indiana something at the trade deadline because they think they're close because they just wasn't easy to accomplish finals something like that because Kamega's got his opportunities.
[00:27:19] I just haven't really seen much from him he might you might have a ceiling I think brand angle has more town because we got a old ass cripple still throwing up three.
[00:27:28] He was coming off the bench and all but that's a thing clay Thompson only shoots the THR. only shoots the three. He doesn't, he doesn't hold you up. So even if he shot, if Clay Thompson shot 14 shots in a game, he probably took 16 dribbles. So it's not like
[00:27:45] he's going to get in your way with the way he plays. Ingram might take up a little bit more of the dribbling. So I don't know if like I don't know if anywhere really works.
[00:27:58] People leave in it, but I think anywhere anywhere it works is someone's going to have to give up something. It won't be a contender. Maybe like Charlotte. It's like the man just read
[00:28:07] enough of my paper basically. Like, I said, I said, so I had Goldest State, you know, initially that was the first team that I had thought about. A lot of the same reasons,
[00:28:20] but if I was going to state, I would probably rather have Lori marketing. So we got to figure out what Utah's doing because Danny age got more pup fixed in D weight. We don't know if he's
[00:28:34] trying to trade anybody. We don't know if he wants picks. We don't know if he's trying to treat picks. Danny age is just playing ransom with everybody's career. You know what I'm saying?
[00:28:43] So I would rather have marketing than angry if I could get a but marketing may not be available. So the trade deadline. So it just depends on how patient Goldest State wants to be.
[00:28:57] It depends on how Goldest State starts the season because obviously the more desperate you get because with a player like Steph Curry, you can't say, all right, I mean, you got to be realistic,
[00:29:10] right, but you're not going to say we go away to next year. You know what I mean? Like Andy, probably. They probably would like and this is the thing and this is why we talked about
[00:29:23] teams, the one two and three kind of being set. Yeah. I think all of those teams may these sacrifice to move over the last few seasons. Boston, I wouldn't say they got lucky. I mean, the draft is luck. So they hit on two guys and
[00:29:41] back to back years that are still there that are growing and are essentially the same version of person and just two different skin tones. Right. That's luck. Like that's, I mean, it's a lot of
[00:29:52] skill on their part but like you say we play with skill that look what happened because the Lakers and the Lakers and sixers were in that same predict like that same one two three order
[00:30:02] and Boston hit two years in a row. I don't think any teams hit two years in a row at that level in recent history. So you have a team out west that locked in one two and three
[00:30:16] Steph might have needed to leave go to stay along with Clay Andre. This, this all season. It should have been a full to like, I think it out just wipe it out. Like that problem is
[00:30:31] but the problem would have been uncertain on this. It would have been uncertain on this and it would have been like, oh, that's what's about even that with the problem. It's more disrespectful
[00:30:38] to be out here trying to bargain. We'll get to the Lakers in a little bit. Yeah. Like, but, but, but though, but the thing about it is though is that you can't really do that when
[00:30:47] you give Steve Kerr the two year 35 being a dollar extension. That's the problem. But that's, that's the blow up. Like, that probably should have been a part of it too because if you look at it now,
[00:30:58] you kept stuff, you kept drab on. Now you kept that seemingly unrealistic expectation that we are a move away. You're not a move away. You're not a move away. You need a, you need a
[00:31:14] Michael J. Fox and Doc in their time machine to get you back a few years. That's the only way you're getting back to championship convention because I mean, your time is right out like in
[00:31:26] Mike brought up AD. I said that years ago after they got that championship in 2020, by the end of 2021 before the 2022 season started. I was like, you're only bargaining chip because the Lakers were just poorly run was AD and it was like, you can't move AD because they
[00:31:44] will lose the bronze, whatever occasion. If you go to the end of the year, buy. But if you move AD then because like he's your bargaining chip, they could have gotten a real hole. I don't, I can't
[00:31:54] call from who we had this conversation. Well, I know there was always talk about is Anthony Davis got to go to Chicago at some point because I know, you know, he's from there and everything. So
[00:32:05] that was a team that was thought of to make a move for him. But I don't know if they really ever had, I mean, they had the rosin, I guess. But I don't know who, I don't know who had assets,
[00:32:17] but I know if I'm, if I'm a GM of any team and you're calling me about, you know, making a trade for some of my young talent, I'm like, yeah, we start the trade, the trade starts at AD.
[00:32:29] See, Mike, people like you would have problem. We up here trying to talk about Brandon Angerum and here you go coming in with this Lakers stuff. We go, we go into the Lakers. But that's
[00:32:39] part of it with Brandon Angerum is like, right, right, right. The world is should have moved off of him years ago. Two years ago, yeah. So we said, they made the comment, they should have moved
[00:32:51] off of them then. They should have moved off a CJ, what they should have did. So I got three other teams that I had Brad and Angerum lined up for three teams that I was thinking about. So as I said,
[00:33:04] Mr. Logic was reading my notes, so you know, I was going to say Cleveland, I don't like the fit with Donovan Mitchell, but they're losing Isaac and Corro at saves. So they're in the market for
[00:33:17] small, more work. Somebody that completed three. So we'll just have to see if that works out. What's the word with Daria's Garland? I know he was in trade talks at one point or at least
[00:33:28] his name was being thrown out there. You know, and he has a demo jet. But two teams that Mr. Logic who didn't say, because he didn't have my full notes, you know, said is now at the
[00:33:40] Pizzle with this team is thinking of their future. I was thinking to Toronto Raptors. You know, to put Brad and Angerum next to Scotty Barnes, you know, the problem with that is Scotty Barnes
[00:33:53] is not as good as Pascal Siakum. So if that was the plan, you might as well just kept in Pates, Siakum. But obviously Toronto started over. They just paid in Daniel, quickly five years,
[00:34:04] what 75, broated, Davi, on Mitchell, you know, but they have RJ Barrett. So you know, that's so to bring him the Toronto, you might have to do a B-I for RJ Barrett. And I don't know who wins
[00:34:16] a trade in that scenario because they're about the same flavor of mid as far as up considerate. Yeah, I don't know what you do. RJ Barrett and John Taylorie and the yeah.
[00:34:27] Yeah. So then it's going to be shambles for a lot of TV. Yeah. So then the last team that I had, you know, is another bottomed weller because Brandon Angerum is pretty much a bottomed weller at this
[00:34:37] point. So I said why can't you think of the bottomed well? I just think he just he doesn't move the needle like the contract that he's got. I feel that this version of the NBA that we're watching
[00:34:47] are phasing players like him out. Like he's told he's like he so he could stretch the floor a little bit. The problem is that he ain't good enough for that to be a thing like he's like
[00:34:59] maybe well, I don't know. I didn't even go say that but the other team that I was thinking about was Portland. You know from from from the from the standpoint that's right. Even though I said
[00:35:08] he was overrated overrated. It doesn't mean garbage. You know what I'm saying? But you know and shout out to the sixers, you know, apparently they're going to bring back the black uniforms of this. So
[00:35:19] you know I'm excited for that. But but I was thinking Portland, you know Portland's got this long jam they got rid of Brom's in but they still have scoot hinders in, affedy sign and shaded
[00:35:30] sharp. You know they just brought it. Did he have the uh you know they still got Jeremy Grant. So so like they just have just long jam that maybe if you put in Brandon Angerum, you know he's a
[00:35:43] all he's a former all star. So you know you bring some credibility to the locker room potentially if because I mean most of these guys you know you're in B.A. player, you think you should
[00:35:54] those think you think you'd best play it on the team. So so if I break in somebody like Brandon Angerum maybe that's you know this is my team now. Maybe the way that you said he did it felt like
[00:36:05] he didn't want to be in New Orleans because he knew that the push was for Zion. So maybe if I put him somewhere like Portland you know maybe this is your team now. Only problem is nobody wants to be
[00:36:17] important with you. No one wants to be in Portland for what I hear to dope city. Great people he just can't he can't expect to go to a contender and I'm not sure if he can just
[00:36:34] lock into oh this is my time to get a max extension. And that be his his his his mantra his intrinsic marching orders because I don't know if 208 million dollars on a table for him. Maybe importantly
[00:36:52] because I don't think they're paying anyone that kind of money and it maybe it helps scoops to have another guy at the handle to ball that can score a guy you're not still wondering what his
[00:37:03] ceiling is because if I get Brandon Angerum in there without Zion right now you got 21 points five rebounds. So we're importantly bro they're Jeremy Grant they paid him five years 160. Yeah he he he's I wouldn't say you know oh cause he's better he gets some money but like
[00:37:24] if you're gonna spend one six young Jeremy Grant spending 200 on Brandon Angerum is an outrageous considering that you already spent the 160 on Grant. If you or a team that's like you don't know
[00:37:37] where to fit fit him in and then you bring him in for two hundred and a minute I think you're slot right in because obviously some of those pieces that they have there in place some of those
[00:37:46] young guards are going to head down into Orleans. But we like we're talking about it but the draft it's just it seems as if a lot of teams are stuck between a rock and a hard place or the
[00:37:58] fork and a roll or whatever you know add to what you want to use and they just need to make the hard decision. They have to go to the meeting and say the say the tough thing out loud like hey
[00:38:10] right maybe we need to move off a Zion hey maybe stuff needs to you know this these be his last year maybe we don't bring Dreyman back. Because they'll look at like oh one Dreyman played we were
[00:38:23] 24 and 13 we were on our way to 49 wins yeah but how effective are you with the guy who can't stop getting technicals. Mike Collie Junior's play like 14 years in a VIII some crazy number no
[00:38:39] technical files they've been ejected out of a game. Yeah Dreyman Green got ejected 14 times last year all right so now that's an exaggeration but so with that being said you know said now we're going to
[00:38:53] call this the linker portion of the show. We go talk about other teams too but you know to be there for the sake of conversation so the makers they are still they're basically running it back
[00:39:08] you know to be and you know this is gonna be LeBron another year older so to the point of he's still effective he still put up numbers you know to be but not saying that there's going to be
[00:39:21] a severe fall off I'm not doing the max column in cliff thing but at some point those legs add you know to be and you've been fortunate that he's been able to play in the playoffs you know this
[00:39:34] deep into the season and all of this without injuries late in the year so far so to Mike's point and to what you were saying earlier yeah like you should have traded at any
[00:39:45] days you know and now that we're here what do you do because no matter who you want to get who was the Angela Russell who wants Icebora you might find a home for Austin Rees but what
[00:39:58] you're going to get back for you know who was Jackson Hayes your WWE like they're sports entertainment there's teams that we're they're gonna be on TV because of the brand the Lakers the Sun's Golden State the NYX had gotten better Philly's gotten better so like the
[00:40:27] Miami is going to be on TV because of the brand like your plan for the brand the moves either have the making moves but it's like that's Miami that's the brand but they're
[00:40:38] what we're going to see is gonna look a lot like New Orleans is gonna look a lot like previous Minnesota years it's gonna look a lot like just those teams that are like crawling
[00:40:51] to go over the hump I think the clippers are going to be in that same boat where your WWE your you know the AEW like you're just sports entertainment at that point because you're not championship contending you're gonna talk we're gonna talk about you because you're the
[00:41:06] because of the brand that you wear the city the cities that you playing and we'll get you on TV but Miami won't be better than Orlando no one's gonna be talking about Orlando okay see is gonna yeah yeah okay see is gonna be heading shoulders above
[00:41:24] both teams and Southern California and Denver is gonna be way better than both of the teams in Northern California but the conversation is gonna be more about what's going on with stuff what does the brand need for a championship like that conversation it just it just feels
[00:41:45] it just feels forced and just old because like it's up to the makers to put pieces in place for the brand and the team the win championships it is not up to the sports media can
[00:41:58] glomerate to come up with their ideas according to the arguments according to these arguments that I was having over the weekend you know the makers are sabotaging the bronze so they could keep Kobe's legacy intact like they don't care like they don't care about legacy home
[00:42:14] me they care about money like they like they care about what they care about what they should care about is the fact that Boston just got number 18 that's what they should care about but I don't think they even care about that because everyone's talking about like you know
[00:42:27] you gotta let them when it's 12 teams and they're like four black dudes I don't think people like really count in first 11 like I know they had that argument but like I don't think the
[00:42:38] 18 to 17 matters as much because if you think about the bus family they were part of a lot of the lake of championships I believe at this point around 11 or so with the five from magic
[00:42:51] five from Kobe and Shack will five from Kobe five from magic one from LeBron so I think the bus family was there for 11 so I don't think they look at the Celtics 18 like oh my god we're
[00:43:03] lacking it's like yeah we've gotten 11 since we my dad bought this team the rest of the league you can hang you grabbed 12 teams there. They're just easy I could do it. Yeah it's like you got
[00:43:14] so I don't I just I don't think it's a sabotage I'd say honestly it's just a matter of like there's not much out there this year like this this the last six seasons with the parity
[00:43:26] of six champions if we go back seven years I think you got golden state in 2017 or 2018 yeah and then the Toronto run and then you go and go and stay there and then you have and then you
[00:43:42] have the last two years with Denver boss so golden states got two and the last seven years but for the sake of the parity argument six years in a row different champion right
[00:43:53] it's gonna show even more next year I think boss and has a shot but Filly it Filly retools and like I said it feels like I've got to start thinking about early for you in a second before I get
[00:44:08] to that where does Memphis fit into all this you gotta see what Josh like on his comeback haha I shot out the jaws of Minnesota native shot out it does blow the prince I mean a
[00:44:28] per brain yeah there's no legs in LA I think Memphis has a shot simply because their guy was out and now they have a real shot to compete for fourth in the West
[00:44:49] I don't know about third just yet but I think that puts I think they're had a Phoenix I could put them ahead of Houston I could put them ahead of yeah I was gonna bring them
[00:45:01] both LA team on the rise I could put them ahead of New Orleans so I you know the the 15 teams in the West I can start them at seven six seven in that uh now I think Dallas has gotten better come
[00:45:20] me granted they did represent the West but I don't think their roster is that much better than okay sees move I like to play Thompson move but I don't know is you put them back to start
[00:45:32] lineup because you had the legs for the start lineup these come up the bench if you put them in a start lineup and then you decide like yo maybe he doesn't have the legs
[00:45:41] is he gonna be good going back going to the bench of Dallas has to do it so you can mix them in there run at four five six I think you could put Memphis in that range four five six I think they
[00:45:51] have the pieces in place to be automatically inserted in there and we'll see how it plays out yeah yeah and I think the rockets are you know coming from the play and at least they're they're
[00:46:04] improved I don't know what the hell the clipers are gonna be you know I imagine fighting for the playing yeah they're gonna either be in a playing or just miss it are the spurs going to be good
[00:46:18] enough to get an extra 10 wins you know I want I want to say yes but I just felt like I felt like would win be on the squad and the youth they had on the team last year they should have looked
[00:46:33] better and they didn't so I can't imagine you adding like an old Chris older Chris Paul into pop of his system and it just because this is the world champion Harrison Barnes' time yeah and I think he's they're all close our age
[00:46:53] it's like I just I don't know I don't know where the mix is like I didn't think San Antonio really I think I used a coach Carter version before and he was you know when they had their first
[00:47:06] game they went to the timeout and he was like coached in teachers in any plays he's like what did I teach you like to run so what do you think I want you to do I was like run yeah so every rebound
[00:47:19] they would just run it out so using that youth at their advantage we thought the Houston was gonna do that and then they went got a bunch of old guys and it's like now it doesn't work
[00:47:29] San Antonio I don't know if it works but I said like they're in the playing they're in that that nine eleven range so Philanjoff who otherwise so Philanjoff you know they brought in
[00:47:45] Taylor Martin now so here's my question is this brother still in the league I believe twin I believe so but here's the question though Philanjoff doing too much now no I don't think they're doing too
[00:47:58] much because they have a couple of guys that might need 12 games off of the rip I think they might have two guys that are like their their season is 70 games and they're gonna low manage based on like you can just you can just count 12 games off
[00:48:16] of Paul George N. M. B on all to the night's in the game. I was a great 17 off at M. B he's got to play the 65 that he needs to be in the game. Yeah so yeah so we'll give healthy M. B 65 games
[00:48:30] healthy Paul George 63 to 68 games so you're gonna need a guy like Martin who down in my because my me my me doesn't think we're um they play the tall guys that the owner pays money
[00:48:48] to and just sees like what happens like just the Nicole and Jovech your name is close enough to this other guy that plays a different gold play and it worked out again what just 6768 guy
[00:49:01] can do some stuff. How many hawkers how many hawkers like if you think about the UCLA Squire they had a Mart Mari Bailey 65 left handed guy went to Charlotte barely got any real
[00:49:13] run. Hi guys was down in my name he just playing just just like listen you're out here you could dribble the ball we drafted you you've been playing basketball if extra amount of years of your life
[00:49:23] you're young go play let's see if we can make it work. Right I think I think I think I like the Martin move I still don't you know I think Boston because I think Boston just had to show the
[00:49:35] uh yeah oh I mean they want to use by what 1415 games. 1415 games. They ran it they ran it all back and their their system makes sense like what they what they what they do for the their personnel
[00:49:49] grouping is proving is proving that it works like so everybody in the locker room knows what we do here for this team works like Cole Houser Shadow Sam Houser he knows like if I get to this
[00:50:02] spot and I go four for seven from three that's good enough even if it's four for nine but the four I did my part I knocked down most four. Richard Drew Holiday needs 12 minutes where he doesn't
[00:50:18] have to handle the ball throughout the game and I need to go three for three for seven or three for eight from three. I got my so it's like everyone knows it's not like a gas going like oh
[00:50:29] man oh only got eight shots my eight shots and the rest that Drew got for me is pretty like that's what I'm supposed to do. I think Boston has that advantage. Filly like I've never I'd never really
[00:50:42] like pick and teams that they're bringing a bunch of free agents and then they have all these expectations before they even practice the workout like even a Miami heat was like 95 96 97
[00:50:53] they didn't come out the gate look I think they started out 98 you know so it takes a while for the workout um yeah like the second move because it allows those guys to take those that time off.
[00:51:06] Then of course you got crami a glint rivers you know that having done a damn thing they picked up the lawn bright they picked up Tory in Prince you know which is fine but I think you're at the
[00:51:19] stage where the way that the teams are around you building you might need a little more dynamic player. Janice's plan 36 to 38 minutes of game is here. Yeah you guys it's been as minutes it's probably like
[00:51:35] as minutes are gonna go up like that's only the thing is like we don't we didn't make a move so we can keep maybe some defensive help yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah older uh middle to
[00:51:47] another year older and with all the injuries he's probably older than he really is you know you got Brook Lopez like I always say about in these these you know Brook Lopez actually that age
[00:51:59] then you got they trying to try to get him to get a first round draft pick but what kind of player could you get back for Brook Lopez so at this point they're running it back but I don't think
[00:52:10] they were in a position because I mean who else is on their team you know they got my guy Andre Jackson on the bench that they didn't play very much they got Pat Conninson's build you know to me so
[00:52:20] like thank my board is still a free agency right he's still there but but you know but I mean but at that point but what I do like like I said uh the other day I do like Orlando picking up
[00:52:32] KCP you know uh Mark Kale folks is probably out of there so now you got minutes to give Anthony Black who they drafted last year the first round six foot seven point guard defensive the fence of
[00:52:46] stud so the problem with Orlando is is that their defense was already legit you know to be so like now you're just overpowered they're probably gonna be the best defense in the league but they need one
[00:52:59] more score can you get the 105 points yeah they need one more score and you know if they didn't have somebody like Franz Wagner then I would say maybe be I can go there you know to me but did
[00:53:12] you know he disrupts everything that they do anyway so but like like you said though uh I think bringing in an older role player works on a young team like KCP played defense guard the point guard
[00:53:27] tough take open looks makes more sense versus like I say what Houston is doing right with the older players or even like Detroit Detroit has all young guys if they can't fit anywhere like they could
[00:53:43] have moved out a couple of those players and over as Jack was already into Detroit but like a guy like that like someone to be fair though to be fair though it's only July 8 you know they still got
[00:53:55] time to make moves but you're not now that you know to be here you just see his lot of stuff a lot of fans should really just go to games and just be happy for the ambiance like you
[00:54:15] go to the game because it's a Tuesday night year it's date night or it's like a day which a daughter who likes basketball make which is son who likes basketball because a lot of a lot of your teams are playing
[00:54:27] for seven place yeah just just bring the plastic the paper the plastic or paper bags back to put over your head yes you know but sneak some food in and save you a little bit of coin but like that's
[00:54:38] a lot of fans are gonna be at games where your team is at best a fifth seed and that's with all things going well like Brooklyn what is Brooklyn gonna give you and I still don't have any idea
[00:54:52] what you thought man another technical difficulty but we're good Michael back on a second but yeah if we just go we'll just go close to coast a lot of NBA teams probably were
[00:55:08] two or three years away from our two or three two years behind on the move they should have made you know you listen this is live show we have technical difficulties yeah sometimes like
[00:55:19] sometimes I get to see a mountain work but for the most part so I apologize so so real quick you know before we get out of here I'm gonna read these names of these free agents you let me know
[00:55:29] what stands out to you okay all right very Trent Jr. Tia Jones Spencer did withy Siddiqu Bay Markel Foltz Lani Walker de 4th pressure Shachua Kyle Lowry Luke Kinar CDIsman T HT Reggie Bullitt did his fifth Jr. KJ Martin anything stand out to you
[00:55:55] okay so yeah I think that's Kavos brother so it looks like he's out uh no no KJ is Kagan Martin son Kagan Martin son yeah I like use so I like that energy and you know sounds like NBA players are normally pretty good
[00:56:13] Gary Trent Jr. probably should be in test with it that sometimes journeyman is hard to bring him in because as a GM you're like you don't love him you know so you don't really have a role form
[00:56:28] I don't think videos guys are exceptional anywhere like I'm thinking of like really long defenders or great on ball defenders I think Tia Jones is probably a good backup point guard but I feel like lack of size and lack of shooting I don't know I don't know
[00:56:46] I don't know the backup point guard gets you if your offense is like spray we would have much a combo guard I feel like the liquor should bring in Gary Trent Jr. at the very least
[00:56:58] you know because the double one thing that we always talk about is their lack of shooting you know uh Max Christie is a good shooter that doesn't get any minutes you know so
[00:57:08] but I think the liquor's a taped out on their seats I don't think they have a spot for players because of you hate for it not even just the apron just he gave four or five of their role players
[00:57:21] player options for this year so you can't even get rid of them right and then something like you you can't you can't cut multiple guys who are on league minimum so he gave these guys essentially
[00:57:34] like Jackson Hayes the end of the Russell has his player option jacksays and player options I believe Chris he had a player option but they had player options for like the for the minimum
[00:57:45] just essentially tying their the hands of the GM what it gives you can't believe you know here but any any took that option is like I'm not getting any other offers so they all took their
[00:57:59] options so I think they don't have any space um like I think a good back a point guard works if you run that kind of offense maybe Phoenix should really look into bringing in a point guard
[00:58:12] I don't know if Marko folks is that guy maybe Kyle Loverie and me Kyle Loverie's LeBron's age I don't think people really like yeah I think he's 38 yeah so he's he's up there he wasn't you know that same high school hallway age is a
[00:58:31] LeBron so that's that's all guy it might be just my email read this go sign with Toronto do his retire as a raptor yeah some pros nobody's picked up Luke Knoard
[00:58:44] how good like if you like I said if you don't play like defense if you don't do something well you have to be exceptions or else right and I'm not sure if he really fist that villain
[00:58:58] Philly is probably gonna bring in a couple of these freeins if they have space maybe Milwaukee why no uh is there free agent he played for Philly so maybe they just keep him or maybe they can sign and trade him for somebody Spencer Denwoody for some reason
[00:59:16] when you watch Laker games scorn on Tony I'm not sure if he hit a shot when I watch Laker games it just looked like he was out there for cardio it was so many games like multiple games
[00:59:36] had like maybe that Tony still uh line we had like zero points zero rebounds zero zero and like 24 minutes right like that's what Spencer did when he was looking like a lot of
[00:59:48] nights and it's like yo you're 6, 6, 7 combo guard mainly shooting guard you should be getting to the bucket getting fog and freak those media trapeutivity but maybe it's just the way the Laker's
[01:00:00] played it's the way yeah that's what I was gonna say because you know a lot of it is you know let this old ass dude set up the offense and dribbled a ball most of the time
[01:00:10] yeah but I'm talking about like even when the brown was on the floor it but I think the offense in the LA didn't look like it just it didn't look like and uh I guess the quote from uh Kavalloni
[01:00:24] when you're talking about Dallas and the finals like sometimes you have to get the role players shots early that way later in the game when you need to shoot that three they can do it
[01:00:35] Boston did that I think Dallas was doing a good job at least guys were shooting it you know they weren't always making it but two guys guys that were ready to shoot uh huh I don't think any
[01:00:45] of these free agents that you ran down the list are catcha shoot guys I don't think many of them are are like prime defenders maybe use I know a Marby they don't know if he got picked up but he got
[01:00:58] wave by he's not on the roster right now he got wave by shot like he got like and who the hell is Charlotte playing that like you can't get him can't get him minutes or getting
[01:01:12] him okay I mean you've got Brandon Miller in the draft this past year Lebello never plays anyway you know who the hell are you playing that you can't start a six-five defender that can shoot
[01:01:24] yeah or maybe you just maybe it's just a message I like I would love to be in one of these NBA organizations and really see how it works because some of the outside like you know someone who
[01:01:38] thinks organizationally some of the things uh project management some of the things process management like you know prices are in it from my prime and ear force it's like I've seen way a a poor
[01:01:51] commander that the vibe and the tone they can set on a unit and I've been in a flight you know the commander is obviously person charge but I've been in a flight where I had a flight chief that had
[01:02:06] you could tell every one of his moves are very self-centered and the ego centric and I can see how that like turned everybody off but you get a modded AXYS New it just feels like a lot of these
[01:02:17] teams don't have the right people in place like you should be able to go to a guy and say listen I know you want to score 20 points a night but can you give me 12 points and two and a half
[01:02:31] steals because that that two and a half steals could get us potentially six more points from other guys that way you couple assists now you're gonna you know you're gonna couple
[01:02:44] steals we get runouts because turn over the easiest way to get later so if you get in turn of the time to key you jump on the lane you're on a runout like you didn't even say they've
[01:02:52] been chasing if you get a steal off the wing like if you get a deflection and a steal off the wing you scoop that ball up you get in the layup you know or just like can you get me
[01:03:03] can you participate in this game in other ways and I just don't know if the coaches they put in place can articulate that to the players or it's just a faith in the coach you
[01:03:12] just have because you know so much money being involved with if I'm a 20 point score I you brand-ing room I'm expecting to an $8 million because I'm that guy so it's just like I
[01:03:23] said that's the confusion part to me because I'm not sure like I don't know too many people who are 65, 66, 67 but like the NBA seems to be throwing these guys off the rosters like these guys
[01:03:36] would just come in off the factory somewhere else I got my eye on Adonis arms to see if he ends up or somebody's roster you know so I see what I love it why everybody's still talking about
[01:03:46] brownie he gonna be on the shelf like that that is what it is I guess coaches don't want to coaches don't want to play a guy that's only making the league minimum and Benchegad has getting 18 million. But on that note ladies and gentlemen this has been sports reporters
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