What would a Kyrie trade be? Without checking in on what the newly crowned NBA scoring leader Lebron James thought, I want to know what does he think about something that did not affect him at all? What does he think about something a trade that did not happen that he thought was going to happen for him? Because ESPN, through Michael Wilbon, out to interview Lebron James one on one to get I don't know, like to just get his perspective on the trade, the non trade for them
and the trade to Boston or to Dallas. Excuse me. So when Kyrie asked out Lebron, this is the timeline, Lebron responded by tweeting a crown and a big eye emoji. That's hilarious, hilarious. That's like Lebron in Twitter for him, that's what he is. He's just setting the stage up for what he thinks is going to happen. He's getting excited. And I just have never seen this sit down for
something that's like a non trade. Never seen it. Just Braun candidly came out and said he was disappointed that they did not get Kyrie irving and made sure to say that he thought Kyrie Irving and him would win championships together, and which is again part of the reason that I don't think he's in Dallas long. This is what was said.
Well, definitely disappointed. I can't sit here and say I'm not disappointed on not being able to land such a talent, but someone that I had great chemistry with and no, I got great chemistry with on the floor. That can help you win, you know, championships in my mind, in my eyes. But my focus is shifted now. My focus has shifted back to where it should be, and that's that's his club now. And what we have in the locker room is got pivot. Lebron's a quick pivot, quick pivot.
It don't take me long. It don't take me long, don't. I don't get too excited about the possibilities of things that can be. I kind of envisioned myself on what it can but I don't I don't invest it all the way into until I know what's happening, and when it does not happen, I'm back locked in on the job at hand. So you know, we had an opportunity. I think our names was out there the Lakers name
was out there, we had an opportunity, didn't happen. We move on and we finished the season strong to try to get a bid into the postseason, where I feel.
A bid into the postseason is the only thing that matters right now. He is just throwing Russell Westbrook under the bus because he knows that he was going to be in the trade for sure, like absolutely was going to be in the trade. Bron This is so strange to me in this interview because he just never does anything randomly. You know, he just is one of those strategic players. He broke the scoring record at home. He made sure that get set in place with Clutch whenever
he's dropping. Even with Brownie's announcement about where he's going to go to college, it's all gonna be done strategically. This interview was done strategically. I am disappointed we did not get Kyrie Irving. I think we can win championships together. I think we have great chemistry. I think we still will have great chemistry, and but I'm moving on. I'm a good teammate, I am a good team player, and we are now going to try to get into the
playing tournament now that we don't have Kyrie Irving. That is something very funny. That's just something that you've never seen before in history. Is an athlete come out and say, Hey, I am mad that we didn't trade for this guy. I'm gonna do a one on one sit down with Mike Wilbon, one of the most premier commentators in all the NBA, who's been in this business for a long long time, writes books for players, all that, and he's gonna come out and see me so that I can
say I'm disappointed. I'm disappointed we didn't get Kyrie. That's wild. The Lakers that were smart. I don't think they should have it. I don't think they should have given up all those pieces, Max Christy, Austin Reevees, two first round picks, Russell Westbrook's coming off, the buck books, whatever it's coming off regardless. So if you can use those picks and get Jared Vanderbilt and Mike Conley Jr. And Malik Beasley, and then you can just get Kyrie in the offseason
for whatever it is that it's going to be. I think maybe a two year deal or a three year deal while at like, while keeping Max Christy and keeping Austin Reeves, and who knows what you can do with resigning Jared Vanderbilt, who's awesome. He's another good defender who can score a little bit. Malik Beasley can score a lot. That's that's a really good team. Or you could have just spent all that for Kyrie when you can just
get him in the free agency. So but with Braun now the scoring record holder, it's going to be fascinating to see if the Lakers do anything at the deadline at all. Windhorse just tweeted that the Lakers have two options. Trade Russ and improve marginally but grew over their cap space immensely, or keep Russ, maintain cas space and signed Kyrie this summer because that's where he wants to be. I think option two is what's happening. Lakers aren't doing
anything of the deadline. WOJ also just reported that Darvin Ham and Russell Westbrook just got into a heated argument at halftime at the OKC game over Russ apparently lingering on the court after getting pulled. Yikes, how does this change things? Are they tired of us? I don't think so. But it's just weird. The whole thing is weird as Wendy notes moving Russ would probably be a mistake, so I don't think they'll do it. I think they have
become a more competent franchise. They're just trying to fix their incompetence from the past. But the Lake Show and their dysfunction never disappoints. Moving on. So we're going to dissect the entire trade deadline on our next show. Keith Smith's gonna come on as well for probably thirty forty minutes to tell us kind of how it all went down, what things didn't happen, etc. But I did want to address a couple of the rumors floating out give you
my opinion ahead of time. So we did have another major trade, a shocking a but we'll call it a buzzy trade. You know, like they had to massage this deal in order to make it work, if you know what I mean. So Miami ships Dwayne Deadman to San Antonio for a bag of chips and a they gun. So let's get into some of the trade rumors as well. This one's hot off the wires. Brian Windhorst just reported this on his podcast, and I am shook big one. This is huge, and I don't mean Dwayne Deadman to
this burs. I mean, like a real trade. Now that Kyrie Irving has been traded, maybe the next position on not trading Kevin Durant as it really was kind of last summer may change. That is an interesting development that has happened over the past forty eight hours since the Kyrie trade. From the people that I have talked to, why isn't this bigger news? Is anybody talking about I haven't seen this on First Egg. I haven't seen anything on NBA today. Nobody, no Shams, no Chris Haynes. Where
are we at with this? Does Kyrie? Does Kyrie move everything for the Brooklyn Nets? Is kad going to legitimately say, yo, I'm out. I know you guys have Cam Thomas and he's dropping forty seven on against the Wizards, but I got to go. I goes to go. Does that mean Kevin Durant is gonna be on the move like now, like before tomorrow. I don't think he's gonna be trade. I don't think they're gonna be able to get a deal done by then. But the off season is fascinating
to me. The entire trade deadline again gets hijacked by Kevin Durant as usual, he likes to you know, easy money sniper, just likes to lay in the weeds and funck shit up. So no one is gonna risk throwing away their assets when they could get Kevin Durant. So we might have a very dead deadline in advance of this off season, which I think is really interesting. Every year there's a bizarre rumor that sometimes turns out to be true. Well, this year it is the buzz that
Chris Middleton might get traded. What what'd you talking about? Wollo's According to something called Wolfele's press Box, this NBA officials believe there's a chance that the Bucks may move Middleton before the deadline. Why who would they get back in return? Really? I mean, they were bad without Chris Middleton. What are they gonna be without them? Again? Not good? I don't know where this rumor came from. This feels
like fake news to me. This feels like when I ate the garbage on a tweet about James Wiseman officially asking out, which made perfect sense but also wasn't true factually, James Wiseman, speaking of which rumored to one out, I do not think that's true. He has very little trade value, but the only reason and incentive that the Warriors would want to trade him is cap space. He would help them out with one hundred and thirty one million in
salary and penalties over the next two years. The question for y'all, is Wiseman worth sixty five I mean, I don't even I can't even get it out. Is Wiseman worth sixty five million dollars a year? I think you know the answer to that. Truthfully, that is just short of the sixty eight million that they had to pay Kelly Oubray to be on the Warriors. There's been some bad deals for the Dubs, for our dubs, excuse me.
Seems impossible, though, the Warriors will hold on to him, considering how much money he's going to cost and how little he does. He's basically a Santa Cruz Warrior for the rest of his career, as long as he's there moving forward. Another player who asking for a trade makes no sense because what kind of leverage do they really have is Ferkmond cork Moss. He has demanded a trade from Philly. Okay, does anyone care about that? Furkhon cork
Moss has demanded the trade. He wants out. No one knows why, probably because his role is diminishing, and it would because he stinks. Fresh off of getting jumped by the Georgia national team. Everyone thought he might break out. Has not happened this year. He's looking for a new home. See you later, frick on Cork Moss. We'll talk soon. The Raptors moving on easily, looking like the most active team at the deadline. No one knows though. I actually
think maybe Masaiu Siuri does nothing at all. Ognnoby's been rumored to be on the move. Fred van Fleet has rumored to be on the move. Pascal Siakam rumored to be on the move. That's a lot of picks you're gonna have to get for those three guys. Pascal Siakam and og An Andobi are elite wings. This is a wing driven league. If you're moving Pascal and og you better get six seven picks. You better get what Utah got for Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. I tell you what.
That would be an upgrade for any team who gets them. I'm very, very fascinated Fred van Fleet. He's rumored to be on the move. I think actually that's probably a more likely scenario given the fact that he's on inexpiring. He's gonna want a lot of money and Clippers are the potential landing spot for him moving forward. Portland. Portland's got to do something right. They have to. They are linked to Neurlins. No well, I don't know how much
of that moves the needle. Mobama just fresh off of his fight with Austin Rivers, the team pr representative for the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Jake Crowder. I don't know how that helps him. I don't This team is going nowhere. I think Josh Hart could probably be on the move as well. Nuggets definitely are trading Bones Highland. The other rumor that's in the mix on that is Alex Caruso to the Nuggets. I think that works probably for Bull teams.
I don't think it makes Chicago any better. I think Alex Crusoe is a key piece of the what the Bulls want to do moving forward. Miami apparently is done with Kyle Lowry. That trade stinks. That is a horrible trade. He hasn't been healthy. We all know that Kyle Lowry is kind of fat and the truth is Time is undefeated. You know, Father Time continues to win. So that's where thirty eight year old Kyle Lowry is at when he doesn't take care of his body. So he's probably on
the move to where who will want him. I do not know. Matist Thaibel seems to also be on the move. A lot of suitors, Hawks, Kings, Warriors, Pacers, Blazers, Bocks, Mavericks, Hornets, Raptors and sons pretty much all interested. Matist Staible, his attitude is not very good. I would be very curious to see how he looks on another team with another identity in another role. Clippers apparently, well we know not. Apparently they need another point guard. They need to figure
it out. They're looking at d Lo, They're looking at Eric Gordon, They're looking at Fred Vanfleet. So that's all the rumors. We'll see what happens. We've got one day and about twelve hours left to go. We will bring on Keith right after the deadline. That will go up Friday morning very early. I will have my thoughts Friday sort of mid morning early afternoon East Coast time, so we'll drop that as well. But that is all the
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