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Let's look at the reaction from the respective teams fan bases. Starting in Portland, things are looking good. Things are rosy, universal celebration. People are buying Milwaukee Bucks jerseys, probably tickets to Deer Park. We all wanted to do right by Dame as long as it was right for the Blazers and guess what here it is And on top of that, big fuck you to the heat fans. Vast majority of Blazer fans are excited. They have four reactions. One relief,
it's over real, It's over Blazer fans, It's done. We don't have to think about this ever again. Genuine relief from rip City that Portland was not bullied into taking a bit deal and they no longer have to worry about Damian and Willard saying mean things about us on media Day. Two. Appreciation for Joe Cronin. He was put in a terrible position and somehow found a path so that all the people who mattered actually became happy moderately at least three of course we're putting out memes. We're
putting out tweets, appreciation, pots, gratitude for Dame. He's the best. He's the best. It was the best a Blazer fan could ever hope for ten toes down was here a decade, did everything that he could to win us a ring. I love Dame as a person, I love Dame as a player. He's the best Blazer in my mind to ever suit up. And I loved r. Vitus a bonus I loved I loved Clyde Drexler. But boy, oh boy, were they not Dame so many moments that he gave us. I infamously said that I don't want Dame to win
a chip if he goes anywhere else. Really, what I meant is I don't want a Dame to I didn't want Dame to win a chip if he went to Miami. Really, what I meant that was just me being bitter about Miami. I couldn't stomach the fact that pat Riley would win, because he always wins. Watch winning time. It's just gross,
a little slip back. He just smug And for Portland fans feel happiness over the fact that Nurk is not there anymore, and that contract's not there anymore, and you get a young number one overall draft pick from a few years ago who's got a lot left a potential in the tank. DeAndre Ayden didn't get a great shake in Phoenix, and now you get him and Drew who will result in a Hall. And yes, I think that that's a great way to set the Blazers up for the future. So I say, I think it's safe to
say that Blazer Nation is pretty good. If you're a Milwaukee fan, you've gotta be fucking stunned. You just stunned. How did we get this? We didn't even know. We thought it was July and it's Christmas. We woke up in the middle of July and there's a room full of presents for us under a tree we didn't even know should be there. Every Buck site, every Bucks podcast is like, huh, how what we thought we were losing? Giannis? And all I see is how GM John Big Bass
Horse pulls some shit off like this. Although Mark Spears mentioned that the Bucks had preliminary talks with the Blazers, no one saw it coming. Just like with the Drew trade. La la la la, Holy shit. Woj bomb uh Bucks fans also appreciative. They love Drew Holliday. They don't want to let him go, but you can't say no to Dame time. AKA it's now called freak time, Pauls. No one thinks it's a bad trade. The idea of Dame keeping defenses from collapsing on Giannis is gonna be great.
Of course, they've got unbridled giddy excitement. They've moved from the fourth favorite plus six hundred to the leader in the clubhouse in one minute, in literally a minute. If I didn't know how happy this fase was, the hundreds of variations of I'm glad I wore white pants today joke would have been a dead giveaway. And rightly so, this combo is going to be deadly. Number one duo in the East, probably number one duo in the NBA. If you're a Sixers and Celtics fan, you're like, how
are we guarding that? We used to just build a wall around Giannis and now like this, the wall doesn't work anymore. It does not work. A brief pit stop also in Phoenix, as facilitators of this deal, they it was just never gonna work with DeAndre Aid and they hated him. I don't know why, but they did. They got Vogel. Vogel was saying all the right things. I think Vogo could have turned eight and into a nice center, and they just they just were like, Yeah, let's stop
trying to make DeAndre Eighten happen. It's not happening. I love him, I love Eighton. I think he's awesome. I've always loved Dayton since he was I loved Dayton since he was fifteen years old when I saw him at the Adda's Nations. That's how long. So this is a fresh for him. He finally gets the respect he wants. He's already changed his two K jersey and putting it online to Portland. Hell yeah, the Suns pick up badly
needed depth. They get in this yere little. They get Keon Johnson and they get NRK's gonna know his role. He's gonna shut his mouth and he's gonna play with KD. He's gonna love it too. Everyone's everyone in Phoenix has got to be pretty much over the mood. Finally, we end in Miami, where fans are starting to cannibalize on one another. It's bad out there on the streets. They're like ready to turn on pat Riley. They're saying he's a slappy when they were saying he was the smartest
facilitator league exec. Ever, how much changes in an hour as wild It's whoa. The entire fan base was convinced they were getting damned. They would have staked their beating heart on it. And now rug is out from under him and they're looking around like Will Smith in an empty room. How is the heat in their fan base taking the news? Let's look into it. Uh, what's the emotions? Do we really care what their emotions are? Do we really care about them? No, but we'll go into it.
Number one is anger. They're just shocked and angry. A whole lot of angry posts across social mediing like how did this happen? They've whipped on one star after another to add to Jimmy and bam Nobile even though that what Phoenix got him for peanuts. There were some pat Riley as eighty and these losses Fastball he needs to retire posts. Someone tweeted that it was Joe Cronin's fault, it was Danny Ainge's fault, it was Clutch's fault. It
was everybody's fault except for pat Riley's. If the whole league is against them, maybe we should replace him with someone that can actually get along with people. Whoa WHOA hold on. Now, settle down, Heat fans, Remember you told me everything was fine and you were just in the finals last year, so seems like Everything's. Number two emotion is rage rage at the Blazers, which I gotta say
is my favorite emotion of them all. Much more common were Heat fans believing that the Blazers did this out of straight pettiness, which I don't know whether that's true, but if it is, that's awesome. That's awesome. They're big mad folks, big mad, and they're blaming Joe Cronin. This fan base is delusional. They really, they really are. The fact that Joe Cronin would take a worse deal just screw over Miami is ridiculous. Like I said, if it's
a jump ball, it's fuck you. Number three is resignation. I think they're starting to realize that they've got nothing. They've lost multiple role players, guys that played, two guys that played in the starting lineup for the entire playoffs, and those guys are gone. The heat heatles, heat over heat a verse. I guess we'll call it felt, a whole lot of uh, just resignation over the news. They kept be being told that they can't go all in on a superstar because the next star down the road
is the one. That's what the genius about Joe Cronin really is though, because the next Domino was supposed to be honest, and now they've taken them both away and one fell swoop and they've actually taken three away because let's be real, the next Domino guard that they wanted was Drew Holliday, and guess what, you're not getting him either. So Option one gone, Option two gone, Option three gone
fuck you. That means there's only one possibility for them on the table and the Jimmy bam Era, and that's Joel Embiid. And folks, if that's your backup plan, I hate to tell you. The seventy six ers are in the market for Drew Holliday, and boy, oh boy, do I see Joe Cronin making that move, which would be about checkmate check mate. I think there are two things
Heat fans can take away from today. One, this team signed R. J. Hampton, which is a personal favorite player of mine, considering that I watched Davion Mitchell cook him for an entire Summer League game, telling us about all of the ways he was just trash. You got that going for you, which is nice. And the team tweeted out that Josh Richardson will wear the number zero for the heat. Wow. If that's not putting, oh god, if that's not throwing in the towel, I don't know what
is silver linings, heat fans, silver linings. My personal feeling on a more we'll call it Sincere and Oe is that I'm incredibly happy that this is the duo we got because these are two of the most loyal guys in the NBA, and they both were kind of pushed to the brink and now because they said something, Hey, I need to win, they got put together Dame and Yannis.
And the truth is, Dame, no matter how much he said he wanted to be in Miami, said this along time ago about Janice, and I think it still rings true today.
If you were to pick a player that would help you win a championship, who would you pick? I would pick I hope he would get to play with Giannis at some point, those two would be a very very nice time, Bob. I mean, I would say, just the dominance. You know, somebody that's gonna get to the rim. He's a good playmaker, good defender, disruptive, and his the way he plays compliments the way.
I play, Yes, sir, and so I like that for Dame a lot. I think he deserves. Maybe you guys thought I really meant that he did not deserve to have basketball happiness, But I really think this is good for both of them. They're two of the most likable guys in the league, and I wish them all the best.
It's a lot easier. Also, another thought that I had about this is just it was so much easier for Milwaukee to do this for j honest than it was for Portland to do this for Dame, because big guys like Jannis really really hard to find, hence the reason he's a two time MVP Defensive Player of the Year and Greek freak. Than it is to do that when you've got a guard, which are a lot easier to replace. And I think Dame obviously I consider him a top three guard in the league, but star players ask out
a lot more when they're guards. That's just the truth. Embeid. As much as he's been quote unquote unhappy, he's been rocking, you're not getting a Yo kic. You're not getting ay honest, because teams don't want to give up on those dudes. I am also happy that Miami did not get what they wanted. I think I've said that multiple times on this podcast, but it's worth saying again. I am happy
that they are left holding their dicks. Their fans were insufferable, and guess what, Like, I'm more upset that there were legit Miami quote unquote journalists that were trying to manipulate the information to make it seem like there was nothing that Portland could do. I do hope that if Dame gets a ring in my Milwaukee, that that he gets multiple. I hope that they stay together forever. I would not mind if they were title contenders and they were running
through the East. For a minute, I thought that Cronan has a new GM, did a fantastic job. He played his cards to his vest. There was no leaks. There were plenty of people who were saying that Joe Conan had dick, and you know what he knew He didn't, But he didn't say a word. He kept things closed, and that's what good gms do. It's a great day
also for the NBA. Why if Dame had gone to Miami, every star player would be like yeah, and every agent would say, I can get my client wherever I want to go and wherever they want to go, whenever I want to go. And that's just what you cannot have if you're Adam Silver. So a good day for the logo, great day for the logo. I am happy for Dame. I really don't think the Blazers did right by Dame, and that's not Joe Cronin's fault, so I'm glad that
they have found an end to this chapter. I am happy for watching Dame on the East Coast because ten pm from the East Coast is a rough fucking beat forty one times. For Dame to play at ten thirty is disgusting. And it's a great day for the league, good day for Blazer fans, good day for Dame, and good day for fans of the entire league. And if it's not a good day for you, you're a Heat fan.