We're back in the studio, Baby, No more episodes at midnight where I'm barely awake. Those are fun episodes, by the way. They are just I just extend everything out like this, bab, Like this, bab. We got the draft next week. Uh, then we got free agency, and then we got Summer League. So much as happening, folks, my head is spinning, we have to say, because I don't think we've had an episode since this happened. The Denver Nuggets won the Chip and Nikoli Jki doesn't seem like
he cares really at all. He's already lost his NBA Finals trophy. He's probably lost his Western Conference Finals trophy. He's like, I just want to go home and see my horses win some sort of I don't even know what type of race is happening in Serbia, but I guess it's important. He's ready to be done with basketball. He even broke the code. You're not supposed to say when you make that much money and you do all the things that people of his stature do, like you're
supposed to like your job. And Nicole Okic spilled the tea. Hey, everyone, every single person, no matter what they do, hates their job, and if they say they love it, I'm sure that there are people out there who say that they're lying. He's like, I'm sure, he said, Oh, maybe other people feel differently. They're lying. He just said it right there on the podium. Everyone is looking to the future already,
even the Nuggets. Reports are that Denver Nuggets GM Calvin Booth missed Game four of the NBA Finals because he was scouting the draft. And that was after Calvin Booth already pulled off a trade with Oklahoma City during the Finals.
I've never seen that before. For the records, the Nuggets swapped a protected twenty twenty nine first round pick to ok See for the least favorable of Okac's twenty twenty four first round pick, the number thirty seven pick in the twenty twenty three draft, and a twenty twenty four second round pick. Do you know what that means? Maybe there's another Yokic right around the corner. Maybe at the
thirty seventh overall pick. You're gonna get some random dude that they play a Taco Bell commercial over when they draft them. Remember, Yoki went forty first in the draft. Why would Why would Calvin booth do that. Why would he look for the thirty seventh pick in the finals? Just saying grind never sleeps for an NBA executive. Speaking of executives, David Griffin, our favorite pianist, has a shit storm on his hands dealing with the Zion fallout, which
has been tremendous. It is NonStop. I don't think Mariah Mills Hall stopped tweeting. Since she started to tweet, it has been shock. It appears that Zion would quote like a change of scenery. Apparently the change of scenery shocking is New York City just the only place that everybody's been saying. Zion has been wanting to go. He said, remember when he played at MSG and he was like, I love Madison Square Garden. It's my favorite place on earth to play. Well, I mean except for the Smoothie
King Center. All right, Zion, we get it, you want to be in New York. The problem, well, for one, Mariah Mills has made Zion's personal reputation in stock about as low as it could possibly be. I think she's tweeted twelve thousand times since Friday. I won't get into it, but like I said, she's still going second Zion. The more importantly, Zion has played really not at all in
four years. If you were to guess how many games Zion has played in the combined four seasons that he's been in the NBA, and there's, mind you, eighty two games per year, except for the COVID year, which was seventy two and then the shortened bubble year which was I forget like sixty eight or something. How I mean four times that. That's the lot, right, There's over three hundred games Zion has played in, one hundred and fourteen of them. During that same stretch, Nikola Jokic has played
three hundred and thirty games. Think about that. So, anybody Portland Portland thinking about trading for Zion, which they would never do because they're way too smart for that. At least, think about the injury concerns. Think about that. Think about the fact that Zion's ass doesn't even like to come back and play defense. He just saunters back like he's uh, I don't know, like walking. Mark Stein reports that the
Pelicans really want Scoot Henderson. Good fucking luck. Okay, good luck with that unless you're gonna get a trade going with the Charlotte Hornet's good luck. I heard this week. This is what Mark Stein said. I heard this week from one placed, well placed observer who is convinced that the Pelicans would indeed consider dealing Williamson a way if it meant that they could draft Scoot point into a rising level of exasperation within the organization regarding Williamson's ongoing
availability issues and overall approach. Overall approach is really doing a lot of work. My read at this juncture is that the Pelicans are less inclined to consider trading brandon Ingram in this same scenario. Exasperation, we'll just say, is not a great adjective when describing how you feel about your star player that you took number one overall in the draft four years ago. Exasperation leads me to believe that if you want the definition intensely irritated and frustrated,
it's like your wits end is exasperation. The end of the rope is exasperation. Folks, Do I like theoretically Scoot in New Orleans? Maybe? Do I love Zion in New York? No? Do I love Zion in Portland? Absolutely fucking not. It's being floated out that Zion's trade value has never been lower, which, to be fair, is true. But what is the value of Zion? There are some idiots out there, there really are.
There are people who think, well, if he could be fully healthy, he is dominant when he's on the floor. He is an all star. He is box office. Just the mere thought of him playing basketball for our team means that we'll probably sell an immense amount of season tickets. But let's face it, he's never available. His upside is high, but his downside is in street close, spittin in Mariah Mills's mouth? Will he be on the move? Stranger things have happened, So this will be a wild run up to the traft