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We're gonna be covering the NBA Draft tonight. Stick around for the second half of the show. I'm gonna be giving you guys my five biggest takeaways from tonight's NBA Draft. But I want to talk about some trades and some trade rumors here at the start of the show. I want to talk a little bit about a little bit about this Katie Kyrie report that came out today. I want to talk a little bit about Jeremy Grant going to the Portland's Trailblazers. A couple of quick notes before

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well as any video content that I released. And last but not least, if you missed one of these shows for whatever reason and you want to catch it but you can't get back to YouTube, go to our podcast feed, which for the time being is under Lakers Tonight, usually about an hour after the YouTube video goes live. You can find it in podcast form there. But the theme for tonight's show is about acknowledging reality, and I think it factors in for all the teams involved in the

trades that we're going to discuss tonight. You know, I talked about this in our season wrap up show, but the Lakers and the Nets are not close to being a top tier contender if everything goes absolutely perfectly for them in their off seasons. In terms of moves on the periphery, they're just simply not going to be as deep with talent as teams like the Clippers, or like the Celtics, or like the Bucks, or like the Warriors.

Those are the teams that I think I'm gonna have in my top tier of contenders going into next season, obviously right now, not knowing what other moves are going to take place, but those teams are just better than you right now, which means in order for you to win, you need things to break right for you. You need someone to get hurt, you need some sort of playoff path that involves one of them getting upset. You need things to break your way if you're Brooklyn or the

Lakers in order for you to win the title. I would argue even more so for Brooklyn than it is for the Lakers, because at least with the Lakers you got Anthony Davis and Lebron So if Anthony Davis, for whatever reason, manages to regain his form from the bubble when he was a top five NBA player, the Lakers will have two of the top five players in the NBA. So even though they might not have the depth of the top teams, they might have the two best players

on the floor in many of their matchups. Brooklyn. Let's say Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons are healthy, what's Kyrie the or eighteenth best player in the league? Are we ever? If we're being generous and then Ben Simmons maybe maybe, And I feel like I'm being really nice to both of those guys there. The reality is it's Kevin Durant and not a whole lot else. And I'm not a big purgatory guy. You're gonna We're gonna get to that a little bit later tonight with the New York Knicks.

I'm a big believer in pushing your chips to the middle of the table. I believe in trying to win the NBA Championship, and that signing up for first and second round exits, I just don't really see the point to it if your goal is to get the trophy. And so it's important for the nets in the Lakers and the Blazers too when we get to them to acknowledge the reality of their situation, which is that they are not good enough. So then there you have to

make a decision about where you move from there. Acknowledging it is the first step. It's like Russell Westbrook. There's a reason why he never became a great shooter, never became a great defensive player, never became a great finisher. It's because up here he thinks he's great at those things even though he's not so because he never acknowledged

that reality. He never did the work to rectify those issues. You, the Nets and the Lakers have to acknowledge their shortcomings right now, and once they do that, they can start to accept reality and move on. So obviously, the Nets, for good reason, don't want to sign Kyrie Irving to a five year max. Don't blame them. He was incredibly unreliable over the last couple of years. You know, this is what happens when you go into business with your friends.

Instead of going into business with the guys that are actually the best people to go into business with, you end up with a guy who's a very good friend of yours, who's a flake. And that's what happened to k D with this Kyrie Irving partnership. But if they're gonna let him go, Kyrie Irving is absolutely willing to leave.

Kyrie Irving has a massive ego, a big enough ego after everything that happened over the last couple of years to say things like this is a great partnership I've got going on with Joe and and with with Kadi, and we're gonna build this thing together. Actually, no, that's not how anybody else saw it, except for you, because you didn't have the self awareness to understand that you did a lot of self sabotage to that team. But there's a reason why they want him to go, and

he's absolutely willing to leave. So if he leaves now you're even more behind the eight ball in terms of talent with Kevin Durant. So absolutely he should request a trade. And that got reported today that Katie would be contemplating his future with the team should they not come to terms with Kyrie Irving. So at this point, if you're the Nets and you acknowledge the simple reality that Katie and Kyrie are not enough even with Ben Simmons, and that Kyrie is in all likelihood either going to have

to be overpaid or walk, then this is over. This championship window you had is over looking at the Lakers. It's not over, but it looks dire, and so I see an interesting partnership there. Now this is a trade idea that I got earlier today, and it's extreme long shot, but I actually think it makes sense for both teams. For starters. It's incredibly uncommon to be able to actually get a star player in return for a star in

a trade. It's usually a very flawed star guy like Ben Simmons, who's got obviously mental health concerns, he's got physical health concerns, and he's got I don't know what to do with the basketball in my hands on offense, and the playoffs concerns. Right, he's got all three of those issues. That's why he was the guy you got in return for James Harden. Almost every NBA superstar trade resorts to lots of draft picks, lots of young players,

or flawed big contracts that can operate a salary filler. Right, Well, the Lakers have the opportunity to actually offer a legitimate star in return. And this is where this is where it's gonna get a little crazy. But I want you guys to hear me out, because the Lakers got to acknowledge reality to their reality is that Anthony Davis is not a guy that you want to use as a franchise cornerstone. There are some You know, there are some people that have have been very defensive of Anthony Davis

and point out things like the injuries. And don't get me wrong, he's had a bad luck stretch with injuries over the last couple of years. But it's not all you know, bad luck injuries like landing on a guy's foot, like what happened to him towards the end of the season. It's a lot of like his groin failed him. It's a lot of like his achilles failed him, his wrist

failed him. He falls down a lot for whatever reason, he's obsessed with just any time any sort of contact comes near him, he's going to go down to the ground. It's a lot of He put on a lot of extra weight, so he's nowhere near is quick. He doesn't have the he doesn't have the durability, doesn't have the uh, he doesn't have the stamina that he used to have.

He's not the same type of athlete that he was in And you know, there's lots of intel from not just from Lebron but from from anybody who's been paying attention that he comes into camp out of shape. He goes several months over the summer not doing anything, which which I understand not every person is so obsessed with basketball that they play every day of their lives. But

it's not exactly. It's it's one thing if you're taking a couple of months off from April to June, but then you come into camp in shape that April to June not doing anything. Thing starts to be a little bit concerning when you've come into camp two years in a row out of shape for a franchise cornerstone. You want a guy who absolutely is in love with the

game of basketball that doesn't want distance from it. You want a guy that consistently takes his job so seriously that if he ever doesn't reach his personal ceiling, it's because of things outside of his control. No one would blame him for stepping on a guy's foot and spraining his ankle, if he came into camp in shape, No one would blame him for those things. If he took the game more seriously, if it looked as though he was still as bought in as he used to be

when he was younger. And so I think I think Lebron knows it, and I think the Lakers know it. I don't know if they've actually come to terms with that if it's just something that they know on the inside that they won't admit to themselves. But Anthony Davis is not the guy you want, is your franchise cornerstone, and he's, as Colin has pointed out on his show

several times, he's aging faster than he should. So what if for Brooklyn you had the opportunity to get a real bona fe I'd star in return for Kadi and Kyrie. I would. If I was the Lakers, I'd call up Brooklyn. I'd be like, you can have Anthony Davis, you can have Russell Westbrook. You can have the first round pick,

first round pick. We're recording this while the second round is still happening, but the Lakers have the thirty one overall pick in the second round tonight, which effectively amounts to a late first round pick probably going to be a good chance to be a quality basketball player. You throw that whoever that player is, whoever that pick is in as well, and you just say, we'll take back Kyrie and Kevin Durant. We take care of your Kyrie Irving problem. We take care of your Kevin Durant problem.

You get a chance to rebuild. You want to use Russ to sell tickets, great. You want to send him home, that's great. You want to find a third team to do something else with him, that's great. But at least you get a foundational piece and Anthony Davis coming back, which is better than you're gonna get from the vast majority of superstar trades out there. And you're getting two legit first round picks and one pick that essentially amounts to a late first round pick. It makes sense for

the Lakers because Anthony Davis isn't your guy. Lebron's in his twentieth season. You need to go to win now approach, and you get off of Russell Westbrook. Makes sense for the Nets because you're not winning with Kadi, without Kyrie, or with Katie and Kyrie and Ben Simmons. You're just not gonna get it done. Not in the East. That's as deep as they are, not with teams like Miami and Boston and Milwaukee in the in the conference, you're

just not good enough except for reality. Understand it's time to reset. The Lakers are just not good enough. Understand reality, it's time to reset. It's one of those It's an interesting partnership there. I don't know if it would end

up being enough. Maybe you gotta throw in at Kendrick nun I'm not sure what what all all the little details surrounding that trade would look like, but the foundational structure of it would be Anthony Davison Russ plus whatever assets you can scrounge up for Kevin Durant, the real piece coming back from Brooklyn and Kyrie Irving, the guy that Brooklyn doesn't even really want a sign for the number he wants anyway. And then from there, I actually

love the basketball fit for the Lakers. Yeah, obviously you've got to find athleticism in the front court to help compensate for Lebron and Kevin Durant and their age and and their their their unwillingness to buy in on defense all the time. But they instantly become one of the most intriguing offensive teams in the league. We already know what the KD Lebron partnership. Excuse me, the Kyrie Lebron partnership looks like. We already know what the Kyrie Katie

partnership looks like. Very good offensive partnership. You know, Lebron brings that high level playmaking and game management that Katie and Kyrie struggle with, and Katie and Kyrie bring in that high level shop making that Lebron struggles with from time to time, right especially as he's starting to age. I think it makes sense for both sides. Now beyond that, if I was running Brooklyn and you wanted to commit to this, I would resign Kyrie Kyrie to whatever I would.

If you want to negotiate down on specific terms, that's fine, but just signed Kyrie because at the very least, if things do go south before the trade deadline and you decide never mind, I don't want to do this, you can at least use Kyrie as an asset to try to get something in return. But at the very least, you can't let him go for nothing. That would be the absolute disaster outcome for Brooklyn. You either need to sign Kyrie or you need to trade him. No matter what.

You can't let a player like that go for absolutely nothing. And if you're the Lakers, I mean, the Russell Westbrook trade was already going to be a disaster if you could pull somebody back the caliber of a Kyrie Irving, even if you just tried to focus on that move as a one for one if you needed to include assets.

I like that one as well. I mean, it's it's hard to say exactly how this thing ends out because so much of this feels like gamesmanship from Kyrie and from Katie trying to leverage the Nets into getting a contract. But I think I think there's an interesting opportunity for two misery Loves Company type of trade, for two teams to kind of reset and to potentially make the Brooklyn kind of reset for a potential run for the future,

and the lay Kers to go all in for right now. Last, but not least, I wanted to talk about this Jeremy Grant trade to the Portland Trailblazers. You know, Damian Lillard. There's a gap between him and stuff, and it's not in the way that you would think, because in terms of on ball ability, Dame is every bit as good as Steph. You can shoot the ball off the dribble nearly as well. He's a little bit more athletics, you

can get better separation from time to time. He's got a nasty step back game, but Steph has n't beat everywhere else on the floor. Feel for the game movement without the basketball. Steve Kurt did an interview was zach Loow the other day, and it was so interesting to hear Steve Kurt talk about how he attributes Steph off. Steph's off ball success to the reps he got at Davidson not being the point guard but being basically an off ball player, that they'd run off the screens NonStop

and try to run things for him. That kind of that kind of practice that Steff got there is one of its amounted to one of the biggest things that differentiates him from the from his peers at his position. Dame Lillard is not interested in moving without the basketball. Dame Liard Lillard is not interested in competing on defense

the way that Steph does. Those two specific details are what allows Steph to be a super duperstar, while Dame is something less than that, but portantly needed to acknowledge their reality as well. Going with offense and shooting around Dame was not working. Going with very versatile bigs that are offensive oriented like Nurkics or uh C J McCollum on the wing as that as that backup scoring option with you know, underqualified three and d guys on the wing.

It just wasn't cutting it. It wasn't getting the job done. I love the idea of going all in on the defensive end with Dame going the route of trying to surround him with athletes trying to put him in. If there's some intel out there that they might be targeting O Ganna Nobe from the raptors, I think that would

be a fantastic move. If you could get O Gianna Noby next to Jeremy Grant, next to Dame Lillard, there's less pressure on Dame to be the dominant defensive player that you hope from the guard position when you've got guys like that cleaning up messes behind him. You know, there was intel from last year when the Jeremy Grant trade rumors were going around that he was gonna want a bigger role, that he wanted a contract extension. This is that perfect opportunity and the modern NBA, the number

two gets lots of shots. So makes sense for Jeremy Grant to go into Portland and basically fill the CJ. McCollum role as a guy who's gonna get plenty of opportunity with the basketball in his hands to create and Jeremy Grants, a great defensive player that can clean up messages as a health defender and contain on the ball. They need one more move, They need to go after a guy like o g and then from there you

need to fill it out with more role players. But I thought it was a really smart move from Portland's. The way you were building was not working. It was

time to try something different. And the idea of going with athleticism and defense around Dame, to me, is something to haven't successfully been able to put the other yet, and it's a proven successful method in the n b A and it might be something that gets a rejuvenated Dame, who at the peak of his powers is a bona fide top ten NBA player, and I'd love to see him get the opportunity to play with the type of athleticism he needs to succeed at this level. Al Right,

here we go. Top five things that I learned from tonight's NBA draft. Number one, The Orlando Magic did the right thing. I have no idea what all the smoke screen was about. There obviously is some sort of perceived value in doing that sort of thing, because you see teams do it every year. I don't really understand. I feel like I feel like it's all just about chaos. Uh. That said, I thought the Magic made the right decision

taking Palo. I really like Jabari Smith. I think he's gonna be a deeply impactful NBA basketball player, arguably the most immediately impactful out of those top three guys, because already, right away he has two elite NBA skills perimeter shooting and wing defense right so, right away, he's going to be impactful at the NBA level, probably more so. Like he's the kind of guy that in terms of winning impact,

maybe not statistically, but in terms of winning impact. And in his rookie year, he's probably gonna be better than Palo and probably better than Chet. But he's got so far to go and the other elements of his offensive game to reach a star ceiling that I thought he

was a clear third prospect in this draft. Yes, he's a knockdown three point shooter right now, but doesn't get great separation from defensive players right now, doesn't have good control over the basketball, doesn't see the floor very well, and it's pretty much jump shot heavy right now. He

doesn't have that like versatile finishing package. Which I'm gonna talk about just a second here with Palo, So I mean I I didn't even understand why, what would have led the magic to believe that was the right guy? And more importantly, I always love this like this like last day type of mind changing thing. There's no way in the world any of these teams didn't know exactly who they were taking or have an exact land based on who was available coming into today. It's all just

a big smoke screen. It was all really, really strange. I've talked a lot about Paulo with Carson yesterday, so we'll go too deep into it. But to me, he reminds me of Carmelo Anthony in terms of his potential ceiling. Carmelo is way more fluid from the perimeter at this point in his career than Paulo was, but a lot of the other elements of his game it reminds me

very like his. His fluidity in terms of his face up game, and all of his moves and counter moves in the mid to short range remind me of Carmela. He's got the turnaround jump shot over both shoulders, He's got the step back jump shot going both ways. He's got all of the push shots and floaters and hook shots and things in the lane that you have to have to score with seis mismatches, which he's gonna have

a lot of them. He's got a seven one and a half wingspan, six ft ten, he's got he's already got the physical tools, so to be able to have that face up, that back to the basket type of stuff at his age, it projects well if he can add the perimeter game for him to have defend just have to play up on him, and then to be able to get consistent dribble penetration so that he can utilize that part of his game. Obviously, that's the ceiling, and with any one of these guys there's a certain

amount of risk. But I really like to pick. I thought he was the clear best player in this draft. I thought he's the guy that has the most clear star potential and he could be a much better defensive player than Carmelo was because of his measurables. Also being on a team with Jonathan Isaac, dominant defensive player, one of the best defensive players in the league when he's healthy, and a guy like you know, Franz Wagner is another

big wing who can guard multiple positions. He might have not have to take on an on ball roll against the dominant basketball player for a long time. He could be a health defender, a guy that can use his length and athleticism around the rim and help that team. Is starting to get really interesting too. Jalen Suggs Mark l Folts should be healthy this year. Jonathan Isaac sat

out all of last year. He'll be back. Franz Wagner is like the ideal three and D type of role player that could put the ball on the floor and attack, close out some things along those lines. They just needed an alpha dog off of talent. That's what Palo is, So kudos of the Magic. I thought it was the right decision. Number two, It's time for the Oklahoma City Thunder to start trying to win. This has been a very impressive asset collection strategy from them over the last

half decade. You could argue it's a more a more coherent version of the process that Philly ran. Obviously without the top end talent that Joel Embiid was, but they've got a lot of really talented basketball players now. They had three additional Top twelve picks today. Chat home Grin. Our guy Carson thinks is the best prospect in this draft. This kid Jang is really versatile forward from the NBA, NBL, really good passer. They have a lot of really good passers. Now.

Check can put the ball on the floor and make plays for his teammates. S g. A can make plays out of pick and roll. Josh Giddy nice big, classic point forward type of prospect, and and Jaying's got that as well. But you've got all these players, it's time to stop collecting assets and to start trying to win

basketball games. I would go to the Oklahoma City Dot Thunder route in a similar way to the to the to the way they picked up Erk Fisher and Kendrick Perkins and basically had those guys round out the youth with veteran savvy and championship experience. That's the route I would go with Okay See, and I'd start trying to put these guys in meaningful basketball games. Most importantly, guys, it's just hard to evaluate talent when they're playing in

meaningless basketball games. How can you evaluate Kevin Porter Jr. Jalen Green with Houston when every night they're getting the other team's worst effort. At a certain point, you need to put these guys into some higher leverage situations to see what they're capable of playing against good NBA basketball teams with real steaks, And that to me would mean going for it and try to get a playing spot, get yourself into some high stakes environment and see what

these guys are capable of. But I really like to pick like the rebuild. It's just time. Now, it's time. It's time to actually start trying to win it, win basketball games. Number three, the Kings pulled another Kings. I really like Keegan Murray and he's another guy like Jabari Smith that will immediately be able to help NBA basketball teams. I've said this, I said this yesterday when I was

talking with Carson. I'm not sure I've ever seen a young wing player that's younger than twenty two that has the back to the basket game that he has that it's such a lost art in today's NBA and just

overall in today's basketball culture. You still see it occasionally from big guys, but you just don't see perimeter players that have the ability that he has to position himself and to feel where the defender is and quick pivot both ways, hooks over both shoulders, floaters, things along those lines. He's got that and he's going to be an impactful basketball player right away. But there's a clearly defined ceiling with him because he just doesn't have anywhere near the

first step. He needs to get separation against elite NBA defensive players, and Jade and Ivy was right there. I talked about this yesterday with Carson, but I'm not sure I've seen a hard with this type of power NBA athleticism since Dwyane Wade. We see a ton of freaky athletic wings come into the league. I mean the Shaden Sharp is a great example of this little more upright, little more tall, you know, that crazy vertical pop to where it just seems like his heads above the rim

every single time. But then you see them play against a physical defensive player and they get bumped off of their spots and they struggle to leverage their physicality to get two different spots on the floor, and it effectively erases their athleticism. That's why we see so many freak athletes in the NBA that struggle to actually use that athleticism. Jada and Ivy's got that low center of gravity, and he could take those really long strides like like Dwyane

Wade can't. I think it was Shack who used to say that that Dwyane Wade had the hamstrings of a god. And that's the athleticism always like manifests in different kinds of ways. It's not just vertical. Pop can be foot speed, it can be verticals or excuse me, linear speed. It can be long steps. The ability to take really long steps is super valuable in the NBA, A to get to get opportunities near the rim, to be able to

evade help defenders and things along those lines. When you're on a line drive and a players on your hip, the ability to bounce that guy off so that you can keep going rather than him bouncing you off of your line. That's a different type of athleticism. And that's what I'm always referring to when I say low center of gravity. Jade and I view was right there. I thought he was clearly a better basketball player. Will he be able to help write this second? No, but you're

the freaking kings Man. You're not actually winning NBA basketball games right now. There isn't some achievable like win now move for you. So I just didn't understand the thought process going after Keegan Murray, a really solid player that's going to immediately be able to help an NBA team that has a lower ceiling. You want to make that type of move when you have a little bit more of a win now potential, not when you're a team

that's so far away the way the Kings are. Number four, the Knicks are going to sign themselves up for purgatory once again. So they traded their lottery pick today and KENBA for cap space and apparently if you factor in the Mitchell Robinson cap hold, it's gonna come out to about sixteen million a year. So the intel is, according to Mark Stein, that they're gonna throw basically a four year, sixty four million dollar contract at Jalen Brunson and try

to steal him away from the Dallas Mavericks. Here's the issue. Is Jalen Brunson a top ten NBA guard. No Is Julius Randall a top ten NBA forward. No. So in your rush to regain relevance, you are going to sign yourself up for extended purgatory any playoff series that you happen to find yourself in. Your team is gonna have the lesser guard, and your team is gonna have the lesser forward. I really like Jalen Brunson. I really like Julius Randall. Both of those guys should be twos and threes.

Neither of them are qualified to be a number one. And you are the New York Knicks. You're not a team that's going to struggle with free agent signings. If you can just demonstrate competence, you will be able to, one day soon enough, bring a mega star. If you have the class of the cat, flexibility and you just demonstrate some competence, keep your head coach for a while, develop some young basketball players. Accumulate assets. That's how the

Lakers ended up getting Anthony Davis. Just accumulate the assets. We talked about this after the NBA Finals. But eight of the last eleven NBA championships have gone to Steph Curry and Lebron James. Who won the other three Kawhi Leonard and Janice So you're not winning unless you've got the guy. So if you don't, if you either need to have the guy or be working to getting the guy, signing yourself up to make things more difficult for you

to get the guy. Is what I don't understand. Now, Again, the when we're looking at this that it's on the surface makes them better, right. Jalen Brunson in a five out system with the Dallas Mavericks last year was relatively inconsistent but had some really big, really impactful playoff games. He's going to go in there and he's going to play really well, and the Nicks are gonna be better. They're gonna be in the playoffs and in the playoff picture in a way that they weren't last year. It

all makes sense. But what I don't understand is that tying yourself into that type of contract with Jalen Brunson, which at the end of the day is going to be difficult to move because as good as he is, sixteen million dollars a years a lot of money. It. I just was confused by the strategy. Now, who knows they might internally they might be thinking, hey, we get Jalen Brunson, he's a mid level contract. Maybe we can package him with two or three of our young players

and maybe get that star. All I'm saying is that better be the plan. The plan better not be let's see if Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall can get this done. It better be. We plan on moving these guys to get the star and the last, but not least, the Pistons got lucky. Jade and Ivy should not have been there at number five, and he was thanks to the Keegan Murray pick. Who again, I like Keegan Murray, I just thought it was the wrong pick. You know, I think Jade and Ivy could I see him as the

potential Jalen Brown two Kaid's Tatum. Now, obviously they're different, you know, Jade and Ivy shorter, different type of player. What I mean by that, though, is Kate is your finesse wing. He's that guy that's doing it with skill and change of pace and floor vision and game management, all those things that I value greatly from a perimeter initiator.

But Kate is not a dominant athlete, and against the very best defenses, he might struggle from time to time to create his own shot even when he's in his prime. Jade and Ivy is never gonna have that problem. Like I said earlier, I think he's one of the best athletic prospects at the guard position since Dwayne Wade, and I think that having him there is the guy that can be the physical force to be reckoned with the guy that has unmatchable athleticism to give him the capability

of creating shots. I think it's a great counter to Kate and Cake can kind of manage the flow of the game and be your perimeter initiator and Jay n Ivy can just be your tip of the spear. And it's a very similar to way, in a very similar way to what Jalen Brown was for the Celtics. They've got another really interesting young court. I like Saddeke Bay is another two way wing. This Jalen during kid that

they drafted classic modern center. You know this is We've talked a lot about this, that plotting slow giant center just doesn't work in the NBA anymore. It needs to be an athlete. It's almost better for him to be six nine than it is for him to be seven foot. You need him to be able to get up and

down the floor and transition. You need him to be able to be occasionally make guys work on perimeter switches, and it needs to be able to roll hard to the rim and contain in five out situations where he's got to cover a lot of ground. You need, no, you need mobility at the position. So I really like the jail and during pick and all of a sudden, the Pistons look like a very interesting basketball team. But yeah, those are my top five takeaways from this year's NBA Draft.

I will be at NBA Summer League for that first weekend and I'm gonna get to see I think most of these guys, if not all of them play. We'll have well have all all sorts of content lined up for that weekend. I'm very, very excited. As always, I appreciate your guys support and I will see you next time. The volume