The Draymond Green Show w/Baron Davis: Draymond SHOCKED by Luka to Lakers trade, will Davis bring title to Mavericks?

The volume. What's up, everybody, Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show with my dog be d.

What's happening my brother?

How you doing what big dog Man? Good to see you, my bro. Some moms good to see you too.

Man.

I saw I saw Bed in San Francisco a few days ago. He kept me out past my bedtime. It's good at kicking with the fellas. It was good to kick it with the fellas. Bed kept me out past my bedtime. Didn't tell me to bring no dominoes, so in turn, we ended up sitting there amongst a group of maybe six of our guys playing dominoes on the phone, like we some seventeen year olds that can't off the phone.

An intense game of dominoes. I can't wait to things for real. Way that was fun, Yes, it was, Yes, it was brother man. How you feeling. I feel pretty good, bro. I'm a little.

Tired, like body wise, you know, I don't really sleep much after games, but my body, you know, just getting back out there first time in like three what three weeks or so three and a half weeks or something like that, getting back out there against you know, my mash up being Paulo switching off on the front. These too young sad just coming out so much for easing back into it, you know. But I felt good out there.

Nine, Come on twenty nine. Come on. We had twenty nine.

We had a crucial plumber, We had the defensive stop on Paulo, We got the w man.

Yeah, sir, that stopped. It felt good, It felt really good. Good.

Yeah, Paulo. Paulo is a guy who I got a lot of respect for his game. You know, he just coming back from injury as well, and he was out a lot longer than I was, so you can tell he's still also working himself back into shape, which I ain't too mad at working himself out.

Let him take his time.

But he Paulo, Paulo is special man. His ball skills and when you combine that with the size that he has and man, and I'm telling you he he when he perfect that jump shot, which I hope and think he will, it's gonna be a watch out, watch out, because he he really sixteen, like a legit sixteen and also probably like and not only is he sixteen, but he like.

Probably to sixty.

Five, dangn And he's solid like it ain't he's too sixty five solid like he's huge.

Man.

When he perfect that jump shot, watch out, NBA.

God.

He special talent, man, he get this spot raised up on. You know, he got the you know what he is. He's a basketball player from Seattle. He just happened to be sixteens to sixty five, but he's a basketball player from Seattle. He got the handle, he got the pull up. Just just give the ball and let me who he's a basketball player from Seattle at sixteen to sixty five. Good luck, but he you know, here here a problem. But it was good to match up with him tonight.

I'm looking at them to take that next step.

And like I said, I think they was taking it this year and then they just got bit by the injury bud totally. But they're gonna be a team that are forced to be reckoned with. We'll see how they keep it all together. You know, hasn't been a franchise that has done that in the past, you know. But I think when you got two young stars at six nine and sixteen like they do, I think you gotta find a way to really build, and I think they trying to do that.

So it's fun to be out there against those guys.

They got talent, for sure. They definitely definitely had a talent. Also, I heard that Steve Kerr broke a clipboard at halftime.

What happened and when was the last time he did something like that?

He broke the clipboard in the second quarter in the time out. Uh, I want to say it was second quarter. It could have possibly been the third quarter. Oh no, no, it's the second quarter. He broke it in the time out. He started yelling ass and Steve, he punches the clipboard one time I saw him do it before you he cut his hand over.

But he used to. He used to. Steve used to break clipboards.

All the time on us, man, like in those glory days and like when we was like at the peak of our powers. If you will, he used to break clipboards on us. Oh, you guys are fucking bush snapped the clipboard. Didn't start pushing tonight.

He punshed it. He pushed the clipboard and shot it, and guys was like, whoa.

It was funny because I Step said, well, only took him forty nine games to break the clipboard. But he used to, man, he used to snap them clipboards all the time. But I always tell people, many people don't realize because Steve is so mild manner, you know, and he's he's like mild manner and and just extreme level of patience, super chill. People don't understand how fiery Steve is. Like that's until until I understand steve fire. We used to bump eggs because I didn't understand his fire and

Steve's tough man. People forget Steve.

Steve at the chunk and he he went toe to toe and chunked and with Jordan, dude, they don't get no more intense than that.

So that part, you know, how much shit you gotta be talking as Steve Kurk to get under Michael Jordan's skin like that in itself right, like Michael Jordan. Everybody trying to get under Michael Jordan. You know how much shit you gotta be talking to get under his skin and end up fighting. Like but guess what, I guarantee

You that's the day he earned this respect for sure. That's what I mean.

Yeah, that's what happens when you're in an intense moment on the team, you know what I'm saying, and you're like, you know what, I belong here.

Too, absolutely, I'm I'm on this team too.

So that that that that Gusto, that Gusto, that Gusto come from something, that Gusto come from that competitive nature and you can see that. So you know, shout out to Steve curryin games and what one bro clipboard.

I can live with that all. Maybe we need you to break more of them, Stevie Kirk. Before we get into this episode, Uh, we are going to discuss the most shocking trade in NBA history involving a D and Luca. We're going to discuss d Fox to the Spurs. We're going to discuss the Jimmy Butler saga. So make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss any of these episodes.

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Let's move around this league, ah Man. Start with what everybody been talking to and I mean everybody reacting to the Luca trade, Luca and ad trade.

I saw a mean by the way that it's such a shocking trade.

I saw a mean that said, everybody's so shocked that Luca got traded, that we acting like Anthony Davis's assigned white side. And that couldn't be more accurate. No disrespect of the sign because I think, you know, for a sign to go from a second round pick to you know, if I'm not mistaken, I think he was an all star. If not, he got really close, but I think he was one time all star but signed one hundred million dollar contract. Second round pick, out the league, g league,

Yeah, you got a d he damn.

There in every county like he top five right now in every category.

And no disrespect to Luca, but Anthony Davis is a top seventy five player in the NBA history.

Luca's not that yet.

Now he has the potential to be that, and he would be one hundred by the time, you know, top one hundred by the time the next one come out. But Anthony Davis is a perennial offset, a top seventy five, and everyone acting like like he's nobody, you know. But nonetheless, I think it was very shocking. I personally was at the Warriors Pokers UH charity night when the trade went down, and I'm steps two tables, you know what I mean, and Steph gonna Draymond, you see this.

I'm like, you know, I had heard of it. I heard like the Warriors are.

Looking at making some trades and all of that. So he goes, you see this, and I'm like, see what he liked the trade? I said, they did it. I'm thinking he talking about it something that just came up with us. He like, look, Luke and a d I said, huh what? I walk around his table. He showed me the phone.

I'm like the question that everyone had, is this real? I look closer, like it's from Champs. It's real. It's real. They come from Champs. You can betch you a bottom dollar. It's real.

Man.

I was at a loss. I'm still at a loss for words.

I'm still like AI generated or like for real, Like it's still as a hit.

I think now it's starting to hit. You know, everybody saying they farewells. But when you heard about the trade, Like, why do you think the Mavericks would do a trade like this?

I think a couple of reasons. Number one, where were you? I feel like this is one of those things that you it's such a big deal that you always remember where you were when to happen. Where were you when when this trade went. Now, I felt like I was at I was chilling with my girl. She shoved me. I called bullshit. I called bullshit. I was like, man's some bullshit. And then I looked and I was like, charms real, it's real. So when I look at this trade,

And I'll say, I agree, Luca did go to the finals last year.

But what I'll also say is sometimes making it that far to the Western Conference finals, sometimes that can be a little foods Go look at the Atlanta Hawks. Was it three years ago, three four years ago going to the Eastern Conference finals barely his sniff the playoffs? Since sometimes it can be a little food's goal when you make it that far. Now, I don't think Dallas was Food's goal. I think they made great trades. May your

Get over the hunt.

Quite honestly, I don't think anyone in the world would think the thing.

To do is Trey Luka doncin. I don't think anyone does that.

But when I saw the trade, my first thought was, Dallas must know something that we don't know.

That's man, I've been saying that.

They must know something. They must have some intel or something. You know, Luca's been dealing with a calf right Like, I'm like, they must have some intel or something that we don't quite know that and so that's that's one

Super.

So Now when I look at that, and then I take a step back and look at this trade, my first thought is, or second thought, here's a guy who you see the Lakers say, ah, they're worried a little bit about eights durability. They don't think he's a one A guy, X, Y, and Z. And then you got Nico Harrison who's like, yeah, y'all may not think he's a one A guy, but what I know for sure

Nikos.

Yeah, and now Nico is bringing in his guy and saying, I'm a swing for the fences and if I fail, I failed, but I felt doing it my way and you got to respect someone who's willing to take that stands.

I man, I agree, dude, he is doing it the way he wanted to do it right. Something about the Luca thing, even though they went to the finals, I think for him it was there.

Needs to be a final piece, right. I think they also experienced like, hey, you know.

Dallas got Dallas got cracking, Dallas got hot in the playoffs, Luca got hot in the playoffs. But it was really the team that played so well right that allowed Luca to beat Luca in Luca moments, and then also when Luca was dialed into, you know, the success of the team right, trying to play defense, trying to do the different things on the defensive end, that's when they won.

Now, you're the biggest team in the West. You got the.

Most size, you athletic in the front court. You know it unlocks Kyrie to go be Kyrie again. You got Clay over there. That can be a great compliment to Kyrie. So I think the eighty, the eighty for Dallas is their upgrade. Now, yes, we need to go now everything, We're putting all our chips on the table.

We need to go. Now.

This twenty five year old kid, right, we don't know if this is if we built this team for him. This team is not necessarily constructed and built for Luca, right and for the future of Luca. So you would have had to continue to make iterations and keep moving pieces to figure out, Okay, is this the right fit? Because you got not that you got lucky. Last year you earned and deserved everything, But there was some teams that were tired, teams that were hurt, right, and this.

Year is way different.

You see the right, you see the coming back from the Olympics.

You gotta know something. It's too much wear and tear.

Whereas he gonna be at thirty versus a d at thirty five, Like who's gonna have you know, over the next three or four years, who's gonna have that window of longevity? And we're gonna see where these dudes kind of measure out. Yep, that's the fact.

And I think when you even look at Nico's fresh conference and stuff, the one thing I respect the most is he's standing on it.

He gave us reason no, he's standing on it.

And he said, listen, what I thought was a very very bold statement, and like I said, I respect it.

He said, listen, we would see if I was right or wrong, pretty much saying, I know that this move.

Is either gonna get me make me a long tenor Jim, or it's gonna get me five.

And we'll see if I'm right or wrong. And I respect that.

I will say, listen, anybody that make a move like that and they stand.

On it, Hey dude, Jason Kidd was not. He was in the meeting like I going, hey dude, Jason Kidd. I've never seen Jason Kidd like that. Jake was look like he has ghosts.

He like, I.

Gotta be here, I gotta be here. I ain't got nothing to say. He was a shock. That that is the face of a coaching shock. What do you think, somebody, what do you think is going on on?

And Jake kid.

Mind just based off that press conference? You know what what is he thinking? What is he contemplate?

What he's thinking is he has to change his entire offense. Bet a guy, you could just get a ball to let him go figure it out to school.

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I think he's trying to sit there.

He's sitting there trying to process what it is like that's in front of him, what it is that just happened. I think J Kid, I think I think J Kid was all over the place sitting there because again also like Nico said it, like JA Kid didn't know, right, So like even being in the dark, like you start thinking about I think J Kidd thinking about all of that. You just see the look on his face. It's crazy. Why didn't you tell me? Just tell me, il me,

How could you not? But like in a situation like that.

Where you can't tell nobody, I can't tell anybody, and We live in this world where people tell everything, people show you their location exactly where they at when it at right.

We live in this world where everything is leaked to the media. So the one time that something don't get leaked, people trying to say that's crazy. You know, that's how actually things probably should be, Like yeah, you know, like if you're doing something to better your team and you're trying to make a trade, it's probably best that you don't say that to anyone. And so I think in looking at that, I think I would hope that one of the main takeaways for people.

Is keep your mouth shut.

Like that deal got Luka Doncis got traded and it was quiet, which means everybody else can shut the hell up, like stop sharing every little secret you have to like try to get a leg up or gain a friend. Like I don't understand it, So I respect the way they did it. Did they get the most value that they could get for Luca people like, oh, they could have got three picks, so they could have got four. They got Anthony Davis and a first round pick that

Those problems for Ade.

Listen, man, I think in a situation like that where you traded Luca, I'm not sure there's many guys that they could have got back that you're that you.

You go from wherever they were in the.

West to like people saying, oh, that's the best team in the West, like they traded Luka doncons and people.

Are saying this the best team in the Weven.

But then on the flip side, like you got people like, oh, that's still dumbons, right, well, how are they the best team in the West. But it's the demonstrade. Ever, like I don't I don't quite understand that. Nonetheless, I feel for Luca because you've poured.

Into that community, you have.

Taking that city and made it home, and like out of nowhere, blindly get traded.

I do feel back him. That's the shippy side of the NBA.

Like if Luca came out and was like, yo, I want to be traded, there would be this huge uproar of like you know what I'm saying, another star player, I want to leave the team, and like we need to stop this. But this man gets traded in the dark, in the middle of the night. He literally got traded after midnight, after midnight, right in the middle of the night.

Luca dont just got traded and then Luca.

It's crazy, like I saw I feel for Luca, you know. I think Luca, if I'm not mistaken, I think he he just had a kid, you know, so like just bout the house to I heard he just bought a new crib, like and that makes sense because his home had just got broken into. So I'm sure he was probably moving somewhere with more security or whatever. But man, I do feel bad for him.

You know.

And Luca is not a guy that's gonna come out and say something. He know, I saw his dad saying something. But Luca not a guy that's gonna come out and say something. I do feel a little bad. I feel bad for Luca for sure. Okay, I don't feel bad for Luca. Why you going to the Lakers?

Ooh, that's that's you coming to the land.

Come on, you an international superstar, a megastar. Now it's rock and roll time. A lot of them games that we was hearing about or didn't see, we get to see that. And you know how Laker fans are, and they gonna they gonna take it up times ten.

Now with Luca, you got you got time.

Yes, the Lakers have bought themselves a great opportunity to build now, to compete now and start to mobilize how they want to be in the future.

Yeah.

No, that's around the superstar at twenty five. So I think at twenty five years old. Okay, who do you think won the trade.

In the interro? In the interro in the interim Right now? Today? I think that's out of Dallas.

Because and the reason I say that, that's a main team.

You got Luca.

If you're the Lakers now, but now you don't have a big you know, you don't have a starting caliber center. And so I think for them, now they have to figure out how to make how to build the team right. Like you got Brin, you got Luker, you got Austin Reeves, you know, but now you got to like figure out how to build the team out.

So now they'll they'll need to at some point get a big right.

And so I think as of right now, currently, as it stands today, you lace them up, you go out there and play tomorrow it's Dallas.

But I don't think this.

Was a move that the Lakers was making to say we're betting right now for today. I think what the Lakers thought was this team ain't great, We're not winning the championship. We got a chance to get Luka Doncics. This gives us a chance to possibly sign a couple guys and compete right now with Luca and Lebron. It also gives us a chance to compete to where with Luca. Now that twenty twenty seven draft pick ain't gonna be as high as people thought it was, twenty twenty nine

Yeah, I believe that was kind of like the the caveat in the deal, watching Max Christie his evolution, you know, JJ playing him. I saw something. I saw why they drafted him. I saw his potential. And now moving that piece over to Dallas complimenting of Klay Thompson, right being over there complimenting Clay Thompson because Max is gonna play some defense. Max can score, he can cut, he cut to the basket, he athletic. Right, So Dallas is now

Here's the thing, like when you look at the NBA and a lot of things that I think fans don't understand. It's like contracts. Your contract matters. And so for instance, Max just signed a four year, thirty two million dollar deal. He's going to get an opportunity and he'll probably get the opportunity over Quentin Grimes because he has a meaningful contract. And that's where I don't think, like I said, I

Spartan dog, that's what we do. I agree.

I also wanted to dial in the Utah Jazz right they didn't even know that Luca was being traded. Can you explain how is that possible for them to be involved in the trade and then not know somebody being traded? At that point, do you just wake up and be like, man, the Lakers in the Dallas, who can.

We call to get some picks? Call Utah? Call Utah? You want some draft picks? Gotta take it.

Listen, here's what I will say about that bed Rob Polinka.

It's crazy. It is a little on the lines of morally.

Fucked up what he did, but I understand why he did it.

It's a lot along the lines.

You know how someone does something and you're like, well, they didn't break a law, so they can't go to jail up. And I think Rob Polinka is right there, Teeter in that line.

You didn't quite do anything wrong.

But Marley, I don't think Danny ain't going to ever work with him again, because like, who knows if Danny would have did the deal or not. But you didn't give me that choice. And I think that's going to just put a strain on their working relationship because how many times you tell me this, BD, how many times have you seen the wool get pulled over Danny Ainge's head?

Danny Ainge, Yeah, yeah, yeah, very very seldom, very seldom in his tenure.

Rob Polinka and Nico Harrison poured the wool over his head, so and then and then and then it's the Lakers too. So you know, Danny Ainge and the Lakers don't get along. He ain't trying to help no Lakers. He's a Boston Celtic. It's a Boston Celtic. He's not trying to help down his side at all.

Man.

So for those people out there, I'm not a general manager, But how I would imagine that happen is if you call and you're just like, yo, we're trying to get off with cha. Fino, young guy will give up two second round picks and Danny Ainge is just going to take him because he's taking all those drive picks right now.

Then they don't tell wait time out? Are you saying? Hold on?

I think I know what you said. Did Rob Phlaka called Danny Ainge and make the trade and didn't tell him nothing about this.

One thousand percent one percent. Oh that is.

Ooh but hey dude, but here's the thing though, Bdi, here's why. Here's how he can get away with it. Though, I'm gonna tell you how he got it. He can get away with it because in that deal, the only thing that went to Utah was hus Fino in two second round picks from the Lakers, some picks and the Lakers like it wasn't like it was Dallas pick or

But man, that's a little man. He got flee.

Hey don Ah, that is that is bored in line. Oh that is we Like I said, BD, that's what you gotta that's what you gotta come knock on Danny Age. Man have to see rob be like, hey, bro, I gotta come knock on your.

Door on me.

You owe me one. That's that's one of them. You owe me one like you owe me one for sure? This is man. This ain't like they made a trade. You imagine they ain't make a trade work for like you know they had traded for last year.

It ain't like they made the trade work for RUI. This is Luca dungeish man like dude. They went over there fleece and you say, Danny wow.

For show. For sure. You don't see that happened to Danny often.

You don't see that happen to so impressed the often right like wow, imagine waking up.

Yeah, it was incredible, good job Rob Polinka.

He got that off and he really got that off.

Hey, Danny Age, I got these two picks and and Shavino. Hey what she's thinking, Oh man, what man, Let me just get let me, let me let me give you those. He's like, thank you, thank you.

Let me let me go. Let me call, let me call Nico. Niko is done.

Nico has done. It's done. I got utah involved. Gonna tell you, Oh man.

Thirty minutes linca ha come across. Danny Age taking Luca donc has traded to the lost.

You know, Danny Age is hot. What he is look at He even said it. He basically said he was enough. He had no idea that he was helping the Lakers. Crazy Luca, he had no time. By the time he found out, it was too late. That is crazy, crazy, bro. You can never you can never do another deal with the Utah Jazz if you're the Lakers unless you go give them something.

You gotta go.

You gotta go get that man something back later in a couple of years to be like a man, know our feelings and.

You have to absolutely it's crazy. Yeah.

But speaking of this trade, how do you think this trade affects Bron?

I think it buys Broun time, right, I think, uh, Lebron now has a new focus.

Uh he is, he is.

He now gets to go out as the gourbru, the mentor the sensey. Right and then he still has you know, three four years or two or three years with Luca to figure out what they're dyingam is, because look, you got Lebron, you got Luca. You you ain't doing bad, you ain't doing bad. You have you can be a contender. You know, you can be a contender if you put

A d was getting thirty six sixteen and they winning by five. Yeah, they barely win it again.

You know they're struggling whomever, you know what I mean, whoever whoever. So now that's seven, that's seventy, that could be seventy. Yeah, Lebron can sit and really watch it, watch offensive barrage of one.

Right, Luca.

Luca is a fifty point party waiting to happen. And so now Lebron twenty three thirteen, Lebron get to go. He get to go paint and fix the game to his liking. So I think it works both ways because Lebron can set the stage and then Luca.

Now Lebron got another closer and real closer.

Absolutely, he got a real closer somebody who is going to take that shot, so he get to see a different part of himself where no pressure on him.

Now all pressure is just him being a sense that I agree, I think.

I think it does a couple of things though I think it definitely takes the pressure off of him. I think it possibly buys Broun more time if he won't to even play longer. I think, although he don't need anybody to do that, but I think it you know, it helps, but I also think it.

Could speed his time up.

And the reason being is they all in on Luca, right, So like if it's not working, it's not you know what I'm saying. It's not like Luca goes you know what I'm saying. It's like, yeah, well we're gonna build around Lucas, so then let's have a conversation Bron, you

Necessarily what's best for Brin.

I also think, like say Brin was going to do a farewell tour like Kobe did, like d Wade did, it kind of throws a monkey wrench in it because it is it's you know, like I don't know, I just think it kind of throws a bit of a monkey wrench. And if Bron wanted to decide to do a farewell tour, because as big as Bron is, and he huge, and I think he deserves whatever the hell he want to do. It's not gonna all be about Bron.

It ain't gonna be that way about Bron.

It's you know, d Wade that the heat they might have gotten snuck in the playoffs, but there wasn't. They weren't great, you know what I'm saying. But everything was made about d Wayne. So I think I think you know, they could throw a monkey wrench.

It's gonna it's gonna get overshadowed for sure. Yeah, it's definitely gonna get overshadowed. Okay, here here here's a bowl take. If this is not work right, Trey Luca, Luca play you make the playoffs?

Who knows? Next year this shit don't work with Bron? What happens?

Does Lebron leave or do the Lakers say, hey, this is the final piece to move to figure out this roster.

For look, I think if anything is going to happen with Lebron as far as leaving the Laker, I think it happens this summer. I don't think it's the next year thing because I also don't think. I don't I don't think you're gonna he don't have time. But I also don't think you're going to see a Lebron James trade mid season. We were shocked by this one, but I just can't foresee that. Like we made a go at it last year, and the one reason that didn't happen is because you just weren't.

Going to get a Lebron James moving man. See that, you know.

So I think if anything happens, it happens this coming summer. I don't think it's wait till next deadline and see it ain't working. I don't foresee that. I don't foresee what what But what is the okay? So what is the domino effect right of this trade to the NBA? Nobody's safe and every and if you're a general, man, you calling you calling.

You call you.

Calling on guys, win be you calling on We don't even think you have a chance.

I get now.

If you're a GM, I think the way that this plays out moving forward is you're going to have You're going to now start seeing more young promising talent get traded because you're going to just get more calls and as opposed to before, like nobody's calling like yo y'all trying to trade Steph or yo y'all trying to trade with nobody's calling us.

And you're going to get those calls now all the time.

If people just throwing ship out the wall and seeing if it's thick, man, that's kind of the way. That's that's stuff, I think one of the biggest impacts on the NBA. And then let's face it, you got Luka Doncic and Laker purple and gold.

That's crazy.

That's masked like that's mister Lakers is the Lakers brand. And now with Luka Dontchen, you're talking about globally like it's a real thing and l a.

Yeah, and there's a there's a real community here, you know. And it's a real diverse community for him. That europe it's a European vibe here for him, it's a more welcoming vibe for him.

So man, damn.

Yeah, I think it's changing. It's a good Yeah, it's it's a huge domino effect. I also wanted to pinpoint Dallas was smart because they got off that Supermax, because that Supermax is gonna kill a lot of teams like you were saying, you're gonna see a lot of young dudes get traded, because now it's like they coming up on that super Max and it's like, yo, in five years, is this dude gonna be worth one hundred million dollars a year?

You know what?

This goes back to b d on the Draymond Green Show before I was blessed to have you come on and partner on this show and bring a whole different life and take to this show when I just used to be sitting here by myself talking to.

A Draymond domas Draymond Doma.

Absolutely I spoke about and I went on a tweet store about how fucking dumb stupid the CBA that we were going to sign as players. When when it first leaked that we were going to agree to a deal and they leaked the terms, I went on this whole tweet store and I spoke on the pod about how dumb that CBA was. And you know, you see, Luca doncis getting traded. Don't for not for one second thing that that's also not a byproduct of that dumb ASSBA we signed.

You put in a hard cap. The second apron is a hard cap.

Yeah, And every time somebody get up that second April, you can bet your bottom dollar they're going to be trying to trade out of that second April. And so you just saw Luca Dontis get traded at twenty five. That is a byproduct of the second April of Dallas. Like, man, we're gonna have to pay him eighty five million dollars a year, all right? He good, he great, but ain't no money for nobody else.

We were like, were you about to go into the second April?

No, we ain't trying to go into the second April, right, And so Luca Dontis getting traded. And what I have not seen anyone talk about is one million percent a by product of the cap cap situation in the second April. It is one thousand percent. And I don't think people notice or realize that. But you're going to see more and more trades like that because that second apron, Man, that's just a it's just a nice way of saying a hard cap.

It's just a crazy threshold. It puts it puts the team in a bad predicament. Obviously, it's incredible for the player, but if you're trying to build and you're trying to win, and your top two dudes is taking all the bread you're not. And then and and you're paying them off potential. Yes, you know you're paying them off of hey over these

You could have fleeced them out of Zach a year ago if you wanted to, like, yeah, the thing I don't understand is they kind of go through this with everybody.

But are you surprised.

This is the same franchise that, oh, Michael Jordan's or you said you want to choose the coach, Well then we are getting rid of you so you can walk. This is the same franchise that let Michael Jordan just walk to retirement like they are dieing violent, right, Michael, this is the black cat d Michael Jordan. You're erroress like this this is him, Like it's really him.

This is crazy.

It's not the ghost of Michael Jordan. They let walk. Yeah, Michael Jordan himself walk and so in its prime, like just won three championships in the word, like they let him walk. And so I can't say that I'm surprised by anything that the Bulls does that's not smart, because that's also a franchise that their head coach told them to drive Draymond Green and they did it, you know, And so I think, uh, you know, it's just not a smart franchise, Like they don't do smart things. And

Probably nothing because they're they're just not good.

And you're letting these guys walk like essentially for nothing, Like what's like so pretty much you never end up accumulating any assets and they end up back in the same spot.

Yeah, you don't draft. You didn't draft well, he didn't d well. You didn't draft based on knees or based on future picks. You just they're just picking tament. I want to see Lonzo out of there too. I think that's it. That's how they're drafted for who's that?

Oh all right, right, we'll take this guy's next right there.

That's how they drafted.

You know, they fourth in their time, it's like five seconds four come on, man, we got some pickets.

It's crazy, man, run it out of time all the draft.

I'm telling you, man, it's crazy. So, you know, I'm just not sure how they just keep letting guys walk like that.

But Kings came up though, came up to where, well you get three first round picks, yeah, right, twenty five, twenty seven, thirty one, three second round picks twenty five, twenty eight, and twenty eight back to back, and Zach Levine.

So I think the Kings got some equity in that deal.

I definitely think they're doing let's face it, this this, this twenty twenty five Charlotte pickers want.

To be incredible. That's gonna be a great pick. Oh my god, that could could be to do. That's incredible.

Twenty twenty seven San Antonio Spurs pick is going to be trash.

It's gonna be trash. Yeah.

Twenty thirty one Minnesota pick, it's gonna be good, good pick because Minnesota, well, let's face it's a man still in Minnesota with with what we see.

Just half of last night.

Yeah, it is anxion still in Minnesota in six years from now.

Nope, nope, right, Like, so they're gonna do this. They gotta do the same thing they do with Luca.

Right, so because fate, let's face it, so like that pick may not be great either.

So they definitely got some great picks.

They got some second round picks of twenty twenty five Chicago pick, which is going to be probably picked thirty two, like thirty three, thirty four, or possibly thirty five. The best pick only be a draft. You know your thirty fifth pick. You get a thirty fifth pick, you know you come up on any.

Jams, Come on, come on, man that part.

So that'll probably that'll probably be a good one. They got their own pickback second round pick in twenty twenty eight, right, So they definitely made out well. For sure, the Kings made out well. But what they're going to have to figure out is they can't all play.

All them dudes can't play together.

Not only can they all play together, but where where. It'll be interesting to see how far this team goes, because if you're not going far, I could foresee them by the summertime having a fire sale or by next trade deadline having a fire sale, and so it'll be interesting to see, like how they play. But I can't imagine. And I'm a huge Zach Lavine fan. I think Zach is great. But you lost your franchise point guard. Yep, you don't just lose your franchise point guard and get better.

Yeah, Mink is the point guard, Malik Monk the point guard, Zach Levine, Damar DeRozan, Keegan, Murray, and Sabonas that's state starting five. I don't I don't see a lot of I mean, if they can figure out if Christy Christy can figure out a style where their small ball can work and they can be able to move, move, move the ball between Damar Zach Monk, maybe yeah, but a lot of those dudes outside of Zach really need the ball in their hand to create. You know. Damar is methodical.

He that's all, and so you know, but he hasn't shot at that great this year.

Ain't no open looks for. But you know what, it ain't no open looks now.

It really ain't gonna be no open looks for because you don't have you don't have uh drive.

And catch piece of the pink guys. You have ISO guys.

So that means you gotta wait for somebody to get hot, to get a double team to get open.

Right after what I just saw b D, I'm calling them bons, I'm calling them tomorrow. I'm calling them sack, I'm calling them up month, I'm calling them kicking after what we just witnessed. If I'm a GM and I want any of those guys, I'm calling right away, yeah yep, because they could then make a decision to be like, you know what, we can't win with this team. Let's just ye, let's just move to Bonus. You know, like you you just don't know. So if I'm a you

Right, I got one for you, Sacramento Kings. Who's your one of your favorite organizations versus the bulls? Sack who's made who's made the worst Who who's made the worst decisions?

Well, let's see, I want to say the bulls, but but it's probably Sacks. I did pass Luca, pass up on Luca Dongeons, so you got to take that into account.

Yeah, they passed up on Luka, doneon.

They traded the Marcus Cousins at the time as their franchise. As for Buddy Love Buddy Love, I don't even remember who else was in trade.

Buddy Loves traded. You traded a franchise, Buddy Buddy Love.

You traded a franchise center at the time, probably arguably the best sender in the game at that time.

So you trade him, you trade it.

You traded traded Halliburton, and god, you got some bonus, got some bonus.

Oh yeah, you didn't get yourself.

I think that's been beneficial for them, right, Like, the bonus has been very beneficial for them.

So I'll give them that one.

Uh, you picked up Damar, You picked up Damar, which it didn't work.

I can't necessarily say it didn't work. It's it's worked. What blew up now, what it could have done is possibly made Fox be like I want out, you know.

Like, yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like, how how does that work? You get tomorrow?

You got Fox here, and then you don't take care of You're not you're not building around a core of some bonus Darren Fox and tomorrow you're not building around that. So all the other pieces and the dudes that you haven't, like, they don't compliment those dudes game.

That's right in their bench. You know, they lack some depth, you know. So I was I was still I have to say the Bulls.

The Bulls for sure, Yeah, just over the legacies, just legacy, Yeah, sac Fast, look a doc. But the Bulls told Michael Jorgan Deuces Yeah, and there Cross and d Rose that can never let us down.

The Bulls. I gotta go.

I gotta say that the Bulls traded Jimmy Butler before his prime. Like again, I gotta go with the Bulls, man, they are trocious to.

Say, get your life together. What do you think about Winby and Fox teaming up?

I like it a lot. I like it a lot.

You're talking about Fox Downhill in the pick and roll with Windy popping and rolling to the riom for the lot that's tough, like you got your This is a proper big Man point guard that we used to see back in the old days.

This is it.

This is proper and they're in enfranchise that know how to make that work, you know, and so I like it.

I know, I know that was.

One of the reasons Fox turned the extension down is because I think he wanted to end up in San Antonio with Wimby.

So you know, you see them, You see the power of Rich Paul.

You know a lot of these guys want to be traded, and you know a lot of people think like, oh man, I could be my own agent and I can do this, or my boy can be my agent, or this agent that I just want to focus on me can be my agent.

The power of having a proper agent.

Daron Fosx got exactly to the place he wanted to end up less than three months after turning down the extension. He got exactly where he wanted to go after turning down to an extension three four months ago. If you're not like that, right, there is what you talk about power in an agent like getting him exactly to the place he wanted to go.

Didn't cause a fuss, didn't cause.

A ruckets all, just got it done, made sure he got the exactly where he wanted to go. Not we're going to get him traded to this place and then in a year we can get you to San Antonio. You come up, Nope, we're going to get you there right now, right now. The power of having a great agent. And I know Fox just signed with Clutch maybe a little over a year ago, and he immediately sees has reaped the benefits of being with such an incredible agent.

Yep.

Just like representation get guys, can get guys better contracts than they deserve. Representation can have guys stuck in a situation or ending up in a situation they don't want.

To be in. Totally.

Well, no, he ain't got no leveraging, no bargaining chips and the team don't even have no respect to have that a real conversation, which is so definitely shout out to Rich Paul because Rich Paul make moves. Rich move and he fight and he fight.

One thing he gonna do is fight first players. Yeah, as long as and he'll tell you as long as I got you lockstep with me, you said, I'll fight till we can't fight no more. And I think I appreciated about Rich is he'll also tell you when it ain't smart to fight, tell you like, Dre, I don't think. I don't think it's a good fight on this one, like yeah, it may cost this, this, this and this, like I don't know if we fight a fight, we should be fight, you know.

And so he'll also tell you that.

So yeah, he uh with shout out to Rich Who's Who's at a party this summer and he had one of his young players with him and he was like, Bed, I'm gonna bring my young fell over here. I want you to really talk to him, like how you talk, you know, you talk your ship talk to him.

Brought the young dude over.

We chopped it up and then he was like, man, get his number, get beat number, like he was he was adamant about.

He was like, bro, this dude needs to be hearing from you like he like he he one of them ones. It's like respect.

Yeah yeah, and he and he a silver back, so like he he need to talk. He needs to be talking to somebody that that keep you motivated. Will also be like, hey, look hommy, you know what I mean. Look hommy, it's your time to Shane. So I respect Rich because he just cared about Hey, I need my players to get he whoever they need to connect with, Like I always love that about him. So shout out to Rich, Paul, shout out to Dearn Fox and Winby. This duo is gonna be crazy.

Yes it is, Yes it is, I think.

And they got talent in San Antonio. Absolutely some talent.

You don't tell you what. I think.

One of the biggest heighth sis of this trade that line so far, what that they got. They were able to get Daron Fox and not include Stephan Castle.

Ooh that was big. That's big. That's big. They got darn Fox and did not include Castle. Castle was nice.

Now you're talking about one one the trade. That's why I'm like, Spurs give up the picks. It don't matter. You got your core. Yeah, like now you just need to fine too, but you got your core and the oldest one is twenty seven, twenty six seven. So I commended that R. C. Buford coach Pop coach Pop doing well. They held on to Stefan Castle and got darn Fox.

That's jim that's hell of it. That's a hell of a gym. I mean, great teams make great moves. Thousand right, Great teams make great make great moves. And the San Antonio Spurs that organization has all been, always been upper echelon, even when they were losing, it was integrity behind it. It wasn't like, yo, we're gonna be sorry for the rest of our lives.

It's like, no, we're gonna get a generational talent. And they were trying to figure it out with the talent they had. They moved tomorrow there you know, Uh, now they move CP to a compliment.

Wenby, Now you got dearon Fox. For sure. It's at it's a bigger game.

Also this weekend, it was reported, uh that Jimmy Butler told the Warriors.

That he's unwilling to sign an extension.

There I am, you know, I'm I'm kind of out to Jimmy Butler business. Uh he he Jimmy Butler communicating to the Warriors, and he was unwilling to sign an extension there and therefore trade talks sent him sending him to go to State pretty much stall, Uh.

What was your reaction when you see a report like.

My reaction when I as I'm a fan of the NBA, right, I'm a fan of basketball, So a lot of these things I look at through a fan list.

Mm hmm.

Now I played for the Golden State Warriors, and this one in particular, when I saw this, I just was like, man, Jimmy got to be really careful because you're you continue to lessen the amount of teams that would be willing to take you on. At some point, Pat may just say I'm sending you to Toronto, you know, or it's like something like that. So I just when I saw that, I was like, man, Jimmy, gotta be really careful because you're.

You're you know, you keep the keep. And again for jim it can get ready get real tricky.

It should get real tricky for him, Like you could end up you can be back, you can be back at the Bulls you can be the superstar dude on a terrible team and they just waiting for your contract to expire, right, and they gave up some picks just to be able to get off your money in two years to get ready for that, you know, for their draft or they rebuild, and.

You don't hold any value.

So you playing, you playing, you playing with like, oh I'm gonna go to the contender, I ain't gonna sign no extension, or yeah, you don't really like and then what you're saying with this hard cap right in this second Apron, bro, they just cut Luca. They just cut Luca water behind Dolly. I'm telling you, man, is it's not if you haven't if you haven't negotiated with the Second Apron, you don't quite understand the like the stranglehold

And so.

I just like I said, when I saw it, I just was like, man, he gotta be really careful. You killing the market more and more each day, and it's already hard enough to trade somebody that made fifty million dollars because just to make the money work, you have to give up so much.

Either.

Meaningful amount of guys or a star player, you know. And so I just think, you know, with already having challenges with you know, trying to trade a fifty some million dollar contract, you know, you start adding all these things on, and I just think he can get real bleak. So you know, I didn't make it any other way other than that.

And then I would say, like, what is your take on, Like how does that affect the locker room?

Right? If if if you're watching as a player.

And whether you're on the Lakers or the Warriors, and you keep hearing Jimmy Butler name and you're seeing what's happening in Miami. Shout out to Kevin Love No he commentary, Oh my god, the commentary is great. But when you see stuff like that, and you see something like Miami becoming almost like entertainment with they or not? Right, how does that affect like talks in the locker room about oh, Jimmy Butler coming here or if people want him or not?

Every now and then you get a guy coming up to you like, yo, is this Jimmy thing real? Or am I gonna get traded.

Or X, Y and Z.

You get guys coming up every now and then before the most part, it don't come up a time like guy's going with their day status quo.

I will say earlier today.

Before we started film, before the game, Steve acknowledged it, like, yo, trade deadline, a lot going on is tough, Like sorry that you guys have to go through this, like and just kind of how unsettling it is it feels leading up to the trade deadline, you know.

He acknowledged it.

And I always applaud Steve on stuff like that, Like Steve kind of always acknowledges the elephant in the room. And he was just saying, like Steve said, I was traded five times in fifteen years, so I know how it feels, you know, and I never want any of you guys to go through that. But the reality is we're five hundred basketball teams, so you can just never be too short. But the best way Steve Steve, Steve

All to the team, to the team, you know, and so it's.

A very like a kind of a pecurious spot to be in, you know, just like like, ah, man, I need to give my all to this franchise, give my all to this team, and then I can be traded tomorrow like luka doncic you know, like but nonetheless, like I said, I applause Steve for acknowledging the elephant in the room and then also kind of sharing his own experience because that makes it real, Like, no, I know what this is, Like I went through this five times, moving my up and moving my family like and so

I think he handled that great today. No, that's domb that's dope.

The thing is, you know, I was I was traded to think twice in my career. The first time I sat outside the GM's office and he was like, oh.

Trade deadline. We don't think we can movee.

I was like, they got an extension, Take your ass back in there and give me a pot of here.

That's how I got to go to State from New Orleans. The second time was I was.

With the Clippers and Vinnie the Snake down thegro Vinnie the Snake down there girl had We had a meeting and he said, uh, man, we like what we see with Blake y'all doing the lives.

Fans are excited.

I know you've been banged up, you've been you know, you've been playing hard for me because yo, you've been You've been playing, You've been playing hurt, You've been doing all this. Man, we want to we just want to like start monitoring you at the end of the year. Start taking off your minutes. Let some young guys play, you know. I was like, oh, man, this is cool. He was like, so if you want to sit out

I was in New Orleans.

I saw my sister and I was like, oh shit, I'm getting traded to Cleveland. So I had to fly back all the way to fly back to LA with the team.

And on the plane, it was just saying yo, goodbye to everybody on the team.

That's like, yeah, fucking wow, that's crazy.

But like you don't even know.

You don't know until like you're on the bus, You're like, damn, I am getting you might be.

You might be one of the reasons why a lot of teams that fly on Thursday they pushed their flights back to like Thursday evening to avoid the awkward, to avoid like an awkward flight suggestion.

And somebody get traded.

Yeah, you know, they gave you a chance to get a coaching piece of mind said you got to.

You just not today.

Hey bro, I was calm, cool, collective, and I let everybody know how I felt after three years of being here.

So what was some of the stuff you said? Just basically, you know a lot of lies.

I have to tell a couple of players like, hey bro, I like I'm being a good teammate, but when the summer comes, I'm gonna fuck you up. We're not teammates no more. So when I see you this summer, I bet I see you, it's on and cracking. I have to endure a lot with the Clippers, bro, I have to do it, endure a lot. And then I told Vinnie, you know you you're a liar. I mean, the last thing we hate is a liar. And at the end of the day, your lives are gonna catch up to you.

You can't be a coach. You can't.

You'll never win your players over when they know that you a snake, you know. You know that's the that like a player know when they all in and they gonna ride or die for a coach. But if a coach is having peanut gallery, me sidebar with different people, man players talk to. Even if players don't get along, players talk too, because when that frustrating moment come, they gonna air the coach out for pillow talking.

Yeah, and so I just you know, I said my salutes.

You know the people that was good to me, Jason Powell, a couple of coaches, but I did sit down with and and you know, give any a piece of my mind and let them know like, hey, this is how it is. Thez it was ain't gonna never. I was just honest with him because it gave me a chance, like I'm out of here, give me a chance to be honest with you, like you're gonna be next anyway, sucker.

And it was off to Cleveland.

Bro, not knowing you're getting traded as we like, imagine Luke, imagine Luca you waking up.

I heard a all them, Claus.

I heard a d was like texting everybody, good win great, ready to go out there and get that dub.

Like twenty minutes before.

Hey did you I saw a video and they took Max Christie name tang off the locker.

I saw that too. I think that's but I said, you know that's that fact. They come wrong, they take them all down. Yeah, but that was However, I did think it was a little like foreshadowing though, like with the mantag coming down. And then also did you see that ad interview from like recently where.

He said to the guy like, man, you said it.

Yeah, he said, like like I'm on the track, Like it was a little definitely a little foreshadow going on there.

Man all right, dum nation. They wanted to know what's happening with the Warriors obviously our dumb nation.

Uh, the team is at the top of the newshand lines with Sham's and saying, and the Warriors are calling everyone to pair a superstar with you and Steph? Can you share exactly what the Warriors are looking for? And then when there are rumors like this, how unsettling is it in a locker room being the og?

Like I said, I don't think it's very unsettling at all. We know what we signed up for. We all, every single one of us in that locker room know what we signed up for and playing this game and being a part of this business. So I don't think like I said, I don't think anybody walk around like man y'all calling The reality is, if they're calling the full Lebron James, everybody in the locker room and Steph step except Steph Curry to shut up and know that you

So I don't think that has.

Done anything in our It hasn't even been mentioned in our locker.

Room, my stuff. The Warriors begin a six game road trip on Wednesday. I want to do something a little different. I want to talk storylines for each team instead of you know, usually how we talk matchups. Yep, that's cool, yes, sir, all right, let's start. Let's start. Let's start with Utah first, the Utah Jazz. This team is looking to keep acting picks right. They want the number one pick, Cooper Flag. Everybody is saying, how important is it for a franchise

It's very important for Utah to get the number one pick in this draft. Not to be racist, but Utah is very white. It's like a very white place, and so Cooper Flag like, I'm sure they're looking at us like their next great hope, you know, and that he'd fit in there. You know, it's from Maine, you know, and so I think that's kind of a match made in heaven, and I'm sure they they're doing all that they can to try to get it to make that

I think he'll do it again.

But it's very important for them to get the number one draft because they can't pay anybody to come to Utah.

So you got to get the number one pick.

Because they can't pay a number one pick talent to come to Utah, can't pay him enough.

They not getting one of them superstars at Land. Zero percent chance.

They can't get Jimmy Butler though he can wind up in Utah as the last resort.

You don't want to know whatever.

You know what I'm saying, Bernie and Pat Off is like Jimmy and I signed in an extension with Utah.

He gonna really have that emo hair emo bangs in Utah. He's gonna be a super email all right. Next is the Los Angeles Lakers. Obviously the new look Lakers being here in La Luca won't be playing. Most likely he won't return until February A. Talk about the Lakers as a threat. Talk about the Lakers right now without Luca. You know they won I think four they went four and one without a d How dangerous on the Lakers? You know from now and then the next five to

Can you figure everything out around on the defensive side, of the ball, losing the rim protector like a d all of those things.

You have to figure those things out.

But they got Lebron James and Luca donheons they always have a chance to win the game.

For the next five to ten years.

I think, you know, they're in a great spot as far as getting the Luca in opposite complete opposite of what the problem that Utah has is the Lakers can get people to sign there.

You know, you can get people to come signed in LA.

And so they have the opposite issue of the Utah Jazz when it comes to that. But The's saying that the next five to teen years looks great, but it all depends on Luca's health. You know, Luca's health will be the driver of what the Lakers look like in the next five to ten years.

Yeah, we need Luca to have one of them Venice Beach bodies. He gotta go out there, you know and get on Venice Beach. We need we need Luca with his muscle beach body.

All right.

Next team, one of the teams that you love most and value their expertise, the Chicago Bulls. Just China away, Zach. There are reports that they're trying to get rid of Bukovich and he's the long guy on the team who will get moved in the next few days.

Uh.

There's also reports that they may get off of Alonzo Ball. Talk about Chicago, Uh, they look like they're doing a swap meet firesell What do they look like?

Fireself? For sure?

I think they're all in on Josh Giddy as their franchise player.

Do you think.

I mean, that's what it looked like their franchise player to get them to the top of the lottery at least, you know.

But you know, Chicago, I'm done. They're done, dude. Come on. The organization moving, moving along, moving right along? All right?

Next up is the Bucks. Now this is a game that I do want to discuss. Uh, they kind of got it together, you know. I think I let a fire under Doc Rivers and the team. I asked you what it was like to guard? Uh A d and Joker? What is it like to guard?

You have to be ready to go each play and you have to be ready to use your far arm or else he going to put his shoulder in your chest if you play, and you will fall and they will not call it. So just forceful man, it's a

Yeah, I mean that thing a man in the half, like he got a body in the half. That that makes so much sense for the dude like that, because he is unapologetic about knocking people over dunking on him. I like, you honest, he a mean dude.

He's a great guy. But he played me. You see him CP get into it the other night. No, got into it. He got into it.

That's funny. Yeah, I got so I kind of check him out. But yeah, no, he was playing constant pressure for sure. Uh following the Bucks or the Revet Mavericks. Uh. Their potential star lineup includes Kyrie Clay, p J. Washington, A D and gofferd uh. Stephen Ay said, this is the number one team in the West. Now do you agree?

Oh no, I mean shit, we don't know.

It sound good, right, it looked good, but we don't know how they about to rock talent wise, what they did as far as like on paper, putting that squad together, Like, you can't say they are number one seed when you look at who's the number one seed? Okay, see, like Dallas can beat Okay, see, Dallas can be Houston. Yeah, Dallas can be Houston. You know, Dallas can beat Minnesota. So they have the talent, they got the lineup. It's really gonna be what that chemistry feel like.

And Kyrie adjusted back to being the point guard and ad adjusting to be a four. Yeah, So it's a lot of adjusting going on. It's playing the four in the NBA today.

It's not the same thing as planning the four or five years ago to totally different positions.

Yep.

And he's been he's been saying, you know every year in La hey man, I don't want to play the five. I don't want to play the five. I don't want to be a fine. Find me a center that I can rock with. The Lakers was at their championship best when I was playing the four. Talk about the difference, because you do this a lot, you play four, you go to five.

You play the whole season at five.

Talk about the difference now and what that four position is versus the five in the league.

The four is totally different now.

A lot of times you can be guarden, just a shooter or a wing that staged as four.

It's not really like.

You know, when I came into Lee Man, I had to guard on the Marcus z bo Blake Griffin.

You know, Yeah, the list goes on and on right, like these were the fours in the league then, Like you don't really have.

That now, Like everybody who's like that now has been converted into a stretch five or a five that you know that can shoot the three, and so.

It's just a completely different position. Man.

Rebounding is different because you're, like fours are used to.

Banging banging down load.

You know, you usually your forearms and then all of a sudden, the rebound come off and you're fighting wedging for position. Now as a four, you got to rebound in space because your guys on the wing. So now you got to leave that paint to go hit the guy and you're rebounding in space, and it's a totally different thing. So I just think the position requires a totally different mindset, It requires a totally different name than it did before.

The last game before All Star Weekend features the number two seed Houston Rockets. I called that at the beginning of the year, Remember that you did.

So they was just man.

They been looking great so far and there's been a lot of talk about how impressive I mean Thompson is.

You called that one.

Uh, he just got a trouble double against the Knicks, his first game winner against the Celtics. We're starting to see he can do it all. Do you think he has the potential to become a superstar in this league?

So I think amen Thompson. I said this last year about both of them. Actually, I think they special, man. They are special young guys. They worked their ass off, they're respectful. I got a lot of love and respect for them. They from the town, and every time we play against them, they come up to me, and they're like, Man, Draymond, good to see you, man. I appreciate everything you did for the town. They remind you of from Oakland. We grew up watching y'all, like y'all motivated us to want more.

I think he and his brother need to develop their jump shots.

M But I have zero doubt that they will because they work so hard and so I know they'll develop the jump shots and when they do, good luck. But it's saying that I do think he's capable of being becoming a superstar. So reason they both for top five picks in the NBA draft because they have superstar potential and I definitely think a man can become.

One special, special talent.

I totally agree, totally agree.

All Star snubs.

Let's talk about these All Star snubs all Star before as a whole, before we get out of here. Who do you think is the biggest All Star snell from the East? Who do you think is the biggest All Star snell from the West? And you can only pick one of each.

I am upset with the NBA and the basketball community over the All Star weekend.

How to hell?

Is LaMelo Ball the face of the league, the energy of the league, bringing colture to the league.

Brother got the number one out.

Trick, plays exciting times like this. Dude is the personality we need in the All Star Game. This is the type of game we need in the All Star Game. This dude goes from the number one vote getter to getting snubbed? Are you kidding me? How the coaches don't vote? I mean I was in this predicament. I hey, LaMelo, because I was in this predicament a lot where it's like, oh, you gotta win, or like, what the fuck are you an All Star?

Are you nice?

Put the nicest dudes on the court and stop making all these goddamn concessions for somebody who play basic ball on a better team, you know, and can get staff because they got better people around them.

Mellow ball.

I'm pissed off. Somebody better put a mellow ball on this All Star team. And then I would say, on the West, Luca, how the fuck don't you have Luca? What are we doing?

What are we doing? That's what I want to know.

Are we turning this shit into like ay you and you know, just because I don't know about this coaching boating, like where the coach is here? Like, man, we want to see the super stars and people who are having great years, not people who are having great years on good teams. And no, you're not an All Star. You don't have an All Star gang. Get the fuck up out of here.

Give me the.

Show, give me the entertainment. That's why I want to go to All Star. Right, I want to see LaMelo, I want to see Luca, right, I want to that's we're buying we're buying those people's jerseys.

How do you have?

I mean, come on, man, like shit, all right, I got the LaMelo ballshit pissed me off when I was in Charlotte, and being in the city like Charlotte you kind of like in limbo, right, And so you know somebody like LaMelo looking at this situation saying, look, I'm doing all I can do, right, I'm trying to be the face of the league.

I'm putting on for Charlotte. What do I have behind me to compliment me? Right?

Or if the town ain't big enough to support what I'm doing, like I may th all start that game in Charlotte, Like I got snubbed in Golden State. But when you and Charlotte, you gotta be winning, right, So they got to put together a winner behind him. But somebody like Mellow right now, he he probably like, yoh, what the what the hell is going?

Like? Is anything can happen? Right, anything can happen.

And now with this Luca thing, you're gonna have these young superstars saying you know, shit, or get off the pope?

What are we doing? I agree?

And I think even if you take it a step further and look at Fox who said I want to be I'm not signing the extension and y'all know where I want to go and got there right, So again you know what I look at. Representation, Yes, representation is the key largely determines how you are operated with, how you are viewed, how you are dealt with in this league, your representation. You have representation that's going to get ran over. Mm hmm, forget about it. It ain't worry LaMelo bar not

Yeah, you should not. He should.

He was the leading All starbucke getter. I still think he is the most exciting young player. I mean, he my favorite player, bro. I can't even lie anytime he hooping. I'm tuning in. The kids is tuning in and like to have like you came into the season, you got all this buzz to not capture that, for the team to not capture, right, It's almost like if I'm the Hornets. I gotta stand up and fight for this kid and push this kid because from an organizational standpoint, you need that.

You need that, You need.

That for a free agent, you need that for like Yo, you should be showcasing the shit.

Out of this kid.

Listen, BD, lamel O'ball is proper representational, way from a great situation and a perennial All Star and possibly and I think he's capable and could be the face of the league. He will not be either one of those three things without proper representation.

Period.

Like I said, nobody's going to be like Yo, LaMelo Ball was snubbed.

He ain't gonna got proper representation. Again.

I don't know who his agent is, but I bet my bottom dollar he don't have great representation. And when you don't have great representation, people do whatever they want to do to you.

That's just that's just the facts.

In this league, you don't have great representation, people handle you however they want to handle you.

And I think that's one of the reasons LaMelo Ball got snugged.

Man, if you want to if you want somebody that's gonna be all in the video, all in the executive director's office. You know haul on the PR person heels. Come to the Draymond Show. What I'm saying, we get you right, come to the show.

We'll give you the gyms here because I guarantee you. Not one person in Lamello's camp called and said, man, this is also a product of your representation.

We'll give you the gyms over here. Baby, come to the Draymond Green Show with my dog bed give them.

Speaking of which, on All Star, by the way, All Star in San Francisco, I got Steph Curry for MVP.

Yes, me too, no question. We need that. Man. We need to the bag, gotta turn out the bank, gott it turn out for All Star.

Listen, it's been twenty years they did. I mean, now, thank thank the Lord for y'all. Uh for what you'all do, and how y'all put on the Bay. Like if that don't happen to Bay, don't getting All Star.

That's a fact, that's a fact. It's been twenty years. We got to show up.

We got tech, we got music, we got the Warriors, the champs, right, we got legacy. I think the Bay just need to show up, like everybody show up, show out, you know, All Star Weekend we got to put on for the city. We can't be you know, we can't be just going for the pop for the pop culture.

I agree, and I think this is a pop culture. This is an opportunity too because All Stars haven't been great like over the last five years, and so this is an opportunity for the Bay to have like the best one in recent memory, and also bring All Star Weekend back because it's a little it's been a little challenged, you know what I'm saying, and so I think, but it's also been in tough cities. It was snowing like

Right.

So, like this is an opportunity of great city to bring All Star Weekend back to where All Star Weekend was before.

And I think the Bay gotta say and I'm looking forward to it. Come on, Bell, let's go.

Speaking of the bag, a couple more things are related. I finally saw the preview of the Warriors alumni three point context. I know you can't tell us who won, but how did that come together? Uh?

Shout out to the Warriors. They invited me out for a three point shootout. I think it's a starry with the NBA, so you.

Get money, as you see. As you see, they had uh.

Me, Chris mully and one of the greatest three point shooters of all time and shooting Mitch Richmond the rock. I mean, we was just doing so it was almost like shooting golf, you know what. It was just walking laughing. And then they set me up. Dr I'm gonna tell you this. They set me up, young fella. You go first, like bro, I ain't.

I'm young that young yea. But I need some warm up too, Hey mabe, I need some warm up.

Let me get young fella. Go ahead, young fella got it and look at Tim. Tim was Tim was over there. Tim was over there. He wanted to get to his cigar. But it was a fun time, man, as y'all know. You know, I'm shooting against real NBA legends and Chris Mullen. Is I tell you this, Chris Mullen, he still got a racket. When I used to when I used to work out for we believe, when I got hurt Chris Mullen and Mitch Richmond when I was training in LA.

Wow.

So I worked out with Mulley and Mitch like the three weeks I needed to get back to We Believe, and we'd be in the gym every day, so I have to shoot against these dudes do all the shooting drills. Oh man, that was probably one of the best times that I ever had because I got to work out with legends. I got to train with legends, and I mean, we was after it every day. And I tell you, dude, Chris Mullen do not like losing, especially and he's not

It got I think that was a big.

Reason when I came back from We Believe, how we took off and propelled because I was just in so much. I was in flowing rhythm and Chris Mullen just shot my life out. So stay tuned because who knows who knows my wins?

Now, yeah, I'll be tuning in to see who win.

But yeah, Molly, Molly, still, I'm sure money can still shoot that thing.

Molly got a clip, bro, I'm.

Sure all right, man, all Star weekend wouldn't be an All Star weekend without announcements. I want to first make an announcement and say congratulations to my dog for opening up Mesky, a Ritzy Ethiopian Dominican fusion restaurant that's one thousand Larkin Street and Lower Knob. Heelled this march. Hey, it's up, Come on Mesky. Tell me about Mesky.

We lit.

First off, it's gonna be it's gonna be great food, it's gonna be great vibes, the drinks are want to be incredible, Like it's a bar forward restaurant. The whole idea kind of came with a bar forward restaurant, Like we want that to be a thing.

It's gonna be great tombs.

But more importantly, bringing some black culture back to San Francisco. You know this, this is a city that used to be black culture and now there's no black culture in this city, and so just really wanted to bring some of our culture back here. Like if you want to go to a spot and experience some black culture but have a great meal, have a great, good, clean fun, say like that's that's what we're trying to bring back here.

You know, it's a it's a class thing.

You want to like be able to catch.

A vibe absolutely, like a real vibe absolutely, you know.

And so for me partner, you know, Guma a good friend of mine, Guma Fi Sal he brought he brought the idea to me like a year and a half ago, and uh, you know, we were kind of look scouting. We've been looking at venues for the last year and a half. And every time that we like, dang, that ain't it. You know, he kind of go radio signed. I'm like, all right, I guess we ain't doing it. And then he come back like, yo, I found these things. I'm this much further in our planning and this thing

Food.

It's usually hard to nail the vibe and the food.

You usually can get one another.

We want to make sure that this is a restaurant that you're coming to where you know you're getting a great meal, you know you're getting great drinks, you know you're getting great service.

You're going to have a great time. I love that, man, San Francisco. Neath that, let's go go to Meskie. We own't yes, Sir Ylpi and dominic confusion man. Shout out to you, bro for putting on for the city, for bringing culture to the city, because you know I'll be up in the in the city every week and we meet that San Francisco neath that, the Bay Area neath that, Like that's what the Bay Area is known for is our culture, as for our diversity. So shout out to you the grand opening.

We gotta be there, dumb Nation. We gotta show up. We gotta run it, run it, run it, run it up. Yes, sir, and we most definitely don't do that.

Make sure you get to invite my brother. We set it out how we're supposed to set it out. Make sure y'all come out check it out. We're gonna have a good time. We're gonna eat some good food. But until next time. That's a wrap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show with the OGBD.

Appreciate you, my brother, y'all, gee slave y'all. Dumnation the volume