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the NBA thinks they're maybe they're all that double banging

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and they're not signing any players Really

2:33

frustrating the slowdown that happened today. So I'll

2:36

be honest with you Pretty

2:38

gonna be pretty bad show simple as

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that Salesmen are

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legendary salesman It's

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gonna be bad not hardly anything has happened and

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I am recording this at 12

2:50

30 a.m. On the morning of the 4th

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of July happy for the July to you guys in America on

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The East Coast I'm about to take off and land in

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America on the 4th of July as well So that's why

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I've got to get this out I was waiting to do

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more stuff and see what would happen and trying to plan

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out a show and nothing went down so

3:07

apologies There's

3:10

not huge amounts that's gone on here, so We'll

3:13

just talk about what did happen the show will be short

3:15

There is going to be plenty of shows coming next week

3:17

that are already pre-recorded if you go to the YouTube page

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You can see what's coming. It's interesting shows that I've done

3:22

there Any breaking news

3:24

stuff? I'll record them in shorts form. I'm

3:26

guessing Not gonna take a

3:28

studio with me Yeah,

3:31

really really frustrating just to see I'm

3:35

not again. Like I said on yesterday show. I don't sit here

3:37

and go man I want the whole league to go crazy and

3:39

they want to be moving all over the place, but There's

3:42

142 players you played in an NBA game last

3:44

season who remain unsigned. They're not all

3:46

gonna get signed but 60

3:50

of them will 80 of them will I Guess

3:53

and with not all of them are gonna be

3:55

impact players And then there's

3:57

gonna be trades it's happening and that appears to

3:59

be the delay here is there are trades being

4:01

negotiated, sign-in trades because of the cap restrictions and

4:04

expansions of current deals that have been agreed

4:06

to in principle to allow teams

4:09

to circumnavigate, get

4:11

themselves around the restrictions that are in place. So

4:14

you might see deals expanded out to four

4:16

or five teams to incorporate things in to

4:19

reduce apron triggering. Again,

4:22

I'll talk about this at the end, but we do have

4:24

a number of players who are or should be rotation players

4:26

that aren't signed. It's

4:28

annoying that we don't have any of them

4:30

signed at the moment. There

4:33

was only three players, I believe,

4:37

signed today onto new teams and one of them

4:39

didn't even play in the NBA and I don't

4:41

know why there was a rush to sign PJ

4:43

Dozier. That's the last one I mentioned PJ Dozier

4:46

on this show. He signed with the Wolves. Someone

4:49

else who signed with the Wolves was the Big Fowler

4:51

himself, Jingle and Joe Ingalls. That

4:55

feels like almost a direct Kyle

4:58

Anderson replacement. We talked yesterday about, hey, would

5:00

Leonard Miller or Josh Minot get some

5:02

of those minutes? And maybe they still do because Ingalls wasn't

5:05

at his best last year. He's like 36, 37. He's

5:07

going to be playing in the Olympics as well. But

5:12

he's passing. He's a better shooter than Anderson, way worse

5:14

defender at this point in his career as well. He

5:17

could get nods over Minot and over

5:19

Miller. So they're probably not giving those

5:21

opportunities to those guys. Ingalls

5:24

signed a one-year federal minimum deal, $3.3

5:26

million. To join

5:28

Minnesota to be their backup three slash four.

5:30

Again, literally the exact same Kyle Anderson role,

5:32

although I don't ever think that Ingalls will

5:34

push into a 29 minute spot if someone

5:37

gets injured the way that Anderson did. Anderson's

5:40

like six years younger, I think. Don't

5:42

exactly quite, we can, but I'm not holding to

5:44

tell you that I know that exactly. That's the

5:46

age difference. So

5:49

Ingalls is not really going to have any fantasy value

5:51

at all. We saw some significant declines from him the

5:53

last two years, last year in Orlando. And

5:56

it's just a solid enough three

5:58

point shooting semi. replacement of

6:00

Kyle Anderson. Again, I would have loved

6:02

for Minot and Miller to

6:05

be given those opportunities or they're not really the same player

6:07

as Anderson at all. They're very, very different where his Ingles

6:09

is. I won't say he's the most similar player

6:11

in the NBA to Anderson, but he's got to be pretty close to it. Slow

6:15

player, obviously the nicknames or the nickname

6:17

of Kyle anyway, that

6:19

can pass as a 6'8 forward.

6:22

Ingles is just a better shooter.

6:25

Anderson's a better defender. And

6:28

that's one of the big moves that happened. The other

6:30

one is one

6:33

that's really, I think you've all got to sit down for

6:35

it because it's our mate. It's

6:37

the big fella. It's Alec Burks going

6:41

from the Knicks to the

6:43

Miami Heat. And that signifies the

6:45

Miami Means business. They've

6:47

entered their hat into the free agency arena.

6:50

They've started to sign guys after

6:52

the 25th millionth failure

6:55

at acquiring a star that everyone wants to come

6:57

there and join Heat culture. And we're going to

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make a big splash. They did it today. Alec

7:01

Burks is here. Get

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ready. Boston doesn't stand a chance anymore.

7:08

Alec Burks was

7:11

okay early

7:13

in Detroit. He struggled a bit in New York. He's

7:16

not going to have a starters role in Miami. That's Hero

7:18

and Roger, I'm guessing as the starting back on. I don't

7:20

really know what else that would do there. But

7:24

Hero has had injury problems very clearly. Roger had

7:26

some issues at times last year and missed the

7:28

end of the season with that neck problem. So

7:32

there is a chance here that Burks,

7:35

he's not a draftable player. I'm not going

7:38

to suggest that. You know, stash him just

7:40

in case. But

7:42

there will be times, I'm guessing, that Alec

7:45

Burks plays starters

7:48

minutes. And

7:50

can have value. But

7:54

their team is also weirdly for

7:57

as not good as I think they are necessarily.

7:59

I don't. think Miami is very good and I

8:01

think their regular season finished the last two years and playoffs

8:03

this last year is pretty indicative of how they are as

8:05

a team. I'm not sure

8:07

that they got any better like it's

8:10

basically at this point the exact same

8:12

team with Kalil Ware there and

8:14

signing Alec Burks but their backcourt is Herro

8:17

Rosier, there's Richardson and Robinson coming

8:19

off the bench. If you consider

8:21

Hakehza too, he's 90s more of a 3 but he's

8:23

there and now there's Burks there but

8:26

that's their team. They've got 17 guys

8:29

signed, three those are

8:31

two ways so 14 main roster players and that's

8:33

without Hayward High Smith or

8:36

Caleb Martin returning yet. They

8:39

lost Delon Wright as well in free agency so

8:42

it's Burks for Wright so they're the same team pretty

8:45

much pretty much. I

8:48

don't have a number on an Alec

8:50

Burks signing, I think it'd be

8:52

like would

8:54

it be the minimum? No I think he'd probably

8:57

get a little bit more than a minimum, he probably has an ability to

8:59

get one of the exceptions I'm guessing but

9:02

you know what that's really not the point of this. He's

9:06

just someone that along with Josh Richardson is

9:09

probably going to be part of the rotation and

9:11

Hakehza is coming off the bench. I think there'll be a lot of

9:13

people expecting Hakehza to have a big step forward this year but

9:15

when Hakehza is Burks, Richardson,

9:19

Robinson, Duncan Robinson are all coming off the

9:21

bench. Not

9:24

sure there are enough minutes there for that to work. Of

9:28

course General Saunos will miss games through

9:30

real injuries or fake injuries because he's

9:32

complaining about his contract that's possible or

9:34

he's actually hurt so there's

9:38

going to be all these opportunities there in that

9:40

respect but otherwise it is again

9:43

it's full of

9:45

players who are solid enough but

9:48

no one who's particularly great. There's

9:50

scales of that, Hiro and Roszira

9:52

better than Richardson and Burks obviously

9:54

but in terms of who is

9:57

there a 28 minute a night bench Jordan

10:00

Clarkson player there, not really. They're

10:03

all gonna be sort of eating each other's value. I

10:05

almost said the other thing, didn't I? But I didn't. I said

10:07

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10:09

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right, so they're the only two players in

12:38

the last 24 hours since I've recorded

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that have changed teams. Again,

12:42

if you want to count PJ Dozier, good

12:45

for you. I'm

12:47

not going to go through and do full team analysis

12:49

and breakdowns because there are going to be moves that

12:51

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12:54

who are still sitting out there and we will get to that in

12:56

a second who is still available. But

12:59

in the meantime, let's look at some resignings because

13:01

we did have the biggest name on the free

13:03

agency market, the biggest name one

13:06

of in the history of the NBA, LeBron James,

13:08

the big fella, who resigned.

13:10

He claimed that he would take $20 million less in

13:12

order to bring in a select group of people that

13:14

can help the team win. They didn't bring

13:16

those guys in, so he took his max. There

13:19

is, I wouldn't say

13:21

that I am a LeBron stan. What

13:24

do you guys call it? A bronze sexual. I wouldn't

13:27

say that I'm not at all. I do think that

13:29

LeBron can be argued to be the

13:31

goat. Actually, that

13:33

debate, I honestly don't care about in

13:35

the slightest. My only care

13:37

about that sort of debate, Jordan versus LeBron is if you

13:39

say that it's one and not the

13:41

other and it's not close and you won't entertain it,

13:43

then you're being disingenuous and then you're ridiculously wrong. If

13:46

you want to think one or the other, whatever. I don't

13:48

care. What

13:51

I was trying to say is that LeBron, this, he

13:53

gets so much school people legitimately in

13:55

good faith. Well, that's not true. They think they're

13:57

in good faith or some of them do it

13:59

in bad faith. Just tweet things out that are

14:01

just ridiculous. How could the

14:03

Lakers give Bronnie James? By the way,

14:05

Lakers, I'm on to you. His

14:07

name is not Bronnie James Jr.

14:11

It is not. His

14:13

name is LeBron James Jr. or it's Bronnie

14:15

James. Unless I'm gonna call the old man,

14:17

40 year old legend, am I

14:19

gonna call him Bronnie James? Because I'm not.

14:23

And Bronnie is going to wear James

14:25

Jr. on his jersey, which just, it

14:28

infuriates me. But you know

14:30

what? Pedantry is a cross that I bear.

14:35

Yeah, I took it on. I can't believe you got

14:37

guaranteed contractors as a second round pick at number 55.

14:40

This is insane. Look at what Isaiah Wong,

14:42

number 55 last year got. That is just

14:44

complete disingenuous garbage. Because Trace

14:46

Jackson Davis at 57 got two

14:48

guaranteed years. The same amount

14:50

of money as Bronnie guaranteed. Chris

14:53

Livingston. Another clutch

14:55

client that Rich Paul said don't draft

14:57

him. We have got a guaranteed deal

14:59

worked out with the Bucks. Pushed

15:02

him to Milwaukee so we could sign a

15:04

four-year guaranteed deal. And let's be honest, he's

15:06

really bad. Maybe Bronnie is bad

15:09

too, but Livingston's actually bad too. There

15:13

are a lot of players. There's

15:15

not a lot. There are a decent number of

15:17

players picked in the 50s who have multiple guaranteed

15:19

years on contracts. But we all

15:21

get up in arms because it's Bronnie. It's not because it,

15:23

look, I guess some of it is because his dad is

15:25

LeBron. But this is not unprecedented. It has

15:27

happened literally last year. I think there

15:30

was two guys last year. Yeah, there was. Yeah, Jackson

15:32

Davis and Livingston. 57 and 58. And

15:37

now there's like why didn't LeBron take this big discount so

15:39

they could sign anyone else? Well,

15:42

who else are they gonna sign at this point? He

15:44

allegedly did offer that. The

15:46

players there, I know Lakers fans are getting so upset.

15:48

Oh, what are we doing? So anyway, I think you

15:50

guys and maybe I think the realisation is hitting now

15:53

as well. The Lakers aren't as

15:55

good as you think they are. Their front office

15:57

and ownership are bottom tier, at least bottom third in

15:59

the end. NBA and have been for a long time.

16:02

Polinka had one pretty good off season, but

16:05

otherwise he does so many dumb things, West book

16:07

trade terrible. Giving out

16:09

all these player options to these spuds that don't need

16:11

them. A

16:13

lot of what he, no one, we're in on

16:15

this guy. Now they don't want to come. The

16:18

reverse course on the D'Angelo Russell trade. They're

16:21

just bad GMs with a bad front office. So

16:26

you can, if you criticize LeBron

16:28

for not taking less than this and allegedly might take a million dollars less

16:30

to keep them under the second apron, to give them

16:33

a level of flexibility in some sort of trades, whatever he might do that. But

16:35

do it for everybody. Because

16:38

every player takes as much as they can in nearly every

16:41

situation. You will have an example. I'm sure where

16:43

that's not the case. That

16:47

someone took this amount of money less like honestly,

16:49

like LeBron did when he was in Miami. But it's small amounts

16:51

and who's he taking the discount for

16:53

here? Who's

16:56

he getting $20 million less than he's

16:58

$50 million to sign? Who

17:01

are you bringing in? Because

17:03

don't tell me it's Demar to Rosen, the worst fit

17:06

possible between LeBron and the AD, a horrible fit. Just

17:15

LeBron gets so much unnecessary negativity around him. That

17:17

it's pretty, it's ridiculous. I think right in this

17:19

contract and then regarding Bronny, it was too much

17:21

for me. Not

17:24

too much. We don't like it. He had a player option on

17:26

this deal and he gets a no trade clause. Is

17:29

this the, is this the last season for LeBron? Will he take

17:31

that player option? I think he probably will. Maybe this is his

17:33

last contract two more years. As

17:36

for LeBron in fantasy, this Lakers team is

17:38

unchanged. His stats will be, I'm guessing unchanged.

17:40

The only variable is going to be, is

17:42

LeBron actually a 40-year-old? The

17:44

only variable is going to be, is LeBron actually

17:47

a 40% three-point shooter now? Because

17:49

if he's not, he won't be that first roundish

17:51

sort of player. It's

17:53

all about the shooting, the two numbers, the free throw percentage

17:55

and the three-point percentage for LeBron. And that just will push

17:57

him from the 10th best player to the

17:59

24th best. player and then it's a bad injury. Everything

18:02

else is for, for Bronny senior

18:05

is going to be the same. This is who he is.

18:07

Nothing changes much there. Um,

18:11

I don't understand the Washington Wizards center situation,

18:13

a sentence that could have been uttered a

18:15

million times over the course of history. I

18:19

thought at the end of last season, they brought

18:21

Bagley in salary, dump, got some assets, Sean

18:23

Holmes, part of an asset thing that they're brought

18:26

over the big fella, Tristan Vukcovitch at the end of the

18:28

season. I thought he looked all right. You can shoot, you

18:30

can defend. Okay. He's big. He rebounds. That's nice. I thought

18:33

there's a chance that maybe he enters the season as the

18:35

starting center. Then drafted Alex Sarr. I went, okay, well, we

18:37

guess Sarr is going to be the center because it's a

18:39

clear opening there, especially with the cruise member at

18:41

the four, but then they went

18:43

and renegotiated Rachel Holmes

18:45

contract, which honestly doesn't change a huge amount

18:47

because Holmes could have just picked up his

18:49

player option anyway. But

18:51

instead he declined that and they signed him to a two year

18:53

deal with a non-guarantee on the end, which gives him extra flexibility

18:56

in trades, whatever. That's fine. They

18:58

signed Valentunis to a backup center deal, three

19:01

years, $30 million. So

19:04

Valentunis, Bagley, Holmes, Sarr.

19:07

They declined Vukcovitch's team

19:10

option. Then

19:12

they declined his restricted rights and

19:14

then brought him back on a two way. I

19:18

think I like a lot of what Washington has done in the front

19:20

office, but I don't understand that at all. Valentunis

19:23

is fine. He'll set big screens.

19:25

He'll probably help a little bit with Sarr. We hope

19:27

they don't overplay him or overfeed him the ball. The

19:30

Sarr, cruise member three, four feet will be pretty

19:32

bad. I think if that's what they end up doing, but again,

19:34

they don't care. They want to lose. And

19:37

it's fun to make the Troy Weaver jokes. I know

19:39

I make them. I

19:42

don't think Troy Weaver is doing this, but that is just Bagley,

19:44

Holmes, Vukcovitch, Valentunis, Sarr. It's a lot of effort investing into the

19:46

center spot, especially when the spot,

19:51

especially when Vukcovitch was picked in the same, I think

19:53

that Vukcovitch and Sarr could work

19:55

together longterm as appearing. But

19:58

now that he's on a two way, it seems that

20:00

he is. absolutely not in their priority plans or Part

20:03

of it is hey, we've signed you to a two-way We'll

20:06

trade away Bagley Holmes Valentine's

20:08

whatever during the season will convert

20:10

you will give you a four year six million dollar

20:13

Part or last two years non guaranteed at the end of the

20:15

season when we convert you I think there's a chance that we

20:17

might be playing the 50 game dance

20:19

with him Maybe he is part of the rotation

20:22

is the backup center. They probably won't be because

20:24

you know, Sarah or Bagley will do that And

20:27

then we get a run from him towards the end of the season

20:29

and we see how Sar Vukovic can work together I'm

20:32

pretty sure they are nowhere near from finished. It's

20:34

just frustrating at the moment and

20:37

then our man in

20:40

Miami Pat Riley

20:42

continues to cook because he brought back Tom

20:44

Bryant on a one-year 2.8 million dollar contract

20:46

now Bryant proved He's not an NBA caliber

20:48

player anymore. One of the

20:50

worst defensive big men in the NBA. They

20:52

just drafted Kalil where and I

20:55

don't is Orlando Robinson still in that team

20:57

because he had a chance last season

20:59

to be right. He's gone Oh, no, he's still there. So

21:01

we've got non guarantee on Orlando Robinson So

21:04

we've got BAM Robinson Bryant

21:06

where is BAM going to

21:08

play at the four? I don't think he is because I'm pretty

21:10

sure that Nicola Jovic little chungus is gonna lock in as the

21:12

starting power for Butler Oji

21:15

hero Jovic pretty sure he'll lock in

21:17

as the starting for BAM at

21:19

the five where maybe is a backup because I Feel

21:22

all right about saying where's already better than Tom Bryant at

21:24

this point Maybe he's

21:26

not I feel all right saying it though Yeah,

21:29

so that's the big moves Miami made Tom Bryant back on

21:31

a one-year 2.8 million dollar contract Cool

21:36

cool stuff But

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then there was one other trade not

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trade my bad signing. The

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Big Fower Nate Williams Jr. also

23:17

known as Genethan Williams terrible name

23:19

Nate's much better. He's

23:22

back on a two-way with Houston. What

23:25

did he play last year? Four minutes? Pretty

23:27

sure the big fella Genethan played with Portland

23:30

the year before but

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he is back now in Houston ready

23:35

to sit around and do nothing. Nate

23:37

is 24. He played six

23:40

minutes a game for 22 minutes. There you go. 122 minutes for the

23:42

year. 120

23:44

minutes. 132 minutes. Something like

23:46

that. And that's it. That's the signings.

23:55

So who's left? Like I said earlier there's 142 players

23:57

you played in games

23:59

last season who are available. available. The

24:01

biggest one is DeRozan. And there's

24:03

no money. So DeRozan is

24:05

going to like, I thought that Chicago, this

24:07

happened literally last time to DeMar DeRozan in

24:09

free agency. No one wanted

24:12

him. Chicago overpaid

24:14

by about $15 million and negotiated a sign and trade

24:16

and gave up their first round pick, which I still

24:18

haven't given off to the Spurs in

24:20

order to get him and DeRozan was much better

24:22

than I thought he would be. But as always

24:24

with these sort of players like DeRozan, there is

24:26

a very significant limit on what they

24:28

allow your team to do. And now

24:31

we're three years older on DeRozan and it's the same thing

24:33

playing out again. Is he going to sign for the mid

24:35

level? I don't think he'll want to. Who's going to sign

24:37

and trade to get him? Who's going to be the new

24:39

Bulls who give up legitimate assets because you can sign and

24:41

trade without giving up anything. The Warriors

24:43

signed and trade for Anderson and they gave it what

24:46

cash in a second round pick swap. Not even a

24:48

pick a pick swap. The

24:50

Bulls said, take a first round pick mate. You

24:53

can have it. Negotiating against

24:55

nobody ourselves. Cool. We'll beat ourselves in

24:57

this one. That's

25:00

the big one. DeRozan, who's 35 now? The

25:04

other ones that are important, Tyre Stones, not going to ever

25:06

start him. Well, I'm guessing. Gordon

25:08

Heywood, probably not a rotation role. 38 year

25:11

old Kyle Lowry, probably not. We

25:13

got word of maybe it's sign and trade for

25:15

Budrick Heald heading to the Warriors, which

25:17

I reckon would include things like obviously Philadelphia,

25:20

Golden State, maybe Minnesota, a few other teams

25:22

expanding that out. If Heald does

25:24

go to Golden State, well, I have no idea what to make of

25:26

that. Curry, Pajemski,

25:29

Melton, Moody, Heald.

25:35

Too many guys. Wiggins, Kaminga,

25:37

Anderson, too many guys. Heald

25:40

is actually there, like that's too much. Gary

25:44

Trent Jr. is still available. Malik Beasley is still

25:46

available. And what is very, very weird about almost

25:49

all of these players who are available

25:51

save DeMar DeRozan is

25:53

almost like a fantasy basketball wafer wire. Is

25:56

they're all just three point shooters. So

25:59

maybe the NBA needs look at the fantasy

26:01

basketball model and just go, oh we can

26:03

just stream in threes. Kyle Lowry, Bart

26:05

Heald, Yvonne Fournier and Gary Trent,

26:07

Mark Elpholdt's not so much, Malik

26:09

Beasley, Ty Stone's not really, but

26:12

Luke Canard, Doug McDermott, Robert

26:14

Covington. These

26:16

are just three-point streamers. Then

26:19

you got some other, oh Seth Curry, Sadegh

26:22

Bay, Tumora Keke, these aren't three-point guys,

26:24

Patrick Beverly, Jay Crowder. Oh,

26:27

Justin Holiday. I don't think I talked. Oh, I missed

26:29

one. I missed a signing. I

26:32

am so sorry because this was a funny one. It was

26:34

the artist formerly known as Torian Prince. He

26:37

went to Milwaukee where Darvin Ham and

26:39

him get to reunite after a absolutely

26:43

terrifying couple of months apart. He

26:46

has a real chance to just play the Jay Crowder

26:48

role 23 minutes

26:52

a night and we don't care. I think

26:55

that's going to end up as simple as that. We're just

26:57

not going to care from

26:59

a fantasy point of view. Kevin Walker also retired by

27:01

the way. Yeah,

27:04

but I missed that one, Torian Prince. My bad. My bad.

27:06

My bad. Oh, we just got, oh here we go. Chicago

27:09

Bulls restricted free agent Adama Sanogo has agreed

27:11

with a two-way contract with the team. Cool.

27:16

Things are moving. So

27:18

who else is still available? Miles

27:22

Bridges. So it's Demar to Ozen, Miles

27:24

Bridges, Bud Heald, Tyre Stones. The only

27:26

guys who really, when they sign,

27:28

will make any sort of level of a ripple

27:31

unless you're a big tail and Horton Tucker guy.

27:33

And if you are, probably wouldn't watch my Overrated

27:35

Players show next week. The

27:37

other interesting one is going to be Precious Achewer who

27:40

the Knicks declined the restricted rights on. Weirdly,

27:44

but their backup center's Jericho seems now that she

27:46

was bad, but they

27:49

need somebody. Simone

27:52

Fonteccio is restricted. Thought he

27:54

could be their starting power forward, but now they sign Tobias Harris to

27:56

too much money. Dario Sharich

27:58

is there. Dennis Smith's there. Lonnie

28:01

Walker's there. Lamar

28:03

Stephens, Sundro, Mamakila Shveely, the

28:05

God of Hammers, JT Thor,

28:08

BJ Boston, Czemesi Mezuhajwad-Heisemith, Lukasz

28:10

Szymanić, the Italian

28:12

Cocktino Lagannari, Thad Young, Pat Mills, Taj

28:16

Gibson. He's not going to play the whole season for

28:18

the next time, won't he?

28:20

Um, but that's where we're at with that. Weird

28:23

stuff. Kayla Barton's still on sign.

28:28

We'll see what else goes down. But yes, Sonogo, one

28:30

that just was gone through not long ago, and

28:33

Torian Prince and other signings. Sonogo back with

28:35

his team, the Bulls, to sit there and

28:37

do nothing. In terms of

28:39

what we need on teams,

28:41

I think that's an interesting thing to look

28:43

at as well as I try to pad this show out. The

28:46

Knicks need a center. Robinson's fine. He

28:48

will, at the moment, he has to play more minutes

28:51

and Tom Thibodeau will not want to play

28:54

small. He might have to, but they

28:56

need a center. The

28:59

Pelicans have one center,

29:02

Yves Miesi. Unless

29:04

both of these teams are going to go with

29:06

Julius Randall or Anzein Williamson as their centers, they're

29:09

running into real trouble. They both

29:11

need a center. New

29:14

Orleans more so, desperately. Philadelphia

29:17

needs a forward. I

29:21

don't know who they're going to, they have to trade someone

29:23

because they have no power forwards. Ubrae's

29:26

not a four. Paul George's won't play at the four.

29:31

Unless they do go small and George is the four. Ubrae

29:33

the three and they start McCain and Maxie or they start

29:38

Maxie and someone else who's on the team. I don't even know.

29:41

They need a four. They're probably the biggest,

29:44

the biggest gaping, gaping holes in starting line so

29:47

that I can see at the moment. Like you

29:49

could say Charlotte needs good players. Oh no, fine.

29:53

Maybe they don't. The one that will be

29:55

seen is Miles Bridges is much

29:57

of a ship-loker's years. Him

30:00

in Philadelphia would fill

30:02

that four slot and would be a basketball

30:04

fit pretty good I think he's overrated miles bridges, but

30:07

I think it'd be a good fit It

30:09

looks like he's gonna have to take really low contract the

30:13

centers there's just There's

30:16

not much man Daniel

30:19

Tice Boban

30:21

Yert seven Damo

30:23

Jones Moses Brown There's

30:26

nothing so if New York

30:29

and the Palakans want a center Ibu Baji Micah

30:33

Potter There's

30:36

nothing there There

30:38

is not a center that you want there And

30:42

that's weird because center is one of the

30:44

more replaceable positions But

30:46

some teams have gone crazy. Why did Washington sign all these

30:48

guys? Why did you banks go to Utah? It's

30:50

a lot of those situations like Paul

30:53

and are they position themselves? Well having Klingon eight and

30:55

then Williams where the

30:57

Palakans like We

31:00

can have eight and surely can we Let's

31:03

see Buzz

31:05

around Ingram buzz around market and being

31:07

traded There's going to have

31:09

to be trades because there's a lot of incompleteness

31:12

with teams otherwise some teams are gonna go into

31:14

the season with gigantic issues in their rotations and

31:17

I'm just trying to see how long I can push

31:20

this show out to see if any more news drops

31:22

But it won't so I'm

31:25

gonna tell you goodbye Because

31:27

this is my last Live at

31:30

the moment show in three hours.

31:32

I will be at the airport

31:34

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31:37

Be in California for a bit then head to

31:39

Vegas for summer league and then back home There

31:41

are shows pre-prepared ready to load out for you

31:43

guys next week And I hope you guys are

31:45

going to enjoy them stay tuned to my socials

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well For little breaking news things that happen which

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I'll be covering And

31:54

then I'll see you fresh back

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