Bill Simmons

But the support, the idea that it may not come next year, that it might not even be two years from now is how good the West is.

We still have these injuries.

Yeah.

Well, sure.

Yes.

Always injuries, especially with Lemby.

This sounds very petty.

Coach Steve must be from San Antonio.

That is a very petty trade.

Well, not only that, he loves Steph, but what coach would say no to the opportunity to coach up Wemby?

Boston's going to find out.

No, and I don't know how replicable any of that is.

I mean, the challenge, the thing that the Knicks pulled off was like literally decades in the making, right?

It's Leon Rose and World Wide West in the situations that they've been in.

Building these lifelong relationships.

Right, yes, yes.

And having perspectives on players that were undervalued or underappreciated in their situations and understanding the force multiplier of bringing those guys together.

Like, you know, we know we can unlock something.

We know something about Bridges that he doesn't need to be an alpha, that he can be even a, what is he, a theta, whatever, alpha, beta, whatever, the third class.

at the third wheel is um he doesn't even need to be a second uh he could be fourth because you have key of cat also and they got the best version of cat because they got a combination of cat maturing also like you know because think about how many times the knicks uh you know theoretically we're trading cat right over these last two years oh we got to trade cat like even fans