Brian Scalabrini

I can't pay Austin Reeves that, can I?

Yeah, that's a good question.

You have to ask yourself, like if you have Luka Doncic on your team, which you will for the foreseeable future, and you have Austin Reeves, can you build a roster enough around them to support them defensively?

And I mean, I heard your take.

I'm kind of with you.

It seems like if your standard is a championship level,

Oklahoma City is not going to get worse here.

Teams like Dallas and Minnesota, Denver, we can go on and on in the Western Conference about teams that are getting better.

I don't think that the road to a championship is having two of your best players that aren't great defensively.

But the question is, if you sign him right now, you still might be able to move him for more viable players.

If you lose him for nothing, that's not a championship-level move either.

So the Lakers might be forced to trade to sign him, and it might not be $240 million.

But you can always move that contract down the road if you feel like people are interested in Austin Reeves at that number.

He is a bona fide scorer.

If your roster can support that, you might think about doing that.

But if that's your idea of going forward and you're going to win, I can't see how people are going to be on board with your top two players not being able to guard at a high enough level.

So the draft lottery was yesterday, and it's officially not rigged because if it was, you wouldn't have all the teams at the top winning it.

Now, I will say, because of Wemby's greatness and the discussion on him years before he played in the NBA, he's overshadowed to me Cooper Flagg, who may be the best domestic potential superstar ever.

even over Ant in a long time.

You were part of Cooper Flagg's development.