Chandler Parsons
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 Jun
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That doesn't help anything. So there to me, I don't, I don't get it. Uh, Kevin Durant, uh, Lakers, Dallas, I think Dallas could really save a lot of Nico Harrison's problems that he's dealing with right now. But he's not in a situation where he wants to go to Spurs, I think, to where it's kind of on the rise.
I've heard San Antonio, but I don't think they're going to win a championship in the next two or three years. And we don't know how long KD is going to play. So I think immediate to go to a contender. I could see LA. I could see Dallas teaming up with Luka and LeBron or AD and Kyrie. I think that'd be a good fit. He still has a lot of good basketball to play.
And clearly, you can just see, I feel like it's just not happening. And Phoenix, him and Bud have been going. I was at two games this year with Phoenix, and both times it's just, they just go at it. They're chirping, they're chirping during the game. They're brushing each other off.
There's the simple body language again, maybe I'm overreacting, but it just doesn't seem like there's a mutual respect and level of trust there where it's definitely coming to an end. I think he's 1000% on another team next year.
You know, what's crazy. I was like, when you look at the stand there, there were two and a half games behind Dallas who couldn't be more banged up and they couldn't be more trouble. And they somehow pull out the game last night against San Antonio. But if you're a Phoenix, that's kind of your only hope, right?
Your only light at the end of the tunnel was that, well, we could get into the play and there's no reason for them to tank. It's not like they're going to sit like Kevin Durant doesn't want to tank. He doesn't want to sit. He doesn't care about their pick next year. He's not, he's not, he's not going to be there next year, but Bradley Beal is probably not going to be there next year. So I think,
They do make one last push with these 20-whatever games left and maybe sneak in the play-in. And then they're thinking what I was thinking for the last two years, well, we have enough on paper. If we could just figure out how we can turn it around, anything can happen. But I think that's the only light through the tunnel is that they get into the play-in and somehow squeak into the playoffs.
Yeah, the first year, that was against the Thunder. And that was when Pat Beverly, when Westbrook, what's it called, the timeout, he tore his meniscus. And that was almost like a just happy to be there type of thing. We were out, man. They had a better team. Yeah, but it was fun. We had James Harden, and he was going back to Oklahoma City. And there was a lot of headlines.
And we were almost this team on the rise, kind of like the Thunder, kind of like the Cavs, where obviously we weren't the number one seed, but we – it was okay. If we lost that series, the following series, like, okay, we got Portland. We feel like we're a better team than them. We feel like we should win this series. And it's just a different kind of confidence.
When you go into that series, just thinking you're going to win rather than just happy to be there. And then, um, it was just completely different scenarios. And obviously Dave Lillard kind of ended my career as a rocket and hit that game winner to win that series. And we were just thinking, go, let's get it back to Houston game seven. It's ours. We're advancing.
And, uh, he's obviously a hell of a player and made a hell of a shot, but it's just a different mindset you have from just happy to be there to actually thinking we can survive and win and advance.
It's tough because who's, who, whose hands are going to take the ball out of, right? Especially when Marcus Aldridge has it going. I remember we were throwing different guys and we started Dwight Howard on him. I guarded him. We'd put smaller guys on a big guys on him. We tried to switch one through five. So you kind of throw all these different kinds of coverages and scheme to them and
Then you take the ball out of his hand. Then damn Lillard goes nuts. And that team was balanced. It was like Wes Matthews and Nicholas Batum. And they had a lot of different guys that, you know, gave them a lot and they were well-coached and they were just, they did, they defended. So they were tough.
And that last play, the Damian Lillard shot, man, I, first of all, I love Kevin McHale, but why the hell am I guarding Damian Lillard on that in-bounds play? We have Patrick Lillard. Yeah, Patrick Beverly right there. And I remember we were supposed to switch everything. And if you have the clip, I was on the bottom. So technically, someone was supposed to shoot out there.
That was the one thing that could beat us. And just obviously a huge mental lapse there. But great players make great shots like that. If you told me we lost by a 30-foot fadeaway, Dane Lillard buzzer beater... you know what, it's just a pill we got to swallow. But it was tough. And like you said, L.A., LaMarcus Aldridge, he was unbelievable that series.
Some of the shots he was hitting were just incredible.
Oh, it's it's the game is more physical. The game is slower. You're playing more half court where possessions are way more valuable. So you get in the half court offense and yeah, you want a James Harden that can kind of create contact and get to the free, the line can kind of control the game with the ball in his hands.
So well, as opposed to a player that's kind of averaging 20 playing up and down during the regular season, taking early threes and he might make 35, 40% of them, but those, those possessions don't exist. and the playoffs. And I think just from a general manager aspect, it's a fickle job, man. So you want guys that can help you win right now.
So if I'm Nico or if I'm, you know, the Lakers front office, I still, yeah, I want Kevin Durant this summer because he can help me win right now with LeBron James and Luka. I'm Nico. I, yeah, I want, I'll pair him with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie. I'll take that risk because I know come playoff time. Now I have three options.
I have three threats that are experienced that have been there before that we trust. And it's just more comfortable, you know, than some of these younger up and coming stars that have never done it before. They've never been there. So I think you'll always see teams kind of be aggressive to, you know, acquire the James Harden's even the Westbrook. Look how well he's playing now in Denver.
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