Cody Westerlund

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They go back to work in the offseason, and they're thinking, we're right there.

We have enough where we are, maybe.

Maybe Giannis is the final player to put him over the top, but they don't want to part with OG Ananobi, right?

I know he's out right now with an injury, but when the Knicks look ahead, too, everyone thought they were going to get Giannis last year at this trade deadline or something.

They've built something great without him right now.

Yeah, it's hard to remember all the blowouts for the 76ers, but game two is where they had a chance, I guess.

They gave up 140, I think, twice.

144 to 114, I think, in the finale of that one.

That's the one that really... That's the one where they made 13 threes in the first quarter or something like that.

Yeah, so what you're saying is it would have been 146-114 if they had Giannis instead.

Yeah.

And you just said another team name.

The Spurs could get Giannis if they wanted as well, right?

The Spurs can get anything they want, yeah.

They wouldn't be acquiring... I mean, OKC could too.

It feels like the Spurs, if they made the finals, I think it would make them less likely to get Giannis because it probably means they would have beaten the Thunder with their current roster and they would think that young core gets better.

But if they lose to the Thunder this year on...

They had a lot of success against them in the regular season, playoffs a different animal.

You could see a pathway to them getting in the Giannis sweepstakes as well.