Dan Le Batard

There's a delusion on the self-assessment with all of these franchises.

We're talking about the Magic made a trade like they were a piece away.

They're not.

Minnesota made a trade like they're a piece away.

They're not.

The Knicks made a trade like they're a piece away.

And I don't believe that trade is the one that brings them over the top.

I don't think that any of those three trades are good trades.

All three of the trades are bad because they've stopped trading that amount for anybody in the league.

They've just stopped doing it.

They don't do it anymore.

They did it with those three, and then everybody stopped doing it after that.

Yeah, what if they won?

You guys are saying as successful as they've been, the Heat have made the finals twice in the last five years.

You guys keep telling me it's a failure.

You guys keep telling me it's a failure.

Now Minnesota's a giant success when the furthest they ever go is the Western Conference Finals and a guy who gets played off the court, who's good to play against Jokic and no one else in the league in the playoffs.

That's now the standard for success.

Trade five first round picks for Gobert is now the way we're doing it.

That's not funny.