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But.

When you talk about futures and long-term building out your team, the Pistons have it very, very good.

Because Durant is now an all-star caliber player.

Cade is now an MVP caliber player.

And even if Ivy didn't work out or hasn't worked out yet, you still have Asar Thompson.

You still have Ron Holland.

Guys who maybe can become...

really good players for you as well.

And the flexibility and cap space and picks, right?

We just talked about the fact that they can go out and get Michael Porter jr.

And it wouldn't even hurt them really.

Right.

Yeah.

That's the level of flexibility that the Pistons have when it comes to their future.

Yeah, and you know what?

For some sports fans, and I say this as a guy who grew up being a Toronto Raptors fan, and if you look at sports fans in general from Toronto, they're very, I guess, they've had a traumatic history because of the Maple Leafs.

I'm not a Maple Leafs fan.

I'm not a big hockey guy in general, but Maple Leafs fandom has a lot of trauma to it.

Blue Jays fandom, even though they won the World Series twice in the 90s,

has a level of trauma to it because of the amount of times they had opportunities and didn't so sports fandom in general is about heartbreak and when you embrace that level of it when you accept the fact that it's like hey you were going to win some and you're going to lose some