Ime Udoka

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And I'll tell you right now, the first Omata Sabonis to Chicago rumor I hear this summer, if there is one, if it ever exists, because God knows Chicago needs to figure out a long-term center situation. I'm calling the league office and I'm saying, hey, look, people wanted you to step in on this Luka trade. OK, that's how mad they were. You got to stop these two teams from talking to each other.

No more. No more of this. And they both lose in a hilariously embarrassing fashion. The Kings immediately mutually agreed to part ways with their general manager. People are fleeing the Kings like the Titanic. Coaches are like, you know, Florida State's job is open. Can I be the assistant coach at Florida State? Can I be a GM of a college program?

Is there anywhere else I can go but here with me and Vivek and Bettina and Jeremy Lamb? And God knows what else is going on over there. So I will put this to you. And by the way, there's pick drama with these teams.

it really freed them to make a glorious deep playoff run in the daunting Eastern Conference. Meanwhile, the Kings owe their pick with top 12 protection to the Atlanta Hawks via the Kevin Herter trade, who somehow, Kevin Herter's just everywhere in this entire discussion.

Ime Odoka sitting there talking trash to all the Warriors, and after the game says, oh, they were crying. Steph was crying. They were crying. That's when we know we had them. All right. Okay. You called your shot, man. You said they're crying. You didn't say they're complaining or whining.

You intentionally used the term crying like they're babies, and now you got to face them seven times maybe in two weeks.

Who could have seen that coming? Nobody. I was literally talking to people within the Kings organization 96 hours ago. Like, who's going to replace Monty? What's going to happen with Monty? How much trouble is he in?

Welcome to the Zach Lowe Show. The play-in tournament is almost over. The real playoffs start in two days. Two days. We have four games on Saturday, four games on Sunday. Once the remnants of the play-in is over, the real games are starting. I'm very excited that first weekend of the playoffs.

Yeah, I know. You have another play-in game. We all know that.