J. Kyle Mann

Man, the energy just coursing through us.

At least that's like maybe it's the caffeine because I haven't eaten in like 10 hours, but it's something.

That bumps us up from a bonanza, which we tend to do when we forget to change it up.

Or Palooza.

Yeah, Palooza.

We do some Paloozas too.

Yes, a lot of just middling veterans got traded in that last hour.

Pretty much was pretty docile at the end there outside of the big old Visa Zubach trade going to the Pacers.

We'll talk about that.

But overall, this was a day for the tankers.

We were expecting like maybe we get a Giannis, some team just rips the cord, a contender and just goes all out and gets them for the stretch run here.

Instead, it was the worst teams in the league trading for next year.

in the hopes that they could do their business a little bit earlier, which is odd.

I don't remember anything like that, Rob.

Well, I want to just check off the Giannis box before we get anywhere else, if only because this was the biggest news and it ended up being the biggest lack of news on the day.

When it all kind of just fell apart toward the end there, when Shams alerted everyone that this wasn't going to happen, my conspiracy theory was that this was just all a big show to show Giannis that we put forth a good effort, but we actually never wanted to trade for you or trade you.

If only because in the off seasons, as we've been saying for months now, there just will be more opportunity there.

Yes.

Having said that, we got a very odd tweet from Giannis suggesting that now he wants to add to his run in Milwaukee, which seems to be a reversal of what he said yesterday to The Athletic and a couple other outlets.

So this is a big old mix.