J. Kyle Mann

I don't know where to really stand with Giannis overall.

Yeah, I still can't track down whether or not he requested a trade because then it sounded like he had implied for months was the reporting that he was open to being moved or wanted to be moved.

And so just his emotions about this seemed to change on a dime.

So I guess it's not surprising that nothing ended up happening because this keeps flipping over and over again.

So Giannis stayed put.

John Morant stayed put as well.

Also another expected one.

I think the one we need to start with here is Zivisa Zubac because this was like the big splash, right?

As like the last hour or so was kind of unfolding here.

I was not expecting this.

I know he'd been in rumors, I think, to the Celtics early on when the Clippers were struggling.

But it just seems like the Clippers...

even though they are conservationists in terms of trees, they didn't mind cutting down perhaps the hottest team in the NBA in order to, at the very least, turn the page to something else like some of these other tankers are doing.

Was it funny?

No, I think this is the ballsiest move that I can remember probably on both sides in a very long time because in the Clippers, you have a team actually getting out in front of the inevitable decline and actually hitting the button sooner than later when we've seen so many teams basically wait, wait, wait until John Morant just doesn't have any value.

Here, they just got ahead of it.

They got rid of Harden and followed it up immediately with Zuboff, which I thought was very smart of them.

We'll see how Kawhi thinks about that.

I mean, he's playing his best basketball of his career, but...

I guess to Rob's earlier point, like there's still a long way to go between where they are in sixth place in the West.