J. Kyle Mann

So that makes sense.

The Pacers doing this and basically leaving it up to the lottery gods or just like how much they're going to now tank over the second half of the season is unlike anything I've seen before.

On the one hand, they could end up with Zubac, who I think is a great fit alongside a healthy Halliburton team.

Yeah.

Just,

just from like a starting point.

But if they then still tank, end up with the top three pick, they could add an AJ to Bonta to all of this.

And so on lottery night, this could basically be like a dynasty or not is really hanging in the balance.

Yeah, Sam Presti always moves in silence.

I think we did a piece last year or two years ago on The Ringer about what activity level each GM has had historically at the deadline.

Presti, historically, one of the people that sits on his hands and just waits for the offseason and then does his business there.

They did get Jared McCain, which is different, but we'll talk about that later on.

So I think...

as a side kind of tangent to this deal and a lot of what the tankers did, I think the biggest matchup I'm looking forward to over the second half, isn't like, okay, see Spurs or Detroit Pistons versus the Knicks.

It's more about these tanking teams in the NBA and the NBA potentially forcing these teams to play, uh,

a lot of the all-stars that actually are in air quotes hurt, or are they hurt?

And like, because there was this rule, they made a very hard line about that.

If you were a recent all-star, you're expected to play these guys.

And I think for that reason, that's why the wizards haven't rolled Trey young out for the entire year.

Sure.