J. Kyle Mann

But for a lot of these teams, draft picks are on the line.

So you assume that they want to keep out Jaron Jackson, Zubach, all these other guys.

But is the NBA just going to just like allow this to happen when it's so blatant that they need the picks in order to make this all work for them?

You know, Rob loves a big hulking man.

We all have our types.

I mean, it's going to be fascinating just because he provides them an opportunity to be balanced both on offense and defense in a way that they weren't even at the height of their powers in the playoffs.

It's just Zu, Siakam, Nemhar.

All of a sudden, we could be talking...

top 10, both sides of the ball.

And if Halliburton is healthy from the start of next season, like they could be off and running and could, and over the next two to three years, just be pretty dominant, frankly.

Um, I guess the trade-off would be the opportunity costs of like getting a lock into someone at the fifth spot who could potentially just open up the window.

So you're not just as focused on the next half decade.

It could be a decade long run, but it seems like Kyle, a lot of the generational transformative prospects are going to be in that wonderful range.

to begin with.

So maybe they get both.

If they get both, honestly, we're talking like them thunder as like a, uh, East West square off for potentially the next couple of finals here.

It could be really interesting.

Um, but if that was a trade of opportunity, I feel like the calves side of the Clippers trades was one of desperation.

It seems like based on reporting that's come out after the fact, particularly with the athletic, it seems like

Donovan Mitchell has let it be known that he didn't want to wait until the offseason in order to change things around.