J. Kyle Mann

I couldn't like really stand for the rest of the business that the polls did this deadline, but basically the Clippers were willing to blow up their season and

and fork over a particularly juicy pick to the Thunder in order to get Garland in-house.

And if I'm the Cavs or anyone else in the league, I'm like, that's a bad sign.

Because I do think if you wait out the injuries, you figure that out, you have another decade run of this guy.

And so I'm still high on Garland.

But do you?

I hear what all you guys are saying.

And I also think he's the type of player who the larger you get into the playoffs, the more concerned you are about the size problems.

Having said that, I just don't see another pathway for the Clippers to get anything approximating a player like him at his age.

And so in terms of opportunity costs, I totally understand it for them because resetting was going to be difficult no matter what

was going to happen.

We'll see what happens with Kawhi now.

Maybe they can get something out of him or maybe the fact that they weren't able to trade him before the deadline is a suggestion that he has a suspension coming up.

We'll see about that.

But like just having something going forward at the very least to me, if I'm a Clippers fan, I feel good about because it was going to be a wilderness for a long time without our picks, without any way to get anybody like him in there.

They were selling cap space and cap space is not a plan.

It's a dream.

All right.

Why don't we take a quick break and we'll get to the rest of these deals in a bit.

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