J. Kyle Mann

It's like by the end of 2026, I'm going to be full on reggaeton.

And so it's like progressively over the course of the year, we're going to slip further and further into it.

And I hope you guys will support me on my journey.

No, no.

Don't associate me with Jared Leto in literally any way, please.

Hello and welcome to this trade deadline extravaganza edition of Group Chat.

I am Justin Verrier, joined as always by Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle.

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.