J. Kyle Mann

I don't remember anything like that, Rob.

Well, I want to just check off the Giannis box before we get anywhere else, if only because this was the biggest news and it ended up being the biggest lack of news on the day.

When it all kind of just fell apart toward the end there, when Shams alerted everyone that this wasn't going to happen, my conspiracy theory was that this was just all a big show to show Giannis that we put forth a good effort, but we actually never wanted to trade for you or trade you.

If only because in the off seasons, as we've been saying for months now, there just will be more opportunity there.

Yes.

Having said that, we got a very odd tweet from Giannis suggesting that now he wants to add to his run in Milwaukee, which seems to be a reversal of what he said yesterday to The Athletic and a couple other outlets.

So this is a big old mix.

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.