J. Kyle Mann

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.

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.