J. Kyle Mann

I do think there are some long-term concerns because both Lowry and Jaron Jackson were overpaid specifically by their teams, Lowry by Utah.

in order for them to stay put so that maybe down the road they could figure something else out.

And so I think by 2027, this is going to become a very expensive team all of a sudden, which makes next season competing immediately more paramount.

It also speaks to the NBA just making

way too difficult for NBA teams to build a collective like this.

If you were to find like one sort of like way to poke holes in it would be, they basically waited four years in the wilderness after getting, giving up the Mitchell go bear combination to ultimately end up with a team.

That's pretty similar where it's like, we don't have the true blue superstar.

Maybe they look into that end of the draft and this is all different by the time like that rolls around in six months or so.

But they're kind of like similar teams.

It's like a good bi-collective team that maybe doesn't have the ceiling when you go up against a Webenyama, a Shea, a guy that could be just like a queen on the chessboard.

And I do wonder how Utah fans feel about that.

And it kind of speaks to our overall conversations about like, oh, we're tanking, but what do we get in the end?

We're ultimately getting what we used to have.

It took me a second, but I was there.

I think this is where we need the flaccid drop because I have to say I appreciate the Grizzlies acting ahead of this by getting out and trading Jaren Jackson.

Clearly the writing was on the wall with this team.

It seems like Ja was basically going for nothing.

They can't get rid of him, but it seems like they're going to move on from him as soon as possible.

Having said that, the return, I don't know if they really got the sort of blue-chip asset that really would have excited me if I'm a Grizzlies fan.

And I did find it funny that the kind of massaging from the reporters was like, oh, they're building around their cornerstones of Cedric Coward and Zach Headey, which is like, I guess, those are two players that will be there probably for the next generation.