Joe House

He could only play that one way.

And that was true with Dame on board.

It's been true since they won the NBA championship.

I don't know if that's going to necessarily be required of him.

At the Knicks, with Miami, I don't know who the candidates are that can pull together a package that's attractive enough.

It makes no sense whatsoever for any team that's in a rebuild mode.

Desperate in which way?

Desperate like Cleveland, because Cleveland loses in the second round this upcoming season?

Desperate like... Help me understand desperate, and then we can try and figure out what role he can play.

I thought Houston was a great candidate for a long time and I would still have Houston in the mix.

The only thing I'll say on the calf strain point, which is concerning because we now have in this, especially this year, the hyper focus on Achilles protection and the amount of running the guys are doing and how this version of the NBA, the way it's played now at a speed and then the amount of running it greatly exceeds anything in previous history.

I wonder if that is a new way to conduct some load management, especially with Giannis.

You only kind of need one in his history, and then you can safely point to it any time that you need him to not play a handful of games.

You say, well, there's a calf tension kind of situation.

Look, it's in his history.

It's medical history.

The best five players of every other franchise in NBA history, does that include the Vancouver Grizzlies?

Grit and grind.

Sure, that's fine.

Beal, because of the length of his career, is in the very upper echelon of numbers.