John Hollinger

If you have quickly as the matching contract, then you're not holding your nose so much on Morant's deal.

And there's just a question of what does Toronto have to do to kind of spice things up enough for Memphis to offset that.

So you can see how that type of deal can get to the finish line.

So John Morant trade, because I've had people tell me now Memphis insists this is not the case.

We have people tell me that, like, OK.

what happens now with Jaren is the next thing.

Because they could decide at some point to move on from Jaren and do more of a down-to-the-studs rebuild.

I think the Grizzlies still think their core is too good to do that.

Even what they have right now with Edie and Coward and and Jaron and their bench is really good.

They that they just need one or two frontline guys and then they're right back in the thick of things in the West.

I think that's that's their conception of their team anyway.

So now maybe in another year they change their tune on that, too.

But that's where they are right now.

I don't think so, because I think teams understand that there was other things going on that impacted those numbers this year.

So if you're trading for him, you're not expecting to get the guy from 2022.

I think I think that that scenario.

Mario is like the fantasy upside, you know, if everything goes perfect.

But realistically, can you get the job when he played from two years ago from last year, who is still when he played a really good player again, has not played more than six consecutive games in nearly three years due to injuries and suspensions and other various things.

Yeah.

So I had somebody tell me this and I was surprised because I did not think this in my mind.