Justin Verrier

Traore is super young.

And so maybe they thought, because they don't have the draft pick next year, we'll just take longer-term projects and slowly start to build them.

Obviously, teams love to get their hands on these guys earlier as opposed to later.

And so compared to a Queen, for instance, it didn't surprise me that those guys are a little bit farther behind.

Having said that, even Queen, when he has kind of faded down the stretch here, we've seen the moments of him being a potential all-star down the road.

I don't think we've seen that with the Nets.

And so...

I don't know what their team is, man.

And because this draft pick really, it's it.

Unless they could do some work finally in free agency, we'll see if they have enough compiled with like future draft picks, maybe plus some of these guys aren't intriguing enough to a team like the Bucs.

Obviously Giannis has already always been kind of like rumored to be in the mix there wanting to go to a big market.

That seems like more of a necessity now, depending on how this draft shakes out, than I would like if I was a Nets fan.

Well, it's funny you mentioned that about Peterson, because I have been wondering as we go through the rest of the season, it looks like the trio of death here, the Pacers, Wizards,

And the Nets might end up with the best odds.

We'll see the Kings kind of lurk in there, but it almost feels like the Kings will fuck around and win some late season games just because they really got to show the league what they're all about.

You said Peterson for the Nets for the first two teams, the Wizards and the Pacers.

Is it like Peterson with a bullet or will it depend on like if the Wizards get the one, for instance, are they thinking more to Bonsai because their personnel?

Like, what do you think for those two teams?

But who has like the karma going for them?

At one point, I thought the Pacers were so like light years ahead of everybody because of the Halliburton injury.