Justin Verrier

I don't know how early those teams were tipped off to the NBA thinking about this.

It reminds me a little bit about the Suns getting Steve Nash back before the freedom of movement rules start to click in and all of a sudden...

oh, the Suns are one of the best teams in the league because they have the exact player who could thrive in that environment.

I almost wonder if some of these tankers are like, fuck it.

Last time, there's only so much they could do for us.

Let's just like, let's let it rip and next year we'll go from there.

And I will say as a byproduct, like teams that stocked up on future picks for trading their superstars, like the Portland Trailblazers, for instance, are really in a bind now because all of a sudden these juicy ass assets that they've acquired, like all of a sudden just the Blazers, you know, it's it's tough out here, man.

a little Pino off the glass, a little IPA.

Um, it's been gorgeous here this week though.

Wow.

What a, what a lovely spring.

It really just makes your heart and your mind.

No, but I do think the Blazers or any other team, the Rockets, for instance, seeing that I have to use other examples of future picks, it sucks because those assets all of a sudden don't look as attractive.

On the flip side of that, a team like the Brooklyn Nets, who we're just going to talk about, don't have their picks next year.

And it's like, oh, fuck it.

It doesn't matter because that pick doesn't matter anyway.

Yeah.

Having said that, though, with the Nets, still kind of like, what do we got here?

I feel like I like a new rookie every month.

And for this month, it's Ben Seroff, who, unfortunately for you guys, I have to make the obvious Denny Avdia comp because I do think, despite the fact that they are countrymen, there is a little Avdia in this guy where he gets north-south downhill like a running back.