Justin Verrier

Does anybody have an Embiid stopper just on hand?

Anything else that caught your eyes over the past couple days post-deadline?

I have a couple, like, reconsiderations that I've been undergoing as I've just thought too hard about what we've already said about the deadline.

I have started to talk myself more into the Wizards.

If you think about what they did with the Anthony Davis more as like a way station as a rehab facility in the same way that the Thunder did with Chris Paul.

I don't know if this is their intent, but it kind of sounds like they're signaling toward that if they're not going to sign him to an extension that our plan is not to move forward with an Embiid.

It's actually to do what we did with some of these other guys that we brought and try to bring back value in him by letting his contract expire a little bit, let him show a little bit more in a low stakes environment.

And then all of a sudden, maybe we turn two bad first into one good first.

I think a bit more now like that.

And if that is the case,

It's not the worst thing in the world.

And you have to consider that the front office, Winger and Dawkins both come from the Thunder.

So it wouldn't surprise me if they're thinking in this terms.

If it's not, then I still have questions.

But if it is that, then it makes more sense to me.

Yeah.

Ted Leonsis seems super jacked about meeting Anthony Davis, gave him the handshake into the hug, into the follow-up handshake.

It's like, that's several handshakes, sir.

Like he seems pretty pumped to have an actual player that he's heard of before.

He was a problem.