Justin Verrier

You know, maybe that's the future.

I don't know, the Bulls seem to like that strategy, you know?

Do you want to talk about the Bulls?

Justin, I would love to talk about the Bulls.

We should at least talk about the Mavs part of the Anthony Davis trade.

I did.

Walk us through it.

I mean, it was time.

It was past time.

This had to happen in some form or another, unfortunately.

Well, again, the writing should have been on the wall, but this has been a process for the Mavs in terms of getting themselves to this point where they could make a trade like this.

And I think the important thing is that they made it, that they bit the bullet, that they said, you know what?

Two bad first round picks, some seconds, the aforementioned expiring Chris Middleton contract, et cetera, is just like enough to turn the page.

And they had to do it, I think in part, because as we were going through kind of the lottery situation earlier,

They just have to cash in huge on this pick, even more than the Wizards have to cash in huge on this pick.

Because after 2026, the Mavs don't have control of their next four first-rounders.

This is the only moment they're going to have as far as participating in that part of the draft at this level to give Cooper Flagg a proper running mate of any kind.

So if you're not going to trade Anthony Davis now, like what, what are we even doing?

Um, they haven't been an Anthony Davis team.

I'm not sure they ever were an Anthony Davis team.