Kirk Goldsberry

But at the same time, I wasn't surprised at all.

So why wasn't I surprised?

And this would have been controversial, but I also, you know, I always used to joke that Daryl has no emotion in any of this stuff.

Like he's just going to do what, what the analytic move is at all times.

Like that's the McCain trade.

There was no emotion tied to that trade.

Like if, if you and I were his conciliaries and he was about to make that trade, we would say,

yo, man, Philly fans really like this guy.

And if you do this and he goes and plays well in OKC, they're going to be fucking pissed.

And this is Philadelphia.

I don't know.

Figure out another way to get into the luxury tax, right?

But he's analytics.

That's just the way he plows ahead.

I said this at the time.

The move was to trade Embiid when before the Knicks got Towns,

when the Knicks were clearly desperately trying to, you know, make that all these picks that made an impact.

And they had a real relationship with Embiid.

They had worldwide West and they had Leon Rose who were like, those, those are Embiid's guys.

Leon Rose was, that was his agency, you know?