Kirk Goldsberry

The Hawks had ample evidence that their basketball team was a lot better on the floor without Trae Young.

Oh, yeah.

Just one of these many cases of that around the league of superstars playing.

But look, dude,

The thing as I get older that I really appreciate, Zach, in Memphis, actually, I remember I wrote for Grantland something about the Rudy Gay trade.

And back in the day, and Chris Wallace called me the next day and was like, you don't understand what you're talking about.

Turns out I didn't.

But there is an ownership and a ticket selling and a pop court selling part of this business still.

Jersey sales, the Ja Morant and Giannis Antetokounmpo really represent for the cities of Memphis and Milwaukee.

Are you Chris?

Is that you, Chris?

Dude, look, I think there's basketball reasons and I love Chris Vernon and he, he, I love that he he's with jaw till the end.

I love that about him.

I love his target story about Cedric Howard, but dude, I think there's something really interesting about,

about the business of basketball that gets overlooked here in these small markets.

There is no next Ja Morant coming to Memphis.

That's a miracle when you get a player like that in Memphis, Tennessee.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, it's a miracle you get a player like that in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Those guys don't take their talents seriously.

to those markets very often and you need the draft to get them so to get off of one of those guys is a business decision as much as a basketball decision um and i think that's relevant here too so if it's coming down to we want