Les Claypool
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We don't do this very often, boys and girls, we've got a two-part podcast for the Ryan So, part one, Kyrie Irving out for the season. Let's talk some Mavs. We're going to be really nice to Mavs fans. That's how we feel for you. Also, the East, after last week's West, 15 teams in 15 minutes, we do the East, 15 teams in 45 minutes. Sorry, went long. Let's Claypool.
Perhaps the greatest bass player alive from Primus, four decades long. The search for a new drummer, his career, and appreciation for what he's accomplished. And the Letterman story that I'd never heard before. I was fired up to talk to Wes Claypool, man. I have loved this guy for a really long time, so it was cool. I'm going to get to the East here. 15 teams in 15 minutes-ish.
But we have to start with the headline, the breaking news this morning. Kyrie Irving lost for the season with a torn ACL. We were watching it last night on the drive. You were wondering, could it have been something else? He's helped off. He makes the free throws. And then we get the word this morning. I'll just tell you right now, Mavs fans, I feel for you.
I mean, this is an absolutely brutal, brutal stretch. You know, I know some of the talking points on this are kind of the karma element of it, but you're also doing that to millions of Mavs fans. So if this were about karma... they would deserve a deep playoff run.
Because I still think with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie, and I've mentioned this before, I really like Dallas and their offseason and some of their improvements around this team with Luka in place, considering this is a finals team last year that had to navigate a really tough West. But, all right, so Luka's gone. We've covered that.
then you're thinking at least for 25 with a healthy AD who's been incredible the last couple of years, which again was another whole reason why for all the reasons the trade was ridiculous and should have never happened. You're trading for an Anthony Davis that I think the biggest Anthony Davis fans would tell you, you're always worried about that next moment.
I mean, one of the, I don't even want to use the word funny, but you know, living in LA when 80 was hurt, you know, it's after the title, uh, And there's this kind of like limbo phase of the Lakers. And local radio would be like, well, what could you get for AD? And it's a bit like the Zion conversation where, okay, what's the market for Zion?
I mean, some of the most negative, absurd Zion being at the lowest value rating was still just ridiculous. It's like, look, another team would trade for him. But I think the win in what you're seeing from the way Zion is playing is that the Pelicans are like, okay, I think we actually need to pivot off of this. Um, his market has recovered.
It will recover if he continues to play like this and is healthy going into the off season. So when you think about the lowest point of the Anthony Davis stretches, was it where it wasn't about his playing? It was about his availability and then trying to project out as he got older and be like, okay, well,
kind of contract do you want to do for somebody like this like how much can you really bank on him and then you have local talk shows which again i'm not even being critical of the local talk shows because i did it and it's just kind of what you do is like could you trade anthony davis what do you get for him and back to the zion point is that really the best thing you can hope for is that he plays well and then if you wanted to make a move that he would be available or more interesting to more teams because you just start to talk yourself into the recency bias of what you've just seen from a player
And in this case, Anthony Davis goes to, what could you get for him into Luka Doncic years later? Because AD was healthy and playing really well. But the fact that you would trade Luka, again, to just one team. And I know there's been some reports that they had kicked the tires on other players. From what I had heard,
Dallas may have inquired about other stars, but didn't really lay out any kind of blueprint that involved Luca. So then it becomes a debate of semantics. So even if you love Anthony Davis, which is kind of funny because I think there was like a player reaction to it, you know, players in the media being like, you know, Anthony Davis isn't nothing. All of us
understand that okay every single person that had a comment on this trade all understood like the best version of anthony davis is an awesome basketball player like he's a top 10 player in the league but he's 31 and he's hurt all the time after two really healthy years so like okay now he's had the two healthy years now it's never going to be an issue again so he gets hurt immediately so now the trade is even worse and
You're thinking, okay, what are the hopes for this team that were just in the NBA finals? And Kyrie's having this terrific year. And you've gotten the best, most stable stretch of Kyrie going all the way back to the end of the Cleveland run, which is nine years ago. And then he goes out with the ACL. So it's not karma. I don't know how much I believe in karma.
I just, because maybe you work in my business long enough and you're like, I don't know if that's true or not. It'd be nice. Maybe, maybe it is true. It's cool if you believe in it, but I don't really think that's the best way to look at this because it's not about the karma of ownership or a front office that made this disastrous decision and an ownership that I just don't think gets it.
at all um you have a bunch of fans that at least get to see kairi and then the timetable for ad and like what would be funnier than a again i don't even want to use funny or what would be more rewarding than just a entertaining playoff run you win a series you're in it you start talking yourself into it you know have a moment of joy realizing that the other guy's playing in the lakers uniform and he's never coming back um yeah so i just feel for mass fans let's do this
15 teams, 15 minutes-ish. We'll go by the standings of this morning. Some of these numbers are sorted through the last 48 hours. We start with Cleveland. So Cleveland's come back against Boston, and I know that Porzingis being out and Drew Holiday being out leads to some defensive matchups and switching and hunting that Cleveland would likely not have the option to attack.
if Drew Holiday and Przingis are playing in a playoff series. But the biggest compliment I can give to Cleveland is that I didn't care about any of the regular season outcomes. I just thought there were bad matchups there on the perimeter for Cleveland against Boston. There's no way I was ever picking Cleveland against Boston in a playoff series. Now I'm open to it. I'm flirting with doing it.
And I know I said it with Bill on Sunday. I said it earlier today on FanDuel TV. But I love this Cleveland team. If you look at the overall numbers, let's run through it. First on offense, seventh on defense. Last season, they were 16th on offense, seventh on defense. Which... you know, coaching is probably not as impactful as we'd like to think it can be.
Certainly coaches that, that pursue that profession when it comes to the NBA, more often than not, like who's on the team, but Atkinson is really unlocked something. And on top of the Hunter acquisition and everything that's happening with the rest of this team, they are nine deep. If you want to go 10 with a coral, you can do that. I'll say nine.
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