Rachel Nichols

So he could do that.

He's not the type of person to do that.

However, I could see him more saying, these are a few teams that I really want to go to.

Obviously, you get the agent kind of putting it out to the teams, don't bother trading for him because he won't sign a long-term deal with you.

And that's how he might navigate it.

But I don't think he'll insist it's this team or bust.

And he's, you know, he was asking me about the Timberwolves.

I mean, he was asking me about all kinds of teams that haven't necessarily come up

in this mix i mean the timberwolves would probably have to get rid of rudy gobert would they do that i mean it might have changed in the course of this playoffs he had such a great playoffs rudy gobert so i you know we're gonna have to see how all that plays out and milwaukee is still trying to convince him to stay so there's that too before you talk about who the lakers could could pay there's a lot of dominoes that have to fall there but it does would you agree that this

Yeah, and look, there could be a GM who ignores all of that.

That is what the Toronto Raptors did when they picked up Kawhi Leonard.

There was no way Kawhi was going to sign an extension in Toronto.

He wanted to get to Southern California with one team or the other.

And they said, Masai Ujiri said, yeah, but I think we can win this year with you.

And guess what?

They did.

So that could happen.

We're just going to have to wait and see.

I do want to get back to this Cavs-Knicks series, though, because as we all know, the Cavs are down 3-0.

And look, they did have a heartbreaking Game 1, but they were soundly beaten in Games 2 and 3.