Sam Amick

You do hear occasional chatter about teams being interested in him.

If you go back to early December and you know this, you know, all 30 teams will have these kind of somewhat routine calls with each other where they take notes on each other's rosters and try to get a sense of how they see their team.

And a lot of teams, when they talked to New Orleans at that time, came away thinking, you know, they didn't know what the price tag was, but the Zaya was gettable.

And so if you get closer to the February 5th deadline and you have some contenders or would-be contenders with a level of desperation that could increase between now and then, I look at Zion and just kind of wonder, does anybody want to take a flyer on him and step forward and get a guy at his best, which we have not unfortunately seen very much as still an impact player?

So that's a different version of you see like the Sixers come to mind, right?

Like when you have, right.

When you have a youth movement that is starting to give you confidence and

Then that's where it gets uncomfortable for the old guys.

Cause then, and Zion's not an old guy yet, but in Philly, it's Joel Embiid, it's Paul George.

That's when the, you start kind of wondering, oh boy, do they need me anymore?

And, and am I expendable?

And, you know, like, I don't think there's a market for big fella in Philly, but, but that's another guy that comes to mind is,

Late July, August, and then we kind of ramp up into September.

But this is certainly, it's funny, you keep running into random people in your life there.

How are the holidays going?

And I enjoy the holiday season, but the first thought is always like, ah, it's pretty intense on the NBA front, but it's a good problem to have.

I mean, there's a lot.

I think just the, but man, the headline and the elephant in the room is just, you know, you talk about jumping out.

Okay.

See, jumping out the way that they have, you knew there were going to be, you know, the, the title front runners.