Sam Amick

You know, that's just not going to work.

This is you know, we can all be adults about this conversation.

you have what's right and what's wrong.

And then you also have that this is a business.

And, you know, this league is not going to tolerate that.

Now, it's a longer discussion to be had about how there are different levels to it when it comes to the type of player you are.

When you are, you know, if you are an absolute superstar player,

who does something like this, maybe you don't get cut right away.

I mean, if you go back to Kyrene, a lot of the things he said, you know, he offended a lot of communities and wasn't cut and eventually parted ways with the Nets.

But, you know, that was handled differently.

Well, you know, there's a much larger salary number attached to him at that time than there was to Jaden.

To your question, though, about how we got here, Dave,

You know, it's interesting to me that when Jaden was coming out in the draft, you know, and I know from being based where I'm based, the Kings were looking at him really closely.

And I do find it interesting that, like, whether it was the Kings or a lot of other teams that looked at him, you know, there were no red flags in terms of this potentially being an issue for the team.

that ended up drafting him or taking him.

It seems like in some of our reporting on the website from James Edwards and Hunter Patterson and Joel Lorenzi, they had a good piece today talking about how over the course of a couple of years in Detroit, he became more and more outspoken about the way that he saw the world.

And listen, I'm not a mental health expert.

You want the best for all these guys.

He seems to be in a very troubled place right now.

It's also a testament to