Sam Amick

you know, you can get them, but it's for a massive price tag that it doesn't seem like anybody's in that, uh, stratosphere in terms of meeting their demands, you know, and that herb is, is kind of virtually untouchable.

It seems like, and who knows, we'll see.

But I continue to just wonder, and this is just me is like, of all the big names that you felt like were gettable, the, the John Moran's, the LaMelo balls, the Trey Young's, the Anthony Davis's, like, where are we at with Zion Williamson?

You know, um,

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.