Sam Amick

Who's Donovan talking to?

Quick aside, you got the sneaker game is always part of this whole ecosystem.

You got the Donovan Mitchell, James Harden, Adidas connection that is worth highlighting.

Yeah.

I mean, most people...

almost everybody i've talked to around the league thinks it's past the deadline and it's into the summer but the major qualifier there is that all of those people like myself are flying blind when it comes to exactly like like we need to know what bucks ownership is telling john horst um the the bucks gm in terms of doing it now versus later because that's the the stuff that they're keeping close to the vest

for obvious reasons.

Um, so my disclaimer is, you know, at the, at the end of this thing on Thursday, if something goes down with him, then I could see us on the backside learning that now they decided like, they're just done with this drama.

And that happens like in my backyard, you know, base near Sacramento, uh,

It made very little sense for the Kings to move Darren Fox to San Antonio when they did.

And the package that they got has aged really poorly.

But the exhaustion factor came into play for them with Fox and him wanting out and the negativity and the teammates having to deal with it.

So that's what I'm watching is that's the only reason to me that they go ahead and grab

One of these earlier offers that does not really fit the bill for a player of Giannis' repute, but I could still see it happening.

Well, I mean, a lot of chatter about Minnesota yesterday being aggressive.

Brian Windhorst at ESPN had reported that they were looking for a third or fourth team to basically find additional draft capital and sweeten their offer.

You know, it is believed that, I mean, there's no way this is a conversation without Jade McDaniels being in the deal.

You could argue probably the best player of any of the teams in terms of, you know, the

In Minnesota, Miami, the Knicks and the Warriors, you know, that's on the table.

I mean, maybe some of the Knicks guys, but the Warriors, it's interesting how like they they came out the gate real strong going after Giannis and it feels very much like.