Sam Amick

When Toronto came through town recently, I actually was talking to Scott in person, and then he jumped off to say hello to R.J.

as he walked by.

and those guys it was like a father and son moment i mean it's nothing but love and hugging it out and everything um and you know in hindsight felt a little bit like i'm trying to come get you so like rj rj is the king's interest for sure um the obstacle like i wrote is is yaka purdle like it's a hundred percent absolute no go for the kings he's not they're not taking him on he's got a lot of money left i think 103 million

And so if you see him go somewhere else before the deadline, which is unlikely, and actually, to be honest, I forgot to write this part.

His back issues has had him off the floor lately.

And just an interesting thing to watch.

It was put to me that if he doesn't play on Wednesday night, and I forget who they have, it doesn't really matter.

Like if Pirtle doesn't play on Wednesday night, then you can say goodbye to this a bonus possibility because teams –

who are maybe looking at or who are looking at Pirtle, they want to see him play.

And if he's still on the shelf, then they're going to just take a pass.

I mean, it's a combination of figuring out what this roster looks like going forward and obviously, you know, shedding a lot of the leftover baggage from before.

I mean, I mentioned the Fox trade.

And, you know, it just, again, it's aged so poorly.

Like Zach Levine, we had seen this movie before with DeMar DeRozan.

So the idea that they did that again, and that was a previous front office regime that did that with Monty McNair leading the way.

And to be clear, Vivek Ranadive, the King's owner, having everything to do with that decision, he had an affinity for Zach.

So I guess I'll unpack it that way as Zach...

is, and I wrote this today, he's going to pick up his player option for this summer.

It's like a no-duh moment, but we got to at least make sure that that's what his people are saying, and they are.

So, you know, it's getting off of money like Zach DeMar.