Ted Nguyen
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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All right.
Well, that's all we have for you guys today.
Thank you for joining us.
Marshall, good luck this weekend with the TCU game and all the games you have to call in the next coming weeks.
And we will talk to you guys after the game on Sunday.
Today's podcast is loaded. We've got NBA, we've got NFL. We start with Bobby Marks, taking a look at the NBA names that are part of the NBA trade market. Can I interest you in some deal? Perhaps some Butler, maybe a little Zion, even a little, little bean. And then we're going to talk with Ted Wynn from The Athletic, who is just great on the film breakdown stuff.
I've enjoyed reading his stuff all season long. So he's going to help us look for some things in the divisional round for this weekend that he's going to pick all the games. We've got a lot of advice. Joining us to talk about the NBA as we're about the halfway mark, almost game 40 for a lot of teams, is Bobby Marks, former front office executive and one of my favorite NBA guests.
Okay, let's look at it this way. Let's look at all these headline things. Let's talk it out, all the different stuff. I have talked about Jimmy Butler, not a ton on the pod, but I felt like it's exciting. It's the big name. It's the next domino to fall with the drama. I mean, we're used to having these things happen, so this is exciting. So he gets suspended. He's eligible to come back tomorrow.
We know that there's a massive player option north of $50 million this summer. We can talk about the egos involved and that Jimmy's a stubborn guy and that Pat is somebody who's a pretty accomplished dude who's not going to be pushed around a little bit. I guess I've just never quite wondered why the Heat would still want to be in the Jimmy Butler business.
You don't want to sign him to a long-term deal. He's 35. He was always a pain in the ass there, but he was your pain in the ass. And when you were winning, it was worth it. Now it's not worth it. I don't really think the market for him would be all that great in looking at previous deals because I think sometimes you'd be like, well, how many picks or whatever? And it's like, I don't know.
It might be like one okay pick and one other pick that doesn't really mean anything. And then I wonder, as I promise I'll get to your bottom, but then I wonder, like, will we have a James Harden thing where Jimmy –
doesn't get traded before the deadline, rides it out, and then it's like, actually the best way for me to sort of protect my money is to opt in for the $52 million player option this summer.
And then they're stuck with me all over again because James did that strategically, not because he wanted freedom, because he knew he'd be able to kind of control where he could go and then what his next contract would be. So I just don't...
When I've watched Jimmy this year, the advanced stuff is off the charts for him. I think that's really misleading. I see a guy that is disinterested a lot of nights. I've seen entire stretches of a quarter where he doesn't even want to get involved in the action. It's funny because you could have the advanced stats thrown in your face.
It's like, look at his PER, look at the windshield, look at the efficiency, look at all this stuff. The guy takes a million free throws because people go for the up fake and he gets the call. I think the free throw stuff for him is saving his statistical profile in a way that you don't really pick up unless you watch them enough. And it's not to say, like, he's washed. I'm not saying that.
I think the Memphis thing is probably the only one that I've heard that actually makes basketball sense because it raises your ceiling. Like, this is another really interesting thing. Like, when you look at the West this summer and you're like, look at all of that depth.
And the depth was kind of based on fear of like, imagine having to go up against them in the Western Conference Finals and everything. Other than OKC, I don't really think there's anyone to be afraid of. It's not that there's not depth, but the rating, like if there were tier one depth, it's like a bunch of tier two to tier three depth. And maybe Dallas, because man, when they have those guys...
we know what they did last year and they know what kind of exactly who they are. And I like their, I like their rotation options even better than last year's finals team. Um, I don't know if Denver is going to be good enough to like be at that OKC level. Certainly not Minnesota. I really love watching Houston, but there's certain nights with them that I don't always love.
So the Memphis part, the Memphis part from a basketball, like, hey, let's just get this guy in here who's a motherfucker and see what happens. That one kind of makes a lot of sense. Is this one of those deals where he's more motivated if he's hearing the right things financially ahead of time about what his options are this summer?
I also think, okay, see, um, didn't like the Meechich fit and went, hey, let's get off of this money too on the Gordon deal on top of everything else. So I think there was like another layer of that was like, oh, look, they're doing something that may not work out, but there's also potentially another smart reason why they're doing it.
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