Zach Lowe

And it's like, this is why you don't take shit from bullies.

Just stick to your freaking... You just were jealous.

I think you're right on this in part because I just don't think the offers to make it worth my while are going to be there.

What I would not do is entertain extension talks with him unless there's a discount that is so staggering that I can't even imagine he would entertain it.

But I'm fine rolling into next season with Kyrie plus Davis plus Flag plus what's ever left over because they are aproned pretty severely coming up.

I just don't think there's going to be

Like the optics of trading Luka for Anthony Davis and the flotsam they got and then trading Anthony Davis for like Kristaps Porzingis's expiring contract and a heavily protected first round pick is just whatever the fake deal you want to make is just so bad that I'm not doing it.

Yeah, there's a team that I, I mean, it's strange that we didn't mention them in any context.

We didn't mention them among the good teams in the West.

We didn't mention them among teams that could make an important trade in part because it's salary-wise difficult for them to make a trade.

the Minnesota Timberwolves are just sort of out there and nobody really talks about them except when they blow a lead in the most hilarious and inept fashion possible, which they seem to do once every two weeks.

And that's just in the DNA of John Krasinski.

And I literally have a text joke that we just text each other.

Nobody melts down like the Minnesota Timberwolves after every single meltdown that happens, but they're, they're pretty damn good.

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And they're aware, I think, that they need another ball handler because this Dillingham Bones conglomerate is unproven, to say the least, and Mike Conley is old and out a lot.

I just think for a team that's very good, has a top eight player at worst in Anthony Edwards, who I think is getting better every year, and another guy who's played at an all-star level in Randall, and McDaniels has made a leap.

I think back-to-back conference finals, I think they're flying a little bit under the radar.

I think that's too much for Jose Alvarado.

How about Dillingham for Alvarado?