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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What did Brad Stevens say about Jaylen Brown's trade rumors?
So this is pretty interesting. Yeah, that's my favorite part. Whoever goes two, three, four, like those guys, they get to go. Well, I should have been number one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have to use it as motivation.
But DeBansa, I mean, I think, I don't know how related it was or not, but like when the news broke that Trae Young was signing that massive deal, the extension to stay obviously with the Wizards, I think it was the writing was on the wall. They were going DeBansa instead of Peterson.
I mean, you know, I know not they're in the same position by any means, but like you got your point guard, you got your main guard. No, you got to get your wing guy in DeBansa, so. So Peterson's going to have a lot of opportunity with the Jazz, playing beside Keontae George, because they have all those bigs.
It will be interesting to see him at the two type of spot and see how he works with Keontae George. It'll be really interesting. The other side, as you said, Debonza and the Wizards, that is truly intriguing because Trae Young got far more money than it sure seemed even four months ago when he was traded that he was worth in this league. And will they sign Anthony Davis to an extension?
He's up for an extension in a month and a half. And so if you start to buy into what Ted Leonsis is saying, what it looks like their goal is... It might just be old guys with young guys, and they may sign Anthony Davis to a long-term extension. So that part is interesting.
At a certain point, these franchises go, we got to start getting some older guys, some more talented guys, of course, in here around all this young talent. To teach them, try and teach them how to win basketball games.
Yeah.
And to sniff playing games and playoff games and like higher stake games. Because otherwise we're just spinning our wheels nonstop and sort of the, you know, the kids are running the show here and it's not, no one's really going to develop like they should. So you get the understanding, like you get the reasoning. But that's a lot of money for AD and Trey Young.
And AD struggles to stay healthy at times. Yeah, AD right now is just one year and a player option. So that's a lot more palatable than four years. We'll see if he does get extended. That part is up for debate. I think the other thing that was interesting last night was both the Spurs and the Thunder did something to try and compete with each other. They sort of loaded up on ammo. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What are the key takeaways from the 2026 NBA Draft?
So those two, they were definitely looking at each other and saying, how do we play against this team? The Spurs needed a four. And the Thunder just need a monster, a big player. And, you know, the Chet Holmgren discussion can happen, but they needed size. It's Wemby time. That was one of my takeaways as well.
Those two teams, those two rivals that we expect to be seeing each other and hopefully multiple Western Conference finals. Yeah, sort of shoring up their rotations here. I'll take it one step further, too. You brought up Mara there, OKC at 12. Maybe does soften the blow if Hartenstein... does move because of a cost-cutting move or not, but he's just going to help because he's huge.
A 9-9 standing reach. This guy's 7'3". The other tidy work they did, OKC traded two second-round picks to move up one spot from 17 to 16, like I said, where the Grizzlies moved back, to select Bennett Sturtz, who is like a true point guard out of Iowa. And, you know, you can look at this as OKC doing this move right after they traded Aaron Wiggins for two second round picks.
So sort of I think they're looking at him as a replacement for Aaron Wiggins. Obviously a much cheaper controlled cost rookie deal here with Sturtz. Like I think that's the thinking there. So that's nice.
And then, yeah, I just like like you said, the acquaintance part's interesting because that guy maybe slipped a little bit because of his injury concerns because he had the torn ACL in his freshman year and then didn't play a lot this last year. I think that's a little bit of a worry, but the guy's a beast. So if healthy, yeah, absolutely.
Works hard, runs hard, lob threat, all that good stuff that you could see him out there alongside Wemby. I can't help but see Kevon Looney when I see Quaintance's face. He kind of looks like him. I just can't help it. The whole OKC drafting, it is interesting to see what they do financially because we said...
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Chapter 4: Who are the Pistons' targets in the draft?
Isaiah Hartenstein, a team option this year so they can say, hey, stick around one year. I think it's $28 million plus to stick around for one year and then move on at another point. Or, as you said, to go get... Sorry, what was his name? I already forgot his name. The guy they drafted... traded to get... Bennett Sturtz? Bennett Sturtz, yeah. I forget the Sturtz.
And the Sturtz family was pretty funny. They were talking about the lawn mowing business.
Did you see that?
I didn't really catch that part. I was probably doing a 360 jump for it. You probably were, and that's what I was paying attention to because I saw the clip afterwards and I said, did I just watch the draft? Because I don't remember this at all. Maybe it was on ABC. We were watching ESPN. Oh, that's a good point.
Yeah. That's a good point.
I saw clips going around this morning. I'm like, I don't remember that. That must have been what it is. We were sitting here watching the whole damn thing. It was the other broadcast. Yeah, so they get starts to move on from guys like Isaiah Joe, Sorber. I mean, they have plenty of guys that they can move on from. They just cycle in new guys.
That's their thinking.
And because of the Thunder, and they've shown this track history of a lot of... successful guys that they've drafted. It's like, who are we to doubt this franchise? And we're like, okay, great, great draft. I will say like, of all the picks from the first round, all 30 of them, you know, I've looked at like some of these experts out there that grade every pick. There's like not a bad one.
I think I saw one C. The entire bunch. There was a lot of A's and like a lot of B pluses and B's. It was, everyone was like, yep, yep, yep. Good pick. Makes sense. Rotational need. Oh, I see the upside. There wasn't a lot of like, who? Yeah. What? That reach? Like the only C I saw was, the C I saw was from the ringer on the Hawk's second pick at 23. C? On Zuby. Oh. On Zuby, Zuby, Zoo.
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