The Kawhi Gamble, Top Remaining Free Agents & Is LeBron On LinkedIn?
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Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks podcast presented by FanDuel. It's Wednesday, July 1st, 2026. Happy birthday, Canada. Happy birthday, Nora. I'm Jay Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, it's Tass Mellis. Yeah, happy Canada Day. Happy Canaan Day. I love me a waving flag. Oh, very nice. Next to him, it's my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Ayo!
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He's looking like a flag here today. And over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer JD. Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hit the like button, subscribe. Podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews on today's show. The NBA Cup groups have been announced. Yes! The weirdest timing ever with these, but we'll get into them. We'll play a little Is This News as well, but first, we got more NBA free agency moves to address here. Since we logged off... from our special last night. A number of things have happened in no particular order, okay? I want to hit you with a few. And then we got some free agency questions to address. Norman Powell, Storm and Norman, go into your Chicago Bulls tray.
That's right. Two years, $45 million deal. Zach Collins, also agreeing to a two-year, $17 million contract extension with Chicago. John Collins, the Baptist. He agreed to a three-year, $51 million deal with the Pistons.
Don't like that one.
We got Marcus Smart agreeing to a two-year, $13 million deal with the Rockets. Bogdan Bogdanovich is going to also join him there in Houston on a one-year deal. Dean Wade. He agreed to a four-year, $39 million deal with the Sixers. And we just learned Ariel Huckporty will join him on a one-year, $3.4 million deal in Philly. What else? Keon Ellis going to the Nets. Two years, $18 million. Funny deal, that one. We'll get into it maybe. Luke Kennard going to the Suns. Two years, $13 million. Brandon Carlson going to the Blazers on a cheap deal. Kobe Sanders agreeing to a four-year $11.2 million deal with the Clippers. I think that's about it. I mean, you said Brandon Carlson, so we're pretty deep here. There was a lot of white guys getting paid last night.
We had like a white guy run.
It was incredible.
They knew it was Canada Day coming up. So I want you to tell me from all of those, what's the most interesting signing, again, since we logged off of our NBA free agency special? I'll start with John Collins going to the Detroit Pistons because this means he's their starting power forward, as Shams reported, taking the role of Tobias Harris, who was their second best scorer in the playoffs. They needed him. They needed Tobias in the midrange. Just give it to him and score. John Collins is not a scorer. Of course, he's a really good rim runner. But I do find this odd and I find this strange. Not positive for the Detroit Pistons. Again, they need a second score. And so you can look at John Collins number and say, oh, he shoots the three.
But really, he's a corner three shooter. About two thirds of his threes come from the corners. And when you saw the Pistons play, they needed to space it out. And so they gave it to Tobias above the break for threes. That didn't always work out.
Which free agent signings happened since the special (Collins, Powell, Smart, Bogdanović)?
It's not really going to work out with John Collins. They need more space down there. You look at this team now. what are they they don't have their two centers currently they traded away Isaiah Stewart who's kind of their heart and soul they don't know what's going on with Jalen Duren really their team is Cade then Duncan Robinson beside him I'm sure they're going to bring us our Thompson back on a new deal and then John Collins and who's their center I mean they got Tolu Smith coming back and then their bench is Karis Levert, Dennis Jenkins, Kevin Herter, Paul Reed so I think this is bad news for the Detroit Pistons. It's not great. Good news for John Collins getting a big contract. Good news probably for the Toronto Raptors who are looking up at the Eastern Conference standings and seeing the 60-win team look totally different than last year in the Detroit Pistons.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:21
2
Which free agent signings happened since the special (Collins, Powell, Smart, Bogdanović)?
3:21–8:01
3
How will John Collins signing change the Detroit Pistons’ roster and spacing?
8:01–18:25
4
Why did the Chicago Bulls sign Norman Powell and what does it mean for their timeline?
18:25–35:07
5
Are the Rockets’ Marcus Smart and Bogdanović signings good fits for Houston?
35:07–1:08:52
6
What are the details and risks of the Raptors trading for Kawhi Leonard?
1:08:52–1:15:18
Speakers
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