LaMelo Ball, Kawhi Leonard, Jaylen Brown trade destinations
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for June 25th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Henne. Coming up, we've got all the fallout from the two days of the NBA draft, Austin Reeves' big contract, and is Kawhi Leonard going back to San Antonio? Good morning, everybody. What is up, S? How's it going, dude? Welcome back, Dave. Welcome back. Welcome you back. In case you guys didn't see, S anchored our draft coverage live from Chicago. Anchored as in I brought it down. Yes, that's true. honestly hey listen i i gotta i'll give you i'll give you some props here on the air um number one great vibes on the show it was a lot of fun um i learned a lot which was awesome uh cj moore was excellent shout out to cj and shout out to zach they were both zach harper's one of the best
But C.J. Moore was unfamiliar with your game. He was excellent. I thought some of the behind the scenes stuff that he had to talk about, you know, hooping with Keaton Wagler. Yeah. Kind of fun. Right. Like that's that's a pretty, pretty fun idea. And then I was listening to Slamma Jam and Sam Vecini said he might be the best player ever. at the company, which I don't know, man. Like, I feel like there's a lot of guys.
We got to do an athletic run, man.
We may have to do it. I got to tell you, after our little group chat conversation the other day about, um, beating a one-on-one at summer league, I, I, I think I might have to pull the ball out and see if I can just – Listen, no injuries. No injuries, of course. Yeah, we're not like – we're just three dribbles, no offensive rebounding, none of that stuff. We're going to play like old guys.
Well, you know, James Edwards was talking a lot of smack during the finals too. So we got – I'm just calling people out.
The call is out. Just like Law Murray. Come on. Law SS says you're trash. Like come on. We'll see you in Vegas. That's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
One-on-one tournament for the athletic. That would be fun. We could sell it, you know? Sell it, folks.
Yeah. Okay. Day two of the draft in the books last night. Could have been an email. As a matter of fact, were there any – there was one draft pick that wasn't traded. Is that correct, S?
Yes. The 50th pick? It was the Toronto Raptors pick that was the only one that wasn't traded.
Yeah. Which is funny. They do not make trades. Yeah.
Yeah.
Who did they pick up at 50th?
It was Jaden Bradley, guard out of Arizona, multi-year guy. He was basically, honestly, like a Jamal Shedd duplicate in a way that plays almost very similarly, very tenacious guard. I will say the pick of this round for me, though, would probably be Henry Vassar. Oh, yeah. Big man out of UNC. He dropped quite a bit. He was supposed to be a first round draft pick like in the 20s, of course. But the fact that he dropped and Sam Vecini actually had something about this as well. But he cost himself a lot of money by dropping. Like if he stayed, he would have been able to make twice as much money.
Yeah, he was. I think what I saw reported was five million dollars in NIL money if he would have stayed. But he was projected to be a first rounder. I think a lot of people. And then I was I heard that. He was being steered to Atlanta once he kind of got into that second round and they were trying to get Atlanta to trade up.
And honestly, I think this is a guy that Atlanta could have taken at 23 or 24 or whatever it was that they had their second pick in the first round. They took Zuby Ejiofor. I think a lot of people were questioning that pick because he's sort of duplicative defensively. With Onyeka Okongwu there. But with Henry Vassar, you have like a seven footer can space the floor for you. Like this kind of stretch option that they wanted Kristaps Porzingis to be. Now, obviously, this is the 52nd pick. You don't know if he's going to pan out in any sort of way. Right. But it's an intriguing prospect. A guy who should have been a first rounder ends up as a second rounder. Just intriguing at the very least.
Well, the most interesting pick to me is Bruce Thornton, the 31st pick, the first pick in the second round.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:13
2
What happened at the 2026 NBA Draft and who stood out on day two?
6:13–8:07
3
Which late second‑round picks (like Henry Vassar) were the biggest draft steals?
8:07–19:45
4
Why was Isaiah Stewart's trade to Memphis controversial and what did it cost?
19:45–29:24