Postgame Show: The Latest On The NBA Trade Deadline (feat. Amin Elhassan & JuJu Gotti)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm still wearing the Moira Rose thing.
Yeah, that was terrible. I've never seen that show, man. I was bored when you played that. You bored me.
All right, so the deadline. A lot of things happened when we got off yesterday, by the way. Yeah, dude. Like 14 things happened. It was crazy. So at the end of our half hour that we did yesterday, literally like we were about to wrap up and Jaren Jackson Jr.
What updates were made on the NBA Trade Deadline?
was traded.
And Jimmy and I had no way to react to it. I was given a gift yesterday because it happened right before. I did afternoon drive on ESPN yesterday. Good for you. And it happened right before I went on. So I was handed a gift. a nice little nugget right there.
How did the Anthony Davis trade affect the NBA landscape?
Nice little packet, and you're like, oh, I can do four hours of this.
It's incredible. And then James Harden's traded later. And here's the best part.
What are the implications of Jaren Jackson Jr.'s trade?
We have Amin Alhassan with us now for the post-game show. I believe we have Juju Gotti here with us as well. Not yet, but Amin is here. And Amin Zaz. had some corrections about the way you were breaking down?
Yeah, so my initial thought, and I talked about this early on yesterday afternoon, was we're all waiting for the move before the move. And Minnesota, a team that's trying to contend, made a move yesterday that didn't net them anything. It opened up roster spots and it saved them money. So my first inclination was, oh, they may feel that they have a chance to land Giannis Amin.
Yeah, I mean, there's been reporting that Giannis would like to play with Anthony Edwards. He's excited about the prospect of that. I don't think that means that's his favorite. But, like, yeah, he's definitely open to it. And Minnesota's saying, look, if there's a 1% chance, we've got to treat it like a 100% chance. So they're rearranging everything to get ready to do that. One of the things that happened as a result of their deal yesterday is they moved under the first apron. So just from that aspect alone, they've saved a lot of money. They're about a Rob Dillingham deal away from being not a taxpayer. So that gives them a lot more flexibility in terms of the things that they can offer, the things that they can do if they're going to get Giannis.
But if they're going to get Giannis, that means they've got to trade one of their other guys who will get a first-round pick because Milwaukee wants picks and Minnesota doesn't have many. I mean, is the bartender going behind you at some point? I haven't seen him yet. No bartender. The hotel bar is closed. I don't know what time they opened, but before.
And I mean, did you quote Batman there? If it's even a 1% chance we have to treat it as a certainty? Did you quote Batman?
That's not Batman. Believe it or not, that's Dick Cheney. It's called the 1% doctrine. And when they were doing the war on terror, that was Dick Cheney's thing. It's like if there's a 1% chance that there's weapons of mass destruction here, we have to treat it like it's a 99% chance. Good, I'm glad we're going with that strategy.
What if it was a 0% chance? That strategy worked out really well.
All right, because that was also in Batman vs. Superman when Bruce Wayne was deciding if Superman's his enemy.
All right, but hold on. Let's go back to this James Harden trade to Cleveland because, I mean, we were talking on the show earlier and talking about essentially the concept of James Harden taking the money by going to Cleveland. Oh, there's going to be an extension. But you and I were talking a bit offline about why that's not necessarily the case.
First of all, he's not extension eligible. Let's just start there. He's not eligible for an extension. He's got to play out the year, and then at the end, he can either opt in to his deal or opt out and sign a new deal, but there can't be an extension there. He's got to basically play it out or not play it out. I talked to Law Murray, actually, with the interview drops today on Basketball Illuminati, get it wherever you get podcasts, and Law Murray, who's covered the Clippers literally longer than anybody in the media, was basically at a very, it was kind of very blunt.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–0:23
2
What updates were made on the NBA Trade Deadline?
0:23–0:35
3
How did the Anthony Davis trade affect the NBA landscape?
0:35–0:41
4
What are the implications of Jaren Jackson Jr.'s trade?
0:41–3:49
5
How does Giannis Antetokounmpo fit into trade discussions?
3:49–9:29
6
What are the potential impacts of James Harden's trade to Cleveland?
9:29–26:28
7
How will the Timberwolves' strategy affect their roster?
26:28–32:38
Speakers
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