Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's popping?
Chapter 2: Who were the biggest winners of the NBA trade deadline?
Real ones. Logan Murdoch here. Howard Beck and Roger Bell in a minute. We had a good show today talking about all things trade deadline, putting a book in on the trade deadline. We get into the biggest winners, the biggest losers, the WTF award.
Chapter 3: What impact does James Harden's trade to the Cavs have?
What are they thinking? Award a sneaky good deal award. Get into the Yana situation. Get it to one. Keeping it real goes wrong. and a whole bunch of other stuff. Very, very fun episode. Um, yeah, man, real, we'll just pop in. Uh, see you guys next week for all star. I, all of the bleep real was no bag.com. Yo, play the theme music.
Bobbitt, Real Woods, Logan Murdoch here, Roger Bell there, Howard Beck in the motherfucking cut. End of a very, very, very eventful trade deadline. I'm very excited to get into it with you guys.
Chapter 4: What is the WTF award and who won it?
As usual, we have categories.
Chapter 5: How did Anthony Davis's trade to the Wizards change the landscape?
Biggest winners and losers. We got some what the fuck awards. We got a lot of things to get through to decipher through this trade deadline. Let's start with the biggest winner of the trade deadline. Howard, start with you and then go with Raja. Then I'll go with myself. Who was the biggest winner of the trade deadline?
I do have a winner, but before I get to that winner, I just want to note, part of the win here is for the NBA because all these people were freaking out, oh, the second apron and all the CBA, there's not going to be any deals. There was a shit ton of deals and a lot of it was driven actually by the aprons and by the CBA.
So we had like salary dumps and players being given away and teams ducking the luxury tax.
Chapter 6: What was the favorite sneaky-good deal of the trade deadline?
And yeah, I know that that's not all interesting sometimes or fun, but We did have, this is the final tally I got from Keith Smith from SpotTrack. It is SpotTrack, not SpoTrack. I always thought like SpoTrack, like Eric Spolster, but no, it's SpotTrack. Keith said 30 total trades, 71 unique players traded, and some were traded more than once. That's a big chunk of the league.
And 42 picks, and some of those picks were traded more than once. So that was a lot. Of all that stuff, I think the Pacers are my winner. The Pacers, a team that is vying for the top pick in the draft this season, are nevertheless the winner because in a move that we dub free agency, they went and got Ivica Zubac from the Clippers. Incredible get.
We know the Pacers had to basically give up this season once Halliburton went down with the Achilles. But when he comes back, presumably healthy in the fall, He comes back to Zubach, filling the vacancy that Miles Turner left behind. Still got Siakam. Still got Neesmith. Still got Nemhard. Still got Obi Toppin when he gets healthy.
They've got some little work to do around the edges, I think, but that's going to be a very good team. Again, right off the bat, Zubat should be great for them, especially defensively.
Chapter 7: Who were the biggest losers of the NBA trade deadline?
He can't stretch the defense the way that Turner could with three-point shooting, but he's a great fit there.
Chapter 8: Did any trades change the playoff race in the NBA?
Great move. They gave up a couple of firsts with a lot of protections on them to the Clippers to get it done. And that's the one downside here risk is the pick for this season is protected one through four and 10 through 30. So pretty creative there. So if it falls five, six, seven, eight, nine, the pick goes to the Clippers. And it's a strong draft, but it's a three to four player draft.
And if they land in the top four, the Pacers are still getting to add a really nice player. But I love it. And then the other pick is a 2029 unprotected first. But who cares what's going on in 2029 at this stage? So great, great move by the Pacers. They're my winners.
I really like, I was a sneaky good move. I really like that. Um, just because, I mean, it's obviously a break year for, and a gap year for the Pacers in this time, but they got rid of, uh, Miles Turner and they got a cheaper version of what he provides and, uh, or what he can provide.
I don't think, uh, if I, uh, Zubats isn't a three point shooter, can't necessarily stretch the floor, but he's a really good big, uh, can rebound and knows his role. Most importantly, he was great for the last few years with the Clippers and has a cheaper deal. He's on a three or $58 million deal. They have, I think they have them for 20 million next, next year and 20 million the following year.
Like it was a, Probably one of the bargains of the league, his contract. I like it. They're right back into contention for next season. Assuming Halliburton comes back into full form, but I do like the deal. Roger, any winner for you?
Yeah, I mean, I guess. I'm going to go with the cheesy generic one we talked about last time. I like the Cavs with James Harden. I think it's... Yeah, I do. I think his playmaking ability... Now, on the back end of that, we'll see what that looks like, but his playmaking ability with what they have I think helps some of those...
you know, the Evan Mobley thing that we were talking about, how he hasn't become exactly the ball-in-hand type of scorer that you thought. I mean, he's proven, James Harden, that he's a table setter. So, like, I really like that one. I like DeSomo. Is that how you say his name? To Minnesota? To Minnesota?
Yeah.
Yeah. As a, you know...
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