NBA Trade Market Check-In With Bobby Marks, Plus NFL Divisional Round Preview and Picks With Ted Nguyen
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What are the key NBA trade deadline names?
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Today's podcast is loaded. We've got NBA, we've got NFL. We start with Bobby Marks, taking a look at the NBA names that are part of the NBA trade market. Can I interest you in some deal? Perhaps some Butler, maybe a little Zion, even a little, little bean. And then we're going to talk with Ted Wynn from The Athletic, who is just great on the film breakdown stuff. I've enjoyed reading his stuff all season long. So he's going to help us look for some things in the divisional round for this weekend that he's going to pick all the games. We've got a lot of advice. Joining us to talk about the NBA as we're about the halfway mark, almost game 40 for a lot of teams, is Bobby Marks, former front office executive and one of my favorite NBA guests.
Okay, let's look at it this way. Let's look at all these headline things. Let's talk it out, all the different stuff. I have talked about Jimmy Butler, not a ton on the pod, but I felt like it's exciting. It's the big name. It's the next domino to fall with the drama. I mean, we're used to having these things happen, so this is exciting. So he gets suspended. He's eligible to come back tomorrow. We know that there's a massive player option north of $50 million this summer. We can talk about the egos involved and that Jimmy's a stubborn guy and that Pat is somebody who's a pretty accomplished dude who's not going to be pushed around a little bit. I guess I've just never quite wondered why the Heat would still want to be in the Jimmy Butler business.
You don't want to sign him to a long-term deal. He's 35. He was always a pain in the ass there, but he was your pain in the ass. And when you were winning, it was worth it. Now it's not worth it. I don't really think the market for him would be all that great in looking at previous deals because I think sometimes you'd be like, well, how many picks or whatever? And it's like, I don't know. It might be like one okay pick and one other pick that doesn't really mean anything. And then I wonder, as I promise I'll get to your bottom, but then I wonder, like, will we have a James Harden thing where Jimmy – doesn't get traded before the deadline, rides it out, and then it's like, actually the best way for me to sort of protect my money is to opt in for the $52 million player option this summer.
And then they're stuck with me all over again because James did that strategically, not because he wanted freedom, because he knew he'd be able to kind of control where he could go and then what his next contract would be. So I just don't...
i think this is an asset that's a far more diminished asset than the actual attention it's getting but it's getting the attention because it's the heat because it's butler and we don't really have anything else other than veal which we'll get to yeah i mean listen we i think there's a lot of different ways to to go at this i think um i think you could i could i think you could say listen miami missed the the window to trade them they knew there was going to be smoke right as soon as they didn't sign him this to this extension that he was that he's still eligible to for You knew eventually during the season here there was going to be some type of blow-up, right? You just didn't know when it was going to be, and then it happens sometime in late December. So you could say, well, they should have just traded him this summer, right? That would have probably made the most sense from a clean standpoint, and you're not dealing with this. They elected not to do it.
From a common-sense perspective, and I know we're probably throwing common sense out the window a little bit here, the best thing for him to do is when the extension is lifted for him to report and play a Friday night against Denver and Saturday, a Sunday against San Antonio and play like a, an all NBA type level player. Like that's the best approach for Jimmy Butler. And that's the best approach for Miami. And then continually see if there's a deal by February 6th. And if not, opt into your contract and let's see if we can, well, let's find you a home during the summer, right? Like that is like the logical thing to happen here. And I've been told multiple times, certainly by people close to his camp, like that was gonna happen. And then the wheels...
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the key NBA trade deadline names?
0:00–9:11
2
What does Jimmy Butler's situation look like?
9:11–20:18
3
How are the NBA trade markets evolving?
20:18–34:10
4
What are the previews for the NFL Divisional Round?
34:10–1:24:38
5
How do the Ravens plan to exploit the Bills' weaknesses?
1:24:38–1:32:43
6
What adjustments are the Rams making against the Eagles?
1:32:43–1:57:57
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