Part 1: More Mavs Misery with Kyrie Out for the Season, 15 NBA East Teams in 15(ish) Minutes, and Les Claypool of Primus!
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What happened to Kyrie Irving this season?
But we have to start with the headline, the breaking news this morning. Kyrie Irving lost for the season with a torn ACL. We were watching it last night on the drive. You were wondering, could it have been something else? He's helped off. He makes the free throws. And then we get the word this morning. I'll just tell you right now, Mavs fans, I feel for you. I mean, this is an absolutely brutal, brutal stretch. You know, I know some of the talking points on this are kind of the karma element of it, but you're also doing that to millions of Mavs fans. So if this were about karma... they would deserve a deep playoff run.
How does Kyrie's injury affect the Mavericks?
Because I still think with a healthy AD and a healthy Kyrie, and I've mentioned this before, I really like Dallas and their offseason and some of their improvements around this team with Luka in place, considering this is a finals team last year that had to navigate a really tough West. But, all right, so Luka's gone. We've covered that. then you're thinking at least for 25 with a healthy AD who's been incredible the last couple of years, which again was another whole reason why for all the reasons the trade was ridiculous and should have never happened. You're trading for an Anthony Davis that I think the biggest Anthony Davis fans would tell you, you're always worried about that next moment.
I mean, one of the, I don't even want to use the word funny, but you know, living in LA when 80 was hurt, you know, it's after the title, uh, And there's this kind of like limbo phase of the Lakers. And local radio would be like, well, what could you get for AD? And it's a bit like the Zion conversation where, okay, what's the market for Zion? I mean, some of the most negative, absurd Zion being at the lowest value rating was still just ridiculous. It's like, look, another team would trade for him. But I think the win in what you're seeing from the way Zion is playing is that the Pelicans are like, okay, I think we actually need to pivot off of this. Um, his market has recovered. It will recover if he continues to play like this and is healthy going into the off season. So when you think about the lowest point of the Anthony Davis stretches, was it where it wasn't about his playing? It was about his availability and then trying to project out as he got older and be like, okay, well,
kind of contract do you want to do for somebody like this like how much can you really bank on him and then you have local talk shows which again i'm not even being critical of the local talk shows because i did it and it's just kind of what you do is like could you trade anthony davis what do you get for him and back to the zion point is that really the best thing you can hope for is that he plays well and then if you wanted to make a move that he would be available or more interesting to more teams because you just start to talk yourself into the recency bias of what you've just seen from a player And in this case, Anthony Davis goes to, what could you get for him into Luka Doncic years later? Because AD was healthy and playing really well. But the fact that you would trade Luka, again, to just one team. And I know there's been some reports that they had kicked the tires on other players. From what I had heard,
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened to Kyrie Irving this season?
1:02–1:42
2
How does Kyrie's injury affect the Mavericks?
1:42–12:34
3
What are the current standings of the Eastern Conference?
12:34–13:02
4
What makes the Cleveland Cavaliers a strong team this season?
13:02–23:08
5
Why are the Boston Celtics a title contender?
23:08–29:17
6
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the New York Knicks?
29:17–35:41
7
How do the Milwaukee Bucks compare to other teams in the East?
35:41–39:21
8
What is the future of the Washington Wizards in the NBA?
39:21–1:29:18
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