Ace Bailey's Draft Drama: Not Flying to Utah With Team

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00:00So we just got news, Joe Ranieri, from a tweet from Evan Sidery here,

00:03who's been on the program before.

00:05Ace Bailey did not fly with fellow first-round pick Walter Clayton Jr.

00:09to Utah after being drafted for Brian Windhorst of ESPN.

00:12It says Bailey is expected to show up in Salt Lake City by Monday.

00:15If he doesn't show, Bailey could be holding out from the team.

00:19So I want to start here right now.

00:21Like, this is pretty incredible where he clearly told Utah,

00:24I don't want to go there, told the Sixers, I really don't want to go there.

00:27I want to go to, like, these three teams in the bottom end of the top ten.

00:30But Danny Ainge goes, you know what?

00:31You're a really good player.

00:32I'm not passing up this opportunity.

00:33We'll make you love us here.

00:35So when you see the news coming down where Ace Bailey,

00:38and the best part about this tweet is it wasn't matter-of-fact like,

00:42oh, he's coming on a plane a little bit later on his own private jet,

00:45or don't worry about it, he'll be there Monday.

00:47We haven't gotten a lot of clear answers out of Ace Bailey's camp.

00:51What do we make to believe of this tweet now coming out, Joe?

00:55I, you know, I believe half of what you read, right?

00:58Half of what you hear, Donnie, at this point.

01:01I mean, you were still a top five pick.

01:04That's a lot of money that you're leaving out on the table here to go to what?

01:09The Brooklyn Nets?

01:10And set, like, I don't understand what you're holding out for.

01:13You can put all those teams in a blender.

01:16And, you know, congratulations.

01:18They're all the same.

01:19They're not any good here.

01:21So I don't know what the kid is doing.

01:22And we talked about it a week ago.

01:25And I said, what you're getting here is just really bad advice.

01:28The people around him not doing him any favor because there's no self-awareness with him

01:34or his camp, apparently, Donnie.

01:36And we've seen this now how many times.

01:38And we're not even talking about the best player in a draft.

01:40We're talking about a dude that was lucky to go fifth here because that's how big a question

01:45mark he is.

01:46There's nothing guaranteed that Ace Bailey is going to be an all-star in the NBA.

01:50He's not Cooper Flagg in any way, shape, or form.

01:54So I don't get it.

01:55I really don't.

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