00:00Giannis finally being traded, and he goes to the Miami Heat.
00:04I guess you could give it a grade if you want to give it a grade.
00:07I don't think it's an A. I can tell you this on either side.
00:10Number one, the talent that the Milwaukee Bucks get back,
00:13which obviously is Tyler Hero, Kalil Ware, Jaime Jaquez, Jaquez Jr.
00:22Then they throw in the Caspis, Jacunionis for salary.
00:26They also get today's 13th pick overall.
00:30In the first round, they get a 2031 first-round pick.
00:34They get a 2033 first-round pick.
00:36Unprotected.
00:37And then there's a 2030 swap and a 2033 second-round swap, blah, blah, blah.
00:41Look, draft picks are nothing until you put a name together with them.
00:46Obviously, getting the 13th pick overall is the key to it.
00:49Getting Tyler Hero, who's next to Matt Mottabaya, the best player, I think, in Miami.
00:54But do I think the Miami Heat are now title contenders?
00:58I don't.
00:59I don't know how anybody could because you need –
01:02Bam out of Biowall, good player.
01:04He's a good player.
01:05Period.
01:06Stop, though.
01:06He's a good player.
01:07He had that one game where he took 900 shots and scored 80 points.
01:12It was meaningless, of course.
01:14And then he wanted the world to think that he's this great offensive weapon.
01:18He never has been.
01:18He's not, actually.
01:19And now you get Giannis, who obviously went healthy.
01:22He's still one of the five best players in the world.
01:24But the key to that is went healthy.
01:27And who else do they have?
01:29Well, you got to be fair.
01:31Let's be fair, right?
01:32I don't think that's a great trade on either side.
01:34They're starting five.
01:35Go.
01:35Is Davion Mitchell's not a bad player.
01:37Decent.
01:38Norman Powell, who's a good player.
01:40And I think there's some concern on keeping him there, but that's a side story.
01:43Go ahead.
01:43For now, he's still there.
01:45Andrew Wiggins, Giannis, and Bam.
01:47That ain't great.
01:48That's a really good starting five.
01:50That's a six seed, if you ask me.
01:51Maybe a five seed.
01:52And then you have that Jovich kid, and now Bobby Portis coming off the bench.
01:56They're short.
01:57Yeah, Portis goes with Giannis.
01:58I should have mentioned that.
01:59Yeah, good call.
01:59Portis, that one is, their roster's decent.
02:03Now, the rumor is, on the buck side, is they're now going to flip Tyler Hero for more picks.
02:07Okay.
02:08They want to lose right now.
02:09So, they're in a full-on rebuild.
02:10Yeah, they're in a full rebuild.
02:11Picks, picks, picks, picks.
02:12He puts you in a weird spot where you're not going to win anything with him, but you're
02:16going to win games because he's a good player.
02:17I've got to be honest.
02:19Maybe people have soured on Giannis a bit.
02:21I even brought it up on the radio yesterday that, you know, if I'm the New York Knicks,
02:25I would have offered Karl-Anthony Towns straight up for Giannis just to see if they bite on it.
02:29And I got yelled and screamed about on that.
02:31But, you know, Karl-Anthony Towns' value is never going to be any higher than it is right now.
02:36And, obviously, the New York Knicks are going to run it back with their core.
02:39The Knicks aren't even the story here.
02:41But when you consider some of the other trades in the last five years of legitimately, you know,
02:46top talent that Giannis is, I got to be honest.
02:50I don't think Milwaukee did all that good.
02:52I know you're going to tell me they get three first-round picks, but those three first-round
02:56picks are between today and 2033.
03:00So, you can't even judge that pick right now.
03:03Obviously, it gives them something to maybe trade with later on years because this is only 2026.
03:09That pick is seven years away, one of those picks.
03:12One of the picks is four years from now.
03:14I'm talking about a guy who's a top-five player in the league, a first-bound Hall of Famer,
03:21a champion one time thus far in his career, who wanted to come back to play more games this year.
03:27They wouldn't let him because, as you just said, they were tanking and trying to get, you know,
03:31a better draft pick.
03:32But when you consider, and I'll use this because it's the obvious one, that the New York Knicks
03:37gave up five first-round draft picks for Mikael Bridges, who's a good player, a really good
03:42role player, and was with the Nets and obviously now is with the New York Knicks, and you couldn't
03:49even get that for Giannis?
03:51And then you had to think you and I talked about yesterday, that not a single team, not
03:56one in the Western Conference wanted to kick the tires and see if they could make an offer
04:02to go get a top-five player in the league?
04:05Like, maybe there's something on that you and I don't know about or that I'm not considering.
04:09I don't agree.
04:10You don't agree with what part of it?
04:11I don't agree with anything you said, not a single syllable.
04:13Nothing?
04:14Not a single syllable.
04:14He's not a top-five player in the league when he's healthy?
04:16That part I agree with, but I'm talking about the trade part of it.
04:19Nobody out West wanted him?
04:20No, that's the part where I disagree.
04:22You think somebody did want him?
04:23Yes.
04:23But we just don't know about him.
04:24And Giannis had some say here.
04:26I know he didn't have a no trade clause, but in the NBA, the stars have say because if the
04:31star is
04:31miserable, you have no chance with them.
04:33You don't think he'd want to play in Texas?
04:36Nope, it makes a lot.
04:37You don't think he'd want to play in California?
04:38Nope.
04:39It makes a lot more sense to stay in the East right now because—
04:42Yes, the East is an easier road.
04:44Yeah, no, just respect to the Knicks.
04:46You don't have to go through—
04:47I would hear on that.
04:48Every benefit of the doubt, you have to get through the Knicks and let's say the Celtics.
04:52Let's say.
04:52Okay.
04:53Meanwhile, you know for a fact that both the Spurs or the Thunder are a long-term problem.
04:58They're not going anywhere.
04:59They're very young.
05:00Right.
05:00Next five to seven years, one of those two teams, I think, will be in every Western Conference
05:05final.
05:06Right.
05:06I agree.
05:07Therefore, outside of Minnesota, who didn't have any assets to give, and that was talked
05:12about, but apparently the Bucs had no interest in Randall, who ended up moving to the Nets and
05:16such, he was very limited on where he'd be willing to go unless the Thunder or the Spurs
05:21were going to get him.
05:22Right.
05:22And that didn't make sense with the timeline.
05:24Yeah.
05:24Look, you might be dead on right.
05:26That's what it was.
05:27I can't say you're not, but I just think they did a bad job here.
05:32Like, if I'm honest, yeah, you get to go to South Beach.
05:34Woo-hoo!
05:35No state income tax.
05:36Woo-hoo!
05:37I'm sure his brother's probably going to go along with him.
05:39Woo-hoo!
05:40Right?
05:41But you're not winning.
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