00:00In the NBA, over the last 10 days, Giannis has been traded, LaMelo Ball has been traded,
00:04John Morant has been traded, Kawhi Leonard has been traded, Jalen Brown has been traded.
00:08And only two of those players I had any interest in.
00:10And that's fine, but those aren't backup pieces, you know what I mean?
00:14I'm bringing superstars to the equation, and if you want to debate LaMelo Ball and John Morant
00:20and where they fall in the superstar category, that's a different day.
00:23These are legitimate playmakers that are being moved.
00:26Big-time trades.
00:27Big-time trades. There's five I just named in the previous 10 days,
00:30and meanwhile the Cavs are just sitting back and waiting.
00:32And I don't believe they're just going to enter the upcoming season having done nothing and run it back.
00:39That, to me, would be them just ignoring such an obvious hole and glare in this roster
00:45that I can't fathom that, okay? I don't believe that to be true.
00:50I think Kobe's trying to do some things.
00:53It's just not materializing for him.
00:55Part of that, and here's where I have to kind of slap back my own thoughts on that as well,
00:58where I know he's doing stuff.
01:00I know he's calling.
01:01I know he's seeking around.
01:02You saw the return the way I did with Jalen Brown.
01:05I am still beyond stunned.
01:10That was the Kyrie Irving trade in reverse.
01:12I mean, if the 76ers were trying to get rid of Paul George,
01:15they would have had to have attached a first-round pick,
01:17a legitimate first-round pick, in order to accomplish that.
01:20By the way, look at all the people Paul George has been traded for over the years.
01:23Yeah, but it's like that was not nearly the price and not nearly the value that people thought for Jalen
01:29Brown.
01:30That was 20 cents on the dollar, let's say.
01:32So you're telling me Kobe Altman wasn't willing to put up 30 cents on the dollar?
01:35Because that's what it seems like to me.
01:38It's not as if the Celtics were just saying, no, thank you, we won't take calls.
01:42Shams reported today they've been taking calls on Jalen Brown for a couple weeks now.
01:45They refused the calls on Tatum, but they were taking the calls on Brown.
01:49I do love the narrative that all the NBA insiders have been rushing to keyboards to get out there,
01:55which I think is a bunch of malarkey, and that is that Brown did not want to be traded.
02:01He did not request a trade.
02:03Unfortunately for those insiders, we have access to his Twitch stream, and we've seen his Twitter account.
02:10Unfortunately for those guys.
02:12I'm like, in what universe?
02:14He's made it pretty public what he wants out of this.
02:16They must have gotten a text from Boston, please tell everyone that Jalen never requested a trade.
02:24Do these insiders think we don't have an active internet or something like this?
02:27Is Wi-Fi down for the entire country to be able to make a statement like that?
02:31It's wild to me.
02:33Enough people just don't know how to access Jalen Brown's thoughts because he puts them out there constantly.
02:38I just want to know when they posted that because it started with Shams, and then it just next guy,
02:44the next guy, the next guy.
02:45You could tell the group text went out, and I just wonder if all these guys just hit copy-paste.
02:53Did they actually type it out, and did they have a straight face when they were typing all this out?
02:59They're just doing a lot of people's bidding.
03:01That's all that is.
03:01By the way, speaking of Adam Schefter, I've got to give him a standing ovation.
03:05Way to engagement farm off the league you don't cover, and that's the NBA.
03:10Because nobody follows Shams, so if you weren't posting Shams reporting for him, we would have never known.
03:17So, way to go, Adam.
03:19There you go.
03:20Standing ovation.
03:21There you are.
03:21How many more followers does he have than Shams?
03:23I don't know.
03:24It's got to be in the millions, right?
03:25I'm just like really—
03:26Shams has millions himself, but Schefter's got—Schefter's one of the lead dogs here.
03:29No, I know.
03:31I listen.
03:32As a company man myself—
03:33Oh, you think that's what this is?
03:35It's a company man thing?
03:36Oh, yeah, big time.
03:36I'll never disparage another company man move, okay?
03:40Company man to company man.
03:42I don't know if you're a company man or not, Daryl.
03:44I don't know that, but I am a well-advertised company man.
03:48So, if they—company man to company man, I appreciate the move, Schefter.
03:52Shams has $3.9 million, and Schefter has $11.7 million.
03:56Yeah, that's $7 million people.
03:57See, I'm waiting for all the new ESPN employees from NFL Network.
04:01I'm waiting for them now to be posting the news and crediting Shams.
04:06Like, if we start seeing Rap Sheet and Garofalo and those guys start doing it,
04:13that's some real good company man stuff right there.
04:15And as a company man, listen loud, Odyssey.
04:18You guys know where I stand on this.
04:19I'm a big-time company man.
04:20I just appreciate it.
04:22I appreciate the move that Schefter's doing.
04:24That's just a little emoji salute guy to everything that's going on here.
04:28All right, but is LeBron waiting to see what the Cavs will do?
04:30Here's the question we have for you guys.
04:31216-474-0092.
04:33Kendrick Perkins on ESPN went into his thoughts.
04:36Here we go.
04:37I want to be here.
04:38I'm playing golf here.
04:39I done took a photo with me rubbing my feet together by the poolside.
04:43My family is down here.
04:45Now, Rich is going to do his job.
04:47Rich Paul is going to do his job of searching the market and seeing.
04:52But I feel like in my heart, LeBron James want to be home.
04:56But he's not going to be home if this roster is put together the way that it is and what
05:02we saw last year.
05:03This is my own personal opinion.
05:06I really feel this in my soul that LeBron James is waiting to see if the Cavs are really going
05:13to do something so that he can say, I'm coming home.
05:17Yeah, and at this point, I don't even know that needs to be the most drastic thing in
05:19the world.
05:20We kept speaking about Brown and that mattering.
05:22And I do think it mattered, but I would have been, let's be honest about it.
05:25It would have been a very significant move for the Cavaliers.
05:27It certainly would have, it would have shaken the NBA.
05:30If you know, I called it a, I called it a BOGO.
05:32It was a buy one, get one.
05:33You get Jalen Brown.
05:34You also get LeBron James, but we need to talk about the other things they can do.
05:39And maybe that's Anthony Davis.
05:40Maybe that's a couple other players, but like they have to do something in my opinion.
05:44I agree with Perk.
05:46I think he's right.
05:47I think they have to do something to showcase to LeBron.
05:50This is what LeBron has always asked of any team that he's come to.
05:53Like you, you have to do some of my bidding.
05:55Show me you're serious about winning.
05:58Yeah.
05:58And, and so, but here's the, again, it goes to what we were talking about yesterday though.
06:02Why isn't Golden State being held to that same standard?
06:04Well, into the reporting out of that with Ramona Shelburne is that Golden State is trying
06:09to make sure that LeBron will come here before they do his bidding.
06:12Like they're, they're making sure they don't go out and trade for Anthony Davis first.
06:16And then LeBron says, thanks, but no thanks.
06:17They need the assurance of LeBron James first, and then they'll go out and overpay for Anthony
06:22Davis.
06:22Yeah, that's definitely not how LeBron works.
06:24Well, no, it isn't.
06:25And, and how this seems like it's operating is that, uh, like the, the, the Cavs might
06:30have to make a blind faith trust trade in order to, in order to try to get them where
06:36you could, you could trade for someone you think LeBron wants and that might not be enough
06:41to get LeBron there.
06:42It might just be a, Hey, we really are trying to show you that we want you at all costs.
06:46Wait a minute, I thought it was promoting Brandon Weems to GM was going to seal the
06:50deal.
06:50Yeah.
06:51I don't know who told you that, but no, I mean, that's what they're all talking about.
06:55Is that, is that what the old, the old ex is telling you?
06:57Yeah.
06:57I thought that was going to be like the, the deal sealer.
07:01Meanwhile, I woke up this morning to old resurface clips of LeBron from, uh, like a little while
07:06back on his own, uh, on his own podcast, talking about how he's only wanted to play with
07:10Steph Curry to finish off his career.
07:11So like, that's go, it's going great guys.
07:14It's going great.
07:15What's one player you'd always want to play with Steph Curry.
07:17Oh, great.
07:18Thanks.
07:19Yeah.
07:19I thought it was going to be the high school basketball photo with, uh, Mike Gansey and
07:25his arm on hanging over LeBron.
07:28I didn't see, did you see some people, uh, in the mentions of one of those clips?
07:31I don't know who it was initially that was quote tweeted, uh, but people are saying you're
07:35a Mike Gansey lookalike.
07:36Did you see that?
07:37Don't insult Mike like that.
07:39I just, I'm saying I saw the, I saw that in the comment section, I saw multiple people
07:43saying, is that Daryl Ryder?
07:44No, that's like Mike Gansey in that photo.
07:47Apparently that's your doppelganger.
07:48That's not a bad doppelganger.
07:50It's a good looking man right there.
07:51It's bad for him.
07:53Well, it's good for me.
07:54I'll have to get Mike on the horn.
07:56We'll have to find out if he agrees with that sentiment.
07:58I don't know, but I, I, that's, that's what people are saying.
08:00Uh, but it's LeBron waiting to see what the Cavs will do and how much do the Cavs actually
08:03have to do to one, six, four, seven, four to below 92.
08:05I think we're in agreement here, Daryl.
08:07I think they have to do something more than just say, all right, LeBron, we opened up
08:12this spot for you now.
08:13Now you can sign.
08:14Uh, but at the end of the day, when we look back on this, if golden state doesn't do anything
08:19before LeBron comes and the Cavs don't do anything before LeBron comes, it might just
08:23be the realization for LeBron that playing on the discount.
08:27That isn't necessarily going to be the end all be all.
08:29I think we could be stuck with the Spider-Man meme.
08:31Everyone, the, the heat, the Cavs and the Warriors are all pointed to each other to
08:35do something to get LeBron James.
08:38Now the heat have already done it.
08:39They got Giannis.
08:40Okay.
08:40That, I mean that, yeah, they did their, they did their business.
08:42That's, that's a pretty significant.
08:44And that's what Pat Riley would sit down at the table and he would even lie to LeBron
08:46straight to his face and tell him we made the Giannis trade with you and mine, LeBron.
08:50Right.
08:51We did this with you.
08:51You, you go to Greece to visit Giannis.
08:54You guys are good friends.
08:55We did this.
08:55We did this for you, LeBron.
08:57Did this, does, does Pat take all the rings off his fingers and put them in front of LeBron
09:01again, including the two that were one with LeBron on this and it worked the first time
09:07you might as well, you might as well try again.
09:08I think I do hope the Cavaliers, when they do have their sit down with LeBron, that they
09:12do not use the 2010 presentation that they use the 2014 presentation.
09:17Are they even going to get a sit down?
09:18I don't know.
09:19I think so.
09:19Yeah, I think so.
09:20I think it's good.
09:22This is just my part of this is that LeBron's not in a rush.
09:24And we don't know exactly what he's going to do in allowing teams to even have that
09:27presentation or not.
09:28Right.
09:28And, but if he does take meetings or if he has Rich Paul, we heard yesterday, he was
09:33just on the golf course all day today.
09:35Same thing.
09:36Same thing.
09:36He's been every day.
09:36And you know what?
09:37I'm jealous of him.
09:38If I were LeBron James right now, I would be doing the exact same thing.
09:42Yeah.
09:42No, I'm jealous of him.
09:43Yeah.
09:44But also underscores the idea that golf matters in this equation.
09:46Yeah.
09:48So I think the Cavaliers, the Warriors, and the Heat are guaranteed to get meetings with
09:52him.
09:53I think the 76ers are going to be able to get themselves in the room.
09:56There's some conversation.
09:57Maybe Denver would be involved.
09:59I don't know that they're going to get in the room.
10:01Minnesota.
10:01I don't think Minnesota is all that serious.
10:04I don't think they get in the room.
10:05I think it's four teams right now as we look at this landscape, they're going to be able
10:09to get in a room with Rich Paul, make their pitch to get LeBron to do their farewell
10:13tour.
10:13Now, the two teams that make sense for him to do it with are the Heat and the Cavaliers.
10:21The Warriors make sense in the sense of every time he has changed teams, he's won a championship.
10:28Okay?
10:29The three franchises, I should say, that he has played for, he's won championships for.
10:35And if he goes, let's say, to Golden State.
10:37Now, I don't think this is going to happen before everyone comes after me.
10:41I don't think if he goes to Golden State, the Warriors are going to win the NBA championship.
10:45But let's just say for the sake of discussion, that happens.
10:50Imagine a legacy where you played for four franchises, you won five NBA championships,
10:56you won at least one with every one of those franchises.
11:01Three of the four teams are definitely retiring your jersey.
11:04You can make an argument at least two of them are going to give you a statue.
11:07I don't think the Lakers will give him a statue.
11:09No, but they gave Kobe like six statues, so maybe it's on the table.
11:12But I think Miami will eventually give him one.
11:16Cleveland definitely is going to give him one.
11:18All right?
11:19Yeah.
11:19So, I mean, you just look at that legacy.
11:24What else could you want from this guy, other than for him to come home for his retirement tour?
11:30But I still don't think if LeBron comes here, unless the Cavaliers make seismic moves,
11:37I just don't think it moves the needle close enough for the Cavaliers to win a second NBA championship.
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