00:01Yesterday, Cakes led off a segment saying it was a big day
00:07because it was Anthony Davis contract extension day.
00:11Well, it was the first day that you can extend veterans
00:14on the NBA League calendar.
00:16I wasn't saying that it was a lock that Anthony Davis
00:19was going to get extended yesterday.
00:21It was just the window opened for that possibility.
00:25And the report was that Will Dawkins had talked to Davis
00:27or Davis' agent about, you know, it's a possibility.
00:30We can talk about it.
00:33He didn't have any clue.
00:34He's not going to do that.
00:35He had no intention of signing Davis.
00:37That has been shelved now.
00:38That has now officially been shelved.
00:41Correct.
00:42Talks have been shelved.
00:44They're in a wait-and-see mode,
00:46and they want to see him perform in a wizard uniform.
00:49And I've got no problem with that whatsoever.
00:52You traded for him.
00:53You didn't give up a ton for him as far as picks.
00:56And before they're going to outlay $150 million, $200 million, $200 million plus,
01:02they'd like to see him stay healthy in a wizard's uniform,
01:05see what sort of impact he has on the young collection of talent
01:09that they've gathered here over the last three-plus years.
01:12I'm fine with that.
01:13I have no problem with it whatsoever.
01:16Davis probably isn't, but I'm fine with it.
01:18Yeah, but again, like...
01:19He knows the business.
01:20If I'm Will Dawkins, like, I'm not in the business of always just keeping Anthony Davis,
01:26a guy who hasn't played one game in my uniform, keeping him happy.
01:30It's about building the best possible team I can for the Washington Wizards.
01:35That's his job.
01:36And you can't feel sorry for a guy who's going to make $58 million this year.
01:40I mean, he has $58 million coming this year,
01:42and he's got a player option for $60-plus million next year.
01:46Yeah, it's just unbelievable.
01:47So Anthony Davis is going to be fine.
01:48I think it's a smart move.
01:49For Anthony Davis.
01:51Did you see where the Athletic ranked the Washington Wizards offseason?
01:57So David Aldridge, who we actually had on right before they drafted A.J. DeBonsa,
02:03when we did our show from the Anthem,
02:06he ranked all of the NBA offseasons for all 30 teams.
02:11He's done it in three days.
02:14And not shocking, the 76ers come out number one.
02:19All right, 76ers traded for Jalen Brown, and they add LeBron James.
02:24That's a pretty good offseason.
02:25It's a pretty good haul.
02:26It's a pretty good roster overhaul.
02:28They also added Dean Wade and a couple other players.
02:32All right, they're expected to be the frontrunner in the Eastern Conference with the Knicks.
02:39They have the Washington Wizards at number eight in the top ten.
02:44Top ten is pretty good.
02:46Take a top ten finish.
02:47Not only did you draft the Bonsa number one, at center you added DeAndre Ayton for some depth.
02:54You brought back Chris Middleton.
02:57By the way, I really like the Ayton ad because, especially with Saar having the foot issue,
03:03and they're hoping he's ready for training camp,
03:06and Anthony Davis being 33 years old,
03:09and obviously his track record is he doesn't play in 75-plus games at this point.
03:14You needed a big body, and they went out and got it and ate it.
03:19Look, I think that's a good ad.
03:20I think for the most part, Will Dawkins, during his basically three years running the show,
03:25maybe it's even a little bit longer,
03:27he mostly has Ws in his column.
03:30The only L that I might give him, and I understand why they did it at the time,
03:34is the Denny trade because Denny's turned into an all-star.
03:38So wouldn't you want Denny to be part of this?
03:40But maybe they wouldn't have been able to tank if Denny stayed here.
03:43Yeah, he was going to help him win too many games.
03:45Couldn't keep him there.
03:47We'll see how the Trey Young move works.
03:52That's a big one.
03:52We'll see if my guy Bilal gets an extension.
03:55I don't know.
03:55We'll have to see how that plays out.
03:58Pretty pivotal year for him, entering year four, right?
04:01Giving everybody's health.
04:02How's he going to play much?
04:05I don't know.
04:06I don't have that answer.
04:09That's an answer for Coach Keefe.
04:10I assume you start to bounce, huh?
04:13Well, yes.
04:14I mean, I don't think that's a big assumption.
04:16You're starting the number and overall player.
04:18I assume you start Saar and Davis.
04:20Yes.
04:21Yeah.
04:22And I assume you start Trey Young.
04:23Yep.
04:24And then the other spot, we all kind of think this will be Keyshawn George,
04:30but maybe it's Trey Johnson.
04:32I don't think anybody believes Bilal's a starter anymore.
04:34I'm fine with my guy Bilal being a high-energy, off-the-bench defensive stopper
04:39who hopefully is going to improve his offensive game.
04:43That's what I'm hoping for from him.
04:44I would have thought maybe a little higher than eight because of the DeBonce
04:48draft, but I mean, I guess I'll go with that.
04:51Well, if you want to know, the teams they had ahead of them in terms of like
04:54better off-seasons, they had the Hawks.
04:59Remind me what the Hawks did.
05:01This is here.
05:02They acquired Lou Dort, Aaron Wiggins, Ryan Nembhard, Kingston Flemings.
05:08All right.
05:09That was a draft pick.
05:10Yeah, Flemings was, that's a good pick.
05:12They've got the Clippers.
05:15Traded Kawhi or, yeah.
05:19If the Kawhi deal happens, because I know they're still doing an investigation,
05:23traded Kawhi, got Brandon Ingram, brought in Rui Hachimura,
05:27a couple other guys, obviously I agree with Philly being number one.
05:34They had the Grizzlies.
05:36They actually traded away John Morant, acquired players like Isaiah Stewart,
05:42Jeremy Grant, drafted Cam Boozer.
05:47They have in top four Utah, drafted Darren Peterson,
05:53then picked up some other guys.
05:55In the top three, they have Charlotte.
06:00Seems like David Aldridge likes a lot of the teams that traded away guys,
06:03like here.
06:04Charlotte traded away LaMelo Ball.
06:08Well, you've got to feel good about that.
06:10And then they've got the Heat, number two, pick up Giannis.
06:13Well, I'm just reading the Athletics, and this was from Josh Robbins,
06:17but he gave the Wizards offseason an A-.
06:21That's pretty good.
06:22I would always take an A- on any assignment, any test, any A-.
06:27That's a pretty good grade.
06:29This is a bunch of different guys kind of grading each team.
06:32By the way, I think it's next.
06:34Josh covers the Wizards.
06:35I'm sorry?
06:36Josh covers the Wizards.
06:37Okay.
06:38And they gave Philadelphia A+, Tony Jones, whoever.
06:43I guess Tony Jones covers the Philadelphia for them.
06:46So, I would think higher than eight, maybe six.
06:50By the way, mid-next week is big.
06:52NBA schedule release, I think, is on August 13th.
06:55That's right.
06:55We're going to find out if we bankrupt Trav T-shirt,
06:58if the Wiz somehow get a Christmas Day game.
07:01Because he's in deep giving odds on that bet.
07:05It probably won't happen.
07:07Probably not going to happen this year.
07:08I think more they're in line for next year if they show signs of being like a playoff caliber team
07:13this upcoming season.
07:15The best part of the bet, and I think this is true, I've got to go through the audio,
07:19is that this argument is between Drab and E.B.
07:23Okay.
07:24And for whatever reason, E.B. didn't want to get in the bet.
07:28The best thing that could happen is that they get a Christmas Day game,
07:32and then we get to watch Eric, watch Drab, hand us $100 each.
07:38And aren't we only in for five bucks a piece?
07:41You didn't want to bet $5?
07:42I don't understand it.
07:43He's the one arguing that they're going to have it, and he doesn't want to bet it.
07:48It might be the biggest botch in show history.
07:51I don't think they're going to be part of Christmas Day.
07:53I don't think so either, but...
07:55I have to take 20 to 1.
07:57I have to.
07:58That's fine.
07:58If you like giving away $5, that's fine.
08:00I'll be fine giving you $5 just for the little scintilla of a chance
08:05that you're going to give him $100, me $100.
08:09It's about the same chance as you winning the Mega Millions last night.
08:12My chances are actually better than that.
08:14Did I have a ticket last night?
08:15Which you won't spend $5 on.
08:17I think my chances were actually zero, because I didn't buy a ticket last night.
08:21But the chance of it happening is greater than zero.
08:24I know that.
08:26Probably not a lot greater than zero, but greater than zero.
08:29The chances of Anthony Davis getting this big, fat contract extension,
08:34I think it's going down by the day.
08:36Because I think Will Dawkins is smart, and he's going to wait and see
08:41how many games the guy plays this year.
08:43I think that's obvious.
08:44That's common sense.
08:45It'd be dumb to give him a big, fat extension.
08:47No, he's got a Coke Zero can, and he's kicking it all the way down the road.
08:54He doesn't need Coke Zero.
08:55He just keeps kicking it and kicking it.
08:57He's thin.
08:57And he can drink regular Coke.
08:58It tastes far better.
09:01I mean, it does taste better.
09:02And you won't get cognitive decline.
09:05Yeah.
09:05So August...
09:06My cognitive is just such a decline.
09:08Hold on.
09:08You said the schedule release comes out August 13th?
09:10I think it's August 13th.
09:12I saw that somewhere.
09:12So that's next Thursday, right?
09:14I think it's next Thursday.
09:15Yeah.
09:15That is next Thursday.
09:17All right.
09:17Oh, man.
09:18I'm going to be doing cartwheels on the beach if I see the Wizards playing the Knicks on Christmas
09:22Day.
09:22That's probably not going to happen.
09:24Not going to happen.
09:24Five bucks to drab.
09:25A hundred to you.
09:26We're going to have to make a couple...
09:28And a mat.
09:28...show trips out to Wizards games this year.
09:31Definitely.
09:33Yeah.
09:34On the wood.
09:34On the wood.
09:35My man, A.J.
09:36DeBonsa.
09:37We can sit in that area with the waiter right behind the basket.
09:39Yeah, yeah.
09:40I like that place.
09:41The Hennessey Lofts.
09:43Is that what they're called?
09:43They're nice.
09:44Yeah.
09:44Nice setup.
09:47The vaults are nice too.
09:48Let's just make it a Friday.
09:49In case you're wondering.
09:49Make it a Friday or Saturday.
09:51Vaults were...
09:52Last I heard, were close to being sold out, though.
09:54So we've been getting the vaults.
09:56Yeah.
09:56I believe we've been getting vault access.
09:58We've got connections.
09:58They've been selling the vaults.
10:01What happens when they're all sold out?
10:02When companies all buy them?
10:04It's a great question.
10:04For 10 years, we might not have vault access anymore.
10:07But you might have a problem on our hands.
10:09But you know what?
10:10I'm not going to worry about that.
10:11I'm not going to worry about that right now.
10:13That's something to worry about during hoop season.
10:16During cap season.
10:18By the way, it's not that far away.
10:20No.
10:20We kind of start training camp in September.
10:22Isn't that crazy?
10:23And the Wizards will start soon thereafter.
10:25Well, once football season starts, which it has, everything else just starts to roll in.
10:31Yep.
10:32It's fantastic.
10:33Looking forward to it.
10:34But we got through July, which was a dead month.
10:36Although the World Cup helped.
10:38But then, once the training camp starts.
10:39And the Nationals were good.
10:40And the Nats were winning.
10:41Until the last week.
10:42The Nats were winning.
10:43And they were a story.
10:44Before you know it, you're going to be heading down, is it 81?
10:48Mm-hmm.
10:48To Blacksburg?
10:49Mm-hmm.
10:49For a Virginia Tech game.
10:51I don't know which one, but you're going to be going to one.
10:53I'm aiming for what?
10:56I said you might be out of that business.
10:57Your daughters have moved on.
10:58I know, but my younger daughter wants to go to a game, and I'm targeting October 17th
11:03weekend against Georgia Tech.
11:04Ah, very good.
11:05I just have to figure out where I'm going to stay.
11:08Well, that's always something you have to deal with when you go on the road.
11:11How about this?
11:12The Hyatt Place, Matt Cahill, the Hyatt Place in Blacksburg, Virginia, October 17th and
11:2118th, is $1,400 a night.
11:24Oh, that's absurd.
11:25You can't pay that.
11:26Two-night minimum.
11:27You can't pay that.
11:28I'm not.
11:29I mean, $1,800 to watch a mid-football game.
11:32The Hyatt Place.
11:34Yeah.
11:34You're not going to see, like, Bama LSU.
11:37You're going to see Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech.
11:39Georgia Tech.
11:39I know.
11:40Well, that's a small college town.
11:42That's what they do.
11:42That is brutal.
11:43If you go there in July, it's $150 a night.
11:46Of course.
11:48So I've got to figure out where I'm going to stay.
11:49What time is kickoff?
11:51Is that an 8 o'clock kickoff?
11:52That game, I don't know.
11:54I think it's probably noon.
11:56If it was a noon game, I'm sorry.
11:58I wouldn't stay.
11:59I just would go and then drive home.
12:01He's going to be boozing with all the college kids.
12:05Go to Center Street.
12:06It's okay.
12:06Get the wifey to drive home.
12:08No, I don't trust you to drive home.
12:10I need to have control over that.
12:13She actually might not go.
12:14She's not that fond.
12:16She doesn't want to go down there.
12:17So it might just be my daughter and I.
12:19But we'll see.
12:19Her Blacksburg days are done.
12:21They're done.
12:21Yeah.
12:23The time for that game, TBA.
12:25Yeah.
12:25It's probably going to be a noon game.
12:26Maybe 3.30.
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