00:00uh this is an interesting story the there's a report yesterday from euro hoops which was that
00:08yannis will apparently not play in the upcoming world cup qualifiers because of a request from
00:17the miami heat according to this report that he is uh the heat want him in uh ready to go
00:23for camp
00:25now this is obviously interesting because the heat have three other players who are
00:29playing in that game none of them yannis big difference though and not not even the yannis
00:34aspect of it but last year you missed a lot of games because of injury yes so they probably want
00:41to get him as much time off as they can and there's been other teams that have done that to
00:47players
00:47it's the circumstances or the situation when you only played what he played 40 games last year
00:54yeah something like that when you only play 40 games the year before
00:59and the team trades a bunch of assets for you you think the last thing they want you doing is
01:03playing basketball in the summer no we want you with us fresh i think the uh i wonder too there's
01:10part of me that wonders because we know we don't know much about you we're learning yannis but one
01:16thing we know from last year with the whole buck situation you don't like to be the bad guy and
01:21so
01:21let's say hey he wants to play in just get ready for the heat season we know he's very motivated
01:29about
01:29this season these aren't the world cup games these are not the olympics they're the qualifiers so maybe
01:36he's like hey he could you be the bad guy that's he'd be like yeah absolutely that's one of the
01:43circumstances where you say save me from me yeah right we've had this conversation before with the
01:50medical staff and coaching staff that sometimes you want your player to say i'm playing i'm doing this
01:58i'm doing that and then you come in and say no no no we're gonna sit in because it's a
02:03long-term
02:04you know kind of solution not just a short term um i wish teams would do that more instead of
02:12kind
02:12of putting the player out there to make him feel like he has to go out there and play her
02:18i think
02:19luca did the same thing too i don't think luca played this summer he was committed to just playing
02:23for the lakers um you know and and it's different like look he has to go carry a team and
02:31you know the
02:32only thing i can say on these world cup qualifiers like pella does but pella gets he doesn't get that
02:36opportunity during the season like it's a different bag for him by the way great are you sure you don't
02:41want my subscription because i'm going to re-up pella larson versus finland sweden finland in the
02:47world cup qualifiers so we got pella versus larry markin are you sure you don't want in let me think
02:54about it no what if no i also told you the next night italy serbia fontecio versus jovic dude huh
03:08let me think about it again no britney you know i i think i'm busy that night and what don't
03:14worry
03:15about it i say just put in your login in the chat and we'll see yeah maybe maybe we one
03:22of us will take
03:23a peek first of all these games are not at regular hours that is no they're like they're like after
03:28the show watch party oh i'd be down for that that's cool you gotta get this you gotta get a
03:34wire hook
03:35it up to the tv here that's team bonding can we get the zone in here what would it be
03:41in here we could
03:42do it in that conference room i need the zone in the conference room galen why is leroy always hating
03:50on
03:50international basketball what because of me and liking it too much
03:58you don't think you go a little over the top with things at times dude i'm telling you finland
04:04really surprised a lot of people last year and so this is a big opportunity for pella larson if he
04:08could slay the giant that beat serbia that says a lot of things about pella larson i don't know exactly
04:13what those things are in the qualifier world cup qualifiers sweden making the world cup is a big deal
04:19the world the world the world don't we send college kids when the u.s does it
04:29no no it's younger usually guys it's guys who are probably trying to impress now spo it's gonna
04:34be supposed first uh his first uh bag into it so like he's gonna get you know probably some younger
04:39guys to see who wants to so for example instead of bam it'll probably be jaylen durin who plays
04:47for the for this and then maybe does he have a contract yet nope wow nope this is crazy i
04:54know
04:55all nba guy you know hey there's no other way to say you suck than this it's very it's right
05:03like
05:03damn one bad and he's really really really young which i'm surprised nobody's jumped in on it but
05:11like what would they have to give him yeah what would they have to get you would have to pay
05:16him
05:16probably like 40 million a year and then they would have the choice to match it or not and
05:22then you're in that standoff do we yeah but then here's the problem if i'm if i'm detroit
05:29i say go ahead ruin your salary cap yeah but the problem is they also have to find a partner
05:37because
05:37you can't just sign into cap space there's no cap space teams maybe next summer he'd be in a better
05:41spot but because there's no cap space teams anymore he has to find a sign and trade partner too
05:47so he not only has to have detroit he has to have detroit not matching but then also agree to
05:52whatever the sign and trade would be which is crazy because like this is where basketball has gone
06:01and they're almost being forced into a situation where they can't pay players max so what happens
06:07is it depends on when you're up for your max not whether you deserve it or not and i think
06:13this is
06:13one of the cases because i'm almost willing to bet anybody else who makes all nba in the last five
06:18years with all the money that was available would have gotten a max contract did you see how much
06:25the hall of fame game drew no seven million people tuned into the hall of fame game which is more
06:35than
06:35any baseball game or nhl game including the stanley cup according to front office sports
06:41seven million people watched carson beck versus kenny pickett think it was an exciting game it was a good
06:47game objectively but that's like so desperate that's how you could tell that people are glad football's
06:52back
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