00:00Again, I think the future for the Clippers is totally reliant on the guys they have in-house.
00:07Luckily for them, Darius Garland, the toe, has all-star potential, okay?
00:12Keaton Wagler has potential.
00:17Brandon Ingram has shown all-star level play.
00:21You're going to have to get that all around.
00:25You're going to have to have a rookie of the year type year from Wagler.
00:28You're going to have to have all-star years from your two cornerstones for this to not be a complete,
00:35utter dumpster fire.
00:38That's your future, are the guys you have on the roster right now.
00:41And if you don't think you can compete with them, and you're talking about trading everyone,
00:47you're now, again, hurting your fan base.
00:50Because instead of having a 30-40 win team, you're going to hit the 20-win, 15-win area
00:57if you're going to start trading guys off with no prospects for the future.
01:02So I think right now, what you see in that locker room, that's a band of brothers, okay?
01:07That's saving Private Ryan.
01:09It's a war movie.
01:11And it's us or it's nobody, period.
01:15That's a high school team for the next four years.
01:17We all going to know each other by the end of this, because ain't nobody going nowhere.
01:22I think moves can still be made.
01:24And I'm looking at it from the outside.
01:26Much of the power crash on top of it.
01:28But you got Chris Dunn still available.
01:30You got Derrick Jones Jr. still available.
01:32Things can be moved around in-house to make things work.
01:35And you don't have to necessarily do a complete fire sale.
01:38You can do it year by year.
01:40Okay.
01:41My question to you is, everybody knows that this has happened.
01:44You know the punishment.
01:45You know what happened.
01:45So if I'm a playoff contender, and I'm asking for Chris Dunn, I'm not giving you a first-round pick
01:52for that.
01:52I already know you're desperate.
01:54You're desperate for anything.
01:55Well, but so is the contender.
01:58So if a call is being made to me, regardless of how Chris—and then I'll take it a step further.
02:03The players in the locker room that you're saying is a band of players or a band of thieves together,
02:06if they're playing at an extremely high level, the calls are going to be made regardless.
02:11So now you're going to have to bow down and pay what you got to pay,
02:13because he's playing out of his mind this season.
02:17So if I want him to be on a contender team, you got to pay what you got to pay.
02:20But if these guys are playing at all-star level, if I'm the Clippers, why would I trade them?
02:27The toe is young.
02:29Keaton Wagler is young.
02:30Brandon Ingram is—I think he's late 20s.
02:33Yeah, he's late 20s.
02:34So these are young guys.
02:36So move them for what?
02:38Now, the Chris Dunn, Rui Hachimura, if you're going to have—
02:41If you're going to have these two guys have all-star years, it'll be because Rui's playing well.
02:47It'll be because Max Struis is playing well, because you need parts for all this to work.
02:52So therefore, to me, if they get off to a good start, that's the best thing that could happen.
02:56I'm not trading anybody, because at some point, you have to think about the fans.
03:01Yeah, you do have to think about the fans, but I also think that the Clippers, at this point,
03:06are going to be desperate to offload a lot of these assets that you just got.
03:09Like, Max Struis is not sticking around.
03:11Rui's not sticking around.
03:13Like, they're going to find a way to move off of these guys as we head towards the trade deadline.
03:16Like, Max Struis is not sticking around, but they're going to find a way to move off of these guys.
