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of the Andy Evert Show. We commits today with lots
of stuff happening in the NBA. The free agent window
is open and people are signing big time contracts and
small time contracts. Trades are being made, players are getting waived.
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It has been a hectic day in the National Basketball Association.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm Andy Everett, our.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Audio disseminators today, Shane Carter and Michael Bartlett's back to
produce again today after one day off, and you picked
the good day to be off, but kind of a
bad day too, because lots of happening yesterday and lots
more happening today, including Damian Lillard no longer a member
of the Bucks. Just cut from his team basically, and also,
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uh shay, you'll just Alexander signing for two hundred and
eighty five million dollars in extension money.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Well I woke up to that text from you. By
the way, I sent it at eleven thirty. You sent
it at ten five. Okay, five minutes before my alarm
went off. But yeah, and then it was like, yeah, Bucks,
wave Lillard and then get Miles Turner.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I was like, well, a good way to start today.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, I think the Miles Turner pickup is big. They
get a younger and better Brook Lopez to play in
the middle. That was somebody that you had targeted that
you wanted. Unfortunately, he's not coming to San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
He's going to Milwaukee.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
But the next thing, the next chip I think to
fall is what does Milwaukee do about Giannis? Because Jeannie
apparently isn't very happy that they traded the player that
they ask him to get traded to four a couple
of years ago. Understand that Damian Lillard, if he plays
at all next year, is not likely to play until
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at least March, probably April before he's able to come back.
Plus it with his age, we really don't know how
strong the Achilles will be when he comes back, and
at what point he'll be clear to go full vote.
I don't think the Milwaukee Bucks are a playoff contender
right now. They did make some other moves with some
trades today, but maybe it's time for Giannis to find
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new ground because I think the Bucks need to move
him to get off that money. And now they are
able to take the Damien money that was one hundred
and seventeen million and pay it to him over well,
I don't know how actually when Damian'll get the money,
but it only counts against the cap for over a
five year period at about twenty million a year, twenty
two or so.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Yeah, yeah, about twenty two or so. But I mean,
if I'm management, I go up to Jannis and say,
I understand you're not happy about it, but he was
making fifty five sixty million dollars against our cap.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We know he is.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He's not going to play in at least minimum, let's low,
seventy games. He's not gonna play sixty five games. He's
not going to play at least sixty five games. And
at that point are we even in contention? This this
apparently that this stretch resolution or whatever the heck it's
called that I didn't know existed, is going to give
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us the flex cap the flex room capability of going
to get some other players.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Here's the thing I'm getting tired of. And we got
to figure this out somewhere along the line. Players don't
know anything about the salary cap 'anness is I would say,
is salary cap illiterate? I would say maybe Lebron knows
a little bit about it, but not enough to matter.
These star basketball players have got to stop dictating what
teams are going to do in order to make the
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teams better. You want to, you want out, Okay, we'll
find us a go go seek a trade.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We want seven first round draft picks for you. Good luck.
Otherwise you're under contract with us. And uh.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
The competitive balance of the NBA rests in the fact
that that players have some movement, freedom of movement, but
they don't get to decide how the organization runs its team.
And especially Milwaukee's got new ownership, LA's got new ownership.
There's we we talked about the ownership situation in the
in the NBA yesterday, and this entitlement that not only
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do you have to pay me the maxi amount of money,
but I get to pick a roster with all my
friends on it because I want to hang out with
them during the season. You know the fact that Danasis
gets to be on the roster because well, I got
to get my brother paid somehow, so it doesn't leach
off of me. Uh I, I that's gotta We got
to stop that. And Genie bust did it with Bronnie James.
And maybe Bronnie turns out to be a journeyman NBA
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player at best, but we're we're catering to stars and
at some point there's only thirty opportunities and maybe in
a few years he'll be thirty two with expansion. But
at some point players have to understand go play the
game and let us worry about your teammates and the roster.
We're not trying to tank and we're not trying to
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not win. But you knew that when we traded a
holiday and when we gave up the core of a
team that had won a championship so that we could
get your buddy here. This was a two or three
year deal. Now, salary cap wise, we had to extend
it out over a number of years to guarantee that
he was going to be able to make the money
that he was making and super max him out. But
you understood we were going to move off of this.
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I go back to It's different cap in a different sport.
But when Jerry Jones signed Eon Sanders in the mid
nineteen nineties, he sat down Michael Irvin, Troy Yekman, and
Emmitt Smith and said, do you guys want this guy
on your team and do you understand what it means?
And they all said, yes, we want him on the team.
What does it mean? What it means that after his
contract is up, we're going to be in salary cap
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hell for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm not going to be able to pay you more.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I'm not going to be able to extend you more,
and it's going to be the beginning of the end
of the team as we know it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
We're going to have to regroup.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And they were all on board with that, and I
think Eightman was the last to go, and mainly because
the team just got to a point where he didn't
think they were going to be competitive to win and
he didn't need to sacrifice his body anymore. When they
were going to win six or seven games. The NBA
is not unsimilar. The Milwaukee Bucks are nowhere near being
the team they were when they won the championship, and
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I don't even think they're near the team that they
were going into this season when many thought that they
would have a chance to win the East. They are
maybe the fifth or sixth best team in the East
right now. And if they can find a trade partner
for Giannis, they should do it. Whether he wants to
stay in Milwaukee or not, it should not be his call.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
By the way, I think it was emmittt. EMMITTT was
the last one. Well, Emmitt went to Arizona. Yeah, but
he was Troy I think retired.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Troy retired before but then it went to Arizona, what
o three or something like that, oh, four.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Two years I think, Yeah, until the Ou Roy Williams
like blew out his shoulder.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, the OU Roy Williams, I like, how you how
you address him?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, because they're well, because they wound up with both
Roy Williams.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh they did.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
But it's interesting that the Ou Roy Williams has one
of the best plays in OU history against Texas.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I don't remind me. It's on video. I don't need
to remind you. Just google that and you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You know what, it wasn't Roy Williams's fault. Uh, he
wasn't to blame. It was that damn Chris Sims go.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, the major should have been in the game,
that soapbox going down, that soapbox. All right, anyway, we'll
tell you all the things that are going on in
the NBA today. We've got Shay signing the Supermax extending.
You'll start in the twenty seven to twenty eight season.
He'll get two hundred and eighty five million over four years,
about seventy million plus a year. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
The next question.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
That we went battering about here is that they have
to sign two more players going forward, and one would
be chet Holmgren and the other one will be Jalen Williams.
Jay dub the good the one that starts. And you
and I were debating this, Oklahoma City decide that, yeah,
we're going to extend Jalen Williams, but maybe it's time
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that we've got all the mileage we can get out
of Chet Holmegun and see if he's got trade value.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, because the good.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Thing, at least with the Shay Gilders Alexander extension that
doesn't kick in until twenty seven to twenty eight, right,
I mean, he's stole under contracts.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You're gonna have to extend the other two or trade
one of them. And the one that I would I
would not give up on Jalen Williams.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Well, he's actually making the least amount of money between
the two. Those two Jalen Williams, J. Dub and then
Chet Holmgren are both in the last year of their
rookie contracts, so when they get paid, it's going to
be on the books for next year. And the Oklahoma
City Thunder again, this is just going by last year's
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salary cap, are already at one hundred and forty nine
million dollars, so they're already over the salary cap.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Next year is going to be next year's number.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You're you're assuming, I mean, at minimum, they're both making
what thirty so that's an extra that's an extra sixty.
Now we're close to two hundred. We're getting the April ten,
we're in the aprons. I don't know how much money
the Oklahoma City Thunders owners have, not that much are
they will Are they Are they going to pull a
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night Josh Josh Cronky the Sun? Are they gonna decide
to roll out and say.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Well, I think Chet's the most easily traded because everybody
needs a big and whether and know how maut or
how you classify a big, he's still seven feet tall.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I think that there's.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
An opportunity for him to go to a team and
become the cornerstone of that team.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
And I but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I think one thing that we're going to learn from
all of this with the aprons and stuff. And I'll
talk more about this in the next segment when we
decide to sect the Spurs roster a little more. The
Spurs are not going to have a player on the
roster a year or two from now that's making sixty
five million dollars, and they're going to be able to
keep a lot of people around at lower salaries and
still I think be competitive.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
And the question is going.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
To be do you need a seventy million dollar player
to be competitive or do you need ten guys that
are all making between twelve and forty And to me,
that's going to be the interesting number because I think
the Spurs are taking a page out of Oklahoma City.
And if Oklahoma City's going to sign all of its players,
it's going to change the dichotomy of the roster. And
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you're basically there is a scenario where you could have
you could have Shay Holmgren and Jalen Williams and then
nine rookies and just run rookies in and out of
there over the course of the next few years. When
Cason Wallace comes up, you'd have to move off of him.
When the other when well, I think Caruso Herdenstein, those
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guys will all be making too much money for you
to keep three people at max money.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, yeah, six seven and will be twenty eight million
for And.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's what the NBA is trying to do, is to
not have a stacked roster with three. You can have
a trio of players or the Big three, but they
all have to be making moderate money if you're going
to they all three can't be making max money.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We got more details on the Malik Beasley situation and
more of why he's under investigation. We talked a little
yesterday about the PAC twelve. I've got another thought on
the PAC twelve with Texas State moving there. The WNBA
has voted, and obviously Caitlyn Clark and the Fisia Collila
are the top vote getters among the fans. But wait,
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don't you hear what the players voted Caitlyn Clark. Paul
Feinbaum says Arch Manning is the best quarterback in college football.
He's finally coming over from the other side of the fence.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Got tired of rooting for Kaitlin Deboor.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Huh, that didn't last.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Bandwagon has been as that ship's been saled and Nick
won't return his calls, is what it is?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Probably, Well, who cares what Nick has to say anymore?
He doesn't even want to be a part of it.
He wants to go to college football.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And then I want to talk more about the Ace
Bailey drama from this past weekend after the draft and
the the about face he did when he faced the
Utah media. And where do we start with telling players
you've got to lose the entitlement part because Ace Bailey
is the poster child for entitlement and a lot. I
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don't want to play there, and I don't want to
play there, and I don't want to work out for anybody,
and I'm the best player in this draft and you
need to do what I want.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
No, not so much.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
We're going to get into all of that, some NFL
stuff if we get to time, and we'll talk more
about what the Spurs roster is going to look like
with it's with their latest signing, Luke Cornett yesterday on
the show, and a couple others that may be on
the list as well.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
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