July 1, 2024 • 9 mins
Cam and Zimmel discuss the early retuns from NBA Free Agency including the Dallas Mavericks sign-and-trade for Klay Thompson. Zimmel picks his biggest winners from free agency.
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(00:04):
And we're back to the Craigway Show. Have a message for Craig, share
it by using the talkback feature onthe iHeartRadio app. I'm talking about Texas
Baseball and their portal updates. Wellit just got better as Jim Slowsnegel in
Texas Baseball added another pitcher out ofthe portal, adding a freshman right handed
(00:28):
right hander from Arizona State, ThomasBurns. The righty pitched thirty and a
third last year thirty nine strackouts afour point seventy five ERA and a opponent
batting average of two one three.So the second second pitcher Texas has added
(00:49):
out of the portal actually suits me. Third third including Eli Trump out of
penn And it's being reported by BlakeMonroe of on Texas Football that he's expecting
at least two more pitchers to possiblytransfer to Texas. See Cam. What
we need here is we need abottom third and call it like Cam's transfer
(01:12):
transfer tracker, and it's just youupdating us on the transfer portal throughout the
day, because you know what,we've started this show at two, it's
four forty five, as like threetransfer changes already in the last like two
and a half hours. It's impressivewhat Texas has done. Yeah, and
you can kind of see the importanceof the portal. That's the one thing
(01:37):
I'm not sure David Pierce was verycomfortable with was the transfer portal and being
able to target guys and get them. Obviously he did use a transfer portal.
But we're seeing Schlaunchninkle just already anda very short time at Texas really
taking advantage of the portal to beefup a Texas team that obviously very talent,
(02:00):
especially at the plate, but thepitching side, we're seeing Schlashnakle make
a really added effort. And I'llsee what I was gonna say, I'd
like to see what Max Wieners doeswith that pitching staff too. You talk
about adding this arm talent. He'san incredible pitching coach. Yes, right
there with you, NBA, realquick, Andrew, I want to read
off this this little the stat foryou. If you can consider that we
(02:23):
talked about Paul George leaving the Clippers, we'll be joining the Philadelphia seventy six
ers. LA was able to retainJames Harden. Not sure why they wanted
him, but he will come backfor two years seventy million dollars, and
then Golden State letting Chris Paul go, letting Klay Thompson go. But since
(02:46):
twenty twenty, the Clippers and theWarriors both have been the luxury tax andrew
since twenty in Texas in taxas theClippers in the Warriors have had to pay
nine hundred and fifty million dollars,so almost a billion dollars, not in
(03:08):
payroll for like your players, butin taxes back to the league. Yeah,
Lee, this is why the league'snot worrying about a new contract for
TVs. They got all the moneycoming from the Clippers and the Warriors.
So Steve Balmer has had to paythree hundred and seventy one million dollars in
taxes for a team that never gotto the Western Conference Finals. You know,
(03:31):
man, when I was a kid, my parents would give me money
for like birthdays and Christmases, andthe money would burn a hole in my
pocket. Bomber's billions must be burninga hole in his pocket for him to
dish out over a quarter of billiondollars. Again, not on salaries for
players, that's a whole different thing, money back to the league. Because
(03:51):
he's over the threshold. That's impressivestuff, honestly, and I guess now
he's tired of it because of whatthis second second apron tax that's part of
this new CBA. The Clippers likelywould have reached that if they did give
Paul George a new contract. Appearsthat Bomber is done with it. And
for Golden State five hundred and seventynine million dollars in Texas they had paid.
(04:15):
They did get one ring, though, Yeah, you can justify it.
Is like, what's a ring worth? Right? And you know,
half a billion dollars that's a littleexpensive side for a ring. I don't
know about you, but a halfa billion dollar ring, that's a big
engagement. Anyway. I would justsay this the Warriors, I can justify
the Clippers. I think they wentto the Western Conference Finals once during this
(04:36):
Kawhi and Paul George run. Thatis unacceptable for the amount that they've paid.
They did, they reached the finalsonce. They did. They need
to make it. I remember inthe bubble they were no. It was
a year after the bubble that theywent to the Western Conference Finals. I
believe I think they've made it tothe final, the Western Conference Finals We'll
have to double check. That'll getour correct research team on it. Yeah,
(04:58):
I'll go ahead and put that ininto the statmus website. You had
the loss to the loss to thePhoenix Suns in twenty and twenty, and
the Sons went and they lost tothe Milwaukee Bucks. Okay, so I
sang corrected. They did get oneWestern Conference Finals appearance out of that stretch
in twenty twenty. Of the lastfew years have been plagued by Kawhi injuries.
(05:19):
I do find it notable, Andrew, that the one guy they let
walk was the one guy who stayedon the court more than any other Clipper
since twenty twenty. That was PaulGeorge, a three year deal. Yeah,
and the whole reason Kawhi came toLA in the first place was because
of that trade they made for PaulGeorge. And remember we justified their Clippers.
(05:42):
Fans justified it as you give awaysseven first round picks of the thunder
to bring in Paul George. Buthey, you get Kawhi with it.
And now, if I'm Bomber,look, if this is a team that's
kind of middling by the halfway pointof the season, I may consider trying
to move either Harden or Kawhi ormaybe other pieces to get some of those
picks back. So I have asemblance of a future. And Bamber built
(06:04):
this team because remember they're opening upa brand new arena this next season.
That's why he went out and gotPaul George and Kawhi and James Harden and
rus and Russell Westbrook who might endup getting traded to the Nuggets. Sin
looks like he's just going to rollwith possibly Kawhi in Harden. I mean,
(06:24):
if you're if you're a team inthe Western Conference, I'm not sure
you're really scared of either of thoseguys. And just coming down speaking of
just an absurd amount of money,Jason Tatum has just signed the largest contract
in NBA history, five years,three hundred and fifteen million dollars, signing
the Supermax extension with the Boston Celtics. That is impressive. And then you
(06:48):
have to consider too that the Celticsownership group. Now remember it's not one
guy, it's multiple people. They'retalking about selling the team. So they
have Derek White under contract, JalenBrown under contracts him under contract. They
just won the championship, that's alot of money too, though. I
think they have five guys on theroster making over thirty million dollars this year.
Cam, that's a good chunk ofmoney. Yeah, and just extended
(07:12):
Derek White too before we had thisbreak. So far, we've we've had
about a day and a half offree agency. Who has been your winner
so far? You know, honestly, it's weird to say. I really
like that Klay Thompson signing with theMAVs. They felt like they were a
shooter away. Now again, everybodyhas to be healthy. Klay Thompson has
(07:33):
to be okay with his role becauseit's going to be a more limited role.
I like that signing a lot toPaul George signing. But you know,
the sneaky winner of this whole thing, Cam Tobias Harris, who got
another contract, who will be onthe Detroit Pistons. His career earnings I
thought I were around three hundred andninety million dollars for his career, So
really that's the biggest winner of freeagency. Cam Tobias Harris, who was
(07:59):
absolutely brutal in the playoffs for Philadelphia. He's one of those players where you
just you expect more out of himand he just never delivers it when he's
never been an All Star game.The teams that were considering him, it
was like the Pistons and I thinkthe Jazz or the two heavy heavy favorites
for riims Like okay, so twoteams that have no no way of contending
(08:24):
next season. Good good good.The note that's it tells you a lot
that no other contender thought about signinghim. Not Denver, not the Lakers,
not the Warriors, not the MagicNope, the Detroit Pistons, who
are coming off one of their worstyears in franchise history. Yeah. And
Tobias Harris, if you remember,played is beginning of his career in Detroit.
So I made a joke to oneof my friends who's a Pistons fans
(08:46):
today, I said, he's cominghome. Get the sports illustary article written
up, because it's it's a bighomecoming for Tobias Harrison. Detroit homecoming,
indeed for Tobias Harris. We're goingto come back and wrap up today's program
here on The Craig Way Show.
And we're back to the Craigway Show. Have a message for Craig, share
it by using the talkback feature onthe iHeartRadio app. I'm talking about Texas
Baseball and their portal updates. Wellit just got better as Jim Slowsnegel in
Texas Baseball added another pitcher out ofthe portal, adding a freshman right handed
(00:28):
right hander from Arizona State, ThomasBurns. The righty pitched thirty and a
third last year thirty nine strackouts afour point seventy five ERA and a opponent
batting average of two one three.So the second second pitcher Texas has added
(00:49):
out of the portal actually suits me. Third third including Eli Trump out of
penn And it's being reported by BlakeMonroe of on Texas Football that he's expecting
at least two more pitchers to possiblytransfer to Texas. See Cam. What
we need here is we need abottom third and call it like Cam's transfer
(01:12):
transfer tracker, and it's just youupdating us on the transfer portal throughout the
day, because you know what,we've started this show at two, it's
four forty five, as like threetransfer changes already in the last like two
and a half hours. It's impressivewhat Texas has done. Yeah, and
you can kind of see the importanceof the portal. That's the one thing
(01:37):
I'm not sure David Pierce was verycomfortable with was the transfer portal and being
able to target guys and get them. Obviously he did use a transfer portal.
But we're seeing Schlaunchninkle just already anda very short time at Texas really
taking advantage of the portal to beefup a Texas team that obviously very talent,
(02:00):
especially at the plate, but thepitching side, we're seeing Schlashnakle make
a really added effort. And I'llsee what I was gonna say, I'd
like to see what Max Wieners doeswith that pitching staff too. You talk
about adding this arm talent. He'san incredible pitching coach. Yes, right
there with you, NBA, realquick, Andrew, I want to read
off this this little the stat foryou. If you can consider that we
(02:23):
talked about Paul George leaving the Clippers, we'll be joining the Philadelphia seventy six
ers. LA was able to retainJames Harden. Not sure why they wanted
him, but he will come backfor two years seventy million dollars, and
then Golden State letting Chris Paul go, letting Klay Thompson go. But since
(02:46):
twenty twenty, the Clippers and theWarriors both have been the luxury tax andrew
since twenty in Texas in taxas theClippers in the Warriors have had to pay
nine hundred and fifty million dollars,so almost a billion dollars, not in
(03:08):
payroll for like your players, butin taxes back to the league. Yeah,
Lee, this is why the league'snot worrying about a new contract for
TVs. They got all the moneycoming from the Clippers and the Warriors.
So Steve Balmer has had to paythree hundred and seventy one million dollars in
taxes for a team that never gotto the Western Conference Finals. You know,
(03:31):
man, when I was a kid, my parents would give me money
for like birthdays and Christmases, andthe money would burn a hole in my
pocket. Bomber's billions must be burninga hole in his pocket for him to
dish out over a quarter of billiondollars. Again, not on salaries for
players, that's a whole different thing, money back to the league. Because
(03:51):
he's over the threshold. That's impressivestuff, honestly, and I guess now
he's tired of it because of whatthis second second apron tax that's part of
this new CBA. The Clippers likelywould have reached that if they did give
Paul George a new contract. Appearsthat Bomber is done with it. And
for Golden State five hundred and seventynine million dollars in Texas they had paid.
(04:15):
They did get one ring, though, Yeah, you can justify it.
Is like, what's a ring worth? Right? And you know,
half a billion dollars that's a littleexpensive side for a ring. I don't
know about you, but a halfa billion dollar ring, that's a big
engagement. Anyway. I would justsay this the Warriors, I can justify
the Clippers. I think they wentto the Western Conference Finals once during this
(04:36):
Kawhi and Paul George run. Thatis unacceptable for the amount that they've paid.
They did, they reached the finalsonce. They did. They need
to make it. I remember inthe bubble they were no. It was
a year after the bubble that theywent to the Western Conference Finals. I
believe I think they've made it tothe final, the Western Conference Finals We'll
have to double check. That'll getour correct research team on it. Yeah,
(04:58):
I'll go ahead and put that ininto the statmus website. You had
the loss to the loss to thePhoenix Suns in twenty and twenty, and
the Sons went and they lost tothe Milwaukee Bucks. Okay, so I
sang corrected. They did get oneWestern Conference Finals appearance out of that stretch
in twenty twenty. Of the lastfew years have been plagued by Kawhi injuries.
(05:19):
I do find it notable, Andrew, that the one guy they let
walk was the one guy who stayedon the court more than any other Clipper
since twenty twenty. That was PaulGeorge, a three year deal. Yeah,
and the whole reason Kawhi came toLA in the first place was because
of that trade they made for PaulGeorge. And remember we justified their Clippers.
(05:42):
Fans justified it as you give awaysseven first round picks of the thunder
to bring in Paul George. Buthey, you get Kawhi with it.
And now, if I'm Bomber,look, if this is a team that's
kind of middling by the halfway pointof the season, I may consider trying
to move either Harden or Kawhi ormaybe other pieces to get some of those
picks back. So I have asemblance of a future. And Bamber built
(06:04):
this team because remember they're opening upa brand new arena this next season.
That's why he went out and gotPaul George and Kawhi and James Harden and
rus and Russell Westbrook who might endup getting traded to the Nuggets. Sin
looks like he's just going to rollwith possibly Kawhi in Harden. I mean,
(06:24):
if you're if you're a team inthe Western Conference, I'm not sure
you're really scared of either of thoseguys. And just coming down speaking of
just an absurd amount of money,Jason Tatum has just signed the largest contract
in NBA history, five years,three hundred and fifteen million dollars, signing
the Supermax extension with the Boston Celtics. That is impressive. And then you
(06:48):
have to consider too that the Celticsownership group. Now remember it's not one
guy, it's multiple people. They'retalking about selling the team. So they
have Derek White under contract, JalenBrown under contracts him under contract. They
just won the championship, that's alot of money too, though. I
think they have five guys on theroster making over thirty million dollars this year.
Cam, that's a good chunk ofmoney. Yeah, and just extended
(07:12):
Derek White too before we had thisbreak. So far, we've we've had
about a day and a half offree agency. Who has been your winner
so far? You know, honestly, it's weird to say. I really
like that Klay Thompson signing with theMAVs. They felt like they were a
shooter away. Now again, everybodyhas to be healthy. Klay Thompson has
(07:33):
to be okay with his role becauseit's going to be a more limited role.
I like that signing a lot toPaul George signing. But you know,
the sneaky winner of this whole thing, Cam Tobias Harris, who got
another contract, who will be onthe Detroit Pistons. His career earnings I
thought I were around three hundred andninety million dollars for his career, So
really that's the biggest winner of freeagency. Cam Tobias Harris, who was
(07:59):
absolutely brutal in the playoffs for Philadelphia. He's one of those players where you
just you expect more out of himand he just never delivers it when he's
never been an All Star game.The teams that were considering him, it
was like the Pistons and I thinkthe Jazz or the two heavy heavy favorites
for riims Like okay, so twoteams that have no no way of contending
(08:24):
next season. Good good good.The note that's it tells you a lot
that no other contender thought about signinghim. Not Denver, not the Lakers,
not the Warriors, not the MagicNope, the Detroit Pistons, who
are coming off one of their worstyears in franchise history. Yeah. And
Tobias Harris, if you remember,played is beginning of his career in Detroit.
So I made a joke to oneof my friends who's a Pistons fans
(08:46):
today, I said, he's cominghome. Get the sports illustary article written
up, because it's it's a bighomecoming for Tobias Harrison. Detroit homecoming,
indeed for Tobias Harris. We're goingto come back and wrap up today's program
here on The Craig Way Show.
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