Sam Presti's Long-Term Vision for the Oklahoma City Thunder, House SCORE Act DOA?, NBA Free Agency!

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So let's jump into the main topic of discussion for today.
I'm gonna lead off with the Thunder and the contract
situation there as you can see the run of the

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show on the side. We'll make sure that this bad
Boy updates on a consistent basis so you get to
run into the show there. We're going to start off
with Thunder and the Big Three in their contracts, and
then we're going to jump right into college football and
this new Score Act, which I have so many questions about,
and what they're trying to do after the sub and

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then you know, we'll talk about some of the bigger
headlines in the NBA, like Lebron opting in and how
weird things are when it comes to that. So let's
jump off with this. The Olahoma City Thunder did exactly
what we expected them to do. They have decided to
pay they're Big Three, and I know some people, you know,

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have questions about what Oklahoma City's doing, Why they paying
like Chad, why they paying everybody? And this this, that,
and the other without realizing that this is exactly what
Oklahoma City planned to do. Regardless, this leads to another
point that I saw. Let me ask y'all this now.
I get in the comments, and y'all tell me what

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you think if your team was to trade off three
draft picks, four draft picks, and a player to acquire
somebody else and that led to a chainchampionship? Do you
think those trades were worth it at the time? I
ask that now, and I say that because I heard

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an interesting conversation over on the Dominique Fox Works show
about a week ago, and they've talked about this whole
Yannis situation. Don't worry, I'll land this plane when it
comes to talking about Okloma City's Big Three. But the
Yanna situation is interesting because now everybody's thinking that he's
gonna ask for a trade or the Buck's gonna trade him,
And now people are truly criticizing all of the moves

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that the Bucks have done over the last couple of years,
when the main move that they made got them a
championship there in Milwaukee. Would you, if there's a Bucks
fan listening, would you give up that trade that you

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did and give up that championship to replay, get rid
of that trade, and do something different for a long
term viable solution. Be honest, because I'm gonna say this
about I think majority of the casual fans would say,
you win a championship, we good. Now. Granted, everybody wants
to build a dynasty and have the opportunity for that,
and that's really something that's borderline impossible to do. Golden

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State basically gave you that, you know before they got
Kevin Durant, and then they got Kevin in free agency
to just add to it. But for the most part,
it's very hard to win a championship without making big
moves that could potentially sacrifice your future. That is not
what Oklahoma City has done. Now, Okay Sees Big three
will account for roughly about eighty seventy five to eighty

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percent of their cap right around twenty twenty six, twenty
seven season ish, more so twenty seven season, twenty eight season.
And so when you look at the chart of the
money or whatnot, this is how Sam Presty has put
this team in the right spot. Now, you know, dub
gets a five year, two hundred and what eighty seven million,

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you get check on a massive was that up to
two fifty? So he gets a smaller one. Shay gets
the two hundred and what eighty five over four years,
So no, he didn't take a pay cut. He's still
gonna take the same percentage of the cap. It's just

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he just extended for instead of waiting a year when
he's out of contract to do the full five. So
the thunder Of allocated eight hundred and twenty two million
dollars to their team, eight hundred and twenty two million
dollars to the Big Three, and the thunder have shown
us that they're not gonna allow what happened in twenty

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twelve with the James Harden situation with them, Russe and
KT not gonna happen again. The best part is they
were able to do it after a championship instead of before,
so there's no questions about it. But people are asking
questions and keep pointing at Okom City's gonna hit that
second aprin immediately and they're not gonna be able to
compete long term. Have y'all never watched the NBA before?

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Because majority of teams that win championships have a Big
three that make majority of the money on the team.
That's just what it is. You go after the talent
that's doing it. Ched only played thirty two games in
the regular season last year, and this team still won
sixty eight games. They can easily repeat that with Chet
playing a full year. Isaiah Hardenstein missed what twenty thirty

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games last year, so they didn't play one hundred percent
majority of this year. Then they went to the playoffs
and they were able to figure it out as a team.
That's the one thing I think we're not realizing is
they didn't have full season with everybody, so there was
still some jailing that had to happen in the playoffs.
Keep that in mind. But the fact that Presty has

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something that a lot of people don't get or understand
is he got a ton of draft picks, and I
mean a ton of draft picks. I think it's like
thirty over the next six years, with like twelve or
fourteen of me in first rounders. Potentially, those picks are
there specifically to fill the roster with players that are

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viable and can play in this league. And for this team,
he's going to have to replace people over time. And
when I looked at this graph that showed what the
payroll looks like. Shout out to Gabriel Guzmingo. Follow him
on the on the expert at Nbavisuals dot com. But

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he's showing you all of the money here. This is
the saving grace for Oklahoma City. Two things. One, all
the rookie extensions, they did not provide a team or
a player option on it. Last year one hundred percent,
five years, four years. You're gonna be here the entire time.
That's great to Goo sh Asian Oakham City's part. Why
because it allows flexibility when it comes to the stars.

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You know those stars are there and ain't going nowhere
past their five years because all their contracts basically are
completely lined up to thirty thirty one season. But what
he did do, and this is where the genius of
Sam Presty populates, is he put he got Hartstein, he
got Loudort. Basically any and everybody else that signed are

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all signed to good old slashes, which are considered as
team option contracts. So what does that mean? So when
you look at the contracts for the Thunder, this is
where things get a little squirreling. At the end of
next season, some decisions have to be made after twenty

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six season. Hardenstein Loudort will both have team options. Kendrick
Williams will have a team option case and Wallace Well
of course have a team option saying with Nicola Topicch
and then you got qualifying offers for Usman Jang and
that's it. So what Oklahomay's most likely's gonna do is
rescind the Uzmin and Zang one no shade to him.

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They're gonna probably negotiate that down, but they're going to
opt out of Isaiah hardest Sign as well as Zudor's
contracts twenty eight and a half to eighteen and eighteen
mel they're gonna they're gonna op They're gonna opt out
of those. They're going to take team options out. Same
thing with Kendrick Kinrich. But what Oklahoma City can do,
which makes this a genius move on their part and
the great flexibility you need, is they're gonna renegotiate those contracts.

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They're going to try to extend them longer potentially and
get them to take cut. That's why they front loaded
Hardensign's contracts so much. They gave him thirty million the
first year but he's like, go, it's ridiculous. Why would
you overpay him so much? They had cap space, So
they put themselves in a situation where they're gonna overpay
everybody up front and watch thing go down. Isaiah Joe's

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contract was the exact same. It was a bigger contract
that went down. I think they'll do the same thing
with Cason Wallace as they figure out who they can
pay the most upfront and make and scale it down.
Or they may just go standard with casing and do
similar to what they did with maybe Jalen Williams and
pay him more and let him continue to accelerate up

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or like even Caruso's. But that's the thing that a
lot of fans aren't getting is that Oklahoma City has
a plan. You can tell Presty had a plan because
he acquired all those contracts and those draft picks specifically
to be able to leverage and manipulate things over the
next forty five years. Then from there he'll continue to

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some draft picks will get kicked out further. You'll see
those trades. He keeps doing it. He'll send some trades out,
some draft picks out to first rounders later on in
a few years and use that as a way to
be able to manipulate these contracts and set up the
Thunder to where they can keep not only their big
three together if they want to, but also be able

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to build and create and nurture the next star player
that could be here with the Thunder. Sam Press, he
obviously knows what he's doing because he's got I mean four,
he got SGA made him into an MVP by giving
him a chance russ KD MVPs. He drafted James hard
when people questioned him drafting him so high, and James

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hardened up being an MVP. He's done everything that's supposed
to build and the best part is his seventeen years
of what experience. He's learned a lot of lessons. Remember
those hard lessons he learned the beginning. He was young.
He was young when he took over the Thunder, when
he took over the Sonics, he was young. He's in
the mid twenties, mid late twenties. Now he's starting to

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show that, Okay, this is what I've learned that I
need to do in order to do this right. And
he's gonna continue that. That dude, don't sleep. He continues
to hustle and grind. So understand you may be looking
at these contracts thinking, oh, come, he's gonna be in
trouble the next couple of years. They're not. They're going
to renegotiate all the contracts that they have for players.
I mean, AJ Mitchell got a three year, nine MEI

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other deal, and they are very high on aj Mitchell.
If he decides to turn out. There's players that are
they're gonna be casualties because it's just the NBA. If
you've never watched the NBA, then obviously you wouldn't know that.
But that's what happens in the league. You've got to
move pieces around in order to be successful long term.
I know that y'all think hopping the comments, I want

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to hear youalls thoughts. I really want to know if
Okaoma City makes a trade that leads another championship, would
you be mad if it hurts something in the future,
because I really don't believe any of you believe that
as much as you are trying to tell me that.
All right, Next up, let's talk college football. Fascinating stuff
going on right now and the score Act that the

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House just passed that I think is probably da. So
whenever you're dealing with like a major problem, a lot
of us try to find ways to resolve it. So like,
for example, I'm thinking about like with my kids, having
a conversation with my son in regards to dealing with

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a major problem and not being afraid to confront it
and take care of it. Some people will see said
problem and they'll stop think about it, try to find
a solution for it, and try to figure out the
timeline of getting said solutions solved and going forward from there.
Some people will run from it, you know, like a
little kid. They'll run from the problem and just hope

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it magically disappears. And some people will go straight head
forward into it without any truth thought and hope that
they can resolve it as they go down the line. Well,
the NCAAA did not do that. The NCAA decided, yea,
we're gonna pass this buck and we're gonna kick this

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can down the line as far as possible and just
hope that people forget about it. Well, now we're here
in the world of the NCAAA. What world are we
in today? The nil world rev share everything has powered
on for the most part of the last couple of
years and have really dramatically changed the world. One of

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the bigger components here is as nil is taken over,
the pay for play thing is just blowing up. Collectives
are taking advantage of the opportunities to pay players in
whatever ridiculous way they want to, and the NCAAA has
literally no power. Talked about it what my guy John
overlocked on soon as you could check out that episode.

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But one thing that came from my conversation is no
matter what the NCAAA tries to do, they're gonna get
sued because everything they're trying to do hinders the constitutional
right of people to have the opportunity to make money,
especially when they're generating billions of dollars for everybody else.

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And I say this wholeheartedly that I believe players should
be paid. If you're sports generating money, you should get
a portion of that. Why. Because these coaches are getting
paid ridiculous money to coach these sports and now they're
making more than NFL head coaches a lot of them.

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So the NCAAA saw this and then instead of saying,
you know what, we need to find a mechanism to
where the players can be compensated while doing this, and
we can still make our money. No, they're trying to
find ways to keep as much money as possible. And
so when the house settlement came down and the judge

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and the two point seventy eight billion dollar settlement, you know,
back paid for like the last ten years or whatnot.
And then players now get a portion of the revenue share.
They're Captain twenty something meal and all of that jazz.
You know, I would give you that, you know, I'm
a break down the details on that another episode, so
you guys can get a timeline of what this means.
But we're now at the point where the settlement rev

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shares kicked in. They have the clearing house, the lot
which is supposed to go through and look at these
nil deals and mark them as good or bad. And
it appears that all of the nil collective deals that
are put in there, regardless of price, because the threshold
number is six hundred dollars, anything over six hundred dollars
has to be submitted, a lot of them are being denied.

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And you know what that means, more lawsuits, more change
is coming down the line. And so from there, the
NCAA has been begging somebody else to fix their problem.
So they went to Congress years ago begging them to
fix it, but asking them, hey, if you fix it,
we still want to have antitrust rights. We don't want
to continue to keep get in sue. We want you

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to protect it. So here we are. The Score Act
is out. The Score Act. Now do I, in any way,
shape or form, feel good about this bill. No. I
feel like it's just a way to shut everybody up.

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That's really all it is. Because the House passed it,
it's going to the Senate. They're hoping that the Senate
will pass this as well. And I'm gonna be one
hundred percent honest, I don't see it passing. I think
it's dead on arrival. Because what this Score Act does
is it's well the name of it, the Score Act

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is the Student Compensation and Opportunity to Rights and Endorsements Act,
so SCORE so there goes to reinform the student first model.
Defending Olympic sports. Schools can defend Olympic sports that they
really want to, they just choose not to. Shooting athletes
from being exploited by bad actors. That's an intriguing when

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it's that's in clear regulation and authority and enforcement mechanisms,
and improving transparency and accountability to better protect athletes and universities.
There's some good stuff in this, but the thing that
intrigues me the most is most is that the empowerment
of student athletes with NIL hiring agents. You're giving them
protection on that, and the bill prohibits paid for play

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and predatory compensation schemes while reversing appropriate guarantees to agents' access.
So their goal is to protect these players, while at
the same time they're trying to make it to where
there are caps and stop stuff. So they're they're they
want to create a smarter system to allow for like
transfer portal stuff, health after graduation, or injury fro up

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to three years post enrollment, things of that nature. So
there's a lot of good stuff and good natured things
in here, but here's your problem. A lot of this
stuff in this bill, and a lot of this stuff
is really not geared for the player players benefit. This
is more for the NCAAA and the corporations benefit. This
is not for the working class people. And I say

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that specifically because if you try to put a cap
on name, image and likeness, which is your name, your imagine,
and your likeness. Basically what free markets willing to pay you.
You're just hindering everything else that's going on. The one
thing in this bill that I do appreciate that the

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NCAA just did not have the balls to go ahead
and get done themselves, is actually having guidelines around the
transfer portal or reducing it down to one window. Now
we've heard the conversations have happened numerous times, but the
question is will they ever get to that point? Probably not.
But there's one ad out there in college football. Shout

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out to him, Danny White over there at Tennessee. He's
tired of this mess because with his bill, they are
trying to make it to where the students cannot be
employees at all. Totally understand that's a big uh, the
can of worms that they don't want to open. But
Danny Wright's not there for it. He's got time to
go public, he said at an event gathering athletic administrators

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at the Orlando World Center Marriott. I've been voicing it
in private rooms for four years, and I'm not biding
my tongue anymore. He put out a presentation about doing
collective bargaining. Dun du duh. We're now at that point, folks.
We are here where collective bargain is going to happen.
It so out to Ross Dellinger over there at Yahoo,

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who had the article up back in the June beginning
of June, I'm sorry into gym beginning of July. Danny
White has been talking about we need to get to
a collective bargaining situation with these players and allow for
them to bargain their the cat based upon everything, and

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I think he's right now. It's a very complicated and
complex situation, and of course a lot of people don't
like unions and everything or whatnot, But at the same time,
their purpose is to make sure to keep fighting for you.
The collective bargaining component of this works to me if
you can implement it right. And that's where the hard
part comes in. Again. I said, this is very complex

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and complicated, and I'm not gonna pretend like I'm an
expert on it, but at the surface level and at
the most at the most remedial level of talking about this,
they need to figure out a way to have people
on a board to be able to collectively bargain this stuff.
At the top. I guess somebody from each school, and

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then their job is to negotiate in good faith to
put this collective bargaining in place so the players can
actually reap the benefits from their athleticism. This is about
to change, and this is gonna be a fluid situation.
We're gonna talk about this, probably for a long time time,
because it's something to talk about all the time. It's

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intriguing to see that they're wanting to get this set
to where contracts work properly and that the players can
get paid, the money can be divvied properly, and they
can find a way to save Olympic sports, just like
the bill that came from the House is trying to.
I one hundred percent agree I want Olympic sports to survive.

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The problem is that we don't support Olympic sports until
the Olympics come around. That is where you run into
your issue. That is where the problems lie. We don't
just watch Olympic sports every single week or month or year.
We get into it during the Olympics. And that's kind
of the thing that makes them so special. It's one

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of those every four years we get all patriotic and
we watch the games to Plus, we've got to find
a way for them to still be funded similar to
how we've been fund it before. Like right now, they're
funded off the backs of football and basketball, because there's

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the sports that everybody wants to watch. Some schools baseball,
some schools women's basketball, but football is king. Football is
the sport that is funding all of this because it's
the one with the most eyeballs, it's the one with
the largest contracts, and it's the one that helps with
all of that. We've got to find a way to
be able to allow that, but at the same time,

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we need to compensate the players that are bringing in
this revenue the most. They're the ones that deserve it
the most. Now there's a model that was created by
Danny White. We'll talk about that another episode because it'll
be a long winded conversation. I think I'll do a
video to break it down and what I really feel
about it. But let's put it this way. That act
that scores act, that bad Boy's dead, it's da. It's

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not gonna probably make it through. I could be wrong.
I may e crow on it, but I'm gonna tell
you this, it's gonna be tough for them to push
that through and actually close it. I don't trust it whatsoever.
Next up, let's talk how about the NBA free agency? Why,
because it's my favorite. I love it more than any

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free agency. Let's dive into why NBA free agency it
is my favorite time of year. Why. You may be
asking the question, Jay, why do you love NBA free
agency so much? Well, it gives you literally the best stories.
Like NFL free agency is fun, it's cool, there's always
good stuff going on there. But you know the big

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difference between NBA free agency and NFL free agency or
any other free agency. NBA free agency always involves some
sort of drama with a star player, and you see
more star players move around very often. Like in the NFL,
you didn't get that very often. It was rare that

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you saw a quarterback inner free agency and go somewhere,
and it was typically because teams really didn't actually want
him like that or they didn't think he was that good.
They didn't want to hitch themselves to the massive contracts
they have to and they let them walk. And with
the NFL, with their hard cap, you see a lot
of players that are stars for the most part, they
just get cut. So that's an everyday thing for us.

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We're used to it. NBA free agency always got some
wild stuff going on. The Milwaukee Bucks cut Damian Lillard
and stretched his contract, his one hundred and like thirteen
million dollars contract over five It's it's like twenty something
million a year that they're gonna have a dead cap.
The Saints got like feels like eighty million in dead
cap like every year. It's like the Saints always like

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the cap isn't real. When it comes to New Orleans Saints,
they find ways to stretch out their money to where
they're always got an ability to sign free agent. So
everybody's like, well, how do the Saints do it? How
do the Saints wiggle their way out of this? Like
there's no way that they're gonna wiggle their way out
of the situation. And then what happens. The Saints wiggles
their way out of this situation. That is a common
thing you're starting. You see any teams pull this, which

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is wild to me that they're, you know, people willing
to stretch. DeAndre Ayton gets cut from a Portland cut
the man and uh, he goes and he signs with
the Lakers. This is not This is why the NBA
is so much more fun for me free agency because
there's always some wild storyline. Now Lebron opted into his
fifty two million dollar contract, so this will be his

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last year with the Lakers, and I guarantee you it
is the last time you will see that man in
a Laker jersey. The reason is article came out actually
this morning. The Lakers have not offered Lebron a contract
long term. So that should tell you that they're like,
now we're done. We're good. We're gonna go ahead and
move on and do our youth movement. Are the Lakers

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wrong for that? Now? They are not. They are actually
right for doing that. They're right for not extending them.
Lebron's going to a twenty third season. It's time to
go focus on the young and try to build a
championship caliber oscar. Now, Jay Rady's gonna have some fun
with DeAndre Aiden out there, because I mean, if you

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go watch the videos, everybody's got enough content about that
dude and the effort you get out of him. You
just gotta hope that he actually shows up in plays.
And that's no shade to him, it's just the truth,
like the for real truth. You don't know what you're
gonna get out of that man, but you do know that, Lebron,
it's gonna play hard. You don't know what you gonna

(28:24):
got out of Luca, because I mean, let's keep it
a buck. Everybody keeps bagging on the Lucas situation in
the trade, and y'all are right. Nico is dumb for
doing it. But Nico had a point gonna make. He
was right, but he had a good point. While y'all
point out Luca kind of disappeared in the playoffs, happens
Dallas looked out, Well, I don't know if it's luck
that Kyrie Irvan tears his acl and then they get

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the number one pick. I don't know if that's really luck.
To be honest, they're gonna make the playoffs, and they
just didn't because Kyrie toward a cl and Anthony Davis
was back in the street clothes. But that's the drama
you get out of NBA free agency. You all always
get this stuff. So Lebron opts in, and of course
the statement he puts out there is that he under

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they understand that the Lakers I'm moving to a youth
movement that you know they want to you know, they
want to compete for championships and blah blah blah. So
a lot of people were asking a question, why would
he opt in? Why wud you just opt out and
go somewhere else. I don't know if y'all notice this.
So I went back and I started digging. Can I'll

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tell you the last time a star player signed with
the Lakers, like signed as a free agent, free agent,
signing like a star, like someone you would consider as
a star, not at the end of their prime. Talking
about like star player Lebron. It is a free agent,

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Quille o'neon. That's your gap in between there? What was it?
They tr and got Kobe Bryant from the draft. They
just traded for Luca They traded for Pauagasol. A lot
of your big name players on me decide, like the
Karl Malone, Dwight Howard Earra or whatnot, they get them

(30:17):
in trade acquisitions. People don't just go to the Lakers
like that, like you. It always makes me laugh when
the conversation comes up. One of people I love listening
to Bamani Jones. He talks about abolishment of the NBA Draft,
and people are like, oh, if you do that, the
Lakers and the Clippers, we get all the players and
blah blah blah. And it's like, but the Lakers and
them have the opportunity to get players during free agency

(30:51):
and nobody goes there, Like they just don't choose to
go there as free agents. You have to trade for
them is the only time you can get them there.
Because a lot of players, they could easily just go
opt out of their contract or just you know, opt out,
you know, the player option, or play it at the
end of their contract lead like Kevin Durant did with
the Goldenstate. Players can do that, but most of them don't.

(31:12):
They give the teams the opportunity to say, hey, if
you want to get something for me, because I'm not
going to resign with you all like Paul George did,
price trade me. Teams will do that. But it's always
fascinating to me that people actually think that the Lakers
can get free agents. Show me when they do it,

(31:33):
tell me when. That's the fun part about it, because
you don't really see that happen. Like Jalen Brunson going
to New York. You're not gott to see that going
to the Lakers, they rarely have the cash pace four
and when they have the cast pace for remember, they
sucked for five years before Lebron went there. Why didn't
nobody go there and save them? Y'all tell me, why
didn't no one go to the Lakers and save them?

(31:54):
If they're the program that everybody's like, oh, definitely will
go there, why hasn't anybody done it besides Lebron and
everybody's expectation. Lebron going there wasn't because he wanted to
play for the Lakers, because he's gonna get in the
movies and do walk kinds of stuff. And technically he
did get into a lot of that stuff Evan Hollywood,
but you don't get that from LA very often. You
don't get a lot of players going there as free ations.

(32:15):
And so it's funny to see that now as I'm
talking about this, I'm hoping this is one of the
last times I really talk about Lebron and talk about
NBA free agency in this capacity, because I really think
we should be focusing a lot of these young stars.
There's so many young stars out there from you know,
my guy shay Yio just Alexander to you know, Anthony Edwards.
He's one of my favorites period. Not only is he

(32:37):
a fun interview duke and who, he's just fun to
watch and he's only twenty three years old, so we've
got time with him. I like looking at some of
the young players that are making some waves, and I
think that we should focus on a lot more of
them in comparison of these old heads. And so that's
gonna be my goal. My goal is to go look
at some of these max contract guys, these young dudes,

(32:58):
and really hype them up and talk some ball about them,
because of course the drama of the NBA is always
fun to talk about it. It's the thing that gets the
most clicks. I'm gonna tell you all right now. If
I want the most if I want maximizing my clips,
my clicks, it's talking about them. But that's not what
we're here for. We're here to just I just want
to talk about stuff I want to talk about, and
this is where I'm gonna do it, and so we'll see,

(33:20):
hopefully you enjoy it. Hopefully this becomes a part of
your rotations of shows that I become a part of
your world. But hey, all in all, one hundred percent,
this Laker thing is gonna be crazy because I mean
they got their lung young Luca. Now they got DeAndre Aiden.
Will see how that works out. I don't think it does.
I think it gets to a point where somebody got

(33:41):
to go. But Lebron opting in really was a help
to the Lakers. Now they can move his fifty two
million dollar contract to somebody that's willing to give up
somebody if they're trying to like tank now, granted, they're
gonna have to get another team in to try to
find a way to get a first round draft pick
to send out send in Lebron's backpop it. But if

(34:03):
a team feels like they need to just go ahead
and shut the door, they're gonna trade for that fifty
two million dollars contract that's about to fall off their
books and possibly follow the Sam Presty system of playing
young players and figuring out who's gonna be the best option.
It can happen. So we'll see if the Lakers actually
get smart and try that route. I don't know, or

(34:26):
if anybody else decides that they want to go ahead
and trade for Lebron so they can try the Sam
Preste system. We'll see. There's no guarantee that it's gonna happen,
but at the same time, keeping it a buck that's
what you should do if you're smart. Thank God for
pulling up. Put together one quick small show for you.
I told you I was gonna try to get back

(34:47):
on track. I know I've been slacking on y'all. We're
gonna get there. It's a little clunk. Keeple We're gonna
get there. Thank you for pulling up. Hit the like button.
If you're new to the channel, subscribe, rate us, review us,
give us five stars, and uh yeah, we'll try to
get more of these out the door over the next

(35:07):
couple of weeks, So keep your eyes open. We'll talk
more about the Scores Act and the NCAAA stuff that's
going down. That's the thing to intrigue me the most
age I know. Over my other channel in fair Sports
here on YouTube, you can find my talks on college football,
mainly OU football SEC and college football in general. Find
me at locked on Sooner. It's also my other channel,
Primetime CFB, my Colorado channel. I'm talking Colorado content. Got

(35:28):
all kinds stuff. I'm all over the play, So until
next time, shout it out with all of you. Next
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