NBA Free Agency Rumors: where could top players like James Harden & Kyrie Irving end up?
Real quick. I know we got to geo Anthony’s ticket give away in a. But real quick other top free agent names. Let’s make some predictions on where we think they’ll go just for the sake of prosperity. So when I’m 10 out of 10 on thee we go back and you’re you’re going to get them all. Well, no, I’m definitely not. And I only went on. I only have this. To me this is one of the hardest things. It’s impossible because each gus a silent suitor that we don’t kw about. Mike has to make up for
all of his Oakland A bets let him go. Yeah. No. They they got hey they got perfect game yesterday, two days ago and they lost by 9. Yes. So I’m two for two in my l. All right, good. Are you still p for the year? Barely. No kiddin. They that tells you how good Vegas is? They’ve Well, they’ve. There was a point where I was 3 and 13 in the 1616 game stretch. They either and they’ve lost. They lost like 9 by one run. It was absolute*. But OK, I’ve six of these. These are the
six, six players . And I didn’t take Kyrie because I don’t think anyone’s actually gonna pk Kyrie to go anywhere else but
That’s a rim protector. And he don’t have to play center all the time. Is there any smoke around that r you just that’s your thin air p. I mean, I listen to some podcass and like, OK, it’s been thrown out because I think it makes. And it makes great sense for the Spurs. Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense for both sides. They have a lot of cache space. Is he going to want to go to San Antonio? He already has a ring. True. All right. James Harden, who’s not a free agent, but
he just opted in with the Sixers. He’s working on a trade. And, well, didn’t they announce yesterday that they are trading? They are trading him, yeah. Yeah. So he’s not a free agent, but let’s throw him in here. Wo. See. I don’t know because there’s so many, there’s so many hurdles to a te, taking a guy like him on. So you said Russ to the Clipper. I thought, yeah, I’m sending James to the Clippe. Really. Sending James to the Clippers? Wow. Wouldn’t that be funny? Ye. Sending James to the Clippers. They’re not. They’re not resigning
Westbrook. They could shed some salary, Bring them on. Their owner is not there. That’s how they work financially, right? Is to shed W Westbrook’s contra. And Morris and Zubac, yeah, they still need more ones, but their owner doesn’t care about the luxury tax. I can’t see him going to Houston with all the other young girls. What is his legacy when he walks away from the game? Provided he does? We have to get to something shoy and I could go on a 30 minute. That’s a good topic for down the road, though. Yeah, we could definitely
do th. Next up. Bruce Brown, do you wish your favor? I think he’s going to get some money. I think he’s going to get money. He’s not going to get no money , man, that’s a tough one. He’s not going to Denver. I’m going to say, I’m going to say May. Can Dallas get him? They could finagle some things, but it would be tough to fit in there. I wouldn’t even have a guess. I’m going with the Lakers. I know he has said he’s a big LeBron. So they’re going to get whatever they they would
have. They’re going to keep Reeves Beesleys out of here. Beesleys gone, they didn’t. Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt’s gone. MO bomb, but they didn’t. They renounced his, right. So he’s gone. So I got a little bit of flexibility. Not enough for that though. I don’t think he’s going to get that much money. You don’t. I think he’s 15 million. See the hottest man. I’m talking market. I know. I thought he’d get more than 15. If he does. He’s not going to Lakers. I think it is, yeah, that’s why. Two more Fred Van Bleet. He’s back to Houston. In
my opi. He’s going to Houston. They need an actual point guard. They got a bunch of two. I think Houston. I wasn’t gonna, I wasn’t gonna say Philadelphiat that could be Philly now without James Harden. Some of these teams have to spend money, by the way, in the new CBA you have to yeah, you have to be up to a minimum, up to 90%. So some of these teams have to spend money. By the way, I wish baseball would do that. Houston has so much money to sp. It was going to change the lande of
Major League Baseball instan. If they would do that. The Spurs could be good though. Like if they say they went and got Lopez and got Van Fleet, well, wait till you see the next guy have gone on the Spurs. Grant Williams. Listen, the Spurs I think are going to be good. The Spurs have to spend $45 million in free agency. So they’re going to get two of these guys. They have to spend 45 million. That’s why I think they get Grant Williams going. And you know what, their ownership group who was oe lauded as the
best in in in the game, I think they’ve been incredibly patient. Now they they won the lottery so that and and they won the lottery the year you want to win the lotter, which is by the way how they built their first dynasty. But I think they are the perfect example of an organization who lays in the weeds and knows when they can make a . And when they need to just be ordinary. And Pop has been incredibly pat. He waited it out. He waited it out. And if if he gets back to the top
end of the talent cycle, it’s it’s a wrap for him in terms of his legacy and where he fits in with the all time think about think about what he been sitting on. He been sitting on some plays ad you know he has. Well, they they set this up perfectly now. It was a gamble because if they don’t get one Banyama. You obviously you’re doing with a different top whatever pick, right? They got the guy and the right year to get in, the right year to get hm and also all their they got rid of
a couple contracts this year that they traded for to go off the books this season and next all in preparation for going all in for this year and brilliant. Even if it wasn’t 1B, this was a three person dra. Really. Yeah 1B was obviously the top, top, top prize. Had they gotten two or three, they still would have got a top tier prospect to go. I agree with that. But they hit the jackpot. Oh my goodness, they hit the jackpot. This is all jackpot. This is from Bobby Marks. These are the five teams that have
to that need to spend money to reach that 90% threshold. Are the Spurs the one that need to spend the most? No. Houston has to spend 50 million. So Houston’s going to overpay for two of these guy. Or. Or they could get it. They get someone. Or James Harden. Yeah, right. Or or overpay. San Antonio spent 30 million. They could spend more, but up to 30 million, they have to spend Sacramento 24 1/2, Indiana 18 1/2 and Detroit 15 tt they have to spend to reach that 90%. I got to tell you, I think the
NBA has done a great job with these mov. I do. I because it made it easir in the past for San Antonio’s, Detroit’s Houston’s to sit back and try to win the lottery and and hit the jackpot. Now they can’t do that. Now that now that there’s a flo, which I I think should exist in football and baseball too, doest non existent football. I don’t think so. No I don’t think so. I don’t think. I don’t. I don’t have a cap. There’s a cap but that’s I don’t think there’s a floor. And and the thing
of it is in baseball where there are if there was a 90% floor, if there was a cap in baseball a 90% floor you overnight would te a league that has about 8 to 10 teams that legitimately could w. You would take that and double that and probably be close to 2. And I think I know what they’re doing. They’re saying we need the New York’s, LA’s and Chicago’s in the playoffs because that’s what sets our TV number for the year. Nonsense if you you’re going toe years where those New York’s ge. But I think
it’s good for the st if a Pittsburgh slides in there, it’s when slides in 2016 you hae the number 3 market and you have the number 18 market. You know, Cleveland’s a small market. It grows. But the ratings were through the roof. It grows your sport. I I used to always love, like wn I would watch these different g, I would watch like bowl games. And I used to watch all the bowl games and I used to look at the different helmets and be like, , I’ve never seen that team befor, right? And that’s that’s
good, right? And then you’d be like, hey, lee go looking like, like figure out when Georgia Tech were won the national championship in 1990. I’m like. Georgia Tech, Colorad. There’s teams out there. What the heck is this? Yeah, I only wasn’t one of the blue bloods. Yeah. And so I think it’s it’s . I think for baseball, that would definitely work. I wish they would do that. Alright, we’ve wrapped up our NBA free agent segment.
