 What's the word, y'all? The 2022 NBA draft just wrapped up and it was interesting. I will say that winners and losers in the title, those are buzzwords to get people to click. I didn't watch a liquor college basketball this season. I didn't do a liquor research on any prospects. So if you clicked on this video, wondering how the 12th overall pick is gonna fit with your favorite team, I'm sorry, you're in the wrong spot, but thank you for clicking the video anyway. I just got home. I was invited by the Chicago Bulls to do this like watch party, NBA draft watch party. It was amazing. Every time I work with the Bulls, do they invite me to something? I'm always amazed at the levels that they take these things. So I want to say thank you to the Chicago Bulls for inviting me out. I got to have a full 30 minute conversation with Tony Kukos organically, by the way. It wasn't like it was scheduled. Kenny sit here, Kukos sit here. We just organically had a conversation and I'm saying this right now on this show. Tony Kukos is now my favorite Bull of all time because he was the coolest dude of all time. Like we talked everything from NBA finals. We talked NBA draft. We talked history of basketball. We just talked overall philosophy that he likes in the game about Tony Kukos real deal. Shout out to Tony. Anyway, just to let you know how bad I am when it comes to college basketball organically when I'm there, we're watching the draft and somebody said, who was the national championship game between again? And I didn't have the answer. So yeah, winners and losers is definitely a stretch. I will say though, I was low key. There was one different thing. One thing I was disappointed in. We had the crazy, crazy New York Knicks trade where whoa, just reporting one thing, Shams is reporting the other thing and they were both right. That was a dub. It was hilarious. But I felt like there were supposed to be way more trades. The way wold was talking over the last 48 hours on TV. He made a scene like it was about to be a bloodbath. Rudy Gobert deleted every single Utah Jazz post on his Instagram. So I'm thinking, boom, he out the dough and the draft just wrapped and nothing has happened. Kevin Durant might be on the move. Carrie Irvin got a short list. So there's a lot of rumors going on around the league. Malcolm Brog that was attached to some stuff. John Collis name was thrown around and there was no big names traded. The only name that was traded was Kimber Walker if I'm not mistaken. And he about to get bought out from Detroit. We got picked trades for sure. You don't pick trade it, but like no names trading. I know things can change over the next couple of weeks and I'm sure they will. But draft day just seems like the perfect day to make those trades because now let's say hypothetically the Chicago Bulls were gonna make a trade and the guy we drafted, Daelyn Terry, was gonna be in the trade. We just gave this man a whole day of social media. Welcome to the Bulls. And we shipping them away a day later. This is why you need to do those trades before you make the pick. Cause now the fan base, if you go to Daelyn Terry, YouTube highlights, it's like welcome to Chicago. Welcome to Chicago. We can't throw him in the trade to get Kevin Durant anymore. JK, you know, Kevin, if you want to come, you know, we a shit bro out the door. Either way, let's talk about the draft. So we started off very early. The drama, the chaos, because for the better part of the last week or so the world thought that Jabbar Smith Jr. was going first overall. And then just early this morning is switch where at least in Vegas odds, it flipped to Paolo Bencero. And now people are trying to figure out what does Vegas know that we don't know. There was a big amount of money put on Paolo Bencero. Something has to be up. Even Woj tweeted, Woj got something wrong. Now that I'm thinking the loud, he tweeted this morning. The first thing I saw on my phone, things are looking like it's gonna be one Jabari, two Chet and three Paolo. And you know, Woj can't necessarily say selecting first overall because he's got the contract with ESPA. So he beat around the bush on the top of the list. They're thinking about boom, boom, boom. So when he tweeted that this morning, it felt like that was set in stone because it's Woj. And then last minute, the Orlando manager said, nah, we've been bluffing this whole time. We're going to go with Bencero. And a lot of things changed just like that. The only thing that stayed the same is that it felt like, okay, see, knew that they wanted Chet Holmgren. It didn't matter who was available. Chet was their dude and they got that. So we got this flip of Bencero going to Orlando. And now we got Jabari Smith Jr. going to Houston and take this clip as you want, but this is a funny clip of the draft. Bro, did not seem happy. And you can just say, listen, he was nervous because he's in the NBA draft green room. And you know what I'm saying? You never know what's gonna happen. Or it can be like, dang, not saying that Houston is a bad place, but like I was projected to go one and now I'm going three. I don't know the money difference between the picks, but I promise you there is a money difference. But I do, I do love the core that the Houston Rockets got. I'm guessing Jabari Smith Jr. going to be a steadily, again, I don't really know, but I think he'll have a lot of fun in Houston either way. And then we get to number four with Keegan Murray was drafted. Now, Jaden Ivey decided that he did not want to get drafted to the Sacramento Kings, which seems like pretty much a sentiment for prospects over the last couple of seasons. There's only been a few in recent history that I can vividly remember saying that, yes, I want to go to Sacramento. That was Tarris Halliburton. That was D.R. Fox. And one of them, they traded away. So Keegan Murray gets drafted number four. I've heard a vast different opinions about this at number four. He's one of the oldest players in the draft, if not the oldest player in the draft, one of the oldest lottery picks in recent history behind like Chris Dunn or top five picks, not a lot of picks, top five picks behind like Chris Dunn, things like that. But with the Sacramento Kings being in the position that they are in and they're saying, oh, we want to try to go and make a playoff push, I hear that he is the most NBA ready at everybody. Maybe the ceiling is not as high, but I keep hearing that he's NBA ready, NBA ready, NBA ready. So W pick, L pick, only time will tell. This is one thing I don't like about this, this time in the NBA draft. It's cool to have these draft rankings and grades and things like that. But immediately seeing, oh, we missed the pick when bro ain't even laced up his sneakers for your favorite team. Just shut, it's crazy to me. Now I understand every, every fan with, if when I had, when the Bulls had a top four pick in the draft, when we got Patrick Williams, I was doing my due diligence, right? And I had fell in love with a certain prospect. So when he wasn't drafted fourth overall, I was like, dang, what the heck, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. But I ain't immediately right off Patrick Williams. And for you at home wondering who that guy was that I fell in love with in the draft, it was Denny Abdea. So Denny Abdea failed to like, what number nine? To Washington, Patrick Williams was drafted number four. And both of them have showed flashes one way or another. I do love Patrick Williams though, even though I would ship him out for the right trade. I'm just gonna say that Chicago, keep your eyes open. Which means that number five is Jaden Ivey. Now Jaden Ivey is actually a guy not that I know personally, but a guy that I've seen a lot of footage on and I like his game. I hate the fact that I knew that he was going to be compared to John Moran. One of the best and worst things about this draft was Kendrick Perkins. The best because I just had a lot of fun seeing what his draft comparisons were. But the worst because I had to see what his draft comparisons were, you know what I'm saying? I like the idea of having like J. Billis. If anybody, J. Billis would be the guy to do the team comps or the player comps because I know for sure he's watching these games and watching these prospects and doing his due diligence. And you can tell from very early on, Kendrick Perkins is not a college basketball guy. That is okay. But like, why give him the keys to do these things? Chad Holmgren, what did he say? Poor Zingus slash Yana Zedekumpo? I mean, if you have poor Zingus and Yana Zedekumpo together that is one of the greatest players of all time. Now I understand they mean shades of, shades of, but still, it was weird. I forget who was drafted. And he said, oh, it was Yana Nobby. And I was like, that feels weird, right? And I asked a dude next to me who was actually like a guy that knows the draft. He's like, yeah, I don't, I don't see OG Yana Nobby at all. So having Kendrick Perkins have these outlandish comparisons, we're going to look back on him in 10 years and be like, damn, he's probably wrong on every single one of them. But hey, J. DeNive gets drafted fifth overall. And I like the backcourt of him and K. Cunningham. From everything I've read and everything I've heard, people are saying that, man, we love J. DeNive, but we feel like he needs a point guard next to him that's going to settle some things down. That's going to be the real facilitator. You don't want him to jump into a roll where he's got the ball in his hands 24-7 because that can age him very, very poorly or have him not be the person that he could potentially be. And he's playing with K. Cunningham. What? He's playing with K. Cunningham. And all the rumors that I have seen, they're trying to go heavy after DeAndre ate and they traded away. Jeremy Grant, something that a lot of people wanted me to make a video about. Jeremy Grant getting traded for the 20-something overall pickle whatever the hell it was. And I didn't make a video because I was going to make this video where we could talk about it. I like the trade for the pistons now that I know that even going all the way back to the trade deadline last season, nobody was giving up high quality picks for Jeremy Grant. That's what I read in the athletic. It has to be credible, right? Not necessarily. But the athletics said back in February when they were trying to get trade offers before the trade deadline, they couldn't get a pick or get a package that was even better than this. So I was under the impression that Jeremy Grant was going to be somewhat valuable in the sense that like the seventh overall pick, Portland Trebleys, I thought that that was on the table for Jeremy Grant. And I highly, highly overestimated his value. I highly, highly overestimated Christian Woods value. And I probably will highly, highly overestimate John Collis's value if he is traded. We are learning that the market sets the price and the price for Christian Wood is relatively low. And if you ask me, Christian Wood, Jeremy Grant, who's better? Who's worse? It doesn't matter there on this relatively sane tier of player. You know what I'm saying? So they gathered of him and basically got just the picks back, opened up this big old exception, opened up the salary cap space for them to potentially go out there and get a DeAndre Aiden, which I would be super interested in to see this core of K. Cunningham, Jaden Ivey, DeAndre Aiden, Sadiq Bay, and they also picked up another big down the line. It might've been Jalen Duran. I really liked the Detroit Pistons of what they did in this draft. So shout out to him. But then again, take that with a grain of salt, Pistons fans. I don't know a damn thing. Next, we got the Indiana Pacers, took Benedict Matherin. Some are saying that he was the second best player on Arizona behind the Chicago Bulls, pick Jalen, Jalen, Jaden, what is his name? Daylan Terry, Daylan Terry. No, I'm joking. He was the best player on the team. And apparently he was really good. Don't know much about him, but I'm excited to see him. It seems like Tyrese Halliburton was super excited to have him in Indiana. And I'm more curious about what Indiana does next with some of the other pieces they got. One of the biggest question marks in all of the draft is Shaden Sharp, because Broway really hooped ever. At least in the last couple of years, every single picture you're gonna see of him. Actually, let me show you how crazy this is. For myself, just to keep up with the draft orders we talk about this video, you're gonna see Palo Bencero, Game Jersey, Chet, Game Jersey, Game Jersey, Game Jersey, Game Jersey, Game Jersey, Warm-ups. Warm-ups. A layup last was kind of busting. He was seventh overall pick because the layup last was crazy. No, but from my understanding, Shaden Sharp's upside is insane. Obviously, it's hard to project, especially since he hasn't really played professional basketball or high level basketball in a year or so. But we knew before the draft that Damien Lillard really loved his game. We even saw Dam talk about it, so they got their guy. I'm very curious to see what the rest of this off-season looks like for them, because I was super under the impression that they were gonna move this pick to continue this pseudo retooling. I guess it's not pseudo, it's a real retooling when they already got Jeremy Grant, like trait that seventh overall pick for something. And maybe nothing was out there, but having a guy that hasn't played basketball in a year, and then you also have Damien Lillard, like the timelines are completely different, and they might be trying to do the thing where we try to compete right now, but also grow these younger talents, and it's extremely hard to do that thing. I will say it's extremely, extremely hard to do that. Dyson Daniels, a lot of people love him. I don't know anything about him, did not watch Geely Gignite, but from the highlights I saw off his passing, I mean, they lost Lonzo Ball, the traded Lonzo Ball to Chicago, and maybe Dyson is a few years away. But if he can be the playmaker that he looked like he can be, would have him Brandon Ingram, and having Zion Williamson, that could be a crazy, crazy pick-a-pick that we look back on, and be like, man, they won the draft, but again, I don't really know much, but I just know Playmaking Upside is huge on the team, like the Pelicans, that basically didn't have any authentic point guard play. I like the point Zion a ton, by the way. I want to see a lot of points Zion this season, but CJ was running a lot of the point guards this season. Brandon Ingram has Playmaking Shops, but if they can get a real guy that can be the playmaker, the facilitator, duh. Jeremy Sohan, don't know a damn thing about it, other than he doesn't have his driver's license. Let's talk about O.K.C.'s draft because they had a million picks and some. I am, I would say, somewhat worried, because I fear, how do I say this? When you have this many young people on the team, you have this many people that you have to develop, you're going to not be able to do it. And I don't wanna sound like a jackass and I might be sounding like one anyway. You just have so many young players that are incomplete products, that are trying to find who they are as basketball players. So now we got Usman Dang, we got Chad Holmgren, we got Josh Giddy, we got this player, we got that player, we got this player. All of those guys are gonna have to develop one way or another and the best way to develop in the game of basketball and NBA level basketball is to play the game. But you also have four people at the same position. I'm just saying, you have so many people that can play the same position. How do we decide? This is the guy we wanna focus on developing and now we have a dude that had all the potential in the world, but since we didn't prioritize his potential, prioritize his progression, he don't have a career that he might've been able to have he went to some other organization. That's the only thing I'm a little bit afraid of. This the way they're doing things is so unnatural to us or so abnormal to us that maybe it works out in four years, maybe it doesn't, but I just have to see a little bit more of their rebuild and their progressing of these players before I make a decision. I mean, their idea is throw as many shots at the dartboard as you can and you go hit a bullseye eventually, but again, these are still humans that were, you know what I'm saying? I don't know. Oh yeah, they had Jalen Williams too. And if I'm not mistaken, they also had Jalen Williams. Then they get both Jalen Williams. Oh, they did. No, they got both them. They got the guy from Arkansas too. So they got both Jalen Williams. So now you're about to have that barrier. No, no, no, no, no. Overall, the draft was cool. I was just hoping for a little bit more. Before I end here, I wanted to go to the subreddit of some of the teams. Now, there was one team in particular that made some moves that in real time, it felt kind of weird, but now that we look at back on it, maybe not so much. And it was the New York Knicks trading out of their pick. They traded down and then traded for Jalen Duran and then traded Jalen Duran and Kimber Walker to Detroit to free up money. This is what people are speculating, to free up some money to get Jalen Bronson. And I know a New York Knicks fan. My cousin Pierre is a Knicks fan and he was very confused in the moment. So I want to go to the Knicks subreddit just to see how the New York Knicks fans are holding up. I would guess now because I'm recording this at midnight, we're a couple hours removed from that. You go through those stages of grief. There's like denial, anger, and they're probably in the acceptance place now. But I'm just curious. Rick Bronson convincing Leon his son is worth 120 amps. That's a good meme. That's a seven and a half out of 10. I am an authorized meme writer, by the way. So this is, this is what I mean. Okay. Sounds like Ivy is staying put. Duran is going to Detroit and the Pistons take the contract of Kimber and give up on a pig. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay. So top comment. This is what we're here for. Pistons fleece the leash. Shout out to Troy Weaver, by the way. People were thinking that I was in the front office because Troy Weaver was getting assets and flipping them. You left to see a nightmare coughing up blood. This is a severely underwhelming if it's just to clear up Cap's face for Bronson or some other words that we're not gonna say because we like to say monetize. They weren't very happy. This is like the worst case scenario though. This guy, this fan says that he hopes that the Mavs put their foot down and say no to this, talking about the Jalen Bronson pursuit. But if they do, if they, if you did all of this to free up money for Jalen Bronson and Jalen Bronson just resigns with the Dallas Mavericks, then what is option B? What is the backup plan? That's the question. Is the backup plan trading for Kyrie Irvin? You know what? I'm assuming, based on, no, nothing at all. Y'all know I ain't got no connections in the game of basketball. If they don't, this is crazy that priority number one will be Jalen Bronson and priority number two will be Kyrie Irvin. But I would guess that if you strike out on Jalen Bronson you're like, okay, we'll be the team to take Kyrie. Based on nothing. Because Kyrie Irvin had a list and the next one on that list says one thing. You got pick equity. You got three goddamn first round picks for trading the picks that you had today. So you got those picks. You have one more pick from the Dallas trade if I'm not mistaken. And you have your own picks. You got some younger assets. Some of them you don't want to move in a Kyrie Irvin trade for show because this value shouldn't be that high anyway. But I'm just saying, option two, trade for Kyrie. Either way, I need to pick out my favorite prospect in this draft. I will say I don't have a good track record but I did have Evan Mobley as my top guy last year. But I mean, it was like everybody knew that Evan Mobley was going to be good. Nobody just knew how good he was going to be. So that's like one hit that I had. Alprensen Goon was a guy pre-draft that I really like. Usman Garaba stills time to tell on that one. So I got some hits. I got some misses. But I definitely, I'm beyond which I got more misses than hits when it comes to this stuff. Cause like I said, I really like Daniel Dia going into the 20, 20 draft. And I also like Kylian Hayes. So Kenny don't know a damn thing. Again, Seku Dambuya. I knew it was one that I absolutely bombed. Seku Dambuya was that guy. I like projects. What can I say? I like a good project because if you do it correctly and that guy ends up being a stud, well you got a job for the rest of your life. Shay Gears Alexander was one that I picked too. And I hit on that one. But like I said, I got more misses than hits. So let me figure out who my favorite prospect is based on not knowing a damn thing. I'm gonna pick up two lotteries and then two post lotteries. And then we go in the video. Did I say anything of value today? Hell no, but thank you for watching. I think I'm taking Dyson Daniels because I want him to be good because I like the Pelicans core so much. I'm taking Dyson and I hope he's gonna be a stud. That picture of Zion from a couple of days ago got me excited to watch Bro back on the court and then Dyson's the one passing it to him. I'm a fan. Something tells me that Jeremy Sochan is gonna be a stud. I don't know a single thing about him but he got drafted to the Spurs and he's a big wing. I think he's probably gonna be a stud but I'm not picking him because I haven't seen a single second of him. Give me Usman Zhang. I said all of that about OKC not having enough time to develop all these dudes. He's a thin wired frame guy overseas. I like foreign born players. I take him in the lotteries as well. Outside the lotteries, you know who I'm going with. Overall pick Daylan Terry. I actually heard some really good things about Daylan Terry before the draft, before he was a bull. That makes me excited now that he is here. Will he be a stud? Only time will tell. He said in his pre-draft workouts that we gonna have a redraft of this draft in 10 years and he's gonna be significantly higher and I love to hit that, man. I love a player like that. Oh, it's 100% Davey Roddy. David Roddy? Roddy? Come on, man. How can I not root for a dude that's 64 to 60 and actually is very, very good at basketball? That's what I'm taking. Let's get one second rounder. It is Gabriel Proceda. Cause you know what? He had a video that went semi-viral of his draft day workouts here in Chicago and somebody quoted it and said that he was the Italian Zach Levine. I like Zach Levine, you know? So I'm curious to see if that turns out to be true. Obviously the guy was joking, but you know, he had some bounce. He was hitting his jump shots and he looks like a project and I like projects but he got drafted to the Blazers too. So they took two relatively unknown players in this year's draft. They go on a boomer bus and I respect it.