 What's the word, y'all? Let's talk about the most intriguing player on all 30 NBA teams. At least the most intriguing player, in my opinion, you know what I'm saying? For different reasons, because there's 30 teams, I will be spending maybe five seconds on some teams and four minutes on others. It's just the way it goes, okay? It's a long off season. So if I don't talk about your favorite team for a long time, I wanna see no comments. We got plenty of time to talk about everybody. Also, let me know in the comment section who is the most intriguing player for your favorite team, your least favorite team, whatever the comment section is open. Today's video is brought to you by Shopify. Have you heard of Enjoy Basketball? If not, I don't know where you've been. It is the brand that I created a little bit over a year ago. We've dropped a pair like this hat, some hoodies, some shirts, and something coming up. We've even dropped mini hoops. 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It's gonna be James Harden, because James Harden holds the now and the future of the 76ers all up in his hands, all up in his trade requests. You had to report early today that the Clippers have been unserious in the conversations with James Harden. So is he gonna stay? And if that's the case, are they still contenders? Does he leave? If the package is gonna be good enough, for them to be in contention, I don't really know. So what happens to him is the most intriguing thing about the 76ers, because as of right now, they haven't had a good off season. For the box of this Chris Middleton, of course he signed that extension, and now we gotta figure out, can he get back to the version of himself from last season, or the year before that, because, well, in the 30-ish games he played after the injury from the playoffs, he didn't really look like himself. The one silver lining is that in the playoffs, he was one of the brighter spots, and you hope that he continues to do that. But now you've got the core of Yanis Middleton, Holliday, Brooke Lopez, everybody in there is pretty old. And you wanna get a couple more rings, so you gotta make them happen now, and part of that is having Chris Middleton be back to all-star level. The Chicago Bulls is Patrick Williams. I talked about him in the video a couple days ago, so if you want more Patrick Williams talk, go there. The Cavaliers is intriguing, because what happens with Evan Mobley next really determines what happens with Jared Allen. So this is kind of like a connection, a two-for-one. Because if Mobley uses this off-season, puts on some more muscle or whatever, whatever gets bigger, if you wanna say that, and he's more transitioning to be that full-time five, what happens to Jared Allen? I think a lot of us believe that Evan Mobley's more of a five than a four down the line, but doesn't happen this off-season, doesn't happen the next off-season, and that really puts Jared Allen up in limbo. For the Celtics, some of y'all might be thinking it's Jaylen Brown, which I respect, but for me it is Chris Dapsper's new opportunity, new space, and basically a new role for the majority of his career, he's been like the two option, and now he's relegated to like the three. Will he be able to play well with Al Horford? Will he be able to play well with Robert Williams? And bigger than that, will he be able to stay healthy for another season? All of those things matter in the Celtics' goal of winning the championship. With the Clippers' Russell Westbrook, we saw that in the 20-something game sampled size with the Clippers versus the Lakers, he was a more efficient player. He played better in that 20-something games and all of the Lakers' games combined, and can he help them unlock the potential of them winning a ring, because that's what they're there for? The Grizzlies is undoubtedly, for me, Marcus Smart. Of course, Jon Maren's gonna be off with 25 games to start the season. Marcus Smart is gonna be that lead primary ball handler, and the real determining factor, whether or not there's a good trade, bad trade, or whatever, is really dependent on if he's gonna be able to hit his three-point shots because they need spacing over there in Memphis when Jon Maren comes back, and you need that leadership with Marcus Smart, so can he help get that mature culture back with the Grizzlies? For the Atlanta Hawks, there are a ton of intriguing players on the team, but I think the most intriguing is DeAndre Hunter. He signed that crazy extension a couple of years ago, and he hasn't really lived up to the dollar value associated with his contract, and we're just waiting for the moment where he is that good 3 and D player, and he showed glimpses and things like that, but now Jon Collins is gone. There's more opportunities for pretty much everybody. This is the time where I expect DeAndre Hunter to play better, and will he do that? This is like, I'm gonna say make a break because he already got his money, but this is about as big of a make-a-break season that it can be for DeAndre Hunter, and that's not saying that he's about to be out of the league or something, but him being a part of the core, like there already was rumors about him potentially being traded, but him being a part of his core with Trey and DeGente is up in the air with this season, or the first whatever mini-games in the season before we get to the deadline. He is Tyler Harrow. I mean, will he be a Heedle? Will he not be? Like, there's so many questions revolving around that. I think because he missed the entire postseason, or close to the entire postseason last season, a lot of people are down on Tyler Harrow because the team made the run to the finals. And Tyler Harrow is still such a good NBA player, and I think it's somebody who's gonna unlock him even more once they trade for him, but the question is, will he be traded? Will the Dane thing happen? Will it not? For the Hornets, it's Miles Bridges, man. He's getting another opportunity in the league, and the last time he played the Lamella Ball, Miles Bridges' connection was elite, well, okay, at least it's a stretch. It was pretty good, you know what I'm saying? It was pretty good, and obviously, they failed a lot after losing him and some other pieces. Now, him being back, will he still have the same type of production, being a 20 point per game score after a year of not being in the league? We're gonna see. The Jazz, you know, I like O-Face to New Places. John Collins goes over to Utah. He's not gonna have enhanced opportunity, right? He's going from the Atlanta Hawks where he was the three fourth option, and now he's kinda going back to a similar situation because of Utah Jazz. I mean, Lowry's number one, but after that, it's like this team basketball thing. Jordan Clarkson's probably gonna get some shots, and it allows John Collins to potentially have a better year because his numbers have gone down and down, and down. His shooters went up, gone down, and down, and down. And maybe Utah is the place where he can get back on track because once upon a time, John Collins was a super fun, super electric player for the Atlanta Hawks. Remember the playoff run when it got to the Conference Finals? John Collins was sitting in that chair, he was playing great defense, he was being effective offensively, and we haven't seen that version of him for some time. A lot of people think it's because of the finger. A lot of people think it's because of the finger, and I can't deny that. He can't shoot no more. The Kings, it is Sasha Vizikov, God. I'm gonna hear it again, and I'm gonna pronounce it right. But I have been diving a little bit to form basketball over the last couple of months, and he is a dude that can come into a team and drop 20 without dribbling the ball. Without dribbling the ball. And I like that kind of thing with the Sacramento Kings. What kind of role will he play his first year in the NBA? I don't know, but as a tall dude who could catch and shoot and go off those curls with the Montessor bonus as a passer or D'Arfax as a passer, I think he could fit in really well. It's just a matter of what level player will he be at the NBA level, but I am so excited to see him in the NBA. For the Knicks, it's undoubtedly for me, RJ Barrett, the first couple of games in the playoffs last year. He was dreadful. Had a lot of people questioning him as a player and stuff after having a down season in the regular season as well. And then the last couple of games after those first two, the rest of the playoffs, he was really good. And you want to see that version of him in the 80 plus game season, bless the post season this year. Of course, a few years ago, he had the year where he shot 40% from three, then they got to the playoffs and the opposing teams like, no, we don't trust that. You want him to develop that three point shot again and become like a genuine three point shooter that is trusted around the league. So it opens up the game more for JB, opens up the game more for Randall. But you want to see that playoff version of RJ again for the Lakers is gotta be Anthony Davis. We had that month stretch last year where he was a top five player in basketball. We've been waiting for the time for LeBron James to pass the torch to Anthony Davis to be the best player on the Lakers to be an MVP candidate, to be a DPOI candidate. This, if it's not this year, Anthony, if we don't get you an MVP conversation this year, I don't know if it's gonna happen. I don't know if it's gonna happen. If we get that version of AD, that month, that month stretch all season long, undoubtedly he's gonna be in conversations. I think the Lakers had a really good off season as well, so the team should be better than the seven seed this year. He should be a DPOI candidate because he was really, really good defensively for his entire career, but definitely last year as well. We need that, but to the highest power, which is basically games playing. There's no more intriguing player going into this season to me than Franz Wagner. We've talked about him a little bit over the last couple of videos, so I don't want to spend too much time on it. But if there's any year three guy that I'm expecting to elevate his game, it is Franz Wagner, man. He is a crazy guy when it comes again to the rim. He's one of the few good three point shooters on the Orlando Magic, and I'm ready for him to just hit that next step. He averaged 18 last year. I wouldn't be surprised if he's in the 20s, maybe low 20s, mid 20s. He has a type of talent. One of my favorite role players in the NBA is Josh Green. And now he's gonna get a bigger role because of the people that they lost and because of the direction of the team. They're gonna need somebody that's a little bit rangey defensively, so I'm expecting his minutes to go up a ton. Last year he was a 40% three point shooter, and if he can replicate that with Luca and Carrie Irvin as the creators, they also got Grant Williams, who might be starting, should have started, which is pretty fun. But I think that the most intriguing player is Josh Green. The next, it's been Simmons. I still wanna see what's happening. We're getting the reports about him finally being 100% healthy, and now we wanna see it on the court, man. The Nuggets lost some key contributors. They lost basically their sixth man and their seventh man with Bruce Brown going to the Pacers and Jeff Green going to the Rockets. So because of that, you need that those young guys, the Christian Browns, the Julian Struthers, is Zignagi ever gonna hit the next step? I was excited about it, Zignagi last year. He didn't really play. This is a Christian Brown. All right, we need you to turn into more than what you were last season, and he was pretty good last season as we saw in the finals, but he needs to fulfill the shoes of what Brucie was doing last year. Pacers, old face, new place. It's Obi-Toppin', it's Obi-Toppin'. Lauderd pick a few years ago. Again, if you wanna look back on that draft and look at picks like four through 10, a lot of those dudes aren't having great NBA career so far. Obi-Toppin' has an opportunity in Indiana to raise who he is as a player. Last year I was really excited about Jaylen Smith and that's kinda gone and now it's just transition to Obi-Toppin' now. Pails, I've watched Larry Nantz interviews. I've watched interviews from coaches within the Pelicans organization. There's nobody that they're higher on than Trey Murphy. We saw so many great things from him last year. They got a lot going on between Z, hopefully being healthy and Brandon Ingram also as a wing. Like, does Trey Murphy ever really start? I don't know, but the dude is an absolute stud and I'm expecting him. I think he averts like 14 points per day last season. I'm expecting him to be better than that. The Pistons is Killian Hayes. This is the last season for you Killian. That's what I'm expecting. I know there were some rumors about him being in contract extension conversations with the Pistons, I don't really know, but it feels like the make-or-break season now. I don't expect you to go out there and become the number one player in the draft like Kevin O'Connor had it, but you gotta make yourself worthy because man, they just drafted K-Conn and him and then they drafted J-Nivy and then they drafted the Thompson brother. Those are guards. Killian, if you wanna make a name for yourself, you wanna stay in this league a little bit longer, this has to be the year for it. Gotti Barnes had a down season, compared to his rookie year, obviously winning rookie of the year. And this is the year with no real point guard other than then to shoot on the roster. This is the year where point Gotti is probably gonna be in full effect and though they haven't done much to address the lack of shooting, the lack of three point ball to open a game up for Pascal or Gotti, I really do believe that Gotti as a lead point guard shouldn't be pretty fun. They got the new coach, they got Darko in there, new coach Darko who's all about player movement and fluidity when it comes to offense. So, Gotti is that initiator is something I'm excited about. Jalen Green is the time. I feel like a lot of people are down on Jalen Green because of his first couple years of his career. Oh, he's just a guy that has a lot of opportunity so he gets a lot of jump shots or whatever. That's BS. Now he finally has a genuine point guard next to him. Not saying that Fred Van Blede is the greatest passer of all time, but he's definitely a dude that gets you into your stuff. He finally has got some locker room dudes and Jeff Green and say what you wanna say about Dylan Brooks, he kind of fits in that as well. And I'm expecting Jalen Green to showcase to the world that I'm more than just a 20 point per game player on a really, really, really bad team. Now is the time to show that because I've been seeing him in conversations with players that I believe are inferior to him on the basketball court just because people aren't really tuned in to the use of rockets was understandable and they haven't really seen the things that I have seen. As far as hard to say, and it's Victor Wimanyama but like, you know that. So I go another route and say Malik I brand him, another guy similar to Trey Murphy where everybody that talks about the Spurs, everybody in the Spurs organization really loves Malik I brand him. They said, not only is he gonna be a star in this league, but he's got pretentious to be a lot more than that. So as a guy that did a lots of ton of Spurs last year, I kind of missed out on those flashes. I saw it a little bit in Summer League and I'm excited now that I'm here for Wimby to see more Malik I brand him to see what those people are seeing. With the Suns is Deandre Aden. The first couple years of Deandre Aden's career, he had the luxury of playing with Ricky Rubio, one of the better passers in his last decade. And then of course, Chris Paul came in and he got to play with maybe the best passing point guard in the last 20 years. I don't know, whatever. Now he doesn't have that. And I'm curious what happens to his game now that we have this playmaking by committee between Bradley Beal, Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. Does his touches go down because he doesn't have a guy that's finding him on a regular? Does he become even better because he's not really pressured to be the pick and roll partner with Chris Paul? I don't really know, but I'm excited to see what happens. I saw this interview from a couple of days ago. We said, everybody's down, everybody hates him. And I'm ready for him to be like, shut up, I was the first overall pick. Yeah, over Luca, over Trey, yuck and all of that. And I might not be on their levels, but I want to showcase to the world why I was the number one overall pick and make them think like, okay, it wasn't that bad of an idea. Just don't be hard to do because have you seen Luka Nasus play basketball? It's gonna be hard. Okay, see his check. From what I saw in Summer League, he has the opportunity to be a top 10 defender in the league as a rookie and that's what is thin frame and everything. The OKC Thunder were surprisingly decent defensive team last year and that's without really any rim protection. And now they have that on the back end. Like I'm excited about OKC, but more excited about Chet's ability to maybe transform the game from the roster defensive. Wolves has got to be Jada McDaniels, man. Man, I was so, maybe not, disappointus might not be the right word, but I was so, as a fan that be watching him, ready for the playoffs, I was sad to see that he hurt his hand and he wasn't able to play. I feel like when it comes to a player like Jada McDaniels, being able to do it on the playoff stage and I'm talking about his defense, elevates him to a whole another level amongst NBA fandom. Like I believe that he deserved to be all defensive, but because he's such a newer player when it comes to this all defensive stuff, I may be a lot of people haven't had eyes on him, right? So usually you go to the playoffs, you be like, oh man, that guy's actually good. And the next year is the year where you get your all defensive team, your all NBA teams, whatever. And he didn't get that luxury, but I'm excited to see him again this year. The Blazers have, Scoop Henderson, they have Shaden Sharp, and they also have Anthony Simons, who feels like he's kind of forgotten right now when it comes to that core. Again, maybe because he might get shipped because Dane might get shipped, but it's still intriguing to see how he's gonna fit along those dudes because I believe if we're trading Damian Lillian, which seems like it might be a thing, and most likely will be a thing, you think that Scoop and Sharp is a backcourt, Anthony Simons gotta be in there as well. And I know they probably have a ton of points, a hundred thousand points per game, but this is the first year of a rebuild, so who cares? It's Chris Paul. Will he accept the role of coming off the bench of Steve Carsez? That's the way, how would he adjust to not being the dribble, dribble, well, he's still gonna be the dribble, dribble, dribble guy, but like there's so much fluidity with the way the Warriors play basketball. He's always been the number one supreme playmakers on his team. He's never really played with a player like Draymond Green or Steph Curry when it comes to the playmaking tip. So will he be able to delegate some of that responsibilities? It's probably better for his career so his body can kind of stay intact, come play off time. I'm excited to see how they use Chris Paul because he's a dude that has been such Iso heavy even though I know he can do the other stuff. I watched an interview with him a little while ago when people were asking about that. He was like, I played that game because that's what people want me to play, but I could pretty much play the game of basketball anyway. I'm that talented. I'm that good at the game. And I trust that. And now we're about to see that version of him, maybe. But the wisdom is Jordan Poole, let's be real. Jordan Poole, my average is 28 points per game or something, he gon' get a lot of shots up and he was averaging 20 plus points off the bench for the Warriors. So he's gon' get a lot of shots up, he gon' hit some, he gon' miss some. But it's gon' be funny to see him and Cal Poole's kind of going 25 shots per game each. I also like Demi Abdiah, another year four guy that I'm expecting to play more minutes and be more impactful. All right, that's all 30 teams. I mean, I'm gonna break down a little bit more over the off season, but if you enjoyed it, leave it a like and I'll see y'all in a couple of days.