 What's the word, y'all? Rui Hachimura is the second domino to fall of NBA trade season. If you don't remember, Noah Volley got traded from Boston to the Spurs. I don't know, but Rui Hachimura is the first like rotational player to get moved. And with my luck, this happened one hour after I posted another video. So y'all get in this video like 24 hours after everybody's already talked about it. Who cares? We're here to talk about Rui Hachimura, the Lakers, and what the hell the Wattson Wizards are doing. And for some reason, underwear Rui Hachimura got traded from the Wizards to the Lakers for Kendrick Nunn and three second round picks. One of them second round picks is the Chicago Bulls one for 2023. One of them is for 2029. A pick of a 13 year old, 12 year old. I don't even know how old that kid is, but that's how far in the future it is. Rui Hachimura is now in the Lakers Jersey and the Photoshop's him in the Lakers Jersey already look pretty clean angle. And for the price of the Lakers paid, this is a W of a move. This is an upside caliber move for the Lakers and you haven't seen a ton of upside type moves recently from them. Rui has been a starter at some points in his career coming off the bench, another points and he had reached his breaking point because a couple of days ago he got asked if he requested to trade. He said no comment and he smirked. He has been ready to leave Wattson for some time. So it makes sense for the Wattson was to trade him but for this package and at this time it was really confusing to me. But let's focus on the Lakers report came out slightly after that they are looking when Anthony Davis comes back from his injury to have Rui sit and run the three with LeBron and Anthony Davis. And a lot of people are pointing out how the spacing does it get a lot better for a team that doesn't lack, that does lack spacing but Kevin O'Connor got some receipts. He's been looking at the second spectrum stuff. Rui Hachimura has made 39.3% of his catcher shoot three since his second year. And this season is about 36% so it's down from last year. But this season has just been a weird one for Rui. Like they have so many wings over there so it makes sense that he hasn't been able to find his rhythm this season. And the Lakers team they fight hard. You know what I'm saying? They fight hard. They don't care. But they don't have a ton of overall talent towards the back end of that wing rotation. So Rui immediately comes in and becomes one of the better wings on the roster. I wish he was better defensively or he cared more on defense. And maybe with this change of scenery we're gonna see an uptick in his production defensively but he is slow laterally where he fits more like a four than a three but he's short enough or you see him as a three regardless for the price you pay would be in Kendrick Nunn with a rotation that has Russell Westbrook has been a shooter, it has Austin Reeves it has like a bunch of people that are ball handlers and of course LeBron James. Like it makes sense to let Kendrick Nunn go to that next team and give up these three seconds. And the Lakers do have a bunch of seconds. They've been hell bent on not trading one of those first round picks. They got an upgrade and a position of need for very, very cheap. And I'm excited to see where Rui Hajimura can be because I genuinely believe this is one of the dudes that could hit a new potential, hit a new best with him on a new team. Now, playing with LeBron is not an easy job. The spotlight is on Rui more than it has ever been in his career from Gonzaga to Washington to right. There's no bigger spotlight than LA especially if LeBron is playing alongside with you and a lot of people shrink and some people blossom and we hope for Rui's sake that he blossoms because you know, he's been dealing with a lot of stuff. He's just in time away from the watch that was a little while ago for mental health issue. So he rooted for him for that reason alone but again, for the price you paid I'm excited to see him in a Lakers jersey obviously just more overall talent for the Lake Show. Now we try to figure out what the hell are the Washington Wizards doing? What are they doing? Again, I understand trade and Rui. He might have like individually requested a trade. You have Kyle Kuzma who they came out and said today we're not trading Kyle Kuzma. So you want to bring him back which again, we don't even know if Kuzma is even interested in resigning which our organization wants this season is over. You have Deny Abdea. You had a surplus of people at that position. So again, it makes sense for Rui to be traded but the time you traded him and what you traded him for is super, super weird to me. Now, I don't think Rui Hachimura as a talent is good enough to get your first round pick. You know, I've been seeing people say, oh, how can they get in the first? I don't know. I mean, we don't know, we won't know but him as a talent doesn't seem like one to get you first round picks. But the way he's been hooping as of recently, you know, you get your 30 point game here, 20 point game there in between you sprinkling in some six pointers or whatever, but the way he had been hooping he might have had time between now and the trade deadline in a couple of weeks to raise that value a little bit. And I am a believer that a lot of the trades we're gonna see get done are gonna be in the last day or two of the trade deadline because teams will get desperate. This offer from the Lakers, considering they have seven and before this, yes, seven second round picks to play with this offer would have probably been there in a week or two. But you accepted it now when maybe there was something better out there because you didn't get a player. I mean, I don't disrespect the kids who don't know Chicago's very own but you need to get a player that you care about. You get Jordan, good one to get a full contract which I'm expecting to see very soon. He deserves a full contract. But you need a player. You got a dude that's learning algebra one is one of your trade chips today. Three seconds on the surface level for a guy who really got you more who might have requested a trade who's been in and out of rotation. Yadda, I don't seem terrible until you really think about the draft history of the Wizards in the past couple of seasons. Is it Tommy Shepherd? Is Tommy Shepherd the one calling the shots over there? Shout out to Tucker. You can look up Sporting Logically on YouTube. He drops NBA videos as well. This is the five year draft history of them. They got Johnny Davis this year who couldn't even see the floor. He can't see the floor with the Wizards being terrible. Corey Kisper is getting some PT now and I've seen some pretty solid things. He's also an enjoyer of basketball. We got to interview him. He loves the game. So we got a lot of respect and love for Corey Kisper. Denny Abdea who at times is super afraid to put the ball on the floor or even afraid to shoot shots. He's a hell of a defender. I love that part from him. But Rihachi Mora and Troy Brown Jr. they're consistently in this nine to 15 round and out of all of this, nothing has materialized really. Again, it's early to say that about Johnny Davis but you know, it's early to say it about Corey Kisper. But you get what I'm saying? Nothing is really materialized with the picks and if they can't hit in the lottery, I know damn sure that 2029 pick and a second round is probably not gonna hit. So it's just very, very weird to me. And if you look at the wizard subreddit, y'all know once something big happens in the NBA, a big loss or a big trade where somebody get fleeced if you wanna use that word. I always like to go to the subreddit because this is the purest form of fandom here. And 11 hours ago, someone said, how much faith I have in this franchise? None. This had to be like two minutes after the trade. Another post that speaks for itself, they just don't have a direction and they haven't had a direction since the time that John Wall and Bradley Beal were in the playoffs against the Celtics. Like they haven't had a direction whatsoever. So they do this deal because again, Rihachi Moore is up for extension because he's on the last of his rookie deal and I'm trading them away. Obviously they don't have to pay him anymore and their idea is to bring back how Kuzma, they're gonna do everything in their power to bring Kuzma back. I don't know what was going on with Kuzma's mind. I don't know if he's really looking at watching as a spot, but it don't feel like it. It don't feel like a spot that Kuzma would sign to long term and that you also got Porzingis on a player option. We don't know what he is really thinking. What is this franchise trying to do? I legit wanna act like, call Tommy Shepard and ask, what are you trying to make the play in this season? Cause you're struggling to even do that. I know you've been dealing with a lot of engines but every team has. Are you trying to get into the Wimby sweepstakes? The answer is probably not. What is the direction? Wizards fans have dealt with it for the better half of a decade. Now it's just not knowing what to expect day in and day out. I'm just happy we got three second round picks. Now we can add more players like, not even seeing that name, Admiral Schofield, Cassius Winslan, Isaiah Ty, Yamak Zu. Even the idea of tanking for the Washington Wizards, it's not interesting if I'm a Wizards fans because what have we done once we've got to the point we're bad? And maybe it is their own fault because every single year that they are bad, they're ending up with the ninth overall pick and by that time it's Slim Pickens. That's cap, actually that's cap. That's cap, I'm already saying that's cap. Dany Abdi was draft the ninth, no disrespect again. I got a lot of love for Dany. I think he's going to be a nice NBA player. But Tyrus Halliburton was in right there. I know we could do a Rizz and his sister about every draft pick and every draft class but they've missed a lot. They've missed a lot. And you want to know the worst thing? You want to know the worst thing about all of this? They brought back those throwback jerseys and they clean as hell but I don't want to watch them because the team is bad and they're not fun. I know bad and fun. You know what I'm saying? They're teams in the league that are bad but this team is bad and not really fun. I can watch you be some cool as my highlights afterwards. You got these beautiful, beautiful jerseys. You know what? I like the regular white throwback jerseys more than I like the pink one. I know a lot of people love the cherry blossom. I'm not a fan of that one but the white or blue one? One of the best jerseys in basketball but it's on a team that ain't fun. Also been seeing a lot of memes about how the Lakers and the Wizards have made trades with each other every season of the last three I think it is. So they got this one of course. They had the Russell Westbrook one in 2019. And then what was the last? No, no, 2019 was the one to make the move to get Anthony Davis. They trade away like Mo Wagner and actually I can go look at the trade. Actually I don't even want to look at this trade. Look at this. Look at this trade. I'm not reading this. Isaac Banga and then Jones and then all of this stuff and they were part of the Anthony Davis trade. So that's cool. And then now this one. So three trades, Russell Westbrook, Anthony Davis and now Rihachi Mora. I just hope that more and better trades go down. We're doing a single episode about Rihachi Mora. At the end of the day, you know more likely than not, Rihachi Mora is gonna be a good role player for the Lakers. I mean, there's a world where he's better than that but at the end of the day he's probably a good role player. You know what I'm saying? I feel like the next video we're gonna do is Eric Gordon. Eric Gordon gets moved on to his next team. Let's talk about it. Yeah, it's the Lakers though. You know, Lakers thumbnail, Lakers player. This video gonna pop off. I'm already knowing.