 Anthony Davis the unibrow ad whatever you'd like to call him an otherworldly talented basketball player of the New Orleans Pelicans his agent rich paul who by the way also LeBron's agent Told agent will Jenarsky and we will have him on in a five o'clock hour a woe to we will That he will not sign a contract at the end of this deal So it behooves the Pelicans to trade him So now that opens up the dream portal for a lot of people First the Knicks dream portal. What would you give up if you were the Knicks and if I'm the Knicks? anything you want That's how good this guy. I don't think he has any attention in playing with the Knicks But the Knicks should do their due due diligence right and the most valuable item that they own is Their draft pick right would you give up a potential number one draft pick for Anthony Davis? And I would in an eye blink because as great as we think Zion Williamson will become Anthony Davis is that great now? He's one of the top three players in the NBA averages 28 and 12 if you could get Anthony Davis and make sure you're able to Sign him that's John draft pick and even if you have to throw in Kevin Knox I would do that too, but you have to make sure he's gonna sign with you Right to get him as a rental and then you go signs with the Lakers at the end of the season would be devastating So you have to have a guarantee that the second the deal is done You sign him to an extension he becomes a nick for the foreseeable future Because of the Knicks finish with the worst record. They're guaranteed one of the top three picks You can't give that up for a guy that's not gonna be here long term So I don't know how you get that done how you get that kind of assurance because everything seems to point to him Want to play with LeBron James with the Lakers right see the Lakers can make that deal and know that they're gonna sign them The Knicks aren't gonna know that and if they're not gonna be guaranteed that I can't give up the pick If I'm guaranteed that I give up the pick cuz you're right I don't know if any of these guys can turn out to be half the player the Davis is now The interesting thing is the gamble aspect of it because teams have gambled in the past and one One of them being the Oklahoma City Thunder they gave up a lot to get um Paul George a lot and everybody thought that Paul George was definitely gonna go to the Lakers He ended up signing a max extension after one year. He liked being in Oklahoma City so much Toronto Raptors, they're doing the exact thing everybody expects Kawhi Leonard to sign in LA They gave up DeMar DeRosan amongst others to get him for one year and convince him. This is the place to be Now if I'm the Knicks, I Would not give up that first pick on a prayer. I just wouldn't I'd have to have some assurances now Let's take the Knicks out of it the Celtics probably have more Capital to give New Orleans than any other team. I Mean they could trade Jason Tatum they could trade any of their great young players and it would be a great package for New Orleans Would you do it and they can't make that trade? Unless they trade Kyrie Irving back to New Orleans because there's a contract clause or CBA clause that says you can't trade one guy Who's do a max extension and you could you know above the bird rights for another guy? They can't both be on the same team at the same time So the only way the Celtics could get them is at the end of this year after they signed Kyrie But right now before he signed they can't do it So that that kind of leaves the Celtics out of it right now unless Kyrie is in that deal and Finally, you've got the LA Lakers Now you would say that LA probably has leverage, but they don't Because if they want them now and not waste another year of LeBron James You're gonna have to give up a kuzma. You're gonna have to give up an Ingram You're gonna have to give up great players You're gonna have to give up a ball You're gonna have to give up draft picks which wouldn't be worth that much if it was LeBron and If it was in fact Anthony Davis on the same team that that pick would probably 27 28 29. It wouldn't be a real great first round pick You know reading the tea leaves it would probably be the Lakers But would they be willing to give up all that capital and that's why Stephen A. Smith said this earlier And it makes a lot of sense if in fact The Lakers were able to get Paul George like they thought they would they would have been able to have George LeBron and all of the good young players have on their on their roster But by missing out on George, which they thought was a sure thing That cost them keeping all of their players because if you want to get Davis before it becomes a free agent because if you wait Until it becomes a free agent with the Pelicans That's two years of the four years that LeBron is signed on for and all of a sudden He's a 35 36 year old player and really are you in the wheelhouse of him winning a championship? That's why if I really wants him they might have to give up all those players He's not that old is he? Oh how old Anthony? There's no, no, I'm saying LeBron LeBron. Sorry, sir I think all the idea is he's not already 35 years old now. He's 34 That's impossible. Can LeBron get older please doesn't even make sense You know I you could wait till he's a free agent and get him for nothing except the money But as you said you're wasting two more years of LeBron James, right? So I would think they'd They'd want to be in on him and they know that they're gonna have him for the two years plus beyond because he'll sign there Eventually because he wants to be a Laker Who else could be involved? You said the Celtics that cod a soul has probably knocked them out of it If let's say Trey Cary and the next can't why why would Davis get why would Davis not want to? At least test the freeage would he just he wouldn't I wouldn't think he would sign right away getting traded to the next What do you want to check it out play there? What can he do between if they traded for him today and the rest of the season to convince him to stay I Don't know if the next he get the guarantee that he would sign long term with them probably not and and since you know His agent is LeBron's agent it makes you wonder now He has come out and said it is not about money It's about the ability to win right because he's eligible at the end of this year For a five-year 240 million dollar extension and I used to always say baseball was the way to go Nobody's making 50 million dollars here in baseball. No the big stars in basketball are now making in the high 40s So they are taking care of their superstars in a baseball Harper and Machado still don't have a job So it tells you that basketball is looked at a little differently than any of our Oh, it's looked about differently because having that one great player Can get you into the playoffs every year make a run for a championship, but for some reason in New Orleans It hasn't he's been there. He's been great. He's one of the best players this year, and they're the third worst team in the last Usually when you have a player play at that level you're at least a playoff team So what's going on there? They can't seem to get any traction with this great player Nobody wants to play with them. Is that they that mismanaged that they can't put together a championship run with this kind of player? And it's interesting in LA. Do you want to give up all that draft capital to get AD? Or do you want to gamble that Kevin Durant or Kauai Leonard comes? Because they might not They might go to LA Clippers not LA Lakers So there's a lot of intrigue there, and I know a lot of Nick fans will be excited But I don't think the Knicks have a chance of getting them and and if they do I don't think they have a chance of of getting him to commit to a long-term extension now If he was going to commit to a long-term extension Anybody they want Poor thing is yep. Yeah first round draft pick. Yep knocks. Yep anybody Anybody he's better than everybody. He's better than your wildest dreams of what poor things can become Yeah, I think it's wildest you've been wildest dreams better than the wild He is the wildest dream of a poor thing is gonna become And that's fair. I don't know. I think he's better than what poor thing is gonna become I think I think you're probably right that he will eventually that that is what would happen One quick note though in terms of their level of success being third out of the playoffs or being third from the bottom In the east is the Bulls at 11 and 39 Okay, so before we bury him too bad being having a terrible year being third from the bottom in the West He's willed the team to 22 and 28. All right, so they win basketball games. This is not a team That's garbage there at the West is much more competitive than the East and a boogie didn't get hurt last year This whole story might change Exactly would have gotten a long extension and Davis might have stayed but the idea is to try to get Davis to play with someone You know, so you probably would like to hold on to poor zingas so you can get those two together You don't want all of a sudden making New York into New Orleans where you've got this great player He doesn't have anybody to play with and then you're missing the playoffs or barely making the playoffs No, I would give up the first round pick But when you say give up everything Michael, I got to have somebody to play with them Are we gonna play at Noxide give up? I get that but I'd like to be able to keep poor zingas to play with either whoever I draft or if I can go How to get Anthony Davis, but if you had to give up poor zingas you would But then I'm holding on the knocks that like I'm not gonna give them the first round pick knocks and poor zingas No, then you know that I have nothing Except one really good player that I'm that I'm New Orleans that I'm the Pelicans. I'm the Pelicans north Here's Brian win horse done. He was on get up and he said Opposite of what we're saying he believes the Knicks are true contenders for Davis if I am a New York Knicks Convening a meeting this morning Anthony Davis has some interest in playing for the Knicks It's not Lakers or busts although this is absolutely aimed at trying to get the Lakers the first crack The New York Knicks needed to decide whether they would be willing to make their number one pick unprotected this year available If they would I believe they can put together a competitive offer that would help the Pelicans do a rebuild and they could get Their hands on Anthony Davis in the next 10 days He would be a huge decision But I think New York would be one of the few teams Anthony Davis would be willing to sign an extension with so they Sort of the quiet lurker here. Yeah, the Lakers are gonna make their offer But boy, I think the Knicks are in the game Well first of all two things I can hear when horse ran an undershirt there and second of all that is Think about how quickly the season would change if all of a sudden instead of waiting for next year to see a draft pick You're getting a look at the future of your team right now But you know what would stink for New Orleans if you send Anthony Davis before the trade they start waiting a little bit They're not gonna have the third three, you know bottom three record They're not gonna have a 14% chance of getting that so he may as well just hold on though. That's a great point. Yeah That's a great if you hold on them to the end of the year Then the Celtics are in play with all of their draft capital the Knicks are in play you know exactly where the draft pick is and The only the only way I would trade him before February 8th. I think would be to the Lakers if you can hold them up They're not under any pressure because they have him for next year, too So his agents just giving them the opportunity get something for him now You probably could get more for him now than you could during the summer I think he had a lot for him for during the summer, too Yeah, and even even with the next deal like you said just wait see how good that pick looks yeah unless he goes on record and says I will sign with the Knicks the second I get dealt there. I'll sign an extension then you probably no No, no, no, I'm saying this but they can't do it because once I picked up yeah picks not gonna be worth this much Valikans are sitting back saying and so they should wait until the end of the season So this they'd be silly to trade them when the deadline is used at February 8th Actually, the deadline is before the all-star game, which is weird. So there's there's five God awful teams in the league right now You have to think that if the Knicks were to get Him to get Anthony Davis they instantly probably would end up being sixth Not this year no if they got him this year they'd end up being sixth the sixth worst Okay, maybe the seventh worst team right, which is a totally different ballgame and if you have Anthony Davis and whatever you can retain after the trade That is a great Come on for any free agent. Maybe kawaii wants to play with them and what's it would wouldn't it be I mean, it's like It would be the real it could be the beginning of something you get someone of that quality And you can't really I'll say the net's either What would they give up? I mean their young talent is not as Sexy, but they've got good players they can give up people and they've got their own draft fingers here It's interesting looking at the standings right Phoenix has 11 wins. Memphis has 20 All right, so that's too big of a gap Cleveland 10 New York 10 Chicago 11 then Atlanta 15 Orlando 20, I'm not sure even with Anthony Davis that you're gonna play well enough to catch up to to catch up Orlando Orlando, so you're looking to catch Atlanta three four Five you're probably still gonna end up with the in the top five, but that's not that's not getting Both of what percentage that's not getting Zion. It's like getting RJ. Barry. That's not getting one of these superstars From a lottery standpoint, what's the difference between the worst team and the fifth worst team? You've got to get into what the worst for three or small three is what you're looking at You still could do that with Anthony Davis. I don't know. I don't know well if you're stood if you really try if you're fizz Dale And if fizz Dale coaches to lose these games, but why would you coach to lose those games? If you got it, you know, you know, you're not gonna bear right age will to play well They sort of put together a team. Yeah, so you're what you're doing is you're thinking So the pelicans would have to bank on do I still think the Knicks could finish right with the top three? Worst record if they've got Anthony Davis, right because you're right and fizz Dale is gonna want to coach to win