 What's the word y'all? Hey listen, I woke up this morning, I'm getting ready to go to the podcast, I'm brushing my teeth, I get a notification from Shams that say the Pelicans are talking to the trailblazers about CJ McCullum, like oh that's interesting, that's great, that's about to be the biggest trader of the day. I was wrong, out of nowhere, okay, maybe not out of nowhere, but the Kings and the Pacers agree on a deal with Sabonis being the main piece from the Pacers going to the Kings and Tarris Halliburton being the main piece from the Kings going to the Pacers and I cannot believe that trade happened. Just a week or so ago, the Kings were telling the world, stop calling our phone about Tarris Halliburton because we're not trading him, he is one of the untouchable pieces in the organization and just like that they folded, they folded and it's crazy because Tarris Halliburton felt like a building block for me as an outsider looking in but we knew this, right? I said this very early on in the season where they were going to have to make a decision between D.R. Fox and Tarris Halliburton and you know what, one bit of credit that I will give the Kings because there's not gonna be a lot of credit given to them in this video as they didn't take too long to make the decision but they might've made the wrong decision. We will only time will tell, right? Only time will tell who ended up being a better player between D.R. Fox who may not be having a good season this year but last year where he was averaging 25 or who would be better between him and Tarris Halliburton but we had an idea that they were going to do this and it feels like more often than not, franchises wait too long to make that decision. We just saw that with CJ and Damian Lillard so they make the decision a year and a half of them being together but they made a decision and it is just a bit weird a week ago, literally a week ago, in a post game interview Tarris Halliburton, you know, during this loser streak that they were on at the moment, they're like, we don't really, he said we don't really care about the history to see. They ain't been in the playoffs the next amount of years. They're one of the laughs and socks of the league. I am here. We are here trying to change that. He was trying to be a positive impact in the locker room, changed the narrative about the Kings and they said, you know what? We don't want you here anymore. And I've seen some people try to speculate the reason they dealt Tarris over D.R. is because they just gave D.R. Fox his big old contract or they drafted Davion Mitru and they're trying to say face on that regardless. Tarris Halliburton felt like a piece that should have been untouchable. What is the ceiling of Tarris Halliburton? Only time will tell. But I think bro is really good. Now everything I said in this video is just me as Kenny Beachham. I haven't talked to Reese in a couple months. Actually I texted him after the train. He ain't got back to me because I'm just assuming his phone is blowing up. He got to think about moving and all of that stuff. So I ain't worried about it. But everything I said in this video is just my opinion. I ain't talked to bro in a minute. I want to bring up wolves because I want to give you the exact details because it was just more of a one for one as you could probably tell. It was the Montessabona's Jeremy Lamb and Justin Holliday for Tigris, Buddy Heald and Tristan Thompson. We knew that the Keys were trying to make some deal because well this team was being very, very bad. They were on a crazy loser streak and they just couldn't get things right. And it just felt like the guys did love playing together. They didn't really have an identity and they get the best player in the straight. You know what I'm saying? As of right now in 2022, Montessabona's is a better player. This is a guy that is in all-star conversations all the time. He's a two-time all-star. He was in conversations this year. He's a guy that's going to put up 22 points, 10-12 rebounds and some assists a game. He is the best player in this trade and that might be the thinking that the Kings have. Hey, we're trying to make a push for the play-in. The Pelicans just made a trade for CJ and now they about to get up there and now the Trailblazer is going to go down. We need to go ahead and make our move too. But man, this just feels wrong. This could be a trade that they look back on in the fuses because the Montessabona is this year or next year on this contract. And I think that he said before that if he were to pick where he wanted to play, he'd want to play in California because his wife is from the LA area. So he's in California, so that's a W. But it's the Kings, right? And I'm tired of hearing fans and people who start talking about these less prominent, these smaller market teams talking about cap flexibility, cap space, you're going to see that when we talk about the Portland Trailblazers, people are assigned into the Kings. Don't talk to me about how much money they freed up in this year and when has they ever legitimately signed someone that wasn't already on their roster and got an extension? It doesn't happen. Yes, these teams are at a disadvantage to building their organizations because they're not LA or anything like that. But stop talking to me about the Trailblazer having $60 million a cap or the Kings having this amount of money a cap in two years. That shit isn't relevant to me, honestly, because you're probably not going to use that to get a superstar player to add to this team. I don't know what the spacing looks like on this on the Kings team with De'Aren Fox being a negative shooter. The Montessabones don't really shoot the ball like that. They traded away Buddy Heald. He's one of the greatest three-point shooters in the league. I understand that he had to get free up because obviously things were working. But it's just, let me just take a look at the entire depth chart real quick. So according to ESPN, they're looking at De'Aren Fox, Davia Mitchell slash Justin Holley or Jeremy Lamb. Both of those dudes are out, I guess. Harrison Barnes is Montessabones and Rashad Holmes. And I was just in the spaces with Kings fans and were basically saying that they don't really know if Harrison Barnes is going to get traded now or Rashad Holmes get traded now because this is a win now move for them, right? Again, they got the best player in this trade. They got an all-star caliber player in this trade. This don't seem like a team that just a couple of weeks ago was saying like, oh, we might be able or other teams around the league, like we might be able to get Harrison Barnes for a bargain because they suck. I feel like they might make a decision to keep Harrison Barnes on the team now because he's actually a good player to add. The Montessabones is a great pick and roll player. De'Aren Fox is not. Tyrese is a great pick and roll player. So I just feel like the fit would have been better with Reese and Sabonis rather than De'Aren and Sabonis, especially since just a lack of shooting on the wings or lack of shooting any organization at all right now, other than I guess, Justin Holley's now the best shooter on the roster. Is this a bit weird? Kings gone king, they might push to a 10C, which is probably they gonna be in a front office, half-fab and each other if that's the case. When in reality, you don't ever want your ceiling of your team to be the 10 seed. And that's kind of why a lot of teams hold on to those younger pieces because we don't know what Tyrese might be in three seasons and he might be able to help you be more than just a 10C. I don't know if this is the best version of the Montessabones because people forget that the Montessabones is a young player too. I think he's already 25, 26 years old, but it feels like the Montessabones you get, which is all star caliber, this is just who he's gonna be for his career, which is good. Oh man, it's just very weird for the Kings. I feel like this is a team that's gonna push themselves into the ninth slash 10C, then they gonna be in a front office, half-fab and each other. We did it boys. When in reality, I don't think you really did. The Montessabones is a very, very, very good player doing not get me wrong, but he's raising your ceiling marginally. You know what I'm saying? If you want to be a team that's in the playing, great trade for you. But if you wanna get your fans more than that down the line, this trade doesn't really do that when an opportunity to maybe develop Tyrese could have done that. I don't know though. Pacers though, ooh, the Pacers, listen, listen here Pacers. I'm excited about this trade, okay? I'm super excited about this trade. This is the second trade that you've done, this trade that I have been a fan of. I like the Cares of Earth trade for y'all. And now I like this, because you can build okay teams with youth. You can. You're gonna have Chris Duarte, who's like 36 years old, Ricky, that's fine, that's okay. You're gonna have Tyrese. And they just said that they believe that the future of Miles Turner's in Indiana, which is great. You finally get to see what you have in Miles Turner deeper than him just being a stretch five. He's wanted more, but he hasn't had the opportunity because he had to narrow his game down so some bonus can flourish. And they love each other. They're like homies, but he had to narrow his game down. We'll see at the age of 25, I think he's also 25 too. How much he can progress as a player, you're not gonna be good this season. So you're gonna have a top hand pick. I like this trade for them a lot. This is like one of those, this is the trade that they wanted, right? How can we take a step back, but also still be competitive? We don't wanna be, okay, see, no disrespect. We don't wanna be the Houston Rockers. We don't wanna be this team. We wanna be a team that is rebuilding slash retooling, but still get a nice little pick, but still be competitive. The lineup of this team don't look terrible. Yeah, bro. After this trade, these are interesting. So Malcolm Brogdon, I forgot, I ain't see Malcolm Brogdon hooping a minute. So you got Malcolm Brogdon, Tyrese Halliburne. Who are funny because I remember coming out of the draft, a lot of people compared him to Malcolm Brogdon. Now they're playing together, okay? Maybe he get mentored a little bit there. They got Buddy Hill at the three, Tory Craig at the four, and Miles Turner. Miles Turner's not here. The bro gets raided and I ain't got my noties on? He didn't, but as you can see, Miles Turner's not here. I had the Google bro name because I was like, wait, did I miss something? Either way, that team doesn't look terrible. You gotta have Chris Dorte coming off the bench who will probably be starting for now because Malcolm Brogdon is out. You still got Lance Stevenson. This is not a good team by any measure, but it's not a bad team either. This is a team that if I was Indiana Pacer fan, I would pay the $1 to go watch, especially if Isaiah Jackson go come back. You know Isaiah Jackson, Tyrese Halliburne pick a roll? I'm here for this. This is a good trade for this organization. This is a good trade for this organization, bro. After all of that me begging them to hit the reset button, they kind of did but didn't and got one of the better young pieces in the league. If you ask somebody, look at any of the articles, best 24 players on the 24. Tyrese is high on those lists, man. I think a lot of people understand how Tyrese plays and how he can be a floor general and how he with the janky looking shock and still hit a lot of the things and how when a pick and roll comes to play, Tyrese does that. Him and Rashad Holmes, him and Chamezi Metru, that was it. And now you don't got no crazy vertical lob threats, but in due time, who knows? They might draft, I don't know, prospect. Jabari Smith, can he jump? He probably can jump, maybe not though. On the surface, if I were to be great in this trade for the in-and-a-patience, I would give it AB plus and for the Kings, I would give it a D. A D because you might make the play in and that's decent, D for decent. But before we transition to the next trade, we gotta go to basketball, hell, the Kings. Let's see what the fans are saying. What are the moves that the front office needs to make in order to justify trading in Halliburne? Very good question. I don't know if there's a lot you can do to justify making that trade. We definitely need some three point shooting and probably need to move Holmes as well, IDK. Yeah, because Rashaan Holmes and DeMonte Sabonis probably doesn't work well. So you know what? Send Rashaan to Chicago. We got, I really got nothing. I think that if Tyrese becomes what we think he can become, it's like the Warriors gave up Curry instead of Monte. But y'all that don't know this, sorry. But for y'all that don't know this, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Warriors were in conversations to make a trade. The Warriors tried to trade the Milwaukee Bucks, Steph Curry. But Milwaukee was like, we'd rather have Monte. Milwaukee saved, saved that organization. And that's not a good parallel. I mean, that's not a terrible parallel. Again, you'd have to see Tyrese turn it to Steph Curry, which is unlikely considering Steph Curry one of the greatest of all time. You know, just by the odds, Tyrese probably won't end up being one of the greatest of all time. You know what? The subreddit ain't as bad. So on Reddit, I saw, I mean on Twitter, I saw something saying that the subreddit was going crazy. But I think that these people have went through their stages of grief. They had to deny, oh, I hate this team, yada, yada, yada. But a lot of this stuff is like, hey, y'all don't really understand how good Subbonus is. And I don't think there's a person in the world that would tell you that Subbonus is not a good pickup. It's just about what you gave up to get Subbonus. Subbonus is a hooper. I love this trade, you know what I'm saying? So it's like, it's very interesting, very interesting. And you don't look terrible in that jersey. All right, let's talk about the second trade. And that is CJ McCullum getting traded to the Pelicans. I don't know why this trade broke seven different times. Like they told us, okay, they're in conversations. And then they said, oh, it's a deal has been created. Oh, now it's this for that compensation. It took them like seven different trades to tell us the full package. But I finally got it, okay? First, let me. All right, okay, full trade. The Blazers get Josh Hart, Tomas Satorancy, Nikio Alexander Walker, Didi, and a protected 2022 pick. Two second rounders, CJ, Larry Nant, and Tony Snail are going to the Pacers. And this is the second time this trade deadline. Well, I'm looking at the Blazers like, what is going on? Again, they tried to face this as, hey, we gon' have $60 million in cap space. What a reality. If you look at the 2023 free agency class, it's James Harden, okay? It's Kari Irvin, okay? It's Russell Westbrook on a player option low key. He's gonna take that $44 million. It's Zach Levine, it's Deandre Aden, it's Miles Bridges. With that $40 million, you think you're gonna go out there and get Dame a second star? Like a real second star. Not a CJ who's been really good. People forget that just last year, CJ was the average of 26 before he got injured. CJ's really, really good. He just didn't fit alongside Dame for the long term. Do you really think that you're convincing your fans that that $60 million in cap space is enough for them to root for? I do not think so. So what I think might happen is that you're gonna get today off season, you're gonna strike out on a lot of stuff that's gonna make Dame happy. And then this is the last straw. This is the, whatever it is to break the camel's back, whatever to say it goes. Dame, if this off season does not go perfectly for y'all, which it probably don't. Nobody's blaming you, dawg. Nobody's blaming you. And the Trailblazers organization, nobody is blaming you if you trade them away. They trade a CJ McCullum for Nicky Alexander Walker who has shown flashes. Nicky Alexander Walker can hoop, but it's just like, can he put it together full time? Josh Hart, who's younger but older, you know what I'm saying? He's younger but older. And then they got a first round pick that's protected so weirdly that it's like you might not get that pick dawg. You know what I'm saying? The Blazers, you might not get that pick this season. Only way you get it is if it's between five and 14 and the way things are going, the Pelicans will probably be a better team this season than what they are looking at right now. So you might not get that pick to convey this year. But Kenny, we just added one more first round pick. That's always a W. We got young assets and you never know when a disgruntled star is gonna be up there. You absolutely right. You don't know that. But that's just so much ifs to be building your organization around. Listen, I think majority of NBA fans came to the realization last year or even a year before that that the Dame CJ backcourt had run his course. You got to the Corvus Finals. It was a great run, but it had run his course. I don't know why it took that organization so long. Before the season started, people were mocking up CJ for Ben Simmons' trades and you had to settle for Josh Harden, QLZ and the Walker in a heavily protected first rounder. Not ideal. And the thing that confuses me the most, they don't have a general manager right now. Will they put up Joe Cronin and tell him this off season, you get the job full turn? I don't know. They have an interim dude making the biggest trades in their organization's history. An interim dude. Now imagine, he trade everything. Yousef Narcissus gone next and Dame is still there. We got all his camps. You telling me this off season, you're gonna hire a dude to clean up the mistakes and now they're gonna be blaming him if he don't get up, man, stop it. Joe Cronin should be your full-time guy because he made two huge trades for your organization. These are bad, objectively. These are bad. If the QLZ and the Walker could turn into something and Qion Johns could turn into something, then we'll look back on this in three seasons. But it's right now. This is bad. And now they got a million guards, a million of them. Anthony Simon, Eric Bledtoe, Dennis Smith, Junior, Nicky Alexander, Agatoma Satoransky, Ben Macklemore, CJ LB, Qion Johnson. Those are eight guards. And some of them can run like shooting guard wing positions, but that's eight guards. And you don't have any bigs other than the use of nuggets who might get traded anyway. I don't love this trade for them. I don't. The bright thing is that, hey, CJ is good enough to win you games occasionally and now he's gone so you can really bottom out and go for that top five pick or whatever it is. And if that's the case, and you get a Jabari Smith or you get a chat home groom, then you can look back on this trade and say it was worth it because we got a top three pick. But again, everything has to go in your favor. You got a 14% chance to get a number one pick if you're the worst team. Odds are a little bit different than they were four or five years ago. For the Pelicans, I like it a lot. I think CJ McCollum is definitely more of a three option on a good team than a two option, right? He's gonna be behind Zion eventually when Zion comes back. He's gonna be behind Brandon Niggum because Brandon Niggum is a bucket. And now you got CJ McCollum, which is great. The other thing I worry about is is this team is the 27th ranked defense in the entire league. CJ doesn't help that. CJ doesn't help that. It's gonna be a dog fight. They're gonna be scoring and scoring and scoring and scoring and hope that we hit the last shot at the end of the game. But if you're asking a team that basically gave up a young player in the Q-Allies and a Walker who was one of the odds on favor to win a most improved player and he ain't done none of that. And a lottery, heavily lottery protective first round pick, I would do this trade nine times out of 10. You know what I'm saying? What scares me a little bit is that CJ this season hasn't been great and he's already a 31 year old guy who's got a couple of years left on his contract. But it's a chance you got a team. This team still has a ton of draft capital. The Lakers trade, the Drew Holiday trade, they got a ton of picks, y'all. They got a ton of picks, got young players, Herb Jones is gonna have to defend everything. Brandon didn't even play some defense. But the inclusion of Larry Nance came out of nowhere. This trade went from one is like, oh, I messed with it for the Pelicans. To now add to Larry Nance, I'm like, yo, this is a really good trade. And Jackson Hayes has been hooping his butt off recently. Maybe they got something in him. Maybe he's more than just a dude that's in and out of the G League. I'm excited. The trade deadline is always a good time for me because I always love watching basketball, but I get kind of tired of watching the same teams. And now with all these movements, it's like, oh snap, this is basically a new Pelicans team. This is a new Trebley team. That's a new Indiana team. That's a new Kings team. So I mean, if I'm grading this one for the Pelicans, I'd probably give it like a BB plus. And for the Blazers, maybe a C minus, maybe a D plus, something like that. Let me know in the comment section which I'll think about all these trades. Y'all know these are just rambles more than anything. I may have misspoke a million times, but whatever.