 What's the word y'all? Let's talk about the trade. Listen, I get to put Russell Westbrook and LeBron James in the title and in the thumbnail list. I'm just playing my algorithm. I'm here to talk about the Russell Westbrook trade and honestly I don't have a ton of say like usually a trade like this will take a 15-20 minute video It ain't that much to really say for me right now Maybe we'll revisit this trade after free agency because I do believe a part of this trade is free agency But if you did not know what happened, Russell Westbrook got traded to the Lakers with two second round picks for Kyle Cools I'm a kid tables car with Pope my trust hero in their first round pick which they also traded There's a lot of trading going on in the draft right now. It's late 20s. I'm recording this So if you see me looking up, that's me seeing who gets drafted All you need to know is that Russell Westbrook is now on the Lakers now You heard the name Russell Westbrook LeBron James and Anthony Davis on the same tape four years ago You just said dang LeBron James got another super team day LeBron James got another big three I can agree with the second part. Yes. This is a this is a big three. This is far from a super team I'm saying that and I guess it's semantics. It don't really matter if you want to call the super team That's okay. It's semantics at the end of the day I just think that the name the word super team is thrown around way too much an NBA fandom right now And I don't think this is it. I don't think this is it. So there's a moment There's like five minutes of time where woe's is like a buddy heel to the Lakers is done It sounds like nah, I think it's Russell Westbrook. It was a great time on Twitter if you weren't there I'm sorry for you. Where are you at? You have a job? I feel I feel bad for you my guy You need to be in the NBA Swittersphere So when that happened that made me pose a really really good question. Um, I asked the people on Twitter if you are the Lakers GM Should you be traded for a fit aka buddy healed or talent aka Russell Westbrook? There's not a sane person in the world that would tell you that buddy healed is a better basketball player than Russell Westbrook But there are a lot of sane people in the world that would tell you buddy healed fits better on the Lakers than Russell Westbrook potentially and the reason we say that's because the LA Lakers were the 25th three-point shooting team in the league this year Buddy healed as crazy as to say is one of the greatest three-point shooters in the history of basketball He is and he's in his prime right now So I asked a question Would you rather get the fit of buddy healed or Jesse overall beacon of talent which is Russell Westbrook? And the Lakers decided to go with Russell Westbrook now when it comes to a Los Angeles Lake or a LeBron Latine that's gonna win a championship. It's gonna go to the finals. There's a simple formula You have LeBron check Lakers got that have a secondary start check. That's Anthony Davis have shooting and spacing We don't have that Yes, a major reason why the Lakers got eliminated in the first round is because of injuries But another major reason because the players that they had relied on to hit those open jump shots We're no longer hitting that those open jump shots and now They just traded for the worst Valium shooter in the history of basketball that is not an opinion. That is a fact Russell Westbrook is the worst value shooter in the history of basketball and LeBron James is your best three-point shooter You're probably You know what I'm saying. I'm saying out of this take it all the great So because I wouldn't be surprised if this team breeze through the player breeze through the regular season and made a run through The playoffs they are super talented. I see the talent on this team with this victory is amazing, right? but fit wise is going to be a big clunky Honestly, it's gonna be a big clunky one of the most underrated parts about the straight though Like I said, I don't really love the spacing of it But one thing that is super underrated about this and what I think may be the idea when you when you trade for Russell Westbrook right now is over the last two seasons LeBron James suffered the most injuries he's ever had and that's It's not it hasn't been a ton right But we talk about a player that played basically 15 straight years of basketball and now his body is starting to break down a little bit On him Anthony Davis has a long wrap sheet of injuries Russell Westbrook for the most part don't really have that not yet. No, no Russell Westbrook gets injured often But Russ is gonna play through those things every season Russell Westbrook starts off bad and then we find out all his pinky was broken Oh, he had a foot contusion it always happens But Russell Westbrook will play through it and Russell Westbrook is a type of talent that a LeBron wants to sit out for a game And Anthony Davis have a nagging injury and Russell Westbrook can single-handedly bring your team to victory multiple times And maybe that is the most underrated part about this, but how much of that matters? Once we get to the playoffs right because in the playoffs hypothetically like most of the time these players should be healthy and And and Russell Westbrook put on the backpack and say I got us to get us a few games That don't really happen in the playoffs or the past couple years Russell Westbrook hasn't been the Russell Westbrook We know he can be when it came to playoff time Hopefully having LeBron James on his team. This is I was gonna say this is the most tally Russell Westbrook's ever played with Yeah, probably still yeah, I know he played with Katie and he played with a younger James Harden, but this is definitely more tally, right? Let me know in the comment section. I think that's arguable But I don't think I'm going too far by sentence the most tally Russell Westbrook has had as far as a big three Now what I want to say though a big big portion of this tray being graded has to do with what the Lakers do Next right there's a report a few days God I don't remember from some worlds yourself somebody very liable source was like a there's a lot of veterans on the 2021 market that's that will be willing to take a huge pay cut to play with LeBron James and potentially get a title for LA If that is the case and you can sign some names It's gonna be a 40% shooter 40% shooter decent bench for the minimum don't matter. You're gonna be fine But if you can't sign that shooting in free agency, I I Don't love it And listen, I might have been saying the same thing if buddy healed was the thing I don't Necessarily, it's necessarily love it rush rush rush because a few more years on this deal He's he's the most pay play on the Lakers now. That's something Russell West we got the bag But overall I said this in my stream and we streamed the lottery today I am so happy for Russell Westbrook because one thing I don't like Russell Westbrook is a very likable guy, right? And I know there's a good percentage of NBA fans that don't like Russell Westbrook because of his play style and yada yada Russell Westbrook the person from everything I've seen in interviews and everything I see everything He seems like such a good person such a good man I'm happy to see him back in a winning situation Competing for a ring if there's anything to take away from this video I'm happy that Russell Westbrook is going to be competed for a ring next season But I just don't know what this team looks like when they hit the court next season I don't know. I mean you didn't give up a ton to make it happen From everything From everything we know they were calling up every team like yo, you won't cause me you won't KCP Yo, you won't cause me you won't KCP and you turned it into Russell Westbrook who though He was not an all-star this year. We all know Russell Westbrook is an all-star caliber player, right? So it's something You might have wanted now. This is just me talking to get me rambling The alternative to this is using the money that is the Russell Westbrook contract and Potentially signed in multiple names of free agency if the report of Kyle Larrie and Amanda Rosen was true I think you'd probably rather have that for them with the you know them being with the Lakers other than Russell Westbrook Just because it's more talent because it's more split up with two players and they probably fit a little bit more Especially since Cal Larrie is a decent three-point shooter The Lakers should be fine. I'm like I'm not one of those people that's gonna overreact The Lakers were probably an NBA championship contention next season. It's the Lakers Let's talk about the Wizards for a couple seconds. A Lot of people thought this was like foreshadow Bradley Beal is gonna get traded now But now that it's a couple hours removed it seemed like they're using this is like a Bradley We got 28 million dollars in cap space, bro We got Cal Cosma who said he was on the same level as Jason Tatum. Maybe he is I know you wanted to play with Jason Tatum because y'all grew up together We got Jason Tatum 2.0 It's a good return. It's a fine return for Russell Westbrook who again like we mentioned in the Bradley Beal video a little while ago There's a ceiling on Bradley Beal and Russell West were playing together with the surrounding pieces You get rid of that and now you open the team up a little bit more I still would like to see Bradley Beal get traded, but they they got Corey Kisbro in the team now So maybe he won't maybe home. I want to see how cool is gonna be successful. I I absolutely hate When when team or our fans of teams Just turn around on a player listen. I'm guilty of it It's hard not if you have a player on your team that was good at one point and turned into bad It's hard not to turn around on them. I've been guilty of it But the way the Lakers fans treated Cal cools me this last season. I hope he balls out He ain't gonna be Jason Tatum like he think he is He did a lot of yeah, but you better show us something Kyle Time about it's hard to be consistent when your role is inconsistent and why while that is true Bro, you want a championship, bro? You know I'm saying it's I guess it's fine. You want a championship? Let me know what you think about the Russell West betrayed Lakers fans WL Who'd you rather have and all the other people that are neutral? Let me know that I say anything everything I wanted to say it don't matter. We'll talk about this straight again in free agency