 What's the word, y'all? They want to NBA 380 is over, I guess? I don't know, things are still breaking. I just found out their growth is going over the Memphis. So there's no real good time to do a video like this, but let's talk about some of the deals from the day. Obviously, I'm not gonna get to every single one, but this all seems extremely long. And I promise you, if I don't talk about your favorite team today, we gonna get to it eventually. The season don't start for another couple months. No exaggeration, the real winner of everything that happened today is Rich Paul slash Clutch Sports. Every single major deal that happened today, Rich Paul was attached to, and so congratulations to them, I guess. We saw some enormous bags be given out today. Some of them made me really look and be like, that's what his value was at. I do want to say this right over, because it is extremely important. I hope that everybody keeps his mindset throughout 380 for now and for the future. These players are doing the exact thing that you and I would do. Some of y'all know that I'm signed to Bleach Report, I've been working with them for the last five years. If they offer me a dollar amount that is way more than I think I'm valued, guess what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna sign that paper. You know what I'm saying? So you might think a player's overpaid, but again, I wouldn't take my frustration out on the individual player because they're just doing what's right for them and their family. If you wanna get mad about somebody being overpaid, be mad at your front office because they thought that that's what the value was at. Okay, cool. Or be mad at another organization because they rose the price up of a specific player. Just don't come at the players because again, they're doing what me and you would do. My contract is up with BR very soon. And if they are giving me an enormous bag and I'm like, whoa, that's what I'm that? I'm gonna sign it. And you should too, no matter what your job is, a raise is a raise. So before 380 even started, a lot of things happened. Joe Harris got traded, Chris Dortay got traded. Yeah, we'll talk about some of those things, not today, but in the future video, whatever. The thing that stood out the most to me was Trent Watford getting waived. And as such a ministerial name to like an average NBA fan, but he's a 22 year old forward, that was at least decent over the last couple of seasons. He was making a contract that was less than the veteran minimum. So for the Portland Trailblazers to waive him for practically nothing, I thought in my mind, that meant something big was about to happen. And again, there's so many rumors around Damian Lillard over the last, I don't know, 100 years it feels like. That's not what my mind was at because I had a pretty good notion that the Trailblazers were trying to build around Dame. But I was thinking, okay, getting rid of this $1.8 million contract for this up and coming player, does that mean that they're about to make a move to improve the roster right now? And what we found out is, that was just to give Jeremy Grant $160 million. Damian Lillard told that team that they wanna go win a championship. They said, we're dedicated to building a roster around Dame that can be competitive enough to compete for a championship. And their recipe today was signing Jeremy Grant to a five-year, $160 million deal. And that's probably gonna be the big move. Now, every side was still a name that's rumored to maybe get traded or whatever. But that is a ton of money to Jeremy Grant. And that doesn't mean that Jeremy Grant is a bad player because he's not, he's not a bad player whatsoever. But still, I think most people look at that deal and be like, man, that is a lot of money for what Jeremy Grant can bring to the table. And forget it, why are we here? Let's talk about all of the contracts that feel like, whoa, that's a lot of money for him. Number two on the list is Fred Evely. He might be the poster boy today of that's a lot of money. He signed a three-year, $130 million contract. I saw a lot of tweets going around that he's gonna be making more annually next year or this upcoming season than his field goal percentage in his last year. Yeah. Now, I do wanna say the Houston Rockets had so much cap space and every single NBA team have to spend at least 90% of the salary cap or they're just gonna have to give that money up to the NBA or whatever. So we knew that the Houston Rockets were gonna be buyers, rumored well before that was just gonna be James, but James decided he wanna do something else. We saw that Brooke Lopez was attached to them, Dylan Brooks attached to them and those players haven't signed just yet. We saw that Freddie was attached to them but I didn't think it was gonna be this number. I knew that in order to pry away Fred Evely from the Toronto Raptors, it would have to be a crazy bag but I didn't even think it was gonna be this crazy. I mean, yeah, he might really, really love Toronto but he would be crazy to pass up on three years, $130 million. That contract is $4 million more than what Kari Irvin signed for which is three years, 126 million. And if I'm not mistaken, Kari might even have an option on that last year. So Freddie, based on his season is making more money than Kari Irvin and that's just so hard to wrap my brain around because Freddie had his All-Star season a few years ago. This year was not exactly that. I also do believe that Fred Evely was overtaxed in his role with the Toronto Raptors over the last season and a half because the first half of last season, he was incredible. He had the injuries in the second half. He was kind of stinky. And last year, I wouldn't call him stinky but he wasn't the All-Star version of him that was on the roster a year and a half before that. I don't really know what his role is gonna be. I mean, his role is gonna be goddamn Superstar with that amount of money, at least that's what you hope. But again, this is a team that had money to spend and had to spend it somewhere. Another team that had a similar thing in mind is the Indiana Pacers who paid Bruce Brown over $20 million a year. Now this one is different than the Fred Evely one because as I'm recording this video, it seems like the Fred Evely money is completely guaranteed three years, 130 million where Bruce Brown signed in two years 45 million on the surface level. It's like, oh my God, we talking Bruce Brown who came off the bench. We talking about Bruce Brown who in Brooklyn leaving Brooklyn didn't have any offers other than the different nuggets, you paid him $45 million. But the second year is not guaranteed. I'm pretty sure it's a team option. So this is basically a one year, 20 something million dollar contract for the Pacers who again, another team that had to spend money to get to the salary floor and they pried away a guy in Bruce Brown who felt like he might be going back to the different nuggets but at this evaluation, he can't pass up this one year bag and if he plays great possibly two year bag at that second year guarantee down the line, it's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. Now it took a while for it to be reported that this second year was a non guarantee slash option or whatever and he was the poster boy of wow, that was his market. But then when you talk about the second year not being completely guaranteed or the second year being an option, it doesn't look that bad. And I was trying to figure out, we did a live stream of all of the things breaking and I'm trying to figure out, okay, what does the Indiana Patience line it look like? Because I really, really do like what they've been doing. Of course, Tyrese Halliburton was an all-star this season. A lot of this year, it was him and them hard in the back court, you have Buddy Heald and then you had Aaron Neesmith and Miles Turner. They drafted Juris Walker, who I think is a good fit. We'll see how he meshes in the NBA and now they bring in Bruce Brown and they try to break Chris Dortay so that's opening up some minutes for some things but you don't pay somebody 20 plus million dollars to come off your bench. So I don't know, does that mean that Buddy Heald is now coming off the bench? Or maybe you do pay somebody 20 plus million dollars to come off the bench. I don't know. But his new teammate seemed to be very excited for him. Tyrese Halliburton had some tweets excited and he's one of those dudes that I honestly do feel like he's gonna bring value no matter where he is. And at the end of every single season there's like these cap experts that tell you a player if they lived up to their contract. I wonder what that's gonna look like at the end of next season. Will Bruce Brown play to the point where he's worth 22, 23 million dollars annually? Only time will tell. One of the more surprising things of the evening was seeing how Kuzma go back to the Washington Wizards four years, 102 million dollars. And it kind of makes sense. We think about all the teams that had money that they could potentially throw at Kuzma. The Kings ended up using their money to bring back Harrison Barnes yesterday and then brought back Trey Lyles on a good deal. So it seemed like he might've been a fit there. They used their money other ways. Indiana Pacers again, like we mentioned, gave a bag to Bruce Brown. Obviously we see that the Houston Rockets had their eyes set on the point guard at Fred Van Vliet. So the market for Kyle Kuzma, if he wanted to explore his options outside of Washington, dried up really fast. And an alternative of signing a four year, 102 million dollar contract is a huge, huge win. The Washington Wizards are, I'm just saying interesting right now because I don't know what the rest of the roster is gonna look like, but having Jordan Poole in a new situation, having Ty's Jones in a new situation where he could completely start, having Valau who's probably a project but still gonna get a lot of minutes. And then Yabiya having a little bit more freedom to spread his wings. And now Kyle Kuzma comes in or comes back and tries to be like, I don't know, like the vet. Is he like the vet over there? Kuz? I don't really see him like that, but obviously he's the NBA champion. You know, he's been a 20 point per game score. And now he's the highest paid player, second highest paid player on the team. Cause I forgot that Jordan Poole is making a bunch of money as well. But like him going back to Washington makes sense in the fact for the Washington Wizards that like we can, we can pop him off at the deadline next season if he plays very well under this contract. This is not an absurd amount of money for Kuzma. You know what I'm saying? So he comes back and potentially get moved to another team at the deadline, a contendent type team. I don't really know, but I didn't mind this deal. It was just surprising going into the debut to ask me would Kuzma be a wizard or would he be somewhere else? I would put a lot of money on him being somewhere else. The Raptors, oh man, this has been an interesting day for the Raptors. Obviously they lost Fred Van Vleet. But they brought it before that, they brought back Jacoperto on a four year, 80 million dollar contract. That is $20 annually, I mean, $20 million annually for Jacoperto's puts them on the same plane as Nikola Vusovic when it comes to annual salary or whatever you want to call it. And they lost Fred Van Vleet. And now I was thinking when that happened like man, now the Raptors are in this weird spot. And they backed it up by signing Dennis Schroeder to a small contract worth two years. And the Raptors are a team that's super interesting. I mean, now they have this new coach. I thought there was a world where they were gonna hit the reset button or retool button. This don't really look like that. I just got a notification 30 minutes ago saying that they're maybe trying to reformulate the deal around Gary Tran Jr. to give him additional years on his contract. Ogyana Nobis up for an extension soon and so is Pascal Siyakum. I'm not completely sure what Masai is cooking. But he's trying to cook something when I thought that it was going to the other direction. Usually when you bring in a coach with no head coach and experience at the NBA level, a lot of the times like, hey, we're gonna give this dude a shot. We're gonna have him develop some young talent. We're gonna be somewhat bad and let him learn the ropes in the NBA as a head coach. Instead, they're saying like, hey, we're gonna keep our core together as much as we can because they couldn't match $130 million in Fred Van Vleet. We're gonna keep our core together as much as we can and let the rookie coach do his thing. And hopefully we get more ball movement instead of the stagnant offense that we saw all last year. So I don't know, the Raptors are one of those teams that I could see being a lot better next season. Again, I know they lost the title of Fred Van Vleet, but now that we have this different mindset with the coaching, I don't know. Again, we gotta see what the rest of the office looks like. Cam got his bag, four years, 108 million. Love that for him. Herb Jones got a reconstructed deal, four years, 54 million. Again, I think this is one of the steals of the day. Four years, $54 million for Herb. Now, obviously the big thing about Herb is can we get him to be a knockdown three point shooter, a super respectable three point shooter. But the defense speaks for itself. It speaks volumes. And when him only being 24 years old, signing him to a contract that's like at the end of it, or towards the back end of it, that's less money than what the mid-level exception is gonna be. I think that's an absolute steal. I probably should have started off talking about the Suns because the Suns did a lot today. Damian Leo, the one-year deal. Drew U-Banks on the one-year deal. Joshua Koghi is back. They brought in Catebates-Diop. They brought in Uduwata Navi. They brought in Tamezi Metu. That was in the last six hours. That's six signings in six hours, y'all. And considering the place that they're in where they're close to being hard capped and they have all these max contracts, I think the group of guys that they got can come in and fill up some roles. I think Catebates-Diop, a lot of people don't realize how solid Catebates-Diop is. Two years, $5 million. He had a lot of good moments with the Spurs last season. Drew U-Banks, oh man, Derek always brings up the stat that Drew U-Banks had the most blocks off the bench in basketball last season, so he could add some value there. Uduwata was the best corner three-point shooter in all of all last season, shooting 52% on corner threes. And obviously he played with Kevin O'Rant for a little while. I think given the circumstances, I think they walk out of today feeling really good about next season. Now, how would us all look on the court considering the only people that are coming back are Booker, Aiden, and maybe Cameron Payne, like everybody else on the, Kevin, I guess, everybody else on the team is brand new when you're gonna get that continuity phase or whatever. I don't know how it's gonna exactly look, but again, given the circumstances, I thought they did pretty solid. I don't love what's happening with the Miami Heat right now. I'm beyond to you. Losing streus and Gabe Vincent in return getting Josh Richardson back. Last time Josh Richardson was really, really good was when he was with the Miami Heat. Maybe that Miami Heat coach can bring him back to that. Remember, Josh Christopher got, Josh Christopher, Josh Richardson got traded for Jimmy Butler, almost straight up, almost. You know what I'm saying? But they lost some key pieces. Kevin Love is back too, I guess, but they lost some key pieces. I'm sorry, the Max Juice thing is not confirmed. It was reported about the Cavs signing them, and then there was a secondary report that said they're trying to work out a signage rate. I don't know, I'm not gonna say that Max Juice is not on the roster because it's not confirmed. I think the Lakers have been doing some cool stuff given the circumstances. They brought in Cam Radis, which is like a flyer on a dude that was one of the top ranked players of his class for my 10th overall pick, but he's been around the block now with the Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, the Portland Trailblazers, and now with the Lakers, maybe the Lakers can get him to reach that untapped potential. I don't know, but they stole the way Gabe Vincent from the Miami Heat, who's good. We saw that in the NBA playoffs. And then Ruri Hachimura coming back on 351 feels fine. Ruri went from a guy that was worth a second round pick at the deadline last season and now signed in a $51 million contract. So congratulations to him. He had walked away from basketball for a couple of months, if you don't remember, and to sign that kind of a deal after that is pretty dope for him. We'll see how it translates on the court long term. They still have Austin Reeves out there. I'm praising them at the moment. I'm praising them at the moment, but if they lose Austin Reeves, I'm probably gonna throw my thumb down immediately. The Bulls ended up bringing back Kobe White at 333. They could potentially go to 340 on his sentence. I really like Kobe White. Again, I thought he was one of the few bright spots for the Chicago Bulls last season. I know the numbers might not say that, but if you watch the Bulls, you saw he got better defensively. He brought a lot of energy and he can. I still have hope in this 23-year-old golf guard to hit another stride. I don't think he's gonna be Gilbert Arenas, which is what he was projected to come out of college. I just found that out doing a TikTok that's gonna be on this account later today. He's not gonna be Gilbert Arenas, but he's a solid player and for $11 million, you all think that's a good pickup. Javon Carter is here in Chicago for three years, 20, and I made a video on my other channel, my channel about this conspiracy theory that Chicago Bulls always need to keep one Chicago born playing the roster, and they have that in Javon Carter, which makes me think that Aayut Assumu's not coming back. I don't know how true that is, but you signed another point guard. I just don't know if you're bringing back Aayu, so we'll see. Again, this is just day one of free agency. Still out on the board are Austin Reeves, Brooke Lopez, D'Angelo Russo, Westbrook, Dylan Brooks, Dante Divincenzo, who seems like he might be going to the Knicks based on some reports. Kelly Ubre, Grant Williams, and Derek Rose signed with the Grizzlies for two years. Shout out to D'Rose. The real question, and this is something that I'm gonna end the video off here, what happens with Christian Wood? I don't know how to answer. I'm genuinely asking you in the conversation. What happens with Christian Wood? I have no, is he signed it for the mid-level? Less than that? What is the value of Christian Wood? He feels like a player that because he doesn't have much value or we don't know his value, that he should be going to the Phoenix Suns. And everybody's gonna be pissed. And then we're gonna realize that Christian Wood, not a game changer. He hasn't been, at least. I don't know. You let me know in the comment section. Day one of free agency wrapped, and we'll come back to talk about day two and all of that stuff once we get there.