 What's the word y'all? I'm recording this July 1st, bright and early in the morning. You could probably hear that in my voice. You'll probably see it in my face. But I didn't want to record this yesterday. Just a case of the crazy happened overnight. Nothing did. Zion got an extension in the early mornings and Ricky Rubio got a three-year contract with the Cavs, it's just so great. Coming off a major injury, you don't really expect people to get a multi-year contract, but he played some of his best basketball of his career with the Cavs and he helped them become one of the, the premier league pass teams last year and made them compete for a playoff spot last year. So I'm happy he's back with the Cavaliers, but I will say they won a free agency, absolutely men. I'm being honest, the best name to go to a different team was Jalen Brunson. And shout out to Kevin, I guess, because if it wasn't for Kevin requesting a trade, I don't have anything to talk about today. Or you can look at it the other way where Kevin requesting a trade is the reason why we haven't seen a lot of player movement because the other 29 GMs are getting on the phone and trying to figure out, are they actually in the Kevin to rent sweepstakes? And once they figure out that they're not, then they go out there and spend some money. So Kevin, you are a blessing and a curse. All right, so this might be biases talking here, but it feels like when I'm comparing 2021 free agency to 2022 free agency day one, 2021 is going crazy. It is killing 2022. And I said it might be biases because I'm a Chicago Bulls fan and the Bulls is one of the biggest buyers last year with DeMar DeRose and Lonzo Ball, Alice Caruso all signed into the Bulls in a matter of a couple hours. But like listen to the other names and the other things that happened in 2021. Chris Paul got an extension. They got a lot of people talking. Are you gonna be paying this old man Chris Paul for four years? They will be. Jared Allen got a $100 million contract. Cal Lauri left the raptors to go to the Miami Heat. Norman Powell got a five year contract with the Trailblazers. Like I mentioned, Lonzo Ball, Alice Caruso, DeMar DeRose and like these are big time things that happened in day one. And the best thing to happen yesterday was a bunch of extensions. Shout out to the young guys that's getting their max extensions, super max extensions. So showing them below from you. A lot of extensions and Jalen Bronson. That's it. And then like backup players, Andre Drummond, Isaiah Hardenstein is a Nick and I'm so jealous. I'm so jealous. Shout out to I Heart man. I wanted him in the Bulls, Jersey so bad. So shout out to the Knicks because they souped him up for the long. But Bradley, Jokic, Carthony Towns, John Morant and Zion, Anthony Simons. These are all people that signed a big extension. So shout out to them and their families because that is generational wealth. We talk about Jokic signing the biggest contract in NBA history. That's generational wealth. Let me nip this in the bud right now. Jokic becoming the, getting the biggest contract in NBA history is not a surprise. People are acting like this is a crazy thing. The NBA salary cap is going up every season. Now it's not the crazy jump that we got when Kevin Arant signed the Warriors. But still it's going up every season. So in two years somebody else is gonna sign a contract bigger than this. It's just the way it goes. It feels like every year we see somebody signing the biggest contract in NBA history. It was Steph Curry signing the biggest extension in NBA history. And that was Nicole Jokic. It's a lot of money in the game of basketball and it continues to go up. So we're gonna continue to see bigger contracts. Okay, cool. Let's talk about Kevin because that's the only thing that matters at this point other than Ludoor signing the bag and Bobby Port is re-signing. Like again, it's just a lot of re-signing here. Oh, and there are more is getting the gang back together in Houston. That's another big storyline, a fun storyline. But everybody's thinking and talking about Kevin. A couple of days ago, Carrie Irvin opted into his contract to stay with the Brooklyn Nets and he said, see you in the fall. And I thought that was gonna be at least the end of the Brooklyn Nets saga or rumors for at least a couple of days. And it wasn't because Kevin went into the front office and went to the owner and said, I'm a question to trade. And I'm thinking about Miami and I'm thinking about the Phoenix Suns. I love KD because he don't give a damn about what you, you talk about his own, his legacy, yada, yada, yada. This is another time where he's going to a different team and the top teams on his board are a team that basically won their conference, the best team in their conference. The Miami, he would have won C. The Suns were the one C. The Warriors were the one C. Kevin Arendt don't care. He wanna play with good players and those are some of the best players. He say he wanna play with Jimmy. He say he wanna play with Devin Booker. So the Miami, he wanna put together the package. It can't even include them on a bio anymore. And I'm seeing so many trades being drawn up. And my mentions are on the timeline. And I think people are really undervaluing Kevin Arendt on a four year contract. It is a bit iffy though because let's say you are one of the teams that Kevin Arendt is not excited to go to. You got him on a contract for four years, which is great. But who says Kevin don't do this exact same thing in two years or next season once he can because he didn't wanna be here in the first place. It's different than the Kawhi Leonard thing. Kawhi Leonard didn't wanna play for the Raptors but he only knew that he only had to be there for one season and that season was successful. But Kevin, you trade him to a team that he don't wanna go to. I don't know what happens. There's just so many different things to talk about just Kevin Arendt stuff and I know I'm not gonna cover it all. Let's just keep it 100% honest. The Brooklyn Nets were a failure. In just three years time, they signed two max players, all-star, superstar, caliber players at Kevin Arendt and Kawhi Irvin and then they ended up getting James Harden and they won one total playoff series. Kevin Arendt, eventually James Harden and Kawhi Irvin were all on a same roster and they won one playoff series and this is about to be tore down. They gave up all the pick equity, all of the young players that they had and Jared Allen and this player and this player and they're about to go to a reset, rebuild, retooling, whatever you wanna call it. Now, I do not believe that they're going to try to bottom out because they don't have a reason to bottom out because they gave up all of their picks in the James Harden trade. So they're not about to go do a Dijonte Murray-type deal where you're getting only draft picks because they don't have a reason to be terrible. They're going to want, and at least this is what I think, a young up-and-coming star player plus draft capital. This is still Kevin Arendt we're talking about but again, like I mentioned earlier, it let's say I'm just throwing out a team. This is not a rumor. This is not something that I think it would happen. Let's say the Pistons go all in and trade for Kevin but Kevin don't wanna play for the Pistons. Why? Even though Kevin Arendt is Kevin Arendt he's one of the greatest players of all time. Why should I give up my entire future when we're not even sure Kevin would wanna be here for longer than the season? So these are the type of things that's going on and that's why it hasn't happened. I don't think the Bricklenets should be rushing to make this deal happen. They have an entire off-season to figure out. I didn't expect Kevin to be traded in the first 24 hours if he requested to trade because there is no rush. Either way, Bleach Report put together this article late last night, trade packages and landing spots for star Kevin Arendt since he requested to trade. The Miami Heat are one but I don't think they even talk. Okay, so it's Cal Laurie, Tyler Hero, Nicola Jovic, three first round picks and three first round picks swaps. This is what I'm talking about as far as pick equity. When you're talking Kevin Arendt is going to be something like this. You're gonna give us picks and you're gonna swap picks out for us, my guy. But I don't know if they believe that Tyler Hero is the type of guy that we want to give a bunch of money to. Cal Laurie is good and Nicola Jovic is the 28th overall pick in this year's draft, whatever he was. Phoenix Suns make is interesting because if another team just throws an offer sheet to Deondre Aiden, it completely tears up anything that the Phoenix Suns could potentially do. Deondre Aiden, McKell Bridge is three future first round picks and two swaps. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. And I know there's some Phoenix Suns fans out there like, oh my God, that's a lot. Remember, we are still talking about Kevin Arendt and just based off pure talent. I don't know if this is a lot. You know what I'm saying? Of course, there's baggage that comes along with, as you know, Kevin has been on a couple of different teams and it seems like every time he leaves a different team, there's some type of falling out in one way or another. So there is some things that come along with it. But if your goal at the end of the day and it is the goal for all 30 NBA organizations is to win a championship, Kevin can help you do that as a hired gun. And we saw that for two out of three seasons with the Warriors, the Memphis Grizzlies. Ooh, Jaren Jackson Jr., Zaire Williams in four first round picks. This package up here looks a little bit better than this package right here. I'll say that. The Toronto Raptors, can the Toronto Raptors do it again? Last time they traded for a superstar player, it was an absolute steal. They gave up an all-star and a future player and won one pick. This is gonna cost you a little bit more than what it costs you to get Kawhi Leonard. Let's see what they're saying. OG, Gary Trent, four future first round picks and three swaps. That's seven years of pick equity for four years of Kevin DeRess. Sheesh, and then the Trailblazers. How is that? Anthony Simons, who just resigned. So I don't know if this is, I don't know. Sharp, Josh Hart, three future first round picks and three swaps. What I'm figuring out is that nobody really knows what the package could look like for Kevin DeRess. Bobby March is talking about just gonna be the biggest trade package in NBA history, which is very interesting. But I wanna go back to talk about the Brooklyn Nets as a whole being a failure. Because like I said, you had all these players, only one one playoff series and that's because of injury. That's because vaccinations. That's overall because of just people being out of the lineup. That's turmoil within the locker room, teammates not getting along. And me and the guys were talking and I'm praying that other teams are seeing what's going on and realizing that the super team era should be over. The orchestrated super team era should be over. We got money for two max spots. Let's go get two superstar players. That has not worked out to the way that a lot of people anticipated. Kevin Durant, Cary Irvin and James Harden were the championship favorites. Like two of the three years that they were together. And again, one playoff series went. It is crazy to say aloud. And now when me being 25 years old, I'm looking back on those Miami Hedals, one of the original super teams is going to call it that. And the fact that they got two championships seems like a huge success now. And the moment we were like, oh man, this is a failure. You got LeBron, you got Wade, you got Boston. You only want two out of four. When you look at all these super teams that came after that two out of four, the Bricklin Nets will be be super happy with two out of four. You know what I'm saying? And I'm talking about the orchestrated super teams. I'm not, I do consider the, when Kevin Durant went to the words, I consider that a super team. But in the heart of that is homegrown with Steph, with Dre, with Clay, right? In the heart of that, it is homegrown. I'm talking about the super teams that seem like we gonna make a tray here to get a star. We gonna sign a player here to get a star and boom. Now we just throwing the balls out there. And these guys who've never played any minutes together are gonna do it. I'm talking about the arrow. We got three max players and the rest are minimum players. That is dead or at least it should be because these guys gave up all the pick equity in the world. They traded away all the young players that they had for the opportunity to bring in these three players. I'm looking at the front office over there and I'm thinking about like, who has the leverage here? You would think that the front office of the Bricklin Nets will have the leverage because well, Kevin Durant has four years on his contract. So who gives a damn about what he want? We gonna do what's best for our organization. But you also gotta think about it from the player empowerment era that we're in. If the Brooklyn Nets trade Kevin Durant to the dead last team on his board of teams, that's gonna set them back as an organization when it comes to the future. When it comes to these other players that might be interested in joining the Brooklyn Nets. Cause I saw when Kevin decided that he didn't wanna play here no more, they did him dirty. And again, I know it don't make sense because before that they gave Kevin everything he wanted. He wanted Reed, we got you Reed. You want James, we got you James. You want to start Deandre Jordan? We a fire, you're a goddamn coach because Deandre Jordan is your guy. But all of that goes away. If you trade Kevin to one of the teams that he absolutely despised. And I know it makes no sense, but that's just the way the NBA is. So we see the Brooklyn Nets two times in the last 10 years bottom out at the sniff to bring in some really good players, trade everything for a sniff to be in the conference finals to get a championship appearance. And every single time it has failed, how many championship appearances that KG and Paul Pearson, Dare Williams get? How many championship appearances did we get from KD, Kyrie and James? It has failed over and over and over. I would never do this again if I'm a general manager. I'm gonna try to do my stuff through the draft, do my two-diligence through the draft and then try to build a team that way. And if we're one piece away, then I'll give up everything to get your holiday. If we're one piece away, I'll give up everything to get this. But bottoming out like last year, two weeks ago even, I was saying that if I was a general manager and I had the opportunity to get KD and Kyrie, I'm doing it no-brainer. And now I have decided it's not a no-brainer anymore. It's just not, it's not a no-brainer anymore. In that moment, if I'm Sean Marks, 100% I'm doing. In that moment, if I see that James Harden wants to come to my team, 100% I'm doing it. But in hindsight, it's 2020, yes for show. Hindsight is 2020, I'm not doing it. And that could be James, that could be Kyrie, that could be KD, that could be Shave, that could be John Miranda, it could be Zion. It could be any two collections of superstar players. I don't know if I do it anymore because it doesn't seem like it has been working. Idle Porter's just signed with the Toronto Raptors. Hey, Toronto got, that is young back and now they got out of Porta. They're getting the Windy City Bulls together. Wow. Yeah, man, I'm just curious. I don't believe that we're gonna get a camera rent rate anytime soon. And when I say soon, I mean like today or tomorrow, I guess it definitely is a possibility. But you know, I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't see why they would rush it unless, unless there's one team that's giving everything, three picks, four picks, swaps, a young up-and-coming player, plus this, plus that, and then you do it if it's a no-brainer. But I just don't, I don't see it happening anytime soon. The Miami Heat, again, one of the teams that Katie wants to go to, their package doesn't look as enticing as some of the other teams that can put it together. The Phoenix Suns has a good package if they're willing to give that. James Johnson said recently in a presser, they don't give a damn about draft picks anyway. They said that. He said that. They don't care about draft picks. They don't even be doing scouting like that. That's how you get Jalen Smith instead of Tyrese Halliburton. That's how you get Jalen Smith instead of whoever. They don't give a damn about the draft. So why not trade all the picks away anyway? What you got to lose? Jalen, I mean, I said Jalen, oh my God. James Johnson, because if this don't work, you're probably getting fired anyway. And then those picks that you gave up for 2029, not really your problem anymore, right? Shaw Marks, job security, probably in the tank. Even though he did what a lot of us considered to be a no-brainer, it turned out it wasn't. So if Shaw Marks has a job at the end of this off-season or next year, wow, that's a lot of loyalty. It's a lot of loyalty. I mean, he showed before him, he was really good with the Jared Allen era, the Angelo Russo era. Team is really fun. I think that's why I wrap up. I don't have anything else to say. I don't know, you might be getting multiple videos in a day depending on how things go. Like if I publish this video, Kevin O'Regg is created in two hours. There will be another video. But either way, let me know what you think about free agency so far. Kevin O'Regg situation, I'll be down there.