 What's the word y'all? I'm trying to one take this one, ladies and gentlemen. We here to talk about the Cleveland Cavaliers cashing in their money in the bank briefcase and snagging Donovan Mitchell out of nowhere. I'm sitting here watching Eurobasket enjoying, well, France has been disappointed through the first half or so. I guess watch it, didn't it true? To beat up on France and out of nowhere, Donovan Mitchell gets traded. And there's that big anticipation because the first notification just said that the Cleveland Cavaliers have acquired Donovan Mitchell and for four minutes, everybody on Twitter is like, whoa, what? What was the package? What did they give up? Did they give up Mobley? Obviously not, y'all. Come on, man. One of the most untouchable young players in all the basketball. The trade ended up being Colin Sexton, Larry Markin and O.J. Abadji, three first round picks and two swaps. But I'm excited for Cleveland basketball. I went to change the shirt, so don't make fun of this. This is a small, I don't wear it often. And I don't really like it because they 2015 rolled to the NBA Finals and down here, my Chicago Bulls are in the grave. So don't really wear it often. It's anti-Bulls propaganda at this point. But the trade happened. It felt inevitable that Donovan Mitchell is gonna get traded to New York. But I kind of, I don't wanna make this about New York, obviously. But they've been in these conversations for the last month or so. The jazz said they wanted to get it done before training camp. And then a couple days ago, Leon Rolls decided he didn't want Danny Ains dictate in the future of his organization. So he extended this guy, RJ Barrett. But the experts even said, even when RJ Barrett's extension, there's still a world where Donovan Mitchell ends up on New York. So I was like, okay, he's gonna end up in New York, right? No, these boys came out of nowhere. There are teams that were linked to him. Like the Cavs had been linked to him. But nobody really thought that they were gonna really put it together. The Wasis was had been linked to him. Nobody thought the Wasis was gonna really put it together. The Cavs did it. And if I'm the Cavs, I do this 100% of the time. Now you can have some conversations around Donovan Mitchell being 6'1 and Darius Garland being 6'1. This is one of the smallest backcourts in all the basketball. How is it gonna work out? So we can have some conversations about what it'll look like on the court over the next couple of weeks. This right just happened 10 minutes ago. Let me go ahead and get my initial reactions out of this. I love this for the Cleveland Cavaliers. This is why. Like in that period of time between when I'm filming this video and when the actual pieces came out, I saw some people say overpay, overpay, overpay. This is why I don't believe this is an overpay and this can come back and bite me in two years or whatever. The reason I don't see this as an overpay is if we break down every single piece of this trade, there is nothing that you should be extremely attached to if you're the Cleveland Cavaliers as far as we believe that once we get to the point we're ready to compete for a championship, these pieces have to be on the team. Colin Sexton, we don't wanna give him no money anyway. You know what I'm saying? We don't wanna give him no money anyway. He was a big trade piece for somebody. We thought we was gonna have to dump him to the Dallas Mavericks for basically Reggie Bullock in a second. So we throw him in that trade boom. He got an extension by the way. So shout out to Colin Sexton. Four years, 72 million dollars, easy. The next piece, Laurie Marketing. Laurie Marketing is over there playing in Euro basket right now. It just got the notification that he got traded. So poor fellow. He's going to Utah though. I don't know. Maybe he blossoms, you know? Laurie Marketing was there for a season and he was good in that season. The Cavaliers surprised the world with their three center lineup or three seven footer lineup. Now they're kind of going the opposite direction. They get in a lot smaller. But there was nothing about what he performed last season to say, oh, once we really into it, he has to be safe. Absolutely not. Ote Abadzi played four games in the Summer League and I was there for a couple of them. He looked really good. You know what I'm saying? He was one of the older players in the draft if not the oldest player getting drafted in the first round. People saw him as a guy that could take some ice to crow opportunities because he defends well and he shoots the ball well and ice to crow only does one of those two things. But again, he's only been in the organization for two months. There's no attachment to him whatsoever. If you told me that Ote Abadzi was going to be the piece that we don't want to give in for Donovan Mitchell Trey, I will call you crazy. And then we talk about the first round picks and this is why I don't care about the first round picks in this circumstances for the Cleveland Cavaliers. We draft the Dearest Garland who's already an all-star and only 21 years old if I'm not mistaken. I would not be surprised if Bro made multiple all NBA teams throughout the course of his career. We draft the Evan Mobley last year and everybody knows that Evan Mobley is about to be an absolute stud. He looked amazing in this rookie season and I'm guessing he'll only get better and better and better. We got here that we have this young core that like we basically should have made the playoffs this year if everybody just stay healthier. Not even everybody. If 80% of our roster, 70% of our roster stay healthy, we would have been in the playoffs. So I'm looking at those first round picks like man, with Donovan, we ain't guaranteed luck to make the playoffs. We talk about 23rd overall pick, 29th overall pick. I'm not it, they probably won't be that good but these are picks that aren't gonna be super valuable to us, right? And then I know it's basically five years worth of pick equity but we got Evan Mobley for seven years, guaranteed. We just extended Dearest Garland. We got him for four more years guaranteed. Jared Allen, four more years guaranteed. How many years of Donovan Mitchell's contract? Whatever it is, guaranteed. Those picks don't mean nothing to me, right? So I'm looking at their depth chart. So it's probably gonna look somewhere along the lines of Dearest Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Karis Levert, Evan Mobley, Jared Allen. That is a really good, really good start at five. Off the bench, like, yes, you gave up some depth here but you will have Isaac Coro. You will eventually have Ricky Rubio. I don't know when that is. Kevin Love is still on the roster. We brought in Robin Lopez, Jenny Osmond is there, Dean Wade is there. The benches may be a lot to be desired but I think that they can finagle this and they mess with the minutes enough where Darryl Garland and Donovan Mitchell are switching gears. One of them is going with the second unit, one of them staying with the first unit. You know what I'm saying? They can figure it out. JB Beckerstaff is a very smart coach. I love it for them. You know, I'm excited for Cleveland Cavaliers basketball because as long as Cleveland's been a thing, at least as me being an NBA fan which started in 2002, 2003, if LeBron wasn't on the roster, this team was heavily irrelevant. And I understand it was only a small window when LeBron went to Miami and then recent but they were irrelevant. And when a trade like this, that is no longer the case. I would argue last year, they weren't irrelevant. You know what I'm saying? It just took the injuries that pulled them out of the hunt. The team has one of the best young cores in all the basketball now. Not one of, maybe number one. I might be pushing the gun a little bit but Darryl Garland, All-Star, Jared Allen, All-Star, Donovan Mitchell, All-Star, Evan Mobley, Superstar, that's one of the best young cores in all the basketball. And as they continue to get reps and reps a part of each other and on the same team, it's only gonna look better, I believe. Again, we can talk about the only course stuff. How does the defense look for Donovan Mitchell and Darryl Garland? Cause I think we can all agree, Donovan Mitchell was absolutely dreadful defensively over the last couple of seasons but specifically this year it was just some of the worst defense I've ever seen. You know what I'm saying? It was really that bad. But they have the pieces in play that can hold them up. Now of course, you need your perimeter defenders for sure. And I'm sure Ike Kerr was gonna get a ton of minutes this year and they're gonna ask Harris Leverge to lock in defensively a little bit more. But whatever Mobley and Jared Allen download the defense will probably still be, not probably, they will still be competent. Can we somehow convince Donovan Mitchell to turn back the clock just a little bit to when he was in college because when he was in college he was a plus defender. And now he don't have to worry about controlling the entire load offensively. Like, you know what I'm saying? When they were in Utah, they brought in Mike Connelly like, hey, we gonna ease the pain for Donovan Mitchell to give him a real point guard at Mike Connelly. But Mike Connelly was cool. He even got an all-star appearance. But like, there's a difference between current Darius Garland and the Mike Connelly that we got over the last couple years. So maybe since we're not asking Donovan Mitchell to be him 100% of the time, he can give us a little bit on the defensive side of the ball because we know it's there. He is undersized, obviously. There's only so much you can do when you're undersized like Donovan Mitchell is. But we just need you not to just let your man walk to the basket. One of the main reasons why this team has been eliminating the playoffs over the last couple of seasons, we're talking about the Utah Jazz with Donovan Mitchell is because the defense had been lackluster, terrible at the perimeter. And now we can ask you, we don't need you to average 40 in a playoffs series no more. You did that in Utah, congratulations. I'm exaggerating, but congratulations. We don't need that here. Lock in a little bit more defensively. If we could get 10% more effort from Donovan Mitchell, we feel very good about the way this team looks defensively, right? The only thing that hurts them a little bit is that if they want to get better in the near future, hypothetically, at a trade deadline, they don't really have a lot of stuff to potentially throw in. Five years worth of pick equity is a lot. Again, like I'm saying, I would do that as well. But there's no other piece there, unless you're saying, listen, there's a team out there that's selling that might be interested in the 21-year-old Isakura in a couple months. Boom, we got a couple of pieces that can help. I don't really know. If I'm in Utah Jazz, what the hell of an offseason for me? You know what I'm saying? As a team that has buckled down as a rebuilding team, trading, Rudy Gobert for basically five first round picks and basically getting five first round picks for Donovan Mitchell as well, pretty good. We got Oteobaji, we got Colin Sexton. Our fan base won't go out there and be like, hey, we winning seven games. We have a couple of players there that might be interesting enough for Utah fans to buy tickets. Colin Sexton, I don't know what he gonna look like after injuring everything, bucket. Bro's abs in the dub, bucket. And I'm looking at my notifications because I feel like there's more to be said. I'm looking at Shams and Wojus Twitter right now. Okay, they have been tweeting. The Utah Jazz, here we go. Cleveland is sending three unprotected first round picks. So that's 2025, 2027 and 2029, and then swaps in 2026 and 2028. The Jazz acquired 13 unprotected or lightly protected picks through 2029, which is great because if you are the Utah Jazz, you're not getting people to sign to you. So the way you become an contender again or become a team that's a playoff guarantee like they have been in the last, I don't know, five seasons ago, seasons or so, is you have to draft well. They trade it for where you go beard on draft night. They trade it for Donald Mitchell on draft night. These are the things you need to do. You get your two-star players, boom, and then you use all the other picks to potentially go get a Mike Conley or you go get this guy or that guy, but you wanna be an elevated version of the last version of that team. So to trade two all-star players and get back 13 picks is pretty good. Unprotected slags, lightly protected picks is amazing. And similarly, this is what Wojus says. Similarly to what the Minnesota Timbills did with Walker Kessler, same thing with the Cleveland Cavaliers. So that's basically another lottery pick or another first round pick because Ocea Bajane played a single second of NBA basketball just yet. And even Wojus saying, this is the lineup that Wojus is talking about. A lineup including two all-stars, the Darius Garland, Jared Allen, and the future all-star Evan Mobley. And Donald Mitchell just quoted Darius Garland's tweet and puts some emojis. I think they're ready. I think it's time the NBA has been shook it up again. And now we gotta start thinking about what tier of team does this put the Cleveland Cavaliers? Does this make them, are they a contender this season? I think a lot of that would have to do on what type of jump Evan Mobley takes because it's in them. I think we all can agree. I don't know, man. I'm sitting there thinking about it, trying to rock my brain around like, okay, what tier of teams to put them in the East? Are they better than Milwaukee Bucks? Would they be better than the Miami Heat? These are the Philadelphia 76ers. These are like the top teams in the Eastern Conference. Can't forget about the Boston Celtics. How many of those teams do Cleveland Cavaliers just jump? Maybe it's none of them right now. Maybe it's none of them in this exact moment, but you have to realize 21-year-old Garland about to be 26-year-old Donald Mitchell, 20-year-old Evan Mobley. This is not a trade thinking that, oh, we about to go win this ring right now, even though that will be cool. I mean, nobody's gonna stop you from winning the ring right now if you're a fan of the team. But this is not a trade thinking that this is our last go round. We gonna be solid because they extended pretty much all of the guys over there. And again, Evan Mobley sold his rookie deal. I think they leaped over like the Bulls. I think this trade helped them leaped over a team like the Raptors. The Atlanta Hawks made their own deal. I'm probably more secure with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And I am the Atlanta Hawks at this moment. Again, those are two teams that ain't played a single minute of basketball with their current teams. Maybe this doesn't put them in the upper echelon this season, but it helps them become part of that in a year. And two, that boy Cavalier stuck through it. Think about that. Two years ago, Kevin Love was pissed off at his teammates and the one teammate that he was specifically pissed off on, ooh, ooh, that's a bad sentence. He was pissed off with, is gone. He ain't got to worry about Collin Sexton taking up all the shots no more. And now he could be a savvy vet to some of the one of the best young courts in all the basketball. I'm excited for Cleveland Cavaliers basketball. I'm sure there's other things about this trade that I wanna talk about. But if this is the only piece of content we got, I might be back in a couple of days to give y'all a take number two on my takes of this stuff, man. Donovan Mitchell 45 and 10 in that backcourt. That's kinda nice.