 We're going to the Western Conference because Shams, it's time for you to drop some knowledge on us. Please. What do you got? So Jake Crowder, he's a guy that still remains without a resolution on his future. He spent some time away from the team throughout training camp, throughout preseason. And the Suns yesterday actually listed him inactive to start the season. I'm told they have still remained in discussions with teams that are interested in Jake Crowder. The Atlanta Hawks are one team that has engaged with the Suns, I'm told in the last several weeks to try to get a deal done for Jake Crowder to bring him in with Trey Young, Dejante Murray and John Collins. But a no deal has happened is going to be interesting to see how the Suns and what the Suns necessarily want for a guy that started for them, that they envisioned having a role on this team. They're 115 and 39 with him in the lineup in the last year. This is a big piece that they're going to start the year without tomorrow night. Those are big numbers, Chandler. You played with the guy and as a fan of the game, I want to see him somewhere and what do you make of the story? Yeah, you want Jake Crowder on your team. He's one of those intangible pieces where he can defend, he can knock down shots. He's an awesome dude. He brings that level of toughness to your team that not a lot of teams have. And with everything going on with the ownership with the Suns, now I can see Jake literally not playing until Sarva is forced to sell the team where there's a change in management or something. He's a principal dude. He's tough as nails and he doesn't take shit from anybody. So I can definitely see that being a part of it. I would love to see him in Atlanta, honestly. He's one of those young teams that could use a vet in the locker room and on the floor like a Jake Crowder. But yeah, man, he's a great dude and he's a principal guy. So I can't see him playing in Phoenix this year until there's a change there. So he's not going to KD the trade request. That's good enough. Here's the problem. So I don't know how much juice he has on the trading block, you know, I mean, valuable to your team. But yeah, I don't I don't I think he's a great fit on a lot of other teams. But I don't I don't see him staying in Phoenix. But guys, let's look at like the year that the Suns have had games. You have the Aitin situation. You have the Robert Sarva situation. You have the Jake Crowder situation. They've I don't know if tumultuous is the right word. I don't even know if this is a rocky, you know, the last few months. I mean, they've they've gone through it. And so I it's tough, you know, looking at this team and seeing this being an upward trajectory. I'm definitely curious. Chandler starts like, if you're a player on that team and you're dealing with one thing after another, the game seven loss, the Aitin situation, the him coming out saying, I haven't spoken to money when then he says he has it's it's a lot. I'm sure for a locker room and a player and especially star players to deal with. It's a lot. It's a lot. And it seemed like eight. Deandre Aitin, he's a disgruntled employee going to that gym every day. And that's just not good for the kids. Not for them around the dude saying he's not talking to the head coach. Like clearly he wants smoke. He wants to be he's pissed it in the contract. Yeah, I think Chris Paul is a year older. I think this is a team kind of like Dallas that's going to take a step back. I love their young players. So I love Cam. I love the kill bridges, but I just don't see them kind of being that force that they've been this year. It's crazy to me because all of that drama is self imposed. Like it's just it's all in house. It's all internal. It's things that a lot of it could have been avoided with choices that were done differently. The server thing is obviously it's his own special entity that's that's gross on a lot of levels. But Eddie, what were you going to say? I was just saying I was wondering just how much the Aitin thing is going to linger because he can be traded at some point in this year. And he also holds some control over that as well. And, you know, when you get benched in a playoff game that you absolutely need to win and you're a starter on your team. And that's bad that for the whole real to see that's bad. And it lingered all summer. It's like, yeah, he got his money and he got what he felt he was due. But that has to be something there. And then obviously you had the thing with Jay, same thing. And then Chris Paul, Chris Paul is just he's a personality to deal with. There's a lot there that feels combustible. There's a lot of talent as well. We'll see. We'll see what the season goes on. Shoms, could Aitin be dealt? Like, I mean, it's I mean, I guess it could be. But could he do you see it happening? It's just a tough price, right? Like they they they made efforts to try to get Kevin Durant when Kevin Durant asked for a trade. And Phoenix was obviously a suitor that made sense for him and a desired spot for him. But any deal that had a construct of Deandre Aitin, Michele Bridges, Cam Johnson, the Nests just were not interested in any of those parts in a deal for Kevin Durant from everything I was told. So that's what what made the deal difficult. And if the and for the Suns, if you're trying to move a guy like Deandre Aitin, you want a player like Kevin Durant, you want a Bradley be like a top shelf star player. You're not going to trade Deandre Aitin to trade him. So that's the part that makes it difficult. That's the part it's very hard to find value for that. So he's going to be trade eligible starting in mid January. If things are not going well this year in Phoenix, if he's continuing possibly to show that this is not a good fit for him, then maybe you look at doing something. It's just right now hard to see a price that matches and makes sense. It's also going to be restricted free agent. It's different when you have to go and get a contract from someone else and then have your team match it and then go back into that facility. No one they could just contract in the beginning. So I think that also has a lot of the frustration with him where, listen, you could just pay me. I'm one of the best young big centers in the league. And they made him go out and get it. So I think that obviously has a lot to do with it as well. It's different. If they would just give him that contract, I don't know how pissed off he'd be right now still. I'd be petty for life, petty. No, nothing. There was no offer. He had to shop and get one and then have that match. It wasn't like they sat at the table and just were close and not close enough. There was nothing. And so I can't think of a real world scenario where it's like, yeah, my job doesn't want me, but they were forced to take me back. So now we're going to just make it work. There's nothing to compare to that. Petty for life. And we'll see what comes out of this. But Cam Johnson also was not extended. Right. This is two years in a row where the Suns had a guy that's going to end a restrictor page that they could not reach agreement on a deal based on their offers. And meanwhile, these guys are looking around the league and guys are signing extensions left and right. We are not done. We've got a lot more, including how the San Antonio Spurs could make the playoffs. There's a chance when we come back and run it back.