 What's the word y'all NBA teams are afraid to make trades right now. Yesterday I make this tweet, what are trades at? Us NBA nerds love December 15th. It is the day that every player that signed in the office is eligible to be traded. So we automatically think that after December 15th, the floodgates is going to open and we go see this deal, this deal. And here we are sitting in January 3rd and not a single trade has happened. Not even really a murmur of trades have happened. And I was wondering what the heck is going on. So I tweeted this and somebody that is in a no shot me a text. We hopped on to the call. We topped it up for a little bit and I asked him the question. What is the reason that we haven't really seen any trades this season? And he gave me a very direct answer. He said GMs across the league right now are valuing their players higher than consensus. So you might not see this person as worthy of getting the first round pick and return. But that GM is looking at it and say, oh, we want a first for this dude. We want a first for that dude. And because of that, there hasn't been a lot of trade talks. Actually, I'll take that back. There has been talks. There hasn't been a lot of movement with these trades. And I tweeted that and people are like, ah, it's because of Rudy Gobert. The Rudy Gobert trade messed up the market. But that also is very weird to me. Okay, so let's say I'm a GM and you're a GM and I have a player that you want. And I say, ah, you're not getting him unless you give me a first. And you don't believe he's worth the first. How can I convince you to give me a first for this player? Well, we just saw this offseason. The team that gave up five firsts, it's not working out for them. So the, so the teams that normally probably will be willing to give up a first saw the other stuff and like, I don't know about that. Five first round picks for Rudy, they're a lot of routine. Three first round picks for Dejante, Maria, and he looking great. So right now we're at a stalemate. And if you look in recent NBA history, we've seen at least one trade happen at this point in the season every year for the past like decade. And 2021, 2022, we saw a trade happen on this day. January 30th, I'm recording this video. It was Rajan, Rondo getting traded to the Cavs, whatever, but it was a deal. Watch a trade happen like the day I'm publishing this video. I just have a feeling I'm a hit uploaded and boom, a trade is going to happen. You know what? I'll accept that because I need something to happen in the league right now. Something outside of the amaze performances because the basketball on court is great, but I just want to see some shake up. The season before that was a bit weird because it wasn't December 15th because we had the virus season or whatever. But we saw the James Harden trade happen before what would have been the December 15th set date. The year before that we saw Jordan Clarkson get traded before December 15th. The year before that we saw Jimmy Butler get traded to the 76ers. The year before that we saw two trades that didn't really matter. And the year before that we saw Jeremy Grant trade to OKC. And all of these trades happened before December 15th before everybody was eligible to be traded. And right now we ain't got nothing. And it's kind of interesting. He also said on that call that he thinks and he's speculating on this one that once that first trade goes through that a lot of trades are going to follow suit because somebody is going to reset the market if you will. So we just waited for that one GM or those two GMs to agree on something and we're going to see a lot of movement. BR put together an article. The NBA player every NBA team needs to trade in 2023. I mean, we got the obvious ones like John Collins. Galanari looks smooth as hell the other day. The day that the Boston Celtics were in Denver and the Ram was messed up. They kept showing Galanari in his suit. He was dressed to clean the rules to be clean and trading him away. I mean, he's got the contract. So it would work out. Koalavuzovic for the Bulls is fun. I would say the answer should be most of the roster. You know what I'm saying? Zignagi would be an interesting player. If I was a young rebuild team to go in on Zeke, I am still super high on Zeke. And I know this season hasn't been the explosion that I wanted it to be as a Zeke Naji fan. But if I'm a rebuilding team, I'm I'm trying to physique if he's available. Eric Gordon is an obvious one, especially after that interview where he was asked about the progression or how things are getting better in Houston. He said there has not been any improvements. So that was a really solid quote. I guess depending on the way you look at it, because I saw some people interpret it as like man, freedom's do. He tried to get out. He'd been there for too long during the rebuild. But other people saw this. Hey, this is leadership saying that man, we've been in this fight for this longer. Y'all not doing nothing. We ain't getting better. So I mean, I guess it's up to your own interpretation. Hey, these, um, these tonal fits that they getting off in this article kind of clean. Russell Lesbert clean. Danny Green clean. The Danny Green when it's interesting because when they were on national TV, like a week or so ago, I don't remember what they were going against. They miked up Danny Green on the sideline and interviewed Danny Green in the sideline. And I was watching and I was thinking, do we really believe that Danny Green is going to be on his team once he become completely healthy? I don't know how far he is in his, his, um, rehabilitation. He actually talked about it, but I don't remember what he said. How far along he is on his rehabilitation. Obviously Danny Green is a quality NBA player. He's a winning player, but he also is making a nice sizeable contract for the Memphis Grizzlies that they did want to use that to kind of upgrade for somebody that we know for sure will be healthy. So as an interesting player, Daniel Russell is a very interesting one for sure, um, because his market is going to be very, very, I don't know, lackluster. Uh, I made a video on my gaming channel where I was rebuilding the Timberwolves and I sent them to Washington because Washington is a team that has decided that they don't want to ever rebuild. So be it. Um, and D'Angelo Russell is at least good. And he not, I just don't think he's a great fit in Minnesota with what they're trying to do. And it kind of makes sense considering the watch the Wizards have bought in on people that at least spent solid in the past, but maybe not greatest in the season. They trade for him. I porzingus and now porzingus playing like an all-star. Um, so maybe D'Angelo Russell can do something like that. He was an all-star a few years ago. Also in the last year of his deal. So I don't know how that will work out. Uh, it's just, it feels like if you are traded D'Angelo Russell, you're not getting great value because his value is low. So it's like, would we rather just let him play out the rest of the season, but he's also in the last year of his deal. Do we think he'd resign if we gave him something less than what he's making right now? Cause he ain't worth 31 million dollars that he's getting. So he's in a very weird spot too. Fred Van Vliet. Boy, I saw tweet, um, this morning that said that Fred Van Vliet now has the lowest field goal percentage in all the basketball and that made me somewhat sad. Maybe someone said, I don't be honest with you. Um, I've been a Fred Van Vliet like, I don't want to say supporter cause that makes me like I was voucher for it for years. I just, I've enjoyed Fred Van Vliet over the last couple of seasons. I even bought one of his, um, actually let me show you. This is the early stage of me growing on my hair. So it was in the struggle phase, but I had a Fred Van Vliet shirt and Fred Van Vliet actually commented on you, the stroke emoji. And I was hyped in 2018 where Freddie did that. That was pre all stuff. I was like, oh snap, Freddie's that man and I've been a supporter. If you want to say, I don't, again, I don't know if I need to use that word for a minute. So to see him performing the way he is is ridiculous. Um, obviously the last year of his deal, even I think he has an option attached to it. I'm curious to what his either trade market will be or his free agency market. He certainly, he was just an all star less than 365 date, like it hasn't been a full year since he was an all star and now he's not playing well. You know, so I mean, him being on that list is kind of, kind of wild. He also seems like a potential Washington Wizards candidate because again, we know he can be good. So let's, let's buy in low cause we're Washington and we might not even have to give up nothing more than Will Barton and this and something, something. I also think that teams like the Chicago Bulls, Ody, Toronto Raptors are holding things up mostly because those are the two teams that will have the most assets that would potentially tip the scale in the direction of the team that's, that's trading for them, but they're, they have to make the decision whether or not they're sellers or they're going to stand pat or they're going to be buyers. So once they figured that out, I think that's going to help too. Cause no other team is necessarily going to be selling like the Spurs, my sale, but like Josh Richardson, you know, Yaka Pertle could, could definitely help a playoff team, but like they don't really have a ton while the Bulls have a Damar, Zach Levine, Vucevich, Alice Caruso, Vante Green and the Raptors have a Pascal, Yaka, Fred Van Vliet, Ojiata, you know, like both of those teams have a bunch of different assets if they decide that they wanted to hit reset or if they decide to, they want to retool. So I think once those two teams decide a lot of the stuff, it will open up the world for a lot of different organizations cause the way it's looking right now, I would argue that both conferences, there's a lot of things that could win it. So I'm sure a lot of things I convinced. Hey, if we buy in a little bit right now, it will work out in the long run. I think this season is going to be a lot about matchups and you might match up well if you added Damar. I'm just saying if this is my plea to the other organizations, buy some of the Bulls stuff, please and give us the three first round picks that Rudy gap, please. Let me know what you think about the trade market right now. I'll be in that comment section. I do want to say I appreciate all the support over the last, what say, week and a half. Every single video I've dropped before this one was better than the last as far as statistically and we love that considering in 2023, one of my goals is to look at this channel as if it is my main channel and prioritize the content over here over the game and channel just because this is what I enjoy doing more. So to see y'all enjoying the videos as much as I'm enjoying making them just makes everything so seamless and I appreciate y'all and I'll be back tomorrow.