 Can anybody hear me out there? I see a black screen. Maybe I'm a little there. Sorry, I'm on a little bit of a delay, but it's all good. I got multiple screens up here so I can see all y'all from Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook. I got all your comments aggregated into one over here. So welcome in, everybody. Eric Vogel on YouTube, Rudy Gonzalez, Facebook. We got Twitch, Robot2912. What's up, what's up? And of course, everybody over here on Twitter, like the good old days. I mean, let's talk about what we've seen so far, shall we? I'm sitting here watching it. So if you see my eye level goes up, it's because I am just watching everything that's transpiring here before us, just Terence Clark is remembered from the Kentucky Wildcats. So the big story thus far, obviously is gonna be the Russell Westbrook trade. I'll just speak on the draft real quick. I think the biggest winners, probably the Golden State Warriors. If you weren't gonna trade those two picks there for a star or to move up, you told me before the draft started that you were gonna end up with Kimonga and Moses Moody in that order, in that order, is based on all the draft projections and mock drafts and all that. Moody is supposed to be right up there with Kimonga that was originally a top five and he slipped out. So I feel like the Warriors just had an absolute talent grab from at least everything we know about these two guys. Of course, it's always gonna come down to fit and we won't know for years. We didn't know about Deandre Aitin for years, right? So it's tough to make a call in this very moment without them seeing them play an actual game in the NBA. But from like pure talent standpoint, it's hard to think the Golden State Warriors with the team that they have coming back next year, you're gonna assume Clay Thompson's gonna be in uniform. What they were able to pull off tonight may be a big explanation as to why they get back to championship status because they're bench stunk. I mean, let's be honest, they're bench terrible. JTA, God bless him. Toscano Anderson was awesome for them. They lacked any sort of depth and every time that that bench had to come in at the end of the first quarter, end of the third quarter, try and hold down the fort, if it was net zero, they were lucky to get out of that alive. Now you feel like between Wiseman coming back, Kimonga, Moses Moody, things are looking up for them real fast, real fast. This is what was supposed to happen. This same vibe with the Golden State Warriors was supposed to happen when Wiseman was drafted and everyone's like, here they come. They got Wiseman, Clay's coming back, Clay gets hurt. We're gonna do this again now with Wiseman and now Clay, Steph, Traymon, let's do it. And they got guys, if they need to package Andrew Wiggins together, if they need to package Andrew Wiggins with one of these young guys, so be it. They got two of them to choose from now. What do I think about Josh Giddy? Well, you know what? If I'm a Memphis Grizzlies fan, thank you for the question. I'm gonna say your screen names because you're coming across multiple platforms now. KXRanP18 over from Twitch. What do I think about Giddy? The Memphis Grizzlies traded up to 10 for a reason. I hope they got their guy and Zaire Williams that they were intending to get this entire time, but supposedly they made that trade. They took on Stephen Adams' contract to go up and get Giddy. So let's hope that Zaire Williams works out for him. Who should the Knicks take? Joe Earls over on YouTube asks, who should the Knicks take? I'm all in on Kai. I am after I went to the clutch combine in Los Angeles. I was court side for watching Jalen Johnson, Kai Jones, Moses Moody, all of these guys, I got to see them before I'm right before me. And Kai Jones, I have made my jaw drop. He's gotta listen, Kai Jones has a jump shot which needs some serious work, okay? He's got a lot of raw skills. This man is seven feet tall. He could dribble like a point guard. He finishes through his legs like it is a layup. I threw his legs dunks in transition, freak of nature. That is gonna be an absolute rim runner for no matter what team he plays for. And if he ends up on a good playoff team like the New York Knicks currently built, you don't need him to be a high usage guy and just patrol the rim the same way that Mitchell Robinson does. I'd be super excited to get Kai Jones. So I'm looking forward to that with one of the two Knicks picks. Sorry, I'm battling a voice issue here, as you can tell. We're gonna be drinking a lot of water. Charlotte from Lee Sewell One over on Twitch says that the Charlotte Hornets got a steel book night. They're supposedly something up with his medical, physical that he took. He have a meniscus issue. Maybe that's why he fell, but he sure is talented. And if you're gonna play on that Charlotte Hornets team, by the way, you better have some bunnies. The run with Lamella was gonna be throwing balls all over the gym with Miles Bridges and how much they get up to one to get out and transition. Kemba's obviously gone, Devante Graham maybe gone for all we know Malik Monk maybe gone. They need to get some athletes back in there. And they, it looks like they accomplished that tonight. PJ Washington certainly can check that box as well. They're just a fun athletic team. So I am a little bit behind here. I'm what now as I've tried, I've got like woe just push notifications. I've got the draft on the TV. I'm reading your guys comments. I've got a separate screen over here for you guys on Twitter to the 400 of you over here on Twitter. So what's up to everybody out there? And we haven't even brought up yet the biggest trade of the night. All right, the biggest, the biggest pick of the night, which is Russell Westbrook going to the Los Angeles Lakers. It's a massive name. I mean, it is an A-list blockbuster trade. Well, I got some questions, man. I'm sure they can figure it out because Russell Westbrook's been this league long enough. Let's not forget that they played on Team USA together. But the biggest issue for the Lakers, other than health, which is still going to be the biggest issue, is always going to be spacing around LeBron and Anthony Davis. How did they win that title in the bubble? They surrounded LeBron and Anthony Davis, with shooters, three and D guys. Danny Green, Kyle Kuzma, KCP, right? You have a floor general at the point guard in Ray Jean Rondo. THT. I don't know how a 30% usage point guard that can't shoot outside of 15 feet, that has supreme liabilities on defense is going to fit onto this team. I have my worries. And every Westbrook, like the Westbrook fans on the internet, by the way, are so ludicrous that they will think that's an insult to Russell Westbrook. And it's not, the man has set the triple double record in the NBA as a historically great player, first ballot hall of famer, all the above. But like every draft pick that we are watching here before us, fit matters more than anything sometimes regarding these players. So when LeBron, James and Anthony Davis need as much space as possible to run their little pick and rolls, they're picking pops and to not have a clogged lane that looks like Jon Snow at the Battle of the Bastards trying to get out of that scrum, that's what the paint is going to be looking like trying to breathe when Russell Westbrook is on the floor with this team. Are we now relying on LeBron and Anthony Davis to be perimeter shooters? Cause that's not where we want to live. I got questions, man. I got questions. Can Russell Westbrook be a floor general as opposed to be in this 30, 10 and 10 guy? You don't need that to be that guy on the Lakers. Can he pivot to do that is the biggest question. Is he willing to take on a different role that we have never seen him before? The answer has always been no, but he has never played with the caliber of player like LeBron, Janes, maybe one of the only guys in the league that can out alpha Russell Westbrook. You can out alpha him. I don't even know if that's a term, but I just made it up. If there's someone that Westbrook is willing to be the beta two, it feels like LeBron is in that category and knowing that they've won a championship and him and Anthony Davis are the absolute nuts and they're probably the title contenders without Russell Westbrook. As long as they're healthy, they'd still probably be the favorites to win the title anyway. Is he willing to take on that role? And I know one thing, and the next pick is coming up here guys soon. Yes, thank you for reminding me. The loss of KCP for as much as he became a meme on the internet, as much as Laker fans wanted to run him out of town, he became super vital, super vital for that team this season. His defense, they exact three and D that they lost in Danny Green was in KCP. They need guys that can guard positions one through five on any, be able to switch all screens, knock down corner threes and play transition defense. Russell Westbrook is not that guy. KCP was that guy. And to an extent Kyle Kuzma was that guy. He's another in which Laker nation wanted to run out of town there, but Kuzma as much as he wants to be Russell Westbrook in terms of usage, he may get that ability over in Washington, but he was hitting the glass all the time, hitting off, creating second chance opportunities for the Lakers this season when one of their two stars went down. So who's going to fill those roles if Westbrook is out there eating up all the usage? My initial feeling, it's not that it can't work. There's they're too good a players to not be able to figure it out, but I'm worried about health. I'm worried about fit. And I'm worried about spacing, which the three big priorities in today's NBA are. Right? Can we all agree on that? That those are health, spacing, and three in D guys or what the NBA champions are built around right now. And they have such superstar power there that adding Russell Westbrook if he's going to be high usage, I just don't get it. I don't get it. Not at the cost of KCP. KCP can be replaced. THT could fill in certainly. But I'm going to need to see this play up before I get, before I start crowning the Lakers champions because of how big a name Russell Westbrook is. Is Russell Westbrook willing to trade the name for the back of the jersey for the name on the front? Because that has never been the case just yet. Be okay, Eddie 412 over on Twitch says, we were dog and Westbrook too much SMH. I think, you know what? I think it's fair constructive criticism of his game. What we've seen throughout his career, at this point in his career that he can't jump a thousand feet in the air anymore and he still has this high usage percentage. He's an all time great player. Again, like if he was on any other team, of course, look what he did on the Wizards last year is they needed him to do that. The Lakers don't need Russell Westbrook to be Russell Westbrook. Gigi, what's up Gigi over on Twitch, as to the Raptors getting F or is Masai working something because I just can't get over passing on sucks. You have to imagine all of these teams are still working on something. There's been hardly any trades tonight other than Westbrook and Ricky Rubio. So a lot of these players may not end up on these teams, which is why if we sit here and over analyze and criticize them, we have to know that a lot of these guys may be traded again very soon. Cause Summer League is coming up right around the corner as is free agency. It would not surprise me in the least. This is mainly a vehicle to get a lot of those trades done. But if somebody like Masai out there who has always been operating multiple trades at weird times, I may not be the end. Maybe Siakam's on the move. That's the rumors. We don't know. Lucas over on Twitch says, I don't understand the Wizards plan for Beal and their future. There's no point guard right now. Only Zo is a future PG for the franchise. I think they will be the new Spurs, absolutely mediocre. And that's why you're gonna hope Denny comes back. You're gonna tell Bradley Beal, this is your team. We will not only give you max money that you can get from anywhere out there, but we will allow you to build the team. We will allow you to build. They will have cap space at that point. We have young players, we have cap space. I think the sales pitch to Bradley Beal is gonna be you pick the team. You could be RGF, because that's what it may take to bring Bradley Beal back to Washington on a max extension when his contract expires. Yeah, what is this trade that OKC just made? OKC got another first two picks. They will have 17 picks starting from 2022. I couldn't believe that that Shay Gilgis Alexander, like rumor even existed, that they were thinking about trading Shay in their pick to move up to one to get Cade. Any of these players in the draft today would in two years they'd be lucky to be in the same conversation as Shay Gilgis Alexander. That's a fringe all-star right now. And he's at the beginning of his career. He is undratable. So it's nice to see that didn't transpire. Fader dude over on Twitch. Y'all over here on Twitter are pretty damn quiet. Y'all, Twitter's always been quiet. Y'all keep moving over to Twitch on me, which I kind of like to see. Fader dude asks, what are my thoughts on the Cavs rebuilding effort in the Rubio trade? So the Ricky Rubio trade feels like either one insurance on a Colin Sexton trade or a Garland move. I don't see them trading Garland, but Sexton's due money now. He's due his extension. And if you have Ricky Rubio in house, now Sexton feels like he's in play and you're not going to lose anything. And I got to tell you, I would love to see Colin Sexton on the New York Knicks because it wouldn't cost him all that much. You feel like Obi-Top and Kevin Oxen a first round pick gets it done for Colin Sexton. Again, because he needs to get paid there. But this is certainly showing signs of Colin Sexton and or Garland much more likely Sexton is on the move. And as a Cavaliers fan, I think you have to be pretty excited if you can assemble a front court of resigning Jared Allen, mobily up there too, Garland in the back court. That's a pretty damn solid core, man. Brandon Burns over on Twitter. I tweeted it out, didn't I? How laughable were the Sixers trades for Ben Simmons? So the rumor, again, these are all rumors, but Daryl Moore is out here asking for James Wiseman, Andrew Wiggins in four first round picks for Ben Simmons. Like this man is James Harden and Joellen Bied combined. And I think he's doing that because he wants to text one of the 76ers beat writers, which is where the rumor leak came from that this is the price for Ben Simmons and come to us with a similar offer. I think he's trying to set the market on Ben Simmons on that one, clearly not interested. Alex, my friend from Antarctica, where is Kai Jones falling? 19, hopefully 19. Knicks are coming up here real soon. I'd love to see Kai Jones in New York. That man is put on this planet to go viral on the internet with highlights. He really is bouncy as all hell. Absolute monster when you see him in person. He's seven feet, he's seven feet tall. And he just runs around the court like a point guard. I swear, when you see it in person, he's raw. His jumper needs work, but you don't need to shoot jumpers on a good team. You need to rim run. Who's gonna be the wizard's point guard? Does Denny move there? I don't know, Denny, they're gonna put Denny a point guard, isn't Ish Smith still there? And they're certainly not done making moves either. Kyle Kuzma, I know Kyle Kuzma is on the wrong end of a lot of jokes as his KCP. Those are two good players. Now Washington picked up, man. Kyle Kuzma struggled to score the basketball when they needed him when Anthony Davis went down in the playoffs, but Kyle Kuzma approved for many months that he can be a really serviceable third wheel to an offense that already has scores. You don't want Kyle Kuzma going 30% usage, but if Kyle Kuzma can be out there doing what he did for that Lakers team, then y'all will be pleasantly surprised with him. Just our man, Steven Helwitz, just dropped in now. He said, I'm upset. I don't understand what the Spurs are doing. I am distraught. I'm gonna trust the process always with San Antonio, because if anyone else made that pre-mode pick, the entire internet would be flaming them. Every mock draft had him barely a first round pick, yet they take him in the teens. There's a reason why. The Spurs have proved to us now for two straight decades. They know exactly what they're doing and they have never given a reason to think otherwise, just because they had two mediocre seasons doesn't mean you give up on what it took to get them here. You have so many guards to Jante, Derek White, Lonnie Walker, Vassal, Trey Jones. There's a lot there. Maybe they're not done dealing. Primo was supposed to be a freshman in college this year. He just turned 18. Maybe he goes down to the G League. The same way Danny Green went down to the G League. Chris Middleton went down to the G League. Go play in the G League for a year or two. The Spurs will pull you up out of nowhere. But where the hell did this dude come from? Would that really surprise you all? A lot of comments from Twitch. I mean, I asked Facebook and YouTube to step your, can I say shit? Step your shit up. Do I think Beale decided to stay because Russ got traded? All offense can, I know they have a mutual respect amongst each other. Okay? I'm just very, business is business. And if Russell Westbrook wanted to go home, Bradley Beale was like, all right, this can be my team. Again, I think it was just a mutual decision there that they both were probably like, you know what? Fine with me. Russell Westbrook, fine with me. Beale's fine with me. We had a good year playing together. We did some special shit. Made the playoffs. It was a terrible year. Business, business, dudes get traded. Nicks are coming up. Nicks are coming up. I'm watching the broadcast. So you guys may be a little bit ahead of me. I'm waiting on my phone to send through a push notification. But I'm hoping Kai Jones is picked with one of these two. I would love to see it. I would love to see maybe some... Here's what the Nicks need. Nicks need a point guard. Nicks haven't had a point. We've had the Chris Duhans, God bless Ray Felton. Nicks haven't had the ability to resign to first round picks since Charlie Ward until recently. Nicks need a point guard. Derek Rose's season was an anomaly, right? I don't know if we can rely on Derek Rose to give you that again. He was so good at the end of this season. He was so good. How long does he have left in the tank? You're gonna have to resign him to get that. Emmanuel Quickly, serviceable combo guard. I don't know if he's showing a true mastery to run an NBA offense just yet. So let's get some point guard depth in there and or someone that can shoot from the outside. Problem is Duarte's gone. Duarte's off the board. He was your shooter. The kid from BCU, Highland, anyone from Full Court Press Academy at BCU will be welcome in the house of Tibido. You better believe that. Place defense like that. He can shoot from the outside. He's the one knocked down three-point shooter left, I think, at this caliber of remaining prospects. So I would love to see Highland. I wouldn't mind Sharif Cooper and Kai Jones. Those are my three that I'm probably targeting, but the Nicks have had a really long list of picks that have worked out ever since number six on Dallas was taken. The Nicks have nailed every pick between Mitchell Robinson. I guess Kevin Knox is the one that is gonna flame out on us, but I'm fine with Obi. I like Obi. Mitchell Robinson, Manuel Quickly. These are all late picks that worked out real well from New York and became serviceable in a part of a playoffs. John Horlander over on Twitter says, wow, I know the Pacers are boring, but I like the Duarte pick with a healthy team could be solid. The Indiana Pacers should be one of the best teams on paper last year. Can we go through that roster, by the way? Again, on paper between Malcolm Brogdon, Karis Laver, T.J. Warren, DeMonte Sabonis and Miles Turner. I have border fringe all-stars. T.J. Warren from the bubble, at least, is a fringe all-star. How did that team not work out? And I will never fault a team for going out there and adding three in need shooting from the perimeter in 2021 NBA. That's exactly what you got in that kid Duarte. Which of the Warriors do with their picks? I was late to the stream. I think they're in a position that they're playing with house money now. They can hold on to those guys. They can fill in the depth, much needed depth on their bench that they're gonna need. Now, are you gonna be relying on rookies in an NBA finals plus Wiseman, who's practically a rookie? I don't know. But those guys are pretty damn good. Most moody's really good. I saw Kamunga, I thought Kamunga was, I put him in my five guys that you can't miss if you take. I know he struggles with his jump shot, but he showed a lot down with the ignite. It's a good point. All those Pacers that I listed before, they're all broken and the coach was inexperienced. That coaching experiment did not work out for the Indian Pacers. If they're able to retain that talent somehow plus Ad Duarte, they're good. The Pacers are good. They gotta stay healthy and they need to find a coach where the entire team's not trying to fight them during games. It's time for the Knicks, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Oladipo missed the, Hellward says Oladipo missed the 2019 playoffs. Sabonis missed the 2020 playoffs. Levert, Warren Turner missed the 2021 playoffs. Pacers are cursed, man, because they got so much talent there. We'd be paying a lot of attention. Knicks are trading the pick to Charlotte for a future for, I'm not gonna doubt anything Leon and Tim's do, but the rumor is that we just traded the pick for a future first rounder from Charlotte. Can I get some more details on that? Well, the Knicks still have a pick coming up at 21. Their guide may still be available. And let's not forget that the Knicks have more cap space than the rest of the NBA combined. So if they're not confident in Sharif Cooper or that Highland kid from VCU to fill in to play point card, why are we not in the market for either Colin Sexton who will need to get paid or possibly Mr. Madison Square Garden himself who's gonna be on the trade block, Campbell Walker. He's owed a lot of money. He's owed like 72 million over the next two years or something. Charlotte took Kai, am I behind? He sat here for the last 10 minutes telling you Kai Jones falls to the Knicks at 19. Not only does he fall exactly to 19, the Knicks trade the pick to Charlotte. And Kai Jones is going to catch lobs from Lamello Ball descending from the sky. It's through flames. Him and Miles Bridges are gonna be playing 50 feet above the rim. The Charlotte Hornets, all they wanna do now is press L1. Is that still the button for lob, for alley-oop? So many bouncy guys in Charlotte. That's not fair. They're so much fun. Charlotte, you are going to love this guy. All he does is dunk, crazy dunks. All he does is jump over humans. If Charlotte was, someone just said it and Charlotte was already my favorite team. If they weren't your favorite team before, Charlotte, if they weren't lead pass, if they weren't lead pass MVPs, look at this, they got Spike Lee standing court side for the draft. He doesn't even know they've been traded. He's sitting there clapping up a storm. Somebody grabs Spike and tell him we traded the pick. He's making a mockery of himself. Oh my God, they're letting Spike clap. We're five minutes in the future ahead of you. Dude, the Hornets. Hornets are just going to dunk and dunk and dunk. And it's not fair that Kai gets to catch passes from Lamello. Oh, that's so fun. Y'all may not win shit, but you're gonna have a lot of fun. That's almost equally as important. Eric Collins, Eric Collins is gonna collapse during a game. Y'all need to make sure that man has proper medical attention. The amount of dunks that Kai Jones is gonna throw down from Lamello is gonna kill Eric Collins. And I mean that actually 75% joking, 25% serious. That Eric Collins, hum diddly deez are gonna kill him. Jalen Johnson still out there too. How did he fall this far? That's another clutch guy. Logan over in Twitter asked, am I going to summer league this year? You better believe it. I'm already booked. No, hey, robot, Nick's fans said, Nick's fans really paid money for nothing. We still got picked 21. I don't know who it's gonna be. Who this, that's a good point. Hey, Alex says, Alex over on Twitch, I call it the clutch curse. Teams don't wanna pay those clutch extensions that Rich Paul's gonna come for. The clutch premium. I don't know if they're thinking that far in advance. Wow, Atlanta. So if Atlanta takes Jalen Johnson, who is a John Collins clone, does that mean John Collins is potentially gone? Jalen Johnson is exactly what John Collins did. Jalen Johnson has all of those tools. Springing, was he six, eight? One of those dudes who would just play every position as a swingman. Jalen Johnson, you know what, the Atlanta Hawks just drafted themselves, John Collins insurance. That's a great pick for them. And at the very least, they have a good player too. So DeAndre Hunter comes back healthy, great. But if John Collins gets a max contract from somebody out there and you don't wanna match it, I got no problem filling in Jalen Johnson into that role and having him figure it out, especially if DeAndre Hunter can come back healthy. Gabe says that Johnson is a three type Gabe over on Twitch. Yeah, I gotta tell you though, he was at that clutch combine day and just these guys abilities to do everything. He's one of those guys that can do anything you ask for him, which is very John Collins S, John Collins can guard your five. John Collins can shoot threes. John Collins can operate out of the post. John Collins can initiate your offense. Jalen Johnson just did plenty of that at Duke. How do I like, thank you. Someone over on Twitter, BK just asked, how do I like the magic picks? I think you gotta feel pretty damn good about that and return on that Vucevich trade now. I don't know which of the two picks technically was the Chicago Bulls, but between Suggs and Wagner was the other guy, right? Yeah, they had Franz Wagner's number eight plus Wendell Carter Jr. That's a pretty hefty return. Spike Lee is still standing by. How has nobody told him that the Knicks have traded this pick? He's standing there waiting for the commissioner to deliver a pick. We could not have the number one fan in New York, our most memorable traditional fan, getting clown like this for not knowing exactly what is going on. Does he not have, he needs new friends around him. Somebody with a phone tells Spike that we, now we have to see his reaction. We're like 10 minutes into the future after this pick. So the Knicks had to take Kai Jones and trade him the Charlotte. So now Spike's gonna think that Kai Jones is a Nick. Dude, he's such a good kid too. I did interviews with these guys. Hopefully we could get the video out to y'all soon. Kai Jones was the best interview by far. Super personable, he gets it. He gets it. And I told him, I told him after the interview to do his through the legs dunk that he did at the combine in the warm-up line at Summer League and everyone will know his name. Drop one of those through the leg dunks that he did at the end of the combine that night and it's a wrap. Everyone will be on the Kai Jones train. He goes, I got you. So expect Kai Jones to throw down some ridiculous shit that goes viral opening night at Summer League. And Spike, as Stu over on YouTube says, see? Spike was right. He's going up there and talking about here. I'm gonna set you up in New York. I'm gonna get you involved with my movies. Welcome to New York, my friend. Let me take you out to dinner. He doesn't even know. He doesn't know that he's been traded. It's a thousand degrees in here. Anyone that watches my radio or letter late night streams knows how hot it is in this room right now. And I don't have the air on because I have all these bright lights in my turn, the air on, all the bugs are gonna fly in from the woods. So I have to deal with being sweaty on stream. I don't think I looked that bad though. You can't tell that I'm sweaty, which makes me happy. I look a little sweaty. That's the conversation. John Collins, un poquito? That's fine. That's fine. If it's just a little bit because that's why I'm wearing a black shirt. So y'all can't see how much I'm sweating right now. Thank you. Slag authority 20 just entered the Twitch chat to say, bro, Kai Jones is so good. I know, I saw it. He's an insane athletic specimen. No seven footer should be able to do the shit that he does. If we say the same about like Anthony Davis, right? We say the same about Kevin Durant. Wait till you see this guy fly in the air. Him and Miles Bridges will be the closest thing to an NBA street game breaker that we've seen in person other than that Brooklyn Nets highlight. Miles Bridges and Kai Jones are gonna grow wings and just keep flying and never come back down. Everyone's always talking about how do we build the championship team? You need a star and surround them with three and D and the Charlotte Hornets are over here saying, you know what we're gonna do? We're just gonna fly above you. We're just gonna have draft players with wings. And you can try and jump up there and guard them, but they're gonna be dunking from 90 feet in the air if you wanna stop them so be it. I respect the strategy. Gabe1319 asks, is Charlotte the new lob city? And I'm telling you right now, yes. Kai Jones, this is absolutely the new lob city. You know, Evan Mobile is ridiculous talent too. I'm just saying, I've seen Kai in person, that's all. The basketball show over on YouTube, what's up to everybody over there on YouTube? Sharif Cooper is the best playmaker and he hasn't been drafted yet. Well, it sure feels like that the Knicks may be taking him at 21. They need a point guard. It's the question of the night. Ben Vessel over on Twitch asks, why do the Raptors not take sucks? I think we'll find out the answer to that at the conclusion of free agency because the Raptors are most certainly not done yet. We don't even know if Kyle Lowry's coming back or not. We're gonna assume not. We don't know if Siakam is getting traded with OG. Is he going to Philadelphia for Ben Simmons? Maybe they wanted to put Scotty Barnes well alongside Ben Simmons for all we know. There's a reason, it's Messiah is in that spurs category of just let it all play out, all right? Are the Raptors contenders or are they tanking? I am confused. We're all confused. There's a reason why, because there's still a lot of time left. Oh, yes, thank you for ACUE over on Twitter asked, was that Davion Mitchell or Zaire Williams the most Knicks-esque miss of all time? I would like to know what the Sacramento Kings plan is. How are you gonna run Mitchell, Dearon Fox and Halliburton together? Are we, how is that exactly gonna work? Halliburton's so good that he may be able to move over into a swingman position, but how exactly is that planning on working? That felt like the most Kings trade of all time. Or just pick of all time. They just stacked things that they already have. Do they really need him? Welcome in everybody on Twitch. Someone said they just finally found the stream. There's still a hundred of you left over here on the Twitch side or the Twitter side of things. Whether you're on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or Twitch, good evening, I'm waiting on the Knicks to make a pick here. It would be sure be nice. Jalen Johnson was a great kid to talk to too. He was another great interview. And also one thing to talking to these guys, how, because I've spoken to a fair share of players now doing this for so many years that these guys hadn't even technically been drafted yet in how educated they are in speaking to the media already. Like they got classes from either Rich Paul or somebody else that they know the answers to give the buzzwords to say and the avoid the things to avoid. Cause I try. Like the whole point of me interviewing these players is to give you a non-traditional question and answer. I want to learn about them as people and see the authentic side to them. That's, you know, my angle to creating content. It was hard chiseling away. Only Kai was really open to talking like that. Jalen as well. I think Atlanta's going to be really happy with this pick. You got Dinwity tweeting that he wants to play with Beale and Atchimura. Tampering season has begun. We're technically not in free agency yet. Colleges helped him out with a lot of media stuff. Yep. Somebody over on Twitter, Fieri as a Lakers fan. How excited should I be? You should be excited because there's going to be a lot of attention. Everyone's going to be talking about you guys in terms of the actual basketball, though. I remember when Westbrook and Harden did their little dance in the pre-member when they did the dance off on the jumbotron and how hype everything was. Remember when Westbrook was in training camp for the wizards and he was getting after it with Beale? Like, of course, there's going to be all sorts of hype, but I'm going to have to see the ship play out first. I don't trust the spacing whatsoever, but they are good enough to figure it out. And I am curious to see if Russell Westbrook is able to pivot into a complementary role, which is what will be required on a team with two top five players. Oh, yeah, I like that. Nice job with the comments on the side over there. Like that. Well, we're waiting on the Knicks here. Once we get through the Knicks, we'll take a, we'll go to Knicks, Lakers, we'll do a couple more picks. I'll take a couple of questions and then we'll be on our way, shall we? Knicks, we're taking Shari. There's two minutes left. We still haven't gotten a pick here because Spike Lee's busy with Kai Jones right now. Somebody tells Spike to get back to the podium where we're actually going to pick our player and we're in commercial. While it was a while ago, Val and Chuna Strait, I felt like he was the Grizzlies' most important player last year, he was, but let's remember that man needs to get paid up to the season as well, I think. Maybe the Grizzlies didn't want to pay him. So I remember it's a business decision, right? Lucas over on Twitch, he is thinking about the Kai Jones nickname for his movie. What's the future first round pick, by the way? Does it get better than 19? Cause the Hornets are going to be good. Aren't the Hornets going to be good? That better be more than just a swap. Brandon Burns wants, wants the Knicks to take Sharif. Can you tell me a little bit about Sharif? Is someone that didn't watch SCC basketball every single night of the season? I have been told that he is, plays under the rim. He's got great individual skills in terms of running a team and an offense. Just can't shoot from the outside. He also turns it over a lot. Well, that's a problem. And what do I have to do to see Ben Simmons on the nuggets? Pray. New York and Trump, all this just for the Knicks to trade all their picks. We traded, we traded Porzengas for this. It's for a reason. Obviously, maybe the Knicks would want to go all in on free agency and keep those spots available. Because remember, if you take a first round pick, you're going to owe that man what? $5 million, three, seven, that eats into that cap. The Clippers are selecting at number 21, being the Knicks and take Keon Johnson. The Knicks have once again traded out of the first round. I waited all this time for picks. I'm not upset. I'm more upset that I was excited to see Kai Jones becoming New York Knick. And we took him in the exact spot just to trade him. But I'm going to trust Leon Rhodes. I'm going to trust Tom Thibodeau, because after this season, how can you not? That there is a plan in place. And this sure feels like they're going to try and make a move for Kemble Walker, doesn't it? Or Colin Sexton. That they're keeping open all of these slots on their roster. Remember, all of those players that were on the Knicks, whether it was the Gibson's, even the Mitchell Robinson's, they're all team-friendly contracts. Julius Randall's contract wasn't even fully guaranteed. They're all team-friendly. And because of that, Spike Lee's not, Spike had just went all the way to the arena to watch him trade both the picks. I'm sorry, Spike is never going to a draft ever again. This is what a waste of time. Can we get Spike Lee mic'd up or in an interview? Because you know how they interview the players after? We got number 25. Keon Johnson to the Clippers in New York now has number 25. Let's go. We're back. We're back in this draft. Somebody tells Spike not to go anywhere. The player that we're actually going to be on our team is coming up soon. Just as I was sitting here talking myself into the Knicks that are needing those roster spots because they're going to go ham and free agency. They're going to make a trade for Kemble Walker or Colin Sexton. We're good. We're back. We're back. Let's go. Life is a Knicks fan, man. All these gray hairs didn't grow themselves. The Clippers will send number 25 to New York in a future second for number 21. So the Knicks just picked up a free second for moving down four spots. Take it. Maybe they'll get Sharif at 25. They knew they could get Sharif all the way down there. No, no, swaggy T said. They're just going to trade that one too. I'm tired of trading down. I want one pick to look forward to at Summer League. I got a trip booked out to Las Vegas for two weeks. I want to watch a Knicks rookie. It's something to look forward to. There's a good question from Zade over on YouTube. What's up, everyone on YouTube? Somebody asked, would you prefer Kemble over Sexton? Well, let's remember that this is a hard cap salary-based lead. So if you take Kemble, he's going to probably make twice as much money as Sexton will. So is him clogging up two times as much of the salary cap? Is he worth more than Sexton? And I don't know the health of Kemble, but I know how well he loves playing in Madison Square Garden and he's from the Bronx. So he would thrive playing for the Knicks. I know that much if he's healthy. But it depends what the Knicks are going to go out there and get in addition to him and how much money is going to be left over there to spend on those other free agents. So that didn't answer your question whatsoever. But Kemble, yes, thank you. Six-one-five-six, Kemble in the garden is special. Sexton is way better than Kemble. I don't know if that is necessarily true if Kemble is healthy. We've seen Kemble kind of regress back to the mean, but man, is he clutched. It's hard to turn down. So the Lakers are picking for Washington. Can you elaborate even the point of making these trades? If all we got was a heavily protected first from Charlotte in a future second round? I can't, I gotta see what they do with this pick first. They may have just had one guy in mind. They clearly didn't like Kai Jones. And I understand why they already have a Kai Jones and Obi Toppin. Sorry, no one's just gonna deal with. I've had no voice for the last week. Y'all mask up, get waxed up. What's this pick? I don't know what this pick is. He's getting traded. Isaiah Jackson's being traded to Indiana. Shit, this is moving so fast. I'm trying to keep track of everything. Now I'm trying to read your guys' comments. I got my phone pushing through notifications, watching the stream over here. What's the score of that Mexico-Canada gold cupcake? Zero, zero. Do I think Isaac Acoro, Evan Mobley and Jared Allen make sexlin work defensively in Cleveland? That was sexlin's biggest liability, right? Wasn't their ability to score? Who the hell are they ever gonna guard at a championship level, right? And they're not nearly good enough to outscore. They're not Clay and Steph in terms of we'll just outscore you. But Acoro, I am as big of an Acor fan as anybody out there. Acoro and Evan Mobley and Jared Allen is quite the formidable front court. Acoro can guard anyone. Evan Mobley can defend the rim against anyone. And so can Jared Allen. So you have to be pretty excited. If your Cleveland has a long way to go, but they have a foundation to build on. Can the next pick, when do the next pick? 25? 25, I think. Sorry, I'm doing this stream. This is my flu game stream. I'm healthy. Clearly I'm not, but I'm doing it. I'm doing this. I'm showing up. No excuses. The best ability is availability. We're all waiting on the Knicks. We gotta wait another 10 minutes for the Knicks. I feel like I've been saying that now for the past hour because we keep pushing our picks back. The Wizards receive the 31st pick along with Aaron Holiday. Nice. There's your point card, Washington. Nice. I like Aaron Holiday. There you go. Hey, Washington. I know y'all lost Max Scherzer, Trey Turner, Russell Westbrook, all in one day and you felt like all you got back was Kyle Kuzma in a burner account in KCP. A rough day for Washington sports, but y'all made out just fine. KCP will be brilliant alongside Bradley Beal. Kuzma will be brilliant in that role I described before. Now, Aaron Holiday as well, that's not a bad night, man. You weren't winning no championship with Russell Westbrook as your best player. Oh, and Montrez too, of course. Montrez, man. Yeah, Montrez and Thomas Bryant coming back at some point. And Daniel Gafford. Y'all have three junkyard dogs that are gonna be cleaning the glass. You got some depth now. You may not have the star power, but you have a fun team. Wizards have a fun team now. They're deep at every position. They might not have star power again, but Scherzer to Los Angeles. Man, the Yankees and the Dodgers are just the Sith. Doesn't it? W. Wed 26. Washington looks like they're complete. Let's go through their roster between Aaron Holiday. I think Smith does come back. Bradley Beal, Denny Bertons, Daniel Gafford. Thomas Bryant. If he comes back, I don't know what his contract situation looks like. Montrez-Herald for a year. KCP and Coos. That's a deep team. And I forgot Rui. I forgot Rui. That's a deep team. That team can work that entire time. I forgot about arguably their second best player. They're good. That's a good point. Someone over on Twitch, Million A. Washington feels like Grizzlies East. That is a very accurate way to put it because the Grizzlies had 11 to 12 guys that they could just plug and play. No one knew who D'Anthony Melton was. Xavier Tillman was, until they were put into the right situation. And besides, John Moran, who on that Grizzlies team stood out as a brand name. They all had these reputations as role players, but they were put into the right place. I'd be excited, especially with the new coach there, too. Washington is still very much a playoff team, just because you lost the big brand name in Russell Westbrook. Don't let that fool you. I don't know where Bloodstone's going, honestly. He's going somewhere else. Not gonna lie. I don't know anything about Usman Garuba. How about some of these comparisons, by the way. Why does everyone always have to say he's a combination of Jaylen Brown and Tracy McGrady was a comparison I heard tonight. The video that Chris Vernon tweeted out earlier today when the old Virginia Tech coach said that Mo Bamba was a hybrid of Anthony Davis and Joellen B. It just stopped. You're never gonna win these ever. The only chance that you ever win them is they become a future Hall of Famer that we find out 10 years down the road that your prediction that nobody cares about came true. All you're doing is exposing yourself to getting blown up for insane comparisons. Robot says, Garuba is great. I will take your word for it because I don't know enough about him. Tishon Stevenson, did you see the protection on the next future Charlotte Peck? I didn't. Would you please relay that? We're one pick away. Oh, the Rockets have another pick? For 19, the Knicks get a heavily protected 2022-2022 Charlotte first-rounder. Protections decrease over the next three seasons. Oh, so maybe if they keeps getting protected, Charlotte will suck one of those years and the protection will fall through. You know what that tells me is that the Knicks didn't see anyone on the board worth taking a pick this year. They wanted to keep their roster positions open, keep their caps face available to them and go out and fill that in free agency. Tom Tividow doesn't play rookies anyway. Tom Tividow never plays rookies. So there's a reason why they did that. They're hoping that, that's a rolling the dice, just hoping that pays off. Three years down the road that Charlotte ends up somehow with a top three pick. Quinton Grimes. I'm looking up Quinton Grimes right now. Should I be excited? He's actually a Knick. He's not getting traded. Maybe he is. Someone tell me about Quinton Grimes, please. Quinton Grimes from Houston. Let's see, you had summer league, my friend. Combo Guard 615 Slick says he's a Combo Guard and a good defender. He played under Samson. He loves D. Don't get me canceled, please. He's got good game. Grimes is five star at Kansas transferred to be a stud at Houston. Gotta look him up. Yeah, I kind of agree that they, I mean, maybe they're gonna go get a point guard or a free agency, either Kimber or Kyle Lowry. Still out there a lot better than Sherry Cooper. But can we let Spike have his moment with Mr. Grimes if he's there? He was the highest rated prospect in Texas coming out of high school but he didn't play well at Kansas needed time to develop at UH. I'm by me. He's streaky. He's a streaky shooter. I didn't say it, the commenter did. I'm just reading y'all's comments. Zade over on YouTube is asking what do I think about that Rubio trade? Again, I think that's insurance for Colin Sexton's gonna be on the move here in the near future. I think that's what that means. Ricky Rubio is the best player on the floor right now every time he plays at the Olympics. Every time Ricky Rubio touches the court on an international competition. Lee and Patty Mills turn into LeBron and Kevin Durant. Every fan of an NBA franchise that has had Ricky Rubio on their team has to watch these international competitions and where is that man? Why does he not exist on our team? And I don't know why, but you don't hope you're gonna get that version of Ricky Rubio at some point. They needed a backup point card because they had none, right? And isn't Delavadova gone now too? Yeah, last year their backup point cards were Deli and Damien Dodson. So Rubio gives you in case Garland or if Sexton does come back either of those guys get hurt, they're not playing 45 minutes a night. You're gonna need a Ricky Rubio someone to run the damn offense when one of those two come off the court. So I understand the pig and it didn't cost him anything either. Makes sense. I don't think there's a single person in Cleveland or Minnesota upset with that trade. Like Minnesota's got way too many dudes in the backcourt. You figure Malik Beasley is gonna come back and get a lion's share of those minutes. So we don't need Rubio. D'Angelo's not coming off the court ever unless he gets hurt. He's not passing the ball. That was Ricky Rubio supposed to operate without the ball in his hands. He needs a ball in his hands. So go to Cleveland. I don't know the team stinks, but it's a great fit for him. I'm sure he's not thrilled, waking, imagine waking up. That should happen at 6.53 a.m. Tokyo time. Imagine his alarm's probably going off around 7, 8 o'clock in the morning. Your phone goes off. You have a thousand text messages from your agent, your family, your teammates and your friends saying, we'll miss you in Minnesota. Sorry about the trade. Imagine waking up to that shit. I'd roll over and go right back to bed, turn my phone off. No more damn texts. Braden Hammond over on YouTube says, thoughts on the king's picking Dave Mitchell, maybe buddy healed to the Warriors for Kimonga and maybe Wiggins. That's a big ask for buddy healed, but I don't know what Sacramento's up to. Maybe they're trading deer and fox. I don't know why they would. I never know what the kings are up to. They got all, they got three guys in that backcourt who can't be on the floor at the same time. So you think that guy that's jumping like crazy for Josh Christopher, no clue. He's just jumping. Let's be, he, there's no way that guy knows that Josh Christopher is going to be this good. That man is just getting cardio. He's been, he bought a ticket. He's been sitting there since eight, eight o'clock, two and a half hours to get the camera in his face just to jump up and down. I appreciate it, but be honest with your jumping. You're just jumping for the sake of jumping because you're excited. Deer, there's, you want to get nuts? Someone over on Twitter, Deer and Fox for Ben Simmons. Let's go, let's go. You want to get nuts? Let's get nuts. Clippers, we'll just make sure that this pick comes through for Quinton Grimes and we'll be on our way. We do have the 25th pick. We traded nine times for it. Spike Lee doesn't know that Grimes is the Nick because he's busy filming. Guy Jones' Jesus shuttle was worth the second. Pick is in. We've waited for this all night in New York. I'll tell you right now, Quinton Grimes on this team. By the time I get out to Vegas for summer league, I'm become the biggest Quinton Grimes fan in the world. You need something to look forward to at summer league. It's a week of fantasy and overreactions and dreaming. And it's not just because it's Las Vegas because all the teams are there and you think that if you win a game, we got the best rookie here. It's just, it's contagious if you've ever been in that building. When Quinton Grimes say in 2014, and he wants to play for New York, he was probably 14 years old back then. Is he there? He's not even there. What should the Lakers fans look forward to in summer league? LeBron and AD and Westbrook showing up together sitting courtside? Is that your team? That's your team. That's it. Let's watch some Quinton Grimes highlight, shall we? Get out and run. Ooh, I like it. Get out. Let's go. And right after the next pick is Bones Highland. The next pass on Bones Highland for Quinton Grimes. Remember this moment. Remember this moment. All right, folks, appreciate y'all stopping by. Sorry, there wasn't more dramatics to that, but the Nix just kept training their day in pick. So I will probably be back with a stream later this week. Otherwise, I will see y'all out at summer league. We'll have some fresh new content for you there. And take a look out for the video that from the Clutch Combine. You wanna get to know those guys, Jalen Johnson, Kai Jones, Moses Moody. I spoke with them all. Got exclusive interviews. We'll drop that on Fandall soon. Make sure y'all follow the streams and turn your notifications on. We'll be back. I'll take care of this cough. We'll see y'all next time. Peace.