 What's the word, y'all? NBA trade deadline is over. As of right now, the way your team looks, it's probably how it's gonna look for the rest of the season. I mean, we do got some buyout candidates and stuff, but for the most part, the team you got is the team you got. And for some people, you're extremely excited. And for others, not so much. And we're here to talk all things trade deadline. First of all, I wanna say thank you so much for the support over the last three to four days from the carry Irvin requesting a trade to us actual trade to the Kevin Durant video, to the Lakers trade. You guys have been killing it. It got to a point yesterday where we were number eight on trending, not trending gaming, but on the entire platform of YouTube. The first time we've been that high, number eight. And that was with the Kevin Durant video. And then if you scroll down further at 14, it was us again with the Lakers video. So again, thank you so much. I've been trying my hardest to cover the trade deadline as much as possible and efficiently as possible. We've been to the Twitch stream. We had 12,000 current viewers. So I just wanna say thank y'all so much for the support. And I'm just excited to continue this journey. Cause it seems like every single year we break new records. So thank you for that. We got trades on top of trades, on top of trades. The easiest thing for me to do is say, hey, here are the winners and here are the losers. But I think there's more nuanced than that for this trade deadline. And I hope y'all didn't take it for granted, man, because this was the best trade deadline we've had in a long time, maybe even ever. A guy like Kevin Durant doesn't get traded at the deadline. He basically never gets traded in general, but he definitely don't get traded at the deadline. And he definitely don't surprisingly get traded at the deadline. So don't take it for granted. I dropped a video on this channel about a month ago while I was subverting the expectations and saying that this trade deadline or I'm expecting the trade deadline to be buns. So anything that happened that was good, we'll take. And in that video, I was like, oh man, we might have a year where OG Annobe is the best name moved. He went, he moved. We got Kevin, we got Kyrie, we got others. So again, there's so much to talk about. I might not focus on the super big deals like the Kevin Durant one, because we did drop our solo video. We might talk about it here or there, but we already dropped that one. You know what? I'm becoming more of a fan of the Kevin Durant trade from the Brooklyn Nets perspective over the last 24 hours. I think I was just so enamored by the fact that Kevin Durant was traded that it felt like no matter what they got to return, it was gonna feel like a lackluster package because he's got damn Kevin Durant, arguably a top 10 player of all time. He ain't no later than 15 of all time. And he's still amazing. And you know, I saw the package of all the first round picks. I saw McCill Bridges and all of that. And I was like, oh, it feels like an underpay. And the more I look at it, the more I like it considering the circumstances from the Brooklyn Nets, where they basically gave him their word that if things went south during the season, they'd get him out of there and get him to his team. And of course his team during the off season was the Phoenix Suns. And this is a really good package, especially when you consider that they're serious about staying competitive this season. You just saw them first game outside of the trade without McCill Bridges and Cam Johnson and these guys suing up. They beat up on the Bulls. The defense is gonna be pretty good. And they, you know, have a couple spots between them and the play-in or them being completely out. And they don't have any incentive to be bad because they don't own the rights if they're on first round pick. And there was a report that came out from Zach Lowe that a team offered an additional four first round picks to get McCill Bridges's services that they turned down because they really wanted to stand pat with this current core, at least for the foreseeable future. I'm sure, and people are like, oh, why the hell would they decline four first round picks? They could have walked out with what nine first round picks in a Canada rent trade. But I do believe that the way McCill Bridges is and how important he could be for a championship level team, that same offer will probably be there next season during the off season. Or if it's not four first round picks or whatever I just said, maybe it's two and a player or something like that. So there is no big rush to flip McCill Bridges immediately as it was for Jay Crowder, who's 30 plus years old and wants to go play for a competitive team. I'm excited to watch the Brooklyn Nets, but not as excited as I am to watch the Phoenix Suns, man, because they're gonna be pretty good. Enough said, they're gonna be pretty good. And as long as they can stay healthy, and that was one of the big things in my video that the health is the big issue because if Chris Paul pulls his hamstring for the 12th year in a row in the playoffs or Devon Booker get hit in the face or somebody dives into the legs of Kevin Durant and those players miss time come playoff time, they're gonna be, it's gonna be rough because they, I think that they're, we talked about the lack of depth that they have and it's not the best depth in basketball, but I also don't think it's the worst, but they also won't be able to mimic anything close to the production of those three players if somebody goes down. So if they can stay healthy, this team on the hierarchy of basketball teams and the hierarchy of the Western Conference, they jumped up back to it and they went from a team that I had as a championship level team last year, they got humiliated by Luka Donchich and the Dallas Mavericks and the world thought, me included, that the window was closed for them and now acquiring Kevin on contract for four seasons. We don't know exactly how this is gonna go, but he's under contract for such a long time that this window is back open and I think it's open wide for the next two seasons. This playoff run and next playoff run because after that Chris Paul is like 40 years old and we don't know what the hell is gonna happen with Chris Paul's health considering it's already starting to go down. So I said I wasn't gonna talk about the KD trade and we just spent 12 minutes on it, whatever. Let's get to the next one. They already dropped the D'Angelo Russell and I don't even have any additional feelings about that. Other than I realized something I overlooked from the Minnesota Timbers perspective when I did my initial reaction to the trade and they had to do it with like the salary and the money saving possibilities of trading D'Angelo Russell and getting back Mike Conley. That's not my expertise to cap and all of that stuff. So I'll give them a thumbs up for that, I guess it's something that's outside of my expertise. But we'll see. I mean, it was rumored that D'Angelo Russell and the Lakers are interested in an extension which is for me it is weird to see a team immediately trade for a player and start talking to extension without seeing how he would pair along side guys like LeBron, James and Anthony Davis. They did the same thing in Rui Hachi more after they traded for him. Who knows that they gonna come to an agreement but it is a bit weird. It's also weird to see like Malik Beasley and Jair Vanderbilt sitting courtside or McKell Bridges sitting courtside watching his new team perform while they wait for physicals and all of that stuff. They're already being there, it's funny to me. So for reference, I'm looking at a Bleach Report article that shows me all the trades. The next one is J. Crowder ending up in Milwaukee. In this one, the Bricklenet's got three second round picks to Indiana Pacers get George. Hill back, ladies and gentlemen. George Hill is back, remember him? Lance Stevenson and Roy Hibbert and stuff. They were on cover of that magazine with the fashion and all of that. Do you remember that era of Pacers basketball? You probably do. Sergey Bak is going back and it's already known that he's probably gonna get balled out. Jordan Warren and two second round picks are going to Indiana and the Milwaukee Bucks get their guy and J. Crowder. They gave up five second round picks. That was the big thing in the trade that line this season. If you was trading for a player and you didn't have a first, here go four. Here go four seconds, here go five seconds. It was just all over the place, four to five seconds everywhere and that's the case here with J. Crowder. We'll see again, we haven't seen J. Crowder play basketball in quite some time. He seems to static on Twitter to be back in the swing of things. I don't know if he'll immediately pass his physical and start hooping next week or will it have a ramp up period where he's back after the deadline? Regardless, they just played against the Lakers as I'm recording this video and then in this one, Chris Middleton had one of his better games and looked closer to himself than any time. So the Milwaukee Bucks are ramping up and I wouldn't be surprised if they're a buyout team. A Brooklyn turns J. Crowder to three second round picks and you could commend that because again, they don't have much draft capital outside of what they are acquiring today. The Lakers made another deal to get Mo Bamba on the team. Mo Bamba for Patrick Beverly who will be likely bought out in a second round pick. I honestly thought that was a really undervalued deal when it comes to Mo Bamba. I mean, I guess he's not struggling to get plan time but this time of the season, guys like Mo Wagner are getting minutes over him and of course he's a former fifth overall pick who just signed another contract. So maybe I was overvaluing him as a dude that if you've been around this channel for years, you know, coming out of the draft, Mo Bamba was one of my dudes. I went when he got drafted, the Bulls hit the seventh pick that year, I was like, damn, I just need a Mo Bamba to fall into our laps. I think that was the year of Wendell Carter. So they ended up laying together eventually but I was a big Mo Bamba guy. So maybe I still am to this day. Apparently he got hands or something. He's ended up in Los Angeles for that price and considering they had to trade away TB because Thomas Brown requested a trade. This is a good replacement, not as great as the idea of Mo Bamba. Like the idea of Mo Bamba was stretch five, can block some shots. And this year, I think he's shooting close to 40% from three on like two attempts. So he still provides that stretchability but it does have a lot, there's a lot to be said about him because, I mean, again, he's playing for Orlando Magic or a rebuilding team and he was losing minutes to Mo Wagner. But for the Lakers at this price that was Patrick Beverly who had been sneaky decent for the past month and a half or so and a second round pick a worth deal because they have so many ball handlers now with some of the additional trades and they needed more center depth and Mo Bamba can do that. This is the surprising one. Sadiq Bay ends up with the Atlanta Hawks. So the Atlanta Hawks get some wing depth. They kept John Collins for the goddamn six year in a row. John Collins has found a way to just stay in Atlanta. But from what I read, the sons and the Atlanta Hawks were very close on the deal. And then Matt Ishpia, who is the new owner of the son said, get that we won't Kevin. So let's go after Kevin. So there's a world where John Collins was moved yesterday but it ended up being Sadiq Bay coming into the team. The Warriors lost their hands of James Wise and basically trading him away to get back Gary Payton a second. And then the Trailblazers ended up with Kevin Knox in five second round picks. Again, five second round picks. And it said, no, these are functionally two separate trades and they're looping them together. So shout out to BR for making it easy for consumption for me to talk about. And I think I read this after the straight that the Wayne Casing and plan on starting James Wiseman. It is a bit weird. And the reason I'm saying it's weird, not because they take a fly on James Wise because I think it's a worthwhile flyer for what you gave up. 100% a worthwhile flyer for what you gave up. Cause Sadiq Bay, he had been in rumors all season. Was he upset or whatever? We don't really know. But if you're telling yourself that Sadiq Bay was not a part of your core plan, getting the guy like James Wiseman on a flyer is interesting. You did it with Marvin Bagley. You ended up giving him another contract at least but ultimately I don't think Marvin Bagley was a part of the full-time plan. But the reason it's interesting slash weird or different is because you already got Jalen Duren. You already have Isaiah Stewart. And I read that the Wayne Casing company plan on starting James Wiseman. So you have Stu, you have Duren. Now you have Wiseman and you want the first overall pick, right? So potentially Vic, like you're shooting for Vic. Those are four centers. Now obviously if Vic comes to town all three of those dudes can go to the next team because you're gonna prioritize Vic. But like it's, would it be difficult to develop all of these dudes because they all generally play the same position. I know I just do is play a lot of four of the season. He's stretching the floor more. But you know, again for what you paid, not too terribly but it is interesting to see like who's gonna be a part of the long-term goal. Gary Payton II is a guy that understands and knows the system. I was pretty confident that the Warriors are gonna go out there and do something. And I thought it might've been Alice Caruso but the Bull said they want two first round picks. Gary Payton II is a very similar play. He doesn't shoot it as efficiently as Alice Caruso does. The value about to say, Alice Caruso don't take no shots but Payton knows the system. Of course being the NBA champion with them last season. So does, is this enough of Warriors fans? I haven't even been, I haven't been in the loops with each individual fan base after the trace to figure out who's excited about their moves or who's not. Does this move the needle enough for the Warriors where like a team that did make big moves you feel like the Warriors are still, cause I think they were the betting favorite pre-trade deadline. I don't know if they still are. Does this move of adding Gary Payton back into the swing of things make the changes where they can stay? Or I don't really know. I like it from the Atlanta Hawks perspective especially considering another deal that they did earlier was like to cut salary. It was like the Justin Holliday deal. It's just super on brand for the Atlanta Hawks to try to save a lot of money but they got a guy in Sadiq Bay that will become an immediate rotational piece for their team who can't run some three, who can't run some four. But I thought for sure the Atlanta Hawks are gonna do something else and that was John Cobb. Jacoperto ended up getting traded for Kimberch. First round pick of 2024, top six protected and then two seconds. And this was a confusing deal because we all thought that the Raptors are gonna be not a blow it up team but a team that at least was gonna move a Gary Trent Jr. and Old Gianna Nobby, a Fred Van Vliet. These were three of the hottest names on the market pre-trade deadline and not a single one of them ended up getting moved. But instead they bought in on Jacoperto breaking them back after they trade them away a part of the Kauai Leonard deal obviously. And the idea is that not only are you trading for, this is not a rental on the last year of his deal but the idea is to re-sign him and now he is the center and you don't have to force Pascal Siakam to be a center. But now since you didn't trade OG or you didn't trade Pascal, you didn't trade Gary Trent Jr. What is the lineup now? Because you traded for Yaka because you want Yaka to hold down the paint. You want Yaka to start. Who's cut, is it Gary Payton going back to the bench and now you got OG, Scotty, and Pascal on the start lineup with Freddie? Probably. But it just felt like, like with this being basically the only deal that Toronto Raptors did, it was a let down me as a neutral fan because they had some of the pieces that could have swung the deadline. And I think it might have hurt them a little bit that Kevin got traded because teams like them and the goddamn bulls who we will talk about at the end of the video, I'm gonna get my rent off, best believe it, felt that since all of the talent, the superstar talents that got traded went from East to West that we don't even need to sell no more because well, we think that the Brooklyn Nets aren't gonna be as good. And now that gives us an opportunity to keep our pieces and see what we got one more time. And we just need to go on a little win streak because if anybody can do what is us, that is the mindset. Yaka's a really good player though. Yaka's a really good player. I just don't know if he was worth the 2024 first round pick. And I think they gave up a first round pick to get that he's young last season. So they're throwing around these picks for players. And I guess we'll see what come of it. And for the Spurs, you got a first round pick for Yaka Pertle, which is all they really asked for. Actually, I think they asked for two first round picks, but they got one and then two seconds, which is good. My least favorite deal of the day was Bones Highland getting traded to the Clippers. And it's not for the Clippers' sake because I think the Clippers did an amazing job in this one because it was Bones Highland for two second rounders. And Nugget's fans, before you say anything, I understand that there were some ripples with him in coaching and they didn't absolutely love his shot selection and I completely understand that. The deadline for the Nuggets was Thomas Bryan, which is a huge upgrade from Deandre Jordan. That's beautiful because Thomas Bryan is a really good basketball player. But it feels like they were completely confident seeing the rest of what was going on around the league and thought, we still think that we can do it because we have continuity and because Jamal Murray continues to look better every single game. But they didn't make a deal to get better outside of the Thomas Bryan one. And maybe, and I'm guessing because it's the deal that they agreed on, that the value of Bones Highland was basically nothing. But based on what I saw, there were six or 17s. I feel like they were lined up for a possibility to get Bones. I don't think any of those teams has given you super rotational pieces. But a player in return when you're trying to go on a championship push, a playable player would have been good. But the deadline for them is just upgrading the backup center, which is dope. But let's be real, come play off time. Yoko just gonna play 38 to 40 minutes anyway. So TB and Yoko just not gonna play minutes together. I mean, I don't think they're gonna play minutes together come play off time. So you didn't do anything to improve your playoff rotation. This room is that they gonna be out there on the buyout. So we'll see if they go get a Reggie Jackson, a John Wall and one of the people that are available. But out of all the people that I feel like are losers per se, the nuggets have to be in the conversation. Maybe not losers because Thomas Bryan is a really, really good backup. And for the next 26 games of the regular season, he's gonna be amazing for them. But again, come play off time, he's not gonna get a lot of burn. And shout out to Aaron Gordon tonight though. He was ridiculous. But for the Clippers perspective, I mean for a guy like Bones Island who has the mode in the make of being a flamethrower off the bench, a spark plug type dude. And in a lot of cases guys like that don't end up having big roles in the championship push. That's just not what they're there for necessarily. But you could get an occasional, a rare, you know, 15 point game off the bench in a playoff series from one of these guys. Jamal Crawford has a decent amount of them in his career. And I'm not saying that Bones is what Jamal ended up being as a six man product. But he has that type of mode, that type of mindset, that type of game to maybe eventually ends up being there. But what is he in year two? Like this is a very, very young player. I just hate that they didn't get a rotational player back. Two second round picks for it. It's kind of nasty work. Josh Richardson got traded to the New Orleans Pelicans and this was the only deal they made. And you know what? I'm okay with this. You know, I saw some people saying that they should have went out and swung for defenses and there were rumors that they did have an off of Roseanna Nobby that was a lot of picks because I think they have 12 first round picks in their briefcase and they can afford to throw three because they'll still have nine if my math is, you know, right? But there's a report that they were okay with not going all in on this season because well, BI, Zion, these are dudes that are unhealthy right now, but the core is young. We have a young core. You might have been a two seeding when you're completely healthy, but we see the landscape of the NBA right now. We don't need to be hyper aggressive and go out there and do some magnificent big time deal because who knows when the next star is gonna one out. And we have 12 first round picks currently. Let's chill. Let's these young guys hoop. I kind of like the fact that it only ended up being Josh Richardson and four second round picks that take on Vonte Graham. And with this one, they're saving some money, save money, you know, big thing. And then four second round picks for taking on Vonte and getting rid of Josh Richardson is cool work for the Spurs. They did a lot of small things that ended up with a lot of draft capital, which you, you know, you appreciate from the Spurs because they never really been a team that's been doing a lot of the selling and stuff. So the fact that they're doing it and it seems like they're doing it successfully is good. Mason Plumlee is a, is a clipper. They've been looking for backup center play. Mason Plumlee is solid. At the end of the day, he's solid, especially if he's gonna be your backup. Now, with the hornets, he was trying to do some stuff that you don't want a guy like Mason Plumlee doing, but as a backup center is Mason Plumlee is really good. Now, will he play again? And when you talk about these teams that are trying to compete like the Clippers, I try to look at it from the perspective of will these people be a viable come playoff time? Mason Plumlee might not get a ton of minutes in the playoffs. He might get 10 or so per game or something like that. But you needed some backup center minutes. They wanted to get more of a rangey switchable center. They didn't end up getting that in this, but Mason Plumlee can play make a little bit. He's gonna gobble up some boards. He's gonna get dunked on occasionally. So just be prepared for that. And it only cost you a second round pick at Reggie Jackson who had fallen out of favor of Tyron Lou anyway. Clippers keep going, bro. The Clippers did what? Four trades? Three, four trades? This trade deadline? Danny Green and John Wall going to the Houston Rockets. John Wall to be waived. And there's rumors that Danny Green might get bought out as well. The rights to a swap of Milwaukee Bucks, yada yada, also going to the Rockets. So they got another first round picking this one. And then Eric Gordon in three seconds are going to the Clippers. And then the Mifras Grizzlies get Lucanard. So the Grizzlies go get a lethal shooter, which is something they need. They don't lack three point shooting, but they could use more of that. But again, looking through the lens of a championship caliber team, a team trying to compete, Lucanard can't play a ton of minutes, can play off time, especially if you're paying him alongside Jamerant in the backcourt. And majority of playoff series, the opposing guards are going to try to eat that. You know what I'm saying? Become regular season, having another guy on the wings that could just catch the ball and shoot the ball at a high clip. 40 to 45% is dope. The Clippers get Eric Gordon back. You know what I'm saying? Eric Gordon had been trying to get out of Houston for forever. And they get him. And I mean, I don't even know what the Clippers depth chart look like nowadays. I feel like they trading a lot of stuff and getting stuff back. But all of their trades so far, I'm a fan of, I just need to see it materialize. Because this is a team that we haven't really seen their actual rotations because you don't know if Kawai is going to play this game or if PG is going to play this game. And you just add more depth, but they already had decent amount of depth. Is this just added on top? I don't know. They have so many players over there. They just got a lot of players. Who's playing? Who's not? I mean, it's good problems to have. The least interesting trade of the deadline, Garrison Matthews of Bruno, Fernando for Justin Holliday, Frank Kaminsky, two seconds. That was just a share of money. We look past it. Darryl Scharch in a second for Darius Basely. I'm happy to see Darius Basely get another home. It's just, I don't love his fit there in Phoenix based on his skill set. And hopefully he pooms me wrong. And he immediately becomes impactful for a team that's looking for good rotational pieces. But, you know, it don't, it don't, it don't feel great. That's the trade that we don't even have to talk about too much. The next pull a trigger on Josh Hart. And I've read some things that they were in conversations for other people as well. But the only one that they completed was reuniting Josh Hart and Jaylen Bruntz. And you got the, the host a moment of those two dudes together. Or I guess Jaylen Bruntz are finding out that Josh Hart was going to come back or come to play with him since they were teammates in Nova. And it was a cool host a moment. The trade ended up being Ryan Archediak and Osfima Kailu. Kam Redis, a ladder to protect the first round pick that's its own and turns into four seconds if it doesn't convey this season. Which it won't convey this season. You just won't. The Knicks will make the playoffs. Knock on wood. I don't want to jinx nobody. Knicks fans ain't trying to jinx you, but they're good enough to make the playoffs. They've been good. And now Josh Hart's added to the depth. I don't think he's going to start. I mean, maybe he does, but he just adds another guy that plays defense, gets rebounded for a team that lacks defensive rebound and especially will Mitch Robinson going down. And for the price you pay, what's basically going to end up being four second round picks and people that you didn't care about. Anyway, it's, it's cool. The Blazers do a beat. We talked about this in our Blazer video and I still got hate from it from Blazers fans when I was trying to point out the fact that it would be impossible for them to resign everybody that's on the roster and going to the, why would you go into the luxury tax for a team that's struggling to make the playoffs? So they made a couple moves around the edges including trade and Josh Hart because they didn't think they were going to be able to resign him. And they basically bought into the idea of resigning Jeremy Grant coming off season. Will he take the money? We shall see. But this is a deal that they take a fly on Cam Reddish and Cam bro, this is, this is, I mean for me, this might be the last stop you get bro as me being a believer in what you could potentially get. This is a team that desperately is looking for wing depth. They just traded one of the guys away. They're desperately looking for wing depth Cam. So this is the prime place for you to showcase that you are not just an NBA Hooper but a quality NBA Hooper whether they be a bench rotational player, a starter in his league, whatever. Cause people still think he might be the next Paul George and it's been years at this point. You know what I'm saying? It's been years. The trade that they ended up doing talking about the Portland Trailblazers is them receiving Matisse Stiball. I guess they did three trades cause we already talked about the Gary Payton one earlier. Matisse Stiball is going to the Portland Trailblazers. The 76ers get Jalen McDaniels, a couple second round picks. Sfima Kai Luke is now routed to the Charlotte Hornets and the Hornets get a second round pick for Jalen McDaniels. I was surprised to see Jalen McDaniels moved. I know there are rumors about it for some time but I was just surprised and you know they have a way of drafting players and they just sit around for three to four seasons and don't get a ton better and then they get rid of them. Kind of the way Charlotte does it. Matisse Stiball moving on to another team and he's Gary Payton replacement. Simple as that. He's going to defend. Not going to hit a lot of shots. He's going to defend. He's going to do a little something like that. All defensive player if you remember correctly. I'm interested to see Matisse Stiball playing alongside Damian Lillard. Cause I do believe that in the small amount of time that he was with Philly where they used him as a role man. He was pretty damn good. And I wonder if they'll, if Tati Billups will try to run a Dame Matisse Stiball pick and roll. But yeah, an interesting one for the Blazers. I will say that. I feel for y'all Blazers fans. This ain't, say the deadline you wanted. At least your team did something even if it wasn't great. We already mentioned the Thomas Bryan move. I really liked that for the Denver Nuggets. And then the last leaves moves getting traded to the Boston Celtics to replace Luke Cornette's center minutes. And we love that. Those are all of the trades that happen. There are two major, and I mean major, major losers of this deadline in my opinion. The first one being Pat Riley. Sleep at the wheel. Sleep at the wheel. And listen, he don't got a lot of access to work way. But Pat Riley has been this dude that has been like a superstar. In the eyes of a lot of us NBA fans because he always finds a way to get it done. He always finds a way. We got no assets. We still go end up winning this trade. Doing nothing at all when your roster looks like the way it does is bad. Especially for an all-time great at that position. The biggest of all losers, because at least the Miami Heat are playing good basketball right now and they project to be a legitimate playoff team. And once healthy, they'll probably still be solid. So it's not that terrible. You still have Cal Larry on your roster, whatever. The biggest loser of all of trade deadline done. Goddamn Bulls. Zero trades done is about as unacceptable as any. If you told me zero trades was done last season at last deadline when we were the one seed at the deadline, then I ain't even mad at you, brother. We the one seed. This team is very far away from that. This team is very, very far away from that. And listen, I've been very vocal on this channel about what I want and don't want as a Bulls fan. And what I wanted and most built Bulls fans wanted was something we didn't know if we wanted to sell. We didn't know if we wanted to buy, but we wanted to know what the direction was of our organization. And one of the reason why it is so bad and people don't realize this unless you ingrained in this Bulls shit. We ingrained in this Bulls shit. The reason why this is so very bad is because Vooch is a free agent. Io DeSumo is a free agent. Vonte Graham is a free agent. I think there are Jones Jr. is a free agent. Do I say Io Kobe White is a free agent? And the Bulls throughout the history of being owned by the Ryansdor family has went into the luxury tax one time. One time in the history of it all. You know, and think about that. They've been the owners through the Jordan era. They were there through the D Rose era. We went through the luxury tax one singular time, ladies and gentlemen. So the fact that we didn't move some of these expiring deals just means that we're going to be okay with either losing Kobe White, losing Io DeSumo, losing Javante Green, losing Dera Jones Jr. A combination is these dudes in free agency for literally nothing. And we're just going to be worse. And being worse is not a terrible thing, but it's terrible when you don't even do anything to set yourself up to be worse. Us being worse right now is just because it's cheapness and not by design. If we started to be worse by design, I'm sure that 70% of Bulls fans would have accepted it. If we were to trade in one of the big three, we would accept it because at least we know this is the direction of the organization. And instead we keep talking about continuity on a team that has reached this peak a long time ago. Reached this, we just went into Brooklyn on a team that traded Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irvin the last 72 hours and they smashed us. Ben Simmons looked great on against us. I know it was eight points, but you get what I'm saying. These are games that we're losing regularly. And you, oh, I couldn't wait, boy. I couldn't wait to hit a press conference and watch no press conference and none of the other 29 teams. I wanted to see what the Bulls front office had to say about them not doing a damn thing at the deadline. And what did he say? Well, I think we're playing a lot better. What team are you watching, my guy? We're playing a lot better compared to what? The year we got Derrick Rose, yeah. Yeah, we playing a lot better, barely. Cause I think our lottery odds are the exact same right now. We not playing a lot better. Oh, we had a couple of games slipped through our hands. There's a difference between letting the game slip through your hands and blowing a 20 point lead five times before the trade deadline. There's a difference. I don't know how you can see the anemic offense and be like, ah, we'd be, I get that, get that ball to the rose and let them shoot another mid range contestant and pray that it goes in. The offense is awful. And Billy is benching the young dudes because he don't know what to do either. Are we supposed to be trying to, should I be letting Patrick Williams get all the burn because we're trying to develop him? Should we let the other dudes hoop if they playing better today? Cause nobody knows what is going on. Yeah, we were in the worst thing he could have said. And this is Karni Chauvin's that, yeah, we were on the phone all day. Just nothing materialized. Brother, something materialized for 20s, eight other teams. You're saying you are the one of the two teams that nothing materialized though. We, we throw four second round picks for somebody like everybody else. We didn't, we didn't sell somebody at all. I'm so disappointed. And I'm counting down the days until the season is over game, 27 more games. And yeah, they might go on a little run. Oh, they might end up in the playing boom. We might end up in the actual playoffs. This fool's gold, man. We know that. We gonna go to the playoffs, match up against the boss of Celtics if they make it out of the play-in. And we gonna get swept. And that's, that's it. And then the off-season gonna come around and we gonna bring back Vooch. I'm curious about the Zach Levine rumors if they're true or not because that changes the dynamic the dynamic of this off-season potentially. But boy, oh boy, it's disappointing. And me, I'm die-hard. I will be watching the last 27 games undoubtedly. I'll be tuned in with a Bulls jersey on. I'm here for my squad. I'm a rock on my squad, but God damn, we got no hope right now. Talking about, we picked up the phone. We was in a lot of conversations, but nothing material last. We've been playing better. Just do a lot of buzzwords. I was a shout out to Casey Johnson who was a reporter slash journalist here in Chicago. He was not afraid to ask the real questions. Like, okay, what are we doing here? And there was no genuine answer. It was very political, beating around the bush stuff here in Chicago. We've already talked too long, but I kept my Chicago talk to the ear for the people that don't care about the Bulls. Let me know what you think about your favorite team in this trade-out line. And of course, as always, I will be in the comment section.