 roster turnaround in the NBA is at an all-time high and every single day I'll wrestle with myself trying to figure out if I really like it or or do I hate it because listen There's some things to like it seems like every single season. There's this new hot commodity The Cavaliers got down to Mitchell the Timbers got Rudy Gobert. These are exciting things But I'll be honest with you. There's some things that I don't like like come on, bro Here go. Here go. Oh, hey, can you come in now? Where is the active NBA rivalries? Not the ones rooted in location like Clippers versus Lakers or Brooklyn Nets versus Nicks Not I mean like the ones that were fueled just by playing basketball. They don't really exist like that You know Trey young versus Nicks. It was one playoff serious. You know, I'm saying yet a boom But that's not even real rivalry because we've only seen one series of that I guess 76er fans and and bosses Celtics fans hate each other That's probably a good one But we don't have a ton of active rivalries and don't hit me with Warriors versus Grizzlies. That's a baby rival It's been like two months. No, but you know what rivalry have potential to be great But has not lived up to it Clippers versus Lakers Paul George Kawai Anthony Davis LeBron like yeah They've given us some cool games But I would even call it like a super big rivalry because the Clippers can't stay healthy and the Lakers decided to blow up their entire roster I'm not talking about it. That's not what this video is supposed to be about We're supposed to be talking about roster turnaround in the NBA So I've been thinking about it quite a bit So I decided to go back to look at sports illustrated top 100 players going into the 2020 2021 season that was what two years ago two seasons ago And the numbers are staggering on how much roster turnaround we're really seeing and these are the top 100 players in basketball 50% of those players are no longer in a team that they represented in 2020 2021 for me That number is extremely high and that's not even counted like the Mike Connelly's the Bogdanovich is basically everybody That's still on Utah who are rumored to be traded before training camp That's not even count knows half of the top 100 players in basketball have switched rosters in two years time Kenny you talk about players 96 and 97 nobody really cares about that. Here's the all-star team These are players that were on the all-star team that season that are no longer Representing the team that they were representing that year James Harden the Matissa bonus Ben Simmons Russell Westbrook Rudy Goldberg Kyle Lowry Donovan Mitchell remember Kimball Walker was an all-star in Chicago a couple years ago and lastly Chris Paul Who put together one of my favorite scenes of all time him and okay see I might make a whole video about that But we're seeing top-end talent switching rosters very very quickly We're seeing rumors of top-end talent potentially switching teams KD gave us two months of rumors And with that came Kyrie Irving giving us two months of rumors. It is happening faster than any time before So today's video I want to try to predict What is the next all-star caliber talent that will be traded somebody's come out of left field I would actually I would argue majority of these come out of left field We're like all of a sudden this player disgruntled or this organization decided how we want to go in different direction and boom They're on a different team like for real It felt like James Harden was going to be a houston rocket for life And he's been on two different teams since that time and I don't have a script no more I had a script for the beginning and now we're just talking hoops I also don't have a great track record doing these type of things because I asked the same exact question to my podcast Going into last season and the name I came to mind with was Carl Anthony Towns I thought there was a possibility where Carl Anthony Towns either requested a trade or the Minnesota team was decided to trade him away If things didn't go well, you saw it went well They made the playoffs and they decided to bite into Carl Anthony Towns and bite into Anthony Edwards this off season So the likelihood of car Anthony Towns getting traded are close to zero But I thought that listen, we've only made the playoffs one time since I've been here I've been an iron man for this organization. Y'all haven't built anything around me I thought that if they missed the playoffs again, it wouldn't have been too crazy for car Anthony Towns to request out It didn't happen and he might be there for a super long time. Shout out to them So there are a few teams that we can cross off automatically and those are the teams that I would say don't have a all-star caliber talent Just right away. Like how can I say that the Houston Rock is going to trade with all-star caliber talent? They don't have that they got some young players that might become all-stars But these are not all-star caliber talents in this moment of time Even if they are all-star caliber talents, they're not trading Taylor Green, bro He's he's taking his contract. There's no reason to trade him Unless you're throwing him in a trade to get somebody else, which doesn't seem likely for the Houston Rockets So the teams that means we're eliminating are the Detroit Pistons the Houston Rockets the Indiana Pacers The Orlando Magic and the San Antonio Spurs The the monsters don't either don't have an all-star caliber talent It was just not gonna happen the next group of players that we're 1000% eliminating are the guys that I think it's a 0.0000001 Chance that that team would trade them, especially the next star player to be traded We're talking about the yannis is so bucks are off the list. We're talking about Yoko tees off the list We're talking about Philadelphia 76ers They're off the list because they bought in to Joel and beat this offseason and last year we traded for James Harden Oh, we eliminated the jazz too because they did that like Steph Curry's not gonna trade it. LeBron is not gonna trade it Kawaii or Paul George aren't gonna trade it right Anthony Davis isn't gonna trade it, right? I'm gonna say no. I'm gonna say no, but like Crazier things have happened and then I would eliminate the teams That just did the buy-in, you know, I'm saying so the Atlanta Hawks aren't trading so young because it just bought into the jante Murray The calves the timber wolves the teams that made the superstar splashes this offseason I'm also not included in the brooklyn nets because Come on, dog That's that's this will be a too many video over he's talking because they were already about to do that So I'm not even including them. They won't be including a lot of these videos, bro I don't know what to do with the brooklyn nets right now. I'm beyond a switch So if you're keeping up at home, these are the teams that we were still deciding whether or not We believe there's a world where they would trade their start player wizards Raptors kings blazers sons nicks heat bulls Celtics hornets and thunder Okay immediately I kind of want to take off the miami heat because I personally believe if they are going to trade one of their start players And I'm considering bam a start player in this circumstances if they're trading bam They're trading up to bam, you know what I'm saying up from bam They're throwing them in a trade to get a superstar player Not trading him away because they want to hit a reset and jimmy pauler feels like he's going to be a miami heat for heat or heater Heater he's going to be a heat for the rest of his career. That's just what it feels like Again, I said the same thing about harden. So I mean, I don't really know I think a lot of people would look at the okc thunder Because after the new york nicks struck out on donovan mitchell There is a report that they have shifted gears on the the next potential disgruntled star And shake you just alexander was the was the thumbnail and people speculating that he might be in And me and my guys had this conversation on how long do we believe the okc thunder can convince shea to go through this rebuild Because if you don't know the first couple years of shea gears alexander's career He was a playoff player as a rookie with the clippers He was a part of that one team that was down by like 36 points And ended up winning the game and then the second year is with the chris paul bubble year So he had been in the playoffs the first two years of his career And since then he's been on the heavy tank roster And it seems like he either can't stay healthy or the team continues to shut him down And i know that shea gears alexander loves to play basketball He already got a taste of what the playoffs are like how long can they convince him of a rebuild and with all the draft capital they have I mean They might be thinking rebuild for quite some time and i think what hurts them in this situation I don't think i'm picking shea just just to say that but what hurts them in this situation Is fact that chet is out for the season because i do believe there's a world where chet comes into the league And he's really solid off rip and shea's looking at what he's got around him And josh giddy being one of the better playmakers in basketball and chet being a plus player He's like, okay I can sustain this for like another year or two and just like that chet is one of the better Bigs in the league and giddy continues to progress. Oh jaylen williams is a plus player and now we're in playoff conversations, but now Without chet being there. It's like, oh man I gotta play with basely full-time. I don't disrespect the dearest basely, but like There's levels to this. You know what i'm saying? There's levels of excitement between playing with garyus basely and playing with chet home Grace it's simple I'm hoping it's not really the case for okc because it seems like they've been through a lot and They would hate to have to trade another promising young player But I don't Feel like it's out of the realm of possibility That he could be the next star all-star caliber talent to be traded They've watched some wizards gave bradley bill a no trade clause. So maybe he's not next either No trade clause on bradley bill is insane There's not a lot of people in recent NBA history to get a no trade clause bradley bill did that I mean, I he means a lot for the city. You know what i'm saying? He raised his family there So I'll just stay and wanted to to buckle down But no trade clause blows my mind toronto raptors is an interesting one um They struggled to come out the out the gate and then ended up being a playoff team and second half of the season They were amazing fervent fleet made an all-star appearance, but I still consider pasquiao siakam the best player on the roster right now So when I'm talking about potency trading your start, I'm not looking at fran. I'm more looking at pasquiao siakam I think it really depends on how this season goes. I don't see them as a team that's going to take a step back I see them as a part of the the tier two amongst NBA teams. They're underneath like philly, boston You know i'm saying miami and who am I forgetting about milwaukee? They're in a tier two. They're young Upcoming promising team with a lot of potential a lot of length So I feel like trading away pasquiao siakam would be kind of crazy It really doesn't fit my size and mold to bottom out or sell a really really talented player Seems like a team that'll always be retooling for the future until they really really hit But I could see a universe where pasquiao doesn't fit the timeline put that in quotation marks As he's 28 years old going to be 29 at the end of next season And the only has this upcoming season in the year after that under his contract I don't really know. I doubt it. It just doesn't seem like the toronto raptor's weight But i'm keeping it in this tier the kings. I what do I say about the kings? Is it the air fox? Is this a bonus? I think I don't think those two players get traded just because in the time they have played together They were pretty good And it seems like they're bought into this core So I'm basically eliminating them off the list also trading up a high uses point guard That has been shown that he needs to ball a ton It's not gonna be a lot of teams. It's gonna be extremely interested in that especially like a trade that line You know I'm saying that's like a move you making the offseason now We could work around the blazers are still a really really interesting team but Dame also signed an extension this offseason So it's probably out of the window if they didn't trade dame last season or two seasons ago It feels like it's not gonna happen. They've messed up the highest amount of value you can get for dame And they actually built it built a what seems like competent roster around him at least in the starting lineup I really like they're starting to five So I'm gonna take them off the list for now because dame wants to be a Portland trailblazer lifer I'm eliminating the phoenix sons too because the more I think about it the more it doesn't make sense for them to potentially trade A devon booker chris paul because those are the two star players I'm even thinking about devon booker is going to be there for some time I don't see a world where he requests out and then if they do trade chris paul What the heck is the chris paul market at this age and if you are trading chris paul who's Stepping in it's not like you got a a young up-and-coming point guard coming off the bench that we trust now I'm taking them off the list. They're not going to be the next team. The bulls extend his acclimate You know the extend his acclimate the martyrolls are still I don't think they're going to be the next team I think we're going to make an entire bulls video in a couple days I know a lot of y'all might not be excited about that But i'm taking the bulls off the Celtics have thrown jaylen brown's name into what seems like every single big time trade imaginable But if you're trading jaylen brown, you're not trading for a reset You're not trading for three first round picks and two swaps That's not the the navigation where you're going to go if you're trading jaylen brown You're trying to get kevin durant You're trying to get one of the top 10 players in basketball And because of that i'm going to say that jaylen brown is not going to get traded But I wouldn't close the window completely on him going to a different team of free agency. That's all i'm saying the hornets The hornets have lamella ball And lamella ball is going into what year number three at this point He's already made an all-star appearance season absolute stun But I think lamella walks into training camp this season Look at his roster be like god damn You know god Mason you still here You know mason plumbly still here The only thing that's holding me back from picking them definitely picking lamella ball definitely Is that he's still in this ricky contract and it's very rare We see an all-star caliber player that's on their ricky deal getting moved because what is the reason for lamella ball has Zero leverage if he decides to go to michael jordan and say ah one out If anything he goes to michael jordan to say hey, where the where's my god damn help You saw what they gave the calves gave for died of a mitchell. We could have did that exact same thing Legit legit they could have done and it gets a similar package to to what the cavaliers did but they didn't They said they were interested they didn't do it So if i'm the mellow ball of looking at terry rosey and be like terry rosey is a good player I like terry rosey or gordon haver a good player. I like gordon haver That don't excite me We've been in a play in two different years. We lost by a combined points of like 80 points You know i'm ready to hit the next step is your three. I'm ready to hit the next step I'm looking at all of my peers around me and they're doing real things Like anthony avarice has been in the playoffs and he was an absolute stud there Safety word about jay's wiseman brother got a ring. He's got jewelry. Okay, but nobody after lamello has done anything. So That's that's the bad that's the bad part The lamello thing is really unrealistic because it's me thinking aloud because it it will be completely unprecedented I just remember last season people speculated whether or not zion would take his rookie extension Oh, it's the unhappy in the first minute He could sign that contract He did and I would guess lamello ball is in the same camp because that's a lot of money to pass up on Realistically usually take some time for top three overall picks team to make the playoffs Usually there's a reason why that team had the third overall pick It's because they're bad and the charlotte hornets are kind of that But losing miles bridges and not replacing him or getting a center that can do anything definitely hurts But lamello's not going anywhere. Let's be real You could go to route of the golden state warriors because they're about to be super expensive That's no fun, though But you got clay you got wigs you got draymond. Jordan pool is going to be up for an extension Draymond green is up for an extension. It's not likely that they're able to pay all of those people But like the likelihood of that happening in season is extremely low in my opinion Could we be at a point that the all-star caliber trade is not going to happen? I went up to twitter to ask y'all. What do you think? Nobody kept it serious. No, nobody gave me a legitimate answer. It was all haha I want this player to come to my team Which makes sense twitter twitter is for jokes. Yeah, that's that's it. I I didn't really even say anything this video I was just rambling