AVOID DESPERATE TRADES

“I realized something while I was watching Michael. The biopic is dead. The biopic as to me, the biopic and maybe even the biographical documentary as a storytelling tool, I think, is gone. The movie has no story. There's no story to the movie.”

“McDaniels is gonna hound Jamal Murray 94 feet. And I don't know why more teams don't do this when you have a Jaden McDaniels. But I thought Murray was just gassed in the fourth quarter because McDaniels was just wearing him down.”

“I missed Michael Jackson. I missed him. More to the point with Michael Jackson, I missed the version of Michael Jackson that existed before I had to consider any of the others. I miss the feeling of unbridled joy that exists with me being dumb and not knowing.”

“The spurs when he gets concussed on the night that he is given the defensive player of the year award and it looked bad immediately was not great. In football, the concussion protocol is like at least a week. He's definitely not gonna be in game three, but maybe he comes back for game four. But at the very least, Portland steals one.”

“My favorite story of all this stuff was, it was when the Celtics had the Markelle Fultz, Jayson Tatum, that when they had the number one pick. And they brought Markelle Fultz to Boston to meet him for the weekend. He was really shy, and he apparently asked if Boston had Chick fil A. And they're like, no. We don't have it in Boston. And he was crestfallen. And they were like, uh-oh. That was his big Boston question.”

“It's amazing to me that we get to this point in the process in the last month when the private jet gets, you know. Four or five of the people who they're most influential people go and they have dinner with. They meet with family agent. They go and they throw some passes side field. And they wind up, not necessarily disregarding, but that kinda trumps it. That twenty four hour interaction maybe over two whether it's a come into our facility, ten to twenty hours worth of interaction typically winds up trumping a lot of other stuff.”

“I was doing all the research for running backs because this ties into the love conversation. And it feels like top five is just too high for certain positions even though we know when we do redo the draft. But six to 10 is not too high.”

“And the big thing for me, the fact that they didn't shade trade for CJ McCollum at any point during the season before Atlanta got him is just bonkers. It felt like the natural thing that was going to happen after VanVie got hurt. McCollum goes, and he's one of the stars of the of game two and one of the potential stars of the playoffs.”

“The Bengals trade. The problem is urgency that is created by situations. There's going to be an opportunity by an organization that is gonna be presented to us because they're desperate. And if you've got Joe Burrow and the injuries and the timeline and now the contracts with the wide receivers, you are desperate to win now. And I think this is a desperate move. And, honestly, it almost never pays off if you go look at the history.”

“When we get to the offensive tackles, I think when we get to Philly and some of those teams, I could see a move up. From 17 to 30, you got this murderer's row of teams that need offensive tackles. So there's about eight teams that need an offensive tackle, and there's only five remaining. So there's gonna be movement there.”

“The only thing I worry about him is I think he's such an intense, committed, competitive, crazy, all about the football team guy. The moment he got drafted, he's like, I am now Drake May's bodyguard. And I really wonder mentally how he handled just getting his ass kicked in the playoffs. He's probably been successful at that position at every stage of his life dating back to age four. The team worries about him a little bit taking the job home.”