Is Shams in too deep with Jimmy Butler's business?

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Shams Charania went on Pat McAfee and said the Jimmy Butler story he reported was the most vetted story he's ever put out. Is Shams in too deep?

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00:00Uh, yesterday on the NBA cup coverage, Sean Sharania is, uh, continued to

00:07stick his beak in the Jimmy Butler business as NBA's lead insider.

00:12But the funny thing was, yes.

00:14The funny thing was yesterday when he was like, he tweets out the latest

00:19with the Jimmy Butler situation.

00:21I was like, all right, I'll bite.

00:22What do you got for me?

00:23Shams.

00:24And this is what he said on the NBA cup preview show yesterday

00:29on the Jimmy situation.

00:31So the talks are, I'm told the heat remain open to hearing

00:35interested suitors in Jimmy Butler.

00:36There's not an urgency that they're operating under.

00:39When you look at his salary, $49 million this year, he's got a $52

00:43million player option for next year.

00:45The market that we're going to see come this off season, there's one

00:48team with significant cap space, and that's going to be the Brooklyn

00:51nets $60 million plus, and as of right now in the trade market, the

00:55nets are not believed to be a suitor and they might not make sense for him

00:59come off season either, because clearly they're more of a rebuilding

01:01retooling situation, and he's going to be a 36 year old wind now star.

01:06And that's why I'm told the sons and the warriors are believed to be a top.

01:10His list of preferred wind now destinations.

01:12If the Miami heat were to trade him the rockets and Mavericks being the others,

01:16but this is a fluid situation.

01:18We are going to see this play out over the coming week.

01:21All right.

01:21So there you go.

01:22I don't really understand how that is the latest other than, I guess he is

01:25now ranked Jimmy's favorites teams, which are the sons of the warriors,

01:30which I gotta be honest with you guys.

01:32I don't know if Jimmy Butler is getting traded or not.

01:34Maybe he does, but I don't understand what really here is new because the

01:39heat don't have to trade Jimmy Butler to the sons cause they, unless

01:43they're giving KD back, I don't really, uh, I don't think they're interested

01:47in Bradley Beal because well, they weren't interested in Bradley Beal last year.

01:51So why would they be interested in paying, paying

01:54anybody?

01:55I don't know.

01:57He's always hurt.

01:58He's always hurt.

01:59He's hurt.

02:00And he makes Jimmy Butler money more years after the, the, where the

02:04heat don't want to pay Jimmy Butler.

02:06It is one of those things that like everybody is just like saying a thing.

02:11Cause I think that, cause I think they like to make graphics for Instagram and

02:15you have, I understand why the sons are interested in it.

02:17If I had Bradley Beal and I could get Jimmy Butler, of course, I'd

02:19rather have Jimmy Butler.

02:20He's a better player.

02:21He's a more impactful player.

02:23He fits better with your team.

02:25I get why the sons would love Jimmy Butler.

02:27And I would imagine that's probably where a lot of the smoke is coming from.

02:30And then I'm sure that the sons, I'm sure James Jones has probably told or

02:34heard from Jimmy Butler's agent, even if he denies Sean saying, all right, but

02:38if we trade for him, he's like, would you, would you pay him the extension?

02:41And they'd be like, hell yeah.

02:42We'd pray in that Bradley Beal money.

02:44Why wouldn't they?

02:46So that's where that whole, Oh, who's the top of the list?

02:49Who's the top of the list is who's going to give Jimmy Butler his money on.

02:52That's who's the top of the list.

02:54But then RJ, uh, Richard Jefferson, finally, somebody with some sanity

03:01tried to ask the most obvious question in the world yesterday on the pregame show.

03:06And then you have Kendrick Perkins stepping in.

03:08Like he's like, he's all I got this.

03:12How do the Phoenix sons get Jimmy?

03:13But let me, let me, let me get this.

03:15Okay.

03:15You're okay.

03:16Let's I'm asking.

03:17I think Bradley Beal would have to be involved with this.

03:19But he'd have to wave his new trade.

03:21Oh, okay.

03:22So this ain't just about what Jimmy Butler wants.

03:25It's also about, Hey, Bradley, we're sending you someplace else because I

03:28don't see one draft assets.

03:30I don't see other young assets.

03:31And I know Devin Booker and Kevin Durant.

03:33Ain't the people that they're talking about.

03:34They do have one first round pick and three second round picks.

03:37They could trade if they wanted to.

03:39Oh, do you think that that would be enough to get the ticket?

03:42The $49 million, all of those picks Bradley Beal salary matches.

03:47And then from that point, it's about is the first, what would the picks be enough?

03:51That's not for me to debate.

03:52Yeah.

03:52Okay.

03:53Well, it's not for you to debate because it's the stupidest

03:56thing I've ever heard in my life.

03:57Like, Oh, would that be enough to get Jimmy Butler?

04:00Oh, he is sitting there.

04:03You're playing with your belly button.

04:04Cause you, you, you fired up the trade machine shams and Richard Jefferson

04:08sitting here asking like, wait, would the heat actually want Bradley Beal?

04:11Does anybody want like, it would have to involve Bradley Beal.

04:15I'm like, yeah, that's kind of the point.

04:18If like, if Bradley Beal is an expiring deal, even then I would be like, okay,

04:22the heat are going to get some salary cleared.

04:24That kind of makes sense.

04:26And then they can go have their reset.

04:28The heat are going to go into more financial debt for Jimmy Butler.

04:31I think everybody needs to be smart and, and understand who, who are the people

04:36that are involved in these negotiations and trades and all these deals are.

04:41The heat are not, we know that he don't not stupid.

04:44Okay.

04:45They're not going to be taking no Bradley Beal.

04:48You didn't want to sign with us or trade, you know, you didn't want to

04:51waive your no trade clause when you were in Washington, why I want

04:53you now when you're done.

04:55Yeah.

04:56It's it's when you're broken down, but I'm getting sick and tired of some

05:01of these trade allegations because it's like, be smart and be real about it.

05:06Like really think, take the time out and think about it.

05:09Golden state.

05:10Golden state is, it may look good, but are you willing to offer all of that for

05:15something that's not a given if you're golden state, but you're going to

05:18have to give up what cominga you're going to have to give up a Wiggins

05:22Wiggins and other drafts.

05:25Come on, but at least that makes more sense, you know, cause like, at least

05:30the, he could say, Hey, if, even if they're not into cominga, at least

05:33the, he'd be like, someone's going to want cominga, right?

05:36Because right.

05:39Right.

05:39That's the, at least it makes some sense.

05:41I'm not going to deny the warriors, the son's thing.

05:44Like it's almost like Shams has, has it out for this because Jimmy's

05:48agent called him out on it.

05:50And, and most people have said, Oh, Jimmy would be.

05:53Yeah.

05:54Because the son's owner has a ton of money.

05:56Of course he would be into it, but guess what, dude, that's what happens

05:59when you shoot your wad on the big three that you picked, you know,

06:05we get Jimmy welder, you traded Kevin Durant to the Miami heat.

06:07That's how he gets them.

06:09But if that's not, if that's not on the other end of the call, what's the call?

06:12Like, Oh, do you think James Jones even has the, the, the cajones

06:15to make that call to Pat Riley?

06:17You're like, I like that.

06:19I like that.

06:20Would you, uh, would you call it?

06:22Would you, he's like, Pat James, why are you even calling me?

06:24Dude?

06:24Click.

06:26Champ.

06:27Come on, champ.

06:29Click.

06:30Now you're not going to disrespect champ like that.

06:32He has respect champ.

06:34Come on.

06:35I'm just like, I'm trying to figure it out.

06:36I don't want to be the guy who's like, Hey, the Jimmy boat, there's

06:39nothing to the Jimmy Butler rumors.

06:40I think there's a lot to the rumors.

06:42There's a lot to the rumors.

06:43There's if there's smoke, there's some sort of fire in the foreground

06:47and the heat did this to themselves.

06:49You guys know, I've been an advocate for paying Jimmy.

06:51I think that they should have done.

06:52Right.

06:52And that's fine.

06:53They're not okay.

06:54Whatever.

06:55They've made the direction, but like, wait, let's just, let's just

06:59take a step back here, guys.

07:00Okay.

07:02The Miami heater in this situation.

07:04Because they didn't want to pay a player, uh, a heap of money because

07:11they didn't think that he was going to live up to that contract.

07:14So what you're telling me, everybody who wants the sons thing to happen.

07:18I don't care if you could have wind horsed, whoa, shams, you could have

07:23them come together, like Voltron have shifter on the ash cheek.

07:26You could have every insider in the world.

07:29Tell me that the sons are going to are very interested in Jimmy Butler and Jimmy

07:32Butler's interesting going to the sons.

07:34But please somebody explained to me why the Miami heat in a situation started

07:41because they don't want to spend money would trade Jimmy Butler to a team and

07:47take back a player, not as good for more money, just say that to yourself.

07:56Why would they do that?

07:59And they get one draft pick seven years from now, but he's the other thing.

08:04Right.

08:05What position?

08:06All right.

08:06So if you're saying Bradley bill, right, that's the guy that they would be

08:09trading.

08:10Why?

08:11When you have Tyler hero, that's, they say the same position, pretty much

08:16stop.

08:16It makes no sense.

08:18Enough with Phoenix.

08:19Now, Houston didn't go this day.

08:22For sure.

08:22We don't have a job, even though, you know, even if Houston's

08:25thrown cold water on it, we get fine.

08:27But the, the, but the sons thing, like he's so knee deep in the sons thing

08:31happening.

08:32And I'm like, Oh, and this is the thing.

08:34Everybody's like, you like, you know what, this is why ESPN, this is why

08:38people think you're, you're, you're a clown show ESPN because you have the

08:41hard dassy to sit up there and be like, Bradley bill for Jimmy Butler.

08:45I mean, come on.

08:46Like that's a trade.

08:47I'm like, it is.

08:49Yeah.

08:49Back in 90, like back in like 2015, maybe 16.

08:54I'm just flummoxed by it.

08:56It's not even that Tobin.

08:58I think after getting big boy by shams, I mean, by, uh, woes last year in the

09:04whole Dame Lillard, um, to the Miami heat situation, I think he's like, he's got

09:11to, he's got to be 10 towed down on his, on this.

09:13He's, he's going to die on this hill because sign a new big deal with ESPN.

09:18The whole, you know, the whole thing, this, he's got to give them something.

09:22He's got to give them a, something that's breaking or something that's newsworthy

09:27so that they don't at that signing of a shams doesn't look like a waste.

09:31So I think that's why he's really, he's knee deep in this and

09:34like, he's not giving up on this.

09:37It's weird because it's like, yeah, but what is he not giving up on blood?

09:40Like, cause no one's saying, all right, clearly there's interest.

09:43There's maybe mutual, but here's the mutual.

09:47He's like, um, from what I've been told, like, like, this is like, he's

09:51getting all this information, but here's the mutual interest.

09:54Here's the interest.

09:56The sons, would you rather have Jimmy Butler or Bradley Beal?

09:59I'd be like Jimmy Butler.

10:00Okay.

10:01Jimmy Butler.

10:02Would you like all the money from a rich owner or would you not like all the money

10:06from the rich owner in a pretty good team?

10:07Like, I would like all my money on a pretty good team.

10:09Okay.

10:10That's mutual interest.

10:11But then it's like, but does anybody go to the third party?

10:14And it's like, Hey, Miami heat.

10:15Do you want Bradley Beal?

10:17We already told you last year we did, but we're still going

10:21to talk about it for days.

10:22Okay.

10:23They're a top of the list.

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