De'Aaron Fox & Zach Levine: Ignored NBA Story Insights

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00:00And I know you wrote a piece on what I think has been the ignored story.

00:05Sure.

00:06The D'Aaron Fox and Zach Levine.

00:10Now I gotta ask you because I think Zach's a badass and so is D'Aaron and I think this

00:17benefits both San Antonio's, Wimby gets to play with his cat and he's a freak and Levine

00:23is 44% from, what is he shooting, career highs from a 4 and 3, averaging 24 4 and 4,

00:334 plus, 4 plus and he's a badass too.

00:37And that deal has been ignored.

00:39I agree.

00:40I mean Levine can play, we know that.

00:42I'm not sold on the situation there.

00:44You've got a lot of guys that play kind of similar but going to San Antonio, you're talking

00:48about Luka, you're talking about the Mavericks, I'm talking about a team in San Antonio that's

00:52going to be good for a decade.

00:55I compared them to the running gun sons, Amari Stoudemire, Steve Nash, fit like a glove from

01:01day one.

01:02This team gets half a season to warm up.

01:04I don't think they're going anywhere.

01:05They're five games under 500.

01:06I don't think they're going anywhere this year.

01:08But moving down the road here, San Antonio's going to be at what, a top three team?

01:12List to me the West teams you want over San Antonio moving forward.

01:15I get OKC.

01:16I'll give you that.

01:17After that, is it much of a list?

01:18No.

01:20I agree with you, everything you said, because I said it earlier.

01:25I was talking to somebody about it off air, and I was saying how they're tough now.

01:33They're just not good.

01:35They're tough.

01:36They play.

01:37He's that good.

01:38He's that good.

01:39With Castle.

01:40Remember, they've been doing it without Pop, and he had a stroke.

01:44They have been tough.

01:45They're a team that, they're a problem.

01:48Remember the day, the first game in Paris, they killed the Pacers, then they got bent

01:52over, right?

01:53But they are tough every night.

01:55They're a game every night.

01:56They show up every night.

01:58And now imagine when you get that type of player to go with him.

02:02And we're not talking CP3.

02:04We're talking De'Aaron Fox.

02:05We're talking closer to peak CP3, maybe peak plus with the scoring that Fox brings.

02:09It's better.

02:10It's evolution.

02:11CP3, the point, God, I'll give him all that.

02:15His credentials are there.

02:16De'Aaron Fox, when all is said and done, is going to be a better basketball player.

02:19I get that you're talking 15 years, and I'm not talking bad about Chris, but don't get

02:23me wrong.

02:24Me neither.

02:25I mean, you're talking Wemby, who's impacting games, impacting winning, impacting spreads

02:29in a major way.

02:30We're, what, 110 games into his career?

02:33He said it himself the other day, this is the worst version of Wemby that we're going

02:37to see.

02:38Ever.

02:39That is impossible for me to fathom.

02:40And then you got De'Aaron Fox, who's reaching his prime.

02:42You mentioned Castle.

02:43Vassell's there.

02:44Pop's going to be there.

02:45They're not just a playoff team.

02:46Barnes, they're loaded.

02:47They're not just a playoff team.

02:48They're a problem.

02:49Like you said, would it shock you, shock you if they won the Westlands next year?

02:54No.

02:55I said on the show many times already that, first of all, the defense player of the year

02:59is already over.

03:00Yes.

03:01That's already over.

03:02For the next decade.

03:03He's going to have, he's going to have 275 blocks.

03:07And 203s.

03:09Easily.

03:10And then, so no one will ever win that award again for the next 10, 12 years.

03:15That's a done deal.

03:16If he's healthy, it's a done deal.

03:17Secondly, what really got me was that, I can understand, frankly, that De'Aaron didn't

03:24want to stay in Sacramento.

03:25Fair enough.

03:26I would say that I could live with.

03:28But the fact that they would let him go.

03:30Now, I'll give you this.

03:32They cleaned up.

03:33They got three number ones and three number twos.

03:34Yeah.

03:35Teach Dallas how to do it.

03:36So, right.

03:37Like, they cleaned up.

03:38So, I guess at the end of the day, it was worth it for them.

03:40But I still can't believe that they did it.

03:44That they would let that guy go.

03:47But when you get those six picks, now you can start filling the cupboard.

03:50So, I guess that's why they did it.

03:52But I don't know if I could ever sit in a room at a table and go, you know what we should

03:55do today?

03:56Let's trade De'Aaron Fox.

03:57It's the same with Luka.

03:59What are you doing with those picks?

04:00Your hope is to draft the next De'Aaron Fox?

04:02Draft the next Luka?

04:03You had him in the house.

04:05Why move on from it?

04:06And now you're strengthening the Spurs, who are, like we said, a team that's going to

04:10be a team to watch for a long, long time.

04:13I don't think there's anything the league can do about it right now.

04:15Everybody wants to talk about Luka joining LeBron.

04:17That's great.

04:18You know how long that's great for?

04:1918 months?

04:20Maybe?

04:21What do you think of how Zach handled his business?

04:26Now you got a guy like Butler, who has just been lymphoma.

04:31He literally is lymphoma.

04:33He is such a cancer.

04:34He has ruined, in my opinion, the heat for the year.

04:37For the year, they're done.

04:38They don't matter anymore.

04:39Oh, he's an altered guy.

04:40And then he took Pat Riley out and beat him with a wooden mallet and turned it into a

04:47personal thing.

04:48And I thought he looked really bad doing it.

04:50Then they were going to go to the Dubs.

04:53Then he goes to the Dubs.

04:54He says, yeah, I don't want to sign a deal with them.

04:56I'll play for the rest of the season.

04:58But not after that.

04:59He is impossible.

05:01How in God's name did Zach Levine shut his mouth and just ball out all year in Chicago

05:07and never complained once?

05:09He did it right.

05:10He's just the better player, the more mature player at this point.

05:12I like how Levine handled his business, which is where you were headed with that.

05:15I'm just not sure about the fit in Sacramento.

05:17You got DeRozan there.

05:18Sabonis, I love.

05:19Sabonis, I think you can build a championship contender around.

05:22I love him, too.

05:23I think they're missing a guy, De'Aaron Fox, if you will.

05:27I think they're missing a number one option.

05:28DeRozan can get you buckets.

05:30Levine can get you buckets.

05:31Sabonis can distribute.

05:32But you're missing that key piece.

05:34They think Monk's that guy.

05:36But he's not.

05:37He's better with De'Aaron than without him.

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