Giannis’ Potential Trade Scenarios and NBA Prospects

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00:00My thing on Giannis and the Knicks, I think it only happens if Giannis forces his way to the Knicks.

00:07To an extent, yeah.

00:08And I don't—look, he is clearly gun-shy on even requesting the trade.

00:14I don't know how short of a list he's willing to hand in.

00:19I know my—I did the Giannis list 13 teams long.

00:22I could give you them if you want, but, like, I just—

00:25Yeah, let's go through it. There's no reason not to.

00:27Because, again, to your point, he's a little gun-shy to go to them.

00:32I think he wants to have the situation where I'll be like, hey, you know what?

00:38This is best for both of us.

00:39I know if you happen to trade me, that's cool with me, but it's best for both of us.

00:44So, you know what, actually, let me find—hold on, I'll do this.

00:47We'll have some fun with this.

00:48I'll give you the—they were kind of broken up into tiers.

00:51I mean, that's what makes the most sense of who has the salary, who has the assets to trade back.

00:55I know people floated the discussion or the hypothetical of, oh, the Spurs have the two-pick.

01:01So could they make a Wemby-Giannis pairing work?

01:05Because—and, again, that does make at least some sense from the Bucs' perspective,

01:09where you get back some of the young players, a Keldon Johnson plus the two, and then that makes sense from them.

01:14All right, so here's my Giannis list kind of tiered out.

01:18Okay, here we go.

01:19Three spots where he goes, he's the face of the franchise,

01:21because that somehow still seems interesting to him, despite the fact he's leaving a place where he's the face of the franchise.

01:26The Nets, the Raptors, and the Heat.

01:28Yeah, the Raptors—I keep hearing the Raptors.

01:31Keldon had him on that Giannis list before everyone was hearing it.

01:33Here's my thing.

01:35Brooklyn is—we've seen the Brooklyn connections, and if that was the thing,

01:39then the Raptors thing had to be on the board.

01:42Yeah.

01:42Because he goes—if he ends up a Raptor, he's minus money to be one of the three best players in the history of the franchise.

01:48It doesn't run that deep.

01:49Yeah.

01:50And—

01:51I can think of three on top of it.

01:52There's a—Lowry, Carter, and DeRozan?

01:55Is that where you're—or—Kawhi is somewhere.

01:57Yeah, Lowry, Lowry, Carter, DeRozan, Bosch.

02:01Bosch, yeah.

02:02But that's it.

02:03Again, Giannis plays like five seasons there.

02:05He's the top three Raptor ever.

02:07The Messiah-Jury connection.

02:09I thought Miami—again, could I see him wanting to be Heat?

02:12Pat Riley?

02:13Maybe.

02:14Okay?

02:15So that's three.

02:15But there's been a connection to them before.

02:17Yeah, there absolutely has been.

02:18So that's three.

02:20Brooklyn.

02:21Yes.

02:22I mean, the Brooklyn—he's just been connected to Brooklyn regardless.

02:25Yeah.

02:25Then there's just the simple, I want to stay East because the East is weak.

02:30Easy, yeah.

02:30Boston, Knicks, Sixers.

02:32I would put Knicks, Sixers ahead of Celtics.

02:36There's just me personally, but—

02:37Yeah, that's not in a specific order, but that's—to me, again, if he gets to Boston,

02:42it's a situation where now I'll forgive the Celtics for secretly rushing Tatum back because

02:48I know they're going to try and rush this kid back.

02:50But if by the start of next playoffs, all I tell you is Tatum is back and Giannis is on

02:55the team, I think Boston's favorites to win the title.

02:57Oh, yeah.

02:58So, you know, there's something there.

03:01The Sixers piece of it is fascinating.

03:03The Knicks, he's immediately the star.

03:06Yeah, they're the easy favorites in the East.

03:08I think they would be closer to win the title—I think they'd be closer to OKC than the third

03:13team if he's on the Knicks.

03:17Superstar phone call.

03:18One of these is obvious, the other is not.

03:22If Steph calls him, I think he's interested in the Golden State piece of it.

03:25Of course.

03:26If Durant calls him, I think he'd be interested in the Phoenix piece of it.

03:30I think that he admires Durant.

03:33They've talked about that.

03:34Yeah.

03:35It would be a crazy 180 for Durant to go, instead of leaving, I'm going to bring in Giannis.

03:41But if Devin Booker was on the board, the Bucs would be interested in that.

03:44So I put the Suns on the list.

03:46It's not going to happen.

03:47I know.

03:47But I put them on the list.

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