00:00The vibe right now, though, Tom, is those teams are going to have to keep on waiting.
00:07Giannis just won't press the escape button as it pertains to Milwaukee.
00:13And what did he tweet the other day? Something along the lines of like—
00:16Oh, he missed Woj?
00:17He tweeted something like, yeah, let's get back to it, or something along the lines of talking about Memphis.
00:23I don't know the exact verbiage, but he tweeted something like, let's get back there,
00:26which would imply he wants to stay.
00:30And a part of it, again, tied back in this Tatum news, the East is open.
00:35It is a winnable conference.
00:36Now, you could say that the Bucs certainly did not look good this year.
00:41And with the Dame injury, they need to have other players step up massively,
00:46which we can certainly talk about.
00:48For me, it comes down to the same take I've had about Giannis two weeks ago, three weeks ago.
00:54It was the same take I'm going to have now.
00:55It was like, he wants to be held in a high regard in that city, and he doesn't want to demand a trade.
01:02He doesn't want to be the guy like, listen, I brought your championship.
01:05You know, you drafted me when I was a teenager.
01:06I grew up in the city.
01:08I live in the city.
01:10I brought the championship, but I don't want to be viewed in a bad light, you know, exiting the city
01:14because I am demanding a trade to be out.
01:16But he's like, hey, if I could leave, that would kind of be great for both of us.
01:18But the KD news does present a wrinkle because there are teams vying for both of them.
01:26And if no one's willing to pull the trigger, then this entire thing is just going to be held up in the air.
01:30And the draft is 11 days away at this point.
01:34Yeah.
01:34So it's all coming to a head now, right now.
01:37Well, I think the thing about Giannis is when you look at, there's a difference to me between Phoenix and Milwaukee.
01:48The difference is, at least Phoenix says we have Devin Booker.
01:52Like we have a young and his prime player next to Kevin Durant.
01:56You're looking at Milwaukee and you're like, Dame is going to be 35 coming off an Achilles tear.
02:03Brooke Lopez is a free agent, is as good as gone.
02:06Bobby Portis, Pat Cyneton, KP Jr. are all player options who are probably going to be leaving.
02:12Who are you looking at Giannis on that team saying, those are the guys I'm going to go to war with that's going to get me a championship.
02:19It's not there.
02:20So now you have to wonder is, Giannis is saying, all right, I'm going to be content with my one ring and my one run where Monty Williams basically blew the entire series up two games and on.
02:31And you're never going to see NBA finals again.
02:34You're never going to maybe see an Eastern Conference finals again.
02:37Or do you get out?
02:38I think he's trying to do, he's trying to win, but do it with Milwaukee.
02:44And I just don't see how those two line up.
02:47But he's still the domino.
02:50So if you're Houston and you're San Antonio, I don't want Durant.
02:55I want Giannis.
02:56So I have to wait to get a clarity before that before we can move in a direction where we want to move to take that next step.
03:02I think the, I don't know if defense is the right word.
03:07I would offer of Giannis.
03:11Okay, so I'm going to defend, quickly.
03:13I would defend him in this way.
03:15Dirk went to the finals in 06 with Dallas.
03:17Right.
03:18They lose.
03:18Dirk gets back, you know, five, six years later.
03:23Before maybe, I don't know, you do the math.
03:25Okay.
03:25But he gets back, right?
03:27It's like, listen, maybe I'm not going to win next year or the year after that.
