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KGMZ-FM / 95.7 THE GAME
  • 6/30/2025
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00:00D'Angelo Russell, forever warrior, has agreed to a two-year, $13 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks.
00:12So, Russell on one wing.
00:14Holy cannoli, this is crazy.
00:16Clay Thompson on the other.
00:18You tell me how you're going to stop that with Cooper Flagg running around like a crazy person.
00:24Woo!
00:25Watch out for those Dallas Mavericks.
00:27They're making a move.
00:28Yeah.
00:28I don't care.
00:30Luka Schmuka.
00:31They got D'Angelo Russell and Cooper Flagg.
00:34Yep.
00:35Yep.
00:36D'Angelo Russell going to play for his fifth different team, including multiple stops with the Lakers and with Brooklyn.
00:44Yeah.
00:44There's another guy who has a way after a team has had him where they're kind of like, I think I'd like it better if he were gone.
00:52He's had that effect on multiple teams.
00:55He had that effect on the Lakers twice.
00:57Yep.
00:57Two different regimes were like, hmm, what does Milo like to say when you give her food that she doesn't want to eat?
01:04I don't yike it.
01:05That's right.
01:05That's exactly what the Lakers said about D'Angelo Russell.
01:08Twice.
01:09Well, the first time had to do with Nick Young, a.k.a. Swaggy P, if I'm not mistaken.
01:14That was part of it.
01:15That was part of it.
01:16You were down there then, right?
01:17I was.
01:17And there was an interpersonal situation with...
01:20There was Snapchat gone wrong.
01:21There was a girlfriend, and there was some hyperbole and some conjecture.
01:26Indeed.
01:27And so then he's off to Brooklyn.
01:29Well, two years, and then he was a Warriors for 33 games.
01:34Yeah.
01:35And then Minnesota, and then back to L.A., and then back to Brooklyn.
01:40That's the best thing about D'Angelo Russell is that in an odd way, shape, or form, he helped bring the Warriors Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Kaminga.
01:50That's right.
01:51I mean, that's...
01:53If you think about it that way, you're like, whew, that's a crazy trade.
01:57And then, obviously, Andrew Wiggins helped bring you Jimmy Butler, but only because there is this...
02:03I don't know what word to describe it.
02:05I don't want to use the word distaste, but there is discomfort with what the entire Jonathan Kaminga experience has become.
02:15I feel that, at least.
02:17I feel that.
02:19I feel like no matter what everybody is hoping for, what happens here, everybody is already out the house and on their way down the road of just some sort of discomfort related to Jonathan Kaminga.
02:34Because it gets personal sometimes.
02:37You know what I mean?
02:38Like, Jonathan's a very...
02:39He's a very watchable player.
02:41He's an exciting young player.
02:42He's got a very interesting skill set.
02:44But, my goodness, it just, for whatever reason, it hasn't worked.
02:4995.7 The Game.
02:50Breaking news.
02:54All right.
02:55This is a Shams Bomb.
02:56All right.
02:57We have got ourselves a significant trade and two names changing addresses that have both been linked to the Warriors, and so it's not going to happen.
03:07Ready for this one?
03:08The Denver Nuggets are trading Michael Porter Jr. and an unprotected 2032 first-round draft pick to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for Cam Johnson.
03:25Oh, no.
03:26That's your guy.
03:28You and Grandy.
03:29Grandy.
03:29Grandy.
03:30If you need to take a segment off or whatever, you can.
03:33Do you guys need to hug it out?
03:34Oh, my Nuggets fan now.
03:36I was off for one day.
03:38Well, I've been off for more than that, but the one day I was off, I tuned in, and you two did a four-hour love letter to Cam Johnson.
03:44Cam Johnson.
03:45Like, it was sappy, it was lovey, and lovey.
03:50My hope until this moment is that that is where the Jonathan Kaminga experience would take the Warriors, and that dream dies right now.
03:58Yep.
03:58Can someone explain this deal to me?
04:02Why?
04:03Why are both teams are exchanging a, like, wing three and D in their prime player, and also the Brooklyn Nets acquire a draft pick?
04:17Like, I mean, my God, you're going to be, like, does your 60th birthday come before this pick gets made?
04:24No, for real.
04:25Does it?
04:25Of course.
04:26Yeah.
04:272032?
04:28That's not a real year.
04:29Dude, my 55th birthday comes before this pick gets made.
04:33The earth may not still be in the air in 2032.
04:37Right.
04:38And...
04:38We may have had one more election by then.
04:41Maybe.
04:41I mean, who knows?
04:42Perhaps if those things still...
04:44I'm sorry.
04:46Go ahead.
04:47I'm looking at it, and for me, you look at Denver's side of it, and Porter Jr. makes 38.3 this year,
04:55and 40.8 the year after that, so we've talked a lot about teams not looking to or not being able to pay multiple three guys more than $30 million,
05:06and Denver's got those three guys until this trade.
05:09Michael Porter Jr. is on the hook for $79 million over the next two, and Cam Johnson doesn't make that much.
05:18So, for Denver, it's financial, and it's a lateral move player-wise, and you get a little bit more affordable.
05:24More on that in a second, but...
05:26Bang!
05:2895.7 The Game.
05:30Breaking news.
05:31Free agent guard, and he's one of my favorites.
05:36You know it.
05:37Tat, Tat, Jerome.
05:38Tat, Jerome?
05:39Tat, Jerome is on the move in a three-year, $28 million deal with the Memphis Grizzlies.
05:48Tat, Jerome, and all of you, gosh, forever.
05:52I'm going to...
05:52Man, raise your hand if you were like, I can't believe Steve Kerr's playing Tat, Jerome.
05:56How many of you thought that sometime soon, that dude, that dude would be making $28 million over three years?
06:08Almost $10 million a year for Tat, Jerome, to be a productive point guard and backup Ja Morant.
06:15So now you got Ty and Ja, who combined for the two shortest names in the history of the NBA.
06:21Ty Ja, or Ja Tai, whichever way you prefer it.
06:26And yeah, for Ty Jerome, this will now be team number five.
06:30And you think back to that Warrior year, he averaged almost seven a game.
06:34And oh boy, why are you playing Ty Jerome?
06:36Then he plays two games with Cleveland, gets hurt.
06:38And then this past year, it's like, Ty Jerome, Tat, Ty, Jerome.
06:43And now he's a $10 million a year guy, roughly, for Memphis.
06:46Good for him.
06:47Yeah, now, back to the big trade, though.
06:51Help me understand why the salaries can be so mismatched, even by just throwing in, and a draft pick gets thrown in as well.
06:59Michael Porter Jr., you said, makes how much?
07:02It'll be 38.3 this upcoming year.
07:05And what does Cam Johnson make?
07:06Cam makes about 22.
07:07Well, the Nets have a ton of cap space, and the Nuggets can take less back.
07:11There's no rule against that.
07:13Well, the salaries need to, yeah.
07:15Not the team that is taking the more money has space for it, and the Nets have a ton of cap space.
07:22Right.
07:22That's a, okay, that I understand, but they're like, so you're telling me that that rule of the salaries being within 10% of one another doesn't matter if somebody has an abundance of cap space?
07:35I think, yeah, as long as you have the room to fit that under the cap, then you can take however much money back you want.
07:43Yeah.
07:44I know that Brooklyn has the room to take the money on.
07:48Now, the second part I need explaining is I don't understand what Brooklyn's doing.
07:54Can anyone explain that to me?
07:55And again, the deal, Michael Porter Jr. from the Nuggets and a 2032 first-round pick to Brooklyn for Cam Johnson.
08:03The same Brooklyn team that gathered up all of these picks this year, and everyone thought they were going to use that asset to make some sort of a significant move.
08:13They didn't.
08:13They just drafted people.
08:14They just drafted people in a bad draft, and so now they just get way younger, and then follow that up by using some of their cap space to send out Cam Johnson for Michael Porter Jr.
08:28I get that they picked up an extra pick, but that's seven years from now.
08:32I don't know how y'all feel.
08:34I think Cam Johnson's better than Michael Porter Jr.
08:36It's debatable, and even if you think that they're roughly the same player right now, you're Brooklyn, you get an additional pick in 2032, and you get a salary that you could probably move at the deadline, something that you can use to acquire more assets, because Brooklyn has no interest in being good right now.
08:54Lead story for me out of this trade is, yes, the West got that much tougher yet again, and I got Oklahoma City, Houston, and Denver as the clear top three in the West as of this moment.
09:06Yep, an hour and 12 into free agency.