- 7/1/2025
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00:00I do feel like with free agency only being 23 hours old people want to get into this a little
00:07bit and that is that is my question I do I do want to start with this because the Warriors
00:13offseason has not been disappointing the Warriors offseason has been exactly what it always told you
00:19it was going to be I don't like Lucas sent out that thing that I said about Giannis like a month
00:27and a half ago and it ended up in Newsweek because I'm such a dummy for not wanting Giannis
00:32Bay Area sports host doesn't want Giannis what a complete moron uh hello this has never been
00:42viable I'm a complete and total fool thank you it has not been viable not for one second not ever
00:49you can dream you can do this you can NBA trade machine you can get excited I don't I don't
00:56know and and this is I'm not trying to be a wet blanket here look around the league everybody
01:02is following these CBA rules like how would you feel you're Warrior fans and you're like oh we
01:10haven't gotten involved how about if you were one of the teams that just gave all of its players away
01:14the Boston Celtics just sent half of their players away the Indiana Pacers thought they were three
01:21quarters away from an NBA championship they just lost Halliburton and Miles Turner how would you feel
01:27if you're one of those teams I don't know dibs we've tried to say it the Warriors made their move they
01:33made it in February they're very good are they good enough I wouldn't pick them but they're very good
01:40they were very good and and there is absolutely no space for one of these landmark players to join the
01:48Warriors there's not been one human being that said the opposite who's like working with right
01:53who's in the know nobody has said anything that what did we expect what we expected uh at this point
01:58and maybe it's a little bit early but you expected there to be some sort of momentum on a Kaminga
02:04resolution either a keep a sign and trade or something that's I think honestly where my bar has
02:11been set in the honest thing is it's always been foolhardy and when the Dame Lillard news dropped
02:18this morning that's the other big bombshell of the day is that the Bucks are going to give him the
02:22Bobby Bonilla treatment and happy Bobby Bonilla day and I was looking at it earlier I believe he has
02:2810 more years correct of payments through 2035 and when you look at what they're paying him versus what
02:34they could have paid him up front he's getting almost 20 times more money based on the interest that
02:40accrues each and every year so that's one of the greatest buyouts in the history of any contract
02:45Bobby Bonilla and you know Dame gets four years of paid in full money and he now gets to decide
02:52where he wants to be next and I do think that once that happened and it's not coincidence that
02:58Milwaukee immediately this morning pow pow pow three new players and they're trying to you know
03:03show Giannis that we're still a serious player so Giannis I believe is going nowhere and it's not that he
03:10didn't like Dame but that pairing was not going to work and when Dame got hurt and Giannis was able to
03:17stay there I think that the Bucks realized that yeah Dame is hurt we need Giannis and we need to
03:23reboot around Giannis but what do you make of this this story that's come out that Giannis is not pleased
03:28with this movie he's not pleased that they have released Damian Lillard yeah I mean it's probably for
03:34me front-facing PR for Giannis what's he supposed to say he's not going to say yeah uh we never got
03:40along and that was never the thing doesn't say anything he doesn't but he's the face of the
03:45franchise and he's the third longest tenured player for one team in the association so you know you come
03:51out and you say what you say and you keep your leverage but you mentioned it about other teams in
03:56the league what other team right now on this day July 1st can absorb 174 million dollars worth of
04:04Giannis over three years and I don't think that that team exists unless you're talking about the
04:10Lakers trading LeBron yeah you have to send that you have to send that kind of money back out right
04:15so those teams don't exist like the Warriors could do that if they traded Steph and Jimmy Butler or if
04:21they traded Steph and Draymond or Jimmy and Draymond right I don't even think Jimmy Butler is tradable
04:26yet is he uh it would have to be six months now he's probably a couple months away he's not
04:31eligible to be traded yet right so I do think if you look at the Giannis on the move topic I wonder
04:37what team out there could actually do it in a team that would be good enough to where Giannis would say
04:43yeah let me go there like like Phoenix could do it right uh you can't trade Beal because he has a
04:48no trade and I guess you could trade Booker because he doesn't have a no trade but like this these
04:53things would need to make sense for the acquiring team they would need to make sense for Giannis
04:58he's not in the box yeah yeah and the box and so yeah that's completely complicated I don't even know
05:03that he wants out this is actually the first thing we've heard of him actually being upset and that's
05:09all we've done is we've heard it I don't know that he said it Chris B Haynes reports that Giannis is
05:14unhappy well maybe stubbed his toe in the middle of the night away the bathroom that does ruin a day
05:19yeah I can I have no idea what that's all about and and and to be real dibs I don't care because
05:25he's never been an option for the golden state warriors he's not an option none of these players
05:34are options for the warriors so I like I get the whole FOMO aspect of this I I really understand that
05:43that's just life that's life when stuff's going on you know what I mean like the warriors are sort of
05:48like they've come down with the flu on Halloween right like everybody's out there popping you know
05:54we get Tootsie Rolls and we're getting uh you know Butterfingers and Reese's and all this house to
05:58house and you're stuck in your house because you can't go the warriors don't get to go to this party
06:03not at this level I like what you said earlier there may be a day three team yep I mean where they are
06:10today like what they are right now until the Kaminga thing is figured out their team with a taxpayer
06:17mid-level exception 5.7 million dollars that's what they can do they can go get someone for one
06:23year and 5.7 million dollars that's it strike up the band that's it but we knew that we knew that
06:31well we knew that uh short of Kaminga so right you're looking at Kaminga and the Warriors fault
06:37that's Kaminga is the reason that this is is being held up well it is the Warriors fault because they
06:42they could have signed him last year they offered it to him he said no well they could have found a
06:47way to get him in on a number or they could have I believe that it's not anybody's fault but the
06:54Warriors are in a spot now where they don't really have a lot of options with Kaminga if other teams
07:00don't want to give him a lot of money or if other teams don't want to accept a sign and trade for a
07:05lot of money well then the Warriors are either stuck giving him the 7.9 qualifying offer or
07:11waiting for a team to offer him two years and 25 and then matching it yeah like that's your offseason
07:16but you but you're saying the Warriors are stuck I look at it very much the other way no it's Kaminga
07:20who's stuck they're both stuck yeah like but but Kaminga for a handful of bucks is not that's not a
07:27problem for the Warriors I don't think it's not a problem but it's not necessarily an upgrade he's
07:32still a good player and once you've got that contract you're either going to figure out how to
07:37how to utilize him better or he becomes a very tradable contract going into the future you know
07:44what I mean like I the Warriors have said repeatedly we're not giving him up for nothing period and
07:50they're right they're right to do that are they enamored with him on the basketball floor clearly not
07:55but to me if we're going to talk about who's stuck I find Kaminga to be much more stuck than the
08:00Warriors for two reasons one the word restricted is in front of his free agency for now yeah for
08:06now and and number two he's clearly in my mind he's not getting the offers that that he hoped to
08:12get or something would have happened by now we're 24 hours in this stuff goes real look look at
08:19everything that's going on still going on this happens fast so I think that if you're just looking
08:25at this through a watchful eye and you're a Warrior fan that's one thing that you can infer it doesn't
08:32mean we're 100% right but you can infer that Jonathan Kaminga is not finding what he hoped to find
08:40on the open market if he had somebody would have offered him that that contract by now and this thing
08:48would be moving but it's not there and and that was predictable because there just aren't that many
08:54teams with space and you're dealing with a player who is still relatively unproven as far as being
09:03that key piece to a franchise sure but I mean the bigger thing for me is the fact that not that many
09:09teams have a lot of money to spend and so you know does a team want to make an offer to Kaminga they
09:15still might it's only you know not even into day two yet a free agency we're still 35 minutes away
09:21from the start of day two so there could be a team out there that is waiting and kind of sessing out
09:27what the market is for Kaminga and you know you might put out an offer that would challenge the
09:32Warriors if it's you know four years and 68 million 17 million a year and if you like that for your team
09:40and the Warriors would have to then decide whether or not to match it that might be
09:43a number where if you're another team you might make an offer you know a restricted free agency
09:49offer that they're going to have to match or back away from I doubt that that kind of number is out
09:55there but if it is Warriors match that rather than let them walk for 17 million a year that's tradable
10:00piece at age 22 but that ends your free agency yeah like there is no you're left with a five million
10:06dollar you know taxpayer mid-level I don't like there is no free agency there never was any free agency
10:12they don't have any money to spend well there is if you sign and trade and then you have the
10:16higher mid-level that you were laying out so then one player though like you could right but then
10:20you would get a player back on a sign and trade like I've been talking about Kobe White with the
10:23Bulls and the Bulls are reportedly interested and so if you could turn Kaminga into Kobe White and
10:29another 12 million dollar veteran piece you'd be better right but to get Kobe White that means the
10:35Bulls we're gonna are gonna have to be willing to do at least three years and 72 million for
10:40somewhere close yeah doubt it that's just my take doubt it
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