35 Burst results for "Brandon Ingram"
AP News Radio
Pelicans top Grizzlies 138-131 in OT, earn play-in spot
"The pelicans have wrapped up a playoff birth with a one 38 one 31 overtime win versus the grizzlies. Herbert Jones poured in a career high 35 points. Just trust me in my work. I'm staying aggressive. Throughout the game, not worrying about the misses. New Orleans stormed back from a 19 point deficit, only to blow a 6 point lead in the last 11 seconds of regulation. CJ McCollum had 31 points and ten rebounds and Brandon Ingram finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds. Jaron Jackson led all scores with 40 points and also had 9 rebounds and four blocks from Memphis. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
McCollum scores 32, Pelicans hold off Mavericks 113-106
"CJ McCollum drained 16 of his game high 32 in the fourth quarter to lead the pelicans past the Mavericks one 13 one O 6. McCollum's 7 30 point game of the season helped New Orleans win for just the second time in its last 8 games. Out of the score a lot of points in my career and it hit big shots. I'm just trying to do what I can to help the team win. So it was nice to make some shots and make some plays, but it's even better when it comes in a win. Kyrie Irving had 27 to paste Alice. Injuries affected stars on both teams, Luka Dončić added 15 for the Mavericks before leaving in the third quarter after re injuring his left thigh while Brandon Ingram had 12 for the pelicans before exiting with an ankle sprain just before halftime. I'm Denny Capp
AP News Radio
Knicks rout Pelicans while honoring 1973 championship squad
"The Nick celebrated the 50th anniversary of their last championship team before crushing the pelicans one 28 one O 6. Julius Randle poured in 28 points to lead 6 nicks in double figures. Randall had 19 points while New York built a 73 52 halftime lead. RJ Barrett scored 25 points and had a season high 7 assists. Jalen Brunson added 20 points and Josh Hart chipped in 15. Brandon Ingram had a team high 19 points for the pelicans who have dropped three in a row to fall a game under 500. I'm Dave ferry.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"brandon ingram" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Then you reassess next summer and that's the other side of it. If you're LeBron, you did sign that extension, you are not trade eligible this season. Even if you decided you wanted out that half to wait until next summer. I mean, the conspiracy theorists inside of me wonder if rob polanka, I mean, he's either the worst GM and all a basketball, or he deliberately built a roster so bad around LeBron that he's trying to push him to ask out after the season knowing there's no path to winning again with him anymore. It's one of the two things. This roster is so bad around him. If you're LeBron unless you don't care about winning at all anymore, you're past that championship chase. I don't see how you can when you're LeBron and you're still playing at the level that you can. It's disappointing to me in a way bill that we are at that stage where he stat padding and he's still not competing because he's still a player worthy of contending for championships. He just has the worst three two to ten around him as you just said. Yeah, I made this point last year when Corey was making the words around, but it's worth mentioning again just that he kind of did have the pieces for his version of what this curry warriors team is right now. This mix of vets and young guys on the rise. You look back at that 2018 team that first Lakers team that he was on. And they did have a lot of oh yeah, Brandon Ingram and heart and Lonzo's on there and they had all the draft picks that every draft pick coming they had a lottery pick in the draft that was coming. Lonzo is the only one just from a health standpoint that I think you may be worried about. But for the most part, they had most of those players. I don't see a lot of ads for them. I didn't see it before this season. I thought them as a playing team was a great bet. I think it was like, see the minus one 20 or plus one 20. It was somewhere around even odds. But I think Dallas is going to be a playing team. The west, like their top 7, 8, if you think New Orleans is going to be good, which I think we do. And if you think Sacramento is going to be sneaky, which I think all of us at the ringer who follow basketball, we all love this king's team to the point that I'm actually
The Bill Simmons Podcast
"brandon ingram" Discussed on The Bill Simmons Podcast
"Would be your bet. We're not supporting anything we're not saying, but four years from now, who is less likely to be on that team? If Zion's healthy, Ingram's the one that were would be traded just because Zion has the star quality, the height part around it. You know, the kind of thing that gets your fan base more excited than Ingram despite the fact Ingram just finished up another year. Like if I'm Ingram, I'm like, man, you know, I was really good this year. And now it's like when people go, hey, are they going to do point Zion? It was fun. It worked. They better not do it. That's not going to work. That's that heliocentric shit I never really like, even if it was fun to watch, and I'm telling you Ingram didn't like it. I watched enough of those games and be like, oh, cool. ISO 5 out. Zion, I stand here as a corner outlet, like some 37 year old guy. So I didn't think Willie green's terrific and they'll get everybody involved, but point Zion, I think, would be like an emergency brake glass situation. Not the foundation of their offense. The most fun KD trade now that we've had to think about this for three weeks is clearly Ingram and picks for KD. Angerman a million picks is just the most fun trade because Katie would still have a chance to succeed in a real way with a good team. And the nets would be able to reboot in a decent way. And kind of extricate themselves from this and get those picks back. So they're not kind of screwed with the Pixar given the rockets anyway. All right, now we're into the top 22. Brandon Ingram, coincidentally is in this next group. This is group E, we have 5 groups to go. 5 people, the group is called. Let me save you some time. And oh,
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Yeah, I think if the Lakers had LeBron KD and Kyrie, I mean, their defensive issues are still their defensive issues. In my opinion and would probably be exacerbated because they don't have Anthony Davis anymore. But I'm just like, let's not overthink this. We can have LeBron and Kevin Durant on the same team. What are we doing? Let's just yeah. You do our options. A hundred times out of a hundred. Yeah. It'd be a cool thought. It'd be a fantastic thought if it could happen. I just, I don't see any way that it would. Let's close with this email from Scarlett, who writes high pod and crew. As a longtime fan of the pod and the Timberwolves, let me start with a few questions. Why is everyone sleeping on the Timberwolves? Did nobody watch them last year or the past few years when cat played like a modern four with Jared Vanderbilt Taj Gibson gorge, or Kevin Garnett out there? Did nobody watch the jazz last year or the past few years where Rudy played with a lot of traffic cones? Did nobody watch the finals? Were Robert Williams and draymond green didn't have to be guarded at the three point line yet. Both affected the game enough to play major minutes. 5 out basketball is all fine and good, but it didn't make the finals last year. One of the most common lineups that jazz had over recent seasons was the following. Mike Conley, Donovan Mitchell Joe ingles, boyan bogdanovic, Rudy Gobert. Place that against with the wolves we'll be doing barring a delo trade. D'angelo Russell, Anthony Edwards, Jada McDaniels, Carl Anthony towns, Rudy Gobert. The wolves will have upgraded every position in the starting lineup over what is the best 5 man group that jazz have ever put around Gobert. What other team in the west can seriously even dream to have three all stars before Katie gets his wish to be on the suns? Best regards scarlet. Thank you, Scarlett. Great email. Very good email. We talked a little bit about this in our last show, Rohan and I did. I like the wolves. I like their team, I think that positive and bullish about cat and Rudy together in the front court. I think that they'll be very good. The criticism first of all, I should say just to address one thing like, I think it's valid to wonder if that at the four defensively is going to be a nightmare or not. Yes, he has played at the four. It is career. And if you look at the data, Minnesota's defense when he's at the forest has been atrocious. Every single season. So yes, we have seen that. We do remember understood who was around Rudy and all that. Again, I'm high on this. I would not be shocked if they are the third best record in the Western Conference next season. I want to see what happens in the playoffs. I think they'll be good. I don't think they're a championship contender necessarily.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Okay, let's open up the mailbag real quick, Chris. We have this, I guess it's related to KD trade stuff from coming in from Gotham who writes. Hey guys, Gotham here. Yep, that's my real name that my parents gave me. Huge fan of the show. I was wondering what you guys think of a trade where Kyrie and KD go to the Lakers for AD, Russell Westbrook and one or two first round picks. The nets would have been Simmons and Anthony Davis, who, although our distressed assets currently, who were once considered foundational players, which team would say no if offered this trade. Thank you so much, Gotham, unbelievable email, great question. Which team says no? The nets are saying no to that one. Let me tell you. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, sorry to this man. Sorry to this man. Yes. Do you want to start? You want to take this? Sure. I think we're probably both on the same page here. So the first reason why if I'm the nets I say no is I can get so much more for Kevin Durant in a trade. That's the first reason. I need to get, I need to recoup my draft equity. That's like a very important thing for me. One or two future first round picks from the Lakers. They might be very valuable, especially in 2029 when who knows what that organization is going to look like post LeBron. It's probably going to be very ugly. That's a valuable asset. But I can get so much. We were just talking about the picks that New Orleans would probably send over in a deal for KD. Including earlier Lakers ones, which could be a mess too. Exactly. Exactly. So if I'm the Lakers, on the other end, plus Westbrook. I know it's only one year, but what am I doing? And I have Simmons. I'm like, I'm not, I don't think I'm winning at a very high level there. Maybe I am or maybe AD gets hurt or maybe AD is like, I don't want to be here and he leaves when his contract goes up in a few years. I don't know. The Lakers are just so desperate. We're going to have Kyrie conversations I would imagine throughout the summer once his situation is settled, but if they don't get carry Irving for Russell Russell Westbrook, yeah. This roster is kind of atrocious. There's a very good reason that they are a very good chance, I should say that they don't make the playoffs again. So this would be an incredible deal for them. No, and it's really interesting. The whole there are sudden obsession with the draft picks. And their inability or unwillingness to include them in any transaction is really, I don't know what they're doing because I know that they could be bad then and those picks are really could be the key to not a bridge, but just like whatever is the next era of I think they're just playing hardball, Michael. From the reports and everything, because it doesn't even sound like there's anybody else trying to really get in on the Kyrie conversation yet. So it just sounds like they're trying to haggle in part because they know it's them. They're basically up against themselves as far as that. But there is a part of me that's like just do it because if you can get off
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"I just don't want it to be when KD is 40, you know, they're not going to 40 because I guess this deal's not that long, but I don't want it to be like the Grant Hill situation where it's like, once he gets to Phoenix, he's good. Health wise. So I know I'm being, I don't know. I'm throwing out crazy circus. But the worst case scenario. They're not that crazy. It's kind of what I'm saying is like the likelihood of both of them being healthy for an entire season. Based on what we see in the last two or three seasons this is like it's not that great, but if you get them together, like you said, yeah, and I mean like there's something to be said for even when Ingram was drafted, the hope was that his build and everything else that he had like Kevin Durant was his prototype and that Brandon Ingram could grow into that. So, you know, what better way to kind of have the Kevin Durant prototype than actually have Kevin Durant? So I understand totally where it comes from Kevin Durant is still in the conversation for best player in the world. So of course you would want him. I just don't love some of some of the aspects of what would be necessary to get on like if you have to give up Ingram to do it. I don't love it, but obviously you'd have to even be in that conversation to get him. They have enough to get them. I think that part is clear, which is interesting because you would imagine it has to mean that because we haven't heard the pelicans name in that conversation, that they're not willing to budge or that they're not even making the offer. But teams fall in love with their own guys, so it could be that. You wanted to see me miss swinton? Have you been hearing about the new government modernization efforts? AI, RPA's data science, things are changing at this agency, and people will need new skills. I'd like you to get some training. Look at this management concept catalog. Wow. Over 275 courses. That's right. In local classrooms or instructor led online classes. We still have budget in this fiscal year, so sign up online. Advance your career with courses for management concepts, get a catalog at management concepts dot com or call a three three 5 7 8 84 66. American corn farmers.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"I mean, I think it's more of a conversation than what I was saying before. You know me. I hate trade machines. I think I probably have them in my pop up blockers like trade machines count too. I hate them. I despise them. I go like this with the crucifix. Like I don't want anywhere near me. Keep them from round your boy. Anyway, so if you're not giving up any key key member of the team, other than Ingram, I think it's more of a conversation. They've got so much young talent on that team, even just, you know, they've got guys on that team that would be nice young pieces that I imagine. Brooklyn would want to be in on, that they would prefer, over Garrett temple. Garrett temple would make the trade work, but I imagine that Brooklyn would ask for more than that and probably say we need more than that. Beyond just Ingram. Maybe they wouldn't. If you could get it done like that, I could understand the logic behind it. I probably still wouldn't pull the trigger, but I think a lot of people would. My thing though to what you were saying is you used the phrase slow boil, which is funny when we're talking about New Orleans because of their food. I don't know how much of a slow soft pedaling that is. They look pretty ready to compete. Maybe contend is a strong word. Two years from now, they could be a real contender in the west. Maybe that's a little early, maybe it's not. It's hard to know exactly what they are until you see Zion is part of what they're doing. But they might not be that far away. And that's why I'm saying like, I don't know that I would, I don't know that I would give up a ton of picks and a franchise level player, obviously him enzyme being that Ingram.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Yeah, to your most basic question, do they at least have enough to be in that conversation to get them? Yes. And I think undoubtedly they do in part because they're their top not even prospect. Their best player is someone who's young enough fundamentally. And talented enough, I think, to get any team's attention. We all saw that report. I think it was a Chris Haines report about what Brooklyn asked for from Minnesota. Vince goodwill, I believe, had that report. Okay, if it was since I apologize, the report was insane because it was not knocking the reporting, but just if that's what Brooklyn actually asked for. If the best team for towns and Anthony Edwards and every draft pick that you've ever had and everyone that you'll ever get and some other stuff, bruh. And swaps. No, no. You would be crazy to ask for towns, let alone towns and Edwards. Video game don't ask for that when the computer trades are turned on. No. But you know, like that and the idea of Phoenix, if they ask for Booker, you want someone who's basically already an all star, but young enough that you can still build your team around them. That's clear. That's what Brooklyn would want. Ingram fulfills that. You can debate whether he's even near the level of the other people that we're talking about Edwards, towns, you know, Booker, you can have that debate. You could have that conversation, but Ingram isn't all star. Ingram is someone that, you know, you could make the argument that he's the best player on his team, if not very close to it. He's young. He has a really, really unique skill set. He's got unique length. He's not finished developing as a player. He's getting better. And like you said, picks. They've got good picks. They've got blinkers picks, which are good picks right now to have. So yeah, you could be in that conversation, would I do it? Probably not. And I think it comes down to the fact that like Durant
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"So there have been other no trade clauses. I imagine that the way Bobby meant it was exactly what you just said and probably more modern times of like a guy that is making the most amount of money that he can from a team where he's been with them for at least four consecutive years or whatever. That's probably what he meant, but it's happened. So that was my first thought was like that didn't make sense to me. It does now within the framing you put it. The second thing is like, I think it's really noteworthy here that as we talk about the wizards and either if you want to go as far as to call them dysfunctional, if you want to say that they're overly content and a losing situation, whatever you want to however you want to characterize it. It's really fascinating that we're watching a team like the CN Antonio spurs of all teams. Tear it all the way down. Like a team that was good for two decades. Was great for most of that time. That we're watching them tear it down. We're watching the pacers tear it down. A team that had not had a top 5 draft pick has not had a top 5 draft pick. Dating back to the 1970s to 1980s, the Utah Jazz, another team that has that same train of thought, where they're just not going to bottom out. Smaller market, worried about the fan base and worried about losing a fan base in a small market, worried about not having a guy to build the team around. Those teams are looking at the calculus and bottoming out. So teams that historically have said, we would never do this or doing it. Meanwhile, you have the Washington Wizards doing this. With Beale and just kind of agreeing to probably not even be a playoff team for the foreseeable future. Maybe they luck up one year. Maybe they catch lightning in a bottle and maybe they have like an Atlanta Hawks type here, but that happened when the hawks were really loading up, not when, you know, not when you resigned
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"No trade. He's represented by Mark barrel Steen is one of the best agents. Shout out to Marty. He's here at Chicago. That makes no sense. I mean, that made no sense because the likelihood and we heard the rumors were, it was like that weird week where it was that Bill knew what his decision was, but that he wasn't going to say which way he was leaning. And they're like, okay, so we're staying. We basically all knew that. We read the tea leaves there. Was that just negotiating to get the no trade clothes? What the hell that was? I mean, but if he wants the money, which, look, like maybe he's got cold feet about leaving, you're a free agent, man. Like, you can do what you want. Like, people might bad mouth you a little bit that comes with the territory of being a max guy, a franchise guy. But he could have left everybody would have understood it. Washington fans probably would have gotten over it. And it allows everybody to kind of have a clean slate and go do what you want to do. Washington badly needs to rebuild. We watched him try to rebuild and retool around last year, you liked the stuff that they did last year. And in fairness to them, they got out to a really nice start last year. There were always questions about whether it was sustainable or not. It didn't work. That's fine. It hasn't worked for a while. It hasn't worked with Beale as the lead guy. It didn't work with Westbrook. It didn't work when they traded Westbrook away, which shout out still to the wizards for being able to trade Westbrook away. To a team that thought it was a contender and very quickly was not. But I mean, like you've tried. And that's really all you can do. There's no obligation for you to then hand someone a $251 million contract with the no trade clause in it. That's like you said, that's the part that fundamentally, everybody would assume you're going to have to trade this man at some point because you're probably not going to win. So that should have been the sticking point there, honestly. I can't imagine what more you really have to do to convince someone to stay other than giving them the biggest possible contract you can. If the no trade clause is the sticking point that let them walk. And that sounds brutal, but let them do it. Sign and trade his ass. He would. He wouldn't. He would not have walked though. That's the thing. I'm sure he was the difference between a four year deal with 5% annual raises, which is the most he could get it from any other team. That's a 186 $.1 million versus $251 million over 5 years. He got a player option in the final year of his deal. He has the 15% trade kicker. And I just, I said Golden State Warriors earlier because look, there's not a lot of players in the league who can qualify for the no trade clause. You have to have played at least 8 seasons. You've had to have played at least four consecutive seasons with the team that's giving it to you. So there's not a lot of guys who qualify for it. It's why Giannis jokic Joel embiid, like name your best players ever or best active players and they just don't call it having qualified yet for this type of perk in a deal. Steph Curry did qualify,
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"Yeah, I mean I'm being a little facetious with the Zion and the Kenny Lofton stuff. Like I think he'll be a very disruptive help defender, great rim protector. I think I've said this on the pod before, but someone told me who works in the NBA works in the front office that jets for me to try to envision who Chet could be think Chris porzingis with the defensive ceiling or the defensive ability of Evan mobley. And I was like, oh, okay, well that's just terrifying. Incredible stuff. So really fascinating prospect that can't wait to see how his rookie season shakes out and watching him on the floor with Josh giddy, who speaking of players who are way too good for summer league. Another game or two that he's playing. He doesn't love one. Oh my God. And I'm gonna go back to what you just said a minute ago, I think he can be better than porzingis has been offensively. Whether that means he scores more than the guy and porzingis had stretches where he was averaging 35. Whether it was in Dallas, I know he had a stretch or two like that in New York where people thought he was like, you know, just get a slide in and replace Carmelo as an all star level number one option. There were things that porzingis couldn't do. And I think we see this a lot with big men sometimes where they aren't comfortable backing down guys that are smaller than them. We saw with Carly Anthony towns at times in the playoffs too. And porzingis would just kind of force bad shots. Again, this is just summer league, so we don't know yet. We need to see more of it. We need to see against better competition. But it just kind of seems like there's a more comfortability with holmgren with certain shots. We were just talking about the off the dribble stuff and the dirt fade away.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"So it's just kind of like why am I here? After I would say after the first four or 5 days, let alone two weeks. Agreed. So on today's show, we'll be giving a few first reactions to the biggest names at summer league, which started yesterday. Well, it started this week in Salt Lake, but yesterday in Las Vegas, we'll be opening up the mailbag, we'll be diving into some more Kevin Durant trade hypotheticals. We'll wonder if the wizards have officially become the most hopeless organization in the NBA and so much more. But first a quick reminder to please keep your emails coming to open floor mail at Gmail dot com that's open floor mail at Gmail dot com. All right, Chris, so let's jump right in and start with a bit of summer league talk or a bit more summer league talk. Last night, the Houston Rockets in the Orlando Magic faced off in a game that was, I guess, headlined by the palo banquero jabari Smith junior matchup, the first overall pick in the 2022 draft and the third overall pick. Did you happen to catch that one or catch the highlights or just what was your reaction if so to those two kind of making their pseudo NBA debuts? Yeah, I did. I did at least catch the highlights of it. I did not. I have not sat and watched a full summerly game like I've watched maybe in passing for a few minutes. I watched so much that first game, but just what I liked about it really was just that those two guys kind of win at each other. Yeah. Which was I always enjoy that. It kind of makes it feel more like an All-Star Game, which it kind of is. You know, with regards to the two stars of the two guys that you know everybody's come to see. It's like when you see Kobe and bronn or something like that where it's like everybody wants to see one particular mess up. I mean in terms of not necessarily those two as far as how great they are, but more so like on the level that they're playing at, probably as far as in relation to everybody else. So seeing that and obviously seeing the player monkey got the block. On Smith just fun to watch. No big, massive takeaways. I feel like if there's any takeaways so far that have from summer league generally, it's probably more so with jet and that first game and again, like the oh, he's only gonna play for a couple games here in summer, 'cause there's no need to have him here longer. So. The biggest takeaway I think you have from summer league with everybody that's at that level is like, this guy can play. This guy, we can see the eye test of what we saw for the draft stuff is what we're seeing now.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"But one of two from deep, 8 to 17 shooting, 6 of 9 from the free throw line. I mean, for a guy who's been hasn't been able to run in 6 weeks, that's not bad. That's not bad for Anthony Davis. Tonight, even though he did show some rust through some certain stretches. I mean, I thought he was as good as you could have hoped. And then LeBron 13 of 23 shooting can't ask for more than that. 8 boards for a sales three of 8 from three, 38 points on the night, solid there, Russell Westbrook 12 points, 5 for 15 shooting 5 assists for rebounds. And did wind up at the end foul out of fouled out of the game. Malik monk 13 points, 5 for 11 shooting. And you got ten out of Avery Bradley as well. That's what we saw out of the Lakers tonight. Meanwhile, for the pelicans, here was the, I think the story of the game, and we talked about this quite a bit on our live play by play, Sean. The pelicans, you got 29 points out of Brandon Ingram. I'm ten of 17 shooting. You got 32 out of CJ McCollum on 12 of 23 shooting. Yoda's Valentine is 6%. They shot ridiculously well. And I don't think in this case it was all in the Lakers defense. There were some place where the Lakers defense broke down, but we also saw BI Ingram and McCollum, both hit some ridiculous shots, particularly with Stanley Johnson, played really, really good defense. Shots that you would not expect them to hit at a very high percentage and tonight, those shots went down and that really hurt the Lakers. There were possessions where I thought they really locked in really fought defensively. Did everything that they needed to do to earn the stop and the pelicans just hit really tough shots. Yeah, and I mean, we talked about it a lot on the play by play stream, which appreciate everybody that was in that one with us, but sometimes just because you get scored on, again, like I said in the play by play austere east is a great example of this where you might get scored on a good bit, but that doesn't mean you're not a good defender. And Stanley Johnson, he played really, really well defensively tonight, but you're going to say, oh, well, CJ McCollum will he was more Brandon Ingram, but Brandon, we had 29 points on ten of 17 shooting..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"brandon ingram" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"That means that's when they're checking in to see if they're healing properly. And then you're gonna get an update from there. So we can't even take this as okay, well, Zion's back in two weeks. He's only missed in the first week of the season. The pelicans may be out with be without Zion for even longer. Maybe they won't, maybe he turns out he's fine in two weeks, but we don't know right now and a slow start for the pelicans is only going to add more pressure than you're only going to start hearing more about Zion's future. Could he be pried away from New Orleans at some point, right? Those stories are going to keep popping up. If they do, indeed, get off to a slow start. Yeah. So we think of a guy like talent more than Tucker, where it's a thumbnail. He can still keep his conditioning up because he can still run, he can still do all those things, Zion, presumably, can't do any of that. Now there's the anti gravity treadmills in the underwater treadmills and all those other things. And I'm sure they're working through all that stuff. But generally, you're absolutely right with that is you hear that reevaluate. And there's usually a week or two after that before the guy gets back. So a lot of times it's conditioning stuff. Sometimes if they're conditioning as good. It's just timing, getting their basketball rhythm back. And then they go so yeah, I think for the pelicans too. Why this is really tough is they don't have a great replacement for him on the roster. Now it's not fair. Is that a great replacement in the league? Exactly. But forgot to really play the four, not that doesn't look too good. They're bigs aren't really guys. We can play the four valentines in Jackson Hayes and Willie hernan Gomez. They're really pure 5s. Brandon Ingram can slide up, but we know what happens when that happens. Your defense kind of goes to crap. Just 'cause he's just not big enough to hold hold off those guys. Naji Marshall can do some of that, but more of a perimeter based guy, Trey Murphy, the third he's a rookie, but again, another perimeter guy. So that's where it gets a little tough. I mean, it might be herb Jones. The Rookie second rounder might be their best bet there. My guess is they'll just play small and they move Brandon Ingram up and just kind of lean on their offense. While Zion is out, but it is a little messy, and I'll say one other thing on this too. What's really disappointing is, it was only a couple of weeks ago on media day when David Griffin broke this news. Instead, his exact comment was, he'd be back for the regular season..
Game Theory Podcast
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Game Theory Podcast
"This offseason. Yeah, I mean, I also don't really love the engrams. I unfit and I wonder, you know, if they're going to make a trade because I just don't know what the hell they're doing. But I think that that's a guy that they should be looking to move and Brandon Ingram, not that he's not a good player cuz he is a good player. I just walk ins ion, there's a little bit too much overlap for that to work out and Ingram's, less likely to be the generational guy. You know. I don't expect Ingram to all of a sudden turn into Kevin Durant. Whereas Zions already, Zion I think we kind of know what that is and we'll see where that goes but it's already a lot better than Brandon Ingram. So I think if you were going to move one of them, that's the guy to move but I think they do need to move. And try to get something else that fits there. I just there on the clock and it's weird to say that, cuz I hate saying that and I hate when I hear people say it. But it's so obvious, though, like, everything off here, at least I'm assuming everything you hear. I hear a lot of it is that they're on the clock. So, yeah, I think that like Zion Williamson Young Folks are putting pressure on them to be better, right? I am hesitant to say that they are on the clock. If only because no player has ever turned down a nine-figure extension, number somebody's going to, I'm not convinced of that like Zion Williamson for as much as we love Zion Williamson. And I think he's one of I think he's going to be a top-five player in the league. I think he's going to be unbelievable. He's like a somewhat real injury risk. The end of the day, just given the way he plays. I don't think there's any way if I'm that guy off. I can turn down, you know, nine-figure guarantee to, you know, maybe he can because maybe he already has like a nine-figure guarantee shoe deal. And if anyone can do it, like I should be him. He already has his family set but like I don't know, enough about the specifics of his shoe deal to wear and like his endorsements and everything like that. And by the time he gets to come to the point where he is considering an extension. He's probably going to be even more wealthy at that point. I it's hard going to sign the Q. Oh I know. Yeah. Have you or I don't think it's going to be one of those things at all. Maybe it's like a three-year-old mean, anything anymore, right? Like so all the time has to do is just say I want out, I want out. That's it. I want out. It's the NBA. You know what I mean? Like, Zion literally. Can you just say I don't want to be here anymore? I think it's hard. I think it's hard for young players to do that. It's hard for NBA teams to have a superstar player, especially a highly visible one like Zion not playing dead. And and I think that you could run into that situation potentially, I'm not saying with Zion but I just mean if you're if you're the Pelicans and you really feel that pressure from him, say you got to start doing stuff cuz I don't think it's a joke..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"And I love going through all the trade, negotiations and permutations and all the math and figuring out what can work and what does it and everything. Sometimes though, we get so down on a player because of their contract that we, we mistake the contract, or complete, the, the contract, how bad the contract is for, what the player can actually do walk out on the floor, right? And you could say, look, Kevin Love is not worth 31 million, but if Kevin Love was getting five million, everybody would want him, right? Everybody would want him at that price. It's only because we see him at 31 million that we think. Oh, he's not worth it. He's going to Anchor. He's going to weigh down your team. All of these things, he can still do things out on the floor and I do think there's a little bit of a black gryphon element to this right blink Griffin. Oh yeah, looks like he is Dawn on the Pistons, goes to the Nets a team that's got a shot to win it and suddenly he looks like he's back to jumping over. He has this happens. Thursday. Good players, PJ Tucker. Did it going from the Houston Rockets where he looked done suddenly with the Bucs, he's rejuvenated a bit, I wouldn't put a past Kevin Love to look considerably better with the Lakers. He does with a A, you know, fairly bad cabs team. Other than their future is looking a bit better recently, but still fairly bad and he novel, LeBron Factor. That's a whole other thing. Blake didn't have or absolutely, absolutely. All right. Got a few more comments coming in here. A lot of people throwing out different trade possibilities here. All right, here's a good one that I I've had people asking me this for a bit. My email from YouTube said forever because we didn't go back-to-back. Do you think the Anthony Davis? LeBron experiment has been a failure. Think we have to win at least two or is one enough. I'm in this argument, fall very much on the side of one is enough, right? One is enough. There was a thought was going around a month or so ago right after the Lakers got bounced out of the playoffs that said the Lakers really gave up and they just listed off all the you know, loans or ball. Josh hard, all these pigs Brandon Ingram blah, blah blah, right in exchange for one Championship. Yes, of course you would do that. Any team in the NBA would trade those things for a championship?.
Paul Pickett Podcast
"brandon ingram" Discussed on Paul Pickett Podcast
"I don't know what you've been drinking brandy. No screw that. I'll know what you smoking but stop smoking because whatever you smoking 'cause you followed out his debts above your head or kick down the steps above your head. I don't know if i if you got kicked down. Can't blame you but you felt out. I mean you gotta get out of blight but would you take care abby zion. Katie will facilitate office lebron. He can't rebound like lebron. He can't defend light lebron. he can't shoot light. Lebron members i on. Espn games in high school. I mean he had a lot to highlights but stop it like chris bussar would say stop it. I mean come and brandon ingram. I can't even spend acuras. Bidault motown illness because i don't know what to say i. Let's let's move all all all starts dubs my first all-star snow by will say and do like they do all the debate shows. If i put a player on got gotta take somebody up. I'm definitely takes about his over ballot. Tunas over chooses. Whatever his name is from orlando rather so regardless of bonus man simonas should have been. I mean they both bollard but once t is better than the other what'd guys is without wanted of their best scores occurrence. Lavertu they training for. I mean i just bawling out another like like. I don't know like either one of these trae young tobias harris both of these aca say snubs say trae young with tobias harris. But this is this is why Personnel take off for trae young would be bid sevens. Pinson should be all started share. I don't care of his team is one of these. I mean this wild met report. Everybody should be another the second off. Dr on the sixers should be tobias hairs. Twenty-one a game and what have rebounds and assists he's put up way better numbers than seven. And i you know i would ticket at this point. Bid sevens is starting to become very disappointing. Me not getting no better. He's his numbers actually declined. You know bid savings should be averaging like night teed ted right now you know. But he's not so alison trae young or Has been sentiments deadly to buys. Overbid if you pick it up another sixer it. Trae young put a twenty six a game. Another allstars the west is only one.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
What's going on with the New Orleans Pelicans?
"This year's deputy f team the new orleans pelicans. I don't know what baker this team you can catch them on any given night and it's a completely different experience than the last night. I don't know if the players make sense together. Actually i'm pretty sure they don't. I don't really know what the overall philosophy is. I don't know if they're trying to be a playoff team if they're trying to be rebuilding. I'm just constantly confused and there are some optimism because they want a couple of games around people here they go here. Zion and then they get killed last night by the bulls and have one hundred thousand breakdowns. And i guess my first question to you is the pelicans what the fuck you. How many exclamation points can we tack onto that. Wt fd think. But i was hoping you could answer this question. Because i think you're spot on in that it's so much depends your view of this team on when you catch them even just like what stage in the season. You caught them because for a minute. It looked like they were going to live up to their personnel and be a tough minded offensive team. Scrounging out offensive rebounds to get points and just kinda struggling on that in because they're spacing issues the script has completely flipped. And now this is all of a sudden very competent offense. I think park has really driven by brandon. Ingram is i ion williamson. They're making that part of it work but the defense. Jesus christ i mean it is. There is inconsistent defensively as really any team out there. Yeah i would say other than brooklyn. It's the team that's most likely to give up one hundred forty on any given night to any team. That knows what they're doing. I so if you actually look at their stats and you haven't been watching that much and you look at the stats and you look at williamson in ingram and all right. Those guys are having good years pretty efficient. And then you look at lonzo and you look at bledsoe. Lonzo shoot thirty seven percent from three so she and forty percent so going into the season like well. Their guards can't shoot. They're not going to be able to have enough space. Well their guards are actually shooting. Okay but then. When i watch everybody together. I don't have a five-man line-up that i liked like yesterday. They're playing Kyra lewis with He he got a little more run and he's really interesting. Rookies really fast. He's little darren foxy and gave them an energy that i was like. Well maybe this. Maybe i would like this version of the pelicans more. If fast you know now unleash sign a little bed. Go up and down a little bit more. But i still don't know who the other two teammates would be with cairo. Lewis design and branding. And i guess the fundamental question for me is do zion and brandon. Ingram makes sense together on a team. That's actually trying to win the title. I think they make sense on offense but the question was i on really broadly. As who are you going to put the five that's gonna make up for all. He doesn't do defensively right now. That's always been my issue with the idea of playing small and we are putting him at the five his rotations is. Aren't there really the pelicans as a team. If i were an opposing coach. I would say this is a team. We can beat him rotation every they are. Pass away from defensive breakdown every time out on the floor and keep moving the ball. You keep doing what you're supposed to do they will they will mess up in a whether it's undersized guy in the corner doesn't quite rotate over all the way. Jj radic or josh. Hart they try hard. They do what they can. But they're not equipped to be helped rotation defenders. If a guy like zion isn't going to be one so i mean i'm i'm kinda bullish on the anger rooms ion depot in general but i am really struggling to see how you put together those lineups. I can see how they kind of got into this conundrum where they clearly wanted to have some veterans early. Some veterans fell into their lap in terms of what was available and trying to get some pics and make their other moves but long term. It's a weird team to build with. And then you get lonzo into this conversation to and what they want to do with him. It's it's kind of messy.
Afternoons with Marcellus & Kelvin
Ball brothers Lonzo, LaMelo set to square off in NBA matchup
"We're talking about lonzo in the last segment. A little bit and brandon ingram coups mud cetera. But the whole point was that lamelo alonzo are playing. And you don't have a lot of brothers playing against each other. We know the wilkins brothers Played against each other. Obviously the soul brothers have played against each other so this is just another installation of that particular kind of cool fund rivalry that the nba tends to have but we you know we talked a lot about lonzo. What do you think of the mellows. Ceiling is wow. That's a great question Ever since i first saw him like what was it like three years ago now watching plane. Aau it was obvious he was really talented offensive player. So i would say. His silly is attached to his defense. Okay you know. The more he improved bronco on defense to hire his silly goes because even though i think he's a really talented offensive. Play at the reality is. There's not a whole lot of dudes who play his position in the back court. That can't get you them buckets. Right what else you got. And we're waiting to see him. Show us the other aspects of it tastes him from being a talented young player to someone who may be able to lead a team to a french tour championship. So at this point It's a wait and see i need to. I need to spend a liberal time playing ball getting better getting stronger. Before i can tell you where i think is ceiling is going to go because i need to see how strong and how defensive he's going to become yet. Defensively is a big problem. I think big problem right now but it's a big problem for young players especially rookies week or so. You know. it's time for all of them. So i'm not going to hold them to this. But after two seasons if dudes are still blown by him because he's too busy trying to leak out get buckets. Then we know what that is. Yeah look here's ofensive skill set. His passing is ridiculous. Like we already know that that very early on do you think. He has a higher ceiling than lonzo though no not inherently so right well of course. There's always a good defender. There's no question about really answer. Really good rebounder right. And he's equally as good as a passer. So you're asking yourself. We'll lonzo's offense developed faster than lamelo defense. Because that's gap right. There will lonzo's offense develop than I would say lonzo's offenses rounding to form much much better. These last eight months or whatever lamelo defense defense takes a while i feel like guy sometimes go years before they learn to play real. Good defense is that fair or it depends on the coach that should never have conversations with Jj radic over the years and bright before he was drafted. He and i were joking. I was like dude. I love you to be in phoenix. House wins nash. And amari and those guys were rolling. Sounds like do you just be straight buckets. Any overstaying strengthen gundy and you needed to lay defense to play. I needed to pay exactly to play defense for stand right and it was because of that. He's still in the league. I don't know if he was still being the league. If it wasn't for stan forced him to know how to play good defense and he did. He became a very capable defender Even though he's small right even though he you know he he's he's not he's strong for size but he's not like some overwhelming You know person when it comes to his strength but he's really smart. He plays the angles while he plays team defense. Because you're you're right. You're right
AP News
"brandon ingram" Discussed on AP News
"Performance with a go ahead three pointer in the final minute. Brandon Ingram captain's 31 point performance by draining four free throws over the final 13 seconds. Zion Williamson furnished 21 points for New Orleans, which squandered a 12 point fourth quarter lead before dropping the reigning Atlantic Division champs Toe one and four. Eric Bledsoe highlighted his 19.10 assist performance with a go ahead three pointer in the final minute of the Pelicans. 1 21 16 verdict over the Raptors. No play my game, You know, Go out there Play my game. You know I have the same wind Brandon Ingram captain's 31 point performance by draining four free throws over the final 13 seconds. Zion Williamson furnished 21 points for New Orleans, which squandered a 12 point fourth quarter lead before dropping the reigning Atlantic Division champs to one and four. Fred Vanvleet scored 27 points and Chris Boucher added 24 for Toronto. I'm Dave Ferrie. Eric Bledsoe highlighted his 19.10 assist performance with a go ahead three pointer in the final minute of the Pelicans. 1 21 16 verdict over the Raptors. Brandon Ingram captain's 31 point performance by draining four free throws over the final 13 seconds. Zion Williamson furnished 21 points for New Orleans, which squandered a 12 point fourth quarter lead before dropping the reigning Atlantic Division champs toe one and four. Fred Vanvleet scored 27 points and Chris Boucher added 24 for Toronto. I'm Dave Ferrie. Thank you for looking. Start the new year, right during the Xfinity. Hello 2021 sales event for a limited time. Ask how to get $250 back when you add Xfinity Mobile to Xfinity Internet This sale ends soon. So quick.
Get Up!
Zion leaves NBA bubble for 'urgent' family matter
"All right one to turn to this story from inside the bubble, and it's a big one the Pelicans announcing yesterday the Williamson left the NBA bubble yesterday morning. Because of under undisclosed urgent family medical matter now Williamson intends to return at some point here's this coach Alvin Gentry. Don't know anything right now from the standpoint of. Coming back and you know obviously us. We've discussed supportive. Amina's family and their privacy doing this time right now, you know. We played forty four games without him and. You know we have top stretching, and we also had a stretch for. We won twelve out of sixteen. Without Him, so obviously, he's a great player that we'll miss, but the one thing that we've always talked about even when we went through times is that. Next Man. Marc Spears joins US live from inside the bubble at Disneyworld mark. Seems a little unclear as to why he left. What are you hearing about that about why he left at this point? Look the PELICANS are keeping it really really close to the vest, and they've been like that all all season. Way Him, you know this is still a teenager very very protective of their future star, and it's a family matter so I certainly understand that, but when it comes to him coming back, Ryan is really complicated. Absence of seven days or less, he s a quarantine. Four days upon return to the bubble with negative tests needed each day. Longer than a week. He has quarantine for four days. If he has a negative test the final day seven days he has gone. Without a required COA testing he will quarantine for ten days, so the Pelicans will debut. On July thirtieth they're one of four teams that play in the first day to resumption. It's not a lot of time between now, and then they have their first criminals, and just a few days, so yeah. The PELICANS certainly have a lot to worry about in their hopes of trying to get back to the playoffs, Yeah and we certainly wish Zion Williamson, and is it well with this family matter I mean that's first and foremost here hoping they're okay, but I look at this as well and I say without him. What are their chances of moving far into the playoffs structure? Like Alvin said you know. They played forty four games without him. Brandon Ingram the all star. He played most of those games at power forward. Without Zion, but once I came back. He only missed one game, and they have a stretch for by the name of Niccolo Meli. Not Not too hot says Zion has not the game design has I think the average is like seven games seven points a game. He would likely replace Zayn at power forward with Ingram staying in the small force spot, and I. Think drew holiday, said it best. He said you know. As much as it hurts to say, we've done it before in terms of playing without Zayn.
AP News Radio
LeBron's 40 bests Zion, sends Lakers past Pelicans 118-109
"Lebron James scored a season high forty points in the Lakers won eighteen to one oh nine win over the pelicans game was not satisfactory for me always comes in a win no matter how well planned everything was at a loss and a little satisfaction and also the other my guys will get a win and win column that's always the the great satisfaction aftermath team and Anthony Davis had a solid all around night scoring twenty one points fourteen rebounds and six blocked shots the Lakers have won six in a row this was James first head to head meeting against rookie phenom Zion Williamson who had several impressive dunks and finished with twenty nine points Brandon Ingram was high scorer for New Orleans with thirty four mark Myers Los Angeles
AP News Radio
Holiday's 31 lead Pelicans to 124-117 win over Pacers
"Sean New Orleans couturier outscored had two Indiana goals Claude eighteen euro to nine had a goal over and an the assist final in three Brian minutes Elliott for made twenty a one five twenty four saves one seventeen as the flyers win around the capital it was true seven holiday to two who led the Katori way for the a pelicans gave the flyers with are thirty one one nothing points lead in the fourteen first period of them only in to the see final T. J. three Oshie minutes tied of thing the game I just try to consider the flyers paying as much as then possible scored today three goals office within they a minute got and a forty pretty five good shot seconds blocker down to take there but a four one lead from and that they point never looked back Katori a made says some the open flyers looks bounced and back from nicely there after comment being itself shut was on out the stress by the devils New Orleans last manage time the out wind is without just his top you know one two of those scorers games were Brandon Ingram and designed often Williamson seem the pelicans to go our way and and winning for the fifth time in seven games out I rebounded thought you know far Indiana as important fifty a come three out strong to thirty and seven we did the flyers Jeremy kept lamb Alex had events twenty can six at six points hundred for the ninety Pacers eight career who have lost goals five straight Craig heist Tom Washington McCabe Indianapolis
AP News Radio
Harden's 40 leads Rockets over Pelicans 117-109
"James harden was an assist shy of a triple doubles Houston Rockets beat the New Orleans pelicans one seventeen one oh nine harden finished with forty points ten rebounds and nine assists while shooting twelve twenty four from the field Houston was out rebounded fifty one twenty two after three quarters but outscored the pelicans twenty five sixteen in the fourth with a twenty one to twelve advantage on the glass Brandon Ingram is twenty eight point twelve rebound game with the pelicans sound Williamson added twenty one points and ten boards admissible lane Houston
AP News Radio
Harden's 40 leads Rockets over Pelicans 117-109
"James harden was done an assist my shy of a return triple doubles Houston of here Rockets we go beat again the New Orleans pelicans one seventeen one oh nine Will Smith harden and Martin finished Lawrence with forty remain points firmly ten entrenched rebounds and at nine number assists one in theaters while shooting twelve bad boys twenty for four life from is the field number one for a despite third his weekend big numbers in a row harden adding thought seventeen his team point committing six just million eight turnovers dollars in a was typically key slow but then we did a Superbowl good job women weekend are turnovers in theaters we had a couple with in fact with top not three enough was on to change really get on traditional orders on and do to deliver the a best message calling off tomorrow morning's attack getting second Houston is nineteen was out seventeen rebounded fifty the one best twenty picture two nominee after at three next quarters weekend's Oscars but outscored the followed pelicans by two twenty little five one third sixteen in the fourth I'm Ben with a Thomas twenty one to twelve advantage on the glass Brandon Ingram is twenty eight point twelve rebound game with the pelicans sound Williamson added twenty one points and ten boards admissible lane Houston
After Hours With Amy Lawrence
Ingram helps Pelicans stop Jazz's 10-game win streak
"Right to the end there we go game of the night Utah riding a ten game win streak in New Orleans facing the pelicans sixty four sixty three north now and the square tell you what he's taken the basketball white June gold beer pelicans radio that was the call now the pelicans beat the jazz in overtime what thirty eight one thirty two Brandon Ingram at a career high forty nine Donovan Mitchell at forty six jazz ten game win streak is
SportsCenter All Night
Recap: Nuggets fall to Pelicans on Christmas night
"In a pleasant holiday season in Denver the nuggets having a great year to start twenty one and eight going into a game against the wall and put the Worland so on this holiday as grew holiday ones out of the left elbow nearly walked out of the job George now hard drives to the nail of top drills shops like at seven not a lot of ball movement here holiday goes behind it's style are you serious nine the back heroes that pretty finish by number eleven no it was the start and Brandon Ingram had the finish for the pelicans rear night from three seven nine eight to thirty one point and
AP News Radio
Harris scores 31, 76ers hold off Pelicans 116-109
"The seventy Sixers picked up their second straight win in as many nights as the help of the public is for a one sixty one oh nine victory Philadelphia by sixteen in the first quarter but found themselves down by one in the third they took away for good thanks to a fourteen for run they give a ten point lead after the world was pulled within three late in the fourth quarter the Sixers sealed the win thanks to free throws from jewel them beat into buys Harris Harris had a team high thirty one points and beat added twenty four Brandon Ingram had a game high thirty two for the pelicans Michael Luongo Philadelphia
Chicago's GameDay
Sources: Lakers reach deal for Pelicans' Davis
"Yesterday on sports air. Here's Adrian wards now ski breaking down. The trade of Anthony Davis to the Lakers. This is a monster. Paul for the New Orleans pelicans to get to starters. Lonzo ball. Brandon Ingram an upstanding young player. Josh heart three, first round picks including the number four overall pick and Thursdays draft which allows the world not only draft Zion Williamson, at one, but number four, get another potential. Very good young player. But for the Lakers. They paid a steep price to get the player they had to get. They were able to keep Kyle Kuzma they had to get Anthony Davis. They weren't at the top of any big free agents lips. But it certainly changes the dynamic of that lake organization. What's next for the Lakers Agent Orange now on sportscenter who could they target in free agency. They'll get out into free agency this later this month, June, thirtieth and see if they can get involved with one of the big players on the market. Go Kemba Walker from Charlotte. They could certainly plug him in point guard if he doesn't resign with the Hornets he's a player that will be available teams like Dallas, New York have had interest in him. And you know there's a lot of teams in the marketplace looking for point guards this summer. You know, Jimmy Butler is another player if they are unable to come to terms on a new deal in Philadelphia. I think there would be some mutual interest soon as, as rewards announcing on sportscenter the Lakers. They get Anthony Davis a couple of weeks ago. It looked like they were in complete disarray with magic. Johnson. Rob Pelinka and everything going on there. Everything has now corrected itself with one major trade. The Lakers always find a way and tweeting just now for now expectation is Anthony Davis. Trade will be completed on July sixth league. Sources tell Bobby marks me assuming Davis. Declines to void four million dollar trade bonus this leaves the Lakers with twenty three point seven million in space. There is a chance that could be amended to July thirtieth, but it's still the sixth for now. Okay. So if it's six then the Lakers won't have the money to go out and get a MAC, Scott. They only have twenty three point seven. Look, if I'm over the key, here is that if they were able to wait for this deal to the thirtieth, July, thirtieth, then the Lakers would have that cap space. Go out and get Kemba Walker. Jimmy Butler someone else who wants max money. Yeah. Now, the question to me, and I love conspiracy theories, and I believe in them, and I think that you could get LeBron like what's stopping LeBron from going to the guys and? Saying, hey, Jimmy Butler signed a two year. I know you love Hollywood, your friends with the wall, burger guy with Donnie will Mark Mark, Mark Wahlberg, right? Yeah. What's stopping me from Saint sign a two year deal take twenty million a year or twenty million twenty million, whatever it is? And here's a part in Space Jam to for a couple of million dollars as well to, you know, just help to make it up somewhere else. Give some points on the movie too. You know, like let's get him some return on the DVD sales. Maybe to my point is what's stopping LeBron from doing this. There's nothing stopping LeBron from doing this behind the scenes. Okay. So why are you? You're acting like LeBron's our doing this. We know Brian Windhorst told the world on PTI back in mid-may that LeBron was having conversations with Kalat quite learn. Jimmy Butler even though quieter Jimmy Butler. We're still in the playoffs playing Jimmy Butler is still playing the first rider with Chris Paul. And Russell Westbrook yesterday. Yeah. I mean, and that's what he does LeBron does, and here's the key here, blocking dollar here on ESPN one thousand and ESPN app. This is why people love the NBA you have a chance every off season to remake your team. And to go for industrial bulls and the key here is this, you have right now, if you count the Lakers, what could possibly happen, this summer with the clippers the nets the Knicks the heat, the rockets, the seventy Sixers the Mavericks, they have cap space. And an owner who who wants to win and the Celtics that right there. That's nine teams in seven cities, all that will have interests this summer all with interest as what they can do to reshape their organization going forward trying to win a championship nine teams seven cities. That's what makes the NBA great is that movement is not solidified in the fact that you're in one spot, and you have to be there for your career, the NFL is built on the fact that you get a star quarterback and that quarterback will be your franchise until you don't want that star quarterback there. Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers will be together until Aaron Rodgers or the Green Bay Packers. Mostly the Packers don't want him to be there. Why? Because they can afford to pay him and quarterbacks. Don't move about in the NFL like star players in the NBA Ken, they can dictate policy. They can force it away somewhere. I get it some people erupts them the wrong way. But to others. It means your organs. Station each and every off season has an opportunity to take
Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
Anthony Davis, Kobe Bryant And Brandon Ingram discussed on Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
"Legend Kobe Bryant was asked about the teams failed attempt to trade for Anthony Davis, and he didn't hold back Koby namedrop Calcutta's Malone's of ball and Brandon Ingram as potential trade. Chip saying, quote, Anthony Davis is one of the best players in the world. Not now in history if you can sign Anthony Davis, you just
Speak For Yourself with Cowherd & Whitlock
LeBron James Tries to Set Tone for Lakers Playoff Push, but Falls Flat
"Return to the NBA where LeBron announced last week. He was activating the Lakers playoff push. But it doesn't seem to have kicked in yet. LA is now just one and two since those comments and according to an anonymous NBA executive LeBron bears. A lot of the responsibility claiming that the bronze very public push to acquire anti Davis quote, kill the Lakers chemistry. Is there any truth? Here is the question, and I kind of say, no. And I say that because I believe this team was deal away from David on. I believe that this whole mentality coming into this year was about next year and just surviving this year and the survival looks ugly and disappointing. But I just don't the chemistry was going to die at some point. Because it never been about this. She say again as I've said it before maybe it fell on deaf ears. The Lakers would have been better this year without LeBron James, and it's happening. As predicted. You're talking about a team that last year went out there and one thirty five games without LeBron. That was maturing that was coming close Dila with injuries. And there you experience, but they had a chemistry. They loved each other bond brothers, and they were growing together. Then you put the cherry on top of thinking this the Bron, James and. Team right now is gonna struggle to win forty games on pace to win fewer than that. Who know that they even clips thirty five twenty nine wins right now, I know lebrons been injured but was really injured and fracture is that Mojo. And then you look at the team if you wanna dive a little deeper into it. The young core is playing well in terms of couse, MMA and Brandon Ingram, and those are the guys that were on the train block. So where's this end in terms of the LeBron experiment? Those young players also know that it probably won't end in the Lakers uniform. So everything got disrupted by LeBron landing on the Lakers. When this was a young team in the Golden State model of them grow letting them go figure it out later that this team would have matured to something better than this.
Skip and Shannon: Undisputed
NBA rumors: Lakers' Anthony Davis trade offers don't impress Pelicans
"Trade deadline is two days away. And Davis wants to be traded. But it's going to take a ton to land him multiple reports say the Lakers increase their offer to the pelicans yesterday with a package that included Lonzo ball, Brandon Ingram cow coups and two first round picks reports the pelicans are looking for more including four picks as part of a deal and Ramona Shelburne reports the Lakers are quote, growing increasingly pessimistic about the pelicans willingness to make a deal.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Anthony Davis, New Orleans And STAN Van Gundy discussed on The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
"STAN Van Gundy is with us and we have been remiss. Okay. And I'm sorry standing Gundy is not said anything anywhere on any of ESPN's one million platforms about the Anthony Davis situation. I don't know what he thinks. So let's begin their stand. You saw that happen. And you thought what? Well, a few things I think first of all I think fans and everybody else can be assured that nothing like this will ever happen again with a player publicly requesting a trade that fifty thousand dollar fine on Anthony Davis will only makes twenty three and a half million year, the deterrent value there. So sick so strong. This'll be the last time this happened. So I think you can be assured of that. I it's sort of amazing me the the resentment that's out there by a lot of people both fans and media about this whole issue of the players are controlling where they wanna play in who they wanna play with. And he's forcing his way to LA in the whole thing. And I'm just wondering why it it's so upsetting to people that someone would try to take control of their own careers. I mean, most people do that. But for some reason with players, and I think we know in the NBA that a big part of it is race. But people get very upset about the players controlling this thing. And then I love the the last thing is I just love all the trade talk because people want the super teams, and so the trades they propose like Boston. You would get either Jason Tatum or. Jalen Brown in Marcus smart in a in a pick. That would be great. And then the guy right? Imagine what Boston would have. Yeah. But New Orleans isn't going for that, you know, and that the Lakers might have to throw in Brandon Ingram with with Lonzo ball, and Kyle Kuzma might this guy's one of the players in the league. And then my favorite line from one of the articles is he wrote about some tradenet forget, which one that New Orleans would be well within their rights to ask for player. A and b New Orleans can ask through over the hill. I want to ask for their within their rights. It's almost like people have this idea that New Orleans has an obligation to accommodate Anthony Davis. Look what Anthony Davis did in Rich, Paul? I have no problem with as a matter of fact think it helps the teen in a way because they let them know right away. New Orleans can trade him to anyone they want to trade him to he's got this year and next year. They don't have to limit themselves to anywhere that he wants to go and they're going to make the best deal for themselves. And I personally don't think they'll probably make it by the trade deadline. They increase relaxing yesterday. They should ask for LeBron. Well, you know, what that's where you would start him. I think people talk about Boston you'd start with kyri. And then and then if not basically for Anthony Davis, you if you're going to protect one guy, you basically have to offer up everything else, particularly now at the trade deadline.