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So stay tuned for that. Coming up, we're gonna have Rob Mahoney talking after the two Thursday night TNT NBA games. We're gonna react to basically everything we've seen for the last three days. Just things that have jumped out to us. And then Peter Schrager is gonna come on and talk about the NFL. Do we have a best team? What are we noticing through seven weeks? What can we expect in week eight that will lead to million dollar picks? And that is today's podcast. Let's bring in our friends from Pearl Jam. Here we go. All right, we're taping this. It's almost 10 o 'clock on Thursday night, Pacific time. Rob Mahoney is here from The Ringer NBA and showing TheRinger .com. We stayed up late because these were two good games. We've had three straight days of very entertaining basketball and we gotta start with the biggest story. Kelly Oubre in the Sixers. What a signing that was, he looks great. No, we just watched LeBron versus the Suns. LeBron's 29 minute limit I think is out the window. He played the whole fourth quarter. And then made the two big head down just going to the basket plays at the end. But biggest thing that's jumped out to you in the last three days is what? Lakers wise or just in general? In general. I think a lot of these teams that we expect to be really good clearly have some assembly required. And the Lakers are one of those teams. I think we saw that from the Bucks and the Sixers tonight too. We're seeing it certainly with the first days of the Victor Webinama experience. Everyone is getting up to speed into their rhythms, trying to understand how all these new pieces fit together. Not revelatory for the opening days of the season to feel that way, but I think even some of the stuff that personally I thought was going to be seamless, like the Giannis, Dame pick and roll, there's some kinks in it that they're going to have to figure out over time. Lakers I thought were the one that surprised me on that one because I thought they were one of the teams that were going to have the advantage coming in. You think about last year's team compared to this year's team. It doesn't seem like Reeves is involved enough either game that, I don't want to say he's an afterthought, but it just felt like he was more in the mix in the playoffs last year. And I liked what Schroeder did for them last year and he was good on Toronto last night and really fit in with what they did. So they're going to have to figure out that Vincent D 'Lo thing. Wood was playing crunch time, which I was really surprised. Did you think we'd be getting this much Christian Wood? I thought that was like a flyer for them. Guarding Kevin Durant on some possessions, wild stuff. But if nothing else, we can trust that when Christian Wood is out there, he will be Christian Wood. In these uncertain times, we can always fall back on that. He certainly had his fair share of like black hole kind of possessions in this game, but he also does play into the Lakers advantages in terms of their length, right? Their size against a team like Phoenix, they're just going to be able to out muscle, get to rebounds, get to balls that they can't get to. So that part of it paid off, I thought in terms of just like having another big out there and certainly the Anthony Davis experiment continues as far as like, do you want more size with him? Do you want to play small with him? There's always that internal question because he seems a little reluctant to do it on a full -time basis, but I'm sure Christian Wood's going to get his shots. I mean, clearly Jackson Hayes is going to get some shots in the rotation to be a meaningful part of the Lakers, the mix there for the Lakers. So I don't know. I think Darvin Ham has a lot of questions to figure out, including the one you listed with Austin Reeves, which is like, who has the ball? Who's initiating for us? Who is involved on a possession to possession basis? Because this game, this was a lot of D 'Angelo Russell, and it was a lot of a better version of D 'Angelo Russell than maybe we saw the other night, but it still feels like a lot. 33 minutes for him tonight. Yeah, Reeves, seven shots, one assist. And I thought all of his usage stuff was going to go up, but it seems like it drifted Russell's way. The other thing I was surprised, I thought Rui was going to be a bigger part of this team. I only played 12 minutes, but I haven't changed my thought on them. They're just such a big, problematic team. And if you're the Suns and you're feeling good after that Warriors game, right? And the Warriors, no Draymond, they were able to overpower them a little on the boards. The two centers had 22. And then tonight you see the flip side of the use of Nurkic experience, where it's like, you're getting zero room protection and you're getting somebody who's just going to be confused anytime somebody is coming off a pick. Basically Lebron at the end of the game just said, I'm going to go attack that guy. Yeah, I'm going to go attack that guy right there. Durant was better tonight, at least for the first three quarters that he looked on Tuesday night. It was really cool just seeing those guys on a basketball court after all these years. As I get older, I'm older than you, but just think like, man, this goes way back now. We're talking mid 2000s was the first time these two guys played basketball against each other and it's still going on. So that was in a cool way kind of lingering over this game. I was enjoying that one. How do you think Durant looks in terms of being a 35 year old guy who they gave up three first rounders and two swaps and Mikhail Bridges and Cam Johnson for? It feels like a slightly loaded question. Yeah. He's looked good. And certainly as you said, the first three quarters of this game looked more than good enough. I think the problem was just like this version of the Suns like felt very James Harden is hurt and Kyrie Irving won't get the shot. Nets, you know, just like Kevin Durant and a bunch of like - I blocked that net out of my mind. I think a lot of us have tried to, but you know, him with a lot of like serviceable workaday role players can get you so far. But as you saw on this one, against a really good defensive team like the Lakers in the fourth quarter, they can just shut the water off. And this is where, you know, I'm nervous about the Suns for a variety of reasons. I think if it was just the defense or just the depth or just the injury risk of their core guys, I would feel better. But it's all of the above all the time. And that's going to put Durant in some games like this one. It's going to put Yusef Nurkic in positions like this one where all of a sudden he's triggering your offense because you don't really have a default point guard out there. And sometimes the value of having a point guard in your rotation, I don't think it's really going to matter when Beal and Booker and Durant are playing together. Those guys can all handle and play make and do everything they need to do. But in a game like this, where two of those guys are out, sometimes it helps to just be able to run some offense that doesn't have to involve Kevin Durant pounding the rock through pick and roll. Yeah, 28 shots for him today. 13 including, and then 13 free throws. He played 39 minutes and was also playing the five in stretches. And this is game two. They had to basically try to unlock 2007 Texas Longhorns Durant. That's the last guy I want to be throwing miles on, maybe in the entire league other than LeBron. Cause he's, you know. That's going to be true for Booker and Beal too, right? Like when any of these guys are out, those three, whoever's left is going to have to play huge minutes or else you get into Grayson Allen and Drew Eubanks are playing like a massive role in your rotation. And I like those guys. I like Drew Eubanks. Maybe not like tamper and lose a second round pick like Drew Eubanks, like some teams do, but. I'd lose 50K for him. Maybe not a second round pick. It's a little steep. Yeah. The other game, Milwaukee Philly. So no Harden. I wish there was a way to just mute the entire Harden story of all coverage for it. Anything online, anything on Twitter, all conversations. I just don't want to hear it anymore. And I don't think he has any interest in playing. And I just think, just tell us when he gets traded. Their best chance now, now that the, especially the Clippers last night looked great.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"christian woods" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"But I watched him play in LA on Thursday. And look, I've been hard on Christian wood in the past. I thought his Houston run was terrible, I think, you know, his defense has oftentimes been indifferent. Let's call it, to be charitable about that. But he just works in Dallas, like playing off of Luka Dončić, works for him. He's at least trying, I think, more defensively in Dallas. I mean, you saw, he had 5 blocks in that double overtime game against the Lakers, including one which I guess should have been a foul on LeBron at the end of that game, but you know, I bring wood up because he's eligible for contract extension now and there's been talk of the Mavericks trading him if they don't get a contract extension with him done so they don't risk losing him for nothing. At the end of the year, I know Christian wood wants to get paid. I would too. This is your opportunity. But he's got a good thing out there, man. He has got a situation where he is playing off arguably the best player in the NBA, a guy that draws defenses or defenders like a magnet and puts him in a position for wide open threes, which is what Christian wood does or lobs, which is what Christian wood does. So if I'm Christian wood, I'm not saying take a low ball offer here, but if your desire is to go into free agency and sign a four year max level deal with like Charlotte, I hope the money's worth it. Like the money, maybe it will be. Maybe you need that maybe you want that extra cash, but if there's a pathway to getting a deal done with the Dallas Mavericks, Christian wood needs to do it. Because he works there and he didn't work in Detroit and I'm not sure he's going to work anywhere else. It's just my two cents on it. Yeah, and that's the thing, right? Like he could get a big payday by some team that really badly needs an offensive minded big man who can do some things or whatever, a Charlotte or whoever. And, you know, it might be where he makes the most money, but it will probably be a place where he never gets to win at this level again. And that's a tough thing. It's not a lot about this over the years of covering this league and moderating my own position quite a bit. I used to really on some level it would bother my sensibilities if a guy went for the money instead of winning and I've changed on that. It's obviously one, it's not our lives to lead. Our choice to make. So there's that. But you know, yeah, winning is really important and we project this as media and fans we project this on to these guys. Well, they should all want to win at the highest level, even if it means sacrificing shots or sacrificing some dollars. Easy for us to say. I would not blame Christian wood if he went for the bag somewhere else if it were a bigger bag. But yeah, ideally for his career, you know, you said it. There's no better situation for him. And if he can continue to evolve defensively, try to be more accountable at that end of the court. He certainly has the athleticism and the ability to be a better defender. And playing off of Luca, and the Mavericks, perpetually one player away. You know, they get that one other guy whoever it may be and they're in business. So they don't even need they don't need not to make this a maverick's discussion, but they don't need a second superstar.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"If it actually came to fruition, is it possible? Is it likely probably not, but if the Lakers came calling and said, two unprotected firsts for all those things? I think what puts it over the top. Is if you go to LeBron and you say, hey, we've got this deal on the table in LeBron James. Sure. I'll resign. Do that. And I'm signed in that extension on August 4th. That's where you. That's the tips of the scales for me. That pushes it over into, okay, you do it. Yeah, no, I definitely agree. I'm just from a pure value standpoint. I think where I would land on it is I wouldn't hate it. I'd still feel a little squeamish, but I wouldn't hate the near future for the Lakers. Said pi NFT clarifies, he met batum, but not Tatum. Oh, that makes way more sense. Way more sense. Way more sense. For me, why would baton leave the clippers? It would be my question. The money is about going to be about the same. The opportunities probably about the same because he's been starting their I don't think that's going to happen. That's the world we're living in. That a player would stay with the Clippers over joining the Lakers. That is a little crazy. It's good to know that one of us has a title this decade though. It is true. Okay. Let's see. Brandon Robinson, who's the next best guy you've targeted a trade now that Christian wood is unavailable. Also Matt, please come on more podcasts. I'm trying Brandon. I'm trying. It's good to get to know someone likes me on this show. That's like one out of 2000s of people that listen. Brandon Robinson is my burner account. Oh, okay, you just paid yourself then? I did. I did. No, not really. But yes, more Matt on podcasts, I am up for that. Any time, but now that Christian wood is unavailable, I've been so locked in on trying to get Christian wood to the Lake for years now. Who do you turn to now? Because we say miles Turner and on paper that makes sense, but there's a $5 million difference between those two guys. So creating for bios Turner, it's not, it's not as clean salary cap wise as it would be to trade for Christian wood. So who's the.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"christian woods" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"To their sports teams when you can't go outside for half of the year. But it's overall though, I think. I think people are confident. And I think it's weird because I don't think it's misplaced confidence either because when they haven't played like complete don't keep it clean, idiots. In this series, they've been great. They've really it's when they get caught up in nonsense stuff and arguing with the rafts and of course you'll want to throw the ball all over the gym and that kind of stuff. That's on it all falls apart. So you've got to come out focus. You got to stay locked in on the game and the game only. And see where it goes tonight, but yeah, I feel like they're going to win. I think everything's been leading towards this being a 7 game series. Now, I agree, looking at ESPN, their matchup predictor says 70% chance that the Celtics win this game, they are a three and a half point favorite point spread. As of this as of this moment, but I agree, I think that I think Boston is the favorite to win this game. They should be they're at home. We've been saying this would wind up going 7 games. We've been saying if the Celtics won, it would be a Celtics in 6 situation. Otherwise this thing probably goes 7. And so that's what I'm expecting to happen tonight. Is a Boston win. And then we get a game 7, which I'm not going to complain about getting a game 7 to the NBA Finals. That's always, that's always a lot of fun. So that's what I think what I'm expecting to happen. But we will see you never know with Steph Curry. You never know what Jason Tatum with the star level players like they can go nuts. And I think this is the kind of game where it could be decided by a role player or two on either side that has either a good or bad shooting night. That could ultimately determine the outcome of a game like this. Dad's a huge thing I'm looking for here is I'm looking for Derek white Graham Williams Payton Pritchard one or two of them to step up at home with the home crowd behind them role players almost always play better at home. Not only play well and give production, but also allowing me, you don't get to let Brown and Tatum take a short rest at points in this game and game 5. They played the entire second quarter, the entire third quarter, and had they needed to. They would have played the entire fourth quarter. It just got away from them in those last minute and a half or so, and they emptied the bench. But you got to get those guys..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"christian woods" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"That's where we'd say this all the time. There's always two sides to a trade, right? Sometimes three, sometimes four, but there's always at least two. And I think it becomes a fact of, I don't rarely do I believe that it comes back out there of like, yeah, there were better offers, right? Rafael stone is not going to stand up there later and say, well, we had better offers, but we took this one, right? That's never going to happen anyway. Right. And so and so beat that. Well, I mean, could they? I don't know. That's the challenge. I think is because to get a better pick, you're probably taking back worse money. That's maybe longer term. In this situation, and I think what we're seeing in the return is, it's hard because we both said we both really like Christian wood. Quite a bit. But I think we're seeing, I don't know if the NBA likes them quite as much as we like him. And that's certainly possible. That could be factored into this return here for the rockets. You know, big picture, though. What does this mean for the trademark?.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Of LeBron at some point. That's father time, at some point. Might not be next year. It might not be 5 years from now. Who knows? But there will be a post LeBron era and I do think the Lakers can transition into that kind of era. And if we're talking about playing the long game and we talk about will LA fans accept that. Look, I understand there's impatience among the Laker fans. They've set a very high bar. 17 championships does that. People expect the Lakers to be great each and every year. But to assume that Lakers fans or that any fan base would not understand a team taking a long-term view and building that way, that's insulting to the fan base. That's insulting to the intelligence of sports fans to say that they would not accept building for the long term. Even if it meant going through some bumps in the road. In the meantime, I don't think that's true at all. I think Lakers fans understand what's going on. I think Lakers fans, if the Lakers were to build around some young players, even if those young players might take some time to develop, I think Lakers fans would be understanding of that. I think Lakers fans would see the big picture, would see the long-term goal. As long as you're making progress towards that goal, what Lakers don't fans don't want to see a stagnation. So I think that very much could be on the table for the Lakers post LeBron. Building out a more sustainable long-term success strategy. Or who knows? Maybe in LeBron leaves and they just go star hunting again and they worry about TV ratings and putting butts in seats and all that sort of stuff. And we're right back here. Maybe. Maybe. But I think we're entering a different era of the NBA. One that requires sustainability and a deep team. And Lakers don't have that right now. We'll see what rob pelinka and co can do this off season. All right, let's do one more, one more question. Holy moly. I rambled for a while that I ranted a bit there. And I missed a lot of questions that came through. Somebody asked is AD shooting yet. Yeah, he's actually working out with lethal shooter. So he is shooting now..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Next year okay, all right, then you don't feel quite so bad about needing to make that move in order to try to make the rust fit a little bit better and all of that. So while I understand what you're saying about Taylor Horton soccer and not feeling good because it feels like an added cost of the Russell Westbrook trade a lot of it to me depends on what the return is if you do decide to move THT. But again, all of this stuff, it's all going to start picking up very, very soon. As soon as the finals end, like it wouldn't shock me if we got some kind of a wage bomb or shum's tweet or whatever. While we're while we're on these shows, I'm sure some news is going to break. I need to make a breaking news drop. Yeah, I need to get one of those ready because stuff's going to happen. Things are going to happen. We're going to hear all kinds of rumors, all kinds of news. It's going to come out. Right now is kind of the quiet ish. It's the calm before the storm. At this moment. And we just got a little kind of appetizer with this Christian wood trade. We saw the green trade, which is kind of minor. Again, minor stuff starting to filter through. The dam is going to burst pretty soon and we're going to see a lot of stuff going on involving the Lakers and Taylor Horton Tucker, like it or not, he's going to be in the thick of it. Part of that is just logistics like I talked about before, you need his contract in order to make any kind of a move. All right,.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Oh no. Oh no, if a late first round pick yields Christian wood, how were the Lakers ever going to be able to buy a second round pick? How? That's not possible if it takes Christian wood to get a late first, a second rounder, it's going to cost a lot more than the 4 million bucks that the Lakers have to spend. On the flip side, you can say, oh yes, this is fantastic. If all it costs to get a player of the caliber of Christian wood is what the Mavs gave up, the Lakers, THT, Russell Westbrook's expiring contract, they're in business. Let's go shopping. And let's go find a deal. So again, two ways to look at this because again, most, I think, unless I've seen rockets fans trying to defend the deal, but most say the rockets say the rockets got fleeced in this trade. I am of that opinion. I think the Mavs got an absolute steal here. Great replacement for the size of kristaps porzingis at a they gave no rotation. It's essentially just for the 26 bank. That's all it costs them to get Christian wood, which again is mind-blowing. But I look at this trade and it is so skewed in my mind, I don't think this trade sets the market. So I don't think it's either of those things. I don't think it's either talent is going to be cheap to acquire or draft picks are super expensive. I don't think we go in either direction. I don't think this does anything to the market because I think this is going to be looked at as the outlier trade. That's my guess as far as how the market gets set. Sometimes we see this where moves get made a free agent gets signed at a particular position and that sets the market for everybody else that plays that position in free agency. That happens. Same thing happens on the trade front. But I don't think this trade is going to do that because again, the general perception is that the Mavs got a steal here and that the rockets didn't get as much value as they could have. So I think a lot of teams are going to look at it through that lens that this wasn't really like a well negotiated trade and is probably not going to be a typical trade here this off season. Don't get me wrong. I hope. I hope the Lakers can find a way to get some bargains as well. But I'm not expecting this trade to set the market. Now, could this still be an okay trade for the rockets? Sure, look, if the future flexibility winds up turning into something good, if freeing up the minutes for alper and sanguine winds up being a big deal for them, if Christian wood has all kinds of locker room problems in Dallas and the defense of issues become a problem again. And.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"That's it. That's the whole list. So how are we feeling after listening to that? How exciting is that free agent class? Not very, right? Not very. And this is why and Keith and I have talked about this on the front office show. This is why I'm looking at this summer as the summer of the trade. Across the NBA, I think we're going to see a lot of trades. I think we're going to see a lot of trades being made because teams are looking at this free agent class and they're looking at it and you're seeing what we just saw together. That's not a lot out there. If you're looking for help on the wings, there's auto Porter junior, you can take a gamble on TJ Warren's knees, that's about it. That's about it. Even Robert Covington already got locked up by the clippers. And that's why the clippers looked at the free agent market and went, oh, if we lose Robert Covington, there's basically no one out here to replace him. So again, I think we're going to see a lot of trades. I think we're going to see a lot of trades, the Lakers, they've got Kendrick nunn, THT, maybe move Russell Westbrook. You've got your future first to potentially use in the right deal. You can absorb some future cap space. That's what you're working with on the trade market. There are some values to be had there. On the free agent market, there are some guys that we identify and looking through here. But as you saw and you heard, if you listen to the podcast version of this, not a lot of those names made you go. That's the guy. That's the Lakers next starting forward, starting center, starting point. You didn't hear a lot of that, right? Super chat coming in from Rome makes Christian wood. Miles Turner, what do you think? Yeah, I like both of those guys. Like both of them. Christian wood, a little bit cheaper. Both expiring contracts after next year, you could get either a moment I'd be happy. In fact, Christian wood is probably the one way that I consider a John wall for Russell weissberg swap is if you could get John wall and Christian wood for Russell Westbrook and THT. That's something that I would consider if I'm the Lakers. I think Christian wood would be a really nice fit next to Anthony Davis. For the same reasons that miles Turner would be in terms of giving you that guy that can shoot from the perimeter of course miles Turner a better shot blocker..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Well, I mean, we're all going to be if they wind up keeping him. We're all going to be hoping that it is as bad as it was. Certainly. Vector nova said with a super chat. It has to be Westbrook THT's younger, cheaper. We could probably hope for him to improve without Russ. Russ is only going to decline further. Again, I think you hurt your investment in Taylor Horton Tucker. When you got Russell Westbrook. So that's going to be a problem for the Lakers. So I think if you do, if you do find yourself in a situation where you've got to keep for us, I think you have that much more incentive to trade THD because once again, I don't think those two can coexist on the floor at the same time too many of the same weaknesses. We got Brandon Robinson with a $50 super chat. My goodness. Thank you, Brandon. That was a nice one. Russ, THT, and two firsts for John wall and Christian wood. Christian wood will have to be able to step in for AD when he gets injured and vice versa. Then when they're both healthy, you have an amazing front court with Bron AD and Christian wood. If that is on the table, Russ AD, 2027, 2029 first round picks, you get Christian wood and John wall from the Houston Rockets. Are you doing that trade? Negative, I'm not doing that trade. At first I thought you said, I thought you said the trade without AD, but now that I've heard it correctly, AD for Christian wood, I'm not. No, no, AD is, it would be AD's playing with Christian what it's rust to. And two firsts. So Russell Westbrook Taylor Horton Tucker and a couple of firsts. Okay. That one I'm more prone to do. Okay. When we've already determined that, hey, these two guys can't play together and they weren't what we expected them to be last year. Now you bring in a John wall who look, we already understand. We have a lot of questions about how healthy is. And he does present kind of some of the same problems that Russell Westbrook presents. But I am under the belief, you know, after a guy's been out for a few years, I'm sure he saw what happened in legoland. He'd be a little bit more willing to adjust to work aside, work aside a LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and you're bringing in a Christian wood, another big who can step out and knock down a shot, provide you some of the same skill set that an AD could do. I think that's definitely worth looking at if you can't find anything better. I think those guys come in. John wall, if you still have something left in the tank, he's a I think he's a better defender than Russell Westbrook at the point of our position. He could still create for others and let's see if he's still has that quickness to get to the basket, but yeah, if you're calling in Christian wood with it, I definitely think that's something to consider because you're getting in again another big who can provide you a similar sort of skill set, especially if Anthony's Davis gets hurt. Because the guy who could be a stretch, get some rebound, not a great river protector, but you know, with effort and right coaching, you know, he could become better at it. I think that's something we should look at if possible. Yeah, I am a big fan of Christian wood..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"All right, and we are back. I didn't see that 14 trade come through, but I did see a super chat that came in from mook Morris. Thank you very much. Said, would you choose between Phil handy or darvin ham? Is it possible we keep monk after trading Westbrook and sign auto Porter two? So let's address the first part. Bill handy or darvin ham, I'm going to go with darvin Hamm. I think Phil handy, if you wanted to stay on as an assistant, absolutely. But darvin ham has been pegged as a head coach in the making for a long, long time. Bill Hinton is an interesting option. I think you should get an interview. I think the Lakers, I was on board with the Lakers, letting go of Frank Vogel early and by early, I mean, you know, with a month or two left in the season. And finding out once it was clear that the season was going anywhere, find out what you've got in Phil handy. Find out whether or not he can be a head coach moving forward. And they didn't do that. And there's some reasons why. And I'm not saying that it was inexcusable or something like that. I think there's pros and cons to both options. But darvin hammer I think is on a different level in terms of the how he's seen around the NBA as a future head coach. I'm curious about what Phil handy can do, but I think darvin ham is just a different option that I would hate to lose Phil handy. I love him for him to stay on, but I think you ride with darvin ham in that situation. Is it possible to keep monk after trading Westbrook and sign auto port? So if you were to trade Russ and you were able to clear salary at a rust rate, let's say you do the OKC trade. And then you can get to the point where you can use the full taxpayer min level. And that's about 10 million. That would also cut salary enough to where you would feel comfortable that you weren't going to hit the hard cap. Okay. That would then allow you to use that full taxpayer mid level, which is about $10 million. And then you would also have the biannual exception, which will be 3 million in change. So that might be your path right there. You could, on one hand, maybe split the mid level, maybe you can get monk for 6 and change, and then you get auto Porter junior for the remainder, whatever's left for, something like that. Or you have to give monk the entire ten, and then you can use your buy annual and auto Porter. Maybe. I will say it's not likely. I think both guys are probably going to get a little bit too much, even if you clear that salary enough to where you can actually use that full mid level exception. But it's not completely unheard of or it's not completely out of the question for something like that to happen. Mcnasty from YouTube said, would you do the rockets deal if they included Christian wood? I would definitely be interested in the rockets deal if Christian wood was involved. So let's say hypothetically, it's John wall for Russell Westbrook, but you're adding in Christian wood to the rocket side. A first and THT from the Lakers side, I think that's interesting. I think it's interesting. I think it's something that you have to explore. I've long thought Christian wood would be a really interesting pairing with Anthony Davis in terms of skill set, how those two would fit together. That's something that's intrigued me..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Let's see what else we've got here. Oh, Eric says Damien Jones, my guy. Yes, I would love to see Damien Jones back. Again, you're not going to go break the bank to get Damien Jones, but his skill set pretty much what the Lakers could use. I was disappointed the Lakers let him go last season, was hoping they wouldn't, I know the Lakers were hoping the kings would not pick up his option for this year. They thought they weren't going to. We probably had that not happened. Had the kings not picked up his option, Damian Jones, the Lakers would have gone after him, and we probably would have seen the Lakers team with Damien Jones rather than Deandre Jordan. I think when Damien Jones option got picked up, that was when the Lakers switched and went over to Deandre Jordan instead. I would have much rather had Damien Jones and may, look, if they can get them, if they can get them, I'd love to see it. They can get them. I would love to see it. But I would not assume that's going to happen. Somebody said, would Jeff Jeff said, we really love Damien Jones. Look, I know. There's some players. Everybody's got these players in the NBA that you just irrationally love this player on your team. And Christian wood is the guy that I've brought up a lot that I would love to see over on the Lakers. Again, I'm probably too far into being a supporter of that player coming to the Lakers. It's where I'm probably a little bit biased on that. So again, I will readily admit that, but hey, I like his skill set, Damian Jones, Christian wood as well. Think they'd be nice bits for the right price. Jeff Jeff, we signed Drummond over Damian Jones. I know. I know. And by the way, I don't think letting Drummond go this last off season was the right move..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"You're developing Jalen green and Kevin Porter junior, which is a big reason why John wall was on the market because he wasn't playing because they were so worried about the development of those two guys. So yeah, that's just more reasoning for it to not make sense for the rockets to do that. Yeah. Yep. I agree somebody asked, what about Russell Russell Westbrook to the rockets and a John wall thing? Please. And hold up. Hold up. We're not finished. John wall and Christian wood. Okay, we start talking Christian wood. We start talking to Eric Gordon. Okay, we can, you know, maybe there's something that could be worked out there, but again, I don't think that's option number one for the Lakers, but it's interesting. It's interesting. Eric Gordon is still probably saying no, honestly. If it's Christian wood, then you got me listening, but Eric Gordon, I'm still probably saying no. This is interesting here. I got a super chat. TJ stalker said, did you guys see the comment Russ liked? At Lake shoyu on Twitter posted it. If you haven't. Oh, so you saw it. I didn't see it, Sean. What does it say? Check correct me if I'm wrong. The comments basically saying Russ isn't a Russian want to be back in the Lake or should do everything they can. I'm paraphrasing and maybe I'm completely wrong, but I'll look it up. In some way, shape or form it's basically the commoner saying the Lakers should have won Ross. They need to do everything they can to get them out of there and rough liked it. I did see it paraphrasing a little bit. Okay, here it is. So here's the exact quote, said, someone commented and Russ liked to this comment according to the screenshot that we're seeing here. Said, please don't go back next year, do whatever it takes to go somewhere else, or even consider retiring, but leave the Lakers alone, dude, please. Okay, so I had to the other way around. Okay, he liked that comment. Is the retiring thing? And I mentioned it, but that's kind of what interests me a little bit. I don't. I'm not saying it's going to retire this year, but no, he's not going to retire with 47 million do. But I think that I don't think Russ wants to be back..
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"christian woods" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"Decided to cut him loose entirely. And Christian wood, while productive over the course of the last couple of years in a couple places, Detroit and Houston has had some bumps along the way too, but this is what happens. I mean, when you're the rockets and you're looking for hidden gems or, you know, just some, you know, just try to find young guys to build around who may have some rough spots, you knew you were taking a risk when you brought these guys in, especially Kevin Porter junior and do you have the infrastructure? Do you have the foundation to deal with it? John Lucas is a great place to start. So if you had asked me in the abstract a year ago, hey is this a good place for these guys to go where they'll have the right support and the right leadership? I'd say yes because of John Lucas in particular and any of the rest of that coaching staff too and certainly Steven Silas. But do they have the veterans there? Outside of Eric Gordon and I don't know DJ Augustine. I mean, like there's no there's not a lot of gray hairs on this roster. Not a lot of guys who've been through a lot. I just, I don't know if you've got enough there to coax these guys through these kinds of times. And, you know, listen, maybe they're just not going to be. Like maybe there is no good answer. Maybe Kevin Porter junior is never going to get it right. We see that happens sometimes too. I'm not saying that that he won't. I never want to write a guy off this early in his career. He's very young. But some guys never figure it out. So maybe it's not in the rockets. But you do have to have the support system there when you're taking a risk on guys who have a history as these guys do. So I don't know where it goes from here. I mean, you know, look, teammates can forgive it, they can bring them back into the fold and admit that that's tough to that's not a fight in the locker room. That's just quitting. Like, it's as simple as that. That's quitting. You quit on your team. Two players, two starters, two of the best players on that team just quit. Now I wrote a column about this on SI dot com. I know it sounds like a nuclear option to just cut ties with these two players, but the rockets, they've got to build a culture. Now you just said, when you're in a position like the rockets, you're trying to take a flyer on these guys, try to see try to find a diamond, whatever. The rockets have talent on that roster. Pretty good young town. Like jaylen green has the potential to be a terrific score. Alperin sanguine is someone that has looked like he could be one of the steals in the draft from this past year. 6 foot ten can rebound, looks like he can shoot the three down the line, good player. You got Jay Sean Tate, who's got a little bit of that PJ Tucker in him can be a defensive minded guy in your front court, defend a bunch of different positions. Like those are the guys you are going to be building around. It's not going to be Kevin Porter and Christian wood. It's just, I think we've reached that point. Like Kevin Porter junior is extension eligible this summer. Can you imagine any scenario where the rockets committed serious money to him? Like real money? Anything beyond like money that they wouldn't mind eating if things go wayward once again? Same thing with Christian Woods got one year left in his contract. He's extension eligible this summer. Like wood puts up numbers, he was fourth in the most improved player voting last year, but he has yet to show anywhere that he's a winning player. It's not, look, it's not on him that he played for Detroit, and they're bad. Now he's with Houston, they're bad, but all I've seen from Christian wood is that he can put up numbers. I have not seen contributions towards winning yet, at least not the kind of contributions that would warrant being paid real money by the Houston Rockets. Your future, if you're Houston, is green, it is Tate, it is sanguine, and it's whoever comes out of this high lottery pick that you're going to have next year. Whether that's Chet holmgren or jabari Smith or any of the other guys that are out there sitting at the top of next year's draft. Those are the guys you're building around. Every other roster spot needs to be devoted to guys that will help them succeed. Veteran guys that will help them succeed. I don't I just don't see the point right now at keeping Porter junior and would around when you I mean you know like they're smart people in Houston. They know that these two guys are not going to be part of their long-term future. So my opinion is that you just cut Kevin Porter junior like you eat the last of the 1.8 million. He's due this year. I think it's 3.2 million next year. And you trade Christian wood. Like there's a market for Christian wood. Like Charlotte would love to get their hands on Christian wood. Portland would love a guy like Christian wood. I'm sure the Lakers want everybody at this point. They would love to get a guy like Christian wood. So you can deal him and then just focus on your culture, try building, you know, things in a more productive way. Like you have the coach, like Steven Silas, is an excellent coach. He's probably going to wind up getting scapegoated for this mess. At some point, at the end of the year, because that's the way it goes in the NBA. But Steven Silas is an excellent coach, a very good developmental guy as he's shown in previous stops as an assistant. So you've got a good coach. You've got some pretty good young players, a decent foundation. I don't know why you're messing around with stuff like this that can only serve to create negativity around your team, potentially hamper the development of some of the young guys you're really locked in on. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to disagree with any of that, Chris. I don't know what the rockets are going to become where this is all headed, what the overall plan is. I mean, obviously, look, it's a tear down, and they are going young and they're trying to stock up on young players and that's the general direction, which is the normal thing to do when you were forced into a position to trade guys when you had to offload harden and Westbrook and start over. And I don't mind them going, you know, making some rolls of the dice, but you also do have to acknowledge when those roles have gone bad when you've crapped out. I don't know if we're there yet. I mean, you know, look, there's often a lot more to these things than we see or hear, right? So have there been any other incidents that are of a serious nature with either Porter or wood? Have you hit the third strike yet with these guys? Are you okay still proceeding with maybe just one of them? And you're right on Porter junior it's a small price to pay with another whatever you burn 3 million or whatever off of cap if you cut them now for next season, that's not gonna kill you. You're gonna be below the cap anyway and you're rebuilding team. It's fine. And I agree that there are teams that would not only love to have Christian wood for his talent, but could handle whatever comes with that. A more veteran team, there are plenty of places I could see him. I think he'd be great in Dallas. Portland, as you mentioned, there are plenty of others who could use a talented big. Um, I just don't know if we're at that point yet. I don't know. It has Houston definitively reached the breaking point with either or both. I do think there's the danger of if you hold on to them too long and if those things continue and are unchecked or they're not held accountable unless to their credit, they suspended them both for a game. They're trying to establish what the rules and what the limits are. But you don't want to poison the overall environment, right? When you get Jalen green, when you get, when he's back, when you have the next group that comes behind that in the coming draft and the one after that, you certainly want to have a good stable and accountable environment for guys to come up.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"So would you take a flyer on Kevin Porter if he got released or traded? I would. I mean, sometimes the Lakers have taken on these guys who have had interesting pass. And sometimes it's worked out. We go way back in the day. You remember Isaiah JR writer? Yes. Remember that? Yeah, the Lakers brought him in. Dennis Rodman was a Laker at one point. Sometimes the Lakers take chance on these guys and sometimes it works. I mean, Dion waiters played some decent minutes for the Lakers. And you know, waiters island and all that kind of stuff. JR Smith came in. You've had some guys that have had some measure of success. Dwight, Howard, Dwight, Howard was seen as kind of a malcontent before he came to the Lake or somebody who would never accept being a role player. And he's been great at doing just that, just doing what the team needs him to do. So you never know, but I'd still be a little hesitant. I mean, it's kind of iffy because this is now the second situation where this because that's why he got traded from Cleveland. Yes, that's true. Yeah. So I mean, I liked K PJ coming out of the draft. So I'm a little biased here, but I think that would be fun to have the guy that played for USC back with the Lakers. But that's just good for you. But back to the question originally, yes, Christian wood was somehow available. I don't see why he would be. But if he was somehow available in the Lakers have a deal for him, assuming that the Jeremy grant trade that everyone and their mom is talking about doesn't go through, if you told me, well, we'll take THT from you guys and we'll give you Christian wood. I would say yes. If it was Christian wood or Jeremy grant, you're taking agreed. Can you imagine a LeBron, Stanley Johnson, Jeremy grant, and throw in two players of your choice there? That'd be fun lineup. That would be fun. Trevor ariza someone else? My thinking, I've got to come in here. My thinking with bronn and AD small ball is for a bigger trade coming that may involve us getting Jeremy grant and THT going up. Isn't any trade the Lakers do? Yes. He would have to be. You know, it's a small one. We have not done the master lock in the night. We need to do that before we call it a night here. And we've already gone way over time talking about team full of clone Lebrons and things like that. It sucks. And ducks. So let's talk about the master lock of the night. Let's get into it. What was the one thing that you would put in Chris, the masterpiece masters finishing hold? Chat, let us know your thoughts coming in from YouTube from Facebook from Twitter. What are you putting in the master lock tonight?.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"2000. Let's see, Bruce Barnes, the size and spacing of a Westbrook LeBron areza Anthony Davis and Christian wood lineup would be interesting. That's a lot of size. You're talking about what LeBron basically as your two? Or ariza as your two? I do wonder if they can small quick guards could take advantage of that, but. Orlando said, if no to Jeremy grant, then I would do THT, none and picks for miles Turner. I think miles Turner is an interesting target as well. But if the Lakers are dead set on going small, that would go against that. But he's an interesting one. A guy that the Lakers have been connected to for a few seasons now. Yeah, also my other drawback is something you say in the past that the pacers have realized that him and sabonis don't really work well on the court at the same time. So what incentive do you have to get is the different scenario but what instead do you have putting him in AD on the floor at the same time, especially down the stretch? So, yeah. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Miles Turner, somebody mentioned miles Turner is $18 million. Yeah, do you want to pay $18 million for a guy that you may not want to put in the game in crunch time because you're going small, and that's something we've talked about here on this show before. Born stutter alpha said, what if Christian Woods said he only wants to go to LA? Well, I mean, he's under contract, so it's not like it's not like he's going to be a free agent this next season and then he would have a little bit more leeway, right? Because I don't know, let's say, since this was the team that went after Anthony Davis. Let's say the Celtics called up the rockets and said, hey, we want to trade for Christian wood. Christian wood could just make it known, hey, yeah, you guys can trade for me, but I'm not going to resign with you. That's what AD did to the Celtics. They wanted to trade for him. And Anthony Davis just said, well, okay, but I'm not going to stay. As soon as I'm a free agent, I'm going. So then, obviously, they weren't willing to give up major pieces. Christian wood though still has, I believe another year under contract after this. So that eliminates a little bit of his strength in the negotiation in terms of dissuading teams from trading for him. He could still do it. He could still say, well, I really want to go to this team. If you trade for me, I'm going to leave as soon as I can. I wouldn't be happy. He can try to influence it a little bit, but it's not like he's.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"christian woods" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Charles William junior, Trevor, can we get THT for Christian wood? So most likely Christian Woods at about 13 million in change, so most likely what you're talking about there is packaging up THT and probably none in order to get the deal done because THT is about 9 and a half million, add in a player like Kendrick nun and then you're right there is THT enough for the rockets, well if the rockets are fully committing to a rebuild, he's a young player. He's an intriguing talent, maybe, but there's gonna be a lot of teams after Christian wood also, so with the Lakers have to add in something 2027 is the first time they can trade a first round pick, but it's interesting. I think the one thing we can say for sure, for sure, the Lakers are gonna be involved in a lot of discussions because that's just the way rob pulling operates. He leaves no stone unturned. The Lakers are going to be involved exploring every single opportunity and if something pops up that makes sense, I think they're going to do it. I think at this point, they're not going to pump the brakes and say, well, chemistry reasons, you know, we don't want to try to shake things up too much. This team has already been completely shaken up. They only had three players come back from last season. So I think if there's an opportunity to add a skill set that they need or a talent upgrade somewhere that they feel like they can really make a difference with, I think they're going to do it. Obvi B from YouTube. Said Russ free throw bricks, a bad turnover to Lonzo and layups late killed us. Yeah, I mean, look, it was a it was a number of plays that just did not go the Lakers way down the stretch that ultimately caused them to lose. I mean, Russ had the nice spin move, got to the rim and then missed on vucevic. That was certainly a, I mean, that was a rough moment, right? Where you expected a basket to be scored there and it just wasn't down the stretch, the bulls executed better. So as a result, they walked away with the win. Let's see what else we've got here. Hugo Martinez Trevor if these struggles continue past the trade deadline, what happens to the team moving forward? You're going to see a very different team next year. That's just the reality. I think no matter what happens, you're going to see a very different team next year. Most of the guys on this team are on one year deals, especially all these veteran minimum guys. Westbrook has one year after this year assuming he picks up his option, which he would imagine he probably will, but at that point, he's an expiring contract. And so even Westbrook becomes more movable next off season. I'm not saying he's an easy contract to move at 45 million. That's very difficult. Contract to move. But expiring makes him a bit more movable. So I think no matter what happens, you're going to see a very different looking Lakers team next year. Next year, you're going to see a different look and team..
KDWN 720AM
"christian woods" Discussed on KDWN 720AM
"He did have a nice year last year and he was starting. So he's taking the role of coming off the bench being a spark plug, letting guys like Covington be the starting start starting guard instead of him or Derrick Jones Jr. Like the roster. I like Gary Trent Junior off the bench and then the kids. Simon's he If he's hot he can hit. I've seen every sunset going streaks, so I got a lot of pieces on that team. But at the end of the day, it's all about Damien Lord. And C. J. McAuliffe. They could get the game going. You know their way You could see a lot of continuity with delivered and nurkic starting one out of play together, they could figure it out. They'll be a threat in the West. Right now. That record is long, so good. I've been betting against them because they're spreads have been way too high for who they are. But If they like I said they could figure it out. They got too many good players on the team that not excel in the West. Christian Woods done a nice job for Houston, but P. J. Tucker wherever he goes, He's always a stud. But it's three guards with Wall Harden and Gordon and with hardened, just whining and complaining and wanted to get out of there. There's just nothing to like about this Houston team. As far as I'm concerned, I'm still high on him. No, I think they're a good team and get cousins. You know, DeMarcus cousins could still be one of the best players know. Make one healthy coming off the bench when Wood is playing. It's still tough. Tonto stop. You still got Ben Macklemore, who can hit a three at any time? He had Daniel House Junior, another good shooter. They got a lot of weapons. A lot of students. Eric Gordon Stone is a great player coming off the bench. He could have been a six man of the year a few years ago and just throwing Brown It's all about James Harden. If he wants to play, he'll play if he doesn't want it. He's gonna get traded sometime this season. But if he if he can find some motivation and figure it out with John Wall, they can be just as solid as they were last year. Record looks terrible right now to inform. I'm still high on him. All right, so Denver Nuggets made a nice run last year. Jamal Murray, of course, having great playoffs Michael Porter Jr stepping up, You still have no sap and Yokich. Gary Harris. What about this Nuggets team? Not so high on him. His people as some people are. There's there's spreads have been very high inflated, especially at home. I'm.
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AP Source: Pistons' Christian Wood tests positive for virus
"Detroit Pistons center Christian wood has tested positive for the corona virus a person with direct knowledge has told the Associated Press the person who spoke to the AP says what is feeling fine his diagnosis came on Saturday one week after the pistons and jazz played in Detroit jazz center Rudy Gobert or tested positive for the virus on Wednesday while his teammate Donovan Mitchell tested positive on Thursday just days following their match up with wood in Detroit it cannot be concluded that any of those three players were responsible in spreading it to one another I'm Danny cap