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Kawhi scores 14 in return, Clippers hold off Lakers 103-97
"Playing his first game in over a year clippers star Kawhi Leonard scored 14 points to help his team beat the Lakers one O three to 97 You know my goal like I said was try to be great in my minutes Have fun obviously stay healthy and win a basketball game Leonard missed all of last season with a knee injury Paul George and John wall each had 15 points Anthony Davis scored 25 to top the Lakers who fall to Owen two under new coach darvin Hamm Mark Myers Los Angeles
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"AP sports and Mike Reeves the Yankees and escrows played game two of their ALCS Thursday night in Houston Here's correspondent Adams Alex Bregman's third aiding three run Homer held up as the Astros beat the Yankees three to two to take a two zero ALCS lead I think we did a good job the first two games and you just got to keep playing hard and keep competing It's fun playing in the postseason great atmosphere here great atmosphere there And just looking forward to continue to compete Valdez allowed two unearned runs on four hits over 7 innings and he struck out 9 for the Astros without issuing a walk The Thursday night NFL matchup was a high scoring affair in Arizona with the Cardinals downing the saints 42 to 34 in wide receiver Deandre Hopkins returned to the lineup quarterback Kyler Murray connects with Hopkins ten times for a 103 yards He didn't look like he had any roast knocked it off real quick if he had any New Orleans quarterback Andy Dalton throws for 361 yards and four touchdowns along with three interceptions On the hardwood the clippers put 6 players in double figures in a 103 97 win over the Lakers Paul George and John wall led the way for head coach ty Lou's squad This was the gutsy win you know for us they came back and I think took the lead We went up 13 And we just took a big stuck with the game plan and I thought guys stepped up we made some big shots down the stretch but defensively I thought we were really good The other NBA contest He's the bucks down the 76ers 90 to 88 On the ice Eric Carlson that's the overtime winner to give the sharks a three to two win over the rangers It was the first win for San Jose after 5 losses to start the season We tried our best to play to win the game instead of sitting back and kind of waiting and see what's going to happen And I think in the third especially I think we did a good job Other NHL winners are the bruins Canadians Maple Leafs penguins blue jacket senators Devils wild oilers and Sabres and golden knights I'm Mike Reeves AP sports
Lakers Nation Podcast
"john wall" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Not. Yeah. So who is who is that guy? Because when we look at John wall, we say, well, if it's not great, the rust, the fits, I mean, probably worse. Kyrie I mean checks two of those boxes can play off ball, right? Can be a secondary playmaker. Can shoot? Doesn't check the defense box. But who in the NBA checks all three of those boxes and is a point guard, it might not be a guy that we traditionally think of as a point guard. Yeah, even the guy I'm about to name, he's more of a combo, Malcolm Brogdon. Yep. And that's why that pacers trade was so intriguing, but when you throw in the fact that they maybe want to first round picks because they really don't want Ross and there's a shot Charlotte actually wants him. That's why we love the Malcolm Brogdon trade so much because he checks all three of those boxes. He could shoot, especially unhealthy, he played defense and off ball, secondary playmaker, and he does not need the ball into sand. You don't need a point guard, especially next to LeBron and needs the ball in this hands. And that's why brogden, I think everybody on our staff Trevor really thought knock a bra to be a great fit, but obviously that helped him look like his healthy. It does look like it doesn't look like that deal is going to get done. Yeah. It's starting to feel like Charlotte is the last hope for the Lakers in terms of moving. Russell Westbrook and if they can't, then they can't, maybe they go into next season with them. But the next week or so, we'll determine that. And by the way, June 29th coming up, that's the deadline for him to actually opt in. To his contract. So we'll see what happens there. But again, we're looking at this. I think Kyrie makes a lot of sense for the Lakers. I think he makes a lot of sense. Yeah. He's the exception..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"john wall" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Got free agency kicking off. What will the next incarnation of the purple and gold look like? Joining me today, discuss that and a lot of other topics is Sean Davis from Lakers nation, Sean, how are you doing? I'm doing really good, Trevor, thanks for having me back on. And yeah, I can't wait for free agency to start and I think it's gonna be a little crazier than the dropped and I had a bunch of fun with that too. Yeah, I mean, I think there's gonna be a lot of movement, a lot of trade talk, a lot of things of that nature. In fact, we got one today, so Mark Stein, who has a fantastic substack, mentioned that the Lakers could be a landing spot for John wall if he is indeed bought out by the Houston Rockets and it sounds like that may be the path that we're heading down. What are your thoughts on that situation? And John wall may be winding up with the Lakers, not via trade for Russell Westbrook, but via buyout. Personally, and I've already done a video on this recently, but personally I don't really want John wall. Now, the phrase is. 'cause I was like, got some angry comments. I guess, but let me praise this properly, I guess, this time. I do not think, well, you can make an argument at least the authors and Kendrick nun could be better players right now. And I think part of this, because we haven't seen John wall play in over a year. But they are definitely in a better fit. And that's the biggest thing. I don't even care if you think John Wallace better cool. But there's no denying that Austin Reeves and Kendrick nunn, who could potentially be the point guard, because there isn't really going to be a point guard anyway, 'cause that's LeBron. So whoever is the one or whatever in the offense, it's Austria's or Kendrick nunc, because they're the better fit. So I really don't want John wall and then the guard room gets a little crowded because we trade Russ. You're probably talking about. I think you betrayed Russo that Charlotte hornets package..
Strong Opinion Sports
"john wall" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"And what happens to his legacy, if he wins three more. If he wins more titles than Michael Jordan, and by the way, Steph, he changed basketball. The three point shot is just a different level now because of Steph. I don't know. It's just a fun thing to think about a hypothetical. What if Steph one 5 6 or 7 NBA titles? What would that do to his legacy and the respect that people treat him with? Time for an absurd story, let's talk about John wall, John wall NBA player, the Houston Rockets guard, news broke that John wall has opted in to his 47.4 $1 million player option for next year, of course he did. Why wouldn't he? I saw this report like it's new. It's like, why are you surprised you're treating it like it's weird or news at all. That John wall said, yeah, I'll take $47.4 million. The amount of money that John Wallace made during his NBA career is absurd. In 2019, he began a four year 171.1 $1 million extension. That year, John wall, during the 2019 2020 season, did not play. He got hurt. So that year he made 38.2 $1 million to not play basketball. How about that next year? In the 2020, 2021 season, he got traded to Houston. He only played 40 games. He made $41.2 million. And this past year is the most interesting one to me. He had this agreement with Houston his team. They had a mutual understanding, he would not play until they could trade him away to a better team. So he got paid, John wall got paid 44.3 million dollars. To not play basketball. They agreed you just work out and stay in shape so that when we trade your way, you're ready to play..
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"john wall" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"I'm like, he's like the stand-alone but to me, Ryan Clark is the guy. I really love listening to. I mean, I haven't watched him a lot. Watch, I don't F ing watch ESPN. But the times I've seen him, I'm like, this guy's really sharp and really good. And I'll tell you what I watched a lot of that Mike Tomlin interview. I got sucked in. He's awesome. He asks great questions, Ryan Clark is the man. And it's a great dynamic. It's good for him. Good for cam. And K, I hope I answered your question. All right, let's talk about some news. We have like 7 stories I want to go through real quick. Number one is this defensive tackle Larry ogun Joby. Just signed a one year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Honestly, it's a good signing for them and it fills the need. Good for the Steelers. Good for them. Here's a fun fact though, Larry ogun Jovi. Has now played for three of the four teams in the AFC north. Cleveland, Cincinnati, and now Pittsburgh, the only team left that he hasn't played for in this division is Baltimore..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Is, wall is probably looking at minimum contracts from here on out at least probably for a year or two until he really proves he's worth more, or Westbrook, that's not going to be the case. Someone is still going to give him a minimum their MLE at some point to play for him. He's shown enough to do that. And that's why you kind of leave it on the table from that side. I also think the Lakers are right and saying, hey, let's just see what it looks like with a full ish raw start. I know. No, it's not fully there because Kendrick nunn's not there, but this is about as healthy as you're probably gonna get. Because just not, this is not a me taking a shot at the Lakers thing. This is a by the time none is back someone else will be out. That's just how it works in the NBA at this time of year. So yeah, run with it. Run with it and go and kind of see what it looks like here because that's not any kind of sure thing upgrade or anything like that. That's just not worth it. Always something that you can revisit in the summer as well. If you're the Lakers and you decide, okay, we gave it a shot and it just didn't work. It's something that you could revisit because they have essentially they're really close, but the same contract, right? 47 million next year. And so if the Lakers get to that point and if Russell Westbrook is then willing to accept a buyout from the Houston Rockets, John wall isn't and the Lakers say, you know what? This just didn't work. Let's make this swap and figure it out. Okay, maybe you can revisit then and as two expiring contracts, perhaps the price isn't a first round pick anymore for the Lakers. So it's something that they can get back to. And by the way, Mark Stein did mention his piece that the that it's still possible that a third team gets looped in or something to change the value. Going in or coming out or whatever to change the dynamic here, that could potentially happen, but for the moment, the one for one trade with the first round pick going from the Lakers to the rockets, it's on the table, the rockets have apparently said, we'll do it. The Lakers have said, no, thank you. We don't want to give that first. Yep. And that's where it should be. And little side note Stein also mentioned that if John wall words, you get bought, which right now is not in the cards, but if John wall were to get bought out, the heat and the clippers would both be interested in being landing spots if he's on the buyout market, trading for him. That's contracts too big. But if he's bought out, they would be interested. Makes sense, right? More, I think, for the heat and the clippers. I just think if you're the clippers, you've got reg Jackson and Eric blood, so where are you going at this point? Unless it was really like, hey, let's see. What it looks like to get him back in and does it look good? And then maybe we can move into something next season. That maybe could be the direction you could go for. The clippers with the heat. He would come in and be just another reclamation project for them where they could get us back in the phone. I'm a veteran or I'm a young player who needs some polish on my game to step up and become an MBA guy..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"They talk about that a lot, every organization says it, but it's things like this that actually doing it matters because this is now vouch said this Eric Gordon talked about how he wasn't traded out of nowhere. Evan fournier talked about how nobody really wanted it, but it made sense and the team really worked with him on finding a place for him and those kind of things. So I think it's all, you know, this is all good stuff for the magic because you know, say what you will right now, they're rebuilding team. Eventually, they're going to be a team that's going to be sitting on a whole bunch of cap space. It's a market that free agents have liked in the past. They've landed some major free agents and past years. Good weather. There's no state taxes here. You've got a lot of guys live in the general vicinity in the off season. Down here. So yeah, it's definitely something that we'll see, I think that guys this will pay off for Orlando in the long run under this front but they're putting out there by doing this. And eventually I think it will come back around. We talked just the other day about Lamarcus Aldridge and his comment about not feeling super comfortable coming off the bench, how it's been an adjustment and things like that. Lo and behold, he is now starting. He is back in the starting lineup for the Brooklyn. That's in place of Blake Griffin. I can't say it's because of those comments or whatever. But Aldridge is being inserted. And you mentioned it. It's not like he was playing poorly. When he was coming off the bench, he just said for him, it was right. And to be expected, he's been starting his entire career, and then suddenly he's asked to come off the bench. And so that's an adjustment. And now he is once again starting for the nets. Again, Steve Nash talked about how George because they feel a little bit better about the rebounding with him in the game. That he's not necessarily fast, but his ability to get the ball and get it up the floor to guys, that allows him to play a little bit faster. Blake Griffin, quite frankly, too, has been terrible. Not only did he did Aldridge start over him, Griffin didn't even play against Boston. And he said, just under, I don't go back and look it up. He's only averaging 5 and a half points 4.9 rebounds. Those numbers I don't worry about too much of the counting stats because it's not his job there. But he's shooting 32% from the field in 16% three. And these are on 3.3 attempts per game and 3.33 point attempts per game. That's really bad. He's no deterrent at the rim, defensively..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the NBA front office show. We hope everybody had a very happy and safe Thanksgiving. We've got some NBA news to break down Keith. I did get my pumpkin pie, so I was happy about that. Hopefully you enjoyed your Thanksgiving as well. Got plenty of stuffing. That was your favorite Thanksgiving food. And here we are. Now we're rested and ready to go again. We had our night off from basketball. So I did watch a little college poly yesterday, not too much. We watched a movie as a family and then my wife and I caught up on she is a late comer to Succession. So we're watching that. So yeah, but all around was a nice day, good family day and now now back to the ground. I'll also say I just noticed you're wearing a Boston Celtic shirt. So that makes me feel a little bit better. I've been in the middle of some Lakers new stuff when we jumped into this. So not only do I have my Lakers background going right now, but I'm also wearing my Lakers nation shirt. So I now I feel like it's at least balanced out a little bit because you've got your Celtic shirt on. Yeah, it's all good. When you told me, yeah, I gotta record something on the Lakers. I was like, he's not gonna have time to change the bathroom. And that's partially on me because I have to do something here in a little bit. So I said, you know what out there are Celtic shirt on and now we're keeping the universe in balance. That's what all right. Thing balance as it should be just like Thanos wanted. Oh gosh. All right, let's get into John wall and that whole situation with the Houston Rockets some more news came out today from Mark Stein on his sub stack, essentially said that John wall because we talked about this the other day on Twitter he didn't seem super thrilled.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"And we'll see, you know, there was so much hype on him coming into the NBA. I remember this was a big deal. Him coming into the NBA draft. He never really hit in the NBA at this point, but still intriguing, got the size and the handle and all that kind of stuff. So we'll see what he can do with the Houston Rockets. Plenty of opportunities there, but definitely a team in transition as well. Yeah, again, another team. They don't have a roster. So not entirely sure where that one's going to go either. Now they've got guys. They can wave to bring action in on the 20 man roster, but it's getting them out of that 15 man roster. It sounds like the deal is going to be very incentive. For Exxon, my guess is the guy who probably goes if this comes to fruition, is probably Kyrie Thomas, who they signed the late last season to a multiyear deal, but he's on a non guaranteed contract, and the idea with excellent would be now we've got enough point our depth because they're committed to playing Kevin Porter at the one quite a bit. They've also got DJ Augustine still there and then Dante axum would come in as the third guy. And then John wall, but we know what that situation is as we talked in depth. But yeah, it sounds like this one's going to be very similar to what the rockets did with Manet a few years back where the number is going to be like, wow, that number is big. And then does he actually hit those incentives or not? That's going to be what ultimately will determine. If the contract comes in, where was that? But yeah, I think people forget too. He was on his second deal already because he had signed an extension previous. So he's by no means old, but he's also not a 20 year old kid anymore. He's just been out of sight out of mind for a couple years now. And lastly, jumping from Dante exams, Olympic performance to Team USA. Yeah. They're going to have a new coach before the start of the NBA season fresh off of winning a gold medal. Do you have anybody in mind that you think would be would be a good candidate for Team USA at this point? Yeah, it was for a long time, the rumor was that it was going to be Brad Stevens, was going to be the one who was going to take over Team USA. I think now in his new job, that's not going to be the case. But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Steve Kerr, maybe gets elevated to that job. There's been some rumor of potentially maybe Jeff van Gundy, who is coached Team USA through several of the qualifying cycles and was a big part of just getting the team into the Olympics because that was big and into the World Cup and those kind of things. But the other names that were mentioned guys who have USA basketball experience are exposed to a Tom thibodeau Monte Williams name McMillan Doc Rivers, Lloyd Pierre, as well as Steve Kerr and Jeff van Gundy. That was from Grant Hill mentioned to some of those things. Grant Hill is now in charge of USA basketball. He took over for Jerry colangelo and his running thing. So he basically wants somebody who comes in, understands their regular season game, but can manage the guys..
The NBA Show
"john wall" Discussed on The NBA Show
"Like he's not gonna be the uber mega explosive athlete that he was at the peak of his powers but man like he's working from such a huge reserves of elite athleticism. I think he could still be meant a really effective guy at both of those things both getting by people to gerbil and staying in front of people on defense and on the other side of the ball like he's got real vision. John wall is a really good passer reader of the action now. Some of that stuff is dependent on blowing past the first offender so he'll have to adapt that part of his game if he doesn't have that step but i think there's there's a good cause to trust in those instincts in the ability as was said to be one of the leaders in setting up guys in the corners that happens for a reason that understanding of geometry now is that worth forty million dollars contracts thirteen to trade for him. That's pretty different proposition. And i would say like what robbing instincts. The good comparison is bledsoe. His former kentucky teammate. Now bledsoe is a guy who's needs all the ability in the world. He's running around out there. John walls varies very smart player. So i would expect chill of an easier time. Transitioning as he was in his thirties. That assume like bledsoe. yeah. I mean the clippers definitely seem like they're most comfortable or probably at their best in the smaller unit where they're just surrounding guy shooting pretty much every position while obviously not much of a shooter doesn't maybe matter as much. If you're putting reggie. Jackson co why paul george marcus morris doing some version of of a death lineup and then just like making sure that he is is optimized there. I am curious though if this does come to a buyout and may have a bunch of other options on the table. are there any better ones. Rob can you think of a team that might need wall and wall might need them in to rehab is value and maybe get some money back the following year. Well i think going to. The clippers is a bio candidate is the best case scenario for them if they can get him without trading those guys. That would be incredible for their team. I think the celtics are probably one of the best fits out there. Just because wall gives you so much of what the best version of insured does and a lot more though. I think the the one caveat to that is reporting around the extension. That marcus smart signed with the celtics is like there is an understanding that smart would be the starter at point. If there's kind of an agreement there that that's his his job his role maybe bring in a guy like wall is a problem but just in terms of talent and fit and teams that are in the right place to want a player like john. I think boston makes all the sense in the world. Will marcus smart. Taking pull up steph. Curry threes interfere with his role started team. More is that part of the job description. Me doco right yeah. No i actually boston as a fit for sure. Another team that's been sorely lacking playmaking throughout the years right as their main to perimeter gaza. Good at good scoring dues. They're not good table. Setters set up gaza. Although at the tatum is taken a lot of strides in that department since he's been drafted right. That was kind of my least favorite thing about. Tatum felt like a gunner very early on his career. But he's gotten better at finding guys. I think still. This team needs table setters. That's like boston. The clippers boss'll as a younger clippers. Team that's why. I kind of makes sense for wall in those two spots. The million dollar question with this stuff or the ninety two million dollar question with this stuff is we'll john wall the backup. Is he willing to back up another guard because if not so many teams out there. Either have uninstalled veteran and are a playoff team already. And they don't have reason to shake things up or they have a good young guard in place where they want to evaluate and develop and wall doesn't really make sense for their timelines. Said there's really just this kind of sweet spot of teams like the clippers like the celtics teams that are hungry to get further in the playoffs or break into the playoffs..
The NBA Show
"john wall" Discussed on The NBA Show
"That's on the cusp. And he's actually performing in helping them and taking them to another level. That's one thing. I don't know the job was going to perform that right. Like it's one thing to be overpaid. It's and i know this is gonna sound very profound but it's another thing that'd be vastly over chow. Wall is a this is gonna be tough. I'm going to be watching this closely because again you know. We'll get into this with aaron gordon but he is in clutch. We trust you know the way they do. Business is a lot different from a lot of people. So i'm i'm interested to see kids handle the thing about being overpaid too is. It's not just seeing a number and getting the sticker shock and the exorbitant salary. It just makes it more difficult to move other than the kinds of scenarios that sharks laid out with the clippers where you have multiple veterans on contracts worth like ten fifteen million or more. It's just hard to get enough money together much less to actually want this version of john wall. Will i wanna talk about the clippers. Part of this because charges suggestion was interesting. Because i thought about the clippers is option if he were to get bought out. I honestly couldn't come up with a single team. Who would actively trade for john wall on his contract. Which for the record is two years point. One seven million dollars The second year is a player option. He will most likely be taking that player option. And so like. Why do you think that fit makes sense. Like if you're just giving up like guys who are essential to the title-winning product with lsd. You like him in on team as a hope of course because john walls back in his heyday you know when he was leading the league in corner. Threes generated stuff like that like he was an incredible playmaker. He was incredible guys up. If finding open shooters and you know driving kick type of game like he was amazing at that he kind of left it. Because sometimes i think guys don't feel content being a table center. They feel like you. Get your name in sportscenter by getting buckets write. Hashtag buckets has to do the bucket..
The NBA Show
"john wall" Discussed on The NBA Show
"John wall seems like his era in. Houston which i think amount of forty games most of what she was injured or playing on a very very sad. The are are are or e. r. a. Which was it's good. Should write some headlines for this is a sham story after meeting and seeing eye-to-eye in the direction of the houston rockets so the rockets and john wall both see the situation the same. They are on. The same page is a joint agreement. The franchise and john wall have agreed to work on finding a new home for the five time. All star guard. The plan is for wall to remain present in air quotes in training camp. Don't know what that means. But he's not going to play games the writing on the wall. He's probably the footsteps of andre drummond. Didn't blake griffin's on these guys from last year who just sat on the bench and waited for trade and then inevitably got bought out my question charkes. Do you think that there ever will be a trade for john. Wall ours is inevitably going to head to a by situation. I was gonna say wet remain. Present means is not paula. James heart like that's just so that means and i think there is a trade out there. I was actually looking at this morning. I think the clippers make sense. John wall they can throw together. Some contracts They put up. Eric bledsoe luke kennard surge baca. That would make sense for john wall. I think he'd actually fit in l. A. with paul. George this season with choline next year i mean to me. That's the one thousand nine actually makes sense to do this. And i'm kind of buying as you're bringing this up. I go to google john. Walls name and the first suggestion. Is john walden john wall contracts and when i heard this yesterday you know thought about his is one of the deals along with westbrook along with chris paul that when they were signed the chris paul rocket steel that when they were signed. Everybody's kind of made a face like this is not gonna look nice in a few years and you know to the credit of chris paul and west westwood one is contract has been moved quite easily basically since he got signed and we thought it was untradable chris paul as a matter of fact got a new deal right after the contract. That was pretty sizeable. But john wall. I think it's gonna be is going to be tough to move this thing because you forgot to be making forty two million dollars which is like all right. Let's just say it was mike conley and what he did on utah last year right like it's a big as contract but as a team..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"It's the contract that really complicates things here for his situation. So it'll be interesting to see how the Houston Rockets do handle this. It is a bit ironic. I mean, they go from Chris Paul to Russell Westbrook tonight and John wall and here we are. But it is good to hear that is an amicable situation. It says John wall demanding out. This is both sides came together and said, look, this is the reality of this situation. Let's work together and let's see what we can find. And so that's where now John wall's agency, they can go around to teams around the NBA and they can openly talk like, hey, what are you, what can you guys offer? What can we create here and they don't have to do anything secret behind closed doors because both sides are on the same page. And I think that does help the process. Yeah, for sure. Now, for the rocket side, without John wall playing, opens the path, Kevin Porter junior at much like he was after he got traded there is going to be the starting point guard for the Houston Rockets going into next season. My guess is they might bring Jalen green on along a little slowly. Maybe Eric Gordon starts initially, but my guess is by the holidays, it's Kevin Porter junior and Jalen green are playing all the meaningful minutes in that rockets backcourt and then the vets like Gordon DJ Augustine, David dewa, those guys are just going to be filling in here and there for those guys back up minutes. At this point, they're still trying to move Eric Gordon. We know that. That's been going on for months now that that's been rumored. So we'll see. But yeah, Kevin Porter junior, he wasn't bad. It's going to be bumpy at times, so it was, but why not you're not a good team, you might as well see if you can turn them into a point guard because if you can, you have an infinitely more valuable player than just an off ball wing player, which Porter probably is never going to shoot it enough to give you a ton of value there, but as an on ball guy, you might have something there..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Not trying to be a competitive team this season or maybe even next season. They know that they're rebuilding. That's why they were content to use for first round draft picks. Just this past draft because they're not trying to build this thing up very quickly that they want to be. They want to be competitive, but they're not. They're not fool themselves. They know they're not at playoff contender or anything like that. So they're not going to be given up first round picks to get off this. It's quite frankly a little hard for them to trade first round picks because old Oklahoma City are owns a handful of them. Well, so does that just mean that there's I mean, it's hard to see a path to a trade where they don't have to give up something in order to move. John wall was not terrible if you look at his numbers 20 and 7 with four percentages. That's basically what we thought he would be, right? Decent point guard who can put up points, but just doesn't do it very efficiently, and that's what we saw from him last season. But looking around the NBA, number one, what teams need a point guard right now? And number two, what teams have the assets to stack up to equal that 40 plus million that you have to get to in order to trade for John wall. That is going to be a real challenge to find a taker for him to the point where you got to wonder how do they eventually move, especially if they're not willing to attach any type of asset to him in order to incentivize a team to take on that contract. Exactly. And it's that first part, so let's eliminate that is salary pieces of it. Let's just say there was no. Yeah, who needs a point guard? Really nobody. At this point, the clippers maybe ish. These wall better than Reggie Jackson? I have my doubts at this point. Is he better than Eric Bledsoe? Yeah, probably didn't probably get me there. But I mean, the rest of the league, nobody really jumps off the page as boy, they really need a point guard. The Celtics were there, but, of course, they signed Dennis Schroeder pretty late in the game and they're not going to make a move like this, not after everything they did to try to get things done. I don't think it's going to be a big enough selling point. Here we have John wall Bradley Beal. You want to come here too? Oh wait, we can't because we traded all those salaries to get John wall..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the NBA front office show. We've got some NBA news to dive into today involving high profile names we're talking John wall and Aaron Gordon, but first, Keith, did you see the hawkeye trailer? Oh my gosh, I meant to talk about it on yesterday's show. And somehow it slipped my mind. It's die hard with a bow and arrow. I love it. Sign me up. I love it. I love the tag that the best gifts come with a ball. So that is phenomenal marketing. Yeah, I can't wait. To see this one, just like it was all the rest and so we'll get the eternals a couple of weeks ahead of that. And then okay on Thanksgiving eve and that's a nice night to get it because we generally won't have NBA games the next day. So we'll be able to watch hawkeye, probably one of the turkeys cooking and enjoy just a nice day of marvel and then some football food and family and all that good stuff. Gonna be a good time. I will say this. And I promise we will get to our NBA basketball stuff, but Jeremy Renner plays hawkeye. And my daughter, year or so ago, she was four, maybe she was still three at the time, but but she was pronouncing hawkeye as hot guy, like HOT. Nice. Guy, and my wife did not correct her. I don't know how to feel about that right now, but in any event, I'm sure that she'll watch that marvel series with lane household. Yeah. It was amazing. I love it. But anyway, this is that's an exciting thing that's going to be coming up. Sorry, we had to geek out a little bit over the marvel stuff and the hawkeye trailer, which was absolutely phenomenal. But there's some NBA news to break down. First, they'll make sure you guys do subscribe right here to the NBA front office, a YouTube channel. If you listen to the podcast version, make sure that you follow us up on Spotify, Apple podcasts, wherever it is, you listen to podcasts. We are growing this show, so please make sure that you do subscribe and don't forget to turn on notifications as well. Keith, let's start things off with John wall, a Houston rocket for now. But will not be a Houston rocket into the future. It sounds like he is going to be treatable. The rockets are hoping. They're hoping anyway. Let's get into that. What's going to happen here? The rockets, John wall working together to try to find a trade and he will not play any more games for Houston. Yeah, so this is that working together part is where it's very different from the 76ers and Ben Simmons who are not exactly working together. They're kind of working apart right now. So it sounds like by all accounts John wall has been very good in his time in Houston. He's been somebody that the younger players have really come to rely on for leadership. He's been a great leader for them. In the rockets are looking at insane..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"john wall" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Keith, let's start things off with John wall, a Houston rocket for now. But will not be a Houston rocket into the future. It sounds like he is going to be treatable. The rockets are hoping. They're hoping anyway. Let's get into that. What's going to happen here? The rockets, John wall working together to try to find a trade and he will not play any more games for Houston. Yeah, so this is that working together part is where it's very different from the 76ers and Ben Simmons who are not exactly working together. They're kind of working apart right now. So it sounds like by all accounts John wall has been very good in his time in Houston. He's been somebody that the younger players have really come to rely on for leadership. He's been a great leader for them. In the rockets are looking at insane. Look, we have a ton of guards that we want to play young guards to Kevin Porter junior, jaylen green, Josh Christopher, just adding in the last couple of years. Kyrie Thomas, who we picked up on a late season edition last year and he played quite well for them. So they want to play those guys. They don't necessarily want to play John wall, nor do they want to have John wall get hurt in kind of completely ruined maybe whatever little tiny modicum of trade value he may have left. There's no other way to slice this. It's 91.6 million. That he is owed. It's bad money. There's John wall would probably say at the same thing. Good for John wall for getting him what he did. And this is why you should never criticize a pointer for taking a max contract when it's offered to him. Team, other story we can have there. But at the time this contract was offered, wasn't necessarily as a bad contract. And either he's one of the first class of supermax guys to get it. So yeah, so what they're going to do is they're going to have them come to camp. He sounds like he's going to be there to kind of almost be like a glorified assistant coach. While they continue to try to work on
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
Houston Rockets, John Wall Working to Find Trade Deal
"Keith, let's start things off with John wall, a Houston rocket for now. But will not be a Houston rocket into the future. It sounds like he is going to be treatable. The rockets are hoping. They're hoping anyway. Let's get into that. What's going to happen here? The rockets, John wall working together to try to find a trade and he will not play any more games for Houston. Yeah, so this is that working together part is where it's very different from the 76ers and Ben Simmons who are not exactly working together. They're kind of working apart right now. So it sounds like by all accounts John wall has been very good in his time in Houston. He's been somebody that the younger players have really come to rely on for leadership. He's been a great leader for them. In the rockets are looking at insane. Look, we have a ton of guards that we want to play young guards to Kevin Porter junior, jaylen green, Josh Christopher, just adding in the last couple of years. Kyrie Thomas, who we picked up on a late season edition last year and he played quite well for them. So they want to play those guys. They don't necessarily want to play John wall, nor do they want to have John wall get hurt in kind of completely ruined maybe whatever little tiny modicum of trade value he may have left. There's no other way to slice this. It's 91.6 million. That he is owed. It's bad money. There's John wall would probably say at the same thing. Good for John wall for getting him what he did. And this is why you should never criticize a pointer for taking a max contract when it's offered to him. Team, other story we can have there. But at the time this contract was offered, wasn't necessarily as a bad contract. And either he's one of the first class of supermax guys to get it. So yeah, so what they're going to do is they're going to have them come to camp. He sounds like he's going to be there to kind of almost be like a glorified assistant coach. While they continue to try to work on
Digital Conversations with Billy Bateman
"john wall" Discussed on Digital Conversations with Billy Bateman
"Right. Everyone welcome to digital conversations. I'm your host billy bateman and today i am joined by podcasting legend john wall partner at trust insights and co host of marketing over copy. John thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me here billy. I appreciate it yeah. I'm really excited for this man so Before we get into it we're going to talk a lot about predictive analytics attribution the your data cleanliness within marketing. But before we get into that. Let's learn a little bit about you and what you do so tell us about yourself and a little bit about your journey. Yes sure so. I'm a partner at trust insights a marketing analytics firm. We we light up dark data which is our kind of data detectives. We help people figure out what's working in their marketing. What's not working where to go next. But my career path has been kind of crazy. I mean as far as marketing tech. i've been in the startup world since about ninety seven and have gone through. This is like my seventh startup. and we're actually three years in. I mean we're well beyond startup phase. But i've kind of cycled through a number of times and then before that. My background is actually economics. I graduated with a degree in econ. So i've always come at the marketing thing from the you know the quantitative analysis side and tried to automate as much as possible. So yeah it's been a long crazy path and a bunch of while pitstops along the way but everything with trust insights is going well and then the most of what we do at trust insights originally started when i was working with christopher penn. We started this podcast marketing over coffee about going on like fifteen years now. But we've you know every week talk about marketing and tech and that has just kind of finally gotten to a point where it's brings in clients for us for trust insights. We have a reputation as knowing about keeping an eye on what's going on in what's changing because the space is so crazy and dynamic and That has helped us build a community that were able to kind of trade ideas within could talk about. What's going on with martin and it's works. Well awesome awesome. Okay so you guys do a lot of work with predictive analytics and nice buzzword. I don't think a lot of people really know like what does that. What does that amount to in the real world. So i think what was just start there so when you guys were talking about predictive analytics what are you looking at. And what can you help. People forecast yeah. The most common thing that we did for. Predictive is topic analysis. You know we'll go take a look at grab a library of terms. Our chief data scientist christopher. Penn will run that against a number of models that he has and so the most common example that we use. We have a blog post. We update every year called the cheese report where we look at all the cheeses in the market and we come up with a calendar for the next twelve months. That says okay. These are when specific cheeses are going to be hot and moving and so if somebody who's creating content for website if you're in the cheese industry you know you know that come may and june. You'd better be teeing up all your content and videos about halloo me and i didn't even know who he was a thing until i read the cheese report and as we dug in. It's a grilled cheese so it always peaks in the summers when people are looking for louis. Recipes are wanna buy hulu me. It's because they're getting ready to throw it on the grill in july and so and then you know as you keep digging into the data you'll see mozzarella's on fire around christmas time Cheddar right around new year's as everybody's doing parties Monterey jack comes in around the super bowl when people making nachos and so the idea is that by looking at all this data and looking ahead you can't predict the future and say hey we want to drop our content on these weeks because we know there's going to be demand the week following that and you know we will have had content in place for a couple of weeks before the surge. It's you know these models can be applied to anything. I mean if you have enough sales data you can look and say you know get an idea for maybe what your seasonal sales cycle will be but we often find in. Beat a be that. There's just not enough data to really get effective models going But you know as far as applying that same model to other stuff. Women's shoes we have a client that uses the women's shoes fashion reports. So they know you know six to three months out from black friday. What's going to be hot and specific kinds of shoes and and where to go. It's and it's gotten a little bit rough You know it used to be rock-solid we kinda generate models and they would just always be you know ninety five percent greater confidence interval. You know we would just know that pretty much certain covert has kinda thrown a wrench in things. There's there's been a massive change in search behavior and so a lot of markets have been messed up so it's not as easy as it used to be. We used to kind of be able to say yeah. We can definitely do that for everything. And now a lot of projects. We'd say low will look will go in there and will run some models and we'll get back to if we think we can do some predictive because it's a lot more difficult than it used to be. Yes so with covid would what are you. Seeing is the changes and just consumer behavior since Yeah in one way. It's not radically different. Really what people have been saying. Some of the state we've seen is that it's it's as if we just jumped five years ahead you know we've kind of been on this ramp of ecommerce going in this direction and eating up one more brick and mortar and suddenly as if we just jumped ahead five years into the future because everybody now is forced to go online for purchases where there's this group of people who still like to go to you know the local big to buy stuff and now they have no choice because of the toilet paper gone or they don't want to go outside their risk or whatever so that's one thing
AP News Radio
Jimmy Butler has triple-double, leads Heat past Rockets
"Powered by a twenty eight to ten third quarter the Miami Heat won for the fourth straight game beating the Houston Rockets won a one ninety four Houston led by six at halftime but the he connected on seven threes in the third quarter and held the rockets to twenty one percent shooting giving them a lead they wouldn't give up he had coach Erik Spoelstra thought his team's defense was key to the turnaround first up in our shots were going again it always felt and appeared to that was affecting our commitment on the defensive end of the third quarter we just much more committed regardless of the result on the offensive end Jimmy Butler led all scorers with twenty seven points and finished with a triple double John wall and Eric Gordon led the rockets with seventeen points Adam splaine Houston
Lochhead on Marketing
You Are What You Subscribe To
"All right. So i wanted to share with you something that my wife. Carrie ann i did the first At the beginning of the new year. And that's We sat down and we reviewed everything that both of us were subscribed to and we sorta did a purge and a respectful and together. We said you know what kind of content do we love. What do we want to learn This year what should we stop consuming. What should we start consuming and we did this very thoughtful very proactively over the course of about an hour and the high here for me is. I think it's important to be very very careful. Whose ideas that you let into your brain you know. We only have so much brain shelf space and we only have so much. Time to consume books podcasts Whatever the case you tubes whatever we like to consume and so being very thoughtful about what we put into our brain is actually a very important thing and i think there we put some shit in our head. That can hurt us pretty badly. You know if you're a longtime listener you know Have no love for the hustle stars. And i think they've done more damage to entrepreneurs and marketers than any recent group in history For a simple example you. I've heard hustle porn star. Say hustles the most important word the english language. Well i've also heard hustle porn star. Say no one ever worked himself to death well in japan they have a word for it. It's called karoshi and it translates into death by overwork. So nonstop hustling for twenty. Five years is probably not what you want to do. In addition even worse maybe is. You can hustle all you want but there's a difference between hard work and smart work hamsters hustle in their wheels to and they don't get anywhere. So what's your hustling about matters. And if you're a regular listener you know that i believe that Legends become known for a niche. That they own. So if you're hustling to design your own category that's one thing. If you're hustling trying to compete with an entrenched category king. You're gonna be in for a world of pain and yet millions and millions of business people still consume the stupidities of these hustle porn stars every day and the marketing and entrepreneur. World is stuffed with stupid ideas. Here's another example that drives me nuts minimum viable product. Why is this a good idea. Who the fuck said we. The first thing we deliver to the world should be something called a minimum viable product. It should be called a product. You fucking think is legendary and awesome and you wanna share with the whole world nother just dumb dumb dumb. I could go on with a very long list of very dumb ideas that are marketed to marketers and entrepreneurs all the time the bottom line is be very thoughtful about what you put in your brain because what you put in your brain is what you get out of your life now. Personally i like to go back to some of. Oj's peter drucker can touch him he. He's the original management thinker. His book the effect of executive changed my life by way of example. David ogilvy david. Ogilvy david ogilvy. If you're an entrepreneur if you're a marketer you're not a student of david ogilvy get on it. I go back and look at it all the time. Another one you might love in a similar vein is george lois. He sort of the punk rock version of david. Ogilvy check him out also. Of course the geez of positioning. Our reese and jack trout the so i love to go back and look at a lot of the original masters now some of the newer things that i love checking out is Check out a master class. This is incredible way to learn how to do to be taught writing by malcolm gladwin by way of example or taught how to do a three point shot by None other than steph curry. They have legendary people in many many different domains teaching their skills. It's an incredible product. Love masterclass podcast. You might wanna check out and this is not an extensive example or an extensive list. It's just an example of a few. That i like One of the jeez of marketing podcasts. Marketing over coffee by my buddy john wall and his partner. Christopher penn legendary Venture capitalists mike. Maples junior. his podcast is called. Starting greatness insanely great. Another legendary entrepreneur. Podcast is called no bowl and it's created by my buddies paul martinez and randy comas. And it features that teaching of the legendary bill campbell. Who was none other than steve. Jobs is coach if you're in the b. two b. world couple of podcasts. I love dave gerhardt's b. to b. marketing leaders. Podcast check it out. G. is emerging og. He's awesome My buddy brian burns has the One of the top sales podcast for b. two b. people be to be revenue leadership and the brutal truth about sales and selling brian burns. Check him out. And then the other one i like on sort of the lead gen funnel management Get leads enclosed shit online in the more beat. A sea world is russell brunson and he's got a whole series of podcasts and books most of them have the word secrets in them. Checkout marketing secrets podcasts. And he's all about hooks and offers and driving traffic and all of that stuff so those are just a couple to think about but most importantly i'm encouraging you to sit down and ask yourself a couple of key questions. What the kind of content i love. What do i most want to learn in the next twelve months. What should i stop consuming. What should i start consuming and remember. Be very careful whose ideas you let into your head because your thoughts become your actions your actions become your outcomes and your outcomes become your
The Free Agents
Portland Trail Blazers lose another starter, can’t sustain hot first quarter, fall 104-101 at Houston Rockets
"Start with the blazers any rockets. The first game of the tnt double header on thursday houston is a team. I find it hard not to cheer for. I'm in the corner of john. Wall demarcus cousins and victor oladipo may because they suffered huge injuries in the past major surgeries. And i'm an empathy guy. I wanna see them recover. I wanna see them fight battle. Get back to their old sells like john wall said after the game everybody on this roster has something to prove. Those three guys have been cast off by the role teams. It's a good story but at the same time they have suffered major injuries. They've got a guy on their roster. Who's young spry and should be dominating. The league at the center spot christian would is playing well this year but i think he should be featured a little bit more. He only had twelve shots against the portland. Trailblazers that usage rate should be. Hi you're he. Is that good now. The rockets won this game. They're down twenty early to the blazers. They came back the blazers shooting because they love to shoot their last in the league in points in the paint. The shooting almost overcame their defensive. Problems they just allow too many buckets. The rockets have full strength though. Should have beat this blazers team up bad c. J. mecom still out. He's out for at least a couple more weeks. Yousef nurkic also out for the blazers. I in this game shouldn't have gone down to the wire i'm sure. Tnt would beg to differ with that. They had a game. Go down to the wire. It was exciting but this rockets team needs to find the right hierarchy It's it's an interesting balance. Victor oladipo going into a contract year. I think should be operating a little bit. More within the system and christian would should be the guy scoring ton the blazers continue to fire away from deep like they always do and they got some performances dame lillard of course. She had five threes thirty points. Overall gary. junior was the surprise seven. Three's twenty three points. Overall and three of those threes were consecutive in the fourth quarter. That was a blast to watch an anfernee. Simmons had four threes off the
The Free Agents
NBA: John Wall scores 24 as Houston Rockets beat Russell Westbrook, Washington Wizards
"John wall scores twenty four to lead the rockets over the wizards one zero seven to eighty eight lee big takeaway from well. It was a pretty close game until john. Wall really took over the last seven minutes. There hit a couple of shots made some plays and and got his victory now. Coming into this was a couple of story lines of course beal and and john wall would teammates here in washington for a lot of years now. Their relationship didn't really end in a hostile way. It was more just like the team moved on. So john wall was more trying to prove a point to his team. In the franchise and the wizards rather than ex teammate there. I in bradley bill. And then you also of course you had wall and russell westbrook who were traded for each other just prior to the season and now that one was a little bit more spicy. But i think that's probably more westbrook than in the us both on a minute restriction but yeah i mean it was. It was a close game but The the rockets pulled away in the end. And really i mean i. it's post game. You saw bradley. Beal who had another good performance for the washington wizards just looking completely distressed on the sidelines. And really the question. Out of this game is we've been kind of asking and alluding to the last couple of weeks. Anyways is does bradley. Beal stay with wizards for the rest of this season. Because they going nowhere right now. He's putting up right numbers. There's no question. He would be in demand and i think he needs to move on from the wizards as well. So you know. That's that's probably the biggest talking point. I think coming out of this guy because you know it's it's not neither seems really a a threat to was. The rockets guess could make the playoffs but Certainly not a contender. So it's really just do. The wizards hit the reset button. He move on from bradley. Beal may even move from westbrook if they can get a first round. Pick out of him because I just can't see this thing going anywhere for the remainder of this season. Yeah every loss. That piles up there for the wizards trae. It does feel like the echo chamber gets a little louder with the trade deal. Save bill get him out of there. Hey beal ask the front office to move you. There are three in ten now. they're one in eighteen games. Westbrook has played. He has not looked great. He was He was just visibly upset last night. And then you started talking. Some trash with wall was given it back to them and walson after the game russ has been kicking my ass for years. My third win against russell westbrook that he's been in the league this john wall talk it so i don't know if it's any more than that just a frustrated westbrook but yeah what do you think about the idea of will be just like go to front office. They do not want to be here. Because i don't want to be on a team. That's not going to be a playoff tournament in just signed that huge deal though right like he's still got two seasons after this one the westbrook in wall donnybrook. What happened there Westbrook goes by wall walls down and it seems to me like he was basically saying yeah. I tripped because you could see westbrook saying back to him. It doesn't matter what matters like as he upset is wallops at that. Westbrook is trash talking him for tripping over his own. That's what it might have been. They hit him with the double tax. And everybody just moved on. But if you're bradley beal despite the fact he's got this huge deal still on the books to be frustrated man because he had twenty five through the first three quarters and then in the fourth quarter it feels like he's not even getting the ball like feels like he's barely getting a touch. I know he had eight points. He took a bunch of shots but there are times when he just doesn't even get a look from westbrook he'll just be standing at the top of the court. It feels like kevin durant waiting to get the ball all over again. But i don't know you kind made your bed now sleep in it.
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"john wall" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"Right now in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina counts The guy listening right now in greater Atlanta, counts the guy listening right now or or parent Mom or Dad doesn't matter. The adult listening right now in Greater Milwaukee counts. Oklahoma City. Portland. Those places. Those who won who counts to this Because this is where the embassy failed. I think there are players who are worth all this conversation to see what happened earlier this week with John Wall and he made me sick. John Wall is a proud man. John Wall's a proud basketball player and tries to play as tough as he can to sit there and listen to that was honestly for the pride of professional sports was honestly disgusting. For a guy to go out there to not put in an off season. To put on a considerable amount of weight. Let's call it what he is. He looks like the late great Robert Tractor trailer out there. Put on a considerable amount of weight to get Joey to not be a professional. You could be a professional. You could stay in tip top shape. You can fight through all that. You don't have to go to the club. You don't have to go to the strip clubs. You don't have to do all that stuff and you could still demand a trade. Doesn't mean you can demand it. I think we've reached the point in 2020, where you can be a professional and still demand a trade. You don't have to go out there and have that type of an off season. We just pound food like you're me. You don't have to do that. You could be a professional and still demand a trade. And this is where the MBA is. I've I've grown to accept that I've learned to accept it may not like it, but I've learned to accept it. But when it comes to James Harden, I think there's players that are worth it. I don't think he's one of them. The hullabaloo over LeBron is worth it. Durant, Steph if he were decide to in some people disagree with me on that. I was getting calls that they disagreed with me on that. But I'll explain stuff here in just a moment. Johannes. I do think Kawai is in there may be a d a little bit. I think in the future, Luca could possibly be John Durant could possibly be. Zion could possibly be, but those air early and they're not there yet. They could be, but it's still early science maybe already. Because I know And you know that guys like James Harden and Russell Westbrook. Nikola joke. It's our good players. Do you care? Cause I think only basketball players only hardcore basketball fans care. The people that follow the MBA. I think they care, so they get buried in the minutia off James Harden what he wants and what he doesn't want, And I think to a guy who might be listening in greater Atlanta. Right now. He's saying Can I don't give a bleep. We got NFL football games going on. We got other things we got going on. I don't give a bleep about James Harden, Ken, and I think that's the problem right now with the MBA is we're making a big deal about it about a guy like James Harden. Who is a guy who can help a guy like Kevin Durant, but can't be a Kevin Durant. Cause for the people that I'm talking to who were in those markets who like NBA basketball? You like basketball, but that's not their number. One thing. They may be a big Falcons fan or they might be a transplant. Even better, and they might be from that area and they're a big football fan. Football's their number one. That's the same guy who's driving around telling me Let's go with the basketball. Wanna go back to football? But they got kids. Maybe they're 34 35. Maybe around my age. And basketball's turned itself into the traveling road show for LeBron Durant, Steph Yonas Kawai. And this is Why put stuff in there too? You're paying money to go watch those guys. If those guys were in town, and you have a five or six year old son like I do. I want my five or six year old son to see those players. If if the MBA is the king of the traveling road, show the traveling circus, and they are You will pay the money to see those guys. Is anybody that hotness shorts to pay money over James Harden to go see James Harden? No, he plays for the Nets. Now I'll go see Durant hardens, it added bonus. Window rant was with, Okay, See when it was the triplets it okay, see? Harden was the added bonus hearts, but an M V P But an all Star been an incredible player. But the general public I don't think cares. The general sporting public care about all those other guys. LeBron is a force to be reckoned with, on the same conversation as Michael Jordan. Has been a generational basketball player. Watching LeBron play angry is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in sports. When you get him angry and you get him motivated, he will take over a game. It is something that if you love basketball, or you just love sports that much. There's very few prices. You're not willing to pay to go watch that. Durant, second best player in the NBA, arguably the first at times, Steph Curry has changed the way that your kid watches NBA basketball. Has changed the way basketball is played. Johannes International.
The Free Agents
James Harden says Rockets 'can't be fixed' as Houston reportedly talks trade with at least six teams
"First thing you need to know is that james harden wants out of houston. Oh you already knew that. Well now james harden really wants houston and he's not just showing it with his play which has been the case this season but he's essentially saying it in postgame press conferences after the second loss in a row to the los angeles lakers consecutive losses. Here where they got smashed. The rocket said they lost by seventeen but they were down by twenty one in the first quarter it was over used when teams play twice the team that lost the first game fights back on his play has been lacklustre but in the post game press conference he answered two questions and then he walked right off. I answer was essentially. We're not good enough now. We're not good enough. The second answer quote. I love the city. I literally have done everything that i can. I mean the situation is crazy. It's something that i don't think can be fixed. And he walked off and that's essentially what he's doing to the houston rockets. It's kind of like the. Anthony davis situation a couple years ago in new orleans work. Anthony davis was halfheartedly. Playing it was very very evident. It was very awkward to watch it for pelican's fans and the entire league. It became an issue in. The commissioner's office eventually. Anthony davis sat down. He wore that. That's all folks sweater and evening with. That's all folks wafaa. Foulkes harden wants to be dealt now and is not good for the locker room there in houston where new rocket john wall has to answer questions and his basically saying that guy doesn't want to be here he said after the game but when you have certain guys in the mix that don't want to buy in it's going to be hard to do anything special or anything good as a basketball team will. There is one really really really good player on that team. And it's james harden but he does not want to be there anymore more evident after his first three games this season it was a showcase. He scored thirty seven per game in those first three games. He sat down for one game. Basically said all right. I've shown that good. I've got the track record. He's averaged seventeen over his last five. I really hope the league doesn't have to intervene. But james harden was hoping himself that he was walking from that press conference onto a plane and on his way to another team at sherwood. It felt like watching that press conference.
AP News Radio
Brogdon's late 3 helps Pacers shake off Rockets, 114-107
"Brogdon scored a career high thirty five points and made the go ahead three pointer with two twenty two remaining to send the Pacers past the rockets one fourteen one oh seven so you must also be aggressive ready to be aggressive you know my team trust with the ball my coaches trust me with the ball Brogdon also hit a pair of free throws with about thirty seconds left to make it a three possession game Justin holiday added a season high twenty points for Indiana which closed on an eight run to beat Houston at home for the first time in four years rockets guard John wall had a season high twenty eight points in his fourth game with his new team but James harden finished with just fifteen DaMarcus cousins had nine points and ten rebounds in the first half before going scoreless in the second I'm Dave very
AP News Radio
Wall makes Houston debut, Rockets beat Kings 122-119
"John wall was productive in his first game since two thousand eighteen as the rockets down the kings one twenty two one nineteen wall provided twenty two points and nine assists while showing no signs of the ruptured Achilles that kept him out of the NBA for two years Mr bean star star rust off no matter how much our brands of land receives live you're going to get an order of gangs the market's cousins came off the bench and quickly drained a three pointer for his first basket since June thirteenth two thousand nineteen James harden delivered thirty three points eight assists and six rebounds in the first of a two game set with Sacramento Harrison Barnes led the kings with twenty four points while de Aaron fox and Rashaan Holmes each had twenty two I'm Dave Ferrie
The Lead
Russell Westbrook's Wizards Reunion
"First of all. Can you just take us through the winding road of how russell westbrook ended up with the washington wizards so at some point over the offseason westbrook made it clear to the rockets that he wanted them to find him a new home. Something is up in houston. Tell our tim macmahon in. Adrian were ski that both russell westbrook and james harden have expressed uncertainty about the direction of the franchise. And when you have a guy who makes that sum of money and you have to match salaries it just becomes very difficult to find a market and that's kind of why you see a lot of these guys on supermax contracts. Getting swamped see john. Wall and russell westbrook ending up in a similar situation is the only two guys that are comparable because their salaries of the exact really try to make sense but one hundred and thirty two million one hundred and thirty two million. Okay ready to pull a trigger. That i think it was more of like you know what we think. Your guy will be better for us and we think our guy would be better for you. So why don't we just compromising. Meet somewhere in the middle on this but wizards and rockets agreeing to trade there on happy point guards. John wall the houston russell. Westbrook to washington wizards also sent the rockets a lottery. Protective twenty twenty three first round pick you wrote about how westbrook has made his presence known with his new team pretty much right away. What did you mean by that so. I asked the question of ryuhachi mira earlier this week about what he's learned about russ during his short time that they've been practicing together and the first thing that really said he's a great leader. His vocal is almost like a hiccup yellow dog. Does he always starts me. Is greg guy. I liked where with him. You know he actually changed. Like energy. the team. That's not something you always hear about russell westbrook but you know that he's loud you know that he's going to make his personality known as smith who is their backup point guard and has played for eleven organizations in his career. He got a call the night of the trade while he was asleep. Like in the middle of the night from russell westbrook and one o'clock in the morning and he's i wake up man what you're doing. I'm like brought. I am sleep. He like you know what. I'm all come on. You know what kind of juice we break in who russ is and restaurants kept yelling at him. Aren't you juiced argued right now. Aren't you juiced an issue is like i'm a sleep so i think the amount of energy that he's going to bring was apparent from that one. Am moment when he called in the middle of the night and welcome.
The Lead
Russell Westbrook's Wizards Reunion
"First of all. Can you just take us through the winding road of how russell westbrook ended up with the washington wizards so at some point over the offseason westbrook made it clear to the rockets that he wanted them to find him a new home. Something is up in houston. Tell our tim macmahon in. Adrian were ski that both russell westbrook and james harden have expressed uncertainty about the direction of the franchise. And when you have a guy who makes that sum of money and you have to match salaries it just becomes very difficult to find a market and that's kind of why you see a lot of these guys on supermax contracts. Getting swamped see john. Wall and russell westbrook ending up in a similar situation is the only two guys that are comparable because their salaries of the exact really try to make sense but one hundred and thirty two million one hundred and thirty two million. Okay ready to pull a trigger. That i think it was more of like you know what we think. Your guy will be better for us and we think our guy would be better for you. So why don't we just compromising. Meet somewhere in the middle on this but wizards and rockets agreeing to trade there on happy point guards. John wall the houston russell. Westbrook to washington wizards also sent the rockets a lottery. Protective twenty twenty three first round pick you wrote about how westbrook has made his presence known with his new team pretty much right away. What did you mean by that so. I asked the question of ryuhachi mira earlier this week about what he's learned about russ during his short time that they've been practicing together and the first thing that really said he's a great leader. His vocal is almost like a hiccup yellow dog. Does he always starts me. Is greg guy. I liked where with him. You know he actually changed. Like energy. the team. That's not something you always hear about russell westbrook but you know that he's loud you know that he's going to make his personality known as smith who is their backup point guard and has played for eleven organizations in his career. He got a call the night of the trade while he was asleep. Like in the middle of the night from russell westbrook and one o'clock in the morning and he's i wake up man what you're doing. I'm like brought. I am sleep. He like you know what. I'm all come on. You know what kind of juice we break in who russ is and restaurants kept yelling at him. Aren't you juiced argued right now. Aren't you juiced an issue is like i'm a sleep so i think the amount of energy that he's going to bring was apparent from that one. Am moment when he called in the middle of the night and welcome.
Wendell's World & Sports
Russell Westbrook traded to Wizards
"Russell westbrook traded to the washington wizards from the houston rockets for john wall and future first round draft. Pick houston that is the most paramount future first round draft pick protection on the first round. Pick that the wizards traded to houston and the westbrook for wall deal. They decided to cash it in in the twenty twenty Twenty twenty three. Nba draft pick is lottery protected. Twenty twenty four the pick. His top twelve protected. The twenty twenty-five pick is top ten protected and then if they want to wait if you want to wait all the way to twenty twenty six to pick his top aide protected then becomes two second rounders now. Jonathan fagin of the houston chronicle. He reported that westbrook wanted to go elsewhere so we can be himself on the floor man. Exactly what does that mean. what is he talking about. Clarify define a little bit more when he speaks about he wants to quote unquote be- himself. Are we talking about the wessel russell. Westbrook that won the where he averaged a triple double. Is that the himself. He wants to be at so that was income through the door and being that effective. I would like to see the be himself. Russell westbrook be the guy that the second year. When he was with paul george where george with the guy that was getting most of the shadow attempts that i wouldn't say was taking a backseat. But you know. He was starting to give more and more of the spotlight to paul george in terms of the acknowledgement that. Hey you know what. We're going to have the team that we want to have the best team that we can be. you know. i've got to be more than just sharing with paul george to give him a little bit more in terms of responsibility at least on offense with the oklahoma city thunder so with him going from houston with james harden and now moving over to play with bradley beal with the team. Tommy sheppard titley owns the such making a point with trade. That bradley beal is going to be the center piece. That bradley beal that franchise guy the bradley beal is going to be the russell. Westbrook of the washington wizards that Brooklyn no his role on a team in terms of saying look you know when everything is all said and done this state. The oklahoma city thunder the way. I had it for a couple of years especially after kevin durant left. This is bradley. Beal's team and i have to let him grow in that responsibility for for ever long. The bill was broke. Tear them is there hopefully for two or three years. But we'll
The Tony Kornheiser Show
Rockets’ Russell Westbrook Traded to Wizards for John Wall
"Brian windhorst who. I saw yesterday on tv when early in the morning. I saw brian. When i found out that my found out the night before i guess late the night before that westbrook had moved from houston for wall in washington and is everybody knows because they've heard me say two thousand times. I love this trade for washington. But i thought brian would have a better perspective on it because he hasn't been burdened by having to watch the washington wizards for x. amount of years. John wall go nowhere absolutely nowhere. So let me let me start with the most obvious thing and take my prejudices out of this. Why do you make this trade. If you're houston well. I think this is really about the other stars involved. I mean it's hard to say that when you're talking about you know all star. I mean all star point guards. It'd be nine. yeah well. Isn't it all star today. And they and then they forty million dollars. They could traded for each other. I mean this is the definition of a blockbuster. But i'm sitting here saying this is about bradley. Beal james harden and it's different for both of them This is i think houston trying to salvage the situation. Which is they know that. They absolutely positively no westbrook. It are not going work out together. and so they're trying to find a way to keep their fingers in the dam so to speak. I do not think it's going to work I think the fact that they got the first round pick And i think they also hedging. And i don't think this is a strong bat. I wanna be clear. But they're also hedging that if wall recovers from this achilles That it might be better to have him for the next three years and russell westbrook. But i mean you know you're not staking your application on that I think hard and we'll be out of there by the trade deadline. Which looks like it's going to be in late march Maybe well before. But that's what they're trying to do and washington. I you know this is about holding bradley. Beal i mean i don't think it's a revolutionary idea that they have transitioned from john wallace their franchise player to bradley beal. This is clear and while Trust me there are plenty of people out there who have checked in with the wizard checked in with bradley beal however they do that. Are you happy in washington. The answer is still. Yes but the wizards are very aware that that may not be yes indefinitely and so this trade they trade free guy who was on the nba team. Last year. He was thirteen nba And he will in theory. Give them some more ammunition this year to compete with charlotte in atlanta who have upgraded. Their rosters and the wizards need to make the playoffs. This year or i think bradley beal could be out of there. And that's a move in this direction. Is it a slam dunk. Tony no but i think will be a upgrade from what they can expect from john wall.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards agree to Russell Westbrook-John Wall trade
"NBA star John Wall is no longer a Washington Wizards. And, of course in a tweet Today, he offered heartfelt thanks to the team's fans following his blockbuster trade to the Houston
Murph and Mac
Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards agree to Russell Westbrook-John Wall deal
"Agreed to trade their two disgruntled star point guards John Wall. And Russell Westbrook. This a blockbuster deal teams announces yesterday wizard sending wall and a lottery protected 2023 1st Round NBA draft pick to the Rockets for Westbrook in the deal of both both players wanted Have been simmering for for weeks now. So John Waldo, what's he really got it like I remember one of the former number one pick. And this dude, I'm a fan. I'm a John Wall fan, but he got hurt, and he got fat. And like, I just don't know it could be interesting to see what Russ in Washington. I can't. I can't even imagine. I mean the hated diminish this and these are great players. They Hall of Famer Russell. What I mean Russell is that probably is a hall of Famer, but I just don't don't see this altering the NBA landscape. Do you know it really doesn't mean I don't think that maybe John Wall gets reborn somehow in a huge I mean, I don't know. But I hear you on Westbrook in in D. C. It's all they don't want in the east, right?
Wisconsin's Morning News with Gene Mueller
Rockets, Wizards agree to Westbrook-Wall trade
"A. And the Rockets apparently trading Russell Westbrook to the Wizards in exchange for John Wall and a first round pick in 2023. Rationale for that moved pretty straightforward. Jean John Wall wants to be in Houston. Russell Westbrook does not. They think they're getting a player who wants to be with rockets and who has shown In the months since, you know has been working out this summer. You know that He's got some explosion back. He's expanded his game. He's shooting a three pointer. Well, with all of
The Corner
Russell Westbrook traded for John Wall in blockbuster deal between Houston Rockets and Washington, DC's Wizards
"Westbrook was traded. Yeah what to washington. Listen listen all right. If anybody knows me. I love to shit on the knicks. The next because fans are ridiculous and nixon's were super excited about the possibility of westbrook heading there. But i knew that would never be a good fit. So knicks fans. You should be happy that you absorbing the massive contract but i feel like this is hell bradley beal in russell westbrook and the backward. I mean it sounds good in theory but word spread. Hey i don't get it. I don't know what john wall is at this point. I don't know how westbrook does with bill like can't shoot on outside. So at least bilbao this about like that but are they any better than harden westbrook. Just were no. They're