🚨EMERGENCY POD🚨 Mavs Trade Anthony Davis To Wizards Reaction
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN’s Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to a stunning trade sending Anthony Davis from Dallas to Washington. The guys break down why this is a new approach from the Wizards, why the Mavs are clearing books for Cooper Flagg and talk how this trade is an admission of defeat on the Luka trade.
0:00 Intro
0:20 Dallas trading Anthony Davis to Wizards
4:28 Wizards flipping roster quickly to compete
25:19 Other trades worthy of highlighting
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46 comments
Wolves, Bucks, Bulls keeping the door open until the shot clock runs out.
Bulls got Sexton, and Dieng in that deal as well.
Wonder if you can sign guys to like $20m contracts with $2m guaranteed by the deadline to bypass the 90% start of season rule, then just waive them and rent cap space at trade deadline.
Windy going to find a way to defend the luka trade
Washington trying to become the new Hawks. See you soon, play-in!
Davies passed around like an Indian pipe ..
International team already had an extra player on the squad, so adding Leonard balances out the all star min by league
Shocked one or two of you guys haven't been replaced YET from someone from India!!! tick, tick, tick!!! Seems inevitable looking at things on the corporate level/high salary level!
Espn punching the air they couldnt get perk on this
What a way to start the pod lol
Windy..instead of The Flip make it Flipping The Tank
Irrelevant. Just add more pieces. People are
Some how forgetting lively.Irving, post rookie Flagg, lively make a playoff team on their own. Add a mid to high first round pick, play and a + player at SG or PG (white is a perfect fit) and you have something to cook well with. Didn’t make sense to get AD to begin with. You had gafford and lively. This move is A+ for what the Mavs have now get the PG or SG you always needed (why Flagg has to play PG now) then sit back and count the rings. TBH with having kyrie a Flagg for Luka trade actually makes the Mavs better
These guys would rather pay role players $30 million to make the salary floor than a top 75 player all time $58 😂
Windy was particularly snappy in this one.
This is a great podcast, the knowledgeable context and professional discourse is excellent.
Nice JAB
16:21 Holy Hell! I don't think I've ever seen Bontemps concede defeat to Windy before… Hell has indeed frozen over.
These trades are the result of the max contracts and aprons. CBA should have lowered the max %, the current prices players out of teams as they age.
Just me
But I’m keep kyrie till the bitter end
Bontemps is 100% correct, $50M for a guy who cannot stay on the Court
2:57 When it's an emergency so you have AI make your background graphic.
9:34 "Preloading" I think is a more fun term than "the flip."
Bontempts? Dislike.
mavericks need to sue nico
We tune in to listen to squidward interrupt and talk over everyone
The Mav's demise is on Cuban. He "thought" he could sell "majority interest" to the Adelson's and still be in control?
Silly, silly Cuban
Patrick Dumont is the new sheriff in BIG D as it should be.
Call it the sit and switch
Wiz gave up NO ONE.. and have a deep group of young talent and got 2 vets that are an elite scorer and assist man, and an elite defender.
This Is My Big 3 For Basketball Podcast. Wendy Bam & Tim🔥⚡️💯
It’s official:AD is the most overrated player and most fragile player of all time.
Trae and AD could both be gone lol Washington gave up nothing of too much value on their end
I love when bontemps pretend the wizards will blindly extend ad on some awful deal. You can’t spend the whole pod talking about this is his market now and the mavs got what they could and then be like in a year and a half they’ll have to pay him 45 mil. People do this all the time with these trade (bontemps especially) and it’s just so dumb. The market just told you what he’s worth. You just talked about how it wasnt much. And now we’re pretending in a year he’ll get 45 mil until he’s 38. Gtfo
they get paid more in 1 year than 20 average people get in their lifetimes… and they never even play
To me, this hand injury came at such a bad time, I thought they would never get out from under the Davis contract. The fact they were able to move him and dump salary at all is a miracle. The much worse option would be to have Davis in 2 years on the books for over 50mil and playing something like 20 games a season. Such a good outcome for the Mavs.
If there’s a reason why his trade market was so low then why are the wizards gonna just give him 40 mil per year? No chance he turns down his player option in two years. I think he’ll be on the team for two years then they reevaluate
The AD deal proves there's no plan. I have a plan and a
$10M signing fee for Winger's job. I need absolute player personnel
decision latitude under the cap and for individual contracts
under 1/8 of the cap.
How about we call it, "The Slingshot around the Moon." Teams go from tanking in the darkside of the Moon to accelerating out the other side.🤷
Not the first time I've thought this, but Bontemps and Kevin Pelton are BOTH wrong! Giving Mavs a good Trade Grade and docking Wizards for an imaginary extension that hasn't happened is foolish.
You guys would be able to have some usable shorts from this video if you guys didn’t interrupt each other so often!
Exactly who cares, the all star game is such a joke these days.
Might be just me, but just listened to a couple clips from this group, the friction between the three is tough to listen to.
What all teams will Do without 'bunk wizard " 🤔
The wizards needed to add salary to reach the salary floor for the next two seasons. They have no reason to give him an extension.
Why is Bontemps so certain that the wizards will extend both Trae and AD. No guarantee they will
Dallas: C+
Washington: C-
All this for Flagg to ask for a trade after his first big contract…
Next 5 years. Give me Flagg over Luka.