Trail Blazers Officially Acquire Jrue Holiday in Trade with Boston | Next Steps to Finish the Roster

Trail Blazers Officially Acquire Jrue Holiday in Trade with Boston | Next Steps to Finish the Roster

In today’s show, the Drew Holiday trade is finally official, except with a little amendment. The Blazers still got work to do this off season, though. Welcome to Locked on Blazers. Let’s get into it. You are Locked on Trailblazers, your daily Portland Trailblazers podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. What’s up world? It’s your past verse point guard and trailblazers reporter Mike Richmond. You are listening to another episode of Locked on Blazers, part of the Locked On podcast network, available wherever you get podcasts and also on YouTube. Thanks for making this show your first listen. Coming at you each and every weekday, Monday through Friday. So make it a part of your daily routine. Make it your first listen. Tell your friends to do the same. It’s locked on Blazers, your team every day. In today’s show, we talk about the Drew Holiday trade. Officially official, except with a slight amendment from how it was initially reported. A little bit of a foreoding amendment in my personal opinion, but that will remain to be seen into the future. Um, plus we’ll talk about where the Blazers stands now that Drew is on the roster. And I want to talk a little bit about mentorship. Uh, the Blazers added a 35-year-old who they’ve committed to pay for or is at least under contract for up to to three more seasons. is what does mentorship even mean? And and is that a role that you can just naturally step into by virtue of age? Plus, we’ll talk about what the Blazers can are going to do now because they have 13 roster spots filled. They have to fill at least one more before the regular season, and they have room to do so if they should choose. Although I would not recommend uh holding your breath cuz uh I bet they will be slow and meticulous about uh making these moves as as the final actions of summer trickle out the of the offseason slowly trickles forward. We’ve reached the we’ve reached the trickle portion of the offseason. Okay, let’s get into the Drew trade. Um it is officially official. The Blazers announced it. He’s in Portland. Afrey Simons heads to Boston, but it’s not with the reported the package that was had been initially initially reported prior to the NBA draft. Uh, at the time of the initial reporting, the Blazers were also including two second round picks, uh, 20 a 2030 pick from the Knicks and a 2031 pick that belonged to the Blazers, sending them to Boston as well. there was some a little bit of hemming and hawing in the sort of like trade space about why are the Blazers the ones sending picks. And while I do think that that is like a reasonable question to ask, um, in general, I wasn’t going to I wasn’t going to worry too too much about out picks, deep out second round picks. Although, I did think it was notable that the Blazers were indeed the team sending picks in that particular trade because it just saved Boston so much dang money. And when you save someone so much dang money, you should get the benefit, right? But in the general, I was I wasn’t too hung up on that. But those trades aren’t those picks aren’t going anywhere. Blazers are holding on to them. As reported by Aaron Fentress of the Oregonian, and I quote, “According to the source, a recent review of Holiday’s medicals revealed nothing substantial enough to warrant the trade being negated. However, there was enough there to lead the Blazers to alter the terms of the deal slightly. And that alteration is not including those two picks. It is just a straightup player-player trade. is announced by the Blazers on Monday afternoon. You’re listening to Tuesday, July 8th show. Welcome. Yeah, that’s a little that’s a little ominous, quite frankly. Um, you know, Drew Holidayiday missed 20 games last year with a variety of ailments. Most notably was a right shoulder impingement, but he also dealt with a pinky injury that kept him kept him out of a little bit of time. And then in the postseason, he he dealt with a hamstring injury that uh kept him out of some games and limited him uh as Boston’s season came to an end. um not um I I will say this, we don’t really know from the outside what nothing substantial enough to warrant the trade being negated means. But if the Blazers got Drew Holiday’s medicals and they said, “Hey, hold up. We want to pay less.” That can’t be a good thing, right? I think it it might be a thing that doesn’t come up. like we it might be a thing that doesn’t come up, but um I I would say a little bit for boating when trading for a 35-year-old with a hund00 million owed to him over the next three seasons, including 37 million after uh in his age 37 season. Um that’s that doesn’t feel great. I would say that that makes you a little more worried about Duality’s health. Um, it’s uh like like I said, we we don’t know. But that makes me feel a little bit uh a little bit me a little bit worried about Drew Holidayiday’s like sort of like general health considering he had so many different body ailments. But I think particularly the hamstring and the and the shoulder stuff was the stuff that was lingering uh that like kept him out of significant games last year. Although it could it could be anything, right? It could be it could be anything. Uh the other thing to note here, I mentioned the second round picks. Um there was a brief period when it felt like the Blazers were going to be a little light on second round picks. is like, “Oh, um there that’s that’s curious. They don’t have many many uh many seconds to trade.” Um and and I think um I think two things about this. Well, let me hold on. But because they didn’t send out these two picks in the Boston deal, and because after this was announced, they got picks back when they traded back on draft night to get uh Yan Han Sen, they um they actually are fine. They they’re they’re they’ve sort of rekindled the the stock a little bit. re restock the shelves. Um they’re they maybe have a pick in 2026. Um it’s it’s it’s owed to them from Memphis, but the Grizzlies basically have to make the playoffs for it to convey based on the way it’s protected in the second round. Um it’s like it has to land between 43 and 60. So the Blazers kind of they need Memphis to make um to be good enough for that second round pick to be bad basically uh in order to get it. But I think like there’s a sweet spot where the Grizzlies barely missed the playoffs and give the Blazers like the 44th pick in the draft. Um that that’s that’s money. 45th pick in the draft. Um but they’ve you know they’ve have they have three picks in 2027. They got two in 2028. Um they’re going to get one in 2029. They’ve got their own in 2030 and 2032. They’ve got this Knicks pick in 2030. Like they’re fine. They’re fine. Um and the second round picks aren’t like deeply meaningful, right? Like I said, like I wasn’t going to sweat too much over the Blazers giving out p picks in the holiday deal as initially reported. Although I did think it was like kind of notably funny that they were the team they were the team adding sweeteners to that particular pot. Um like second round picks are just they’re very unlikely to yield impact players, right? Like any pick after like 20, you’re fairly unlikely to find an NBA player. That’s just the cold truth of the draft. Certainly there are exceptions and some of you are like thinking up the ex exceptions right now in your head and I like congratulate you on remembering Tony Parker and Manu Janopoli and Derrick White. Like you’re good. you’re good. But like the the the sort of um colder reality if you look at the history of drafts, both recent and historic, is just like second round picks are very unlikely to yield impact players, but they’re also extremely important for a team like the Blazers. Uh because they probably have to get something like a a second round pick really right because their path forward is almost certainly dictated by winning the margins. like if if they’re going to be a good team into the future, um they got to win on the margins. So like you don’t want to just like punt away all of your second round picks because who cares and it doesn’t matter. Although like I do think in general any any random second round pick is fairly unlikely to be an impact uh impact NBA player. like the Blazers just like from from where they are now, right? Is like a young a team with like a bunch of interesting young players but not like a top tier guy and and like kind of um you know still on the outside of the playoffs hoping that their young players develop. Um having your stock of second round picks in the future is both helpful for you know juicing trades should you need it and also just because like you’re going to want to get one of these you’re going to want to find another Tuman Kamar at some point. like that’s that’s their path to being really good is like nailing a like truly nailing the you know the 51st pick in the draft. I believe Toani was 52. Uh like truly nailing one of those and finding like a finding a a really cheap really good player as you’re kind of ascending and have that player um turn into Nicolic and be the best player in the history of the franchise. Drew Holiday, no second round picks in his deal. But the other thing I I’m thinking about here with Drew is like he’s the oldest player on the roster. Um, he is the most experienced player on the roster. He’s a two-time champion. He is decorated. He is experienced. He’s played in a bunch of different in a bunch of different cities. Um, you know, he he’s he’s someone who has found his way in the league, made all-star teams, won championships, helped the last two teams he’s joined at a very high level in Milwaukee and Boston. In fact, the the recent history of the Drew Holiday experience says if you trade for him, you immediately win the championship. Congratulations to the Trailblazers. But I think the Blazers have been missing like a true veteran leader. And I think people want to point to Drew Holiday because of his age, like literally because of his birth date that he will just be that. And I want to talk about that a little bit in the second segment because I I I think there’s more to it than just like been around a while. Although I do think been around a while is incredibly important. Join me in that second segment. We’ll talk a little about mentorship in the league. All right. So, Drew Holidayiday is indeed um the Blazer’s elder statesman, but he’s also like good. And I think um I think one of the sort of prevailing ideas with Drew Holidayiday is that he will provide mentorship. And I don’t think he won’t. I’m not this is not a segment where I say I’m going to well actually Drew Holidayiday’s leadership skills, but I would I would like to add um a little bit of nuance to that idea. A little I think some layers and some texture to that idea because it isn’t like in the very basic sense Drew Holiday was brought to the Portland Trailblazers to play basketball. the most helpful stuff he will do is likely playing BA being a quality basketball player who fits into um what they want to do on the court in a much easier and more seamless way than Afrey Simon’s particular skill set, right? Um Drew has been better than Afrey Simons for the you know for all of Ant’s career, right? Um but at some point the age gap is going to they’re going to like the the they’ll pass in the night, right? the ships will pass the night because of because Holiday has gotten older. The Blazers are betting that that’s not right away. They’re betting that he has serviceable years. They’re betting that a player who was really good even as recently as two seasons ago can get healthy, get right, and and and be really useful. And Holiday is a better compliment next to Scoot Henderson because of of the defense and offball shooting and doesn’t need to be on the ball as much. He’s a better compliment next to Shaden Sharp because of the defense and the and and the offball shooting. Doesn’t need to be on the ball as much, but can also play a little bit of point guard as needed. like he’s not an elite playmaker. I don’t even think he’s a point guard really. He’s a true combo guard. Um but like he can play he can toggle both guard spots. He can play in on and off the ball. He fits the Blazers identity of wanting to guard and be a highle defensive team which is kind of the the secret to their sauce when they were successful at the end of last season is that they were a very good defensive team and Drew kind of fits that right. The the that the reason that they acquired him is for basketball. But there is a world in which he is a perfect mentor for Scoot Henderson. There is a world when he is this great where he is like the guy who teaches uh scoot the ropes and the guy who like instills a a sort of intensity quiet intensity in and sharp because Drew has that quiet intensity. He’s not a screamer, not a yeller. He’s not he’s not one of those guys. He he is someone who brings it every night with a sort of a much quieter demeanor. Perhaps Sharp can pick up on that. But but what I will what I want to push back against is that older player automatically equals mentor. Older player automatically equals leader. That’s not how it works. Quite frankly, some players just aren’t that. And I and I’ve been critical of the Blazers in the past and particularly Joe Cronin in this case of missing sort of the soft art of roster building. uh building a team last year particularly that didn’t have the institutional knowledge of sort of an older type of player that had been around the league and was like um that sort of whisperer in the locker room and using maybe the back half of the roster for like um deeper dart throws than like the you know they don’t it doesn’t have to be a Udonis Hlam type but I I’ve likened it to the Chris Cayman of the past of the of the of the post LaMarcus Aldridge era where he didn’t really play very much but he kind of like kept people in check taught them you know there was story about Chris Cayman and kind of um teaching guys at the end of the year that you tip out all the all the folks who work in the locker room because we make millions of dollars and if you give them, you know, a couple thousand dollars, it changes their life, right? Because like these dudes are are are are working hard and and just not making that type of money. Um that type of institutional knowledge like what it means to be a pro. And that’s not particularly important. That doesn’t like make you a better basketball player, but it does teach you about professionalism. It does teach you about how to carry yourself. There is some there is some value there. Uh and and the phrase I’ve used um a bunch in describing the Blazers roster and and sort of in my criticism of it, particularly last season, is that they lacked an emotional core. It wasn’t that Jeremy Grant wasn’t a 30-year-old adult. It’s that he’s just not the rah rah leader type, right? He might be set a good example. He might be well-liked, but he is not someone who provides that sort of emotional core uh the sort of the the voice both uh that speak, you know, speaks to the media when stuff goes wrong, which is like increasingly less important. Um but like uh but also like is is a tone setter in the locker room and on the court. He’s just not wired that way. Every time he’s not wired that way. He he he took steps to become a better leader, become more vocal, but they were always trying to ask for, you know, beg, you know, get it out of him, like try to try to coax out more of that from from uh from Simons and and and DeAndre’s just not that. It’s not the type of personality he has. He’s he’s he can be loud and boisterous, gregarious and all of those things, but he’s not that sort of like centering emotional leader. When the boat gets rocky, look to DA to guide you through choppy waters. like it’s just not he’s absolutely not that person. Um and they’re missing that. Drew Holiday might be exactly that, right? Because of the championship pedigree, because he’s played in multiple teams and had to learn to fit in and and like and adapt. Um and I think there’s a skill in being adaptive and figuring out, okay, here’s what I’m really good at. Here’s how I’m going to help type of thing, right? Um, I think all of those things are possible for Drew. But what I would what I’m pushing back here specifically is that because he has been around the block and because he is older and because he has been adaptable, that does not automatically equal mentor because mentor has a bit of an implication that you’re going to play a little bit less and you’re going to do a little bit less. And Drew Holiday may eventually transition to that. And I think one of the benefits of trading Anthony Simons out and bringing Drew Holiday in is that it’s easier just sort of like political and relationship wise to slowly transition Drew Holiday or perhaps quickly transition Drew Holiday, but I would guess slowly transition Drew Holiday to more of a reserve role to a guy who is playing behind the young guards. But if the young guards struggle, don’t be surprised if Drew Holiday plays more than them. That’s just kind of the nature of the way this team has operated over the last couple years. If Afrey Simons was still around, it is a much harder thing to say 26-year-old Anthony Simons entering your physical prime, who we’ve, you know, um, you know, committed to and given a fat contract to in the past and and may still be doing in the future if he’s still on the roster, right? Like move you you go sit behind, uh, Shaden Sharp, right? That that’s that is a harder thing to ask. I think it’s simpler with with, uh, with Drew. In fact, in my conversations with Afrey Simons, I think he and at at points sort of resented the idea that Scoot Henderson was the the like point guard of the future and he was this elder statesman. Um, at age 26, I got the sense talking to Afrey Simons a couple times and I was like, what? I’m not old. Like, what why am I being treated like this? Why are people asking me like what sagely advice I offer Scoot Henderson? I’m a young basketball player, right? Um, but I think it’s easier with with Drew to it’s a more natural fit. So, I do think there are a lot of indicators that Drew could be a mentor. But I what I what I want to push back against is the automatic acceptance of that role and the idea that NBA players are comfortable taking back seats and don’t want to play particularly in new situations particularly in new situations where the young players behind them are not established. It is a very different thing. I think one of the interesting tests for Drew and for the Blazers and for the coaching staff is how they handle his playing time. He doesn’t have to play 35 minutes. In fact, I bet he plays like 30 minutes a game. 29 to 30 minutes a game, right? I don’t think they’re going to run him out for a cajillion minutes. Um, that’s not really the the the question, right? I don’t think if there’s if there’s 96 guard minutes to be had, I think between Scoot Henderson, Shaden Sharp, and and Drew Holidayiday, there’s not really a controversy in terms of total number of minutes available. Obviously, they’re going to have to plug in some other guys there at some point. Um, and and figuring out where Matis Style fits in the rotation if he does uh early in the season when everybody’s healthy, assuming everyone’s healthy. But, so I’m not worried about minutes necessarily. What I’m worried about is closing time, closing minutes, closing opportunities, comfort in the role, and if Drew is sort of like, hey, I’m just still way better than these dudes and I was like, I am, you know, 80 games removed from being an alldefense guard. Put me in the damn game and like and and I deserve to play. You can’t fault him for that. And that is a diff that is an attitude of a competitor. That is not necessarily the perfect mentor type. So while Drew could be, he has a lot of indicators that he could be. And hopefully the Blazers, in addition of Drew Holiday, you find that sort of that it is the soft art of team building that that you can that they’ve sort of neglected last season. And he adds he he could be some sort of emotional core. Although my sense is that Drew Holiday is certainly not that type of personality. So we will see where that emerges and perhaps that emerges with with Denny Avian with Tumani Kamar and they kind of step forward as they as as they as they get there, right? Like perhaps that is the solution, right? Um, but I don’t think in and of itself, just by virtue of being 35, there is comfort with a reduced role and comfort with taking a backseat to young players and an acceptance that you are on the back half of your career because these dudes are hyper competitive. And how the Blazers use them, how they deploy them, how they divvy up the minutes, particularly at the end of games, I think is something to monitor because that is the sort of that’s the balance. That’s the challenge of of this roster. Um it’s not like a huge massive deal that’s going to upend the team, but I think it is um now that this is like this is what this group is going to look like and the Drew trades been finalized and it’s not a it didn’t expand to be a little bit different. This is their path and this is um this is what they’ve got to work with. Speaking of what they got to work with, 13 players and room under the tax line to make some additions. They have to add one player. What are they going to do? Um I will throw out some names. I’ll give you two of Mike’s guys in the uh third segment. Join me there and we’ll talk about the Blazers financial situation now that Drew Holiday trade is officially official. Join me there, won’t you? [Music] Still a pass versus point guard, still Mike Richmond. And you are still listening to Locked on Blazers. So, the Blazers now with 13 players on the roster according to the indispensable website spot track from Keith Smith have uh about $18 million in tax base. Uh that is they are an above the cap team. So, they don’t have cap space to sign players, but they are shy of the tax line and you better bet they’re not paying the tax this year for this particular roster. But quite frankly, they’ve got room to maneuver if they want to. They got to do something, right? They do need to carry 14 into the regular season. I assume they will. Um I don’t think anyone on the summer league team that is not currently under contract and they only got two contract players in Young Hansen and and and Ryan Rupair as um as contract guys and and then a couple two-way guys in Sissoko and Love. But like I don’t think anyone on the on the summer league roster is making the team. I think that’s that’s a long shot and you got to use you you got to use a little logic here about what they’re kind of looking for in the back half of the roster. Um, but like if they wanted to, and they won’t, they’re not going to obviously because of like how late it is into free agency. Um, and like the remaining free agents even available, it’s like if they wanted to, they could spend the entire, uh, non- taxpayer mid-level exception, which is a contract that starts at about $14.1 million and escalates from there. Can be up to a four-year deal. If you want to use every stinking bit of it, they could use that. They could use the non- taxpayer mid-level exception and sign someone. And then they would still have space under the tax line to add a to add a 15th player if they want to carry 15. In my opinion, they should probably carry 15, but maybe just make the 15th guy like a fully non-G guaranteed deal that doesn’t guarantee till January. So, if you do need to like, okay, we need to make a move. You have a you have um some wiggle room to to make trade should should that happen. But like uh they may or they, you know, they might just carry 14. They have space to do it though. and and the and the mechanism to do it being the mid-level exception because again they can sign guys to minimum contracts because you get the minimum contract exception. They have the non non-t taxpayer mid-level. Um but like they’re probably in the minimum zone at this point this late in the year unless they’re going to like I don’t know make a run at Josh Giddy that he wouldn’t accept cuz he wants more money than that or something. And also Giddy on this roster sounds like a nightmare. Like he just is like not the skill set they need. Speaking of that, what are the skill sets they need? Um, you know, I think I think it’s pretty clear that like the the rotation is full. Like in terms of rotational minutes, it seems to be pretty clearly spoken for. Scoot, Shaden, Drew Holidayiday at the guards. Uh, Denny, that’s Denny Avia, Tammani Kamar, Jeremy Grant at the forwards. Um, some combination backing both of those gentlemen up of or both those groups up of Matis Thyel who’s kind of like a 2-3 and Chris Murray who’s kind of like a 34. Um Ryan Rupair deep deep uh deep depth deep depth behind that and then at center Don Mcllingan I would say is your presumable day one starter with um young Hansen behind him and Hansen I assume is ahead of Rob Williams just because I’m never like basically Rob’s health over the last couple years. I’m not going to pencil him in or like put him in a pen to say like oh yeah he’s for sure going to play and be available every night and play 27 minutes. It’s like it’s just like this unrealistic based on his availability. Um and how the Blazers even used him last year when he was ostensibly healthy up until the All-Star break. Like look how they even used him then. They were very very very very very cautious with him. Like he’s not going to play backtobacks. He’s not going to play he’s not going to play that much. Like they’re straight not going to play him that much. Um like based on how they used him last year and then they didn’t even freaking trade him. Like um they felt like oh they’re they’re they’re being you know being cautious with Rob so they can deal him and they didn’t even deal him. like it’s like just uh I think they’re being cautious with his body because he’s he’s had so much health stuff. So I think it’s it’s it’s Klingan and then it’s and then it’s Hansen and then it’s Rob question mark question mark and then deep deep depth is duopre in my eyes. The Blazers need one position and then one glaring skill thing. They’re just so light on shooting. They’re so light on shooting. if Shane Sharp, you know, like a 30% career three-point shooter, takes a massive step forward, if uh Scoot Anderson takes a big step forward and and with with consistency uh because I think there were times and even stretches where Scoot shot well, but in terms of consistent like a full year of shooting the ball really well, then maybe some of the shooting is solved because Drew is a career 37% three-point shooter and he I know he had he didn’t shoot very well last year, but you assume let’s say he gets close to his his his career average. That’s a league average shooter. Um, you know, Tumani shot it pretty well uh last year, but he’s he’s not a feared shooter. Uh, Denny, I think kind of after a really rocky start, actually was pretty darn good as a shooter. Um, but again, not like a feared shooter. And then none of the bigs really shoot threes. Duop does, but he’s just not going to play very much. Um, like they were, you know, they were 20th in offense last year and I think they lost their best like off the dribble three-point shooter. You’re really just looking at Jeremy Grant. It’s like Jeremy put get back up to 40% from three and remember how to make twos and like save this team. But they just they’re really light on shooting. They could use another shooter. My idea uh these are Mike’s guys. We’re getting to the Mike’s guys. Let me actually talk about both. I’ll give you Mike’s guys at the very end. That’s why you stick around for another three minutes to close the show. Um so in addition to to shooting, they’re just really light on shooting. I I think they need another emergency guard, right? Delano Banson is a free agent. They they let him go. He wasn’t really a point guard either. He was a score guard. Um peak skill in the league is field goal temps. They’re they’re kind of missing that maybe a little bit. But like I think they need a you’re not going to play most of the time, but when somebody gets hurt or when or you know someone has, you know, the flu and is out for a few out for a few games like competent, not going to turn over, not going to turn the ball over, not going to screw up type of of of veteran point guard depth. um knowing the Blazers, the two names I’m about to say, they won’t they’re just not going to choose these people. They’re going to choose like guys who were like they heavily scouted in high school and have been professionals in Europe or whatever or like second draft guys um like Bones Highland or something like that, right? Like he’s like at this point it’s probably like a fourth draft guy based on his how much he’s bounced around. But like um you know it’s it is not going to be uh they’re not going to choose these two names. But my two names, Mike’s guys to close the show is if I had to pick a sort of like wingy shooter who could play it would be air coffee. I like coffee a lot. I thought he was really useful on on the um on the Clippers last year. Yeah, he’s he he’s older. He’s just turned 28. Like he’s played in the league a while, but I I thought he was just straight up good on the Clippers last year. um a career 38.4% shooter. Shot a shot a uh 40.9% on 3.4 attempts per game. Um basically his career high. His second season he shot a little bit better, but just like on on uh about a third of the number of attempts. So in terms of volume and accuracy, the best three-point shooting season of his career. Um air he’s big enough at 67 to play 23 and a little bit of fourish if you’re like playing like a wingy switchy defense and not um super worried about rebounds. is a pretty bad rebounding team all last season, so maybe they won’t be. Um, I really like him. He’s just like absolutely not the type of player they were at. And quite frankly, because there’s not a clear path to playing time, I’m not sure Amir Coffee would like be interested in joining the Blazers. But in terms of Mike’s guys, give me a Mir Coffee. And then the other Mike’s guy for the sort of veteran backup point guard position would be Monty Morris. Um, it’s like the Blazers are going to sign like Brandon Williams or the equivalent of that, right? They’re going to sign like that’s like the player they’re going to go after. But, but Monty Morris is my guy, dude. he doesn’t turn the ball over. Um, in various like early in his career in Denver, I was just a big Monty Morris believer. Um, he also like got six man of the year votes his his second uh season, the first season that he really played in Denver uh back like way back when when I was uh uh still at the paper in in uh 201819 season. But like he’s his skills have diminished a great deal since then. But still like again a a career 39% three-point shooter. It’s on really low volume, but um he’s he has an incredible nickname, the count of Monty, assist because he had the great assist to turnover ratio. He’s just like the kind of deep bench guard who’s not going to play very much. And when he does play, he’s not going to be very spectacular. It’s not going to be very useful. Like he wasn’t very good on the Suns last year, but he is like the get him in line, don’t screw it up type of vet, point guard that I think could be useful at the end of the bench. Um, these are not names the Blazers are going to be interested in because what they’re going to do is they’re going to take upside swings for the back half of the roster because that’s kind of what they do. They just like they use these spots and I I don’t I don’t really fault them for that. Um, I think that’s probably what they always should be doing is at all times be throwing darts because um they just need to hit a bullseye at some point. But, uh, for Mike’s guys, Amir Coffee and Monty Morris would be would be Monty Morris and and and Amir Coffee would be my guys. Um, that is going to do it for today’s show. Come back for tomorrow’s show. It’s what we do 5 days a week wherever you get podcasts. Also on YouTube, uh if you’re listening to a July 8th podcast about the Portland Trailblazers, and you made it to this part of the podcast legally, you need to tell one friend about the show and then come back for tomorrow’s program. I appreciate you listening. I’ll talk to you soon.

The Jrue Holiday trade is official with some ominous changes to the agreed upon deal. Plus, mentorship in the NBA and the final steps for the Trail Blazers to complete their offseason moves.

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