BREAKING: Brooklyn Nets CUT Kobe Bufkin in SURPRISE Move | Did They Make the RIGHT CHOICE?

BREAKING: Brooklyn Nets CUT Kobe Bufkin in SURPRISE Move | Did They Make the RIGHT CHOICE?

Coming up, the Nets cut Kobe Buffkin in a surprise roster move. What led to the decision and did they make the right choice? I’ll answer that after this. [Music] You are Locked on Nets, your daily Brooklyn Nets podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome in to the Locked On Nets podcast right here on the Locked On Network. It’s your team, the Brooklyn Nets, every single day. I’m Eric Slater, Brooklyn Netsbeat reporter for clutchpoints.com. Thank you for making me your first listen of the day. This show is 100% free on all those great platforms. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you’ll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Head to fanduel.com to get started. And on today’s show, we got some Nets roster news. The Nets made a surprise cut. Kobe Buffin let go from the team. And this follows the Nets decision to cut Dariq Whitehead. And this Buffkin cut finalizes the Nets roster at 15 standard contracts. And my initial reaction to the move, I’m surprised. I was surprised, but I won’t say that I was shocked. We knew that the competition as training camp and as the preseason progressed, the competition for this final roster spot, it became pretty clear that Tyrese Martin was going to be safe. You know, a non-g guaranteed player, but he had run with the net second unit in most of these preseason games. And then it was really getting down to Kobe Buffkin to Jaylen Wilson who was on a non-g guaranteed contract. Kobe Buffkin was guaranteed maybe Haywood Highmith who’s on a guaranteed dealing with that injury recovery. We’ll get into him more later, but it really seemed like it was between Buffkin and Wilson. And Wilson edges out Buffkin for this final roster spot. And it is surprising because Buffkin is a player who has higher pass pedigree obviously than Wilson. You know, Buffkin was the number 15 pick in the 2023 draft. Obviously, didn’t work out in Atlanta, but nearly a lottery pick. And Wilson was the number 51 player in the draft. And you know, I’ve talked to Jordan Fernandez throughout the uh throughout training camp and he has said that Nets were high on Buffkin during the pre-draft process. Their front office liked him and I I believe that and I’ve heard some things along those lines dating back to that draft process. But it seems like you got into the preseason and there was always a possibility here that you look at when the Nets made this Buffkin trade like sure they might like this guy but they also had a pressing need to reach the salary floor and it didn’t seem like there were a ton of other deals out there at that point. You know that was September they made this Buffkin trade and it’s like okay they didn’t get a draft pick alongside this guy. they weren’t incentivized to take his to take on his contract, you know, buy a draft pick from the Hawks, but they are trying to reach the salary floor and this is obviously a vehicle to help them do that. So, it was never like Kobe’s, you know, roster spot was set in stone. Did it seem like it was likely that he would make the team? Yes, but it seems like the Nets brought him in. I believe that they liked him, but it didn’t seem like he showed that much during the preseason. He only played in two games. was a did not play coach’s decision in two of the preseason games. And when he wasn’t, he didn’t really look great. He was one of five in their last uh the last preseason game that he appeared in one of those Suns matchups. You know, the ball handling didn’t really look like he was doing anything special there. And you know, there were questions obviously about Buffkin coming out of that Hawk stint. He struggled with injuries. He wasn’t able to get on the floor. But when he did get on the floor, there were struggles with decision-making. The three-point shooting was not there like it was during his sophomore season at Michigan. He did not shoot well from three as a freshman. It ticked up to around 38% as a sophomore in Michigan, which was encouraging, but then it went back down during his G- League and NBA games. And obviously, he was hurt. But that’s a big question when you have questions about your ball handling, your decision-m, your, you know, interior scoring, and then the three-point shooting also isn’t coming along. That is obviously going to lend itself to, you know, questions and concerns as a guard. And it didn’t seem like Buffkin did much to quell those concerns. And the Nets go with a player in Jaylen Wilson who obviously they’ve been high on since they took him, you know, 51st overall in that 2023 draft and he has exceeded expectations. But I will say that I did think that Buffkin was going to get this spot over Wilson and that’s based on, you know, just Buffkin being a pass a player with past pedigree, higher pedigree. Obviously, it didn’t work out with the Hawks, but you thought that the injuries might have played a role there. you know, they had to get off of his contract in order to open up room for some of these other guys who needed extensions and you thought the Nets take a chance on him and maybe they gave a season to see how he develops and see if he can be a little bit of a a reclamation story like Zire Williams was last season as a former lottery pick and they go with Wilson who you know I understand the logic but the reasons why I’m a little surprised by it you look at Jaylen Wilson and I like Jaylen Wilson like he’s a player who plays really hard I do think he has some redeeming qualities but when you look at him overall all. He’s a guy who doesn’t really offer much off the bounce. He’s a pretty limited athlete. Like he’s one of you guys have all seen that stat. I’m assuming he’s one of, you know, five or six players in the NBA right now who’s played a certain amount of minutes over 66 who or 66 or over who hasn’t had a dunk in a game. So that obviously, you know, talk speaks to his lack of athleticism. And then, you know, what you’re really hoping for will for Wilson to bring to the table is the defense. And I think he’s like a fine defender and the three-point shooting. and he really just hasn’t been a good three-point shooter at any point in his career. Now, the trend line has gone up, even if very slightly, but you look at his four seasons at Kansas and his two seasons in the NBA with the Nets, and he’s around a 32% three-point shooter across six seasons. So, we have a pretty large sample size of him, you know, not being a good shooter or really even a decent shooter. Now, I will say he has ticked up slightly while going, you know, back in distance in in three-point distance from college to the NBA. So, that is encouraging. So, the Nets seem to think that, you know, obviously they’re high on Wilson. I’ve said that, but they seem to think that there is some promise with his with his three-point shooting, with his defensive versatility, with the motor, with some of those things that he can do. And if you’re comparing him to a player like Buffkin, I can see why the Nets would make the bet on Wilson. If they really weren’t encouraged by what they saw from Buffkin, you know, in terms of them not thinking that the three-point shooting was going to come along, them not thinking that he really had promise as a guy who could, you know, get downhill off the ben bounce, who could score on the interior with that slight frame. You go with, you know, more size and Wilson, a guy who’s, you know, 66 almost 67. if they believe in the jump shot, that size, that defensive versatility, and that potential outside shooting. I could see why they would go with that over a player like Buffkin. But I am somewhat surprised because Buffkin did have a lot more pass pedigree and I think we’ve seen two seasons of Jaylen Wilson where I think he can be like a serviceable end of the rotation guy maybe on like a decent or you know not below average team but I’m just not sure that there’s a pathway to him becoming much more than that because there are clear athletic limitations. There are clear limitations as a ball handler, as a scorer and those qualities that he supposedly brings to the table, the three-point shooting and the defense. It’s not like they’re at an extremely high level or anything to write home about. So, I think that that probably speaks a lot to what the Nets didn’t see in Buffkin throughout the preseason and throughout this uh throughout training camp and throughout this preseason process. And this also, you know, I spoke about this potentially being a move with Buffkin just where the Nets are trying to reach the salary floor. And that was always a possibility. And it seems like that may be what this was because by cutting Buffkin and guaranteeing Wilson, the Nets do get above the salary floor. like Buffkin did not have that working in his favor. Now, the Nets could have just guaranteed a portion of Wilson’s salary and let him go and that could have gotten them to the salary floor, but by waving Dariq Whitehead’s guaranteed salary by waving Kobe Buffkin’s guar guaranteed salary, both of those still count towards the Nets’s books and then they guarantee the salaries of uh Tyrese Martin and Jaylen Wilson and that brings them just above the salary floor. So, they’re around like $190,000 above the floor going into the season. They’re going to have $15 million in cap space, which they will probably utilize towards the trade deadline. But the, you know, the ability for the Nets to reach the salary floor and using Buffkin as a vehicle to do that, that was not working in his favor. And ultimately, they go with Jaylen Wilson and Wilson sticks around for another season on that final roster spot. I’m not sure how much he’s going to play because, as I said, like I’ve said this throughout the summer when talking about the option of the Nets keeping Tyrese Martin and Jaylen Wilson. The Nets have a lot of wings and their decision to cut to to cut Kobe Buffkin like I know they have a lot of young guards but not necessarily proven ones like we’ve seen during the preseason. The only point guards who are probably ready to play as a relative term to the Nets like serviceable or could be in there without being embarrassed are probably Jory and Ben Saraf. Beyond that Nolan Troy doesn’t really look ready right now. And beyond Cam Thomas, like you have Tyrese Martin who will spend some time at the two, Drake Pal who will spend some time at the two, but those guys aren’t necessarily ball handlers. Buffkin was more of that ball handler. And the Nets move on from him despite having a little bit of a ball handling deficit in terms of like proven guys who are ready to do it in the NBA. Not that Buffkin was that, but maybe you thought that he could fill that role. And then when you look at the wing, they have MPJ, they have Zire Williams, they have Terrence Man, they also obviously have Haywood Heismith. I’m going to get to him, but then you have those guys. And then beyond that now you have Tyrese Martin, Drake Pal, Jaylen Wilson. There’s just a lot of guys there. And it’s not just like all the wings are clumped into one group. There’s big w big wings, there’s smaller wings, but there’s a lot of guys vying for minutes there. And there’s not as much proven commodities at the ball handler positions. And I thought that that might allow Kobe Buffkin to stick around. But clearly the Nets were higher on what they saw from Wilson. And they didn’t think that there was much of a pathway for Buffkin to get minutes or make an impact here. So they go with him. But there was another player who was a candidate to be cut in favor of Kobe Buffkin and the Nets ultimately went away from him despite some injury concerns. So, how do I feel about that? And do I think that that is a surprising move or a potential mistake by the Nets? I’ll get into that when I continue locked on Nets after a quick break. Pelon is shaping the future of fitness with the brand new Pelaton Cross Training Tread Plus powered by Pelaton IQ. It’s our most advanced equipment yet. Designed to give you real-time guidance and endless ways to move. Whether you’re running, lifting, or crossraining with your favorite instructors. Guys, this is training reimagined. Pelaton is built for breakthroughs with tools that help you plan, stay motivated, and reach peak performance. Guys, I love how the Pelaton IQ system offers real time strength coaching. 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But there was another player who I had mentioned as a wild card to be cut, and that was Haywood Highmith. And I said I didn’t think it was going to happen because what we had heard about Highmith was he was planning to be ready for the start of the regular season. And I said that if he can come back and he’s healthy that he could have flip value at the deadline and that I wouldn’t see the Nets, you know, keeping a uh keep cutting him in favor of a guy like Kobe Buffkin. But in conjunction with the announcement of this Buffkin cut, we also got a medical update from the Nets today, and that was that Haywood Highmith has experienced swelling in his knee during the course of his rehab after he had that surgery in August on his meniscus. And following an evaluation, he’s going to be sidelined for an additional eight weeks at least as he goes through a modified rehab program. So with that, it’s not shocking that the Nets still kept him over Kobe Buffkin, but I would say that does make it a little more surprising. You would think if Haywood Heisman’s going to be sidelined for another two months, at least it’s going to be more than that. They said he’s going to be re-evaluated in two months, which means there’s going to be a ramp up process beyond that. So we’re talking about, you know, two months from now, you’re getting into mid December. He might not play until New Year’s and then you have a, you know, a month until the trade deadline. like is he going to be able to get on the court and show enough where the Nets could flip him for value at the deadline in like a month or maybe a little bit above a month? It’s possible, but I don’t know. But, you know, the Nets still opted to keep Highmith over Buffkin in that scenario. And I think that that just speaks obviously to how, you know, not down on Buffkin they were, but just not high on Buffkin they were. They didn’t seem to think that he had a ton of potential there. And I, you know, keeping Haywood Highmith around, I do understand it over Kobe Buffin because if you’re not high on Buffin and you just don’t think that there’s a pathway for him to get minutes in this rotation, there’s really just no sense in keeping him around. And then you look at Haywood Highmith and while this injury timeline is going to extend it, you know, extend his, you know, ability obviously to get back on the court, there are questions just about how everybody’s going to fit in this rotation. So having Haywood on the sidelines, having him rehab, having him be, you know, kind of a leader, not a leader, just be a veteran guy in the background that maybe the rookies can lean on a little bit. And then if he is able to come back around New Year’s or maybe a smidge before that and you get, you know, maybe five weeks for him to get on the court and he can show something, maybe you can flip him for a second round pick. And if not, you’re really no worse off for wear. But I do think if Haywood can get back on the court and can play decent, I think there will be a market for him where you could at least maybe get something because you look at his salary, he’s on a $5.6 million expiring contract. And the taxpayer mid-level exception is just a smidge above 5.6 million. So he fits into that. So, if one of these contenders is looking to just get a cheap addition to bolster their depth, to bolster their wing rotation, they could acquire Haywood into that taxpayer mid-level exception because in the new CBA that can be used as a trade exception. It’s not just to sign free agents. So, they could acquire Haywood with like sending out a second round pick and not sending back any contract to the Nets. So, that makes a trade much more viable for some of these teams. And even if Haywood isn’t able to get on the court and show a lot in that month or five, six weeks that he’s healthy, if he’s healthy, coming back from that knee injury, I could see a team still looking at him and being like maybe he’s, you know, he’s close. He gets back on the court after the trade deadline. We could have him going into the playoffs as just a depth piece. He’s an experienced guy. He’s played in, you know, 20 plus playoff games. He’s played in the finals. He’s had big playoff performances. Like, I could see a world where there’s a market. And if that’s the case, I feel like it’s understandable to keep him over a player like Kobe Buffkin, who it seems like the Nets just clearly didn’t have any confidence in him being a piece for this Net’s team or being a guy who was going to get minutes. So, you go with the potential like the box of what could be with Haywood Highmith in terms of the return you could get for him and him getting back on the court and all those things along those lines. But it is, you know, it does speak, I think, to Kobe Buffin. The fact that the Nets kept Jaylen Wilson over him, a player who they have a sizable amount of data on, none of which I think is like great or anything to write home about. Obviously, the questions about the three-point shooting, the questions about the athleticism, the limited off the dribble juice, all of that. They kept they kept him over Buffkin despite that. And then Highmith, despite this injury, they kept him over Buffkin. So, not great in terms of the outlook for Kobe Buffkin moving forward, but maybe he can catch on with somebody else and maybe he gets healthy and he gets further removed from these injuries and he looks a little bit better. We saw Dariq Whitehead obviously struggle with injuries and the Nets moved on from him. And the Oklahoma City Thunder, a good team to be claimed by, not in terms of getting on the court right away, but just a team that, you know, obviously has had an eye for talent and has been good with development. They signed Whitehead and weighed him and he’s going to go to their G-League affiliate and maybe he can catch on and maybe Kobe can do the same that somewhere else. But this move did finalize the Nets roster, at least the non two-way roster, finalize it ahead of the regular season and the Nets have several rotation decisions to make as we enter this regular season, but it seems like Jordy Fernandez has a handle on those and it’s there seems to be a pretty clear picture of what the rotation is going to look like. So, what is that and what should fans expect during Wednesday’s regular season opener? I’ll get into that when I close out Locked on Nets after a quick break. The NFL season is here and FanDuel has an offer you don’t want to miss. Right now, new customers can bet just $5 and get $300 in bonus bets if you win. That’s right. Pick a bet, put down five bucks, and if it hits, you’ll unlock $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Guys, FanDuel gives you so many ways to play. You can build parlays, try player props, and even follow live lines games. 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And if you’re talking about the rotation, I think there have been obvious questions about how all these players are going to fit together. What with the five rookies coming in with, you know, three offseason trade acquisitions that are still on the roster with the guys the holdovers you have from last year, how are how are all of these guys going to fit? What rookies will be with the NBA team? what rookies might be in the G-League, which veterans may not be in the rotation to open the year. And it seems like after four preseason games, there seems to be a pretty clear picture. I’m going to break that down, but we had the Nets uh preseason finale on Friday against the Toronto Raptors. They lost up there in Toronto, and Jaggerman made his NBA debut. He played pretty well, and we’re going to talk about that on tomorrow’s episode. But with Yman playing, this was the first game that the Nets had their three rookie point guards available. And it was, I think, a decent look at the rotation. It seemed like Jordi Fernandez was treating this a little bit more like a regular season game in terms of getting a look and a feel for what the rotation is going to be moving forward. So, I’m just going to outline what it seems like is going to be the uh rotation moving forward for the Nets or at least early in the season. You look at point guard, it seems like Jaor Gilman, Ben Saraf, like those are the two guys right now. We saw that Jagor came back. He looked the most comfortable by far of the Nets rookie ball handlers against Toronto’s pressure defense. He played well. He looked healthy. He’s, you know, had a ramp up process throughout the offseason into training camp and into the preseason. And he seems good to go. He played 19 minutes. He looked good. That was a great sign. Outside of that, we’ve seen Ben Saraf significantly outplay Nolan Troy throughout the preseason. They both looked bad in this Toronto game, struggling with some turnovers. But still, Ben Saraf played 22 minutes. Nolan Troy played six minutes. Those six minutes from Troy were pretty disastrous. He had three turnovers in six minutes. Two of them were in the back court just trying to dribble the ball up. So, it seems like Nolan is going to be a guy who starts the year in the G-League. And that’s not that surprising based on what we’ve seen during this preseason, you know, and what we’ve heard, you know, leading up to training camp because Ben Saraf has just seemed like and looked like the much more NBA ready. And that just speaks to his size, his frame, all of those things. The ball handling being a little more polished at this point. And once Diego Gman got healthy, it seemed pretty set in stone that Ben Saraf was going to be the backup. And Nolan Troy for now is the odd man up oddman out. He’ll come up at some point in the regular season. He’ll get NBA minutes. He could play, you know, him and Saraf can play alongside Jaor who can slide to the wing. So that will happen, but it seems like he’s going to be in the G-League to start the season. Then you go to shooting guard. You have Cam Thomas is obviously going to start there. behind him. I, you know, you have Tyrese Martin and Drake Pal, but I think that Tyrese Martin has earned those backup minutes at that spot. And I think that that has been exemplified by Jordie Fernandez’s preseason rotation. You look at this game on Friday in the finale where it seems like Jordy was going with, you know, roughly what his rotation was going to be. Tyrese Martin played 11 minutes. Pal only played two minutes. Pal obviously is coming off an injury. And Martin during this preseason has ran with the Net second unit consistently. And Pal is a guy who looked good, you know, against the Sun against the Suns in those preseason games, but he’s a guy who obviously is coming off an injury and there’s a lot of work to be done in terms of his ball handling, in terms of the other some of the other things that he’s going to do. So, I think, you know, I’ve heard from people in and around the Nets that pal, the expectation is that he’s going to spend time in the G- League early in the year. And I think that that makes sense because he has to refine his handle. He has to get a feel for some of the offensive sets the Nets are going to be running. He just has to get more used to doing some stuff on the ball that he didn’t have the opportunity to do at North Carolina. And I think you get more into the season and we’re going to have Nets guys, veterans who are either hurt or traded and there’s going to be a pathway for Drake Pal to come up and he’s going to get a lot of minutes, a lot of NBA minutes during the regular season, but I think there’s going to be also plenty of G-League minutes that will serve him really well. So Cam Thomas, Tyrese Martin, Drake Pal behind them. That’s how I’m seeing the shooting guard position. And then you get to small forward. Terrence man has locked in that starting position. I that’s fully what I’ve expected. That’s what I’ve said since the Nets acquired him and since their offseason moves were pretty much finalized. I expected him to be in the starting rotation. He’s the the starting lineup. He’s the oldest player on this Net’s roster. He’s a guy who’s done it in the playoffs is proven. And historically with these guys even when it’s been kind of the Nets going towards this rebuild the last few years, they have had these veteran guys starting in the lineup. Whether you talk about Dorian Finny Smith, whether you talk about Dennis Shruder, whoever, like these guys have been starters and they’ve tend to tended to default to those guys. So, man gets that starting spot. Behind him, you have Zire Williams locked into the rotation. Zire has looked really good in the preseason and has really built upon what we saw from him last season when he had his, you know, career best year with the change of scenery. Signs that two-year $12 million extension. And he looks really good. You know, in these last two games, I think he’s eight of 14 from three. He’s averaging like 18 points in these last couple preseason games. He’s shooting the ball at a really high level. Looks really confident. The stroke looks pure. And then we obviously know that what he can do defensively in terms of being a switchable guy in terms of being a guy who can guard at the point of attack. So you have Zire there. And then Jaylen Wilson I think is behind them, you know, right now. And he’s a guy that I don’t I don’t see getting minutes early in the season. Maybe if there’s some injuries, but I think that he’s a guy that’s probably going to be in the back end of the rotation. I think that that’s exemplified by him being, you know, the final roster spot and there’s just a lot of guys ahead of ahead of him at this point and that’s why I was somewhat surprised and it’s kept him over Kobe Buffkin, but they seem to like what they have in him just as a depth piece and they’ve been, you know, high on what he’s done. So, I think he’ll get NBA minutes as the year progresses, especially during a tanking campaign, but in the beginning of the season, he’s kind of back behind a lot of these other guys going to power forward. Michael Porter Jr. obviously the starter. He looked unbelievable offensively during this uh loss to Toronto on Friday at 34 points. He shot the lights out. The defense has just been completely uninspired throughout the preseason. Obviously, there were questions about that at times in Denver in terms of his motor and the want to as a rebounder, as a defender. You know, this is the preseason, so you give him the benefit of the doubt. The games are going to count on Wednesday. We’ll see. But Porter Jr. has looked really good offensively. The defensive effort just has not been there. But it is preseason. We’ll see how he looks during the regular season. And then behind him, you obviously got Noah Clowney. He is going to be the backup. He is a guy who hasn’t really shown a ton thus far during the preseason, but he has bulked up a lot. You know, you’re hoping that that’ll help him as a guy who can score more around the rim, who can get to the basket a little bit more. And then defensively, obviously, it’ll be useful there. But we’ll see what he does. And then Heywood Highmith behind those guys. He’s going to be out for two more months, but he is going to be in this forward rotation, I would expect, at some point. And if he isn’t, it’s not the end of the world. Like if it turns into a boy on Bdon of a situation where he doesn’t really get to play for this Nets team, maybe there’s a buyout or something. If he can’t get on the floor, he can’t get healthy. We’ll see. But I would expect the Nets to try to get him in the rotation if he is healthy, just to see if he has any flip value. Then you get to center. Pretty straightforward here. Nick Claxton’s the starter. Hasn’t looked great in the preseason, you know, outside of maybe one game. Like did not look good on Friday. But we’ll see moving forward with him. Dron Sharp’s the backup. Could he be nipping at Claxton’s heels? Could the Nets potentially look to move on from Claxton at some point during this season? Definitely a possibility because the Nets are tanking and I don’t think that they need 48 minutes of like veteran capable center play all the time. And you have Danny Wolf behind him and if you behind both of these guys and if you have Don Sharp who’s playing at a level close to Claxton, you have Danny Wolf behind him who’s an older rookie at 21 years old and showed some indications that he could be NBA ready during his preseason appearances. you might want to get him NBA minutes sooner rather than later. So, could that lead to a Claxton trade? We’ll see. But I definitely think there’s a story you could tell yourself where that could make some sense. But at the start of the season, it’s Claxton and then Sharp and Danny Wolf. I would expect to spend some time in the G- League alongside Nolan Troy and Drake Pal. And for the Nets, just to see what they have in Wolf and see if he’s a power forward, if they’re a center, see at which spot do they like him more as they did with Noah Clowny during his rookie campaign. Just collect some data there and we’ll see. But that is what the Nets rotation is looking like. Jordan Fernandez has said he’s going to go 10 deep. And it seems like those 10 are pretty set in stone, I would say, or at least nine of them are set in stone, I would say. When you have, you know, Jagor and Saraf at point guard, you have Cam Thomas, Terrence Van, Xire Williams, MPJ, Noah Clowney, and then Claxton and Sharp. I’d say those nine are set in stone. And the question I would say beyond that, or the only significant question is maybe that 10th spot, that shooting guard spot behind Cam Thomas. Is it uh Tyrese Martin to start the season? Is it Drake Pal? I’d probably say that Martin has a leg up there, but we’ll see how it plays out. That’s all I got for you guys today on Locked on Nets. Hope you guys enjoyed everything that I had to say about this Buffing Cup. But if you do not already, make sure to subscribe to Locked on Nets on YouTube and wherever you get your podcast, whether Apple Podcast or Spotify. If you enjoy the content, take a second right now, smash that like button, leave a comment, leave a fivestar review. Anything you can do to engage is much appreciated. We got more content coming up as always. We got to talk about Jorman’s performance during his NBA debut. So, we’ll have that on tomorrow’s episode. And then after that, it’s the regular season, baby. It’s here on Wednesday. So, I’ll have coverage of all that and more when I’m back tomorrow talking more Brooklyn Nets basketball.

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