Shams UPDATE on NBA Trade Market: Lamelo Ball to Clippers, Markkanen to Pistons, Kuminga to Kings?

Shams UPDATE on NBA Trade Market: Lamelo Ball to Clippers, Markkanen to Pistons, Kuminga to Kings?

with LaMelo Ball. Obviously, we know all of the backstory. It seems like we do this every season. Is it time to move him, start fresh, send him somewhere where he can start fresh? All of those great things contribute to this question. A, is it time to turn the page on young LaMelo Ball? Yes, I think so. Listen, let him flourish. Let him go be around some veteran leadership, some guys that can a winning culture where it can kind of trickle down and rub off on him and he gets an opportunity in this second quarter of his career in year six, year seven where he can have a real opportunity to compete at the highest level, especially with seeing um his peers do the same thing. One person that I can reference that this worked for was uh Aaron Gordon down in Orlando. remember Aaron Gordon was a, you know, hot pick and it just didn’t pan out in Orlando. You sent him to Denver where he’s a second option or a third option type of a guy. All of the pressure isn’t on him to win and he’s flourished. He’s a champion now. He’s one of the guys that we look to when we start talking about Denver and how successful they can be and the pieces that they need. We speak about Aaron Gordon. We speak about AG. I think LaMelo Ball can be one of those guys. I think I think he can do that. I think he could be in his hometown of LA with the with the Clippers. They’ve been looking for a point guard of the future. Somebody that they can look for some young energy, some some fresh blood that’s familiar with the with the with the scene, familiar with the city and the fan base. I think the Clippers are a great fit for LaMelo, but I definitely think it’s time for them to move on. You compare him with some of those veteran guys that are over there that’s at the tail end of their careers where they can kind of phase out and now you have a fresh young point guard that’s local um that can do some special things right there in your backyard. I think that scenario makes sense to me personally. Well, let’s look at the machine. Uh the machine’s Conrad by the way. Uh here are the three teams and you did mention the Clippers also have the Mavs there which would be an Anthony Davis type situation. You’re moving him. Just think of LaMelo with the rest of that roster. You mentioned the Clippers and then this one at the bottom, the Atlanta Hawks seems like the most um less paperwork because it basically be LaMelo for Trey Young. Boom. Fresh start. Are you sticking with Clippers or would you change that up? Okay. Why Chandler? Why you making that face? Well, I would hate to for Trey Young to go to Charlotte. So, I that one’s out for me. I don’t want to see him go there. I think Clippers I think that makes the most Yeah. Uh, I think that makes the most sense. I think they need a fresh franchise player. He’s from there. He’s electric. And I think when you put LaMelo Ball with good players, he is so much better. You look at his 39% from the field and 28% from three. He does take some crazy shots and he’s not the most efficient player the way he plays cuz he’s kind of a high risk, high reward type of guy with a shot taker and and the attempts that he’s even attempting. But when you have good players and you have a James Harden, you have a Kawhi Leonard, you you you don’t have to do as much. you don’t force as much. You’re not taking these onelegged 35 ft step backs. You I think when LaMelo Ball is at his best, he will be the second or third best player on the team and he can pick and choose the spots. He can still have nice where he erupts and goes for 40, 45, 50 points, but he’s a playmaker. He’s a big guard. He sees the floor, but he has to be more efficient. My point guard can’t shoot 39% from the field and 28% from three. That’s just never going to work. You’re not going to win games like that. He needs to be surrounded by better players and a better situation. and he’s not right now in Charlotte. So, I do think that he needs to get moved and I don’t think his I think I don’t think he’s ever going to reach his full potential playing for the Charlotte Hornets and I think he’s too good to not want to see him play in the playoffs. Yeah, I and I agree with Chandler. I don’t want to see the Hawks the Hawks flip out. I I want to see Trey Young. I want to see LaMelo Ball. I want to see both of those guys get fresh starts and real opportunities to compete at a high level. For me, the Clippers make the most sense. and and Chandler, like you said, and like I said, you put him around some vets, some guys that’s going to hold him accountable. Say, “Hey, man. All right, listen. This is how we going to go about it, and we going to clean up some of this, and this is our way to it.” Especially if you pair him with a Kawhi Leonard, somebody that he can look at and say, “Hey, that’s a two-time champ right there. He kind of know what he got going on. That’s a that’s a vet that I can listen to. That’s somebody I can follow.” If you put him around a bunch of young guys that haven’t done much, he’s going to be back on the same thing. like I’m just I’m just like y’all and I’m going to do what I want. So to be around some vets that’s going to hold him accountable and help him kind of get to that next level. I think that’ll be great for him. How about Chris Paul? Like how about him? How about him being able to learn from Chris Paul in that Well, you got like 20 more minutes, so you better hurry up then. Make this trade happen if you’re going to do that. Yeah. Um Lori Markin, this one’s spicy. Uh only 28, so keep that in mind. Great hair. Uh and has also been on the trade block rumors thing for like a while now. Uh 29 points a game is what he’s averaging right now and being talked about with a lot of teams that could really use him. Uh Danny A apparently and rightfully so. Sounds like he wants a King’s Ransom for Lorie Markin’s services. So let me ask you this. First of all, Chandler, is this the year we finally see Markin and move? I hope so, cuz he’s having an unbelievable year and most people don’t get a chance to watch him play because they’re not on national TV and you’re not going to watch the Jazz play this year. Wow. This is the guy that he gets me going. He’s the guy that can really make a good team a great team. The way he shoots the ball, he’s so efficient. Damn near 50% from the field, damn near 40 from the three and 90 from the free throw. He plays within himself and he’s such a plug and play pick and pop big where the two teams that would get me going would be the San Antonio Spurs and the Detroit. Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs. I think he makes them an immediate contender. I think both teams have assets and picks where they could acquire him and I think he is the perfect fit to go with Wimby. Can you imagine Wimby and and this dude stretching the floor? I think can you imagine Kate Cunningham actually having that second option and they have five pick they have all five of their picks in the future. They have Jaden Ivy who’s attractive. They they have they have a couple other assets they could throw in with those picks. Lori Markin makes the Pistons the best team in the East and Lori Markin makes the the Spurs real dangerous in the West. I got a I got a team. Do we Do we not like a a Kaminga swap for marketing out in Golden State? Do we not like that? Utah would never do that. Just a thought. Put Kaminga out there with Ace Bailey and them young guys. You get a chance to start fresh. You talk about a guy that needs more minutes that wants to be a star. I mean, you already got Lori. You already have him. So, if if you gonna move him, you want to go younger. You want to start fresh. So, I don’t know. Just a thought. younger. So young already. Okay, fine. Here’s the deal. These are the three teams. We didn’t have uh Golden State on our in our little machine here. We did have the Spurs and the Pistons, as Chandler already mentioned, and they do have I know. I was going to say, so then we threw Miami up there as well. How are we feeling about that? Yeah. Like you you throw, you know, you throw a a Jovich or a and a and a Haime Hakez mixed with a Norman Pal situation. I’d like to obviously keep Hero and Bam there. So, I don’t know exactly logistically how they would do that, but Lori Marina makes the Heat dangerous in the East, too. So, I think that’s my point. I think him of all the names we’re going to discuss, I think he’s kind of that game changer, franchise changing franchise changing piece that really moves the needle on a trade. Like, you put LaMelo Ball on the Clippers right now, I think they get better. They get younger. I think their future is brighter. I don’t think they become a much better basketball team right away. put Lorie Marin on any of those three teams. Now we’re talking. Now they’re a better basketball team. Yeah, I like Miami as well. I like Miami as well. Wer would be in that conversation as well. He’s another guy that’s making some waves that’s playing well for them that’ll probably be in that mix. But I like Miami as well for for Lori. All right, let’s move on to Kaminga. Um again, these are another name that we just keep talking about. Will he won’t he be moved? Uh we there’s what else is there to say? We know exactly what’s been going on. We know whether he plays or doesn’t play is sort of a crazy situation. Um, so I’m wondering, can they get a real star, Lou? Like what? Because Chandler balked at the idea that the Utah Jazz the Utah Jazz would want Kaminga. So now I’m wondering what can they get for Kaminga. Yeah, I’m not really I’m not really sure what they can get for him. That’ll be that’ll be interesting to me. I I like that. I like pairing him up with Ace Bailey, but another team, and I’m sure we’ll talk about it, I like Sacramento and Dallas as well. I think those are those are two teams that I also can see him flourishing and being in a great position to be the player that he wants to be outside of Golden State. In Sacramento, he’s going to get a lot of opportunity. He’s going to get the basketball. He’s going to be featured. They’re going to put him in a position to be successful. They’re going to put him in a position to be the guy. If you know, you put together a package for one of the, you know, their star players. Say you throw a Demar D. Rosen in that conversation or you throw Lavine in that conversation like that can be something different that I like for him in Sacramento for him to be able to go out there um and get off as a as a hooper. Dallas is another one. You put them out there with with some of those young guys and you talk about size, you put him with Cooper Flag and uh Kyrie when he comes back from injury and all of those guys, you have a lot of size out in Dallas. I like those two. Yeah. Also, those are two. This feels like he’s going to be on the Kings. It really does. I I don’t It just feels like he’s going to be on the Kings. Okay. Well, that’s there you go. So, that’s two of the three that are mentioned, but let me just skip down to the Bucks since you guys already mentioned the Kings and the Mavericks. Hear me out cuz we’re going to hear the trade rumors with the Bucks when they can’t figure things out or if they start to go downhill. Uh Giannis, first four round picks, four first round picks. Hello. Talk to me about the idea that you could possibly get Giannis in Golden State. Oh, you’re saying uh Well, I don’t like the fit. I don’t I don’t like the fit of Kaminga and Giannis together. And I don’t think No, not together. Um O I I think it’s going to take more. We’re talking Giannis. I think it’s going to take more than that. I think they’re going to have to they’re going to have to ship out a lot more than Kaming going for a first round pick. If you look at the history of kind of what these guys have brought in trade value and the Rudy Gobear trade and the Desmond Bane trade, Desmond Bane, now we’re talking Giannis. I think it’s going to take more way more and without Giannis in the deal. I don’t like Giannis and Kaminga basketball-wise at all on the same team. But I don’t see that happen. If I’m Milwaukee, there’s there’s no And I love Kaminga. I’ve been riding for Kaminga for two years about but but no, I don’t I don’t see that working. No spacing. I’m good. Okay, there you go. We say no. That one’s squashed. All right, we’re going to take quick break on the other side. A little more it back.

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