Wemby's Easy 40, LeBron's All-NBA Streak Ends & Mock NBA Expansion Draft

Summary

No Dunks — February 11, 2026 Podcast Summary

Episode Title: Wemby's Easy 40, LeBron's All-NBA Streak Ends & Mock NBA Expansion Draft
Hosts: Jay Skeets, Tas Melis, Trey Kirby (TK), JD
Podcast: No Dunks, iHeartPodcasts
Theme: Breaking down Victor Wembanyama’s historic performance, the end of LeBron’s All-NBA streak, key NBA headlines, and running a full mock NBA expansion draft for Seattle and Las Vegas.

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Episode Overview

This episode dives deep into several major NBA headlines:

• Victor Wembanyama’s dominant 40-point game in just 26 minutes
• The historic end to LeBron James’ All-NBA honors streak due to the new 65-game rule
• Run-throughs of last night’s NBA action
• NBA expansion becomes the focal point, with a detailed and entertaining mock expansion draft for potential Seattle and Las Vegas franchises

The hosts bring their usual blend of humor, passion, and deep basketball knowledge, with the mock draft dominating the back half of the show.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Victor Wembanyama's Explosive 40-Point Game

Timestamps: 04:48 – 11:15

• Wembanyama scorched the Lakers' shorthanded roster with a historic performance: 40 points in just 26 minutes.
• Noted for scoring 25 points on 8-for-9 shooting before even sitting in the first quarter.
• "It was the third highest scoring quarter in franchise history... trailing only Gervin and David Robinson." — Jay Skeets (04:58)
• Lakers were depleted (“no big bodies”), leading to several comic moments about defenders like Luke Kennard and Jake LaRavia being hopeless to stop Wemby.
• “Wemby was aggressive, looking for a shot. He scored 17 straight in the first quarter. The Lakers were also trying to play zone, and guess what? He can just shoot over the top of Luke Kennard.”— TK (06:58)
• Discussion about the Spurs’ new stretch lineup and their strong net rating.
• Wembanyama's improved three-point shot and versatile threat highlighted, as well as his potential to someday join the 70-point game club.
• "He’s absolutely capable, especially when you’re throwing out guys that are too teeny tiny." — Tas (10:16)

2. LeBron James' All-NBA Streak Ends

Timestamps: 11:08 – 16:40

• LeBron, by missing his 18th game, is ineligible for All-NBA honors due to the new 65-game threshold.
• This ends his historic 21 straight years of All-NBA selections.
• "Will it ever be broken? I don’t know." — Skeets (12:03)
• The hosts marvel at the longevity and consistency required for such a streak.
• Comparison with current active streak leaders: Giannis (9; likely to end), Jokic (7; also in jeopardy due to games played).
• Fun trivia segment remembering the 2003-04 All-NBA First Team.

3. Other Notable NBA Headlines and Games

Timestamps: 16:41 – 25:24

• Quick recaps:
  • Pacers outlasting Knicks in overtime: “39 lead changes. That’s the most in an NBA game this year.” — Tas (17:57)
  • Suns defeat Mavericks despite a lopsided free throw differential (Dallas shot 44 FTs to Suns’ 9).
  • Brandon Ingram named as an All-Star replacement for Steph Curry, marking a six-year gap between All-Star appearances (tying an obscure NBA record).
• Coaches and snub talk: Spurs coach Mitch Johnson advocates for Fox or Castle as All-Stars, cheekily implying Wemby must be the league’s MVP front-runner: “The only way I can think that we're deserving of just one All Star means there must be an awful lot of people that have Victor Wembanyama as one of their front runners for MVP.” — Mitch Johnson, quoted by Skeets (27:02)

4. Mock NBA Expansion Draft: Seattle SuperSonics & Las Vegas Venom

Timestamps: 32:17 – 80:42

Context and Setup

• Strong reporting that NBA will soon vote to expand to Seattle and Las Vegas.
• Hypothetical draft using real NBA contracts, player statuses, and SpotTrack’s pre-made protected list.
• Each existing team can protect eight players; only one player per team can be drafted; salary cap approx. $155 million.

Team Names

• Seattle Team: SuperSonics (“SuperSkeets”)
• Las Vegas Team: Venom (inspired by a snake logo TK found online)

First Picks and Big-Name Debates

• Seattle #1 pick: Zion Williamson
  “So nice, he drafted him first twice. Zion Williamson off the board.” — Skeets (42:29)
• Las Vegas #1 pick: Jalen Green
  “A guy who plays, a high flyer for casual fans... Jalen Green’s gonna score 35.” — Tas (44:54)
• Notable unprotected stars: Zion Williamson, Ja Morant, Paul George, Tyler Herro, Jimmy Butler. Teams must juggle risk (injuries, big salaries) vs. excitement and on-court production.
• Point guards, bigs, and affordable wings are scarce, leading to tricky choices.

Rounds Highlights & Strategy

• Intriguing selections:
  • Seattle: Fred Van Vliet, Julian Champagnie, Ty Jerome, Paul Reed, Benedict Mathurin, Grant Williams, Klay Thompson (for fan connection and veteran presence in Seattle’s return season).
  • Las Vegas: Lou Dort (defensive toughness), Rudy Gobert (anchor, $36M cap hit), Malik Monk (bucket getter), Kobe Bufkin (youth), Goga Bitadze (frontcourt depth), Usman Dieng (flyer), Keaton Wallace (deep cut).
• Hilarious logic and genuine draft-room debate:
  • "We got a guy named Kobe. Come and see us play." — Tas (54:21)
  • “Fred can be a coach on the floor.” — Skeets (46:23)
  • “I’m a Canadian. I gotta play the Canadian card here.” — Skeets, picking Mathurin (63:10)

Expansion Draft Reflections

• The teams came out stronger than historical expansion squads given modern contracts and league depth.
• “Supersonics — higher ceiling, Venom — higher floor.” — TK (79:18)
• Fun speculation about a real expansion draft possibly being conducted differently—via blind ranked lists, not a televised “snake” format.

Final Rosters (Highlights)

Seattle (Skeets):

• Zion Williamson, Fred Van Vliet, Julian Champagnie, Ty Jerome, Paul Reed, D’Anthony Melton, Benedict Mathurin, Day’Ron Sharpe, Grant Williams, Jordan Walsh, Mohamed Diawara, Klay Thompson, Johnny Furphy

Las Vegas (Tas):

• Jalen Green, Lou Dort, Rudy Gobert, Malik Monk, Jaden Ivey, Goga Bitadze, Usman Dieng, Julian Strother, Sandro Mamukelashvili, Justin Champagnie, Vince Williams Jr, Keaton Wallace, Kobe Bufkin

5. Suspension Updates & Woah Boy Award

Timestamps: 80:48 – 83:14

• On-air, live reaction to NBA’s announcement of suspensions (Isaiah Stewart 7 games, Miles Bridges 4, etc.) after the Pistons-Hornets fight.
• “Woah Boy” award: Victor Wembanyama for his historic stat line (40 points, 12 boards, 2 steals, 1 block, 2 assists in 26 minutes).
  • “Will we see this guy score 70 plus points in our lifetime? I say yes.” — Skeets (82:51)
  • “Oh, definitely.” — TK (82:52)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Seattle Super Skeets is what we’re calling them… changing it from Sonics.” — Skeets (04:48)
• “25 points before you check out. The game is over.” — Tas (05:36)
• “He can just shoot over… Not much of a challenge there.” — TK (06:58)
• “All NBA streak for a record setting 21 straight seasons. And it ends this year, Tas, because he can’t get there. How sad.” — Skeets (11:57)
• “Will it ever be broken? I don't know… I don't think we're ever gonna see this.” — Skeets (12:03)
• “If you have a player score 25 in the first quarter, you should play him the entire second. I want to see some team meaningfully chase Wilt’s 100.” — Skeets quoting Andy Bailey (09:05)
• “We got a guy named Kobe… That's a sell, that's a sell!” — Tas (54:21)
• “Supersonics: higher ceiling; Venom: higher floor.” — TK (79:18)
• “Will we see this guy score 70 plus points in our lifetime? I say yes.” — Skeets (82:51)

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Important Timestamps (MM:SS)

• 04:48 — Wembanyama’s 40-point night analysis
• 11:08 — LeBron’s All-NBA streak ends; historical context
• 16:41 — Pacers-Knicks overtime thriller
• 24:40 — Brandon Ingram All-Star snub talk
• 27:02 — Spurs coach on Wemby’s MVP candidacy
• 32:17 — NBA expansion draft intro/setup
• 41:03 — Expansion draft first pick: Zion to Seattle
• 44:54 — Jalen Green chosen for Las Vegas
• 54:21 — “We got a guy named Kobe” — draft hype
• 80:48 — Live reaction to NBA suspensions announced

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Overall Tone & Flow

The show maintains the classic No Dunks vibe: insightful, analytic, and irreverent. The hosts mix sharp basketball acumen with in-jokes, nostalgia, and quizzes. The expansion draft is a bona fide highlight, with the group alternating between serious debate and comic banter. There’s clear excitement for NBA expansion and admiration for Wemby’s potential, as well as a sense of historic mourning (and appreciation) for LeBron’s legendary streak.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• You’ll hear a rapid-fire, detail-rich look at Wemby’s explosion, LeBron’s legacy, oddities and highlights from recent games, and an extremely fun, realistic-feeling mock expansion draft (complete with contract/cap strategy).
• You’ll get connected to NBA history, modern roster philosophy, league trends, and the hosts’ unique personalities.
• Expect big laughs, lots of hoops nostalgia, and some pointed speculation about how NBA expansion will change the league.

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If you love NBA banter, the quirky realities of league expansion, and imagining the “what ifs” of pro hoops, this jam-packed No Dunks episode is not to be missed!

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[Jay Skeets]

Good morning sweet world, and welcome to the no Dunks podcast presented by fanduel. It's. Let me check the date here. Yeah, still Wednesday, February 11, 2026. I wasn't sure if it was Thursday by now. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me, as always, Tas Melis.

[Tas Melis]

Podcast listeners, this is for you.

[Jay Skeets]

Next to him, it's my top shot, hot boy Commissioner Trey Kirby Ayo. Hey. Oh, and over yonder, making the magic happen, super producer JD Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody on YouTube. Hit the like button and subscribe. Podcast listeners, five star ratings and reviews. We are still waiting for the NBA to announce the Pistons Hornets suspensions. So will that happen during today's live show right after we wrap it up? Will it even happen today at this point? Don't they play tonight? They gotta call it in.

[T.K. Suited]

Come on, James. Come on, Adam. Mark probably involved.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. So we'll wait on that. And later today, onto this very podcast, we are going to hold our very own NBA expansion draft. Hence, TK Suited and booted, looking like the Commish. You're running this one here today.

[T.K. Suited]

That's right. My dongle is showing, so you can tell that I'm connected to the computer. Shout out to spot track. We're going to be talking about some protected players. We're going to be making draft picks and of you gets to name a team.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Because we know Seattle will be the Supersonic.

[T.K. Suited]

Supersonics. I see we have maybe a cobra on the thumbnail here.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I went with Las Vegas Venom.

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[Jay Skeets]

I didn't create that. I saw that on the Internet. But.

[Tas Melis]

But you claimed Seattle going into this trap. Seattle's yours.

[T.K. Suited]

Seattle.

[Jay Skeets]

Seattle. It's exactly. The Seattle Super Skeets is what we're calling them. We're changing it from Sonics, but T will figure out what the Vegas team is named. We'll get to that later because there was some games last night that we got to address. Let's start with Wembanyama scoring 40 points in 26 minutes versus the Lakers. He wanted more. He said he would have had more. He scored 25 points on 8 and 9 shooting before checking out for the first time with like four minutes left in the first queue. It was the third highest scoring quarter in franchise history, trailing only hall of Famers George Gervin, who had 33, and David Robinson with 28. But what a game here from Wemby. And it was a beat down in Los Angeles. Lakers were not playing a lot of guys, but no, Wemby embarrassed them here in eight minutes and it was basically over.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, 25 points before you check out. The game is over. You mentioned the guys not playing. Everybody looking at, oh, LeBron Reeves, Luca Ayton, a big one. Just having a big body that wasn't there in front of him. But I blame Luke Canard who was playing in this game. The first possession on a fast break. Victor Omnama literally just. I don't even know what the word is. He just went through Luke Canard, but it's not even through him because Luke Canar just kind of got out of the way. Okay, now I feel great. Next move, a fantastic spin on Jake Laravia. And then splash, splash, splash. Three, three, three. And then the numbers just kept going up. Actually, the next one was an alley oop where Laravia looked at Luke Kennard again. What are you doing, dude? Get in front of him.

[T.K. Suited]

Blocked.

[Jay Skeets]

Luke, get up there and challenge him.

[Tas Melis]

No, no, all he had to do was was hit Victor Wembanyama. You're not obviously not going to get in the way of a 7 foot 5 man and his hands up there. But his job was to hit him. Yeah, like, like body to body. That's it. So blame Luke. 25 points to start this game. I mean, all the starters who weren't playing. Yeah, we'll get to Kobe. Buffkin making his first NBA start in a sec. But that was where it started. They're not playing any big bodies. So Laravia fouls out of this game in 18 minutes. Hilarious. Pretty quick. And Jackson ha. Stop him. And nobody could stop him.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, Wemby was aggressive, looking for a shot. He scored 17 straight in the first quarter. The Lakers were also trying to play zone. And guess what? He can just shoot over the top of Luke Canard. Not much of a a challenge there. But WEMBY in 2026 since the calendar has flipped over 38% on six three point attempts per game. The three point shot is coming around. It was a focus this year to do most of his damage inside, but as he has gotten healthy and gotten more comfortable out on the court, a little more space as well, he's really letting these threes rip. The spurs have found a new starting lineup. Wemby, Fox, Castle, Vassell and Champagne. They sent Harrison Barnes to the bench. They're 3 and 1 with that starting lineup. A plus 13 net rating in pretty short minutes, but it is by far the most shooting they can put on the court. Like Barnes might shoot a better percentage than Vassell in particular, but Vassell's got a much quicker trigger. Gets the shots off right away. Champagne, that's what he's out there to do, is shoot three. So I think they found something that really works. You got to put as much shooting from the forward spots out there when Fox and Castle are your lead ball handlers just because they're not necessarily the greatest shooters on the perimeter. So smart stuff from Mitch Johnson and a dominating win. The Lakers announcers were calling this All Star Game type stuff an extended garbage time with seven minutes left in the second quarter. They're like, we're playing 20 to 30 minutes of basketball. That does not matter.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[T.K. Suited]

And this is a team trying to win a championship.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. No.

[Jay Skeets]

And LeBron says they're not there. They're not at that level. He said that obviously before this game. Yeah, and it's very true.

[Tas Melis]

I also was watching the Lakers broadcast and I thought, okay, we're going to commercial. We're going to show a replay of Victor Wembanyamar. That's how desperate the Lakers broadcast must be. They're going to show it. They didn't, you know, they got to do the Lakers thing. So they didn't show that, but that's how desperate it was. But the spurs are cooking, as you said. That is going to be their starting lineup. Champagne, I think they ran a play from the first possession to get him a three to get that ball moving around because it's exactly it. So many shooters around Wembley.

[Jay Skeets]

Champagne, that might be a name that comes up later in our expansion draft.

[Tas Melis]

Absolutely.

[Jay Skeets]

We might be fighting for that guy. Trying to draft him.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, he's cheap.

[Jay Skeets]

He's very cheap. I wanted to get your thoughts on this. I saw Andy Bailey tweet last night. If you have a player score 25 in the first quarter, you should play him the entire second. I want to see some team meaningfully chase Wilt's 100. Should we have like a rule in place if you do have 25 plus at the end of the first quarter quarter, you're like, it's mandatory. You got to play the guy for like the entire second quarter, if not third quarter even. Yes, I like that. Yeah, there's something that you should. But I bring that up because, like we always talk about like Luca as a guy who could maybe like flirt with like Kobe's 80 plus or, you know, 100. That's like a whole other level. But he's done 70 before. Embiid, I guess, has gotten to that level. Wemb women Yama has to be now included in any of these conversations of a guy who could go for the insane sort of stats in a game. Like 70 plus, let's say because of the three point shot, because of the alley hoops, because of the pressure you can put on the rim. Add it all up on the perfect night in a competitive game. He also sort of has the M.O. it feels like to keep firing away and go for something like that. I mean, I guess I'm just getting at will we see a 70 point game from Wembanyama in the immediate future here in the next couple of years? I would bet on it. More likely than not. I think.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it's possible. He definitely is a guy who looks for his teammates to get going a lot of the time. So that would make you think that maybe he doesn't. But at the same time, he's absolutely capable. Especially when you're throwing out guys that are too teeny tiny. When they threw Maxi Cleba out there.

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[Tas Melis]

Cleaver wasn't tagging. He wasn't hitting him either. He was giving him so much space for him to just, hey, you just scored, dude. Yeah, obviously he can shoot over. You need to hit the guy. I was surprised that Cleba was out there. I thought they might be going to Drew Timmy, get him out there to. Just because, you know, Drew Timmy's throwing a body at Victor Wenyama. But that was not happening in this game. Everybody they threw at him was. That was sad.

[T.K. Suited]

You're. You're naming some ridiculous guys.

[Tas Melis]

I know.

[T.K. Suited]

I mean, you can tell why Victor had 40 in as few minutes as he did. If the suggestion is maybe Drew Timmy should be tagging harder. So they just. The Lakers weren't playing this game.

[Jay Skeets]

No.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah. All of their starters were out, basically. Even Marcus Martin. Like you're saying Ayton were out. They they didn't care to play hard.

[Jay Skeets]

Wemby joined hall of Famer Patrick Ewing as the only players in NBA history to record a 40 point double double in that few of minutes. 26 minutes or less. I guess Patrick Ewing has one of those on his resume as well. So Wemby joins that list as well. Crazy game from him. LeBron James didn't play in this game as you guys brought up. His all NBA streak came to an end last night. He sat out his 18th game of the season, making it impossible for him to reach the 65 game threshold required to be eligible for the league's annual awards. So LeBron has been named to an All NBA team for a record setting 21 straight seasons. And it ends this year test because he can't get there. How sad.

[Tas Melis]

Were you not. Not okay? Were you. I don't know. 21 straight. A heck of an accomplishment.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh my God. Will it ever be broken?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's a great question.

[Jay Skeets]

I don't know. I don't know. Because two things actually have to happen. Well, really three. One, you have to be like, have that consistent greatness for a stupid long time. Two decades with LeBron. That's the crazy part. Obviously you got to stay healthy as possible as you can for a majority of your career. And then you also have to start making all NBA teams immediately. Basically right away. He's making them in what, his second season? He didn't make it in his rookie season. He's all NBA second team in his second year. So like, wow. I don't know. I don't think we're ever gonna see this.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. And as a guy who came out of high school so you got there super young in comparison to that. Yes. It would be difficult to do here. If you want to be a crazy devil's advocate, you can say, well, they're going to take away this 65 game minimum this season. So maybe you can only have to play 60 games. But the biggest thing is just starting your career as an all NBA and keep it going. It's difficult to do 21 heck of an accomplishment.

[T.K. Suited]

I will say that we're going to see 20 plus year NBA careers a lot more regularly, right?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

So that makes the chances a little bit higher than you would expect. But I mean this is. It's year 23 for LeBron and this is the first year where he's looked old, which is pretty crazy. And I think it's better for him to have his streak end on a technicality than any other way.

[Tas Melis]

That's A good point.

[T.K. Suited]

Right. I was disqualified. What was I supposed to do? Heard at the beginning of the year?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, that's the thing. Would he have even made it if he, let's say, played 66, 67 games? At the end of this, with his sort of similar stats and Lakers being decent but not elite, what do you have got squeezed for an all NBA selection?

[T.K. Suited]

Well, there's a lot of guys who are going to not be qualified as well. So if you were able to sneak.

[Jay Skeets]

In, maybe he would.

[T.K. Suited]

But I mean he's. If you're stacking up seasons, he's not a top 15 guy this year.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. And to give you a little context, just the idea of like 21 straight. Like Giannis is the next longest active streak with nine straight all NBA selections. But he's not making it of course, this year. Same reason he's going to be short on games played. And then Jokic is next with seven straight all NBA appearances. He's sort of on the edge of maybe not being eligible for the actual all NBA selection too. He's already missed 16 games this season, so a couple more and he's out. So like nine and seven. We're talking with a guy at the list of 21.

[T.K. Suited]

They're not even close to LeBron.

[Jay Skeets]

Not even sniffing it. The next closest streak to LeBron all time is Kobe, who did 15 straight all NBA knots. So yeah, I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think at least in our lifetimes we're going to see it again. Quick trivia question. You want to name the last time LeBron was not on an all NBA team? Who was back in 03 04? Some fun names. The first team. All NBA. 03. 04. I think you guys can do gets a little more difficult after that.

[T.K. Suited]

Kobe and Duncan.

[Jay Skeets]

Correct.

[Tas Melis]

Shaquille.

[Jay Skeets]

Correct. No. 3.

[T.K. Suited]

04. Ben Wallace.

[Jay Skeets]

He's on the second team.

[T.K. Suited]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. You gotta do it by positions here. 0304 is MVP.

[T.K. Suited]

Dirk was probably a second team.

[Jay Skeets]

Third team.

[T.K. Suited]

Third team. It was the 04 MVP, not Dwyane Wade. He wasn't. He was in the NBA.

[Jay Skeets]

No, but he's not on these teams.

[Tas Melis]

Wasn't Timmy. It wasn't Shaq.

[Jay Skeets]

Nope. You got a power forward and a point guard that you're missing on. Kevin Garnett, that's your mvp. And then your point guard you have not named yet on First Team All NBA. 03. 04.

[T.K. Suited]

Jason.

[Jay Skeets]

Kid. Hey. Good job. Nice.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Does it Help now that it is positionless to get bumped up a little easier maybe. Depends on your.

[Jay Skeets]

Depends on your position.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Really?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any other names you want to try for the second or third team? You got Ben Wallace and Dirk.

[T.K. Suited]

Rip Hamilton.

[Jay Skeets]

No, no.

[T.K. Suited]

Was there another Piston?

[Jay Skeets]

I don't believe they were good though.

[Tas Melis]

Is that a Tracy McGrady?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he's on the second team.

[T.K. Suited]

How about Jermaine O'? Neal?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he's on the 2nd team. Good poll. He got two more in the second team. One. This may have been the only all NBA team he ever made. Okay, I'll give you a good hint. Think Garnett.

[T.K. Suited]

Sprewell.

[Jay Skeets]

No, wrong one.

[T.K. Suited]

Marbury.

[Jay Skeets]

Nope. I guess wrong one there. Sam Cassell.

[T.K. Suited]

Sam Cassell.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

All NBA second team.

[T.K. Suited]

Wow. Crazy mid range has fallen.

[Jay Skeets]

And then Peja Stojakovic, second team.

[T.K. Suited]

Nice.

[Jay Skeets]

And then the third team, you got Dirk, Ron Artest, Yao Ming. Our guy, Michael Red, great year. Baron Davis. That rounds out your all NBA teams in 03 04. Last time LeBron was an All. Good job on naming the first team there. Any other thoughts on LeBron's streak coming to the end?

[Tas Melis]

No.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, let's get into some of other last night's other games. I think you got the scoreboard there, J.D. we had the Pacers beating the Knicks in overtime. These two teams cannot play a normal game. It's incredible. We had the Suns beating the Mavericks 121 11. Rockets took care of business against the Clippers. Good start to the fourth quarter for Houston. They got the win there. And then obviously that spurs game, which we don't need to talk more about, but any other takeaways TAS on, you know, quiet NBA slate?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I was just checking here online because we're talking about all NBA. We saw Stefan Castle go down yesterday with that pelvic injury. I haven't got an update. I don't know if he's.

[Jay Skeets]

I think he's okay.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it seems. It seems like he's all right. Yeah. As far as the Knicks Pacers go. Hilarious to go all the way down into overtime where I thought Aaron Neesmith did an incredible job on Jalen Bronson. Just. I thought he did it in the last few minutes of the fourth, but Jalen Brunson was being Jalen Brunson. But in overtime he was so spectacular. Guardian. One on one, fighting through the screens. And then they said, all right, quick break. Nemhardt, Siakam, go at him next possession. Neesmith back on him with a block on Jalen Brunson to stop him right at the rim. This game was fun.

[Jay Skeets]

This game was very fun.

[Tas Melis]

39 lead changes. That's the most in an NBA game this year. It's a lot of lead changes. Nice. Yeah, it was fun. Were the Knicks getting ready for Philadelphia tonight? Kind of. Maybe. Partly.

[T.K. Suited]

I think they definitely overlooked the Pacers. The Pacers are 30th in offense, and they gave up, what, 120 in regulation and then ended up giving up 137. And they just could not guard the ball at all. Like, TJ McConnell was lighting up Jose Alvarado, and they were showing Jose Alvarado's family every three plays. It felt like this guy played not the greatest game, but he was playing in New York City, so that was exciting. And McConnell took it to him. But just a disinterested performance, I thought, from the Knicks on the defensive end. No og, no Mitch, basically no defense for New York. So it was weird. Townshad, of course, the weirdest game of all time. Five turnovers, filed out on a moving screen, but also made the two biggest plays in the fourth quarter for the Knicks.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, he did. But we're. Right now, we're in dumb cat season, I think, right now when it comes to the fouls. He had been good there for a little stretch, and now, like, they're. They're showing back up here where he gets, like you said, the one that fouled him out, that was like a dumb moving ball screen, like 40ft from the rim.

[T.K. Suited]

The Cat special.

[Jay Skeets]

Completely pointless. Oh, yeah? Well, what else is in the Cat special? Hooking guys as you drive to the net. He got two of those last night. He had a pushing a dude, a guard, sort of in transition, like, gets his arm on him. Don't need to do that. Literally nothing is happening. You're not going to steal it. And then a classic push in the back, you know? Okay, look, that happens on a rebound attempt. He had them all. Those were all Cat specials. But, oh, my God, you're right. It was a hell of a play at the end to hit the two free throws. Like, he drew the foul right at the end, like, point what, Two left on the clock as they went and checked out.

[Tas Melis]

That was a good call.

[Jay Skeets]

He crashed the board. Yeah, yeah, it was a. It was a foul. Who got the foul was that he was trying to prevent. Like, Cat was going to dunk it or put it in.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Why weren't the Pacers ready to get back on a made free throw? It looked like they just weren't ready for a quick inbound for the Knicks. You know what's coming. Sherman had a wide open three. Great look. But then Cat hits free throws and then is asking for MSG to give him some cheers. You see those free throws get up? Yeah. I don't know. He needs something. Like, you're saying this bad Cat. He needs something to get him focused here. He's. He's ready for the All Star weekend, I guess, or maybe tonight against the 76ers.

[Jay Skeets]

But it was a very entertaining game. And that's all these two teams do. It feels like, obviously, last last year's postseason and now this one, because the Pacers, like, they had a bunch of guys questionable, maybe not playing, and I'm convinced they were like, no, we're playing the Knicks in Madison Square Garden. Let's go try and get, like, a rare win here or ruin it for them a little bit because they gave some effort. I'm glad you brought me Smith. Like, he did play great defense as well as you can. Brunson still had 40.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

But, like, everything was, like, he had to work his ass off. It felt like for all that, all 40 of those, just the ball pressure that Niecemith does put on, especially with his size. But Brunson's so crafty and so good. He can still get to 40. It's just like, pump, fake, step through, under, bump. Like, nothing easy kept him in it, but, man, it was fun. This was a very fun game on a quiet night there, like I said, with only four games on.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Felt bad for Pascal and his missed free throw there, but he's never been an incredible free throw shooter. No.

[Jay Skeets]

Especially this year. He's under 70 too, right?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. He's averaging, like, 65, I think.

[Jay Skeets]

On the year.

[Tas Melis]

On the year.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

But overall, his career, he's definitely under 70.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he's not great.

[Tas Melis]

You're right. That's not. Yeah. Wow. It is 75, first career. My bad. My bad.

[Jay Skeets]

This year is bad, though.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, this year is 68%.

[Jay Skeets]

But he hit the big jump shirt jump shot there down the stretch. Good game from him. Speaking of free throws, I guess, did you see the insane free throw discrepancy in the Suns win over the Mavs? Yeah, I had to do a triple check on this one. Dallas shot 44 free throw attempts in this game. That's a lot. Phoenix shot nine, nine times. Now, luckily for the Suns, they did shoot 25 more times from the floor, which was a big part of their win here. But that is a huge discrepancy at the line, but they took care like they were a big mav, sort of got back. Suns took care of business.

[Tas Melis]

This was a blowout even though it's a nine point spread and it did come down to the wire as far as our pick them goes because that was a seven and a half point spread. This was a spanking by the Suns. Nice effort by the Mavs, especially Najee Marshall, I thought to bring this team back 31 for him because he is, I think their. Their heart and soul. That Dallas Mavericks team. That is their energy, there's no doubt. But that was a spanker. Even though it's nine points again, that was bad.

[T.K. Suited]

Dallas had like 20 points midway through the second quarter and Phoenix was up by 31 and it was just a foul fest. And I guess, you know, 53 point attempts for Phoenix means you're not driving all that often. But they are offensive rebounding, so you know they're in there. Certainly Suns fans were saying this is a conspiracy because of the free throws. Because of the free throws. That's a ridiculous discrepancy from side to side. Cooper had a cool dunk.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh my God. Yeah, that was off the block on the other end.

[T.K. Suited]

Great block on a Jalen Green dunk attempt. And then the Cooper dunk kind of reminded me of Dwyane Wade on Anderson. Anderson Vera Zhao, where it's like you make a move before doing the big dunk and look, he dunked on Dylan Brooks. It's not quite as impressive as a guy bigger than you, but still dunks are nice.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, that was huge.

[Tas Melis]

When you dunk on a curly haired guy like Anderson Varejao, it just looks awesome. Yes. Because the hair goes.

[Jay Skeets]

And he fell down on that classic Wade dunk.

[T.K. Suited]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Stepped over. Yeah, that was awesome. It wasn't as bad, but it was huge. Huge, Duncan. But Dylan Brooks, man, especially in the start of this game, first half, the guy who's looking like old Michael Jordan with the post up fadeaway jumpers that he kept hitting like three or four of them from that one side, I guess to the left of the basket or on the right side of the floor. Depends on angle. You look at it.

[Tas Melis]

That's his thing.

[Jay Skeets]

It's his thing. Yeah, that's his go to shot, man.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Good game from him. I don't think.

[Tas Melis]

Even though. Even though he missed. He missed plenty of threes, but he was all right inside the arc. Yeah, he was 10 of 16 inside the arc. Money. But one 1 of 10 shooting three. Yeah, he's not going to make the All Star Game?

[Jay Skeets]

No, unfortunately for him. He's Canadian. Maybe he would have had a chance if he was American. Brandon Ingram replaced Steph Curry for the NBA All Star Game. We learned that yesterday. Ingram, averaging 22 points, about six boards, four assists, shooting 47% from the field in his first season here playing for the Raptors. He's played in a lot of games. You've brought this up before. A guy who has been injured for the last couple seasons played in 52 of the Raptors 54 games and he made it. He got selected, which was surprised some people. We didn't have him at the top of our list when it came to names, replacing Steph Curry on the American team.

[Tas Melis]

But you mentioned the games played and I think part of who he was thanking immediately when he gave his little speech of two minutes of thanking everybody was player development, the coaching staff. And he went into that and how they get him ready to play. And this is a drastic difference from his 18 games played last year to nearly playing almost every single game this season. But also thanking Glorilla, his girlfriend.

[Jay Skeets]

She'll be in the celebrity game.

[Tas Melis]

Yes, she will be.

[Jay Skeets]

I did tweet, jokingly tweeted, blessings to her for playing in the celebrity game. Maybe it helped here. Maybe so, maybe, who knows? He's a deserving All Star. He's on the short list of these other guys. But what are your thoughts on bi getting in here? Sure, yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah. Like you're saying, he was, he was maybe near the top of our Eastern Conference snubs list, but he was not near the top of our overall snubs list.

[Jay Skeets]

Right.

[T.K. Suited]

To me, Harden has had a better season. He probably wants to go on vacation though.

[Jay Skeets]

He probably took me. They asked him good, hey, man, do you want to play in this?

[T.K. Suited]

But no, Ingram is deserving just as much as Harden is.

[Tas Melis]

And yeah, the practices are. Now that you say that Harden's going to go on vacation, I mean they're probably just going to get. There's more time for practice for him rather than like three days at All Star weekend. Like he hasn't practiced yet. Yeah, that's. I know he doesn't practice.

[Jay Skeets]

He's like, I know what we're doing. What are we supposed to do? Score? Yeah, I got that. What do you want me to do on defense? Don't worry about it. I'll be out there. I'll try and get in the way. This is fun though. Brandon Ingram's six year gap between All Star appearances is tied for the Second longest time between All Star Game appearances over the last like three decades. I talked to Trey about this in the factory here. You weren't in here. Maybe it was before you arrived. You were stuck in traffic. But do you know the ones to have done the bigger gaps or one that tied with Ingram? Six years.

[Tas Melis]

The only one that jumps out is Jrue Holliday.

[Jay Skeets]

That's the correct answer. Drew Holliday. Ten years.

[T.K. Suited]

Well done.

[Jay Skeets]

Between appearances.

[Tas Melis]

Philly.

[Jay Skeets]

That's right.

[Tas Melis]

And then Milwaukee, 2013. Philly, was it?

[Jay Skeets]

Milwaukee, 2023. Milwaukee. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

He didn't squeeze one in New Orleans.

[Jay Skeets]

Can you name the other one that did six years? Just like bi here. He's a Hall of Famer. He's retired. He's. I said to Trey, he's like, has an incredible Q rating. Everybody, I mean, almost everybody. And I feel like everybody loves this guy.

[T.K. Suited]

Beloved for sure.

[Jay Skeets]

Like nobody has a bad thing to say about him.

[T.K. Suited]

The only creature who could maybe have a bad thing to say about him is a bat.

[Tas Melis]

Is a man who. Chernobyl. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Well played.

[T.K. Suited]

Bats hate this guy.

[Jay Skeets]

Bats do hate this guy.

[Tas Melis]

Six year gap.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. 05. And then 2011. And those were the only two all star appearances for him.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And related news here, just to pivot back to the Spurs a little bit and talking about bi being selected to the team, did you see what spurs coach Mitch Johnson said? He said, quote, I do think it's very interesting that de' Aaron Fox and Stefan Castle have not been named an All Star. Seven teams in this league have multiple All Stars and we played pretty good against a lot of the top teams in the league. He's like, why do we only have one? And now a lot of these other teams have two. He went on to say, the only way I can think that we're deserving of just one All Star means there must be an awful lot of people that have Victor Wembanyama as one of their front runners for mvp. Cooking nice. That was pretty slick. That is really good. Oh, we don't have two All Stars. Well, that must mean Wemby's a front runner for mvp. So. Yeah, look, Fox and Castle are. They don't have like mind blowing stats. I think is a knock against them, if you care about that. But they're an elite team and we debated who would you pick between the two? I think Fox.

[T.K. Suited]

That's probably part of the reason.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe that part. That they're cannibalizing each other a little bit. They're both good, but that was Mitch Good stuff, Mitch. Any other thoughts from last night before we get to expanding this league to 32 teams?

[T.K. Suited]

Nah.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, well, let's do it. Let's take a break and when we come back, we'll explain what we're doing in the NBA expansion draft.

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[Jay Skeets]

NBA so NBA expansion has been rumored for years now, but late Sunday night the Dallas Morning News reported that the NBA Board of Governors is likely to vote on expanding by two teams this summer and that Seattle and Las Vegas are favored still to be those two destinations. Silver has talked about this obviously in the past. I think he's even said it's sort of coming in 2026 or he expected it to, or at least the vote to happen. And again, he has even mentioned by name Seattle and Vegas as the most likely spots. And I saw some people in the Stream team wondering, are you sure? Are you sure we're expanding? You think those owners, 30 owners want to obviously sort of share the revenue the the pie. Although they're going to get kickbacks here too with new expansion, stuff like that. Look, I think it's happening.

[Tas Melis]

It sure feels like it's happening.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

He just met with the governor of Washington where Seattle is based. There's something happening there. It feels like it'll be approved by all those owners when it comes to that vote.

[Jay Skeets]

I think so.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

This is Happening now. Now, I will say we're going to do our very own NBA expansion draft here today. But this is a hypothetical, and we're, like, using current, obviously, rosters and who's protected and their contracts. But, like, when. If this really happens, it's not going to be for, what, maybe three more years? I don't even know. Like, we're not. We're not getting teams until probably 2028 the earliest, I would think.

[Tas Melis]

I would say 27, 28. There's a chance.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so not next year, but definitely not next year after.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. Because point is, Seattle is ready. Seattle is ready.

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[T.K. Suited]

Does Seattle have an arena like an NBA suitable arena? Because that was the reason they left.

[Tas Melis]

KeyArena is not. Not capable.

[T.K. Suited]

Any old guy.

[Jay Skeets]

It's old.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

An old fella.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but. Okay. It's gonna be a couple years, is the idea. So this, again, is just a thought experiment, a hypothetical. We're gonna play it out. Do you want to go through sort of the rules here, T.K. you want me to do that?

[T.K. Suited]

Rule me up.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, I'll rule you out. Because if the league follows precedent from previous expansions, most recently 2004, you got to go all the way back to 2004, when the Bobcats, Charlotte Bobcats came into existence. The framework would probably look something like this. Each existing NBA team can protect up to eight players. Only players under contract, restricted free agents or players with options could be protected. Players who are scheduled to be unrestricted free agents are not eligible to be chosen. Expansion teams can only select one player from the existing franchises. Meaning if TAS took somebody from the Wizards, then I couldn't take another player from the Wizards. Once you take one from that team, they're done. And I guess we're working with a salary cap of about 155 million now. I don't know how that will actually work. Can you go over it and then could you cut guys and stuff like that? I'm not sure, but we're working with.

[Tas Melis]

This framework, but who knows?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

And I would, because I was just. I was just selecting. I'm going to get the most for my buck here, right?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Why don't you come on over here, John Moran. We'll get to some big names. As far as Wizards, you said Wizards. I didn't even include them.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Well, they did not. And so here's the requirement.

[Jay Skeets]

Here's not what we're doing, though, on this podcast, at least we're not Going to go through every team and do the protection on the eight guys we think.

[Tas Melis]

Right.

[Jay Skeets]

That will take a long time. A lot of them are pretty damn obvious and it's done for us, Trey. And this is where I'll hand it over to you because Spot Track has already done it for us.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's interesting. Who they've protected.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, there are some curious ones that are like unprotected that could be drafted in our set expansion.

[T.K. Suited]

There are some big names available. Yes, absolutely. And also Jaden Ivy was causing a lot of conversation in the slack yesterday.

[Tas Melis]

Okay. How could they protect Isaac Okora over Jaden Ivey?

[T.K. Suited]

How could they protect Leonard Miller over Jaden Ivy? How could they protect Colin Sexton over Jaden Ivey?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, there's some weird ones out there.

[T.K. Suited]

Taking up with kid Keith.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, we didn't do this part but we're going with what they have. Cuz I would say for the most part it's pretty good. I think it's pretty good. Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Complaining.

[Tas Melis]

Hey, they did.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, they did great.

[Tas Melis]

They did. Some RFAs are. Some restricted free agents are weird. The Bucks. The Bucks are protecting Jericho Sims over Usman Jang or Andre Jackson.

[Jay Skeets]

Who gives a about that one?

[Tas Melis]

Well, Jericho Sims can't catch a ball. At least give a shot with Usman Jang or Andre Jackson over Usman.

[Jay Skeets]

Can I say before, before we start doing this actually we are going to.

[T.K. Suited]

Do all these protections. We changed our mind.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, I know. Let's do it. Before we do this though, like there are some big names. Like I think we're going to have like decent looking teams. Like this is like what I'm expecting here because there are a lot of guys to pick from. But I bring that up because if you go back and look at the previous legit expansion teams and look at their rosters, they're basically garbage.

[T.K. Suited]

Yes.

[Jay Skeets]

In fact, unless I counted wrong, I'm pretty sure we've only had three all stars ever selected in an NBA expansion draft. If you go all the way back to 1988. So going back to the Florida expansions. Right. The Orlando and Miami years and then we had a couple more after that. Obviously we had the Canadian teams, we had the Bobcats. Like I said, like there's a couple here is my point. But I think we had Reggie Theus, he was drafted by Orlando in an expansion draft. We had BJ Armstrong who was a.

[T.K. Suited]

One time all star number one expansion.

[Jay Skeets]

Pick drafted by the Raptors but did not report.

[Tas Melis]

He said no, no thanks.

[Jay Skeets]

And Gerald Wallace did turn into an All Star, right?

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah. Maybe he's the best expansion pick ever.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, probably three of those since the 80s. I think. So, yeah. That's what we're usually looking at here.

[T.K. Suited]

But now. But it's going to be some bigger guys you've heard of. Yeah, guys with high profiles.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah, some of them.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, it's. I mean, that's a debate. Do you draft them for your teams? Like, some of these big names are under big contract. Like, so we're going to do here. We're going to get into it. So there we go. We've laid the groundwork.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Watch your cap. Oh, we gotta decide who's going once. Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

I got a trivia question for you. Seattle and Las Vegas don't have professional men's teams, but they have very successful professional women's teams. The Seattle Storm and the Las Vegas Aces. The storm have won four titles. The Aces have won three titles. Between them, they have five different finals MVPs.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, God.

[T.K. Suited]

So I'm gonna ask you guys the finals MVPs from Seattle and Las Vegas. First one to miss the other guy gets the first pick.

[Jay Skeets]

Who wants to go first? You wanna. You go first.

[Tas Melis]

Go first. Go first.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. I only know two.

[T.K. Suited]

I think there's three easy ones. One gettable one and one that ensures we will have a first pick.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Okay, I will go first. I'm gonna say Lauren Jackson.

[Tas Melis]

Nice one. Okay.

[T.K. Suited]

2010.

[Tas Melis]

Asia Wilson.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, nice one. 23 and 25.

[Jay Skeets]

Now I'm. Now I'm grasping at straws a little bit. I'm gonna go Chelsea gray.

[T.K. Suited]

Very good. 2023 for the aces.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. So good luck to you. If you get it, you got it. I'll tell you, I don't think I got it.

[Tas Melis]

Seattle is recent. What year did they win?

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, come on. Come on.

[Tas Melis]

Go ahead.

[T.K. Suited]

Recent enough? Yeah, recent enough, Jewel.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, that's a good guess.

[T.K. Suited]

That's a good guess.

[Jay Skeets]

Jewel Lloyd, but it ain't right.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, Brad. Monkeys.

[T.K. Suited]

Brianna Stewart won in 2018 and 2020.

[Tas Melis]

Yes, yes.

[T.K. Suited]

And then Betty Lennox was the guaranteed that nobody's gonna get that one back in 2004.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, man. People forget Betty Lennox was a problem.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

She was walking on broken glass.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Well, they win and they play. They play in the former Key arena now. It's got a new name Climate Pledge Arena. But they also host the Kraken. Seattle Kraken hockey team. Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

Right, right.

[Tas Melis]

And I guess there is a men's basketball team that plays there. The Seattle Red Hawks. Men's basketball.

[T.K. Suited]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Anyways, they've gone through a few renovations on the arena so they can host an NBA team. I've decided. Not that I really know, but it sure feels that way.

[Jay Skeets]

That's great.

[T.K. Suited]

All right. I love it. Okay, so you get the first pick. Seattle SuperSonics. TAS.

[Jay Skeets]

I need to know what you're naming.

[T.K. Suited]

Your Las Vegas team.

[Tas Melis]

Yes. Gets through that venom out there. Okay. It's a desert type of climate. Are there a lot of snakes? Maybe it feels that way. Let's roll with it.

[T.K. Suited]

Las Vegas venom.

[Jay Skeets]

Nice. So this is not a snake draft either. Expansion Drafts usually work. 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2. And how many guys are we drafting? How deep we going? 13. 12? 13. We drafted from every team. This guy doesn't even have the Wizards on his board.

[T.K. Suited]

I got me to stop.

[Tas Melis]

I guess I have so many players.

[Jay Skeets]

13, I think. 12, 13.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so I have the first pick.

[T.K. Suited]

You got the first pick.

[Jay Skeets]

Man, this is fun. This is fun. Yeah, really nice. Fun.

[Tas Melis]

You got the pressure, though, the big names out there.

[Jay Skeets]

I know, I know. Okay. Yeah, let's. For the. For everyone, like, playing along, some of the big names. Zion Williamson. Unprotected. John Morant. Paul George. Obviously a bit older than those two guys. Tyler Herro.

[Tas Melis]

Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Those are probably the four biggest names or anyone else I'm forgetting.

[T.K. Suited]

Jimmy Butler.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, Jimmy Butler. Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Injured.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Like Paul George and Jimmy. I'm sorry. A little too old, boys.

[T.K. Suited]

Little too old, boys.

[Jay Skeets]

With the first Pick in the 2026 NBA expansion draft, I will be handing over a jersey and a hat to Zion Williamson.

[Tas Melis]

Good luck with that.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm taking Zion.

[Tas Melis]

No fans coming to your.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, how dare you.

[Tas Melis]

The guy's injured.

[Jay Skeets]

No, he's not.

[Tas Melis]

Now we picked him number one. He is. He is undergoing the most consecutive games he's ever played in his career. That's great.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, he's like, 30 games he's gonna play. Knock on wood. 60 plus games this year, maybe. Yeah, probably. Yeah, maybe. But when he plays, he's the best of the bunch here, man. I'm sure he is. So I guess I'm rolling the dice on his health, but I'll take Zion Williamson and like. Yeah, we can, like, build some branding around. Like, we're doing it again. Number one pick again.

[T.K. Suited]

Wow. The first guy to ever get drafted. Number one twice.

[Jay Skeets]

There you go.

[Tas Melis]

He was so good in the draft, he became number one.

[Jay Skeets]

So nice. He drafted him first twice. Zion Williamson off the board. That means the Pelicans are off the board, which means you Know some other names that maybe you were considering? Dejounte Murray.

[T.K. Suited]

Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Jordan Poole. Kevon Looney. Looney is interesting because not a lot of bigs. Not a ton of bigs. I thought when going through these teams. It's true. Jordan Hawkins.

[Sponsor Voice]

So.

[Jay Skeets]

See you later. Zion Williamson is going to take up a chunk of my salary cap, though. I mean, he's like 42 million.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

In 26, 27. So, like, I'm looking at close to a third, but that's okay.

[T.K. Suited]

That's right.

[Jay Skeets]

I need a guy 90 million less people.

[T.K. Suited]

That's a lot of guys out there.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. Zion Williamson is on the Sonics. Oh, yeah. New Rain Man. New Rain Man.

[T.K. Suited]

I like it. I like it.

[Jay Skeets]

All right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, you may like that one, Commish, but I can guarantee you're not going to like this one. It is difficult to skip over for me. Skip over. Tyler Herro.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

As a main. Your main guy, but injuries are very important to an expansion team. I've been there. As a fan of the Toronto Raptors, it's difficult to get to that arena when your guys are just. Are hurt or they don't want to play like BJ Armstrong, they want to leave.

[Jay Skeets]

I just want to get devil's advocate, though, isn't it like that first year Buzz? Second year it's like, who cares? We got. We got our team back. Or we got a team in Vegas.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Who cares? The guys playing, who cares if they're healthy? Like, you're going to fill the arena is my point. Just like the Raptors did the first. Still in skydome, man.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, well, they stuck. A better example is the Vancouver Grizzlies, who left.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, they were putting butts in seats. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Well, the first year you're gonna put butts in seats. Yeah, because I ain't gonna play year two.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, how dare you? Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Anyway, you've got a talent. You've got talent there. I'm skipping over Tyler Hero because he's not playing this season. He's missed so much time this year. I'm going with the guy who plays a guy who Trey doesn't like at all, but he's played so much in his career, we didn't even mention him as a top guy. Jalen Green.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Okay. Wow. Yeah, it's a wild one.

[T.K. Suited]

He's played seven games this season. I saw him playing last night.

[Tas Melis]

It has been low this year.

[T.K. Suited]

Yep.

[Tas Melis]

Last year he played in 82. The year before that, he played in 82. Through four seasons before this year, he missed an average of five games. He plays a lot. He has a high flyer for casual fans. They will see highlights from Jalen Green, potentially. Dunk on a Wemby, dunk on a somebody. And they're going to get into my arena in Las Vegas.

[Jay Skeets]

If they were both healthy, Hero and Jalen Green, you would take Jill and Green over there. Jill and Green makes more money or it costs more.

[Tas Melis]

Close.

[Jay Skeets]

They're close. They're like 36, 33.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

And he's under, he's under a contract for another year. Jill and Green, I guess I would.

[Tas Melis]

Definitely think about here. This was a, a short that we made last year, right? It was start, bench, cut, hero, Green, Pool.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow. Wow.

[Tas Melis]

Things have changed since then. Pool's getting cut now.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. Yes, he is.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. It's a good debate. Hero or Green? I think I would take Green. Either way. Tyler here doesn't play, and I think that's a part of it throughout his career, especially. Green's hamstrings are back and they're all right this season. I'm taking Jalen Green. I understand this is a, this is a difficult draft. It's difficult.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[Tas Melis]

I love this.

[Jay Skeets]

I love this so much. Okay. I have the, obviously, yeah. The third pick or whatever. My second pick. I'm trying to win right away. I got Zion. I'm hoping he's playing winner. I need a point guard. I need a, a guy who's a vet, who's a leader, a proven winner. Give me Fred Van Vliet.

[T.K. Suited]

Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

I was shocked to see was unprotected in this.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

But he has an option, so there's that, I guess that's coming into play here.

[Tas Melis]

The reason is he's injured. I assume that too. He hasn't played this season.

[Jay Skeets]

He's coming back, man.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I, I, he was there. It's, it's a, it's a risk, though, to take Fred.

[Jay Skeets]

But I, I want, I need a leader. I'm gonna have to like. Obviously, I got a lot of money going to my, my two main guys here now in Zion and Fred, I'm going to be getting in a lot of younger talent. I need a guy to help be a coach on the floor. So that's why my thinking with Fred Van Vliet being available.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. To me, you, you've got vibes of the Lakers yesterday against Victor Wembanyama, so. How dare you not playing.

[Jay Skeets]

How d Talking about your guy played seven games.

[Tas Melis]

Well, yeah. Again, as I said, he played 82 last year. The year before that he played 82. Anyway, so your, your team's fun to start big names, eh?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Z, Hero's still there, man.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, Hero's still for him. Yeah. Interesting.

[Sponsor Voice]

But now he's.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a dilemma because he already did the start bench cut. So in theory, have to bench.

[Tas Melis]

Well, the, the money thing here through spot track was a, A concern here because those two guys combined would be about $69 million.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. For Jalen Green and Tyler Hero on your team.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Basically almost half your salary.

[T.K. Suited]

The same guy.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Maybe not the best.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. So. I'm fine. I'm fine. I don't want to take a risk with Tyler Hero, but I obviously have a flyer in Jalen Green. I would like somebody to coordinate what the heck is going on on that floor. So position wise. Excuse my. I'm going into my spreadsheet here. I had really fun time creating a spreadsheet for this. Oh, boy. The point guards aren't all that good.

[Jay Skeets]

No. I thought the bigs and the point guards were few and far between in this experiment.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, no, it's not good to pick number two in all honesty. But that's the nature of this game.

[Jay Skeets]

That's the nature.

[Tas Melis]

I'm taking a guy who is going to get people excited about basketball. There's going to be hardcore fans who look at this guy and they're excited. Lou Dort is going on. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

That. Now that takes a lot of guys off of our list here. Isaiah Joe, Aaron Wiggins, the other big, Jalen Williams. Lou Dort has a team option, right?

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, that's right.

[Jay Skeets]

Lou Dort. Fascinating. I get it. I like him. I wonder what Lou Dort will be like on another team if we ever see that.

[Tas Melis]

You know, he's gonna hit people.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, I just wonder if he'll be as good as you're allowed to hit that OKC team. Okay, I'm. I gotta start obviously scaling back on the contracts of my guys here. So we mentioned them earlier in the show. I'm gonna take Julian Champagne on a absolute discount of a deal. What's he, 3, 4 million?

[T.K. Suited]

Oh, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

I need some guys like that.

[Tas Melis]

Just a flat three. Oh. Now Trey's favorite guy, Jeremy Sohan is unavailable, Right?

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah.

[Sponsor Voice]

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[T.K. Suited]

You'll be able to get him as a free agent.

[Jay Skeets]

Right, right, right. Okay.

[T.K. Suited]

I was right on that one, by the way. They don't play him.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, but your thoughts, commissioner, on Julian Champagne?

[T.K. Suited]

Sure. Yeah. Good get for. For three mil.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[T.K. Suited]

I think he could have waited, but.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, I thought he's. He's gonna take him at some point. I want to get there before him.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, I had champagne high on my. On my board. There's no doubt. Interesting stuff. I. I picked too many guys on my list here now. So my, My. My grade A guys. I've. I've got a color coded grade A guys. Yeah, I'm like, I have similar. It's too similar to Lou Dort. I have a Jordan Walsh graded A. Why that's a little high. Jaden Ivy, Benedict Matheran. Who's available?

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

A big Rudy Gobera. I had a hard time either putting him in grade A or expensive.

[T.K. Suited]

Gobert, you got a defense?

[Tas Melis]

We got it.

[T.K. Suited]

We're competing.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, we are. We are a hardcore team. We are a. A hockey market. I mean, just guys who fight. But in Vegas, not so much. If I was playing in Seattle with the Kraken, be different with the Golden Knights. It's not the same. It's not the same Las Vegas. A different town, man. It's a different town. Yeah. As far as money goes, that's a very. This is very interesting. This is. We got to break this down. We kept five minutes on the clock. I thought. This is way too short. All right. Yeah. Rudy Gobert, come play on our team.

[Jay Skeets]

Rudy. Go. Wow, Rudy. That's a big. Well, biggish deal, right? 30. What is he. 33 million. 36.5. Okay, 36.

[T.K. Suited]

A lot defense.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, we got a big.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, you got big D. Incredible defense here. People are gonna be pumped to go see that.

[Tas Melis]

Jalen green's gonna score 35. Don't worry about that.

[T.K. Suited]

I like it.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, I'm up here, man. Oh, I forgot they're still available. I need. I need to. Levine's right there for you. No, no. A lot of the kings. I'm not looking at a lot of the kings, even though a lot of them are available in this draft. Levine, Sabonis DeRozan, Monk Kurtle.

[T.K. Suited]

You like him?

[Jay Skeets]

Pearl. The Raptors are interesting because there's Mamu Quickly, Barrett Purdle, and then Jameson Battle. No, I mean RJ Barrett of the. Of all of those guys. And Mamu I. I have my eye on. But I'm going to go. I. I'm going to go with the Grizzlies, and I'm not taking John Morant, and I am going to take Ty Jerome. Cheap taking Ty Jerome. Him or Gigi Jackson. I'm going a little older, I guess, in tie. I really want to compete for a play in Right away in Seattle. Man, they deserve it.

[T.K. Suited]

They deserve it. So Ty Jerome gone 18 Thunder vs Sonics in the playoffs. That's exciting. How exciting is that? Ty Jerome. Thanks for coming back when the season was already over for Memphis. Scottie Pippen Jr. As well. But Jerome's at least been hooping.

[Tas Melis]

I do think. Think.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. And like he is like in his prime, so to speak. Right. I think he's 27. He's a bit older, so yeah. Okay. Memphis is off the board. See you later. John Morant will not be. Obviously.

[Tas Melis]

John Morant.

[T.K. Suited]

Not selected, not drafted.

[Jay Skeets]

No.

[Tas Melis]

Tough, tough. I thought you may. May pick him because you thought. Yeah, him being.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, it was Delta.

[Tas Melis]

The Miami Heat was going to bring him back to life if he was dealt to the Miami Heat.

[Jay Skeets]

I mean, you could have put Zion with jaw together. I mean, but man, you would have to. You'd be scraping at the bottom of the barrel for contract to fill up the rest of your roster because that's like half your salary cap. But anyway.

[Tas Melis]

Anyway, the thing is about these drafts is there's only two teams, but you're picking from 30. I mean, I think you can go pretty deep on your roster here. So that's why I'm making an excuse for my next pick. I'm going super deep with this gentleman. I could probably pick him five rounds from now, but I don't care. This guy was averaging 28 points, 52 from the floor, 43 from three. A block and a steel in the G league and that. And, and this guy was. He's too young. He's too young. He's a baller. Kobe Buffkin.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, my God.

[T.K. Suited]

Oh my.

[Jay Skeets]

You definitely could have left him. And I, I like them, but I guess you could have been concerned I was going to take Bronnie James or Jared Vanderbilt from the Lakers or something like that.

[Tas Melis]

Well, listen, the point guards are, are a little bit lacking. I, as much as I respect Emanuel, quickly, it's a lot of money right now. I'm not putting all that money to him. So I got a guy named Kobe. Las Vegas. Okay, that's a cell. That's a cell. I mean, the guy's name is Kobe.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a cell.

[Tas Melis]

I'm filling seats.

[Jay Skeets]

I want pick. I. I was actually thinking of taking this guy three rounds ago.

[T.K. Suited]

We got a guy named Kobe. Come and see us play. That's awesome.

[Jay Skeets]

The mama.

[T.K. Suited]

The new mama for the, for the Venom.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, come on. Okay.

[T.K. Suited]

I like this pick now.

[Tas Melis]

The guy hit a right handed floater yesterday.

[T.K. Suited]

That Was his one make.

[Tas Melis]

We had two mix.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, it was two for ten.

[Jay Skeets]

You're right.

[T.K. Suited]

My bad.

[Tas Melis]

He's trying a little bit.

[Jay Skeets]

Can you. Can I see my. My roster?

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

We gotta check the money. I gotta check. I gotta put my glasses on.

[T.K. Suited]

You got 53 million left to spend on probably eight players.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, that's fine. I know, but I was like, it's fine.

[Tas Melis]

Look at you again. Spot track allows you to go over.

[Jay Skeets]

No, I thought. I thought for a second.

[T.K. Suited]

You get John Contra, no problem.

[Jay Skeets]

Hold on. I'm taking easily.

[T.K. Suited]

Get Paul RE Jackson.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm taking Paul Reed.

[T.K. Suited]

I gotta find him.

[Jay Skeets]

Bball.

[Tas Melis]

Paul Paul, Detroit selection.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, I'm happy with that. I. I was gonna take him a couple rounds ago. I didn't know. I thought he's gonna be one of these guys that might be a steal. He's super cheap. He can start.

[Tas Melis]

Paul Reed got to start managing the Bucks. I'm with you. I'm taking a guy who's super young, who's just involved in trade deadline day, but I think has some upside. I'm taking Vince Williams.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, he's on the Utah Jazz. That's right. That's correct. That's correct. Which means Contrary is no longer available.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah. You had your chance at Contra right now.

[Jay Skeets]

Absolutely blew it.

[T.K. Suited]

All right, so these are your starting lineups. Basically through five rounds, the Seattle SuperSonics are going van Vliet, Jerome, Champagne, Williamson, Reed. The Las Vegas Venom are going Buffkin Green, Dort Williams. Go Bear. Smalley's with the tally.

[Tas Melis]

We'll see what different strategies.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, man, I got a lot of roster still to fill out here. Holy crap. This isn't. This is an easy. Tough job.

[T.K. Suited]

More money left than test.

[Tas Melis]

Rudy Gobert gets paid a ton of money.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, that's expensive.

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[Jay Skeets]

Cool. Okay, I'm gonna do this just for shits and giggles. I will be taking on a super affordable $3.5 million player option. But he could be yours if you want to offer a future first round pick. I'll take the Anthony Melton. Oh, a good pick from the Golden State warriors. Only to try and trade them to you.

[T.K. Suited]

Trade bait Exactly. Stock up the war chest of assets.

[Jay Skeets]

That's right. That's right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. That's another question for spot track guy Santos over D' Anthony Melton. Quentin Post over D. Anthony Melton. Come on.

[Jay Skeets]

We know you weren't making these protections. Melton would have been the number one. It would have been Melton, then Curry, in that order.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, because he. He's decent player right now.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so you like that pick?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Did you have them on your little spreadsheet there?

[Tas Melis]

These are my little grade. I went solid with him. My. My color code are a grade. High risk, old. Take a flyer.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Not. Not. I'm taking a flyer, not a high flyer. Expensive. I mean, it really. This color coding wasn't. I wasn't ideal.

[T.K. Suited]

It's just.

[Tas Melis]

It's just like what I think of a player. That's good, man. Kevin Porter Jr. Doesn't even have a color code. He's just. Oh, my God.

[Jay Skeets]

Are you taking them?

[Tas Melis]

No.

[Jay Skeets]

You're not even taking.

[Tas Melis]

I'm not taking him.

[Jay Skeets]

I thought he was gonna save the Milwaukee Bucks franchise.

[Tas Melis]

He did. I guess he's still there a little bit.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, you're up.

[Tas Melis]

It's time for a solid player. There's lots of. Lots of bodies out there. Hold on a sec.

[T.K. Suited]

Patrick Williams still there?

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, yeah. Patrick Williams. Come on, man. He got his contract.

[T.K. Suited]

Oh, just an easy 18.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, easy.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, for like a hundred more years after this. You want him now before you run.

[Jay Skeets]

Out of money, man. What? He'd probably be, like the third Williams on my list.

[Tas Melis]

JD Can I get the board?

[Jay Skeets]

I would take over, and he could.

[T.K. Suited]

Give you seven and two any night.

[Jay Skeets]

I would have. That would have been my third Williams. If Jalen Williams was still available. Big Thunder setter Grant Williams, I definitely would take over him. And then Patrick Williams. Wow.

[T.K. Suited]

Top three Williams. That's not bad.

[Jay Skeets]

Top three Williams in an expansion trap. All right, these guys.

[Tas Melis]

I'm scared. I'm very scared at the guard position. I wish the. Anthony Melton was still available. Yeah, I'd take him in a heartbeat because I went Kobe buff. There's just not a lot of guards out there. Let's. Let's be completely honest.

[Jay Skeets]

No. Not on decent deals. Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

If you don't want. Quickly, and you don't want Levine or DeRozan, obviously, or Drew Holiday. Like, these are just massive contracts still.

[Tas Melis]

Listen, I just want a guy who can get the ball up and down the floor. And I've watched him. I watch him, but I've watched him grow from a G league player to a capable NBA point guard. This is super cheap. He knows Kobe Buffkin. They're familiar with each other. Keaton Wallace.

[T.K. Suited]

I like this.

[Jay Skeets]

That's a completely fine sort of end of the expansion draft guy. That's a very expansion draft.

[T.K. Suited]

That is good for your cap because according to Spottrack, his contract is $0.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's the thing about spot track.

[Jay Skeets]

He's just paying play for the love of the game.

[Tas Melis]

But once you pick him, he gives his cap hit like JD Did. Oh no, it doesn't come up there. When I did it, it was 2.29.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, okay.

[Tas Melis]

So either ways loophole, the Wallace exception.

[Jay Skeets]

Where the hell is Keaton Wallace right now?

[Tas Melis]

He just got traded.

[T.K. Suited]

He was on the Hawks.

[Tas Melis]

He's still not. Still not. I didn't get parted. Didn't get part made part of that deal.

[Jay Skeets]

So he's on Atlanta.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Okay. I just want to make sure that we're not drafting. So Kaminga, who was never really even considered in our draft. Hooper buddy Healed could have been an option, but he's gone now.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, those guys are gone.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, okay, back to me. I gotta get some youth here going.

[T.K. Suited]

He's familiar with Kobe Bufkin.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, do you guys each other?

[T.K. Suited]

None of you guys know each other? It's ridiculous.

[Tas Melis]

They played together.

[T.K. Suited]

Ty Jerome and D. Anthony Melton.

[Jay Skeets]

Do they know each other?

[T.K. Suited]

No, I don't think so.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, I'm contemplating between two restricted free agents here. Okay. Benedict Math and Jaden Ivey and I. Okay, I'm in Seattle. I'm a Canadian. I gotta play the Canadian card here, the homer card. And I'll take Benedict Mathura, who is on the Clippers. He's on the Clippers. So that takes out Bogdanovich, Bradley Beal, Isaiah Jackson, Nicholas Batum, who are all unprotected. But I'm taking an rfa. And Benedict Matheran, another free guy.

[T.K. Suited]

Good job.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I know. See, that's why it's sort of silly. I'll have to obviously come to an agreement on a contract with him, but whatever. Okay.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. For some reason when I selected him, doing this draft, he comes to $9.187 million to hold, I guess.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

But that other guy you mentioned, he's. He's ready to go. I. I was reluctant to take Jaden Ivey for a while because I've got a Jalen Green. So, you know, there's some overlap here, but there's room for growth. Jay N. Ivey. I know your Leg was taken out last year. And you haven't become that guy just because of that injury. Didn't have training camp. But you're on our team. You're going to Vegas, baby.

[T.K. Suited]

You're going to Vegas.

[Jay Skeets]

You're going to Vegas, baby.

[T.K. Suited]

We've seen him in Vegas in a pool. We know he loves it.

[Tas Melis]

Great.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh my God. How did that not come up?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, it always comes out about he.

[T.K. Suited]

Can get the ball up the court. You saw the clip from earlier. Out of the way, out of the way.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, otherwise that was incredible.

[T.K. Suited]

Up and down the court. Okay, we're number 31 though. Sad. Ransky style.

[Tas Melis]

Oh yeah. Reggie Miller style. Man, that guy can shoot.

[T.K. Suited]

That's a great point. He's probably. He probably is. A Pacers fan would be my guest. Jaden Ivy. He's an Indiana guy, I believe.

[Jay Skeets]

Safe.

[Tas Melis]

So. Ah. I didn't even say that. I didn't even mean that when I said regime.

[T.K. Suited]

I actually hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it.

[Jay Skeets]

All right back to me. I need another big. And there are not a lot to pick from, but this guy's got some potential. We thought he might be dealt at the trade deadline. Apparently the Raptors would have had to give up a first round pick to get him. So I'll just take him in the expansion draft day. Ron Sharp, net 6.2 million. Team option, I believe so. Sharp joins my Seattle supersonics.

[T.K. Suited]

I think he's good.

[Jay Skeets]

Super Skeets.

[T.K. Suited]

I think he's a good player.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I. I like him as well.

[T.K. Suited]

Big boardsman.

[Jay Skeets]

I like where I'm getting here in this draft. I got. Okay. I got eight guys, I think.

[T.K. Suited]

Day Ron Sharp and Paul Reed. They make things happen.

[Jay Skeets]

What's my money situation? I got.

[T.K. Suited]

Oh, you're looking good. 38 million left. Enough to fit Purdl in there. You can do Purdle and Patrick Williams, no problem.

[Jay Skeets]

Don't worry.

[T.K. Suited]

You're gonna have to get some more of these zero dollar guys.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[T.K. Suited]

That's the key. That's the hack in this.

[Jay Skeets]

I have my one. I have one zero dollar guy. I'm hoping Task doesn't pick. But we'll see. All right, Task, back to you here for your. I guess this is your eighth pick, I think.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. When you said big guys, I thought you were thinking about Mahmoud Kalashvili.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I mean I like him for sure.

[Tas Melis]

Who isn't a. A traditional big guy by any means because he's not so big. But you know, that's where. When I color coded him by position. It's like, is he a center? I suppose he is. Coming off a bench at $2.81 million. He's joining the team.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow. Okay. Gotta get a Raptor, man. Oh, I didn't take a Raptor on my Sonic's team.

[T.K. Suited]

That's good.

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe that's good.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah. You need a little shooting, I believe, as well, Taz, so that's a good guess.

[Tas Melis]

Oh, my move. Good call.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. Good pick. I like that pick. Congrats to you. I got. You said nearly 40 million. Yeah, you're. What are we doing, 12 or 13 guys? We don't know yet.

[T.K. Suited]

Yep, we're at eight. We've gone eight rounds here, so at least another four because there's some good guys.

[Jay Skeets]

But I was like, I was a little hesitant on their contracts. Like, okay, so let's name some good guys. Like, Grant Williams is a good player. 14 million. Obi Toppin, he's like a 15, $16 million guy. Kuzma? No, thanks. Wendell Carter, Jr. Yeah, it's all right. $20 million guy. Little pricey, but he's priced for a couple years. Rudy, we talked about it. I think that's a little too rich for my blood. All the Kings guys. Too rich for my blood. But I could afford one of these guys. What I'm getting at here. Okay, yeah, give me. Do I take Obi Toppin or Grant Williams? I never thought I was gonna have to debate that with myself. I like. I mean, Obi's injured. This is the problem.

[T.K. Suited]

He's out.

[Jay Skeets]

I already got a lot of injured guys.

[T.K. Suited]

Grant Williams was out all last year.

[Jay Skeets]

I know, I know. I'm going to take Grant Williams, though. I just like it. Good vibes.

[T.K. Suited]

Good vibes.

[Jay Skeets]

He's going to be great in the community now. That's true. That's a great point. We gotta, like, rebuild the trust of the Seattle community. So we need to, like, show up to a lot of school events and hospitals and old person homes. And I need Grant to be a guy out there just connecting with people. I know he likes cards, too. He's big into cards and Pokemon and he can play. You know what? The guy can hoop still connector. I do have some older guy. I like this makeup of this team. I got a lot of older guy. Not old, but, like, guys that are. Can actually still play here in their prime. Okay, Grant.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

I had top three Williams.

[Jay Skeets]

You had Grant Williams on your list?

[Tas Melis]

I had Graham on my list. Yeah. That guy is a connector. Guy's got some assist highlight reels from the season. So, yeah, that was. He was on my. On my team, actually, after watching the Charlotte and Detroit fight, it was Grant Williams trying to get everybody together. And that's when Lamelo Ball's like, what are you saying, man? Get out of here. You could see Lamello Ball's face like, okay, I've had enough of you. Let's move on.

[Jay Skeets]

But, I mean, he's a goofball for sure.

[Tas Melis]

I did have them on my list, JD if you don't mind bringing it up. I am now concerned about dollars. You guys got me thinking about dollars.

[T.K. Suited]

34. You got 34 mil left.

[Tas Melis]

And that's why I'm a little reluctant, fellas, to pull the trigger on a guy who's very expensive in Malik Monk, because there hasn't been a king taken on the board. Yeah, there hasn't been.

[Jay Skeets]

No, no, king has been taken.

[Tas Melis]

Exactly.

[Jay Skeets]

He's like, one of the more affordable ones. Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Unfortunately, you're priced out of Levine and Sabonis at this point. Hate to break it to you.

[Jay Skeets]

You like Devin Carter?

[T.K. Suited]

Demar.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah. He's all right. Devin Carter.

[Jay Skeets]

No, you can't do Patrick Williams anymore. Ivy was selected, wasn't he?

[T.K. Suited]

Ivy was selected. He's out of here.

[Jay Skeets]

You're right.

[T.K. Suited]

You had your chance.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. I just want to get the most on my money, so I'm spending as much as I can with this contract. I'm going. Malik.

[Jay Skeets]

Malik, Wow. I mean, pretty good player here. Selected quite late.

[Tas Melis]

Very good player.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Yep, yep, yep. All right. I am taking an absolute. I guess I'm sort of screwing tasks here a little bit. I. I have two Celtics on my list because there's two affordable Celtics. Oh, I think.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, he's on my list here.

[Jay Skeets]

Luca Garza and Jordan Walsh, I think, are both completely fine, sort of end of the bench rotation guys. Obviously, some young guys here. They don't make a lot of. I'll take. Looking at my team here. Do I need. No, I don't want Garza. I'm sorry. I'll take Jordan Walsh.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. That was the pick.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah. As well. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Good, good, good.

[Tas Melis]

He was the only one. He was the only one on my list.

[Jay Skeets]

Very affordable team option.

[T.K. Suited]

Very affordable.

[Jay Skeets]

Jordan, welcome.

[Tas Melis]

All right, here we go. We're. We're at nine rosters, spots taken on my list. I wish I was going for a little bit more established player here. Well, actually, now that I look at that list that are available guys on my spreadsheet that aren't there, I'm going. I'm going for guys. That's a flyer. I'm taking flyers. Usman Jang, you're on my team.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow.

[T.K. Suited]

He's a Milwaukee buck, I believe.

[Jay Skeets]

Wow. Okay. Sorry, you can't take Kevin Porter Jr. Anymore.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wow. Okay. I'm taking a guy that I don't think Tass would have touched, but I'll just take him now because I do want him on my team. I see potential in this guy. This is scouting Skeets here.

[T.K. Suited]

I did notice that once you put your glasses on, you got a Sam Presti look.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, all right, well, I see some. I see an elite defender in this guy. I think the limitations are going to be on the offensive end, but that's okay. Hey, Mohammed Diawara, nice pick. Restricted free agent on the New York Knicks. You're have to do some scrolling to find him there, Commissioner. T.K.

[Tas Melis]

I got him at 1.2 million. Okay, but. But that may be after putting him in. So he may be a zero.

[Jay Skeets]

He was always going to be a guy I was drafting as one of my late picks because I do legit think he's going to be a solid player in this league because he brings it on the defensive end.

[Tas Melis]

He's a great pick.

[Jay Skeets]

He wears number 51 that is, I believe, correct. Weird. That is a weird number.

[T.K. Suited]

One of the weirdest ones out there.

[Tas Melis]

A wonderful pick.

[Jay Skeets]

French guy, right? Yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. And you can shoot it. You shoot it.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, I mean, he doesn't shoot a lot.

[Tas Melis]

No, he doesn't.

[Jay Skeets]

But you're right, actually, it has a mass 40 from deep knockdown.

[T.K. Suited]

Knock Down Dior, they call him.

[Jay Skeets]

Well, that's way better than I thought.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. So you.

[Jay Skeets]

You guys 20 years old, man, I need some. I need some utes on my team.

[T.K. Suited]

Need some.

[Tas Melis]

You.

[Jay Skeets]

I need some guys that can maybe pop off here. So I got them. All right.

[Tas Melis]

J.D. can we go back to the board? Because unfortunately, on my spreadsheet, they're not matching. Who's available here? Left on the. On the board?

[T.K. Suited]

Cam Jones. Still there. Michael Potter, still there.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Dunk contest contestant. Keyshot Johnson. You could get him.

[Jay Skeets]

Yoda, You're a Venom Potter.

[T.K. Suited]

D' Angelo Russell.

[Jay Skeets]

D' Angelo Russell. Get some vets on your team, man.

[Sponsor Voice]

He's like $5 million.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. So as I said, as I said, I play in an arena that, that like some. The guys played arena that like to fight. I'm taking Goga.

[T.K. Suited]

Nice.

[Jay Skeets]

I was hoping to get Goga because I had money left over, man. Nice pick.

[Tas Melis]

Still good. He's still good.

[Jay Skeets]

He's like, what, seven million, eight million?

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, that's good.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. This is my 11th guy, and I have $21 million left. Hold on here. Hold on.

[T.K. Suited]

Clay.

[Jay Skeets]

I could get Wendell Carter Jr. Bad. Clay. Yeah, just get Clay. We'll have the retirement party. Come on.

[T.K. Suited]

Clay Thompson riding a boat in Puget Sound.

[Jay Skeets]

Damn. What do you put it? That's good, man. That is good.

[Tas Melis]

See that?

[T.K. Suited]

I don't know where these Orlando guys are. I don't see any Orlando guys.

[Jay Skeets]

Maybe. Well, go. I can't take one. That's decided for me now. So now maybe I am looking at Clay Thompson. Let's go. Where did Clay play?

[T.K. Suited]

He played at Washington State.

[Tas Melis]

There it is.

[Jay Skeets]

I'm taking Clay for Wazu. Yeah, man.

[T.K. Suited]

Nice.

[Jay Skeets]

Klay Thompson firing away, trying to set some records in the twilight of his career playing for the Seattle SuperSonics. I could see him rocking a Sonic's jersey.

[T.K. Suited]

Oh, he would love to rock a Sonics jersey. Bet he has a Ray Allen Sonics jersey somewhere in his closet.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. There'll be debates. Who had the prettier shot? They'll do side by sides. Ray Allen. So beautiful. All right. Klay Thompson. You just talked. You literally talked me into it. I didn't even have him in the run in here. Klay Thompson. Dallas. Oh, no, I did, actually. But he makes a lot of money.

[T.K. Suited]

Well, he does.

[Jay Skeets]

17.5.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, but you get those free guys, it's on.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. So I'm at 11 roster spots. I only have about 6 mil left, so I'm going right. Right up to the line pretty much here. I'm going with Julian Strother. Come on.

[T.K. Suited]

Nice one.

[Tas Melis]

Why not? You're a score, my man.

[Jay Skeets]

Cheap, cheap, cheap. No Zeke, No. Najee.

[T.K. Suited]

I think Julian Strother is from Las Vegas. Yeah, I was looking up players that are actually from Las Vegas earlier today. You know, just doing that stuff. Him, Zach Collins. I forget who else is in the mix, but I'm pretty sure Strother is all right.

[Jay Skeets]

Hometown boy.

[Tas Melis]

That's a nice shit.

[Jay Skeets]

So just for the podcast listener, I know some of everybody on YouTube can see the list, but, like, if you look at big names left, like, I can't take them because of limited space. I have, like, $4 million, but Max Struus is a guy on Cleveland who was unprotected. He makes 16 mil. A bunch of Pacers are there, and one of them I got my eye on in Johnny Furfy. But Obitop and Jay Huff, nobody was selected from The Heat. Right. So. But those are. Those are Hero and Wiggins.

[Tas Melis]

So.

[T.K. Suited]

Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

Super expensive. Paul George. Philly. Nope, too expensive. The Wizards test, he didn't even have him on his list. But Angela, Russell, Cam Whitmore, the other champagne. Yeah. The Clippers, nobody selected from. Right. Bogdanovich.

[Tas Melis]

No, you did. Benedict Matthew.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, thank you. Thank you. I forgot to take it off the list. Okay, they're gone. And then Portland. Drew Holiday and Jeremy Grant. Those are huge, huge contracts. So, honestly, all that to say, like, I can really can't pick a lot of these guys. It's like Cam Whitmore or Johnny Furfy. I can't even take him one more. Give me Johnny Furfy.

[T.K. Suited]

Johnny Furfy.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah. What's the. What's the flight from Australia to Seattle? Is it a direct? It's got to be.

[T.K. Suited]

Probably. Yeah, sure.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you fly? Can you fly?

[T.K. Suited]

Johnny Furfy.

[Jay Skeets]

Seattle. Johnny Furfy. I think that's basically my team.

[T.K. Suited]

Yep.

[Jay Skeets]

We'll let Tassa.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. I only have 1.4 left, but I'd love to go over the line and pop some champagne here in my Las Vegas arena.

[Jay Skeets]

You're taking the other one? Yeah, that'll be nice. We'll be like rivals week immediately. Expansion rivals week.

[Tas Melis]

That'd be great.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Brother versus brother.

[Jay Skeets]

That's right.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. Sweet. Chef. Thirteen, guys, I think.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. I think we just call it there. That's my team. I'll list it for everyone that is listening in order how they were selected. I had the number one pick overall here in our expansion draft, and I did get basically right to our. Right to our cap, I think it says. I know there's some, like, hijinks there with restricted free agents, but anyway, my team is Zion Williamson, Fred Van Vliet, Julian Champagne, Ty Jerome, Paul Reed. The. Anthony Melton. Benedict Matheran. Dahron Sharpe, Grant Williams, Jordan Walsh, Mohamed Diaara, Klay Thompson. And the Aussie. Aussie. Aussie. Johnny Furfee. I will have Lee Ellis in my locker room. All right. I'm very happy with that roster. Nice.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah. My team is Jalen Green, Lou Dort, Rudy Gobert, Malik Monk, Jaden Ivey, Gogo Bataze, Usman Jang. Come on, you can do it. Julian Strother, Sandro Mamu, Keleshvili, Justin Champagne, Vince Williams Jr. Two guys who play together. Keaton Wallace and Kobe Bufkin. Bufkin was taken early.

[Jay Skeets]

Buffin went early.

[T.K. Suited]

Buffkin went early. But you still got some good guys.

[Jay Skeets]

You don't think Bronny James would be A bigger draw than Kobe Bufkin.

[Tas Melis]

No, his name's Kobe number one. His name's Kobe number two. It was drafted very high because he can play basketball.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, all right.

[Tas Melis]

No offense.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, that's cool. Put it in the order of, like, the cap hits, I guess. Is that what it was doing there?

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, yeah, looks like it. Yeah. And that's why, when I was reading them, I could have started with Rudy Gobert.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

Because he gets paid the most on my team. But for the audio listener, I didn't want to start with Rudy Gobert. You don't want your lead to be Rudy Gobert, you know, name wise. But I understand. I think. I think my team is more disliked overall.

[Jay Skeets]

You got three. So I'm just looking at, like, the makeups of our rosters, like positions. I mean, I got a couple centers. You got a couple center. Like we did. I think we did a fine part there, at least in building these look like teams. A team that you could play oppositions. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, we'll have to get the poll up.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah. I mean, just off. Just off a quick glance, I'm thinking Supersonics. Higher Ceiling Venom. Higher Floor.

[Tas Melis]

Okay.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. All right.

[T.K. Suited]

Just the one. Commissioner's up here.

[Tas Melis]

That's a good analysis.

[Jay Skeets]

It's a very fun experiment.

[Tas Melis]

I was supposed to wear my button up shirt today, too, but didn't get to ironing it.

[Jay Skeets]

I was reading that, like, when we get to this, you know, this is not something that we can all get excited. That will be televised. They don't do it like that, apparently. They haven't.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

I think you actually. You as Las Vegas, me as Seattle. We send in our list, like, in the order of how we would prefer them and get them. But you send them in blind to what I have. So we don't, like, get to go, like, back and forth, back and forth. That's what I read.

[Tas Melis]

Weird.

[Jay Skeets]

And then it's like, oh, okay, that's who you wanted. And then they just cross it out, obviously, and set teams. If you have duplicate guys on top.

[Tas Melis]

I would be so excited to have, like, a column. You know, when you write, you have a group of people writing a column, and you have the question for one guy and he responds to the question for the other person, and they respond. That's what I would like. You pick my pick. You pick my pick.

[T.K. Suited]

Email draft.

[Tas Melis]

An email thread.

[T.K. Suited]

Cool. Different way to do it.

[Jay Skeets]

All right. We did it. Good stuff there. The NBA expansion draft. It's in our books. Will we do this again down the line. You betcha.

[T.K. Suited]

Absolutely. Because it'll be a completely different set of players who are available.

[Sponsor Voice]

Great.

[Jay Skeets]

And that'll be fun.

[T.K. Suited]

We also did that draft long enough that NBA suspensions have been announced.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[T.K. Suited]

For the Pistons Hornets fight.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay.

[T.K. Suited]

According to Shams, Isaiah Stewart, your leader seven games. Miles Bridges four, Moussa Diabate four, Jaylen Duran two.

[Tas Melis]

Okay, you guys called it. Isaiah Sturdy would get five.

[Jay Skeets]

I was pretty close, I think in even the weighted of the guys. Because you said Duran got the fewest.

[T.K. Suited]

Duran fewest.

[Jay Skeets]

Yep. Then there was a tie between the.

[T.K. Suited]

Other two, Bridges and Diabate four.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay. And then obviously I was wondering if Isaiah Stewart was going to get more than five. I said five to 10 and they split the difference. Yep. You were like, no, 10's too high. And then we're like, okay, let's go five. But they're like, yeah man, you've done it before. Okay, but do we know if the All Star game will count to Jalen Duran's missed games? No.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, he could be done. They play tonight and the All Star game.

[Jay Skeets]

You should be able to come back.

[T.K. Suited]

You should be able to come back right after.

[Jay Skeets]

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[T.K. Suited]

I read it yesterday. Yeah, unexpected twists and turns you would never guess. I mean like you said, basketball colts and animal stampedes, those things don't normally go together.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

So the story takes you in some unusual places.

[Jay Skeets]

Okay, so you were entertained.

[T.K. Suited]

I was entertained.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, well, blood honeylit.com if you want to check out that story. And woah boy goes to Victor Wembanyama scored 37 of his game high 40 points in the first half. 13 to 20 from the floor, four six from deep, 10 to 12 at the line. He had two assists, 12 rebounds, two steals, one block. In very little time. Will we see this guy score 70 plus points in our lifetime? I say yes.

[T.K. Suited]

Oh definitely.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

70 happens more than you would expect.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, Luca Mitchell and B. Oh, I forgot Mitchell.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, Dev and exactly a while ago.

[Jay Skeets]

Now, but yeah, Good call. Okay, congrats to Wemby on the woah boy. He. How many, how many woah boys will this guy rack up here now that we brought back. Whoa boy. Pick him tonight, Tess. 28 teams in action.

[Tas Melis]

Amazing.

[Jay Skeets]

28 teams because we got the All Star weekend right around the corner and we only have three games on tomorrow night.

[Tas Melis]

Yeah, last game for many teams going into the break, including the Knicks and Sixers. If pretty sure they play tomorrow. Obviously the Knicks don't because they're playing on a back to back going into Philadelphia where Philly is the favorite by two and a half. But I think the Knicks bounced back after yesterday an embarrassing loss against the Indiana Pacers in overtime. They did Jose Alvarado wrong in his home debut. Philly returning after a five game road trip. So that leaves leads me to believe they're not gonna be all that cooking. No, it takes a little bit to come back and be questionable when I read the injury report. Barlow questionable. Grimes questionable. PG is out. Mitch should be playing for the Knicks. Deuces out while OG could be playing that right toe. Toenail evulsion maybe. Okay. But yeah, I read that.

[Jay Skeets]

Gross.

[Tas Melis]

Gosh, sounds weird. Yeah, he's been out. I guess it's three games, but we'll see if he comes back. But you guys both have the Sixers taking care of business at home, not.

[T.K. Suited]

A back to back for them.

[Jay Skeets]

Yeah, I mean they went to overtime last night, so that was a part of my reasoning as well. But we'll see. We got some decent games on tonight though. Two teams are helped out by all this suspension news, the Hawks being one of them. They play the Hornets tonight. That's a big game. Playing race wise, that's huge. They play in Charlotte tonight, those two teams. I think Jalen Johnson is is back for the Hawks. Did he play in the last game? I know he's like was in and out there, but anyway, I think he's playing in this one. And then the Raptors get helped out by the no jail endurance and no beast do of it all. Especially for the Raptors who lack in the big guy department. So maybe that's a closer game because the Pistons are up in Toronto for their final game here before the NBA All Star weekend. Clippers, Rockets again. Blazers, Wolves, Thunder, Suns, Kings, Jazz. Kings. Jazz. Kings, Jazz.

[T.K. Suited]

Yes, Big one in the reverse standings.

[Jay Skeets]

Pacers, Nets even as well in the reverse standings. So anyway, tons of games on. We'll talk about as many as we possibly can. Maybe we'll do some drafting of tonight's Best games on tomorrow's show. You'll have to join us at 10am Eastern.

[T.K. Suited]

Does SpotDrak have a drafting tool for best games of the night?

[Jay Skeets]

I love it. I love how.

[T.K. Suited]

Yeah, it was pretty smooth, actually.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, great.

[T.K. Suited]

Did have to close a lot of ads. But look, we got to support our free website somehow, right?

[Jay Skeets]

That's right.

[T.K. Suited]

We love the resources.

[Jay Skeets]

Can you pick? Can you pay for. I think you can pay for ad free Spotlight. Yeah.

[T.K. Suited]

Interesting. Let us know.

[Jay Skeets]

Keith. Keith, what do we. We'll venmo you some money, Keith, for having that set up. And, you know, he did. He did us a solid, I guess. Because you reached out to him. Because we were thinking about doing this. Then we were looking at some of the rosters, the. The protected, the unprotected. And like, some of them weren't making sense. That's right. Like, we were like, oh, this isn't going to work that well if these are like a mess like this. But they sort of. They fixed it.

[T.K. Suited]

They went in. Yeah, there was like, the Thunder had nine players protected. A couple other teams had maybe nine protected. But he said Leonard Miller protected over Jaden Ivey was a intentional choice.

[Jay Skeets]

He's a knower of ball. He's a knower of ball. I was upset. I wanted to draft Leonard Miller to my team, so I was bummed. But also respect.

[T.K. Suited]

Okay. The stream team was saying that the commissioner should not influence picks. Do you think in the NBA the commissioner should influence picks?

[Jay Skeets]

Yes.

[T.K. Suited]

Like Adam Silver's just like, hey, man.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, man. That guy's named Kobe. His name is Kobe.

[T.K. Suited]

Think about how that'll sell in Las Vegas.

[Jay Skeets]

Hey, that guy can dribble up the floor.

[T.K. Suited]

These guys know each other.

[Jay Skeets]

This guy's great in the community, man.

[T.K. Suited]

Two guys named Julian got drafted. That's pretty amazing.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, Phillips and champagne.

[T.K. Suited]

No Phillips and you can have them.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, wait. Phillips didn't get drafted.

[T.K. Suited]

Champagne and strawberry.

[Jay Skeets]

Oh, Strother. Strother. Julian. Was Phillips available? I think he may have been, yeah.

[Tas Melis]

He was one of the guys. Yeah.

[Jay Skeets]

Could have went all Julian.

[T.K. Suited]

All Julians.

[Jay Skeets]

All right, we'll call it there. That was a long one. We started a little bit later today, but we will be back tomorrow like I said. So join us at 10am Eastern. We have that Thursday show tomorrow. Talking about all these games tonight. And then Friday's Drop podcast, we do our all star weekend predictions. That's always a fun one for us as. As we make our predictions and we'll talk about what other. Other NBA news we have to dig our teeth into maybe worse of the week nominees as well. So that's Friday. I'm looking at it. Sorry. Tomorrow's Thursday. Sorry, sorry.

[T.K. Suited]

My bad.

[Jay Skeets]

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[Jay Skeets]

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[T.K. Suited]

Awesome.

[Tas Melis]

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[Jay Skeets]

But no.

[Tas Melis]

Just thought that's an interesting name and.

[Jay Skeets]

You must respect the hell out of it. Pledging as a climate pledger yourself.

[Tas Melis]

Absolutely. Absolutely. That's the key arena to my life. Didn't work so well either. Well, I still think key arena when you think, yeah, we're calling it key right now.

[Jay Skeets]

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[Jay Skeets]

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