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Learn more@virginvoyages.com or contact your travel advisor. Thanks for listening to the Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday on FOX Sports Radio and noon to 3 Eastern, 9am to noon Pacific. Find your local station for the herd@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. Now let's get this party started. You're listening to FOX Sports Radio. All right, it is a Super bowl week and we will be in New Orleans Thursday and Friday. It is a wild Monday when we had probably the most staggering, memorable NBA or sports trade in a long time. Welcome into the herd. J. Mac joining me. It's hard to dissect what we saw yesterday because when you just said it out loud, it looks like the Lakers stole one of the top three players in the league and gave gave up a very, very good player, but not much else. And LA does have a history of always getting the guy. The Lakers more so than even the the Yankees get the guy. So they have found their guy for the Next, we think five to 10 years. And so let's try to dissect it. So Nico Harrison has for not very long been the general manager of Dallas and he's a risk taker. He did the Kyrie move. Everybody criticized him. It worked. He made that big move at the trade deadline last year. It got him into the Finals. He's taken big swings. He's different. But this feels like an absolutely egregiously bad move. So, so why did he make the move? Well, let's start with this. I think the reason that Michael Jordan is the most popular basketball player of all time, Kobe Bryant's up there too, is that relentlessness, that work ethic. That's not Luca. He's often in poor shape and is a lousy defender. And he's hurt increasingly more and more and more due to his bad conditioning. So there's a little shack in Luca. And the Lakers moved off Shaq, right? They had a choice. They took Kobe. The relentless worker. So is that the reason they moved off him? The maverick owners are staring down the barrel of 74 million dollar a year contract and he doesn't defend. He's hard on teammates but won't play defense. There's a little Barkley, there's a little Shaq. He's not the hardest worker. The max contract now is punitive if you get the wrong guy. Maybe the owners look at Embiid's mess in Philly or the Kawhi saga with the Clippers and said new owners, no thank you. Not interested. Now that does not give you an excuse to give Away Luca for one first round pick. But I do think if there would have been three first round picks, Anthony Davis and maybe an Austin Reeves. Okay, should we consider that phone call? I can make some sense of it because I don't think Luka is the perfect player. He has now had three calf injuries in four years. Same calf, hasn't played since Christmas. Missed the last two training camps. There's stuff here and clearly a general manager who's willing to take massive swings and he is hit on the Kyrie move. It's been a hit. He hit on the trade deadline move. There's, there's things here. I see Luca is being made out as the perfect player. And there's. There's a little shack, a prodigy. But the Lakers eventually said we're going to take the guy that works harder, I would not have made the trade. I don't like the trade, but I. But I get the Embiid, the Kawhi, the injuries, the lack of conditioning, these new max contract extensions, 74 million a year. What really bothers me though is the lack of resources they got back. Because I love Anthony Davis. I think he's a very good player. He's not offensively Luca, but he's a much better defensive player. And he's older. But the lack of resources is unbelievable. They got one draft pick. Rudy Gobert got four. Kevin Durant got something like nine. One draft pick. And if you're totally concerned about health and availability, then why trade for Anthony Davis? There were much better trade partners than the Lakers and they traded him in a vacuum. It's like they didn't tell anybody. It was one team, one first round pick. That's unforgivable. It's not even like they traded him. It's like they discarded him. He's like an old surfboard by somebody who's lived at the beach for 20 years and bought a new one. Like I don't even understand it. Here's Nico Harrison. It's the resources and the lack of return that to me, just say it out loud sounds like an awful move. Here's Jason Kidd and Nico Harrison.
