Ryan Hollins (3:52)
Okay, so, Ryan, do you want to. Do you want to guess? You want to guess? What we're working with here in Green Bay is I'm, I'm looking out at, at actual. At the bay. My dog loves it outside, no matter how cold it is outside. Do you want. Brian, do you want to take any sort of guess of what it is right now? 17 degrees. Okay, it is sunny and 25 degrees. Sunny and 25. Feels like 21. I'm told last night it was in the last. I was the negatives. We're out of the negatives for a while, but it's a, It's a dry 25. That's the good thing, right? It's dry heat. It's dry heat. I bring it up because we're, we're two months away from the NFL draft being in Green Bay, and we had no snow in November and December and just dustings in January. And then we haven't gotten dumped. We had like back to back. So there's probably about 8 inches, 10 inches of snow on the ground, but no one has any idea what in April it could be 75. It could be 45. We had no idea. But it's gonna be fun to have everybody in town for the NFL draft. Let's get to what we saw last night on the basketball floor. Really? The Only thing going of note was the Lakers taking on the Charlotte Hornets last night at at Crypto. And the Lakers lose after having a big league. And there's like, you can make lots of. We can, we can do the whole blame pie that they used to do on Undisputed. We can make it out all to be LeBron's fault because he missed two shots in the last five seconds with a chance to send it to overtime. But we'd also would be being unfair to LeBron because, well, without LeBron they wouldn't have had that lead. He was the one Laker who really had it going. Of course, Austin Reeves got thrown out of the game for what he's for, for a verbal, verbal attack on an official. Right? So then you end up having the Hornets win after the Hornets come storming back, outscore the Lakers 32 18. The third quarter at 21, 22 to 1 run. And the Lakers just did not come out of the locker room. Well. But I look, if you're honest and you're being fair, as much as I don't agree with the trade, I don't. But I also, there's lots of things I don't know about and neither do you because on the outside you're like, man, Luka is a generational talent. He's in any conversation of currently the best player in the league when he's healthy. He just took the Mavericks to the NBA finals and it felt like they were building the thing around him. Now the $350 million, four year contract extension that was out there for him, that's a real thing. And again, if you're running a business, you're like, who's your best employee? Well, it's this guy. But he's always late. You know, there's just a limit. It feels like it's going to get worse with age. If you look at Luka and you're honest with yourself, you're like, he's not the picture of fitness. He doesn't play defense. It's kind of amazing he's able to be this good despite the things he doesn't do. And if you're going to give a guy a four year, 350 million dollar contract, like once you give him that contract, that's kind of on you because that's fully guaranteed. Like you can get mad and stomp your feet as much as you want, but you still have to pay them whether you play them or you don't play. And if you think that is unique just to this. No, no, no. We Say this on my show. So my show is the Doug Gottlieb Show. It runs after this one on most Fox Sports radio affiliates, the iHeartradio app. And we say this all the time about the, the collective bargaining agreement in the NFL. You know, you get players who are complaining about how many games they're playing, hey, shouldn't have agreed to the contract. You know, you get owners that don't like some of the deals with, you know, the amount of time they're practicing, should agree to the contract. Players don't like the franchise tag, shouldn't agree to the contract. Franchise tag is a collectively bargained agreement anyway. It's a contract that a high enough percentage of the players, a majority of the players agreed to, so it lives. And if you don't like it, well then this is not the business for you because that's something that collectively, they've collectively bargained upon for a decade long contract. And the point is that the Hornet, Hornets, the Mavericks, you could be as critical as you want of the trade. And my critique would be if you're going to trade away a guy and not take him to market, you have to get such an incredible value. Look, we're on in Southern California, so people in LA know this to be true. And I know the real estate market right now is a little bit flat, right? Interest rates are high, although they've dropped some, okay? But the housing market is the perfect parallel because, and if you live in a market where this isn't the case, I'm sorry, you may have to catch up because it's a little bit different. I sold three houses in Newport beach when I lived there, okay? All three of them we sold off market. The house was never listed. Was never listed. Like, well, how'd you sell the house? Like, it wasn't like somebody just, hey man, you want to, I'll give you $15 million for your house. Like, that's not how it works. But realtors do knock on your door, they do slide newspapers and paper into your envelope, Hey, I got a buyer is looking and I have a tremendous realtor in Newport. I'll give him a shout out. My man John DeShawn. And they know everybody coming in, coming out, everybody. And so all you got to do is go like, hey, we're, we'd actually think about listing this thing. And then you talk about, what do you think it's worth? And like, you know what, I might have a client for you. And so again, there's three different homes, one people, one couple walks in, I Want it? How much? Done. So you don't have to list it. You don't have to have an opening open house. You don't have to have a realtor open house. You don't have to take all the pictures. You don't have to do all the things. Okay, sometimes you only have to do an inspection. People walk in, they're like, I want it as is. Here's the check. I don't know where people have this kind of money, but it does happen. Happens. But there is one caveat to it, and this is just a belief I have. I think most people would share that belief is if you're gonna buy something off market, and I'm not gonna get into a bidding war, especially in a buy in a seller's market, well, then you're gonna have to pay maybe not above asking, but it's get. The asking has to be a little bit higher than one would expect. You know, like, if it's a $800,000 house and you're like, well, what do you list it for? Like, I don't know, we'll take 825 for it. Like, this is not. You're not really have room to haggle, because if you want to hang. Wait, listen, if you don't want to pay that price, that's fine. We'll just take it to market and maybe you can get it for 750 or 725, or maybe it gets bid up and yet pay 900 for it. So to me, the biggest mistake is that if you're going to have a commodity like Luca that everyone concludes is a man, it's the best player that could ever could possibly be traded at 25 years old, you know, in an expiring contract, like, that's a pretty good deal. And now, by the way, he can't get that Supermax deal, so you're going to save some on some money to the new team as well. You got to get a little bit more than they got. You just have to figure out a way to get more. And if you. If the Lakers didn't want to get more, like, all right, Rob, listen, I know we got a great relationship, but I'm going to have to take this to market. And when I take it to market, I don't. I don't know if just Anthony Davis and a couple of pieces, if that doesn't. But the other side to it is if you. If you're honest with yourself and so many. So few people actually are honest with themselves, and you go, okay, why do you make the trade? Well, because he's not really in shape. He doesn't really play defense, and he consistently gets himself out of shape in the off season, and the defense has never really picked up, and yet we get to the NBA Finals. So if anything, it kind of. It gives him. It empowers him. Like, hey, I didn't play much defense last year. We made the NBA Finals. Why are you yelling at me about it? If you watched last night, okay, and I get, he's still coming off of injury, it's on a new team, he's playing off the ball more. Whereas everything, everything, everything, everything was him with a ball screen in Dallas, which, by the way, if the Lakers really want to remake themselves, they're worrying so much about finding a rim protector. You got to figure out a way to create ball screen opportunities for Luka. He's amazing at it. But if you watched last night, you would say, like, he's in very good shape, and, man, he didn't play any defense. And somewhere Nico Harrison's sitting there going, what's the. What's the meme with.
