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00:00And I know you wrote a piece on what I think has been the ignored story.
00:05Sure.
00:06The D'Aaron Fox and Zach Levine.
00:10Now I gotta ask you because I think Zach's a badass and so is D'Aaron and I think this
00:17benefits both San Antonio's, Wimby gets to play with his cat and he's a freak and Levine
00:23is 44% from, what is he shooting, career highs from a 4 and 3, averaging 24 4 and 4,
00:334 plus, 4 plus and he's a badass too.
00:37And that deal has been ignored.
00:39I agree.
00:40I mean Levine can play, we know that.
00:42I'm not sold on the situation there.
00:44You've got a lot of guys that play kind of similar but going to San Antonio, you're talking
00:48about Luka, you're talking about the Mavericks, I'm talking about a team in San Antonio that's
00:52going to be good for a decade.
00:55I compared them to the running gun sons, Amari Stoudemire, Steve Nash, fit like a glove from
01:01day one.
01:02This team gets half a season to warm up.
01:04I don't think they're going anywhere.
01:05They're five games under 500.
01:06I don't think they're going anywhere this year.
01:08But moving down the road here, San Antonio's going to be at what, a top three team?
01:12List to me the West teams you want over San Antonio moving forward.
01:15I get OKC.
01:16I'll give you that.
01:17After that, is it much of a list?
01:18No.
01:20I agree with you, everything you said, because I said it earlier.
01:25I was talking to somebody about it off air, and I was saying how they're tough now.
01:33They're just not good.
01:35They're tough.
01:36They play.
01:37He's that good.
01:38He's that good.
01:39With Castle.
01:40Remember, they've been doing it without Pop, and he had a stroke.
01:44They have been tough.
01:45They're a team that, they're a problem.
01:48Remember the day, the first game in Paris, they killed the Pacers, then they got bent
01:52over, right?
01:53But they are tough every night.
01:55They're a game every night.
01:56They show up every night.
01:58And now imagine when you get that type of player to go with him.
02:02And we're not talking CP3.
02:04We're talking De'Aaron Fox.
02:05We're talking closer to peak CP3, maybe peak plus with the scoring that Fox brings.
02:09It's better.
02:10It's evolution.
02:11CP3, the point, God, I'll give him all that.
02:15His credentials are there.
02:16De'Aaron Fox, when all is said and done, is going to be a better basketball player.
02:19I get that you're talking 15 years, and I'm not talking bad about Chris, but don't get
02:23me wrong.
02:24Me neither.
02:25I mean, you're talking Wemby, who's impacting games, impacting winning, impacting spreads
02:29in a major way.
02:30We're, what, 110 games into his career?
02:33He said it himself the other day, this is the worst version of Wemby that we're going
02:37to see.
02:38Ever.
02:39That is impossible for me to fathom.
02:40And then you got De'Aaron Fox, who's reaching his prime.
02:42You mentioned Castle.
02:43Vassell's there.
02:44Pop's going to be there.
02:45They're not just a playoff team.
02:46Barnes, they're loaded.
02:47They're not just a playoff team.
02:48They're a problem.
02:49Like you said, would it shock you, shock you if they won the Westlands next year?
02:54No.
02:55I said on the show many times already that, first of all, the defense player of the year
02:59is already over.
03:00Yes.
03:01That's already over.
03:02For the next decade.
03:03He's going to have, he's going to have 275 blocks.
03:07And 203s.
03:09Easily.
03:10And then, so no one will ever win that award again for the next 10, 12 years.
03:15That's a done deal.
03:16If he's healthy, it's a done deal.
03:17Secondly, what really got me was that, I can understand, frankly, that De'Aaron didn't
03:24want to stay in Sacramento.
03:25Fair enough.
03:26I would say that I could live with.
03:28But the fact that they would let him go.
03:30Now, I'll give you this.
03:32They cleaned up.
03:33They got three number ones and three number twos.
03:34Yeah.
03:35Teach Dallas how to do it.
03:36So, right.
03:37Like, they cleaned up.
03:38So, I guess at the end of the day, it was worth it for them.
03:40But I still can't believe that they did it.
03:44That they would let that guy go.
03:47But when you get those six picks, now you can start filling the cupboard.
03:50So, I guess that's why they did it.
03:52But I don't know if I could ever sit in a room at a table and go, you know what we should
03:55do today?
03:56Let's trade De'Aaron Fox.
03:57It's the same with Luka.
03:59What are you doing with those picks?
04:00Your hope is to draft the next De'Aaron Fox?
04:02Draft the next Luka?
04:03You had him in the house.
04:05Why move on from it?
04:06And now you're strengthening the Spurs, who are, like we said, a team that's going to
04:10be a team to watch for a long, long time.
04:13I don't think there's anything the league can do about it right now.
04:15Everybody wants to talk about Luka joining LeBron.
04:17That's great.
04:18You know how long that's great for?
04:1918 months?
04:20Maybe?
04:21What do you think of how Zach handled his business?
04:26Now you got a guy like Butler, who has just been lymphoma.
04:31He literally is lymphoma.
04:33He is such a cancer.
04:34He has ruined, in my opinion, the heat for the year.
04:37For the year, they're done.
04:38They don't matter anymore.
04:39Oh, he's an altered guy.
04:40And then he took Pat Riley out and beat him with a wooden mallet and turned it into a
04:47personal thing.
04:48And I thought he looked really bad doing it.
04:50Then they were going to go to the Dubs.
04:53Then he goes to the Dubs.
04:54He says, yeah, I don't want to sign a deal with them.
04:56I'll play for the rest of the season.
04:58But not after that.
04:59He is impossible.
05:01How in God's name did Zach Levine shut his mouth and just ball out all year in Chicago
05:07and never complained once?
05:09He did it right.
05:10He's just the better player, the more mature player at this point.
05:12I like how Levine handled his business, which is where you were headed with that.
05:15I'm just not sure about the fit in Sacramento.
05:17You got DeRozan there.
05:18Sabonis, I love.
05:19Sabonis, I think you can build a championship contender around.
05:22I love him, too.
05:23I think they're missing a guy, De'Aaron Fox, if you will.
05:27I think they're missing a number one option.
05:28DeRozan can get you buckets.
05:30Levine can get you buckets.
05:31Sabonis can distribute.
05:32But you're missing that key piece.
05:34They think Monk's that guy.
05:36But he's not.
05:37He's better with De'Aaron than without him.