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  • Max, I want to start with you, though.

  • What would you say was the most important move made this off season.

  • So far, at least, it's actually Bogdanovich, not because of where he wound up, because where he didn't You know the Bucks need to keep you honest in Milwaukee, obviously, and Yannis is the kind of guy who would stay there, it seems, who wants to stay there?

  • But the owners played the town and Yannis cheap last season when they let a Brogden sign away.

  • And the importance of that is when you need to make a move for a guy like, say, Chris Paul, which is also a huge move, obviously, right in the off season, you need to match salaries, and you need to be able to trade talent in those kind of deals, but also keep your nucleus intact.

  • So when they let bragged and walk out, they lost a really good either peace, going forward or trading chit right.

  • They lost one of the one of the other, But there that's gone.

  • So what happens this season?

  • They got to do something.

  • Or like if Yonas has no path to a championship, why would he stay, so they did a very good thing in terms of the moves they seem to have made Drew Holiday.

  • Who could be a real playmaker, especially in the playoffs?

  • Ah, guy who you could put you honest and the dunker spot.

  • You could do a lot of different things.

  • And Holiday, who has who plays up to the moment and who can play defense and who can shoot who can create do all those things is a great pickup.

  • And with Brook Lopez, who could defend the rim and shoot the three, even though I didn't shoot a great this season, but he can we've seen in the previous season.

  • We've seen it in his career.

  • When you start and Middleton A to a really good two way player, Bogdanovich fits into that starting five and you look at it.

  • You go damn that starting five.

  • Even if there's not another superstar in it, that's gonna be a problem.

  • And when Bogdan Bogdanovich trade got undone and now he won't be in Milwaukee, that really makes a difference because perk.

  • Not only can he shoot, but he but he can pass.

  • He has a high basketball like you He's just a very good, functional player who can do things with the ball but doesn't need it in his hands to be effective on offense.

  • That was a big blow for the for the Milwaukee Bucks and for their ability to sign you, honest to a Supermax and keep a minimum in Milwaukee.

  • For that reason, I think that's gonna have the biggest ripple effect.

  • Well, Max, I don't disagree with you.

  • I actually like that.

  • Bogdanovich toe Atlanta I think him and Trey Young might be the best going back court in the league this year.

  • But when you think about who was when you think about the biggest free agency, the biggest free agent who had the biggest free agent signing, you can think of one city, the Los Angeles, the Los Los Angeles.

  • And when you think of Los Angeles, you think of one movie comes to mind Friday and guess what?

  • Rob Pelinka was Debo and Lawrence.

  • Frank was red and Rob Pelinka walked up on Lawrence Frank and say What you got on my 40 home, George Frank was like, Well, what?

  • You mean what what you mean well, what you mean what you mean, ride.

  • What?

  • You ain't I don't want no problems.

  • I told you about selling these CDs and shirts on my corner.

  • Now I'm gonna take your sixth man of the year, your second most consistent player, and I'm gonna take him to the Lakers and let you know that we still run this town and Max, don't give me about this upgrade of Serge Ibaka is better than mantra as Harold because my trees Harold is top 10 in the league and protecting the basket when opponents try him at the rim.

  • He's six in the league at offensive back.

  • He's one of the best choice.

  • He's one of the best choice takers in the game today.

  • Offensively, he's a guy that that could create on his own and get buckets.

  • And he plays with the tenacity that reminds me of a Kevin Garnett.

  • So I'm looking at worldwide Pelinka done and he straight debo the Los Angeles Clippers and let them know that the Lakers still run this town.

  • So we're gonna take muh dress hair.

  • Uh, we're gonna kick you all out of the state percenter, and while you're leaving, make sure you leave this flat screen that 75 inch that's hanging on the wall.

  • We gonna take out six Man of the year.

  • That's the that's who won.

  • That's that's great.

  • We agent signing.

  • That's a great analogy.

  • That is a great analogy.

  • But, as we used to say back in the day, a whack point perk.

  • What are you talking about?

  • Mantra is Harold's the biggest.

  • Listen, they took Dwight Howard and JAVALE McGee.

  • Like Montrose, Harold is a It's an upgrade there, but he's gonna serve a very similar function.

  • Meantime, the Clippers also upgraded.

  • Going from mantra is Harold to Serge.

  • Ibaka, who can also defend, is also versatile that way and can stretch the floor.

  • It's not knocking Montrezl Harrell.

  • He's a nice player, by the way.

  • What they what?

  • They wound up paying him wind up paying him mid level exception, right?

  • Like why do you think he's got into that slot?

  • He's a nice player, like, first of all, Carol.

  • I'm not to put the biggest of the off season, for it wasn't even the biggest of the team.

  • The shrewder deal was bigger than the mantra zarrell deal, but because because the Lakers got him for so low when he did have offer on the table for 80 million and the Lakers convinced him to come over there and take nine million.

  • That's that's the biggest win and take it from your cross town rival.

  • Yeah, Montrezl Harrell is the biggest win, and look, I get surgery about constraints, the floor.

  • But now you have mantra as Harold, who's a dynamic roller who's a live threat at the basket now, is gonna open up the lanes and open up the shooting in spacing for Anthony Davis.

  • I love the pick, and I'm telling you, everybody need a watch out because with Montreal's Harold and Anthony Davis in that front court is gonna be a problem.

  • Pick your poison hold.

  • Hold on.

  • That's the mantra is Harold is the second biggest move for the Lakers of the off season.

  • The shrewder move was bigger losing Rondo, which was, which is a blow, for sure.

  • But then, getting shrewder in there is a bigger move that Montrezl Harrell.

  • First of all, Max.

  • The question was, who was the biggest?

  • What was the biggest signing?

  • Not the biggest move through the was traded.

  • Their Dennis Schroder was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.

  • So we said signing and I said the Los Angeles had the biggest signing when they signed Montreal's and convinced him to come play on this team when, when he had a choice to go make $80 million for another team.

  • I think it was the the Hornets and he chose to come play against with the Lakers, lead the Clippers.

  • I know that.

  • That's what I'm trying to tell you.

  • That's Brother Lady at 80 million.

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Max, I want to start with you, though.

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