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00:00The team of the early offseason is undoubtedly the Phoenix Suns.
00:06They fire Mike Budenholzer.
00:08They fired a coach?
00:09No way.
00:10All right, can I give you a crazy one?
00:13I don't blame anyone who looks at Matt Ishbia as being crazy,
00:17but I'm not sure he's been wrong yet.
00:19I don't think he's been wrong.
00:20It's my problem.
00:21In terms of the firing, he's been wrong about a lot of other stuff, I guess.
00:24But, like, you want him to retain Budenholzer after this year?
00:28I think personally, folks, when you look at them firing Bud,
00:33number one, I don't think Bud should have went there in the first place.
00:36I think that's on Bud.
00:38In regards to, I don't think he should have been hired
00:40because I think Bud is another wildly overrated coach.
00:43I thought the other guy should have gotten a shot.
00:46But to me, like, I think it's going to be really hard as a coach, me personally,
00:52to go into a situation when you're on the fourth coach
00:57in four years.
00:59Now, they were proven wrong with Monty Williams.
01:02You want to talk about overrated coach?
01:03I mean, that guy was a two-hour NBA playoffs.
01:06I don't know if that guy's going to have a head job again.
01:07I don't know.
01:08People are still defending him.
01:09I don't understand.
01:10I don't get it.
01:11But then, I thought they should have.
01:13I am a big Jersey guy.
01:15South Jersey, though.
01:16South down here, right side.
01:17South Jersey in the building.
01:18There you go.
01:20Frank Mogul, I thought, was a really good coach.
01:21And I thought they ran him out too quickly.
01:24But, I get it.
01:27But now you're going when you're fourth coach in four years.
01:29Like, what coach is going to look at there and say,
01:32I'm going to Phoenix, knowing that they're going to blow it up.
01:35And the fact that if it doesn't go right,
01:37this guy is like the modern-day version of George Seiberger.
01:40He may fire a coach again and go five and five.
01:42So, this is why I find Phoenix to be so fascinating.
01:48Again, there has never been a situation like the one that Kevin Durant is in.
01:52Never have we seen a top, let's call him 15-player conservatively, okay?
01:57Active.
01:58I mean, I'm not talking about all time.
01:59I'm talking about a top 15 player currently in the NBA.
02:02Everybody knows he's getting traded and heading into the offseason.
02:04Not even necessarily via request.
02:06Again, the Phoenix Suns were willing to deal Kevin Durant to Golden State in season.
02:13Ultimately, it didn't happen.
02:14Katie blocked it.
02:14But Katie will be probably willing to have a move this offseason.
02:18There's been a lot of connections to Houston.
02:21Rightfully so.
02:22JY, though, alluded to a really big piece of this puzzle, potentially, in our opening hour.
02:27What if Giannis is on the block?
02:29Sorry, Katie.
02:30You're not Giannis.
02:31You're not Giannis-level valuable.
02:32You're not as good as Giannis is right now.
02:34And it's not really close.
02:35So, if you're the Rockets, that becomes priority number one.
02:38Okay, now Katie's on the back burner.
02:40If you're going to trade Durant, right, it means things are getting weird anyway.
02:45Teams are going to, before they go for Durant, they're going to go for Devin Booker.
02:50That's just the reality of it.
02:51They should.
02:53Again, Devin is more valuable in the trade market than Kevin Durant is.
02:56Okay, now are we doing the whole reset here?
02:59If I am the Phoenix Suns, am I potentially willing to move off of Devin and Kevin?
03:05Devin doesn't seem like he wants out.
03:07Devin loves it in Phoenix.
03:08He wants to be a Sun the rest of his career.
03:09Sure, but Devin's aware of how things are going.
03:12It's not going great, right?
03:16Could Giannis, you know, again, we talk about Giannis wields a lot of power.
03:19I have no idea if it's really possible.
03:22Could Giannis, instead of saying, get me out of Milwaukee, get me one of those guys.
03:26Find a way.
03:27Bring me one of the Suns.
03:28You know, KD to Milwaukee would, you know, Giannis would be happy as could be.
03:32See, the Suns having, again, what I would say, just to leave arguments out of it, two
03:39of the 20 best players in the NBA, I think higher, but 20 best players in the NBA, both
03:45could be on the market, so rare, and it'll swing a lot of this offseason, coach, where
03:53we all expect Houston to make a call, Milwaukee could be desperate, people think if the Knicks,
04:00you know, fall short, they could be desperate, Miami's been, you know, begging for someone
04:05to get into that building, Dallas could be desperate, if the Thunder don't make it to
04:11the finals, they might say, we're too close, make a big move, that's a lot of, the Nuggets
04:18might get forced by Jokic into a big move, there's a lot of teams that could be, if the
04:24apron allows it, ready to make a big swing this offseason.
04:27Yeah, it's going to be intriguing, and I think you have to look at Giannis being the
04:31first domino, that's got to be the first domino, because of the value that you're going, that
04:37I think he poses over Durant.
04:40I think you're right, but my question to you is, do you think that then, so KD could probably
04:45be, not like, it's not acceptable, right, but teams might be willing to agree to Durant
04:50deals, really, you know, right away, we know he's getting dealt.
04:53How patient will people be on Giannis?
04:57I don't think Giannis is going to press the, if they get eliminated, you know, two weeks
05:01from now, I don't know if he just hits the podium and presses trade request, but you
05:05think people will be patient, because Giannis is that important?
05:07I think you have to be patient, because Giannis is that important.
05:10Listen, at the end of the day, two out of the three of the big three to Phoenix Suns
05:15won't be back, because Bradley Beal may be with the Shanghai Sharks next year, I mean,
05:21because no one's going to take that contract, and he's got a full no trade clause, so he
05:27can block anything everywhere.
05:28By the way, shout out to Bradley Beal, OG for pulling off the G2G full no trade clause
05:34with the Washington Wizards.
05:35Sammy Arnell, how you doing?
05:37Now, so when you think about it, he's going to be going probably at a buyout.
05:40Now, it comes down to KD or D-Book, and with a team, Kevin, with not a lot of draft capital,
05:48because they've given up so much of it, they're going to have to recoup it.
05:53The question is, is you get rid of Durant, or do you do the crazy one, because you're so
05:59far out of the West, do you get rid of Booker, because D-Book will bring you far more in a
06:06return to Kevin Durant.