Welcome to another episode of The Old Man and The Three Things where we are reacting to the big trade between The Washington Wizards and The Phoenix Suns. Bradley Beal is joining forces with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker and it’s TBD on where CP3 actually ends up. So what’s the fit going to be like in Phoenix? How else can they fill in the roster? What will they do on defense? And what kind of cap implications will there be? We also talk about The Los Angeles Lakers will be the best fit for Chris Paul to play with LeBron James and Anthony Davis. And finally, the guys talk about which draft picks they’d like to see in which cities in their perfect world.
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Suns need to get ayton out of there, if he had engagement problems last year jus think about this year…
Perk with his incessant Nuggets hatin'🤦🏻♂️😂 We all know he does it to stay relevant.🤦🏻♂️😂
Wiz move beal, just to end up spending that money to Extend Kuz and KP for some crazy numbers
The musical chairs carousel. Draymond also opts out so there's another moving part and is he looking at sun's and can they pay him . durant ayton green Beal Booker ? Or Philly?
Time to call back Dwight Howard from Hong Kong or wherever the f he is hahaha looks like a roster spot just opened
People acting like KD made the trade 💀💀
Mia Khalifa is devastated
idk if buddy reads the comments but the Wizards were lottery before the Wall was drafted
Wizards ownership wants to take the holding company (Monumental Sports) public. Ownership moving Beal (large liability) is simply clearing the books to make their portfolio more appealing to potential investors. Any angst directed at the players is misguided at best & derelict at worst…
I will bet one million dollars that the sun's will never win with these 3
dont think this will help the suns a ton. hes kinda a guy who will just take away opportunities from KD and Booker.
1999 Rockets be like:
If Booker is your primary wing defender then you will NOT have a good defense lmao, they need to get Craig or Okogie back ideally both but I like Craig more with the length and slightly better shooting.
Damn JJ. Playing politician on this one
My issue is who is their best defender?
Jeff Green said he wants to retire a Nugget in a couple years. We'll see, but I think he stays
Hate the trade for the suns
What a horrible deal…while the Suns got him for nothing, basically, it won't help the Suns to have such a horribly inefficient scorer and weak defender next to Booker. Their D will be non-existent, and the O will be even streakier than this year.
JJ, please get rid of the stutterer
4Team Suns/Pacers/Celtics/Jazz trade:
BOS get:Buddy Hield/Jordan Clarkson/Kelly Olynyk(43.1Mil out-45.7Mil in)
PHX get:Myles Turner/Malcolm Brogdon(40.8Mil out-43.4Mil in)
IND get:Deandre Ayton/Payton Pritchard/Ish Wainwright/Luke Kornet(44.3Mil out-40.8Mil in)
Jazz get:2 Boston protected 1st/Chris Duarte/Sam Hauser/Mike Muscula/Justin Champagne/Danilo Gallinari/Cam Payne(26.4Mil out out-24.7Mil in)
There's legit no off season in The NBA 😅🍻🍺
Nobody:
Tommy’s lips: 〽️
Paying that amount for a player who is going to mostly be catch and shoot is ridiculous JJ is tripping
The trade clause will be reserved for “guys like that.”
Bradley Beal is “LIKE THAT!” Dude has been in Washington by himself as the ONLY star. No other superstar/star has been successful in the last 10 years without another star player.
The suns gonna ask JJ to come back to fill out their roster.
Now the suns just have 3 offensive studs who can drop 30 on any given night. They all play average defense, and are going to struggle in the playoffs. Their chemistry will be sub par IMO
People so eager to discredit KD that they ignore that damn near every champion and GREAT team was a “Superteam”
How is this team any better than the Spurs dynasty? Nobody called them a big 3 or “super team”. Meanwhile they had Tim Duncan, Ginobli, Tony Parker ALL in their prime. Let alone a young Kawhi later in the dynasty. People weren’t calling KG, Paul Pierce and Rat Allen a “super team”. The Bulls were loading with great role players beside Jordan Pippen and Rodman, all hall of famers by the way.
People expect KD to win a championship with just a bunch a random guys apparently. Expectations are unreal and people don’t understand how HARD it really is to win a championship.
Championship teams are typically LOADED. Kawhi won with the Raptors because KD and Klay both got injured. People expect KD to pull a Dirk and win as the only superstar on the team, but Mavs really won that chip because Lebron went ghost in the finals. You can’t expect that to be the standard.
I like how the suns needed less jump shooting, better ball handling, more efficient 3 point shooting and some consistent atheltic wings off the bench so they added….Bradley Beal.
The biggest positive for Wizards was just probably getting off that huge contract but still you'd think they could've got anything better but they might not have had options
Carmelo should come of of retirement and sign with Phoenix (my imaginary world) 😢
Getting out from under Beal's contract is a big positive.
By the time Washington contends, Beal will have aged out. His time line doesn't fit.
Biggest W for the wizards is not having to pay 50 million for one player good for them
I just wanna see DRose on a real team not the knicks or bulls
Call superman from Taiwan to beat the joker
Not sure why there's this narrative of super teams not working recently, super teams WORK when healthy. The Nets super team was not healthy, Harden left because Kyrie didn't want to play, when they played together they were 13-3. Warriors super team worked. Miami super team worked. Cavs 'super team' worked, they just had to vs another super team. Didn't expect this take from JJ.
Neither kevin durant or booker are good playmakers for others dont know what jj is talking about…
Legit one of the worst trades ive ever seen
Denver’s defend wasn’t that good and only played mostly 7 players.
They traded shamet for Beal straight up, cp3 was released supposedly last week. Suns didn’t have cap to sign a van fleet, so for what they could do, this is a major W, and pushes them closer to a chip than any other move they could do.
So who will be the young hustle dogs, pick setters, etc. Ill take Denver and the chemistry they have built up over many years. Nets 2.0 hot garbage.
If you're the Knicks, would you do: Mitch Robinson, Obi Toppin, and Miles McBride for Deandre Ayton?
It may leave their front court a little thin, and Thibs might lose his mind with Ayton's defensive lapses… but the idea of Ayton playing with Brunson has gotta be intriguing, offensively they fit together really well. Maybe Phoenix can sign and trade TJ Warren in the deal to give the knicks another forward.
Its so hard to find a good Ayton trade for Phoenix.
I don't really like it for either team but the Wizards were fkcd as soon as they signed that stupid contract with Beal. So hard to feel bad for a team that put themselves in a horrible situation when they end up in a horrible situation.
Now they really cant double KD or Booker 😂
They going let Devin B run the point?
Rudy Gobert is to blame for this
can we talk about how beals Agent is the dad of the Ceo of the suns? i might be a wizards fan but that trade package was sus af
Draymond to PHX. 😅
Horrible for both sides