Mavs win draft lottery, Should Dallas trade the pick for Giannis? | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Mavs win draft lottery, Should Dallas trade the pick for Giannis? | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST

Mavs won the lottery even though they had less than a 2% chance at the number one pick odds wise. Uh there were they were 11th and then the 11 to1 leap was the largest jump in the history of the lottery. Uh here’s some reaction from the Mavs brass. And here’s some reaction around the sports world. LeBron just a bunch of laughing emojis. He shared some of his let’s say unconventional theories. I mean conspiratorial. Well, I didn’t want to say your words not mine. Patrick Mahomes huge man. Mahomes is pumped. Super pumped. I the you’re reacting. Well, so if I may just quickly and then I’ll let Brew do the best. Yeah. So Mahomes is pumped. I talked to Patrick briefly about this yesterday. He’s all the way back. Not that he ever left the Mavs. He’s all the way back. He He super excited. And for Dallas, they got Paige now. They now they got Cooper. That’s awesome. With respect to LeBron and other people, some media, a lot of fans, a lot of players, the modern draft lottery being rigged is one of the dumbest conspiracies going in America because it is so easily disprovable. Forget the fact that you would need literally hundreds of parties involved. Yeah. to the benefit seemingly of really no one individually and to the detriment of everybody potentially. You would need independent journalists to be in on it because they watch it. You would need Ernston Young to be in on it. You would need the league. You would need the owner of the Wizards to be like, “When’s it going to be rigged for us, guys? I’ve been participating in this jam for 30 years.” They have to be okay with it being rigged for someone else. I guess but then there for this specific this is a very specific theory. This theory is the league said to the Maps, “Send the Lakers Luca and we’ll give you Cooper flag.” Forget everything else I just said about how many people would have to be involved in it and remember what you saw with your own eyes about what the Dallas Mavericks did after trading away Luca. Did they act like a team that was trying to have lottery balls? Because if they make the playoffs, they don’t get it. You can’t get them. So, what did they do? They rushed Anthony Davis back to try to make the playoffs. When he got hurt, they played Kyrie Irving more minutes than he’s ever played in a stretch in his life. Then he got hurt. Then they rushed Anthony Davis or brought him back again, made the play in, won a game, and were playing the Grizzlies tight with Anthony Davis again playing heavy minutes in a game that if they win, they don’t get the lottery balls. They they they can’t win it. So, it falls apart on its face and I feel dumber for having to say this on a real platform, but it has broken contain the way a lot of modern sports, forget everything else, sports conspiracy theories have to where I think it’s almost conventional wisdom for the fan. like, oh yeah, they rigged the lottery. Even though it is a viewed, monitored process that no one has ever explained to whom it benefits, why it benefited Zion to go to New Orleans or Cooper flag. And last point, there’s five teams that could have won it yesterday and people would have reverse engineered a conspiracy. If the Spurs win it with their small chance, it would have been they want a supercharged win. If the Sixers win it, they want East Coast basketball to be back and give Embiid a chance. There’s It’s idiocy. And I hate that people who have real platforms give it life. I totally agree. And remember this people, the teams with the worst records still only have a 14% chance of winning it. That means you got a 86% chance of losing it. All right? And they would have, believe me, the league would have sent somebody to the Knicks at some point during this 40 years since Patrick Euing if it was rigged. All right, I want to get to my reaction when I saw that they won. My first thought, do you keep Cooper Cup or Cooper flag? Do you draft him or do you trade him? And cuz I, you guys know I may be his biggest fan on this set. I really liked him in the tournament. I thought they win the championship. I’m not convinced he’s going to be a superstar. I definitely don’t think he’s going to be as good as No. What did you just try to do there? What? You just You just tried to plant your flag. Take him. No, take it. You You want him take everybody from I got I had every from New England. I got you. Okay. I’m just saying during the time you tried to sneak it in. Brew had the very Brew is right. He was one of the people that went on a limb and picked Duke to win the championship, which is really how he asserted himself as the Cooper. I don’t remember anybody else waxing eloquently about Cooper Flag skills. That’s all I’m saying on this show. Okay, that’s fine. That’s what he’s ahead. But I’m not convinced he’s going to be a superstar. I definitely don’t think he’ll ever be as good as Giannis. And Giannis is 30. So, I’m going to throw out a few things. I would I would certainly listen and if nobody’s calling me, shop the pick because I want to see what people are willing to offer me for Cooper Flag. Giannis, I would definitely do it if I’m the Mavericks if Kyrie wasn’t hurt. That’s what bo like if Kyrie were healthy, AD is presumably healthy and you got Giannis. You want to see what the trade might look like? You did it. Well, let me let me I’ll let you get to that cuz I wouldn’t. Now I’m I’m concerned because Kyrie’s hurt. I need a guard if I get Giannis. All right. So that bothers me a little. But how about this? I’m just throwing it out there. You trade Cooper flag for Giannis. And I’m just thinking out loud. Sure. And then you trade Anthony Davis for Kevin Durant. That’s not Phoenix. Phoenix doesn’t do that. No, Phoenix does do that. That would be a worse. That would be almost as bad as the first Nico Giannis. Kevin trade Anthony Davis for Kevin Durant. Why not? Cuz cuz Durant’s old. Cuz Anthony Davis is better and younger and hurt all the time. Kevin Durant and and like I think Yeah, but he’s more so than than I get it. He is 36. Yeah, he’s older. Jiannis Durant and Kyrie pretty good, right? I need a scoreer with I need a bonafide bucket with Giannis who can shoot. That’s why Chris Middle Durant is still a much better version than Chris Middleton. Oh yes, but I but I got shot blockers. Why are you not worried about Kyrie? Why are you worried about Kyrie’s injury to trade for Giannis? But not worried about Kyrie’s injury to trade for Giannis and Durant. Because if I get cuz without Kyrie with just AD and Durant and AD and Giannis, I don’t have like a great jump shooter. I don’t have a ball handler and a playmaker. With Durant, I’ve got a great shooter and a playmaker somewhat. He could bring the ball up. Could really just lean into this. Our window is this. The world could have it be now. It could be going from a 26-y old to a 36y old. What if four years from now we’re like, man, I mean, there’s a lot of guys Zion, Ben Simmons. There’s a lot of guys we thought were sure bets. No, that haven’t panned out. This is to me I the I I I personally think Anthony Davis has imi, you know, I think you might be able to trade Anthony Davis for a guy like Luca. So, I wouldn’t trade him for Kevin Durant. This is what the Spur, just so everybody knows, this is what the Mavs trade would look like to make it work cuz you can’t just trade Cooper flag cuz the salaries and I don’t think you I also think he’s going to have such a robust market. If we think the Mavs should try to parlay this into Giannis, you’d have to give up Clay, Gaffford, PJ, and Cooper flag. I included the Lakers 29 first because I think the Bucks would be able to ask for a lot but maybe take that out other brew you have to include those players. No, I get to the salary. So if you I don’t know that I need to throw an extra pick. Okay, that’s fine. So then remove that’s the that you know that’s a negotiation but the the top two lines there as far as the Bucks is that would be the offer and and if you’re the only one I hate losing is Gafford and you have Lively and you have you know in this scenario you have Lively Giannis and Anthony Davis so you don’t really need a ton of size. That’s what that trade would look like. I think that potentially works. I also think team we’re probably going to talk about in a minute also has a potential trade that could work. Just just because we talked so much about Cooper Flag not being on the Mavs if they Tim McMahon says they are going to draft Cooper Flag. Do you think this works when Kyrie is healthy? Yes. Um like can they how how I mean I like how good remember first of all he’s not going he’s Kyrie’s going to miss first half of the season at least. Cooper Flag, he’ll have the ball in his hands. When Kyrie’s not there, that’s their problem. They don’t have another playmaker. So, Cooper Flag can play that role. By the time Kyrie gets back, if Flag, I know he’ll be a rookie, but if he’s if he’s really, you know, we’ve seen rookies come into the league and be good right away. He won’t be a star right away, but if he can give him I think they would have I think next year they would have a round two ceiling. That’s fair. That’d be pretty good. that. Yeah, I think that would and then you would hope that by the way I also think Kyrie Irving somehow got even more leverage probably like now in that because they’re trying to you know now you can really sell we’re trying to compete right now. All right, we’ll quickly move to the number two pick. The Spurs had the rookie of the year in WY then had the rookie of the year in Stefon Castle and now they have the number two pick draft boards like Dylan Harper or Ace Bailey both from Ruters. But is there a chance this pick could actually be for Giannis? Yeah. So listen, I think it would be Dylan Harper is gonna I I think one and two of this draft one is definitely going to be Cooper Flag. No matter who’s making the pick, I think two overwhelming likely is going to be Dylan Harper. And do they need Harper? I don’t think so. Well, so this is what that Giannis trade would look like where and you guys have seen me make this a bunch and this is going to be a hard trade to Trump. The number two pick plus Castle plus those picks. Atlanta’s first, Chicago’s first, Boston’s first in a couple years. And the question, Brew, is this. Do you want to try to win a championship if you’re the Spurs next year or do you want to build do what Oklahoma City did, which is have these young guys all on a similar timeline and build try to cuz Castle’s won rookie of the year, Giannis won rookie of the year, you have the number two overall pick and have all these I’m sorry, Wimi and have grow these guys together. Uh I I I’m the Spurs so I want to do what we did before. We teamed Wimby with I mean Tim Duncan with David Robinson and we won a championship two and then we won several after that. So, and this is even better cuz Robinson was on the decline when they won the championship. And so now Giannis is still great. You can This is the great thing about this. You can do both. Like Giannis and Wimi could win championships now and then eventually Wimi will be ready to carry the team and Giannis will still be good. So, so you think that Spurs become the Giannis? I think they should, the Spurs should definitely try to do it. I still think Houston’s offer is is is intriguing, too, if I’m Milwaukee because I know Shingun, all those players. Barnes obviously is just salary. You pretty, you know, Castle. I know he’s good. I know Shingun is a bonafide star. Yeah, Castle might be, but I know Shingun. I like Giannis just going to Texas. Like, sorry, these are your options. You made a good point earlier. The West, man, it’s that’s what I’m saying. If Giannis goes to the West and Tatum’s out, the West have 13 of the 15 best players. Thanks for watching. Subscribe here to get more from the show and to check out clips from other shows on FS1.

The Dallas Mavericks have officially won the draft lottery, and have the rights to draft Cooper Flagg with the 1st-overall pick. However, Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes ask if the Mavs or San Antonio Spurs should trade their respective picks for Giannis Antetokounmpo.

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