Philadelphia 76ers – Offseason Preview | GAME THEORY PODCAST

Philadelphia 76ers – Offseason Preview | GAME THEORY PODCAST

Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast offseason preview series where we go and break down all 30 teams in terms of what they have slated for this upcoming off season for somewhere between 20 to 35 minutes is what we’re finding is the number on these recordings. Today we’re going to break down the Philadelphia 76ers and talk about a complicated, interesting offseason for a team that I think anticipates being up near the top of the Eastern Conference. Again, before we dive into it, go hit the subscribe button over on the YouTube channel. Over 35,000 of you have done so already. We really appreciate it. Go hit the subscribe button on whatever podcasting platform you use as well. We really appreciate everyone coming to join and rock with us as we continue to hurdle along toward the NBA draft, the NBA offseason, summer league, all of the fun things that we have slated coming up over the next few months. Bryce, 76ers had an incredibly disappointing year. I think there’s just not another way to put it. There were some bright spots. Obviously Jared uh Jared McCain comes through and looks like maybe the best rookie in the year prior to his injury. The Quinton Grimes deal comes and they’re able to move Caleb Martin essentially for him straight up, which is somewhat insane looking back on it. Gershon Yabuselli ends up being a real winner uh of a free agent acquisition following the Olympics last summer. But now with Grimes and Yabiselli, they have to figure out how to retain those guys on top of now they have the third overall pick, which is something of a blessing and a curse almost because the blessing part of it is that you get this number three overall pick, which is great. You’d almost always rather be picking earlier than later in the NBA draft, uh, if you have the option. But this deal also comes with an 11.1 million price tag for next season’s uh salary cap hit. And they are relatively close to the second apron once you start looking into retaining Quentyn Grimes and Gershon Yabuselli. Uh we’ll talk a little bit more about the offseason picture in general, but what are your kind of thoughts about the 76ers as we move forward into this off season and they try to figure out what their best course of action is to get back to the top of the East? Yeah, I mean it it’s an interesting one and as you outlined, it only got more interesting whenever this is the first one we’ve this is the third offseason breakdown we’ve taken a look at. This is the first one where we’ll really talk about the NBA draft as part of the conversation and yeah it it may we’ll talk players of course but you know we have those all over where it’s is it a player is it a trade is it you know what are they going to do how are they going to use this asset and I think it’s important one of the more forgotten about things I think two salary cap things that are a lot of times forgot about are those numbers whenever you make all NBA or defense or you know the Evan probably that we just talked about with Cleveland. We’ll talk about with I assume with Kate Cunningham when we do Detroits, assuming he does make AllNBA that sometimes for gets forgotten about and lost when you look at salary cap stuff and then draft picks and what those numbers are going to be and how much they grow as you get higher in the draft. And it just makes for an even more fascinating Philadelphia 76ers off season. So, I think that that is ultimately the place to start. It all is connected for sure in terms of the finances because I can’t imagine this team wanting to go into the second apron given the questions surrounding Joel Embiid’s health, Paul George’s health, everything surrounding the team right now. How do they utilize this number three overall pick as an asset? And my idea the whole way has been something along the lines of can you move the number three pick for, you know, a player like Cam Johnson, number eight, like uh maybe some other assets, right? Can you move the number three pick for like Herb Jones and the number seven uh pick in the draft with the New Orleans Pelicans? Like something along those lines would make a lot of sense to me. This is a front office that I think pretty desperately does need to win next year. Doing whatever they can to, you know, add any sort of win now help I think would be really valuable. Also though, this is an organization that does need some long-term, flexible, uh, cost controlled, valuable players like Jared McCain, who they hit on last year. And continuing to be able to build that is also a really important key here. You know, Kyle Newck from over at uh, F or PHY, uh, the all city brand of the Philadelphia, you know, side. He reported earlier today, and this lines up with what I’ve, you know, kind of understood about them, is that they do really want to continue to add young players to their entire core and continue to figure out how to go about building their team that way while also being able to uh compete next year and hopefully win uh a title. In their case, I’m sure what they’re hoping to do. So, I say all this to kind of bring it full circle here to the third overall pick. How would you go about looking to utilize that asset if you were Daryl my you were running the Philadelphia 76ers? I would make the pick. I think Sam and Interesting. Here’s my thing. Do I want to make another move that can the injury history of these two guys that I’m relying on? I’m gonna be pissed if I trade the number three overall pick and they just get hurt again. I’m already gonna be pissed because I mean if I’m Daryl my I’m not paying them but we are paying them $106 million to play basketball next season. And I’m not trying to throw shots at Joel Embiid Paul George. Like in general I don’t think it’s almost ever the players fault they get hurt, right? I think these are guys that take their stuff serious and take care of their bodies the best they can. like that’s in general that’s what I believe. I’m sure there’s outliers and cases where that’s not the truth. I’m not willing to I would not want to trade away number three for whatever to just those guys come back and get hurt and then now I’m like, well, this is great that I have Cam Johnson. He’s my number two option because my number one and number three options aren’t able to play. I think I would just take the pick. I would trust my scouting department to identify the best. It sucks that it’s the third pick, right? For me and you, that is a real bummer in terms of it not being one or two, but I would trust my scouting department to say, “Hey, Ace has real upside or VJ fits us perfectly. Nick Nurse will love him or Khan Canipple fits exactly what we need and what we can do and he’s going to be another nice rotation piece to build around Tyrese Maxi and Jared McCain and whoever. I think I’ve just settled in that I I don’t trust those two guys to be healthy enough to make an all-in move whenever I have a number three pick. I’m going to make it and I’m going to just choose the whoever I think the best player is. Not the most ready to help us win next year or anything like that. I’m gonna take the best player available at three and then build out my roster from that. So, I think it’s worth discussing just real quick, you know, the value of these players. Sure. Like, right. So, we have Cooper Flag at number one, like very clearly tier one prospect. He’s my second best prospect of the last decade since I’ve been doing this. We have Dylan Harper as like a borderline like tier one, tier two player. I’ll hear out either way. Um, you know, but a guy that we project is like a real all-star moving forward. Number three to me is kind of a big group of players. Yep. Right now it’s not like a surefire this guy should go number three. Like I have all of Conpple, Trey Johnson, VJ Edgecom, Ace Bailey as having like fairly similar grades. Honestly, Ace certainly has like the biggest upside of this group uh if it all turns out right, but also was probably the least impactful in terms of winning basketball this season at Ruckers and that shows in their record, but also uh just in terms of his style of play. You know, he is a guy that is very shot happy. He makes his catch and shoot threes when he takes them, but often tries to hold the ball in order to do so. He is a player that uh doesn’t really pass the ball that often. He can be very inattentive on defense. He’s just a very immature player and he’s a guy that most NBA teams see as a project, but he’s also, you know, nearly 68 without shoes on with a 7 foot wingspan with a very high release point who can create jumpers uh at an exceedingly impressive level uh for somebody of his uh age. and he is somebody that makes jumpers that are almost impossible to make. It’s just that these shots end up being very very difficult. And even if you’re taking even if you’re great at making difficult shots, there’s only a high percentage uh a certain percentage of them that you’re going to make. So, a complicated player. VJ Ashkum is a guy that, you know, two-way guard. I like him a little bit more on defense than offense right now. The ball skills are not great on that end. Uh his left hand is a bit of a question, but a guy that I think will come in and knock down catch and shoot threes. Believe he was right around 38% on those this season at Baylor. Maybe 36 if I remember correctly. Uh Coniple is a guy that was kind of the doesn’t take anything off the table guy. Was a fantastic dribble, pass, shoot, defend wing this year at Duke who was like their secondary playmaker. averaged, you know, between 14 and 15 points a game while shooting nearly 50, 40, 90. Great shooter. I think probably the best shooter in this draft class if you made me pick one. But a guy that, you know, athletically there are real limitations. He will be one of the I don’t know 25 worst athletes in the NBA probably, especially if you start only considering wings. And then finally, Trey Johnson’s just like a real movement shooter who is a fantastic scoring threat. some questions on defense, some questions in terms of his frame and the way that he holds up to physicality. There are just a lot of really interesting options in that range. None of them to me totally make sense for the Sixers, which is why at the end of the day, I do think I would be really open to trade down, get a vet, and hopefully stay in that like 3 to seven range to be able to get one of the guys that I want. Okay, so to be clear, that that’s fair. I would be a little more interested into trading down because if you’re trading down then you’re not selling out on the pick where you’re just trading out of the draft getting the full value of whatever the number three pick is for a current NBA player that can help your roster. If you trade down you kind of split the margins right there, right? like you split that where okay, we’re still going to get probably one of the guys you just talked about and maybe we get a player that can help us that’s an established vet, but I still feel like you’re you’re taking some sort of swing on some more youth to go with what may ultimately be like, hey, a pivot fully to a Tyrese Maxi Jared McCain 2020 2025 draft pick to start building this like what happens if those two guys get hurt again? I mean, we’ve talked about the contract situations they have, but how oft do you play this game before you just pivot to something different and say, “Hey, we we got to move off and we got to go another direction.” So, that’s why I don’t excuse me. I don’t like moving out of the draft and out of the top eightish, seven or eightish entirely. Agree. This would be my ideal trade for them if I was the Philadelphia 76ers. And look, I don’t even know if this is something the Pelicans would consider. It’s probably not something I would do if I was the Pelicans, frankly. But maybe they feel differently about Ace Bailey or VJ Edgecom than I do, right? Uh Herb Jones at number seven for Kelly Ubé. Andre Drummond in number three. like if they really want to move up and get their guy because they have somebody ranked ahead of these other players. I personally as an evaluator do not think that way, but this is how deals get done all the time, right? Somebody has a different evaluation than you know the people that have the asset and is willing to pay to get that pick, right? So to me, Sam, the the Luca trade has been all over the first 13 minutes of this episode. I’ I’m I’m holding back jokes right now because you talked about the Quinton Grimes trade. I was going be like, was that the worst value trade that Dallas made this season? And then um I’ve been holding back. I’m sorry I lost. I real quick, I would not I would jump on this if I was the Sixers. I would not do this if I was the Pelicans, but I understand the point you’re making. I also want to quickly point out Uber and Drummond both have player options for this off season. I I I don’t know what they’ll do. I’m just saying I just want to make that clear cuz people may see them in this trade. I feel good about what Andre Drummond’s going to do. I feel pretty good about what I would advise Andre Drummond to do if I was his representation. Yes. And honestly like UBS is over eight based on that market and what guys had to take last year. UB would probably be smart to go ahead and exercise that as well. I just wanted to point it out. Yeah, of course. Uh, look, like if you think that Ace Bailey is a star, like if you really believe that that dude is going to be, you know, the next Jason Tatum, what whatever people think, right? You definitely pay Herb Jones and Seven to get him. Like, that’s just the reality. I agree. And to be fair, there are probably people that think that. Like there are not like there are probably NBA people, right, that that have whether it’s scouts. I I don’t know about GMs or I don’t know how much owners get into this, but like I assume that owners can fall in love with some of this stuff. So to your point, is that trade possible? I think I agree that it is possible for my evaluation at this point. I think that would I think that’d be a great get for Philadelphia. I would love their ability if they could do something along that even if it’s not Herb, if it’s somebody else. I know there’s a limited number of teams um in terms of being able to trade into that range, but that would be a huge win in my opinion. The other thing that a deal like that does, and this is where we do need to start talking about the financial situation and get into their free agency situation, is it actually saves them jumping from number three to number seven, it saves them about $3.5 million. And that’s just on the rookie scale deal of the equation here, right? Uh yeah, I believe that UB and Drummond make fairly close to similar amounts of money to what Herb Jones is slated to make next year, but that is like a real factor for them if they’re going to try and retain Quentyn Grimes and Gershon Yabiselli, particularly Yabiselli because we assume Grimes is the priority here. I’m going to guess that Grimes is probably going to sign a deal right over the mid-level exception. He’s a restricted free agent. I I don’t think that like the teams with cap space I mean Detroit is not doing this we assume given that Grimes has been there and that’s been a you know like traded him when he started there. I don’t have a whole lot of intel but my guess is Quinton would not sign that offer sheet. So I I would guess so. They’re one of the teams that could have real cap space. Brooklyn, I guess, could try and do this, but like I don’t know why Brooklyn wants like a 3 and D kind of wing right now. You know what I mean? Like that doesn’t make sense for where they are in their build at this point. So the offers on the table for Grimes are probably like the mid-level exception. So if he gets like a little bit more than the mid-level exception where it’s like a 4-year $60 million contract, $65 million contract, that’s a win for the representation. It’s a win for the 76ers potentially. that that feels like the middle ground to me. Does that feel fair to you? I I I do like that. And I’ve said this before, this was one of the more interesting non-star contracts I’ve been waiting for cuz I’m like, why does this dude keep getting traded? Um, you know, it ended up I don’t want to make it about Detroit. I feel like that’s happened to every breakdown. So, but like when Dallas did it, I didn’t understand like, okay, you have Max Christie and Quinton Grimes. That’s okay. You can have both. It’ll be all right. Um, if this is what Philly gets him on, I think that’s a really good deal. I I think I agree with you though. I think some people will see the numbers he put up this year and expect that he gets more, but I don’t know as a restricted free agent where the leverage is for him unless he just like wants to stay around and then try to hit unrestricted free agency the next year. I think locking in a deal like that would would probably be good, but I do think without looking at the entire landscape, I I feel like he would be one of the guys that could command a full non-ax MLE. I I think he would like the the the key here is to basically get him slightly more than the nonMLE. Maybe it’s like 470 or something like there there’s a number here that makes sense for everybody, I think. And the key is just going to be finding that number. Yep. Right. I think 470 is probably actually the number now that I think about it. Like slightly more than the non- taxpayer MLE. Yeah, I agree with that. The the key there is now so we’re talking about signing Quinton Grimes to a deal starting at like 15 million let’s call it a year$55 or so they are currently about 177 million for 12 players in order to use the taxpayer MLE which is what they would be they would be a taxpayer the taxpayer mid-level exception would hardcap them at 27 million million dollar 27.9 million. So you add Grimes is like 16 or so that gets you to like 193. You add the 11th you or I’m sorry you add the third overall pick at 11 million that gets you to like 204. That’s actually not enough at that point to resign Gershon Yabuselli. You could make moves around the end of your roster. Obviously, Lonnie Walker is on like a big number um that they can get rid of. Ricky Council’s on a big number that they can get rid of. Like you you can remove these players from the equation and be able to, you know, get right below that number. But then you’d be, you know, filling your bench with basically like probably rookie scale guys like, you know, firstear players. the number 35 pick would like be a not inessential part of their bench at that point basically. I wonder if I think they would love to be able to try and make moves around Kelly Ubé and Andre Drummond. Like that would be amazing if they could find ways to like dump their salaries. It’s just like at number 35 like you’re probably if you use that to like dump one of them. You’re probably only getting off one of them. I would guess that it would probably be Drummond cuz Ubé can still at least like play for you. Like he’s valuable. His contract is not I I consider Drummond like $5 million like underwater. I know that he can eat minutes but it’s it was bad last year. And you have a Dembona. Hopefully, you can go out and like find another center somewhere for the minimum. I think that that center would likely be better than Drummond. It’s I think that the move here, if I could do it, if I was the Sixers, remains trade down with the number three pick. Get some sort of asset that is like costneutral in some way, shape, or form. And that would allow you to have the flexibility to retain Quentyn Grimes and Gershon, Yabiselli. And by the way, like the thing we’re talking about here is that maybe Yuselli just commands more than the non-T taxpayer MLE in free agency. And like I’m not expecting that necessarily. It’s not impossible. Like he had a good year last season. He averaged, you know, 11 points, six rebounds, shot 50, 38, 72. It’s kind of an awkward player to fit into your scheme because he’s 68, 250. Is he a four? Is he a five? Is he effective at the five defensively when he has to play there? Like, but he’s important for them. Bench big. Yeah, he he’s important for them, Sam, because who are guys on this roster that can play the four at all? Like, even if you’re like, well, it’s not the greatest four. Who is the four, though? You know what I mean? And so that’s why I think maybe it sounds like we’re spending a lot of time talking about Gishan Yabuselli and keeping him on the roster unless there’s another plan to get a fourman in there or a big in even if you just say he’s the big Well, who’s the other big on the roster that you really trust if you only want to play with the five or whatever. I just I I think he’s important for this roster as it’s currently constructed. And that’s why we’re spending time trying to figure out, okay, how do you keep Grimes? How do you utilize this pick? And how do you keep Yabooi? Because even with that pick, whether it’s at three or like I I you’re still I think Yabooi is still important. And I don’t think the guy you end up drafting really takes I mean I guess maybe Queen people may would argue argue Derrick Queen maybe but like I I just think he’s an important piece for their rotation and that’s why it’s important to talk about him. Yeah. No, I completely agree. Like he is a really really essential player for them if they’re going to have like the depth and flexibility to be able to do things. And look, the thing we’ve avoided throughout this conversation is like none of this matters if Joel Embiid is not healthy. None of it matters if Joel Embiid is not able to come in and give them 50 games and then be healthy for the playoffs. Let’s call it like that’s probably what it’s going to have to be minimum. And then if it’s 50, Paul George is going to have to be like quite healthy, I think. And then if it’s more like 65 for Joel, I wouldn’t play more than 65 for sure. Maybe it’s, you know, that Paul George can also play, you know, 55 games, 60 games, something like that. You probably need 120 games from Joel Embiid, Paul George next year. And you need Paul George to be like fairly effective as well. And you need Joel Embiid to bounce back because Joel was not quite as good as what we would have hoped uh coming off of dealing with his like knee issues, whatever they were. Yeah. I mean, that’s what I was going to say. We talked about this with Paul George. It wasn’t only that he played only 41 games. It’s that in those 41 games, it wasn’t the Paul George you would want. And you know, Embiid only ended up playing 19. Yeah. I mean, if if you told me I could sign up for 50 regular season games, I I I think that’s the like if you if I could sign up for 50 regular season games of Embiid and the playoffs, I I’ll just take it. Like I would take that, as crazy as that sounds. But as a Sixers fan, based off what we’ve seen and how some of this stuff has gone, I would 100% take that and hope that Maxi McCain, the draft pick, whatever, wins you enough games to not be in the playin and then you make your run once the playoffs start. Okay, so ultimately kind of rounding this into, you know, where we are, I think a trade down with number three makes a ton of sense. If only because like with all of the salary information that we’ve just laid out, it’s really hard for them to have $11 million outlaid to a player that may not be able to help them a ton next year in terms of winning games. like just with the way that their salary structures are and given the fact that this front office is like hopefully trying to retain their jobs, right? It it’s difficult to make that structure work while also competing next year, which is what they have to do. Yeah. No, I I think I’m not saying it’s impossible. I’m saying it’s very very difficult. Yeah. I I think you’ve talked me a little bit more into the trade down aspect of this, especially when you factor in the the big board aspect of the 2025 draft and kind of how my our tiers are currently breaking right now. I I’m I’m much more welcome to that than my initial answer. I I don’t want to trade out of the draft altogether, but trading back makes a lot of sense between the financial implications, the potential veteran player you could add, and still staying in the same tier of players. At least for me, yeah, it is hard. Like I think the options are relatively limited to like the Wizards, the Hornets, the Nets, the Pelicans, probably maybe the Raptors as well, like if you were willing to drop all the way down to nine if there was a player like you really really felt confident in. But even at the Raptors, like all of their guys are already like fairly expensive. Yeah. So it’s a little bit tricky to find who the who the asset is that moves to the Sixers, right? So you are limiting with like a you’re dealing with a limited number of teams in some respect. I think the two names that make a lot of sense for me are Cam Johnson and Herb Jones. Herb Jones would be my number one target. Cam Johnson would probably be number two. Uh again, the finances there offset a little bit more. If you get down to number eight, I believe it’s like 6.6 million. So, if you do something like the the deal that I said was something like 19 and 27, but like even if you did eight in number 27 and there’s like eight Cam Johnson and 27 or something like that and then you throw in a swap of either Lonnie Walker or Eric Gordon for Drew Timmy and then you uh throw in Kelly Ubé and Andre Drummond as well. That deal is basically cash neutral and allows you to retain Quentyn Grimes and Yabiselli as well. Uh in terms of the pick value of number three versus number eight. So or the salary cap value, I’m sorry. Definitely they should be looking to retain Quenton Grimes and Yabuselli. Like we’re 100% on board with that. Yes. I think we’ve done like a reasonable job of laying out the way that they can do that financially. Uh they can keep 11 and do it and definitely keep Grimes. I think it becomes a little bit more difficult if you keep 11. Don’t find a landing spot for UB or Drummond. You’d basically have to move like number 35 I think at that point or some of their other seconds that they accumulated this year with Andre Drummond in order to move his salary off of their books in order to retain Yabiselli. that would result in them also having to go get like a backup innings eater center even though they have a Dembona already on the roster. I would be a little bit worried about him stepping in given Joel Embiid’s injury history. So it’s all very difficult here like there there are not easy options for the 76ers but the good news is that they have options. That is ultimately the key that happened here by them keeping their top six pick and in fact it rising up to the number three overall slot. Yeah. I mean, can you think what we’d be talking about here if it was like, hey, they don’t have a pick at all. So yeah, the this salary cap issue isn’t there, but neither is like any sort of trade value to bring in any sort of assets to play or get excited about in terms of adding younger player to go with Maxi and McCain cuz like that’s the one thing I continue to hold on. I I I feel like I’m pretty negative right now about the injury situation of George and Embiid and where this thing is going to go in the immediate future. So the idea of Maxi McCain, you know, Justin Edwards looked decent at times as a second round pick and then you add another top 10 pick, it’s like, okay, well at least I can maybe get a little excited about that once you figure out how to make salary stuff work. And I don’t know if you ever get off those contracts if it goes south again this year, but that that was a huge win for Philly already this off season in ter you know that lottery. We don’t have to revisit the whole thing. Obviously, Dallas is the big winner and San Antonio with Dylan Harper, but even following at three opened up a ton of flexibility as you mentioned. And please, please, Joel Embiid, get healthy. We love watching you play basketball. Yeah. Uh, great basketball player. Genuinely, 18 months ago, there was a case Joel Embiid was the best player on planet Earth. We would love to see Joel Embiid get back healthy. What is the ceiling, Sam? What? Let’s I I don’t even know like what you want to say with what how good is this team if you have Maxi McCain health healthyish Paul let’s say Paul George healthy and back to like 18 to 20 points a game. um you know, not this like two-way star, but like a a very good wing two-way player and Joel Embiid back to first team allNBA like that’s I want that for our viewing and discussing and analyzing pleasure. So throwing throwing this out there. So let’s say that the Pelicans are willing to do the deal that I threw out there with Jones, right? What if I told you their starting lineup next year is Tyrese Maxi, Khan Canipple, Herb Jones, Paul George, Joel Embiid with Jared McCain is their sixth man. Quinton Grimes and then you have like Quentyn Grimes. No, it would be Quinton Grimes instead of Khan. I’m sorry. So, it’ be Maxi Grimes, uh, Herb Jones, Paul George, Joel Embiid with Khan and Jared McCain coming off of the bench. And then, you know, Justin Edwards look pretty interesting at the end of the year this year. You have a Dembona. Maybe you draft a center at number 27 or maybe you’re not getting 27. Maybe you draft a center at 35 uh that you like and maybe that’s how you make this work and you have like a backup that’s fairly interesting like a Janai Broom or a Ryan Kulk Brener or something and that that’s where you’re sitting at this point. That team if they are fully healthy I think contends at the top of the Eastern Conference. Like genuinely I think that team has a real shot to be a highlevel contender at the top of the Eastern Conference. It’s just that we don’t know what to we don’t know if Joel Embiid being healthy is like even a realistic avenue at this point. But I think if I’m Philadelphia and I’m that front office, I almost have to operate as if it is, right? That’s how you have to go. I just think it will be fun to consider this as we go through the other 27 teams. As it sits right now, I find it hard to believe there’s going to be another team where the variance of outcomes in May is as wide as the team we just discussed. And I I I will be interested and fascinated to see if we talk ourselves into another team being that. But I I just when it’s two players and one of them, especially because we know Jason Tatum isn’t going to be ready to play for the majority of next year, right? like we we know that if at all. I have no idea what to think about Joel Embiid and Paul George and what to expect or not expect from them next season. No clue. And even if they come back healthy, can I be confident they’re going to stay healthy? And so the variance for this team in 2526 is extremely wide. I think that’s right. uh a lot of variant outcomes, but I think that they have a chance to really set themselves up for success this summer uh based off of the assets they have at their disposal and the flexibility they created with the Quentyn Grimes deal with uh a number of different moves that they’ve made even though last season was a disaster. It’s funny like I don’t think this front office has done a particularly poor job. It’s just that the injuries have hit and maybe the Paul George deal ends up being like a truly catastrophic decision. Yeah. Yeah, I mean to be I thought the Paul George deal was a really smart move. I thought they won the off season and so I can’t sit here and be like, “Oh, they shouldn’t have signed Paul George.” Like I I thought it was smart. So yeah, I’m not going to crush him for that. It’s just now you got to figure it out. You and that’s my thing is nobody knows those medicals better than the people in there and they have to make decisions based off of that. So that’s right, Bryce. Tell the people where they can find your work. Tell the people what’s going on. Yeah. at Motorcity Hoops on Twitter, on Blue Sky, NBA, NBA draft, some Piston specific tough stuff from time to time. Have the Substack, the Pistons Pulse podcast. Otherwise, Game Theory podcast right here with San Vini. Subscribe, like, leave a review, give a rating, tell a friend, help us grow. We really appreciate all of you. There are over 35,000 of you that have hit that subscribe button over on the YouTube channel. Please continue to hit that subscribe button. We appreciate all of you immensely for coming through and watching these offseason previews. We will have more of them coming soon. Until next time, we’ll talk soon. Bye.

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Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.