GET UP | Monica McNutt BREAKING: San Antonio Spurs ready to move for Giannis in the summer

GET UP | Monica McNutt BREAKING: San Antonio Spurs ready to move for Giannis in the summer

in order to answer questions about sports. And let me set it up by presenting this. Earlier this week, Shams was on the Pat McAfee Show and he gave this little preview of what this upcoming NBA offse might look like. I think this off season might be the most craziest ever. You have the parody of the league sucks. It’s so thin right now like as far as the thin line of where you can win a championship or you might be falling into the lottery. And I think the the ability to go out there and improve your team and get there to championship level, I think that’s on the minds of everyone around the league. Okay, so that’s sort of the setup. So the offseason is not all that far away. And the first name everyone is going to be talking about is Giannis. I think there’s an expectation we could see something happen with Giannis pretty quickly when the NBA offseason begins. So let’s do our favorite thing. Let’s do math, shall we? Let’s do a mathematical equation. Monica McNut, I’m beginning with you. This is Pineapple Jack and a Jets helmet because why not? Here we go. Here’s our math. Okay, we got Giannis plus which team would equal an NBA championship? Well, in this equation, a Greeny Professor Greenberg, uh, does time matter? I mean, you tell me. All right. Well, for with the information given, I’m going to go San Antonio Spurs, ladies and gentlemen. San Anton. Tell me why. That’s the answer. Um, well, I just think that would be a monster lineup and Vinyama, they’ve got great point guard play. They’ve got a supporting cast. I mean, obviously, some of it will look different if you add Giannis, but I think you bring that championship pedigree um to a market similar to OKC in that no frrills, no fuss, let’s just play basketball and figure out how to win at a high level. I think that would be a problem, a wrecking ball for the league. Spurs. Yes. Yes. I was thinking about it already. Look, they got the second and the 14th pick. They have some draft capital. they, you know, they can say, you know, we’ve got something to give you back in your build and they have to give up a really good young player. I’m not giving up Castle, period. I hang up the phone cuz if I can keep Winyama and Castle and De’aran Fox and you add Giannis, come on now. But you got to trade something. You do. You got you got the second and 14 picks. You got Vassel. You got what other? Uh Castle. I’m not trading. He’s just saying I’m not getting rid of Hang up the phone. Is Is that your Let me get Wendy in here. Do I have Wendy? I have Wendy. Yes. Thank you, Brian Winhorse. How about this? Let’s not put the cart before the horse. We’re talking about how nice it would look to put Giannis on the San Antonio Spurs. Is it a realistic possibility? It’s realistic because the Spurs definitely have the assets to both trade for Giannis and have a contending team on the other side of it. But I got to tell you, you have to compute what Giannis may want. And it’s not a commentary on Victor or the Spurs. I’m listening to Chris Finch last night from the Timberwolves saying that next year he thinks 13 teams in the Western Conference could be trying to win and that you go you could have a great season and go 42 and 40. And I didn’t disagree with them and I think Giannis will see that too. The move for Giannis if he has a control is to go to the East. Wow. I you know and Granny Wendy I thought about that in my answer. I really thought about that in my answer, but I don’t know where he would go in the East. That is clo Well, Boston, is that real? That Wendy, is that real? Like, I had KD in Boston in my head, too. Like, but I don’t think that’s real. If you’re thinking about I mean, depending upon the time gap with Jason Tatum, if you’re if you have a lot of contracts to move off of, I mean, if you’re trying to blow it up and reset, there are people in this city in New York that would like Giannis. Also, man, that’s one. What are So, so look look, you opened the door. What are the teams we should have an eye on in the Eastern Conference if that is part of his thinking? Well, again, I think you have to look at the teams that could make a trade for Giannis that the Bucks would accept and on the other side of the trade would have a contending team. So, see, I don’t want to be on the list. Boston may be the only one, but then but then on the other side of it, go ahead, Randy. I I think New York would be on that list. Um, you know, there’s some re there’s some difficulties when you talk about aprons and second apron teams trying to make trades and that’s a reality, but there are some teams on the Eastern Conference you could construct an ability to get this done. Miami. Well, I know we joked about it. I know we joked about it. I I and I keep saying it and I know we say everybody comes to New York for visitations and but the the doo went to New York and San Francisco for vacation with his family to walk around. Yeah. D spends a lot of time over in Europe. Warm places. You want to get the hell away from the United States. That’s where he always I’m just saying. I don’t know. Look, maybe he wanted to see a couple of Broadway shows. I really enjoyed Death Becomes Her. George Clooney is on Broadway right now. He might have liked that. Okay, I got another mathematical equation. We got Kevin Durant this math. Math. I love math. Look, you guys all played your sports. Okay, I went to school. Here we go. We got Kevin Durant plus what team equals an NBA champion? J Will. I got Anthony Edwards. That’s a team. Yeah. KD. Well, yeah. I got Minnesota. Yeah. Minnesota. Anthony. Well, he is Minnesota, correct? You got him. He’s not move. I got him plus KD I think can equal a championship. Tell me why. So if if you put KD on that team last night. Well, it depends upon what other assets that they had to replace him with. But I think just offensively it it it relieves him from trying to do everything. And I actually think those pieces are extremely complimentary. We talk about Aunt taking the next step in his career. I think there’s nobody better to help him do that than KD. And it feels like that’s KD and Aunt Edwards against the world. Houston. Houston. That’s me. Michael likes Houston and Monica likes Houston. Yeah. Yeah. I just think that Houston has both what Monica described perfectly, which is necessary. You’ve got the assets to acquire him. And then on the other side, you got enough players that roster. I mean, look, look at what Houston just did. A lot of good young players. Yeah. They’re the two seed in the West. Two seed in the West. So, I just see K I see KD now more as a finisher. Jay, I I I don’t know that I want Look, as great as KD is, and he’s an all-time great, his team just finished 12th. Yeah, 12th. And he’s got Deon Booker running with him. So, I need to see a complete roster that KD is joining, and he brings the might as a closer, Wendy, what should we be looking at when it comes to Kevin Durant? Well, first off, and and I and I’m cognizant of going and doing, you know, talking about things that almost happened being a tiresome storyline in the wake of the trade deadline. It became clear to me just how significant and how hard Minnesota tried to get Kevin Durant at the trade deadline. Now, it was a herculean effort because both of those teams were in the second apron, but there was a point in this year where Minnesota was very interested in making this happen. And as they looked at that beast that defensively that they had to deal with last night, I could see them considering revisiting this. However, I got to say two things. They have an ownership change about to happen and their general president, uh, Tim Connelly can opt out of his contract. He can become a free agent this summer. So, they got to make sure that’s taken care of, plus their ownership transition. There’s a lot of moving parts, but I think absolutely Minnesota should be on that list. Okay. So, we’ll keep an eye on all these things. These are all things that will start. Wendy has made this point here perhaps before the the draft because a lot of these trades are going to happen for draft picks. So we’re talking about, you know, the NBA draft being basically a month from right now. Keep a close eye on some of these deals getting done. I promised Michael Wilbon that I would get this in today. So Eric, let me get the sound off. NDA certainly deserving of all of the credit. He scored 30 or more in all three series clinching wins in this postseason. If he does it again in the finals, that would set a new record. But look at the company he has already joined. I mean, you’re talking about basketball royalty. LeBron, Steph, Kobe Bird, and Mike. And after the game, the MVP showing gratitude to those around him. I want to thank my teammates. Without them, I’m nothing. Clear as day. I don’t have 124 points by myself. I love these guys to death. Now, with all that being said, this is a step in the right direction, but we have a lot more work to do, and we know that and that’s what we’re focused on. So, let’s buckle up and get ready. So, look, I mean, I far being for me, this is not about me, but if I were to have written his speech, I would have written literally every word said he all the time. Everything, right? Job’s not done. Give credit to your teammates. All the time, winning or losing as opposed to, we looked at the video from Ant-Man, right? Not hitting all the right notes. Correct. We’re going to get to that, but let’s start with the wind man who was there last night to see it. Wendy, what are the right things to say about Shay Gildas Alexander and this OKC team that looks like it might be at the beginning of something special? I got to tell you, in the first half of this game last night, Nas Reed and Julius Randall were in hell. They they couldn’t even stay on their feet. The the the what the Thunder did to the Wolves, they brought them to their knees on the offensive end of the court. It was incredibly impressive, incredibly humbling for the Wolves who are a very good team and they really took their foot off the gas. If they wanted to, this score could have been anything that they wanted it to be. And that’s not a criticism of Minnesota. That’s just where this team is. They are playing their best basketball right now. I’m just going to put it like this since I’m out here in the Midwest and they know a little bit about steakouses here. They got the table set. The wagoo is there. The side dishes are ready. Everything that you need to make something really special happen is ready to go. They just got to cook the steak, right? And they understand that. They understand that nothing is take is is is given. This is an organization that I was here 13 years ago where they thought they were at the beginning of a long run and then their plans went arry. So they appreciate what they’ve got and they appreciate that there’s still a lot more to do. It’s very impressive to be around this team. In those days they had three young stars, right? Right. And they had Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden. The feel of this is totally different, right? We all remember those teams and be covering them because they all felt like they were a players, like they were going to be the guy, and that you you can’t have three of those on one team. In this case, at least at this stage of their development, it feels like each of them, the three great players with SGA and and Jay Will and Chad Hongren, they all understand sort of where they fit into the scheme of this. They understand who the alpha is. not just understand it. They’re fine with it. You can see that. You can see the way they interact with Shay. You can see the way they look at him. You can hear the answers for to questions. I mean, Chad and Jay Wills, I’m sorry, Jayd Dub Jay Will’s here and J Dub seemed very, I hate to use the word content, but right now, and things can go ary, Greeny. Yeah. We see people, you know, evolve and change. It doesn’t look like those three guys are going to have that happen to them anytime soon. Let’s put it that way. They have We’re obviously going to talk about SGA MVP. We’ll talk about JDub and his performance. Obviously, Chad, but the pieces they have Hello. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Edit video. What? I got What is done? 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GET UP | Monica McNutt BREAKING: San Antonio Spurs ready to move for Giannis in the summer