NBA Domino Effect?! 👀 Shams on if Desmond Bane’s move could spark other trades | The Pat McAfee Show

NBA Domino Effect?! 👀 Shams on if Desmond Bane’s move could spark other trades | The Pat McAfee Show

you know we’re in this quiet room i feel like I’m in a I’m trapped somewhere yeah sports Center at 2 o’clock we appreciate you joining us here to wrap up uh hour two let’s get right into it anything we need to know about tonight’s game that we should be thinking about that you’re hearing while boots on the ground in Oklahoma City i I feel like what we saw in game in in game four I mean the the the bench you know with with the Thunder the way that they played I mean to me it just comes down uh can the Pacers bench have the same type of effort uh the same type of production we saw in game three uh how how will that balance itself out but listen when you have Chad Homegrren Jayd Dub and Chay play at the level that they played at um I mean it’s really going to come down to the big threes and the benches so uh very interested to see how how tonight’s game goes go ahead AJ yeah Shams with with SGA we see that like whatever you do to try to stop this guy when it when the time matters this guy finds a way to take over i love watching these crazy mid-range shots he can do everything I feel like with the body control he has what can these Pacers do and what do you expect I guess from Shay uh moving forward in these next couple games aj you I mean at the end of you you just you just have to hope that he just struggles from the field i mean we we’ve seen a couple off games from him in the playoffs but there haven’t been many maybe two three at most over the course of this run to the finals he’s so cerebral his game is so compact he’s got the mid-range shot he’s shooting the three he obviously can get to the foul line like like fans want to give him a hard time for i find his game aesthetically pleasing i find his game to be one of the like like you you think about guys like Kobe i mean in terms of mid-range shot KD’s uh you know been revolutionary for the mid-range jumper as well so I I look at Shay Gills Alexander as a complete offensive player and on most nights even on nights when he’s struggling to start the game like he’s able to be a a complete player complete closer for that Thunder team yeah I looked up at the stats and he had 18 points and I’m like he hasn’t feel like we we had him contained and I look up and he’s already scored 18 points and I’m like this guy’s unbelievable and then he takes 16 steps and nobody calls anything and then you just think to yourself wow he’s able to do whatever he wants was that an offensive foul though was that an offensive foul are you talking about when he punched him in the head like Derek yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah let me punch N Smith in the mouth let me gather myself gather myself 50/50 call but that was uh that was pretty egregious right there well and then he gathered himself and gathered himself and couldn’t gather himself so he had to continue to gather himself and then he gathered himself again i mean there’s four gathers i think that’s a lot of gathers i I mean I don’t know how many and he’s running directly away from the hoop so I you know it’s the foul it’s it it’s not that’s a nice shot though that’s a nice shot nah I I don’t think that’s a travel though no that doesn’t look like All right i agree but whatever you want to call it this dude is unstoppable i felt this way against Jaylen it’s fun to watch these types of guys now people get pissed off about them going to the foul line there were 71 foul shots in that game we can’t have that that’s not what we’re here that’s not what we’re here for can’t have it okay just as somebody that is not a full-time basketball person that you know tries to understand your game as best as I possibly can just know from our world the NFL’s world nobody wants to watch the refs take over a game okay correct nobody so let’s just let’s have a good basketball game tonight and let the boys play swallow the whistle let let TJ McConnell come in here with a European uppercut if he wants to right on if he want if he wants to do it all let let the boys play out there because I think Dags and I think Carlau are going to have him ready to go tonight because the Oklahoma State We’ve seen that though for most of the playoffs we’ve seen the refs allow physicality we’ve seen refs allow things happen so in that case that was physical play now you wanted you the biggest thing is having it called the same way on on the opposite end of the floor when Tyrese has similar plays you know OB or some of the other guys so it’s just consistency is the one thing I hear from coaches and players if you’re going to call one mil that on that side of the court call the same one the other on the other yeah it’s very very difficult obviously uh to officiate so good luck to all parties there let’s move along we only have a few minutes you only have a few minutes a lot of things to talk about go ahead Ty yeah Shams uh the Desmond Bane trade is that kind of like the first thing to really like start the title wave of all these different trades you mentioned last last week on the show hey the Durant trade could happen at any time and now if you look at like NBA Central they have so many tweets about oh this player’s getting shopped this player is you know potentially getting traded like are we about to see a bunch of trades in the the next few days to few weeks here we’re definitely going to get a bunch of trades i I don’t know exactly when but listen I think uh from Kevin Kevin Drent was the biggest domino that we’ve been talking about the biggest available domino and that’s still out there that could be really any day at this point now could be sometime this week we’ll see the biggest thing is will they play that closer to the NBA draft on June 25th or will there be a deal that hits their threshold and they’re able to get a deal done before that point but I mean the Bane deal is something we not many people in the league expected but you think about it from Memphis’s perspective it allowed them to get all these draft assets i mean it’s a major hall that they’re able to get and now they can use those picks to continue to build from my understanding the Grizzlies are are signaling privately that they want to continue to build around Jiren Jackson Jr and John Morant that that is their plan that’s their intention and this is a move for them to pivot away from that core three that we’ve seen with Bane Morant and Jackson and kind of have more youth and have more flexibility they have to pay Jiren Jackson Jr this off seasonason and that allows them to do so and everything they’ve done is to build around Jared by firing Taylor Jenkins having to almost be the new head coach that was for Jarant from my understanding that’s to allow the the Grizzlies offense to have more free flowing uh style and now I think you what we’re going to see is two through four they’re going to try to be very defensive oriented defensive minded there like Jaylen Wells that’s a guy who might not be a household name quite yet he was one of the guys for rookie of the year runner-ups and he’s someone that they have high hopes for like that’s a guy that I believe the Grizzlies feel is their starting two guard of the future and so if you have those aspirations you you need to make sure that you’re good from a financial component because you talk about the second apron you talk about the first apron and having Desmond Bane on a max contract along with Jiren Jackson’s big deal along with John Morance’s max contract it it makes team building very difficult we’ll have you on in the future to talk about the apron talk because that feels like that’s a big deal whenever it comes to trades and who you’re paying and how just to clear it up though like everyone wants to make a big deal about like draft picks right versus trading i saw you talking earlier with Q Rich right like last year we saw Mikuel Bridges go for what was it five first round picks uh and and the Nets got Buon Bdanovich buyon Bdanovich was not a player for the Nets this season like he was a non-factor so they got those five first round picks in this case you get Desmond you give up Desmond Bane you get four first round picks and a swap and at that point you get two players that you feel like can help you now a little bit but they’re doing the deal because the hall of the draft picks you think about Luca Don that Anthony Davis trade if you put Anthony Davis on the open market right now he’s fetching you four five first round picks right now so I think it’s it’s about do you want to trade for the player or do you want to trade for the picks [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

Shams Charania joins The Pat McAfee Show to discuss expectations for Game 5 of the 2025 NBA Finals and the Memphis Grizzlies’ trade of Desmond Bane.
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