NBA Trades & Baseball Shockers: What Just Happened?

NBA Trades & Baseball Shockers: What Just Happened?

all right welcome back to another episode of the Strike Zone to EndZone podcast featuring the one and only Trey Ballard and our returning I guess now he’s the permanent co-host guest Matthew Traion in town he’s the one he’s the Yeah he’s in front of the camera i’m back to being behind the camera i’m your producer four weeks you guys have uh you guys have making some pretty pretty big waves on the YouTube world so congratulations on that matt uh don’t get tread too big cuz once I tell him what his SEO was uh way past that yeah anyway no so uh again you don’t need me talking there’s a lot that that’s been going on between the uh Stanley Cup finals stanley Cup’s over uh and everything but Trey my prediction was wrong i think the Oilers in seven and the Panthers won and so that is what it is i mean we don’t really have to rehash that that was what it was their results are there you know you can’t really Yeah i’m curious to see what they say about uh Conor’s legacy now he’s that’s about it two years in a row down they they brought in some new pieces from last year and I mean I still think he’s the best in the world between him and Matthews but I don’t know man to lose to the same team two years in a row has got to be a tough pill to swallow especially last year going down three zero and then forcing a game seven losing and this year losing even less games right also I was going to tell you I did find something about the trade stuff yes for NBA so I Yeah I saw the what’s his name bane yeah well so that happened but also so it says NBA teams can make trades in the current league year as soon as their season ends provided they are legal and pending free agents aren’t being traded some trades have to wait to go official into the new league year but can agreed be but can be agreed to now and the reason is why because the salaries change so as long as the salary that you’re going to be signing them to or what like because say you have to trade a guy that’s signs an extension that’s going to be different than what his previous salary was obviously it won’t go into effect until the new league year so it’s the same thing as hockey you can make the trades anytime yeah a lot of people will just wait because you got so many other moving parts after that and they got a And their contracts are way crazy too i mean what they gave up for him he got what three first round picks yeah three first rounders KCP and and Cole Anthony i mean it was it was a hall but at the same time I actually know it was four because you have I remember cuz the back two are 2028 and 2030 in which case one of those is a kid going into his freshman year so but the first round pick thing for me it kind of just depends cuz it like and Danny Ames did this he fucked this up for everybody whenever he did the the the Gornett and them straight to the Nets because you you think when you hoard all these picks it’s supposed it’s supposed to work out for you but there’s no guarantee because you don’t you don’t know where these it’s not but it’s also like teams that need ass like the Suns like the Suns would jump all over that just to get their picks back cuz they gave up so much so many and then Orlando had a a surplus to give out and for me personally I’m one of those guys that’s just like if you have all these picks and you’re just letting sit there collecting dust waiting on these teams that you think are going to be bad in five years just go get unless unless it’s protected unless it’s like your it’s a protected top 10 like even this year I mean obviously Flag’s coming up and I like that uh what’s his name ace Bailey I think he’s going to be solid yeah he’s declining workouts though because he’s probably got a third pick probably i mean he I don’t think he’ll go any higher than four i don’t think so either he’s solid um I Yeah I Yeah and I think Magic are going to be sneaky good i mean I think Paulo is a bro i think Paulo Bencher is a stud man he’s just player in the league sure yeah yeah he was a beast on the Olympic team not the last one yeah he’s he’s all those guys even Coach K was like dude he’s a dog like he’s still That’s what I’m saying he’s like he’s even you know went further than what I thought yeah and he’s getting Well I mean I think he’s what he’ll be coming into his fourth year fifth year i think he was 2020 first round pick uh cuz he was number one overall wasn’t he yeah he was it was 2022 okay remember they lost to Carolina that lost to Kansas right right right remember that was Coach K he was Coach K’s last on that team so he’ll be coming into his fourth year I believe but yeah I think and they got I forgot that white guy they have over there that’s solid too i mean Orlando is going to be Oh Fran Wagner yeah he’s nice i mean brother Mo his brother’s good too michigan they got Jaylen Suggs i think I think they’re going to be good i mean Cole Anthony didn’t really I think like a college player but I think he moves the A lot of people don’t i think Desmond Bane moves that i’m not a big Bane fan i will I don’t personally I No it’s not that I don’t think he’s good it’s another one of those I just don’t like him like if he like I would I just don’t like you i think you’re a good player i just think you’re corny you know i would I would I would just I just I just don’t fuck with you but I think you’re a good basketball player i definitely think you moved the needle for the matter what they I think it’s a good move for them i still think they’re I mean they’re young i mean that I mean because he’s not an old guy either yeah no so they’ll they’ll keep building around it and stuff but yeah I mean they’re definitely going to be interesting to see and yeah the East is definitely wide wide open next year especially with JT Hurt the Pat were the ones that made the finals don’t know i mean the Knicks obviously are running back but they having to coach so you got the Cavs who were unhealthy and then you never know you can’t From what I’ve been reading just cuz all I do is basically read about the Knicks and stuff they’re trying to pair uh what’s his name jared Jackson Jr they want to move him and get and pair him with Cat which would be a nice duo if they decide to stick with Cat and don’t do it i think they should i just think I give it one more year like run it back keep the I think I think the only thing that they might move if they have to is I think they might move on from Muel Bridges to get some more picks back and get a cuz he can score but he’s not gave up and that’s not his fault but I mean his productivity wasn’t worth that all that stuff and I like him i thought he was good in Phoenix i mean he can I fuck with my guy and then whenever he showed that he can he can be a plus score he doesn’t need to be the go-to guy by any means but he can be a guy that can give you I think he averaged like 22 that year or something like that like he can play when he’s the number one option i mean you just got the ultimate green light mhm but it’s going to be interesting to see what they do um cuz apparently like in the whole Kevin Durant thing too teams are Phoenix is asking back for a hall and they’re like “Dude he’s get $60 million he’s going to be 37.” You’ve already said that he can’t be here next year like you you were the ones you don’t have any leverage here yeah they already shut themselves in and that’s why everybody was like Bane went for this so Luca like all these packages that people try to and I’m like you got to understand like every team situation is a little bit different right simply because certain teams and certain players have more leverage than others as well as the fact that certain teams see a guy and they’re like I will give up this for this you know for him and this other team might not do that or they might give up more you you never know and he’s injuryprone before all this i mean obviously in Achilles that’s just like a fluke thing that happens but before that he was always missing like 15 games and now he’s 37 he had the lower leg stuff and all that sort of stuff now he’s 37 so how can you really be asking i mean I get they want picks and stuff but I think you can’t get a hold yeah i think all the GMs and owners are on the phone with each other like “Yo let’s all just sit here and and and blow the bank trying to get him whenever he we whenever we know that they cannot have him back in that locker room next And same could be said for Bradley Bill potentially even though he has a no trade clock i don’t know how he got I mean he was top 10 scorer in the league for years but I mean 30 in Washington yeah but in which case he should have just stayed i know they weren’t winning but it and given given where you are now and what people expected of you being paired with Deon Booker and Kevin Kevin Durant bro you you should have just stayed because you knew you weren’t going to be that same type of player that they needed and you he didn’t I personally I don’t think he needed to be that he didn’t need to he he’s not type player to play a Chris Boss role or Kevin Love you know what I mean like typically a big man is a lot easier to do that because you can affect the game in so many other ways bradley Bill wasn’t always a great he was a good defender but he was never like an all world all NBA no he wasn’t like shutting down your perimeter that’s what I’m saying it’s just like he’s not the type of play his game doesn’t translate to taking that third role in my eyes it doesn’t but at this point in his career cuz again I don’t think he’s that old of a dude i think he’s like 32 33 like he can still play and he had injuries last year in the last two years but I mean if I’m him I and I get it there’s like ego that goes into it too for being the number one option but you know Deon Booker’s the star of the team kevin Durant again you just insert him and he’ll get you 25 and if I’m him I’m like dude this is perfect i can just kind of get the scraps and still put up 2022 it’s not like his money’s not guaranteed well and again yeah with the no trade clause too so he’s Yeah I mean that’s true i just It’s just hard for me to watch him cuz I was a fan of his when he was in high school so I just always you know seeing where he went to when he was at Florida and then coming into the league and like going to a team with John Wall when John Wall was the number one guy building himself you know what I mean i live and so building himself into what he became it just was so hard to see him take that back seat in Phoenix and coming out doing the douge and everything his first game man that shit was lit bro john Wall was going to cry john Wall was hilarious yeah John Wall was going crazy i like that video of You’re saying he he was like like teach me how to douge yeah he’s I think it was his first game ever for his entrance if you could YouTube it and look it up and he literally I’m about to he was he known for doing it at Kentucky and he came out and did the Douggee and it was the funniest thing ever busted out his cat daddy it would have been a lot of games right uh you know we got Oklahoma City trying to close it out in Indiana tonight uh should tip off here in the next couple minutes or so uh I mean I said Oklahoma City and seven seems like they’re probably just going to end it tonight but I wouldn’t be mad at the game seven and there a lot of pressure that goes into that one i would think you know Tyrese is playing tonight even though with the calf strain so I think they got to win tonight i think the last thing they want is all that pressure on them yeah i mean and you never know what can happen in a game seven cuz that like I don’t want to say Indiana’s playing with house of money but at the same time like they weren’t expected to get this far i mean obviously team that number one in the league yeah i mean obviously think for themselves like we belong here and all that but like everyone’s going to be like “Dude like you’ve exceeded all expectations this year you know like if you can It’d be so weird if they won two that might be the strangest team to ever win a world championship.” Who the Pacers just Well I mean isn’t that weird because I mean they’ve been around for so long they haven’t won yet i just think they’re like “Dude is it just Yeah but what I’m saying is like compared to the competition this year and how deep the West was and everything and even compared to because they had some great teams in the 90s and then that early 2000s team that had the Mal and the Palace like all those teams were like Reggie’s teams were good reggie could have got one or two if Jordan didn’t exist he still says to this day he thinks that that year the Malice of the Palace was their best chance of actually winning because obviously you ran into the Shack and Kobe at any point during Yeah and then he ran to Jordan in the next in the ’90s and stuff yeah early 90 i mean he just had a tough road yeah but once you got to that point that was a real cuz man Ron Art Stephen Jackson Tmaine they had a squad Jamal T like looking back at it bro they had a fucking squad they had a squad they were they were stacked they had a squad so yeah man we’ll uh we’ll be tuning in tonight for that um I do want to shout out Jackson on that team too or no that was later on yeah or that was earlier before that i do want to shout out the Yanks though for snapping their losing streak yeah that was nice against the Angels obviously not the Rockets how many games we had lost five in a row three of them to the Socks I believe yeah we got swept by the Socks and then not good uh lost the first two to the Angels so it just We had lost five in a row and then we also hadn’t scored a run in like 30 innings oh that’s a kick in the dick but I like that we have Chaz back now or Jazz i like that damn I should have worn my jersey i forgot to wear I got the World Series i like that we got Stanton back finally it’s getting kind of old him always missing the beginning of the season and shit but I mean he’ll still bring he would have won the World Series MVP last year i will always welcome John Carlo back you can never say he didn’t show up in big moments he was I think he had four home runs in the World Series something like that like and even in the uh ALCS Yeah he was hitting he he earned his keep for He was almost like I dare you to throw me the ball like just throw it literally bro so I’m uh I’m hyped about that we obviously got Allstar game next month and stuff here in the next i was I forget who I forget what podcast I was watching it was some comedian and he was talking I think it was Trevor Lawrence of like not Trevor Lawrence trevor Oh uh Trevor Wallace yeah yeah yeah skinny kid i think it was him but I could be wrong but one of these comedians podcasters was talking about how they went to high school with John Carlo Stanton and they were like “Dude he could have gone pro in uh football and basketball.” cuz he’s 67 like he’s a big guy he’s right there with Judge yeah Judge is 69 i think he’s or 68 he’s a big guy too 67 yeah but and he was a good basketball i was going to say he was all state basketball but they were like he could pump the ball 70 yards they were like he was dunking almost from the free throw line and then cuz he they were like he was that big in high school and they said cuz you know you hit with aluminum bats they’re like dude he was hitting people’s fucking windshields like from like he was crushing the ball like it was like I can only imagine playing short or third he hits it he’s no bow screamer dude i would be like one of the kids in benchwarmers and just like turning around you just I mean you just got to cover up at that i’d be dressed like a catcher and short stop honestly I would have two cups in maybe three it’s like we playing like a man my ankle hurts today i’m just going to have to sit this one out guys literally you see him on the on next week schedule you’re just like do we really have to go do that you even see him against like how big he is compared to the guys at the majors and they’re just like I mean you look at him next to Vulpi look at him next to Vi fucking they were talking even about possibly moving him for some stuff but I’m like Vuly I don’t think they should I think continue he’s young this is what his second year I mean he’s a short stop i mean it’s it’s so hard to be the next I mean not that he’s the last short stop since Jeter but like to try to fill those shoes and stuff being from New York like it’s a lot to live up to but it’s like trying to be the new Batman like how do you follow up yeah you just have to be your own Batman yeah you don’t need to be like anyone else you just need to be your own type of person do your own thing like did you like Jared Leto trying to follow up Heath Ledger fuck you like would you really want to be that guy i’m just trying to say like trying to follow up Jeter on the Yankees to be that’s pretty Kaylin the board trying to follow Nick Sabin you know what I mean like I mean I’m a Kaylin board i’m just saying like it’s just one of those things like what comes with that filling those shoes is tough it’s just always gonna be hard yeah i mean like I said granted it was shit it was almost 10 year jeters last year was 2015 I think so I mean they’ve had they’ve gone through some guys they had I don’t know it’s got to be interesting to see what they do i We’ve had They’ve got to make some moves though i mean they’re talking about putting moving bringing uh or bring dropping DJ down um Yeah they just got I don’t know they got a lot to figure out but they’re still again we’re still first a so I can’t you can’t really be too upset at what’s going on obviously you hit a little there’s always now only up two games on the Rays and three on the on the Jays but you still can’t like you know come summertime and it’s going to be a little bit of a low yeah just cuz it’s I mean it’s it’s it’s so it’s just I mean the season is so long that it’s really really hard to continue to stay I guess locked in in a way obviously you’re a pro so you should yeah also I do want to say this because the same thing happened last year looking at the standings now and we are currently tied with the Houston Astros and those that is a team that it doesn’t matter who the manager is doesn’t matter who their star is i mean as long as they keep as long as they had kept one of Alubbe Bregman or even Kareah to a certain extent now you obviously got Alvarez but they are just always seem to be I don’t know what they’re doing over there they always seem to be it’s just some devil magic i don’t know what it is but they always just seem to fucking be there like when you look at those teams from when they first started winning because like when they first started winning it’s kind of like oh compared to like the Pacers now you’re like all right like these guys are good but like you don’t know but then like down the line Yeah they go and run two three more off you’re like oh damn that team is stacked yeah you’re like what in the heck is going on so no I just wanted to look at that uh and make that note because again obviously we have a lot of Well kind of like same thing I was just uh reading about the Thunder they were like if they win cuz what’ you say they were 68 win team yeah all-star or I’m sorry MVP but they were like “Is this team going to be considered an all-time great team?” And they were like “You can’t really say it now because he’s really the only stud on it but they go and run off and win three in the next like six years and you’d be like oh man they had Chad they had Jaylen Williams they had so it’s just I guess you got to give it more time but definitely I expect them to win a close game i think they’ll win by nine 10 right now they just scored already so yeah I mean it should be an interesting game yeah no for sure i mean I like I said I’m I don’t really mind the the Thunder i mean I really don’t wouldn’t care who won obviously like I said get but I just want Sam Prey to get it yeah he def he deserves he’s put together hell of a team you know hell of a team and even the coaches he’s brought in there he had Billy Donovan for a minute like he’s literally don’t ever It’s like it’s just like you got to play like you got to perform like build the roster for you but you gota Even the teams that like after KD left and it was Westbrook he still put like nice speed on Westbrook to like Steven Adams which he used to have there paul George yeah and older Carmelo but Carmelo still played pretty well i mean yeah he’s he knows what he’s doing and just acrewing all those picks like you said it’s just it really paid off yeah you just got to be able to save it for you know that right piece that you need so no definitely i hope they get it done just so we can stop talking about the narrative that he hasn’t won one in Thunder all this and blah blah blah but I really really would not just because being a Knicks fan forever I just really don’t want to see the Pacers win uh not to going back to baseball you see Joe Tori just to serve in a special role on Aaron Boon’s uh Yeah he’s coaching the AL in the All-Star game yeah there’s some uh pulling up some information i think he mentioned it and uh let’s see first all-star ballots update judge uh yeah he’s not he’s going to win MVP again if he keeps dominating NL uh is he like 26 already 27 like so he’s on pace to over 50 again he’s the he’s the second youngest so right now it looks like the American League first base you got uh Gold Schmidt has got the most votes right now then you got Guerrero Jr uh Ronda then and Walker or those are all the for the ballots being counted for that’s far allar what’s judge at uh so right now American League that’s just for first base oh I was about to say if it’s position by position that makes sense second base uh judge about say Aaron Judge should be the leader of everything yeah right i mean come on what are we talking all right so like so so for first base for the Yankees second base uh Torres uh Tigers wait Glabber fuck yeah you got Glabber let’s go man he’s at 535,000 yeah shout out to the guy right behind him is Jackson Holiday at 449,000 so shout out to Glaver man yeah and then shortstop you got Jacob Wilson at the lead with the from the Athletics and Bobby Wit is right behind him uh let’s see who else we got third base we got Ramirez the Guardians then uh bring him from the Red Sox no Yankees on there judge outfield 1.5 million votes yeah it is fucking the guy right below him is Riley Green from the Tigers with at 675,000 bellinger Tigers are bombing close yeah Cody Bellinger is at uh number six at 416,000 good for him and then you got Austin Wells as catcher number let’s go baby yeah he’s Yeah so uh Cal Riley from the He’s got 1 million number five is Austin Wells at 19 well that’s because Cal’s got 27 homers leading the league home and as a catcher that’s fucking insane then Rice is second in the uh in the lead for Bulls man godamn what you have uh Ryan O’Harn from the Orioles he’s number one for designated hitter but Ben Rice is second right behind him shout out to the Young Bulls what’s that young kid’s name in the Orioles that’s supposed to be like the next Mickey Man that’s him yeah matt Holidays his other son that’s uh going into his senior year is supposed to be Damn oh he’s got one i think he got one more some good genetics yeah man so look it was that was that was you know it was it was a good series obviously not winning it but getting off the schneide and and showing some fight and not just laying down and letting the Angels be good to see um ultimately though bro it’s still we got a lot of baseball left so I’m not really worried angels can’t catch a break man mike Trout came back yeah but again I feel bad for Mike Trout i talked about Oh I don’t want to say a waste he reminds me like Matt kind of yeah like they were talking like the Yankees were talking about bringing him in last summer just for like a DH or something like that but he his salary is just Oh it didn’t it’s nuts yeah but like he’s another I mean baseball’s I think the one sport well I mean like Barry Balance for example you consider is the greatest it’s never because baseball’s a numbers game it’s not really a rings game and you’re not playing you can’t control that like it’s not it’s not basketball it’s not hockey where you’re playing both sides cuz honestly with Jeter I was like to your point a lot of arguments with Jeter like rings are one of the last things that people will bring up in terms just because with baseball that’s so different because it’s everything stats it’s all baseball is stats where again even football too you’re not going to knock Randy Moss for not winning a Super Bowl like it’s he can only do it’s always comes down to the quarterback like that’s the whole reason I mean it goes without saying but that’s the whole reason why like they consider Brady the goat is because he’s got seven he’s not aaron Rogers is more talented patrick Jones probably more talented you’re not going to say he’s not cuz he is more they are definitely more talented when it comes to just going out there and throwing more mobile brady just was smarter and dedicated and but as far as like actually like physical talent like you can name Marino was probably like literally no you can name a lot of other quarterbacks john Elway was a hell of an athlete before he got older like he used to be able to run yeah that’s not even a debate you can name so many more quarterbacks that are just more physically gifted yeah but again he even he went out and said it on Fox the week of Super Bowl he’s like literally if I did if I didn’t if I came out and I looked at the lineman of the defense and I didn’t like what we were in I didn’t like you know he said all this sort of stuff that like made me as great as I was was literally the preparation and then going into it knowing what the fuck was going on he’s like I knew your defense better than you did cuz I had to right you know what I mean like he said he I had to i had no choice yeah he talked about the one against the Chiefs he was like cuz him when him and Ter Matthew got into it and he was like he’s knew what the fuck you’re doing like you don’t have you’re not surprised I made that was the one they talking about he’s like I had I didn’t have a choice yeah was going that would have been probably an all-time great team if they would have won that too that team was scary cuz they were going for back to back that year i think that was that was or was it would have been two out of three cuz they No it would have been back to back remember cuz they lost Mahomes first year as a starter the Patriots won but then the next year they came back and Yeah then the next year the Chiefs came back and won it and then that very next year they would have they would have went back to back because remember the next year was the Bengals beating beating the Chiefs and that was why yeah that was why which again it’s so crazy have they all been at home i’m pretty sure they’ve all went through that’s nuts no no no they went they had to go to Baltimore that one year yeah okay that was the first one that didn’t they had to go to that was the first that was the first one that that’s when Justin Tucker was trying to set up his tea and Travis Kelce was like throwing it away and stuff yeah so that was the first one that didn’t go through arrowhead but yeah man shit that was that was crazy that was nuts i’m just excited for this NBA offseason because apparently there’s a lot of trades about to get crazy yeah it’s going to be a lot of fun a lot of movement a lot of moving parts but with that said man look we we got to get out of here and we got to go watch the game man shit i got to where was take a piss i don’t know oh okay yeah I don’t know how to turn this thing off i don’t need We’ll just clap good stuff hell yeah yeah I know my homie we’re done watch the game yeah we had no clue how to do that so I was like I was just like shit I’ll just clap and hope yeah no I guess

Some weeks in sports are wild—this one was borderline cinematic. NFL shakeups, NBA insanity, and a Stanley Cup stunner, all while the Dallas Mavericks and MLB chaos keep us on our toes.

In this episode of Strike Zone End Zone, Trey Ballard and Matthew Travaglione, with producer Wes Castelhano, dive headfirst into the most unpredictable week in sports. From shocking NBA trade rumors and injury updates to Dallas Mavericks’ roster strategy, nothing’s off-limits. Baseball gets spicy with the Yankees bouncing back after a brutal streak and a funny shoutout to Gleyber Torres.

The Stanley Cup Finals and Thunder playoff drama stir passionate takes. We break down why player contracts shift the league’s future, argue over underrated legends, and throw some serious shade at corny stars (yes, looking at you, Desmond Bane). Packed with Dallas banter, movie pop-ins, and music nostalgia, this pod’s got everything die-hard sports and pop culture fans crave.

00:00 – Panthers Dominate: Stanley Cup Takeaways & Legacy Impact
02:14 – 4 First-Round Picks?! The NBA Trade That Shook Us
04:45 – Why the East is Wide Open (and What the Mavs Must Do)
09:01 – Bradley Beal’s Role Crisis: Can He Be Third Wheel?
12:05 – Yankees Snapped the Skid—But Is It Enough?
14:45 – Who’s the Next Jeter? Yankees Legacy Talk Gets Heated

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