Haliburton on His Return, Preseason Thoughts, and Most Intriguing Players!

DuncanWell, you know,

Loweit's not just because you're here as the president of the Southeast Division. By the way, I think every division, like the conferences and the NCAA should have like a fake president, like who doesn't really do anything with that. The conference presidents, you say you would be my nominee for the president. I would take that.

LoweAnd you would just have to just give speeches every once in a while about how great the Southeast division is and, you know, create fake rivalries where like whoever wins the season series between the Hornets and the Heat gets like a trophy of some kind and all that. But my most intriguing player for the upcoming NBA season is brought to you by State Farm.

LoweI think, to me, this is a no -brainer. My most intriguing player for this season is Brandon Miller in Charlotte. Currently up for an extension. I think they will probably get, I would bet, if I had to bet, I would bet on them getting something done before the season. Obviously, he's missed a lot of time with various injuries.

LoweShoulder stuff last year. The offseason was, you know, he had to take some time to keep recovering from that.

Lowehe's a real eye of the beholder player pessimists would see i think a brandon ingram 2.0 where the numbers and the and the physical profile look great and it just doesn't translate into enough actual impactful winning stuff for whatever reason optimists would see i think a quicker more live player than Brandon Ingram, a more alert defender than Brandon Ingram, someone who has more potential on that end if he stays healthy.

LoweAnd the Hornets have clearly like, look, the LaMelo ball trade was a lot of different things. It was a bet against LaMelo ball. It was a slight hedge against like, we don't really think what we were last year was 100 % real in a world in which a third of the league was tanking.