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BillYeah. It's interesting to think about like why Presti would offload him because I've, I've been kind of going through and looking at, you know, like Wiggins ends up with them as well. Isaiah Jones ends up with the Pistons. It kind of made me have flashbacks to, you know, Presti with his connection to the Spurs kind of makes your mind go here where you're like there was a funny thing that happened with the spurs where they would have role players

Billsort of leave the their little community at some point and we would value those guys super super high and i caught myself having a moment where i was like is that gonna happen again are we gonna have that thing where they're even there with their value is affected by being within the thunder ecosystem like danny green syndrome almost yeah or like or what was it was it gary um i'm blanking on his name the guy who hit all the

Billton of threes in the in the finals gary uh whatever uh or uh speedy claxton i remember didn't he get a big deal uh after i think it was 2003 i just kind of wonder if we might see that again i don't know that so you're saying like the system role players when they leave the leave the nest it's not the same yes what was that gary guy are we that old we can't remember the guy neil gary neil

Billthat's right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i'd wondered about that it's yeah you you hit it there with the lineup thing I mean Daniels can guard up and guard bigs this team has still has a lot of overlap between their guys even like you don't read a lot into preseason you know you try not to but watching them I'm like I do expect Kingston to have a positive impact on them like I think he'll play early yeah but it

still feels like there's the roadmap is just not totally there yet like I it kind of made me wonder it got my wheels spinning about like are they a team that's going to have a potential to make to push in because there is some overlap one or something yeah like some i was trying to figure out i was like who who could they put on because i was looking at it was like kairi doesn't really make sense for dallas

and atlanta to do business together because they both have kind of similar needs right it's like dallas isn't like well we don't need more non -creators or whatever it is and then i was like maybe garland I don't know. I was kind of trying to look across the league about what kind of a guard or creator could give them more options because I kind of wonder at the end of the day if Jalen Johnson is probably like on the

highest type of a team, like a second or third type guy. Yeah. I've been wondering about that.