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The recent trade of Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat has sparked substantial discourse, particularly regarding the illogical nature of this decision for both the Heat and the Bucks. In this episode, we explore the perplexing dynamics of pairing Giannis with Bam Adebayo, questioning the efficacy of such a collaboration when both players share similar strengths and deficiencies. Furthermore, we delve into the Bucks’ refusal to accept a lucrative trade package from the Boston Celtics, which included the esteemed Jaylen Brown, thereby missing an opportunity to form a formidable duo with Jayson Tatum. As we transition to discussing Victor Wembanyama, we scrutinize his demeanor during the finals, expressing concerns over his conduct and questioning his readiness to embody the role of the league’s face. Ultimately, we reflect on the overarching implications of these developments within the context of the modern NBA landscape.
Takeaways:
- The recent trade of Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat raises significant concerns regarding team synergy and overall strategy.
- Pairing Giannis with Bam Adebayo presents a puzzling scenario, as both players thrive on similar skill sets that may not complement each other effectively.
- The Milwaukee Bucks' decision to reject a trade package for Jaylen Brown from the Celtics, while accepting a lesser offer from Miami, is perplexing and could hinder their competitive edge.
- Victor Wembanyama's recent performance and behavior suggest that he must improve his composure and professionalism to be considered the league's face.
- The trend of relying on two elite big men to construct a championship-winning team appears outdated, as modern NBA success increasingly hinges on elite guard play.
- Wembanyama's failure to demonstrate sportsmanship after the finals loss indicates a need for maturity and growth in his character as a player.
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Speaker A:One, two, one, two.
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:It is yet another week.
Speaker A:Welcome to I Talk sports.
Speaker A:He talks sports, and his name is Mukundi, and he is I.
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:Yeah, you had a good week.
Speaker A:You chilling?
Speaker B:Mm.
Speaker A:You having fun?
Speaker A:You know who's having fun?
Speaker A:Giannis Adendokumbo.
Speaker A:He just got to Miami.
Speaker A:He got to the 305.
Speaker A:As Pitbull says, York.
Speaker A:I hope I'm getting that code right, but yeah, Giannis at Dendo Kumbo has been traded to Milwaukee, which means rappers relax.
Speaker A:Big bucks like Giannis.
Speaker A:No more.
Speaker A:Rappers relax.
Speaker A:Sad day for hip hop.
Speaker A:Rappers can't use that line no more.
Speaker A:I get to the bucks like Giannis.
Speaker A:Big bucks.
Speaker A:Milwaukee.
Speaker A:Yans.
Speaker A:Done.
Speaker A:I'm so happy.
Speaker A:But anyway, we'll get to that.
Speaker A:We'll get to that.
Speaker A:I'm never alone.
Speaker A:No, sir, I'm never alone.
Speaker A:With me is the faceless NJ who you've seen before, because that's.
Speaker A:I don't know why he's doing that, man.
Speaker A:He wants to be sexy and mysterious.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:But anyway, Dokatella.
Speaker A:Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker A:Beast from the East.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker B:I'm gonna make a shirt for that.
Speaker B:I'm gonna make a shirt, and then I'll be unfaceless.
Speaker B:Even though I've been on your show on episode 14.
Speaker B:People know how I look like.
Speaker B:Go Back to episode 14.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Also go back to the.
Speaker B:To the Charles episode where they won the World Cup.
Speaker B:It's on your timeline, so your time.
Speaker B:No, we could, man.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:You chilling?
Speaker B:Nah.
Speaker B:No, I'm chilling.
Speaker B:I'm chilling.
Speaker B:There's no hope for Chelsea next season, so I won't be talking about them.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker B:Just lost our best defender, Mara, to Real Madrid.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's okay.
Speaker A:But it doesn't matter.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker A:We're here for the World Cup.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, Messi.
Speaker B:It's L's birthday today.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:The goat has turned 39 years old, the top goal scorer in World cup history.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker A:Shut out.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:As it stands.
Speaker A:Shut up.
Speaker B:Is going to beat it eventually because he's younger, he's got more time and, you know.
Speaker B:But anyway, yeah, the goat is officially.
Speaker A:You never know, man.
Speaker A:You never know.
Speaker A:No, is on a good trajectory, though.
Speaker B:No, he's going to.
Speaker A:It's like when the World cup arrives, that kid just.
Speaker B:He just turns it to.
Speaker A:I mean, when else is he supposed to.
Speaker B:In the Champions League.
Speaker B:How's that?
Speaker B:We'd like him to.
Speaker A:Does he do nothing in the Champions League?
Speaker B:He hasn't won a Champions League.
Speaker A:He hasn't won one.
Speaker A:He left psg and they won one.
Speaker B:Yeah, he won two.
Speaker B:One, two.
Speaker B:Back to back.
Speaker B:So dictator.
Speaker A:So he was the problem.
Speaker B:Yeah, he definitely was the problem.
Speaker A:Oh, damn.
Speaker B:But anyway, France wins the World cup again, which is the funniest thing in the world.
Speaker A:Dembele is French.
Speaker B:Yeah, he's French, Yeah.
Speaker A:Is he African?
Speaker A:French.
Speaker B:Yeah, he's a proper African.
Speaker B:Look, you look at him.
Speaker A:Yeah, like already, like, damp.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:So we're good.
Speaker B:Next one there.
Speaker B:Well, next one.
Speaker B:The chip.
Speaker B:I still don't know who's going to win next next season.
Speaker B:Season.
Speaker B:But we didn't talk about your people trading people to teams that were no business being on, but I'll let you do that.
Speaker A:I got this from here.
Speaker A:Yeah, we got it from here.
Speaker A:My dog.
Speaker A:My dog.
Speaker A:My dog.
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:What's good?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, let's wake up.
Speaker A:Are you good?
Speaker A:Are you okay?
Speaker A:Yeah, I know N.J. and I took a long.
Speaker A:Took a long time to come back to you, but are you okay?
Speaker A:Are you still okay?
Speaker A:Back to Yanis Atentokumbo.
Speaker A:Hey, yo.
Speaker A:The Yanis in Milwaukee era is officially done.
Speaker A:Kaput.
Speaker A:And by the way, this is gonna be.
Speaker A:I've.
Speaker A:I've been very biased.
Speaker A:I've been very objective side I throughout this entire podcast run, I've been very objective.
Speaker A:I would like to think.
Speaker A:Not today.
Speaker A:Not today.
Speaker A:Today I won't be objective.
Speaker A:Today.
Speaker A:You may not know this, and if you're my friend, you probably do, but Yanis Attendo Kumbu is my favorite player in the league.
Speaker A:Giannis, Steph Curry, Damian Lillard, that's the list.
Speaker A:So you can imagine how happy I was when I found out that Damian Lillard is going to Milwaukee and Damian Lillard is going to Milwaukee and my two favorite players, two of my favorite players are gonna play together, Giannis and Dame.
Speaker A:And it was good, man, that pick and roll game between them.
Speaker A:Was deadly.
Speaker A:Who knew that Dame would lose his Achilles?
Speaker A:Who knew that the front office would do nothing to help Giannis?
Speaker A:And I mean nothing.
Speaker A:They gave this man, Kyle Kuzman, they said, go in a championship.
Speaker A:They gave this man.
Speaker A:And they said, go in a championship.
Speaker A:What was that?
Speaker A:Giannis has had no help in Milwaukee for the past two, three years now.
Speaker A:The Bucks have been irrelevant.
Speaker A:First round knockouts, first round exits, in how many years now these guys won a championship?
Speaker A:Yes, that's five years ago.
Speaker A:That's forever in sports.
Speaker A:That's your five years.
Speaker A:But yeah.
Speaker A:NBA champion, two time MVP, former defensive player of the year, 10 time all star, arguably top five power forwards of all time, Giannis Adendokumbo, the Greek freak has been traded to Miami.
Speaker A:Finally, finally, he's gone.
Speaker A:But I'm not happy.
Speaker A:I'm really not.
Speaker A:Let me explain.
Speaker A:Let me explain.
Speaker A:What's he gonna do in Miami?
Speaker A:No dead ass.
Speaker A:What's he gonna do in Miami?
Speaker A:I was watching Kendrick Perkins just yesterday.
Speaker A:NBA analyst, professional former NBA player Kendrick Perkins say Giannis will never win a championship with him as the number one option.
Speaker A:I refuse to believe that.
Speaker A:I refuse to believe that Giannis will never win a championship as a number one option because Kendrick Perkins was saying they need a closer.
Speaker A:A closer does not have to be your number one option.
Speaker A:They don't.
Speaker A:I disagree with the fact that Giannis will never win a championship with will never win a championship as the number one option.
Speaker A:However, if he's in Miami, that ain't happening.
Speaker A:Yeah, I said it.
Speaker A:I said it.
Speaker A:If he's in Miami, that ain't happening.
Speaker A:Bam Adebayo scored 83 points.
Speaker A:83.
Speaker A:Show of hands.
Speaker A:Who cares?
Speaker A:Show of hands.
Speaker A:Who thinks Bam Bam is a Top tier scorer?
Speaker A:Second option, top tier.
Speaker A:Who thinks Bam Adebayo with an 83 point game in his resume is a second option?
Speaker A:A viable second option.
Speaker A:This trade makes no sense.
Speaker A:Ayo.
Speaker A:The Milwaukee Bucks looked at a trade package from Boston from the Boston Celtics for that included Jalen Brown.
Speaker A:Hey, yo.
Speaker A:They looked at a trade package that included Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, multi time all star, multi time, all NBA, $300 million contract, who just arguably came off the best season in his entire career.
Speaker A:They looked at a trade package with that and they said, nah, nah, nah.
Speaker A:Miami's giving us Tyler Hero and a bag of chips.
Speaker A:We'll take that.
Speaker A:Instead.
Speaker A:Miami's giving us Tyler Hero in a bag of chips.
Speaker A:Keep 10.
Speaker A:Keep.
Speaker A:Multi time all star Jalen Brown.
Speaker A:Giannis in, in Boston made so much sense, bro.
Speaker A:So much sense.
Speaker A:Oh, My God.
Speaker A:Yo, Jonathan Boston made so much sense.
Speaker A:Picture Yanis and Jason Tatum coming off the pick and roll.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:Yo, bro.
Speaker A:Picture Giannis and Jason Tatum coming off the pick and roll.
Speaker A:Picture Jason Tatum passing a love to Giannis.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:You got a God.
Speaker A:Jason Tatum on the perimeter.
Speaker A:He gonna hit you with the pink.
Speaker A:Bing.
Speaker B:Think tween.
Speaker A:Tween.
Speaker A:Step back.
Speaker B:Three.
Speaker A:Oh, no, look, it's a hesi.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because Giannis is cutting to the basket dunk.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:I can see it.
Speaker A:Can you see it?
Speaker A:Are you not entertained?
Speaker A:But no, they wanted that.
Speaker A:They looked at that and they said, no, no, the people don't deserve that.
Speaker A:We don't deserve nice things.
Speaker A:So what did they do?
Speaker A:They went for Tyler Hero.
Speaker A:Let me read you this whole.
Speaker A:This whole pic.
Speaker A:Let me read you this whole trade.
Speaker A:The Milwaukee Bucks are trading franchise icon Yanis Attendo Kumbo and Bobby Portis to the Miami Heat for Tyler Hero.
Speaker A:Khalil Ware.
Speaker A:Who's this?
Speaker A:Superman?
Speaker A:Khalil, do you know who Khaleel Ware is?
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:Jaime Jacquez Jr. Oh, I know him.
Speaker A:Casparas Jacutiones.
Speaker A:I swear, they making these guys up.
Speaker A:I swear to God, they making them up.
Speaker A:Who is Kasparas?
Speaker A:Jacionis.
Speaker A:Khaleel.
Speaker A:Where?
Speaker A:Come on, bro.
Speaker A:Khaleel.
Speaker B:Where?
Speaker A:He's in.
Speaker A:He's in Miami now.
Speaker A:He's in Milwaukee now, but anyway, that's not it.
Speaker A:That's not all.
Speaker A:Three first round picks, one pick.
Speaker A:Swap.
Speaker A:And one second round pick.
Speaker A:Giannis atendokumbo champion.
Speaker A:10 Time All Star Finals MVP.
Speaker A:2 Time MVP.
Speaker A:Bobby Porters champion.
Speaker A:An integral part of a championship team.
Speaker A:And he can ball.
Speaker A:Tyler Hero can ball, don't get me wrong, but I'm not giving you Giannis and Bobby Porters for Tyler Hero and a bag of chips along with three picks.
Speaker A:Mikhail Bridges got traded for five picks.
Speaker A:Rudy Gobert got treated.
Speaker A:Got traded for four picks.
Speaker A:You gonna trade Giannis for Tyler Hero?
Speaker A:Bag of chips and three picks.
Speaker A:Nah, son, you gotta do something better than that.
Speaker A:But it's fine.
Speaker A:It's fine.
Speaker A:Maybe I'm tripping, but I don't see Giannis working out in Miami.
Speaker A:Him and Bemio fine.
Speaker A:They will stop anybody defensively.
Speaker A:But what else are they gonna do?
Speaker A:Bless you.
Speaker A:What else are they gonna do?
Speaker A:Giannis can score, yeah, but he's not a shooter.
Speaker A:He can defend, he can try to score.
Speaker A:You know, he's good for a good 15 to 20 every other night.
Speaker A:But that's the third option.
Speaker A:There we need a second option and we need someone.
Speaker A:Look at me saying we need to see, see what Janus does.
Speaker A:I love Yanis so much, like I'm a Miami fan.
Speaker A:We need, no, we don't need anything.
Speaker A:Giannis and Bam Adebayo will not work.
Speaker A:And I don't care who else they get at the guard position.
Speaker A:I don't care what happens.
Speaker A:Now is not the time in the league.
Speaker A:I'm saying this league wide, now is not the time for two bigs, or at least two bigs at that price, or at least to send to, to build your franchise around two bigs.
Speaker A:Now is not the time to do that.
Speaker A:We've seen it tried and tested and it hasn't worked.
Speaker A:Every team that's tried to go all in on two elite bigs has not worked.
Speaker A:Look at every team that's won the championship so far over the past couple of years.
Speaker A:The Knicks just did with someone who was considered a small guard, a very small guard.
Speaker A:But elite guard play with a decent front court is what's gonna win you a championship.
Speaker A:Look at, ok, elite guard play with the decent front court is what's gonna give you a championship.
Speaker A:Look at Boston.
Speaker A:Elite wing play.
Speaker A:Elite wing play and God play with a decent front court.
Speaker A:They had Kristaps Porzingis and Robert Brown down there.
Speaker A:Who else do you know?
Speaker A:And Al Horford.
Speaker A:Look at Denver.
Speaker A:Jokic is the most elite big in the league, if not of all time.
Speaker A:And he had Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray.
Speaker A:Who's this, who's this?
Speaker A:Who's this kid that just shoots the ball every time it lands in his hands?
Speaker A:Michael Porter Jr. Heyo, Bruce Brown.
Speaker A:Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker A:Elite Guards and Wings are gonna win you a championship finish.
Speaker A:And Clar Simpolo as easy as ABC.
Speaker A: hen Giannis himself won it in: Speaker A:God play with him at the front.
Speaker A:Jrue Holiday and Chris Middleton were right there doing all the work.
Speaker A:Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker A:My dog.
Speaker A:Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker A:M.J. n.J. Am I, am I babbling?
Speaker A:Am I not making sense?
Speaker B:You're making, you're making a lot of sense.
Speaker B:I, I, this shame makes zero sense too.
Speaker B:Thanks.
Speaker A:What kind of trade is this, dog?
Speaker A:Ruin my day, bro.
Speaker B:This is, this is up there with the Luca trade.
Speaker A:I would go that far.
Speaker A:I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker A:It's a bad trade, but I wouldn't go that far.
Speaker B:No, no, no, I'm not in terms.
Speaker A:Of ramifications of the trade, like for the team.
Speaker B:No, I'm talking about in terms of what sense does it make.
Speaker A:Oh, yes, that's.
Speaker B:I'm talking about sense.
Speaker B:Not.
Speaker B:Not.
Speaker B:Not how.
Speaker B:Terr.
Speaker A:This is not a terrible trade.
Speaker B:It's a trade that doesn't make sense.
Speaker B:Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker A:It's up.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Yes, Like.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:I thought I was not making sense.
Speaker A:I thought I was not making sense.
Speaker A:It's not like Bam and Giannis are Carl Anthony Towns.
Speaker A:You see, if you got Giannis and Carl Anthony Towns, maybe.
Speaker A:Because Carl Anthony Towns can shoot the three.
Speaker A:Neither one of these dudes can shoot three.
Speaker A:Hey, yo.
Speaker A:I've never seen anyone guarding Giannis around the three, around the three point line.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So did Bam.
Speaker A:I've never seen anybody guarding Bam around the three point line because they can't shoot.
Speaker A:And it is very unfortunate.
Speaker A:Hey, yo.
Speaker A:Norman Powell is gonna be a free agent.
Speaker A:Mind you, he's not.
Speaker A:He's not the smallest guy neither.
Speaker A:But Norman Powell is on the Miami Heat.
Speaker A:But we know he's not gonna stay because he's gonna be a free agent, and this is his one chance to get a big bag.
Speaker A:And Miami will not pay him unless they're willing to go through that luxury tax.
Speaker A:And I'm just saying, it's still Norman Powell at the end of the day.
Speaker A:Luxury tax with Norman, pal.
Speaker A:Come on, son.
Speaker A:But still, he has every right to explore his free agency, but they also got a tag on him, so.
Speaker A:Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The logistics and the legalities of everything, but still, I am not moved in a good way, at least by this trade.
Speaker A:Whatever happens to the league, man, I don't know.
Speaker A:Because they're doing this with a hot Eastern Conference.
Speaker A:Hot Eastern Conference.
Speaker A:We've always said Halliburton's returning.
Speaker A:Jayson Tatum's going to be completely healthy.
Speaker A:The Knicks just won the championship, so they're going to be mad confident.
Speaker A:Atlanta just got a high draft pick.
Speaker A:They coming through.
Speaker A:Detroit is going nowhere.
Speaker A:Cavs.
Speaker A:Okay, Cavs can go, but you see what I'm saying.
Speaker A:Scotty Barnes and R.J. barrett.
Speaker A:I was gonna say Toronto might have something to say, but we know they don't.
Speaker A:Okay, I'm gonna keep this short.
Speaker A:I'm gonna keep my thing brief.
Speaker A:Imma keep my thing brief.
Speaker A:I haven't done this in a while.
Speaker B:Yeah,.
Speaker A:You both blessed and burdened with being the next face of the NBA.
Speaker A:You have the talent and you have the skill, and everyone with a pair of eyes can tell that.
Speaker A:As far as putting in the work on the basketball court and getting better at what you do.
Speaker A:You do put in the work.
Speaker A:You do what you have to do.
Speaker A:Just one problem, man.
Speaker A:Just one problem.
Speaker A:You are, unfortunately, in a man's league.
Speaker A:And if you are in the man's league, in a man's league, you have to be a man, a professional.
Speaker A:I was sickened.
Speaker A:Sickened, bro.
Speaker A:Hindsight is crazy.
Speaker A:I analyzed this behavior.
Speaker A:I analyzed how he moved, how he acted, how he talked, what he did, what he didn't do.
Speaker A:I wasn't impressed on court.
Speaker A:I was very impressed.
Speaker A:He played so well, he got his team to the finals.
Speaker A:Off court, however, I was not very impressed with Victor Wemba Nyama.
Speaker A:You talk to the media when you win, but when you lose, you're nowhere to be found.
Speaker A:If you can dish it, you can take it, my boy.
Speaker A:When you talk to the media after a loss, you lost in the finals, and you said so.
Speaker A:You guys never.
Speaker A:Who says that?
Speaker A:Sulking with your head down.
Speaker A:Keep your head up, champ.
Speaker A:You got to the finals at the age of 22.
Speaker A:That alone is an achievement.
Speaker A:And you lost to the Knicks, who were putting belt to ass to everybody.
Speaker A:You got them one.
Speaker A:Every time you lost.
Speaker A:Every time you lost the game.
Speaker A:Yeah, we still.
Speaker A:We still better than them.
Speaker A:We're the better team.
Speaker A:Hey, hey.
Speaker A:Last I checked, the better team wins the game and ultimately the series.
Speaker A:And I get it.
Speaker A:The team is young.
Speaker A:Victor's young.
Speaker A:But there's some things that even youth is inexcusable for.
Speaker A:Simple things.
Speaker A:He didn't go shake the Knicks hands after losing the championship.
Speaker A:Same thing with.
Speaker A:Same thing that Anthony Edwards did.
Speaker A:I was not very impressed.
Speaker A:But that's Ant man, so we all know he got attitude anyway.
Speaker A:But you know what?
Speaker A:He did not shake hands.
Speaker A:If you've watched the last dance, you know how important shaking hands is.
Speaker A:If you've.
Speaker A:If you grew up playing basketball, if not any sport in general, you know how important shaking hands is.
Speaker A:Sportsmanship.
Speaker A:Victor Wembanyama acted like a big baby.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And while you may be exceptional on the court, I will have you know that you left a very sour taste in my mouth off the court.
Speaker A:And it's not just me who feels this way.
Speaker A:The streets are saying it, too.
Speaker A:So we hope that this is not a character trait that's gonna be around forever.
Speaker A:You're still young.
Speaker A:You got time to mature and grow and learn from your mistakes.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:That's what being young is all about.
Speaker A:But I will say, when the new season starts, you ain't gonna be on thin ice.
Speaker A:But you gonna be on ice?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I heard Key and Peele say that.
Speaker A:I thought it sounded cool, but anyway.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:With that being said, go out there, watch more sports, be nice to your mother.
Speaker A:And as always, until next time, enjoy the violence.
