00:00The Cavs are really in the NBA trying to make sure that they never advance
00:05in the postseason, apparently, as they ended up giving another.
00:09How much money did they give James Harden to not perform?
00:1497.
00:15The guy has made $500 million, more than $500 million in his NBA playing days.
00:21He's 37 years old.
00:22How many rings does he have for $500 million?
00:25How much did anybody get their money out of it?
00:27No?
00:27Nothing?
00:28None.
00:29No.
00:30Zero.
00:30That's unfortunate.
00:31Zero.
00:32And, you know, he's got a – I don't know.
00:35I didn't see any articles that said what his player option is.
00:38He's got a fourth-year player option, which there's no way in the world.
00:43At 41 years old or 40 years old, he's not going to pick up the player option.
00:48So, if it's the same amount, another $33 million or so, $30 million, right,
00:53it's a four-year, $120 or so million contract for a 37-year-old player
00:59who's never won a big game in his life.
01:02Well, what are you doing?
01:04I mean, all the freebies that were out there that they wanted to re-sign this guy,
01:08and he was bad in the postseason.
01:10I mean –
01:12He's always been bad in the postseason.
01:15Like, this is nothing new for – he's not going to flip a switch and all of a sudden
01:20the Cavs – I mean, you've got the Sixers, you've got the Knicks comeback, you've got
01:25a – you've got Giannis in Miami now.
01:27And, by the way, it looks like Klay Thompson's on his way to the Miami Heat.
01:32Yeah.
01:32So, he's somebody which they needed shooting, and that makes all the sense in the world.
01:38But what are you – that's what you chose to go with?
01:41Like, really?
01:42You got all that money tied up in him and, you know, and his cohort there that never,
01:49ever, ever get it done in the postseason.
01:53That's just unreal to me.
01:54Like, I've had this discussion, argument, or whatever you want to call it, for my life.
02:01These teams, Joe, don't – their goal is not to win an NBA championship, right?
02:07So true.
02:08Their goal – the GM, the owner, the president, you know, their goal is to put fannies in the stands.
02:15Sell hope.
02:16We want to be competitive.
02:18We want to be good so the fans buy all our season tickets.
02:21And if we win a championship, don't get me wrong, great, you know, but our goal is to be competitive
02:29and really good.
02:30And then whatever else happens after that.
02:32And when we sign a James Harden and we give the money to Donovan Mitchell, even though these guys have
02:38never won big games in their lives,
02:39but they're good.
02:40They're going to get us into the playoffs.
02:42We're going to talk about winning.
02:43And people are going to be all excited.
02:45And that's what we want.
02:46You know, is it really going to get us a championship?
02:49Probably not.
02:50But you know what?
02:51We'll all get to keep our jobs for the next three, four years because we're going to be good.
02:55And, you know, we'll blame the coach.
02:57If we don't win a championship, we got to beat the guys.
02:59It's the coach that will go.
03:01Kenny Atkinson, exactly.
03:01Kenny Atkinson is the one that's going to be out the door.
03:03He's got to be like, what are you doing?
03:05We had all these free agents out there.
03:07We had Giannis out there.
03:08And you're giving me a guy that has never won a game in his life?
03:11Really?
03:11And I'm going to be the one fired?
03:13But that's what they want.
03:14You know, they don't go the extra mile.
03:16We've been saying this about Green Bay and their wide receiver room, right?
03:19I mean, they don't go.
03:20They just they want to be good.
03:22They want to be competitive.
03:23Keep the fan base coming into the stadium.
03:25And that's what a move like this does.
03:29It's shocking.
03:30It really is.
03:31I mean, the kind of money that they throw around, it's just for guys that are, yeah,
03:36congratulations.
03:37He'll give you the points.
03:39He'll give you, but he'll be nowhere around when you need him.
03:44He is not Jalen Brunson.
03:46He is not some of these other guys that you can count on to show when he's not Tatum.
03:52I just don't get it.
03:53But just goes to show you how much money and priorities in the NBA.
03:58I guess he still puts guy, are you still buying a ticket, Scotty, to go see James Harden?
04:03No, no.
04:04You know what's weird, Joe, is, right, so he's 37.
04:08And it's not a one-year contract like we're talking.
04:10This is a three-year, you know, 30-plus million-dollar-a-year contract.
04:14Today, DeMar DeRozan, who's got similar, if not better numbers, right, free agent.
04:21And I just didn't understand why he was still out there.
04:23He signs a one-year deal for less than $4 million with the Denver Nuggets, which I think is a
04:29great signing, right?
04:31That's what James Harden should be, right?
04:33You know, one, maybe two years, but you're 37 years old.
04:38DeRozan's right around that age, you know, and yet they give him basically a four-year contract.
04:43It's just nuts.
04:45DeRozan's right around that age, you know, and yet they give him a three-year contract.
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