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00:08Jim Costa, John Jansen, Heather Park. We've got Greg behind the glass today.
00:12Thanks for getting up with us.
00:16Update on this Jalen Duren situation.
00:18Uh-huh. I am flummoxed.
00:21Well, okay. I think we're all flummoxed by this.
00:25What's going on? But there's egos involved.
00:29Yeah, I'm concerned now with Trajan Langdon.
00:34The latest is the offer is now five years, $200 million.
00:39He's getting back down by a player with no post moves.
00:44Trajan, why do you keep giving ground to a player we shouldn't want to pay to begin with?
00:50He's Andre Drummond. He's DeAndre Ayton. Don't go down this path.
00:54You were holding the line. I was giving you credit.
00:57And now you're going to bend the knee to a guy who played like that in the postseason?
01:01I'm losing respect for Trajan, a guy who otherwise I like.
01:09So, obviously, I have a little bit of a different take.
01:14Do I like it that they're offering $40 million a year?
01:17No, I think it's an overpay.
01:18But by how much?
01:21How much will it limit them of doing things in the future?
01:26Some of that is a Gore's question of how much you're willing to go over and spend to add to
01:32this team
01:32if you end up with the big three that Trajan told us about earlier in the offseason.
01:38It was a sore, it was Cade, and it was Jalen Durant.
01:43Now, things got murky.
01:44Things got muddy.
01:45Feelings got hurt throughout the course of the offseason.
01:48I don't think Trajan Langdon's feelings got hurt.
01:51I don't think he's operating from that.
01:53And it was reported.
01:55They had already offered him $5 for $190.
02:01This is a mere $2 million more a year to get to $5 and $200, which is what Durant said
02:08he wanted.
02:09So, you called his bluff.
02:11You're putting all of the pressure, everything back on Jalen Durant saying,
02:16Hey, I know your feelings are hurt, so we'll go ahead.
02:19And maybe this was their plan all along.
02:21It's negotiations.
02:22We're going to go a little bit low.
02:24You go a little bit high.
02:25We find a way to meet in the middle.
02:26And Jalen Durant actually told someone, because it was reported,
02:29we believe, that he would have been good with $200 million.
02:33Okay, well, we got there before the season even began.
02:36And you're going to say no because we hurt your feelings by only offering you $38 million a year?
02:44Get over your crybaby.
02:46Get over being a wuss and sign the damn contract because you're going to be 26, 27 when this is
02:53done.
02:54Cash in again.
02:55But why give in to, as you put it, a crybaby?
02:59Oh, so I don't know if they're giving in or was this their number all along?
03:05Well, how about this?
03:06If this was Durant's number and we have now met the number and the deal is not yet done,
03:11you are dealing with someone who is petulant.
03:13Yeah.
03:13I would not be playing his game.
03:16Take $10 million.
03:17Go ahead and throw hundreds of millions of dollars away, you buffoon.
03:20Like, that's what I'd be saying if I was Trajan.
03:22Really, dude?
03:23I've come up not once, not twice.
03:24Now I'm at your number and the deal's not done.
03:26Deal's off the table.
03:27Period.
03:28I don't want this contract on the books.
03:30Asar's a team player.
03:31We got him at a good number.
03:32We know Cade's our guy.
03:34It'd be franchise altering to overpay Jalen Durant.
03:36So you know what?
03:38Offer's off the table.
03:39We'll see you at camp on the qualifying offer.
03:40Did you get what you want, buddy?
03:42That's what I would be saying at this point.
03:44Why bend over backwards for Jalen Durant when he does not want to play ball?
03:49If you had it as a line item on your budget,
03:54hey, we're willing to pay Jalen Durant $40 million a year.
03:58We don't have to offer him that right away because he's just going to use that to negotiate
04:04and that's our end figure, not our beginning figure.
04:07And maybe we can get him for a little bit less
04:09because it should be reasonable.
04:13But if you say, hey, $40 million a year, that's as high as we're willing to go.
04:19They're there.
04:20And it says, you know, a comment on Twitch,
04:22if Durant never signs, the Pistons look like the reasonable party.
04:25Like he's, Trajan Langdon is the one that looks like,
04:29okay, that's what you want.
04:30We'll give it to you.
04:31You think we look like pro player, which is a good position to be as a front office.
04:36Yes, I do.
04:37And again, it goes back to if Durant never signs this contract
04:43and he plays for the $9 million and a few pennies for the season,
04:49he looks like an absolute idiot.
04:51Correct.
04:52And you look like the, and I don't go for the, you know, what Trajan is soft
04:58or, you know, or you're giving into a petulant child.
05:01If this was, now we don't know what their ultimate number was or is.
05:08Can we play, Greg?
05:09We got time before the update.
05:10This is Sham Sharania talking about the latest with Durant.
05:46We'll have, like, 10 seconds when it's done.
05:48That's fine.
05:48That's fine.
05:49I just want to use it to throw over the update.
06:472-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
06:50We want to hear from Pistons fans on how they're feeling now with the Durant situation.
06:54Offer out five years, $200 million.
06:57Durant still unsigned.
06:59Disrespected.
06:59It's 97-1.
