00:00uh jalen duran duran has reportedly agreed hey how about this he agreed to a contract
00:05and guess what john it was the fully guaranteed five-year 200 million dollar deal that was on the
00:11table for a while now and he said you know what that does sound like a lot of money i
00:15just watched
00:16the sporting tribune today on sports grid on all tv platforms and these guys were saying that we
00:20should take it let's take it he did it john how about that where's my cut yeah we need a
00:26cut from
00:26that this this was the easiest decision in the nba as far as contracts go in the off season
00:34after the performance he put up with everything on the line against orlando against wendell carter jr
00:41someone your ex is now currently dating you got outplayed okay and if that don't fire you up
00:50nothing will and they still gave they still wanted to give you 200 million dollars so whoever the the
00:57group was who negotiated this deal because they got their names thrown out there and i was like who the
01:01hell are these bozos never sign with them because if they allowed this to draw out to the point where
01:09they tried to play chicken with the detroit pistons and the pistons said all right okay we'll take the
01:15weight clause out how about that that's all it took that's crazy that's all it took you're a
01:22professional athlete about to inherit 200 million dollars what you mean you can't take care of your
01:27body at a from a weight perspective i who you tractor trailer like what i i i just really didn't
01:35understand the sticking point in this contract and if it was the extra 58 million i think it was
01:42that's something to really get stuck on but when you can see that they're not going to give it to
01:46you and that nine and that uh uh qualifying offer wasn't creeping up on you it was sprinting up on
01:52y'all
01:52at this point you had to make a decision the pistons knew he was going to take that money because
01:58he
01:58looked out on the marketing he couldn't find nobody else to give it to him in a sign and trade
02:01so they
02:02knew he had to take it they knew nobody else was going to give him that max in a sign
02:06and trade
02:06and they knew that he didn't want to sign that tender their qualifying offer they knew all these
02:12things so they outsmarted his agent they outsmarted that agency they played chicken with them and the
02:17pistons won john i i don't even think the biggest part of this deal was him getting the money i
02:24think
02:24it was the agent that did it agent chafeu fields of the dot team i was i've been waiting all
02:31summer for
02:32that notification to hit my screen i was i was seething john i was i was foaming at the mouth
02:37to
02:37see which agent got this deal done uh and told espn who got this deal done by the way um
02:45this is
02:46probably the first time that they shouldn't have said their name oh i know they probably should have
02:51kept it just discreet like his agent got it done we won't tell you who it is but they finally
02:57got it
02:57done um the thing that i wanted to hit on this was the fact that shams basically came out and
03:04said
03:04that he did want to get traded the fact that he did i mean it says here he skipped uh
03:09media day in
03:10the start of training camp mulling over the qualifying offer and by the way the qualifying
03:14offer was one year for 9.6 million dollars let's be real here uh and it says hoping for a
03:21potential
03:22sign and trade so so now okay yes he is signed great job good job pistons you got your guy
03:27back
03:27but now you go through this whole season with that in the back of your mind saying well he didn't
03:31even
03:31want to be here he was hoping for a sign and trade he was hoping to get out of there
03:36and now you as a
03:38pistons team that by the way is going to be pretty good they're going to be pretty good again that's
03:43not
03:43something you want hanging over the team i thought jalen duran had a great year but in the nba it
03:50matters
03:50what you do in the playoffs like in every other sport that's where you make your money few play
03:56role players make their money in a regular season because they can help a team move through the season
04:01and get you into the playoffs the franchise cornerstones the people who he's trying to get in the room with
04:07are those people who get that 256 you didn't deserve it they weren't going to give it to you
04:14and now there will be a cloud around his play especially to start the season because if you
04:22come into camp out of shape or you get hurt yeah there you go and that's what we were talking
04:31about
04:32right like what if he did get hurt what if he did have an injury that lasted three quarters of
04:38the
04:38season he doesn't get to show what he that's why this this is just such a no-brainer to me
04:43and it
04:44took this long all for nothing by the way all of this talk all this signage oh well the kings
04:49are
04:49interested and the bucks are interested oh well he's gonna hold out until christmas until
04:55like all that meant nothing in the end
