00:00uh john when you look at this league and we talked about these injuries before right and
00:05we talked about the oklahoma city thunder a little bit but i want to specifically point to them
00:10because to me they're very fascinating right because i think we talked about this they're
00:16they have so many contracts right of highly paid players at this yeah right this is not a team
00:22that's oh it's a small market team they're not paying anybody they're doing this on the rookie
00:25deals now no they're getting paid anymore and these three injuries that they've sustained
00:31you know whether it's chet who will be back this season but it's it's two and a half months to
00:36maybe
00:36three months case and wallace and jalen williams are probably not going to return at least in the
00:42regular season so if you were sam presti john and you have these massive amount of picks but you don't
00:49really have much cap room to wiggle with what do you do do you just ride it out and say
00:53hey shea
00:54we're going to just ride your coattails to the rest for the rest of the season and you're going to
00:59have to be a even higher level than you were before and hope that we get to the playoffs and
01:04these guys
01:04come back or do you go and make try to make a move and move kind of some of the
01:08players around the books
01:10it's such a tricky situation for them they're going to trade they're going to end up trading jdub or
01:15they're going to end up trading uh um uh homegrown because i think that they will they're they can go
01:23into the luxury tax they can go into the second apron i don't think they intend to pay that for
01:28multiple years of the life of the contracts for those three guys i just don't think they're going
01:33to do it so they're going to move one of them the question is which one and if i'm them
01:37i'm trying
01:38to move jdub now like hey listen we know he's hurt you know he's hurt we won't accept pennies on
01:45a
01:45dollar because the guy's an all-nba player but at the same time do you want an all-nba player
01:50who's
01:50just rehabbing now here's all his medicals here's the injury do you want this guy because if again if
01:59i'm the chicago bulls at this point yeah i'll take them but we got cap room we're trying to lose
02:06and we've got a franchise player on our team so we'll give you norman powell well we'll figure it
02:11out contract wise we'll get guys to give you nick claxton we'll give you norman powell we'll throw
02:16some picks in the future in but we're teams that are looking to build can have this guy come in
02:22not play suck win and then not be in the draft the years following that because you got jdub to
02:30help
02:30give you 20 to 25 points a game but if i'm the other general managers around the league i'm
02:35looking at that and i'm going jdub's probably done and the way that we saw him and the way we
02:41were used to seeing him play that that these are paul george level lower level lower leg injuries
02:50like now he has the broken leg and dislocated ankle with torn ligaments
02:55he'll be back like he will be back but he's going to play again and like it's just such a
02:59credit to
03:00paul george that he was able to come back off that broken leg and still be all nba and all
03:04-star
03:04multiple times right after that but it may be paul george's dime a dozen like you can't it's kind
03:09of like everyone's saying well i'm going to play to 45 because tom brady did it's like stop it no
03:15you also have to ask yourself this jdub wasn't that high he was not a well-known player around
03:20in college he was kind of a sneaky pick where he just kind of blew up and people were like
03:25whoa
03:25this guy's really good he snuck up on him sam presti got another one did he did he because now
03:32he
03:32he clearly has an injury history because now you're on your second year in a row with a major
03:38chet does too kind of he has a hip fracture a broken a liz frank foot broken foot he's now
03:44get
03:44this knee thing and now if you're looking at him like john you said you're gonna have to trade
03:48either chet or jdub like for chet i mean he got bodied by wendy in the playoffs last year yeah
03:55it was
03:55pretty disappointing he comes out this year looking good multiple time all-star now but
03:59these injuries like he's frail and like you know we talk about these players and like yeah they're
04:05great but if you are injury prone we're talking about this with omar jackson right yeah you are
04:10injury prone that has to go into your next contract that has to go into you know how you evaluate
04:17these
04:17players i don't care how good you are right it's it's the nude version of the fat clause or the
04:23the
04:23video game cause they put in kyle murray's contract like hey buddy if you get hurt this one it is
04:29the zion one right yeah he got the he got the uh what they call it he got the the
04:34the porn star
04:35clause of his contract you gotta you gotta stay away from him buddy are we gonna here we go so
04:40i'm i'm
04:41i'm looking at what they're dealing with right now man and the injuries that they've suffered it's
04:45unfortunate for that fan base because they've been outstanding since the day they showed up in
04:49oklahoma city and these guys were actually something that remember two years ago the question was can
04:56has anybody stopped these guys from running off three or four straight remember that sure yeah
05:00people were saying that they had the golden state feel to it they were going to run off two or
05:05three
05:05maybe five maybe four and six or four and seven years now they may never get back because you look
05:12at what san antonio is doing if if the lakers can find another piece with luca now you're looking at
05:18that being unstoppable too and it's so era i mean look at there's been no repeat champions since the
05:23warriors back in the mid 2010s so it's not like this is you know it's not like this is an
05:28era where
05:28one team dominates all the time this is the era of teams just winning like the knicks won a freaking
05:34championship the nuggets won a championship the thunder won a championship if i were to ask people
05:39that if that would have happened in the next decade in like 2018 they would have said what do you
05:42hell no what timeline you're in you're on drugs
05:45you
