Takes

The Jeremy Grant contract was the straw that broke the camel's back for Damian Lillard

The biggest loser in free agency is Jeremy Grant. Jeremy Grant got 150 million to return to the Trailblazers. Now on paper you're like, wow, that's a great deal. But the contract was the straw that broke the camel's back for Dame. He was like, this is, this is what we're doing in free agency. We're resigning Jeremy Grant. Yeah, fuck you guys. I'm out.

The Houston Rockets are paying $128 million for Fred VanVleet's 'culture' more than his on-court talent

Houston did a lot of things in free agency and they did the most with VanVleet... Three for 128... He's a culture setter. They're paying for the culture. It is like paying $123 million for m and m's if he was actually good.

James Harden will start the season on the Sixers and get traded around Christmas

I think it's gonna be a Kevin Durant kind of situation where he might get traded later in the season. But I don't think anyone's gonna offer what Daryl Morey wants for this year for the Sixers... I think eventually Morey's gonna get something out of it, but I think it's gonna probably be in like, by like around Christmas time.

Every NBA team needs one 'irrationally confident stupid guy' to win

And you also, every single team needs one like irrationally confident stupid guy who thinks that they can stop LeBron in a seven game series. That's not a bad thing to happen. No. Like you want one of those guys, you don't want a whole team of those guys, but you need one of those guys who thinks they're the best player in the world.