What Should the Sacramento Kings Give Up To Acquire Mikal Bridges?

What Should the Sacramento Kings Give Up To Acquire Mikal Bridges?

You guys were getting your jokes off about Portland a minute ago Portland’s beat Brooklyn twice in the last week Brooklyn well so I you you’re you’re you’re very kind in pointing out how I was right about the Pacers and I’ve been high on the Pacers for you know dating back to

Last off yeah I was wrong about Brooklyn I saw Brooklyn in a different position that they than they are they’ve lost nine of their last 10 and 14 of their last 17 that obviously has sparked discussion about the Brooklyn Nets roster in the upcoming trade deadline of

Course Mel Bridge’s name is going to be thrown out there I don’t think that makes any sense though as we were discussing during the commercial break the hall for Mikel Bridges would likely in my opinion be greater than Pascal cakam and could flirt with Kevin Durant territory because of his age yeah

And it’s a price to pay man but what you’re getting in return you pay a lot for Louis Vuitton as you are well aware you pay a lot for Louis Vuitton and but what you get back is the nicest highest of quality yeah Mel Bridges is the Louis

Vuitton bag that’s out there is someone willing to pay that price I would be willing to I mean especially when you talk about like I mean we’re talking probably five picks that’s probably the conversation starter I’d be willing to take I think I

Would too I think I I don’t look at um I don’t again to be clear to be clear I don’t think this is happening but if they continue to lose conversation about it’s worth paying they’re in a spot right now where they’re not like good enough to even be

A playing team and they’re not bad enough to even be like a top Lottery team so they do kind of need those picks just to help themselves out the that’s a good point I I don’t that is a good point I don’t look at him exactly the same way you do like you

Said Paul George I don’t I don’t think he’ll be Paul George but I’m not far off from where you see him and if you can get Mikel Bridges if you can get him and you keep everybody intact far as Fox sabonis Keegan and Malik Monk and it’s

Just picks and players and stuff like that I do it in a heartbeat it’s like looking at the playoffs last the Kings didn’t anyone else to go to like if like if they were guarding fox or sa bonus now you got that that third guy that official Third Man the Bucky getter

Whatever create his own shot like that’s going to open up everything for the Kings I won’t I won’t picking the first round for the next eight years I don’t care yeah it doesn’t bother me a bit you get to the finals was all worth it that’s it okay now

Now Mikel probably not g to happen would you do anything for cam Johnson yep I think I feel like cam Johnson like if Monty made a phone call feel like cam might be getable well you got another player on that roster that you like brought him up to me yesterday or two

Days ago on 1025 uh FY Smith well not on the air because that would be weird but while we were playing sexy red or whatever we were playing I haven’t played sexy red in a while well she’s on uh God Rich baby dad yeah Rich baby dad

Even she too busy even that’s starting to fade she she about to be a mom this no it could be over well probably it could finally be over it definitely probably it’s been a tumultuous like five or six months but 2023 was her year it could finally be over are we sure Mel

Is g to be like tough tough to get because if you look at it like they’re already talking like the Nets are GNA be sellers what you producer getting us back on track what you what are you gonna do the next couple years with Michel you’re not gonna win no I I don’t

So okay so I guess that’s the other question I think it’s more I don’t know if it’s realistic but I don’t think it’s a pipe dream either I don’t so go to to to your first statement that’s that’s where everything starts for Brooklyn what are we moving

Forward are are we a acquisition away is this combination of players not working does jacqu vaugh not work are we sold that the issue is the roster because one of the reasons I liked Portland going into this potentially battling for a six to to be in the top six what battling with Indiana

Was I actually like the roster I liked Mel Bridges cam Johnson I lik Dorian finy Smith like I it’s like I I see it but it’s it’s it’s just way way off I wrong one of the things that I think about when I think about the roster is it’s it’s kind of expensive

For where they’re at too so not that you would get rid of everybody but if you can get rid of a couple of those pizzas and I think Ben Simmons comes off your books this offseason or maybe next I can’t remember but say you you hold out

Say it’s this off season and you wait till Ben gets off your books and you trade cam now you get some picks back and you got money to go get somebody to go with Mikel and uh and and my other boy uh the center Clon Clon Nick Clon yeah Ben

Simmons has one more year after this by I actually like Nick Claxton too I like Nick Clon too I like I really like this roster like I don’t feel like they should be this bad um they’re throwing it in the chat do they have a number one type

Player Mel Bridges is Michael Bridges a leader like a top lead of Team he can be the guy on the team oh I think he can be yeah I think can be two three he’s to okay I I think he’s at worst of two but I think he could be a

One you can come here can come here and B three we’re seeing it though like we’re seeing that’s so so so this is can’t be the one on a on a good team we’re seeing it he can’t be the one on all right and and just because it’s

Not far off this the one I always come back to I hate to always bring it up but Paul George right so we saw Paul George is in one on Indiana and he was able to they were good they got to the to the playoffs they were well coached had some other

Pieces too but Michel I could see Michel being a number two I I think the ideal spot for him is number three but number one I just think that’s I’m not getting on board with that I think that’s a little too much for him I’m not getting on board with

Number three I don’t know that feels disrespectful he come he comes to Sacramento you think he’s the second best player oh man third yeah that’s perfect like you’re going to the finals he’s your third best player the other two guys are all pro all NBA guys he’s your

Third best best player you’re going to the finals who was he the third best player in Phoenix it was Chris Paul Booker and then him third he he can play defense too like it’s everything yeah maybe a guy a guy like the way I look at a guy like Bridges is

You want to make sure you don’t put too much on his plate so he can excel at everything if you’re asking him to be like yo be our best scorer and our best defender that’s that’s tough and that’s what he was for his 27 games with Brooklyn last

Year which is part of the reason I think I was so enamored with him but they also didn’t play well they were like I think a game or two I don’t think anyone cared at that point it was just get through the just get through the rest of this

Year I could be wrong but then what did they do they got but they sign they they they no no no I’m sorry offseason yeah um they kept Claxton it kept uh Classon they kept cam they kept the last they kept they have no money I’m not gonna

Take that from Jacques vaugh James ham would say it’s an alltime right there yeah that that was absolutely is Maybe I’m Wrong about Mel maybe that’s all it is maybe M isn’t I do want to point out I have to point this out because it’s funny to me

Auden Jay says n Mel ain’t Louis V level more like St laon or B Balenciaga Auden Jay I want you to look up St laon right now and then get back to me is there a difference some cases in some cases St laurant is more yeah not really in

Certain cases you might be spending a little bit more for some Al J big baller in the chat I guess apparently apparently goodness gracious um muel going on 27 yeah maybe my said or not going on 27 he is 2 I like Mel a lot man I like him

A lot that guy and and more I want more importantly he’s a winning ball player you get him in in the in the perfect situation he makes winning plays on both sides I think he needs a perfect situation I think he needs a better situation yeah better better get him in

A perfect situation that’s that’s where that stuff we talking about a minute that the Paul George stuff comes into play and maybe that was the farm to get my C bridges yeah I I don’t if Godfather offers like the right term because like that’s exactly what it is you make them

An offer they can’t refuse that’s exactly I’m think like I’m not giving them Keegan anything like that far as like that but like anything else is whatever take it what is there a flag on me no we looked right at each other thinking the same exact thing I ain’t saying it

Though so go ahead no let’s warm it up let’s warm it up are you trading Keegan for are we radio showing today are you trading what were what were you just thinking they asked me for ke Keegan I I’d have a discussion the brain TR we’d have a discussion exactly they say you

Could you could have Michel y for some pics and Keegan yeah you listen you have the conversation it doesn’t mean you do it but you have the conversation and you ask yourself difficult questions again we we’re radio showing it’s just a conversation all right we’re full-fledged we’re full-fledged Matt

George at 320 you doing um Keegan and like herder Barnes because you don’t have to make the money work still they can’t get all those players yeah you can’t get you can’t get I’m not GNA give is not gonna I don’t think Keegan’s contract makes the money work right yeah

No well yo so so Mel’s on his second deal so it’s probably not an outrageous contract if if I’m if I’m giving you Keegan you can’t have all the rest of my players like I gotta be able to keep something like you throw Davon in there and

Um Mikel is due for what do you have it in front of you he’s signed a four and a he’s 21 then 23 and then 25 this this probably Harrison you could do that with you could do that with Harrison and herder right probably do that with just Harrison

Probably do it with just Harrison and and but what’s Keegan and Davon put together they’re like they’re probably like 16 17 so here’s what you have to ask yourself I’m gonna head to the trade machine I’ll be back here’s here’s what here here’s what you have to to ask yourself again just ping

Can like hey hey that’s why we’re number one too the chemistry is unmatched well you said it and we looked right at each other like oh wait a second can Keegan get to 20 points per game can Keegan get to 21 points per game and if you’re really buying

Who Mel Bridges is can Keegan get to 26 points per game so you have that then you start to measure what you’ve seen from both of them defensively can Keegan Murray be your number one Defender can Mel Bridges be your number one Defender I so I think Jesse’s got

Something Jesse just popped so so we hit the trade deadline or the trade machine or whatever Davon and um Keegan doesn’t work but we just need to shed 700 more Grand from the king’s roster to make it work 700 Grand 727 th000 and we already

Got run to get rid of uh GTA JTA we got rid of him huh no he’s back or is he gone again yeah he’s a 10 yeah Walker yeah C just about to say kler all right you doing Keegan Davon and Kessler and however many picks for

Mikel kler going back to Brooklyn oh poor guy so but look so here but here’s the five picks Kean Murray in like five picks here’s the discussion though Keegan here’s what I would ask if I was we’re having this conversation can Keegan be or Mikel was in Phoenix not what he is in

Brooklyn what he is in Phoenix because I think that’s what you’re gonna ask Mel debris you’re not gonna ask him to be the 26 Point per game scorer you’re gonna ask him to do the things he did in Phoenix on both sides of the ball and

Now you ask yourself can Keegan do what Mikel did in Phoenix can you do it within the next two years I think the answer to both of those questions might be yes I think so too I do think so too cuz I believe in Keegan but it’s also

Like I’m focused on Fox and sabonis right here maximizing them that was the perfect way of putting it though that maximizes them is Keegan playing at that level and I think he can call it off I just said we only said we were going to have a discussion shut the

Trade machine down we had a discussion we came to the conclusion if they need a Wily old veteran who could you know help these young guys alone that helped the young guys man you know we we do Harrison does Harrison like Brooklyn you think he likes Brooklyn we call Jeff schwarzen find out

How Harrison Barnes feels about Brooklyn I just want Harrison to be happy that’s all that’s all we want I want Jeff Schwarz to be happy Jeff Schwarz you’re a guy wasn’t he uh wasn’t he B he hates this team he was bagley’s uh wasn’t he yeah that was a statement

Right that was the statement yeah yeah by the way bagley’s on his second team since leaving Sacramento and didn’t play for a team that had four wins not a shot at baggley it was a shot at Jeff Jeff Schwarz what the hell is your problem with Sacramento it’s literally a whole

New regime well maybe maybe maybe he doesn’t have a problem with Sacramento maybe he had a problem with Old Sacramento though I could be wrong and I understand he’s back with the team and all I swear that and part of me said rewind it rewind it rewind it but like

Rewinding on streaming can get a little messy I swear I saw vlat like in the tunnel on the Road like no I understand vlad’s back with the Kings doing whatever but he’s traveling now I could be wrong maybe it wasn’t but I was like that’s fla where what game was this

Uh give me a second I I’ll let me let me look at the schedule it wasn’t Philly it was either Charlotte or Detroit it was one of those two well body did draft the Aaron yeah but maybe it’s vat that Jeff Schwarz doesn’t like oh there you go

Maybe maybe that’s who it is but it was who it was Luke that didn’t play Marvin it wasn’t Mike yeah it it was luk who didn’t and then uh he had a problem with joerger too well how’s he feel about Mike the dad did hell Harrison just signed here

He should love Mike Mike’s been keeping him in the lineup all year Mike ain’t said a bad thing about Harrison Barnes this year he’s actually protected him the only player he’s protected this year just wor man come on DLo Casey let’s talk this thing out that would be

Incredible let’s talk this thing out bro absolutely incredible because I I don’t know what for those wondering why we want to keep Jeff Schwarz happy look at Jeff schwarz’s Client List that’s why we want to keep him happy shouldn’t be I like the way you take to

The R&B brunch with you I think I I like the way I like the way that you you you put that Mel Keegan thing that that puts it into really good I I think I think Mel has a a Skyhigh ceiling but that ceiling might be a

Little bit different with dearon and and domas and framing it is can Keegan be what Mel was in Phoenix I think is brilliant because I do think that he can yeah I think he can too no deal no deal Magic Johnson to the summer league we

Talk to it NOP it’s over it’s done you’re gonna have Harrison Barnes and H though oh yeah for sure for sure I mean I love those guys he’s join I feel I feel like he might have something to say on this because he’s joining us a few minutes early like he you’ve got

Something you want to say go ahead I’ve I came running in from my car to yell at all of you for trying to include Keegan Murray in this freaking deal well we didn’t I heard I heard Jessie your shut up I heard Jesse say Keegan Murray Davon

Mitchell and picks on top of that are you insane no we were negotiating you include the pick so that Keegan Murray doesn’t have to be involved I just did a whole podcast on this with locked on Nets three first round picks is is what you put on the table so that Keegan

Doesn’t have to be available three doesn’t get it done wellum just went for three three doesn’t get it done then three then then the deal doesn’t get done because I’m not somebody’s gonna do it settle down let’s not walk away from the let’s not hang up the phone easy see

See you’re negotiating with a motion Matt you can’t negotiate with right I am that’s why that’s why you have to work through Keegan Murray is off the table and go from there that’s all we’re doing see came in at the wrong time that’s what happened yeah and did did you hear

The final conclusion no I was running we weren’t doing it oh well good I’m glad you I’m glad there was some sense before I came on the air because I was literally screaming at my dashboard like no you don’t have to include Keegan and three first round picks that’s

Horrendous Matt yeah I didn’t I didn’t see this uh Matt’s trading Kevin herder coleby Jones and three first round picks and we discussed that deal on net on locked on Nets and locked on Nets said they think he thinks they heavily consider that deal because three first

Rounders that F that far out in the future for the Sacramento Kings has a tremendous amount of value because of the history of this organiz gation and how long you think this window is Plus on top of that the Brooklyn Nets do not have control over their picks right now

So the I and they’re losing basketball like you guys talked about earlier on in the segment so the idea that you could potentially pick up three first rounders right now for for Bridges alone from an organization that may or may not convey those picks in a positive way to you

Down the road that might not be a bad idea so that was the discussion around that trade but I think I think you’re getting fleeced and I love Bridges I think you’re getting Leed if you’re doing three or more first rounders and Keegan Murray on top of that you’re

Giving them I think you’re getting bed if you do that deal that that you said I think we’re getting fleeced by continuing to use that word past 2020 I have no other term what’s another term all right that’s fine okay we’ll come back let’s folks don’t you dare go

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