Houston Rockets Trade Rumors & Targets: Quentin Grimes, Buddy Hield, Kelly Olynyk & More

Houston Rockets Trade Rumors & Targets: Quentin Grimes, Buddy Hield, Kelly Olynyk & More

On today’s show the latest Houston Rockets trade rumors and possible trade targets for the team to pursue ahead of the NBA trade deadline New York Knicks Quinton Grimes Indiana Pacers of Buddy hee and possible backup big man from the Utah Jazz Kelly OIC and so many more

Names to consider on today’s locked on Rockets this is Mission Control Houston ignition sequence side throw it up to jayen Green shenon here in the short row oh my that’s the no look bar for three and the win look at T 15 seconds guidance is internal the Houston Rocket select amen Thompson and

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Enthusiast and DieHard Rockets fan Madison Moore you can track down on Twitter at madman leaks here as we discuss some of the latest Houston Rockets trade rumors intelligence Rumblings all that stuff it’s look we are heating up Madison we are a few weeks away from the NBA trade deadline

This is when the NBA Rumor Mill starts really churning out all the good juicy go and everything about different players who are being you know put on the trade block and being made available available and all this stuff and the rockets find themselves in a very in interesting position this season very

Different than the last few years where hey the team is actually decent this year they’re playing competitive basketball they you know little they’ve slipped a little bit in recent weeks they’re a little under 500 now but they have aspirations of a you know a potential postseason run and so now we

Have a trade deadline where we’re not just looking at maybe taking the garbage from another team and like trying to get draft assets or that kind of a trade deadline no we want to see a trade deadline where maybe they find a way to make some improvements to this team so

Where we’re going to go first before we get into some of the the latest reporting and and rumors and speculation out there about potential targets we got to address you know the issue here is for you Madison at least when you look at this team what’s the bigger issue in

Your eyes right now is it does this team need to address its lack of shooting or the fact that they don’t have a legitimate backup big man which is the more in issue in your eyes yeah shooting to me is the Big Shiny Toy but what is this Rockets team’s identity it’s

Defense and right now the the Rockets have severely struggled on defense and uh more importantly rebounding to me I mean I know the numbers are don’t say that we’ve like regressed in rebounding but if you just watch the games some of the games and the offensive rebounds and

Untimely possessions you can see that the the the Rockets really struggling on that end outside of really alerin changon and Jabari Smith really there’s no consistent rebounder on this team there’s no consistent uh Rim presence on this team and it limits the defensive versatility of this team and really and

And so for me for this team’s defensive identity for that to be their identity of this team I think we have to go out and get a backup big and uh a big that is an archetype that is not on the team at the moment you know and I’m torn here

Because you’re you’re right shooting is the the shiny toy it’s it’s very important and this rocket team is absolutely a team that is in some desperate need of some shooting uh and I’m in such pain as I discussed that you hear the voice crack as it as it’s going

Down no legitimately this team needs shooting but I do agree I think they need some some additional size a backup big would go a long way for this team because you also see some of the knights where they really have to lean so heavily on Alper and shinon against

Opposing matchups with like legit big men because LP is really their only answer as a legitimate big on the roster you’re not going to throw B boban marianovich out there it’s he’s not a serviceable player at least you know situationally maybe a couple spot minutes here and there but he’s not

Going to be a part of the rotation right not a not on a consistent basis you’ve got 37 yearold Jeff Green holding down the fort at backup five and he really shouldn’t be playing that many minutes he’s probably taking a it’s probably taking a toll on him the amount of

Minutes he’s played as the backup five this season so I I’m in full agreement with you here now the question though is you know as far as allocating resources assets that kind of thing you know what kind of a backup five are you looking at how much of a price point you’re looking

At uh Ben and I you know recently on a recent episode we visited a couple of the names that are out there on the market right now Daniel Gafford uh Nick Richards another name out there there’s a couple names out there that sound kind of interesting as a potential solve for

The backup big man spot um I have one that I think doesn’t necessarily address I think it addresses two things and I really like this name and I’m very interested about it I I like I like Kelly oin I like the idea of Kelly oen for this Rockets team he doesn’t

Necessarily give you like that defensive identity out of a backup big that you maybe want out of some like some of the other guys might give you like a gaffard or a Nick Richards a little bit or a Clint capella if you were to go you know

Pursue him as a backup option but I think Kelly kind of gives you the best of both worlds right he gives you a legitimate serviceable backup big he gives you somebody that can space the floor he’s also somebody that you could play alongside Alper shingun if you

Really wanted to at the four and on top of all that he actually his passing is really underrated and I think you can do a lot of the same things offensively that you can do with Alper and shinon that you can do with Kelly oin so that

You don’t have this crazy drop off in play style where you have to suddenly change your entire identity when alpie heads to the bench yeah see I think Kelly oen is a great option for this ret team to pick up I think this system would uniquely fit a lot of his gifts um

And I think offensively he would give a supercharge to the second unit that we we desperately need while also giving us some sides and some some timely rebounding because he’s actually a pretty decent rebounding for a backup big so I I definitely think that’s a a great option for this Rockets team I

Don’t think it addresses the defensive issue issues but we will we will address one of the big issues we have outside of alar and shenen and that screening we don’t have another really good go-to screener on this team and I think Kelly oen is such a a a high IQ guy that and

Uh such a a good screener and being able to make reads like you say out of those those possessions I think he fit seamlessly in this offense and give us a a supercharge there now the problem is is as great as clean of fit as Kelly

Lyck would be first off the Jazz are actually playing some respectable basketball as of late not the the the the loss here in Houston notwithstanding um and it’s also Danny a is the problem like like dealing trying to trying to negotiate with Danny a is like a losing

Proposition before you even start he’s going to charge you an arm and a leg and probably a second arm for a backup big man in Kelly oen like I would like if any of the other 2019 28 teams in the association had Kelly oen the Rockets

Could probably get him for like I don’t know a second a couple seconds he’s an expiring big man like that’s all it would cost Danny Angel is going be like N I want I want Jaylen green I want cam I want your next seven first round

Draft like that’s the problem with Danny Angel he’s going to ask resue for the world and start negotiating down from there so I don’t know if he’s actually attainable and also he’s the he’s a decent backup big for the Utah Jazz right now now they’ve got Walker Kessler

And he’s an important backup big for them but they’re still using Kelly oin as part of their rotation so I don’t know if he’s actually getable is the problem I I thought he was like three weeks ago I don’t know if he is now yeah I mean that’s that’s one of the issues

But that also is why I also would like to obtain him he’s still uh producing a rotational minute some of the guys that we’re we’re going to talk about and another guy that um I another guy that I identified and that’s been in the rumor meal is rashan Holmes right so rashan

Holmes is on obtainable contract he gives us uh some Rim protection screening and finishing at The Rim some of the uh and just length overall size um defensively but he’s falling out of Dallas’s rotation you know what I mean and it just it it kind of lends you know

That offers up the question like how much does this guy have left in the tank to actually help this team and and actually produce at a winning level while Kelly is you know we know he he still can produce at a high level I we don’t know really about ran but that

Makes him obtainable now you know what I mean like we know that we probably can obtain him I mean his his salary is getable and we could we have several guys on this team that we could probably easily obtain ran Holmes for you know it’s it’s tough also because well the

Kelly oin salary is easy that’s we we kind of missed you know talking about that one but he’s only making 12.2 million this year he’s an expiring contract very clean swap there you could throw in you know Victor Oladipo or Jack landale and match the salary very easily

There um a couple of other expiring deals so really then it just becomes about how much you know draft capital is Danny a asking for now some of the reporting about what the Utah Jazz are planning to do uh by good friend of the program Matt Moore uh fellow host over

At locked on nuggets and locked on NBA he said that ton Horton Tucker Jordan Clarkson and Kelly oen are getable for the right price but that phrase with Danny A is often a tough pill to swallow for other teams so that was his reporting on the situation so Kelly

Linic may be getable for the right price that price is probably way too high for the rocket but he’s he’s an interesting name to keep an eye on now we’re gonna to get into some of the other names here on this episode Quinton Grimes is the name that keeps popping up with reported

Interest by the Houston Rockets um buddy hee potentially available with the Indiana Pacers although buddy he’s been in trade rumors for like the last five years so we never know if that’s actually ever going to happen at this point and more targets it’s all coming up here in just one

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Everything Houston Rockets basketball now one of the shiny names that’s out there that is kind of weird actually Madison let’s backtrack for a split second here Quinton Grimes being made available by the New York Knicks how weird is that like he was an important player for the Knicks and then suddenly

Like seemingly fell out of favor in the rotation with Tom Tibido for some reason I don’t know why he is like a tibs guy through and through like to go through the Kelvin Samson program at University of Houston that is like that is like the factory mode setting of like if you want

A tibs level player you go through Kelvin Samson’s program at U ofh and you are ready for a tibs system I don’t know why it happened that he I mean he’s a serviceable 3 and D you know two3 gives you good size versatility like I I don’t

Know why he New York doesn’t want him anymore I just think Josh Hart’s the better Defender and that’s what tibs cares about so I mean I think I think you know as a wing that provides defense and shooting uh there’s a lot of redundancy in that role there and tips

Is always going to swing towards the more defensive oriented wings and although Grimes is a good Defender he’s not as good as some of the other defensive ways he’s also young and tis hates young players for has entire career right T never like playing young guys there’s there’s something about I

Some certain coaches have that like mentality right MDA was the same way playing young guys oh man all right well look whatever New York’s lost potentially the Rockets gain here because Quinton Grimes on a very team-friendly deal he’s currently on the third year of his contract one more year

NE next season uh just under I believe uh $6 million for next year double check that oh sorry just 4.3 million for next year it’s a team option uh so he’s a a very Gable contract the question is what would the actual cost look like to get

Get a Quinton Grimes and then past that past the cost where would you factor him into the Rockets rotation currently because they do have a bit of a glut I mean I I I just don’t know whose minutes you would subtract to get Quinton Grimes the minutes that you would want him to

Play on the floor Jan Tate maybe oh yeah no Tate’s minutes are gone I mean I’m sorry I mean I’m sorry I I mean first of all I expect Tate to be in the deal if you know if grimes’s you know contract uh matching well I guess every contract

Can kind of match that deal but Kate is also a valuable player that I think has kind of run its course on this team we don’t have really minutes we need to give those minutes to cam whitmorees of the world and nond Thompson of the world

And when tar een gets back you I expect them to naturally go away anyway so I think uh tapate would be a natural selling point uh which would bring a lot of shooting that you know the the inverse going from Tate taking those open shots to Quinn Grimes would be

Astronomical and so I think that would be where you get some of those minutes from but then you also start to chip away at Jaylen Green’s minutes as well if he doesn’t turn it around which I think it’s safe to say we can’t really bet on that but now we have somebody

That probably that is possible a serviceable starter if Jaylen green does not turn it around the next couple weeks or months yeah I I’m trying to think because I would first off I would love the addition of Quinton Grimes now I will say that there was this uh this

Rumor per sources s Source trust me bro um I don’t I don’t want to shoot down anybody else’s sources uh let’s talk Nicks on Twitter uh shared and said the Houston Rockets really like Quinton Grimes reminder Grimes the 25th pick in the 2021 draft played at the University

Of Houston tar een is a name to keep an eye on to potentially come back to the new yor to New York a source tells let’s talk Nicks now I’m not going to bad mouth let’s talk Nick I’m sure they have a source and I’m sure that Source did

Tell them hey yeah we would I’m sure this is what the conversation went let phone call text message whatever yeah of course we we would love to get tar e for quitting Grimes that’d be incredible let’s do that like not full stop tar een is not going

Anywhere and I I had somebody asked me like I I I saw that nonsense on Twitter quote tweeted share T’s not going anywhere I had somebody asked me I was like is this sourc or is this just just your opinion I’m like both like he’s not going anywhere like the Rockets love tar

They love him so much e said it the other day he is their most impactful player from an analytics perspective when he is on the floor he impacts winning at a higher level than any other player on the Roser even more than Alper shenon more than Dylan Brooks More Than

Fred Van v tar is that guy this organization is not letting go of him for anything it’s not happening so just had to dead that rumor real quick yeah that was the crazy like my eyes almost got stuck in the back of my head when I

Real I was like what like First of all it’s just it’s it doesn’t make any sense in any basketball sense it just it it’s not a thing it’s not a real thing I’m sure he heard it from somebody uh on their wish list because tar E’s up a spectacular player and tibs probably

Likes him but it’s not gonna happen never now there there was some additional reporting I can’t remember I think it was Ian Begley who who who shared this tidbit about what the Knicks were looking for um with the loss of em manual quickly the Knicks are looking for some additional playmaking some

Facilitating you know Off the Bench is is what reportedly they were looking for I’ve seen some people go so far as to say that they would trade Jaylen green for Quinton Grimes I don’t think I’m there yet like it’s it’s it look it’s been really rough with Jaylen green

I’ll be the we talked about it last episode it’s been a rough sledding for him I don’t think I’m there yet right it’s it’s if if the organization is still convinced that they can get a a winning player out of Jaylen Reed even if that player is potentially a six-man

Coming off the bench I’d rather see what that looks like before just completely cutting bait and saying all right now get get out of here trade him for whatever you can get for him um I I think the I think it’s equally silly to trade J Jaylen green for Quinn Grimes I

Mean there’s a there’s just an upside Gap that is just astronomically different and if you’re going to invest in a player then you need to invest in them if if this is jayen does not have the entire time like world all the Time in the World to develop yes there is a

There is going to be a time where dalen has to put up uh you know just put up and produce but that time is not now it’s not within two weeks of this February trade deadline there’s a whole another year where we have jayen on on his rookie contract and the upside of

Him reaching his potential is worth so much more than the shortsighted the the shortsightedness of getting Quinton Grimes right now which you probably can get without putting Jaylen Green in this deal so it’s just it it doesn’t make sense would you give up the Brooklyn Nets 2024 pick for Quinton

Grimes this draft is now my my reasoning behind the draft is notoriously weak this year and that Nets pick is kind of floating in the lottery range right now but look the Rockets do not have the developmental Runway we’re already seeing it right they have a glut they

It’s it’s they’re already struggling to develop the guys that they have because they just don’t have enough minutes to go around we kind of saw that early on with Cam Whitmore now he’s cracked into the rotation big questions will be had once tar e comes back but that’s besides

The point they can’t really afford to draft another young guy even if they had like a top five pick what are you going to do with it unless you have a plan to make that selection and then have a a plan to develop said young guy it’s kind

Of a waste of a pick whereas you could trade that pick and get a Quinton Grimes who is serviceable ready to play plug andplay three and D guy right now I think well to to me I would put a top 10 protection on it for a top 10 protection

I do it but it’s it’s it’s also about Asset Management that is not to me proper Asset Management Asset Management Asset Management Twitter gonna come for your head man oh my goodness no but yeah it’s I mean it just to me I think that’s also shortsighted and uh there are

Players that we can get on the bargain band that we’ll talk about in the next segment or in the future that if we can’t secure Quinn Grimes with a couple seconds right or you know in a in a good you know player on our team then I you

Know there we can we can pivot it’s Quinn Grimes is not the end all Beall and nor do I think he’s I think he’s a fan favorite but I don’t know what level of Difference Maker he he will be to me he’s a good rotational NBA player that’s

What he is and he’s kind of capped at that for me okay so you wouldn’t go so far as to trade the the Brooklyn first I would I would trade the I would trade the Brooklyn first with a top 10 protection just because there’s guys like Donovan Cain and uh and some in

Some very good centers that uh that are probably that I would like us to take a chance on with a different archetype okay well that’s something you and I are going to do in a future episode down the line is we’re going to take we we will

Take a look at some draft stuff down the line because the Rockets are still sitting on that Brooklyn Nets pick for the time being so we will have to do some draft research and Analysis which we we it’s different now that they’re not tanking right they you know it’s not

It’s not their own picks that they’re focused on but we do still have access to that that shiny little Brooklyn pick so we’ll do some draft episodes a little bit down the line this season but coming up we do have the rest of the names to

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Here some maybe some Bargain Bin names here if you will uh at the tail end of this episode for your consideration as possible targets for the Houston Rockets the first name on this list is a guy who has been in trade rumors for I don’t know how long Madison it feels like

Forever Miles Turner and Buddy heeld were the two guys that were in trade rumors for like it felt like years with the inp Indiana Pacers now Miles Turner is locked in he’s good he’s a Pacer maybe not for life but at least for the foreseeable future buddy heeld Remains

The interesting question mark here now I say question mark because the Pacers wanted to try to trade him earlier this season they were unsuccessful in doing so he’s been he’s been a con professional the whole time he had there’s no bad blood he’s not like upset

Or anything he’s in a contract year so he’s an expiring deal he’s making just under $20 million I I don’t know if the situation has changed drastically enough now with their acquisition of Pascal cakam because now that they got Pascal buddy heeld actually makes a lot of

Sense to stay with their team so I mean to get buddy heel you’d have to package landale Old Depot their contracts together gets you close to the $20 million and then you float them I don’t know a couple seconds maybe a late first I I don’t know what buddy heeld

Would cost but the problem is you’re also trying to outbid the other 28 teams in the NBA because buddy heel is a fit on any team that needs shooting you plug them in on any team especially a team with like a heliocentric star like a

LeBron or a Giannis or a Luca he fits any of those teams immediately yeah I mean for me I think the Pacers are in win now mode and the rockets don’t have anything to really give to help them win now and I think that’s the biggest issue

With that trade where we would be giving draft assets and yes that but that is for the future and we know Rick Carlile is more of a like chips in type of guy right now yeah you know what I mean so that that’s the the direction their team

Has historically gone in as well as their coach and so for me I find it hard for us to get a deal done without giving them some value some rotational value on the way back and I think Tate may not be enough right but you know coaches love

Tap so maybe he is you know uh but so I I I like uh the Buddy heel but also are we going to give up real assets for a guy who’s probably a half a year rental right we don’t know if he’s he’s on the expiring contract we don’t know if we

Have plans to resign him there’s just a lot of moving things with Buddy heeld um that I don’t know if it’s it would be quite worth it but he does offer all the shooting in the world like an elite three-point shooter and he’s going to

Get them up so I’d love to have him stretching the floor next to shingo and at least in the conversations that I’ve had with the powers at be um it it doesn’t seem like this team feels like they’re they don’t feel like they’re in

A NE in a in a right they’re not in the wi now all the chips in kind of mode they’re not trying to oh we’ve got to make a trade to plug this hole at backup center they’re just they’re kind of seeing how things progress and if there

Is a good trade available if they feel like there is a value trade to be made where they can get back a piece that makes sense for them where they’re not overpaying whatever then yes they will absolutely be proactive and make a move but they’re not going out there they’re

Not operating from a position of no leverage they’re not out there say you know blowing up everybody’s phone like we need a backup center that’s not the case whatsoever um if there’s a guy out there that they think they can get their hands on either that provides shooting

Or size or any of these things that we kind of discussed earlier in the episode then they’ll make the trade but they’re not under raell Stone’s not under pressure to make that you know to make that move right now now I know you’ve got a couple other names Here For Us

Madison to consider so hit me you got yeah yeah so the next one is Kevin herder and I really like Kevin herder because out of all these names Kevin Harter herder actually brings some secondary and tertiary uh ball handling in and uh uh uh playmaking and so as to

Also add on with the with the three-point shooting I like to have another guy on this team that can take some primary reps because right now only Fred Van vet um Jaylen green and Bron really can initiate offense in this team and to me is actually not enough at all

And that’s one of the one of the uh big reasons I think Jaylen green still offers a lot of value even though he can’t make a shot right now is he can initiate offense and we I think that was we’ve seen how important that was just

To get us in sets in that Utah game so it’d be nice to add another guy who actually can make shots as well right initiate some offense uh and do some dribble handoff stuff with aarin goon as a tertiary option and so I I really like

Kevin herder in that role I I and to add to the point about Kevin herder and this this also applies to to Buddy heel that I kind of I failed to mention but the moment you brought up Kevin herder made me think about this both of those guys

Are guys that are good movement Shooters they’re guys that can actually move without the basketball come off the screen immediately catch rise up hit a shot the Rockets really don’t have a guy like that the last time they had a guy like that now I will say Fred can do

That a little bit but Fred is also so much more effective when he has the ball in his hands and the way that the Rockets offense is kind of built right now he has to have the ball in his hands for him to for the team to really be at

Its best for them to be effective so he doesn’t get that many reps where he can play off ball and come curling off a screen like that to just catch and shoot and immediately Let it Fly Uh Kevin herder would answer that I I I like that

A lot actually I what would you do you know what Kevin her is making off the top of your head right now I do not but I feel like it’s in the 19 million K payroll what would you so okay so if he’s in 19 million I got I

Got it right here Kevin herder all right 15.6 15.6 he’s got a couple more years left on his deal what would you what would you try and give the Kings for Kevin herder um really the the value we would have would be rested in draft compensation I mean I’m not trading

Anything outside of Tate Londale or uh and Victor leipo and I think we could get it done with Victor leipo and draft compet ation um and to me all these players are kind of in the same realm of value you know um like there’s not a big

Gap between Kevin hurder to me and Quinton Grimes than fan favoritism to me right and so you know if you if you’re willing to offer your first round for Grimes I probably would you know do something similar but with heavy protections but I would like to see

Kevin herter on this team I think he can he can he offers the team a lot of different things he could start he could come off the bench he he’s very ambidextrious and I like that he actually has the ball handling to put put the ball on the floor and make plays

For others I like that no that’s that’s a that’s a good one and there’s also some reporting out there that suggests that after the Kings missed out on both the ogj anobi and the Pascal SE yakum sweep Stakes that they are trying to you know secure some type of like a forward

Upgrade we know that Harrison Barnes has been you know in some trade rumors so maybe they’re looking to upgrade that position specifically couple of the names kind of on the Kings radar Jeremy Grant Buon bogdanovich and Herb Jones so maybe there’s a world where you know they’re trying to acquire one of those

Guys and the rockets could get involved as a third team kind of facilitator um and utilize some of those expiring contracts uh which effectively Jan Tate is also kind of an expiring contract um the way that his contract is structured so that’s a lot of money that you could

Utilize as a third team kind of Grease the wheels whatever and maybe you are able to you know finesse a Kevin herder back from them although he he is kind of an important part of what the kings are doing so I don’t know if they’re if

They’d be ready to I guess you know part way with him unless they were getting something really really good back and they’re very much like like we talked about earlier like the Pacers they’re in win now mode so you know does the draft compensation really really do it for

Them um so that one might be a bit of a tougher sell uh I know you’ve got one more name for us hit me with yes so so this is my favorite one I can’t remember where I heard the name at but I did hear someone talk about it but K Gary Trent

Jr who is another expiring contract he’s making around 19 is uh this year another expiring contract for the Toronto Raptors and they’re kind of have a having a a sell of their good players right now um as they’re rebuilding and also trying to get some assets don’t

Want Fred Van vet uh level walk again with these good players if they can get a couple assets out of it they’re not in this ultimate win now mode so this makes him very obtainable for the rockets and I think he out of all the players that we’ve discussed I think he was

Undoubtedly the best player uh we’ve discussed and I think he fits ma oka’s culture of defensive intensity uh point of attack defense I think we instantly vote back into top five defense contention because uh him him Fred Van vet and uh Dylan Brooks would be a you know ridiculous point of attack Wing

Defensive team um and on top of that he’s an excellent three-point shooter I’m not sure what he’s shooting this year I haven’t looked at the numers 41 and a half% this season from three my goodness golly gracious give me a 40% three-point shootter I would be all over that

No that’s a deep cut no I would I would I would love Gary Tren Jr and if you’re the Raptors right that this is the kind of and this is the kind of situation where I do think the Rockets could really take advantage of a team kind of

In the in the situation that the Raptors are in where very clearly they are having a fire sale right they’re getting rid of everybody and they’re not just getting rid of guys for the sake of getting rid of him I think M jer’s done

A good job with the OG trade and now the Pascal SE yakum trade getting back good value um but you’re right maybe they learned hopefully they learned their lesson from letting Fred Van walk for absolutely nothing and they could at least you know if you’re if you’re

Looking at the Rockets then maybe it’s it’s similar to uh what we talked about with the Quint Quinton Grim’s offer or maybe it’s something along the lines of you know that that Brooklyn pick with some protections on it or maybe just a couple seconds something like that um

But I think Gary Tren Jr is probably I think he’s worth the first I think out of all these guys I would be kind of uh scared to give a first for for most of these guys Gary Trent Jr if I had a kind of long-term plan uh would maybe signing

Him for you know extending him or you know some type of agreement where we could come to a reasonable contract in the future I definitely give up a first round pick for him and and I think he’s the most I he’s arguably the best guy on

The list and I think he’s the most attainable of all of them of all the names we’ve talked about so far I think he’s the guy that that realistically you can see a real Pathway to how The Rock could get him why it makes sense on both

Sides I love that name I think that’s that is a really good name to consider all right Gary TR J I like it no all right well hey if you’re listening to this episode if you’re watching on YouTube do us both a favor drop your thoughts in the YouTube comments who do

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