NBA TODAY| Chris Paul & Wemby are perfect combination – Perkin on Spurs ready to compete in playoffs

NBA TODAY| Chris Paul & Wemby are perfect combination – Perkin on Spurs ready to compete in playoffs

free agency we’re actually going to start with the Champs Jason Tatum agreed to a 5year $314 million supermax contract extension that keeps him with the Celtics through the 2029 2030 season it’s the largest contract in NBA history surpassing his teammate finals MVP Jaylen Brown they now have their core locked in for the foreseeable future perk so how many championships can they win in the next five years oh they better at least win two I mean they’re starting five they paying them at least what close to a billion dollars 800 800 million they got to get at least they’re paying them what they’re deserving I’m not I didn’t say that you didn’t all right let’s go from this year’s Champs to last year’s Champs the Denver Nuggets lost kavia Codwell Pope to free agency the two-time champ signed a threeyear $66 million deal with the magic so Brian how much of a loss is this for the Nuggets yeah this is obviously a championship delivering player classic 3 and D type guy that you need on a title team when you combine the loss with Bruce Brown from last year um it’s a it’s a significant downgrade they are relying on young players to step up and fill those roles and maybe they will but they’re unproven and the West is only getting better but shout out to the magic being in a position to land the key free agent that’s more we can say for the last 10 years they are coming all right sticking in the west here last season’s top seed just added another key piece Senator Isaiah hartenstein the big man has agreed on a three-year $87 million deal with the thunder so Zach is this young Thunder core ready for the lightning and a title well I don’t know if they’re ready for the lightning I don’t but oh the lightning yes they are lightning right now on paper Caruso hartenstein this team has the inside track to the number one seed in the west again next year and if you’re number one you can make the fun we talked about them getting interior pres and now they have need one more all right how about this how about Chris Paul signing with the San Antonio SPS one year 11 million plus deal he joins 20-year-old Rookie of the Year Victor wanyama the 12 time Allstar average nine points seven assists in his one season with the gold State Warriors so the Spurs they will be CP 3’s seventh team look at this his first six all improved in his first season with the team San Antonio won just 22 games last season so the Spurs are a fair bet to improve as well we all know the value CP ads Chan I mean I’m already envisioning those lobs sis hello everybody if there was if there was one player that was literally made by the basketball gods of Spalding and Wilson for lobs for alleyoop it is Victor webing Yama and as a rookie playing without a real point guard Richard said that all year long wemi completed 44 alleyoop dunks last season fifth most in the NBA so I’ll show you exactly why Chris Paul is going to boost that number all the way up no point guard no problem he’s going to handle the ball look at it from the three-point line he is calling for a lob that is wild and look at the tough finish I mean that is extra terrestrial clearly because he’s the alien again watch this move it’s just cutting back door from the three-point line again the these are easy buckets help defense was just a step too late it doesn’t matter he makes some pain again in transition against my squad he gets behind the defense and this is just easy look at that finish turn around 360 it is wild but now there is a new sheriff in town you know I make a little bit of Texas right Chris Paul the point God and the originator of Lob City over his career has assisted on 75 alleyes the most of any active player so Malika yeah those lob numbers for Victor webing going all the way up I wonder how much he’s going to have to pay to wear number three in San Antonio though thanks sis look at this wemi was 30 to1 long shot odds to win MVP before the Spurs agreed to terms with Chris Paul he has moved all the way up to 15 to1 odds now that’s tied for the seventh shortest in the NBA with Jason Tatum so Zach I’m curious we’re getting two of the greatest basketball Minds here in Chris Paul and Coach Greg papovich do you think that wemi and the Spurs are ready to make the leap into the playoffs this up coming season I think they have a chance Whispering it I I’m not I’m not ruling out they won 22 games last year some of that was a little tankery late in the season this dude is going to be a top 10 player real soon they probably have one more move in them because they still have some cap flexibility I think they’re going to be sniffing around 40 wins in the playin race I think they’re going to be that good because Victor is that good and they’re going to get continue to growth from their young players and CP look he’s 39 we’ll see if he gets through the season his teams play well when he’s on the floor I think they’re gonna hang in the playoff race I I think they’re gonna hang in the playoff race also look when when Greg papovich and we had that meeting uh we did wm’s first game he said he was having to navigate the locker room he had Avery Johnson he had Sean Elliott he had David Robinson when he came in then he had Tim Duncan he had culture Builders and now he has this fresh crew and crop of young highlevel players obviously led by Victor web andama but he doesn’t have the the energy to run the locker room to make sure that’s there that’s why you bring in CP that’s why you’ve always brought in CP he has helped every single team improve we saw the numbers we saw the graphics I don’t think the Spurs are ready to take that jump but I think bringing in Chris Paul helping to show these guys what it’s the be what it like to be a true professional this is the first veteran that they’ve had in the last few years and it’s a perfect one I have a rule and this is my new rule and I’m not breaking it I will not rules are meant to be broken Brian I will not put a ceiling on Victor Wan okay that’s a good rule no you’re asking me can they make the playoffs No Ceilings absolutely why not yeah I get you well I mean it’s a team sport can the sen can the Spurs hell no and Zach you and Richard bumped y’ head play in tournament knocking at the door hell yeah maybe with the Rockets were this year but we’re talking no play in not play offs play in well guess what you win a playin game and all of a sudden they they believe that Brandon psky will improve they believe that mes Moody will improve they believe that the DeAnthony Melton will give them a good lift and they’re in talks on Lowry Markin and if they don’t get Lowry marke in they’ll wait and try to do something else down the line like I I think I don’t think if they resign clay all of a sudden I’d be like well they they’ll be number three in the west I mean they they are no longer a high competitive team in the Western Conference that was proven and I I think that is still the case there’s always going to be things that we don’t know about this negotiation obviously it almost looks like clay took less money or or to to go someplace else what does that say about the Golden State Warriors and for for me when I look at this franchise was Clay should clay have made all of this money and still been that big portion of whatever they were doing no he needed a reduced role but you still have to pay him to the point Rod Thorne once told me he goes you know what I always felt that if I underpaid a player that was going to be the energy that he always gave me going into something so I’d rather give him a little bit more than he deserves so he knows that I I want him here and that he’s my guy was always Rod Thorne’s mindset and he drafted Michael Jordan right but we’re still going back to okay the Klay Thompson mindset which is is Justified I’m just trying to push this forward a little bit and I I can’t it seems like there’s no answer for why gold they are so irrelevant right now in the G big things they’re they’re relevant they’re no team with Steph Curry is irrelevant no they’re they’re irrelevant from the standpoint of right now in the west they would be the seventh best team in the league the 12 team this is what happens this is how it ends great teams get old and they get mediocre or whatever and the Warriors are still a good team in the west there’s nothing wrong with that and they had their chance with the James wisman pick to to bridge to the next era and this was always the most likely outcome that the young guys aren’t ready in time for the old guys and now they’re left here this is just what happens Bo Bob Myers if you watching got he look like Jay Cole right now Bob Myers look like J Cole he just sitting at home like well tell you time like we’re talking about Lor Lori marketing but does he have a better ceiling than Jonathan kaminga I don’t believe so I think Jonathan kaminga could really become a real Allstar caliber player I don’t think they want to trade kaminga well you you might have to well then for Lori I think the 2022 championship and winning that Championship was improbable in so many ways that it extended us feeling the way that we feel about the Golden State Warriors Mike Breen’s called The Embers of a dynasty still burning in a way that I don’t think anybody expected if if their window hadn’t kind of reopened in that moment I don’t know if we’d be having the same conversation but since we’re talking about how y feel we I felt we all want the Feelgood ending and we all think we should have it it already happened that was it that title well I I’m just going to see if we can bring in Bobby Marks here if there’s anything that the Golden State Warriors can do because Clay’s Gone Chris Paul we hav’t mentioned yet both gone Chris Paul headed to the San Antonio Spurs so what Avenues do the Warriors have a any cuz these guys don’t seem to see a whole lot Bobby come on Bobby show us something I think you hit it right on the head Malika you said you got to maximize Steph Curry’s window right he’s got two years left on his contract he’s extension eligible this off season for one more year if anything out of this their books are clean okay $157 million in salary luxury tax is 171 they have the flexibility to go out and make that one more big swing they’ve got four first round picks to trade as you can see the big question is going to be their young players kaminga Moody pensi okay kaminga and Moody are extension eligible this offseason here do you reward both players here so you have the contracts to go out and make a deal when that next disgruntled or maybe a player like marketing becomes available here you can go out and do that it’s just a matter of when is that going to be right and I don’t know that giving up Klay Thompson is you in a when it’s going to be type of scenario for Golden State all right still I yeah don’t [Music] [Music] spe for for Happ e [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] speee for e e [Music] for for for no [Music] e 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NBA TODAY| Chris Paul & Wemby are perfect combination – Perkin on Spurs ready to compete in playoffs