It's been two weeks.

Cody, are you ready?

Are you ready?

For the Thinking Basketball Podcast,

My name is Ben, and this is the episode we have been waiting for for a long time.

It has finally happened.

Something big with the Milwaukee Bucks.

For those who don't know, Cody was not, we were not doing the show together

when the Bucks won the championship in 2021. He was hanging out with Kurt. That's a very deep cut.

Oh, you're wearing a, you're bearing a Bucks championship t-shirt today, probably uncoincidentally,

flashing the camera for those watching.

So, now it's happened. You're here. We can finally get into the meat of the matter and it's not clear cut either. This is a crazy trade. This is a wild and crazy trade because on one hand

Dame Lillard has been moved. We can talk about that from the Dame Lillard side. It's going to be interesting to see him. I believe this will basically

be the first good team he's ever played on. He's played on okay teams. He's played on okay teams.

When you're the best player on an okay team, this goes back to one he was younger and he had

La Marcus Aldridge and it goes back to one he was younger and he had Lamarckus Aldridge and it goes back to 2019 when they kind of squeaked through the weak side of the bracket to make the conference finals.

You can get to about 50, you know, a low 50 win quality team. You can win some playoff series.

But when I say a good team, I mean you add a top 10 top 15 type of player. You add a superstar player and you are competing for championships either at the lowest. of a ton to talk about, but I mean, before I even mentioned Drew Holiday's name, how are you feeling?

How are you feeling about this whole thing?

How are you holding up?

Well, that's impossible to do without mentioning Drew Holiday's name.

So this is really interesting because I'm glad you're here to process this right now because I have some

...