Austin Rivers to the Wizards, D.J. to Dallas (Potentially), and More Free-Agency Rumors | The Ringer NBA Show (Ep. 295)

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🗓️ 27 June 2018

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The Ringer’s Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor discuss the recent trade by the Los Angeles Clippers that sent Austin Rivers to the Washington Wizards (01:12) and the potential for the Clips to deal DeAndre Jordan to the Dallas Mavericks (03:47). Then they discuss Paul George’s free agency and how what he decides will affect other free agents (16:26), what it would cost the 76ers to sign both Kawhi Leonard and LeBron James (30:16), and the free agents that aren’t being talked about (48:21). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ring of MbI Show. I'm Chris Varnin, joining me is he does every week is Kevin
0:16.2	O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Bomber, aka Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Conflict, aka Kevin O'Climer,
0:23.4	Kevon! You know Chris, it throws me off when you say every week instead of every Tuesday.
0:28.8	I know. I know. I know. I know. I threw a lot of people off yesterday. So shout out to everybody
0:33.4	that reached out yesterday. Thank you for listening. Yeah. We were not on our typical Tuesday during
0:38.3	the off season. We are going to do Wednesdays. And as it stands right now, we are coming off the NBA
0:43.8	draft, but immediately already have something else to look forward to. In many people's mind,
0:49.6	the most interesting part of the year, and this year could be the most interesting in a long,
0:55.0	long time, were four days away from free agency, Kevin. And then the Utah Summer League for
1:02.4	rookies begins over the weekend and then the Las Vegas Summer League soon after. But there will be
1:08.2	meetings, there will be calls, there will be everything going on coming up this weekend. So let's,
1:14.2	oh, you know what? Before I get into the free agency thing, there was a bit of news that dropped
1:18.0	last night that we do need to speak on. And that was a trade that was made by the Los Angeles
1:24.6	Clippers. Los Angeles moved Austin Rivers, the son of Doc Rivers for Marcee and Gortat
1:33.5	to the Washington Wizards. What do you make of it? It's a great deal for both teams, you know?
1:39.2	The Wizards have been searching for a competent backup point guard for a couple seasons right now.
1:45.1	They built the Brandon Jennings of the world's tie loss and trade berk before he suddenly
1:49.7	got good for a couple of games with the mix. They've dealt with a handful of guys. And now Austin
1:54.0	Rivers granted everybody hates him. He's a solid backup. He's at least somebody that I think can
2:00.3	be the third guy behind John Wall and Bradley Bill or whatever that backup back court ends up
2:04.4	looking like in the future. It's solid for them. And then they needed to unload Gortat because of
2:08.4	his poor relationship with John Wall. And then the Clippers on the other side of it, Gortat is a
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