And now the low post. Welcome to the low post podcast on Valentine's Day, my least favorite

holiday in the world. And you know you have a good wife when she is more aggressively

anti-valentine's day than you. So I got nothing for nobody on this Valentine's Day. We are five

days out from one of the wildest trade deadlines in the history of the league. And this is one of my favorite times of the year because now it's just basketball. We get to see how all the new puzzle pieces fit together. These first games where Luca and Kyrie play together. We haven't seen Durant yet, obviously. You get your first impressions of how this all works. Also, the buyout guys are starting to find home. So we have a better sense of that landscape,

Justin Holliday, Terrence Ross, other Danny Green. And it just feels good to get distance from the

wildness. Your brain works better with a little distance from the wildness. And for the first time and way too long to help us understand this new landscape of the NBA from Sports Illustrated, the author of Blood in the Garden, a bestselling book about the 90s, Nick's the team I just hated growing up. Chris Herring, how are you, sir? I'm really good, Zach. It's really good to be back on

with you. Thank you for having me. Is it though? Is it good? Is it that good? It is, man. It is. We connect offline and, you know, it's been, like you said, it's been a minute. I feel like I've been busy and a lot of, first of all, you were going in about Valentine's Day. I don't you've been married long enough to have that stance openly have that stance

I just got engaged so I don't I don't, you've been married long enough to have that stance openly

have that stance. I just got engaged. So I don't, I don't think that I can have quite as hard line

a stance on that one. So I got plenty of flowers, Valentine's gifts, because I don't want to,

I don't want to lose what I just gained a month and a half ago. So I'm going to take the opposite side from you.

Congratulations. Congratulations. I appreciate that. Before we start with the sort of biggest,

most interesting things to us about the second half is the last third of the season. I haven't talked

to you. Now that the dust is settled, and I read your initial reaction to it, what is your take

on the Phoenix Suns trading four unprotected first round picks, one swap, McHale Bridges

and Cam Johnson, and probably something I'm forgetting, and Jay Crowder, to the Nets for

Kevin Durant and T.J. Warren, from a purely Sun's perspective, I don't want to talk any more about the Nets. Kevin Durant and T.J. Warren from a purely son's perspective, I don't want to talk

anymore about the Nets. Sure. I think my thing, and I've always kind of felt this way, is I think

teams that make deals earlier are smarter. I think the earlier you make moves, the earlier you kind of get a chance

to settle in. I think deals during the off season, deals that happen sometimes like a month

before the trade deadline, just why wouldn't you want to take advantage of things a little bit

sooner? So I think from the Sun's perspective, obviously the ground is shifted underneath

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