Good evening, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network.

It's Wednesday, December 2nd, and for the second off season in a row, a Russell Westbrook trade has triggered the emergency podcast.

Bat signal.

Here we are.

So much for that vacation, boys.

I'm Jay E. Skeets and alongside me.

As always, Tasmellis.

Basketball, what are you doing?

You are drunk.

Go home.

We've also got the Southern lawyer himself, Trey Kirby. We got ourselves a Trey. Oh, we do indeed. We got the international man of mystery taking it to the max. Yeah, listen, guys, we're going to have to move this along because I mean, I record in my son's bedroom and it's past his bedtime. You can see the, we're out with the bedroom wall. So I had to kick him out. So we're going to have to move along with this one.

Okay, we'll make it quick. And making the magic happen here tonight, J.D. Hello. There is.

And here we are. Yes, the Houston Rockets have reached a deal to send Russell Westbrook to the

Washington Wizards. Tonight, it just happened in exchange for John Wall

and a future first round draft pick.

Now, according to Wojj, both general managers hadn't talked in weeks on this deal

because there were rumors floating around about this one,

but they connected this afternoon and had a deal done within a few hours tasks. I mean, this, like, as many

have pointed out on Twitter, it screams like fantasy basketball trade. It's like, ah, I don't

know, I don't like this guy anymore. You like that guy you got? No, you want to swap them? All right.

I mean, that's what it feels like. Yeah, and is Russell West were going to get traded every

stinking off season or what?

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