Free Agency + Draft Rumors and Rumblings with Sam Vecenie
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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On this week's Hoops Adjacent David Aldridge and Wos Lambre talk to Draft guru Sam Vecenie. Reaction to the Bucks moves, getting Jrue Holiday and Bogdan Bogdanovic. Will James Harden get to Brooklyn? What's happening with the Wizards and Joh Wall? Will Westbrook end up with the Knicks? Plus the very latest on the NBA Draft and what teams may or may not do on Wednesday night.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.6 | And welcome to the pre-draft edition of Hoops Adjacent on the Athletic NBA show, David Aldrich |
| 0:14.3 | here. Was in LA. What's up, sir? I'm good, man. Just, you know, just trying to maintain excited about free agency, |
| 0:22.6 | which is started four days early, which I guess we don't care about tampering anymore. |
| 0:27.2 | And excited about the draft, so I'm excited. |
| 0:30.4 | Let me just go on record to saying the NBA has the dumbest rules in history regarding tampering. |
| 0:36.3 | I wrote about this a year ago. There's stupid rules. Let |
| 0:39.3 | everybody do whatever the hell they want. They're going to do it anyway. And you're not going to |
| 0:43.1 | find people and you're not going to take draft picks away because you guys love transactional |
| 0:47.9 | Twitter at the NBA. You pretend like you don't, but you love seeing all these tweets because |
| 0:53.3 | you love people talking about your |
| 0:55.1 | hot stove league all summer, or in this case, all winter long. |
| 0:59.7 | So please stop it with the integrity of the game nonsense. |
| 1:04.3 | Get rid of the stupid rules. |
| 1:05.6 | Let people talk to whoever the hell they want to talk to. |
| 1:08.1 | Let coaches say, hey, you know what? |
| 1:09.9 | I'd love to have Janice on our squad next year. |
| 1:15.1 | Because they're calling them anyway, and you know it, and I know it, so stop lying. |
| 1:19.7 | Thanks. |
| 1:21.8 | So anyway, welcome to the show this week, The Man, Dudes and Dudettes. |
| 1:28.8 | Nobody knows more about the draft than Sam Vassini, Sam, all the way from Australia, where it is 8 a.m. Wednesday as we tape this is the next day. |
| 1:38.2 | So you can tell us who is going to be drafted by Minnesota since it's already Wednesday. |
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