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'High Upside'—The Butler Trade, Steals, and More Surprises (Ep. 128)

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4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor and Jonathan Tjarks recap the NBA draft. They start with the top six (0:32), then dissect the questionable Jimmy Butler trade (1:58), their draft surprises (9:45), and their draft steals (14:33). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to High Upside. Finally, the NBA drafts. Finally happened. It was super exciting,

0:10.4

even though at the top of the draft we kind of got a little bit of what we expected.

0:13.9

So I'm here with Jonathan Charks from the ringer.com and we're taking the talk about the whole

0:18.3

night as a whole. Give you a brief rundown to start. John, how's your night going? It's great,

0:23.4

man. I love the draft. I can talk for hours but don't worry. We won't talk that long.

0:27.2

Yeah, man. It's been a long day. We've been up a long time tonight and really the start of the

0:31.6

draft, I think a lot of it went as expected. So at the top, we had faults going number one of the

0:37.2

sixers. Two, Lonzo Ball went to the Lakers. Like he's destined to do. Jason Taden went third to

0:43.1

the sun. I'm not you're happy about that. Yeah. You know, best best player available. That's what you

0:47.4

get to do. Then Josh Jackson four to the suns five for the Kings. I got their guide, Aaron Fox

0:53.0

and then six Jonathan Isaac went through Orlando Magic. John, do you have any general thoughts about

0:58.0

the top six of this year's draft? Well, I mean, I think everybody got who they want. It seemed like

1:02.5

it pretty much went according to plan for all those teams. I feel like the fit works just

1:07.2

what everywhere they're like all those teams, the ID to guy and the God who they want and they're

1:11.9

pretty happy about it. Now, I agree. And that's why I think that trade down made so much sense for both

1:17.8

the sixers and the Celtics. They got guys that make sense for their teams based on their

1:22.5

roster based on the personnel based on the really just the potential when you look ahead at that

1:27.1

sixers roster and how they're developed. I love what they did moving up and I love the trade

1:32.0

for Boston getting Jason Taden at three as well. How do you feel about Isaac going six to the

1:37.2

magic? I know you're really high on him. So you may consider him a little bit of a steal there,

1:41.6

a little bit of a slip. Yeah, you know, that's my guy. I love I love the idea of Isaac

1:45.7

and Gordon. I hope they can play at the five and the four eventually. I miss it's kind of

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