HOUR 2: Sophie Cunningham's Comments, More Yzerman Calls, Stoney's Top 10 Detroit GMs

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rico and Stoney opened up a packed second hour with a discussion on Sophie Cunningham's comments a couple of days ago about no one wanting to play for any of the new expansion WNBA cities, including Detroit. They take some more of your Yzerman calls before Stoney gives his top 10 Detroit sports GMs since 2000.

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0:00.0	Thank you very much.
0:03.0	Mr. Otto, 248, 539, 97.
0:06.0	If you missed our heated wings discussion as Steve Iisman spoke today, go to the
0:13.9	Odyssey app and hit the rewind and you'll be able to hear it and hear all the stuff from all
0:18.9	the wonderful shows on the podcast.
0:22.6	And Evan and I taped day restore the floor this afternoon so we even spoke about the pistons draft free agency
0:30.6	any of that stuff by the way i did see something that's kind of interesting uh because it applies
0:37.2	to two people who are now working together
0:39.1	who used to be here.
0:40.6	There was an article talking about the Pelicans trade with the Hawks where, you know,
0:47.5	they moved up and got that queen, but they gave away the unprotected pick, which makes
0:53.7	absolutely no freaking sense.
0:54.7	Especially when you're going to be a bad team.
0:56.3	It looks like.
0:56.9	No sense.
0:58.2	So I'll just read this one paragraph.
1:01.5	One Eastern Conference executive with knowledge of how the conversation went from
1:06.0	Atlanta's perspective described a perplexing scene.
1:16.0	When New Orleans Senior Vice President Troy Weaver made the call to Atlanta as Bryson Graham, Graham couldn't believe what was actually being offered.
1:21.3	Graham asked for clarification multiple times to confirm the unprotected pick was indeed part of the deal.
1:29.0	It got to the point where Hawks' GM, Onsi Salah, called Joe Dumars directly to confirm it for himself.
1:37.3	The Hawks waited nervously for Dumars to confirm, hoping he would not realize what was going on and walk the trade back.
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