HOUR 4: Final Thoughts + Calls On Pistons' Deadline/Skubal's Arbitration Hearing
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happy 5 o'clock. Hopefully you are at least approaching the end of your workday. We'll get you to six. Been a busy day. Get a couple things for you. One, J.Nivey's been traded. No one's thrilled with the return. Kind of a weird move. We are manifesting a level of positivity that, look, they made this move. It doesn't totally make sense. |
| 0:23.0 | You didn't give up Tobias in the move. |
| 0:25.7 | You increased a draft capital with the Minnesota swap. |
| 0:29.4 | Kevin Herder's expiring and frankly just hasn't played good basketball the last |
| 0:33.6 | couple of years. |
| 0:34.8 | Maybe. |
| 0:35.8 | Just maybe you could turn around by Friday package an |
| 0:41.0 | improved pick plus a couple of dead bodies and maybe this is the conduit to a Michael Porter |
| 0:48.6 | Jr. trade. That's all hope casting because it flies in the face of the report from the athletic |
| 0:54.1 | that just says |
| 0:55.0 | Pistons ain't doing a damn thing. So that's in the mix. We had the backdrop of why it was almost |
| 1:02.8 | the um like why us. We were all like Nancy Kerrigan after getting knee capped. Why me? Why is the headline always in this town with our teams? |
| 1:13.9 | No, they're not going to sign this guy. |
| 1:15.5 | They're not going to make this trade. |
| 1:16.7 | They're not going to be aggressive. |
| 1:19.9 | Okay, I did not have Nancy Kerrigan audio on the bingo board, but David wins the day. |
| 1:25.8 | So it was a question of, |
| 1:29.6 | is it impacting your enjoyment of your teams? |
| 1:31.4 | The fact that you know they're good, |
| 1:34.4 | but seemingly they don't desire to be great. |
| 1:35.9 | So that was one. The other thing, |
| 1:38.0 | I played some John Paul Morosi, |
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