James Harden/Ben Simmons deal still have a shot? Powell/Covington for Bledsoe/Winslow/Johnson deal analysis; Wizards and Lakers are a mess

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Sam Vecenie is joined by The Athletic contributor and pro basketball player Cole Huff to run through some things within the NBA. They start on the Norman Powell/Robert Covington/Keon Johnson deal briefly, then they move to the Wizards being kind of a mess. Should Bradley Beal ask out? What should the team do at the deadline? They then chat about 76ers and the Nets potentially talking again about a Ben Simmons-James Harden swap, they give a fake trade that might make some sense, then discuss whether or not such a trade makes sense. How would Simmons and Harden fit in their respective situations? Then they chat about the Lakers, and they finish on some of their favorite players to watch right now league-wide -- including a discussion on guards Darius Garland and Jalen Brunson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.
0:06.7	I'm your host Sam Vassini.
0:07.7	We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.
0:10.6	Colhoff is going to be joining us a little bit later on.
0:13.1	We're going to talk a little bit about Joelle and Beade's dominance.
0:15.5	We're going to talk some fake trades.
0:17.2	And I might ask him a little bit about this deal that happened earlier today with the Blazers
0:24.2	and Clippers that I'm going to talk a little bit about here at the top of the show.
0:29.6	So let's dive in.
0:32.5	The Los Angeles Clippers have acquired Norman Powell and Robert Covington for Eric Bledso, Justice Winslow, and Keon Johnson.
0:43.0	In addition, they will get a future second round pick that I believe is a 2025 second round pick for their troubles.
0:50.6	Now, it's an interesting deal for a number of reasons. And I kind of just wanted to talk
0:58.0	a little bit about it. We're going to post this video up on YouTube. It's going to go up a few
1:02.5	hours before the podcast goes live. So go to Game Theory Podcasts with Sam Vassini on YouTube.
1:07.8	Hit that subscribe button and you'll be able to get this before anyone else does on the podcast.
1:12.5	But let's just kind of jump into why I think this is a really good deal for the Clippers,
1:18.6	and I want to say maybe a little bit questionable for the Blazers.
1:23.3	It's not a terrible deal for the Blazers.
1:25.1	I understand what they were going for philosophically.
1:27.8	I just don't know that I'm completely there with it in terms of the evaluation.
1:33.8	So let's start with the Clippers.
1:36.0	The Clippers get Norman Powell and Robert Covington.
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