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It's Trade Deadline Day, so we got Sam Amick to break down all the big moves from the last 24 hours and the fallout and ramifications. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena. Good morning, Sam. Although it's afternoon. Let me not pretend like we're not talking right after the trade deadline. This is probably going to go out pretty fast. This is an emergency podcast. We just finished the live stream. If you caught us there, thanks for hanging out with us all day. It was a pretty good time. Sam, I know you're the busiest guy on the planet right now. So let's jump right in. Jimmy Butler, he's now a warrior.

We thought he was going to go to Phoenix. That didn't work out. How did this happen?

Guys, thanks for having me. I think you're as busy as I am. I just saw you on the live stream and now

you're on the pod. So appreciate you joining me here. I mean, listen listen it's funny if you go back a couple weeks

on the jimmy butler front um myself marcus thompson anthony slater had detailed in a story

how the warriors seemingly did not have interest in jimmy butler and we had information and

insight from top to bottom. You're talking

ownership, front office players. There were certainly people in the building who thought it might

be a good idea, but really in Warriors world, as Zena knows really well, where the prominent

voices there matter so much, the early signaling was we do need help, but it was so messy in Miami with

Jimmy. There was some reservation about him being the perfect guy. Now, fast forward to the trade

deadline getting closer and closer, the warrior's pursuit of Kevin Durant and that possible

reunion that honestly, two nights ago ago I went to bed thinking,

man, I think this is going to happen.

You know, and that obviously played a big part here.

It showed a couple of things.

It showed the level of desperation with the warriors because they knew at that time that

Kevin wasn't going to be thrilled about coming back.

Now, they were willing to do the deal with a certain level of discomfort. And as we reported, you know, yesterday I think it was, they, you know,

the sons had interest in Dremont, for example. And there were some folks talking about how, man,

would the warriors think about maybe even moving Dremont to, you know, relieve pressure

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