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slash back to school. Inspired by Drive, powered by innovation. All right, and now we have a special guest, Keith Smith, the guru from Spotrack and the best NBA follow on Twitter at Keith Smith, MBA. He joined my other show, Ben MGM Tonight. I was joined by my co-host, Nick Ashue and Ryan Horvaw. Let's get right into it. It was a dope-ass interview. Keith Smith jumps on with us. I Haven't talked to our buddy Keith Smith in quite some time. Good to see your face again, my friend. What do we expect from the Grizzlies? Let's just put away tonight because it's, you know, it's the first game with Job Back. But like, what's a realistic expectation for this Grizzlies team just moving forward now that John Morant is back with

them. I think just to be competitive the rest of the way, really just make these games solid,

try to get a sense of what does this team look like with John Morant and Marcus Smart,

because he's also going to be back at the end of the week and get a real sense of

where do we want to go from here? For them just to get to 500, they'll need to go 35 and 22,

and that's like a winning percentage that would be mirrored that of the top six teams right now.

And that's just to get to 500, and that's even be knocking on the door of the playing

tournament. So I'm just not sure that's where we're headed this year for this team. There's seven and a half out of the last playing spot in the West right now. But you can't make that all up in a week. So if I was Taylor Jenkins, I'd be saying, hey, let's try to make up a game a week. that's even that is really difficult but let's try it and see where we landed when all of a sudden done

yeah I'd be saying, hey, let's try to make up a game a week. That's even if that is really difficult, but let's try it and see where we landed when all a sudden done. Yeah, going to be interesting to watch that progress, especially since they have, you know, really no centers there. I'm curious to get your thoughts on this Donovan Mitchell situation. Obviously, he's mom. Darius Garland out for significant time. Evan Mowbly out,

significant time. I think the rumor was that the Cavs might even look in the offseason, last

off season, to move Jared Allen. And now, no Donovan Mitchell extension coming. And now the

trade rumors are starting to pile up. Where are you at in terms of likelihood of trading

this season before the deadline and where he could potentially go and the probability of that?

Yeah, I think the no extension stuff is getting way overblown. It's the exact same situation

that Deere and Fox is in in Sacramento as far as extensions go.

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