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The Sports Junkies

Keith Smith Previews Tonight's NBA Draft

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From 06/25 Hour 4: Keith Smith joins The Sports Junkies to preview the 2025 NBA Draft.

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0:00.0

All right, you got the NBA draft tonight.

0:02.2

We've been talking a lot about the Wizards throughout the show.

0:05.6

If you missed our mock draft, you can grab the podcast wherever you download your podcast.

0:10.7

Just search the term sports junkies and you will get the podcast.

0:15.8

I'm going to keep talking some Wizards and NBA in general with our next guest, who joins us on the Rood guest hotline.

0:21.9

Rood's the most reliable heating and air conditioning products than DMV.

0:25.0

It's Keith, NBA writer for Spot Rock.

0:27.4

What's going on, Keith?

0:29.0

A lot.

0:31.3

I know there's all kinds of stuff going on.

0:33.0

There's a lot.

0:34.0

Yeah, it's the best time of year right now for transaction junkies and cap heads like me.

0:39.3

Yeah, so for Wizards fans, the team has been going through a rebuild the last couple of years,

0:45.9

and, you know, they acquired Jordan Poole, and everybody knew that he wasn't going to be part of their future.

0:50.1

But explain why they would trade Jordan Poole for C.J. McCollum.

0:56.1

Yeah, in that deal, because Poole and Sadiq Bay, both have contracts that extend in the next season,

1:04.2

and C.J. McCollum and Kelly Olinick do not.

1:07.8

For completely off the core reasons reasons related to the salary cap.

1:13.8

Washington now can clear in excess of $100 million in cap space next off season.

1:20.4

So a year from now, much like how people have been talking about the Brooklyn Nets and all their

1:24.8

cap space this summer, we'll be talking about Washington and double what the Nets have in cap space potentially.

1:32.2

They will be in a spot where very realistically,

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