Lillard and Harden ask out | Best & Worst of Free Agency

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Zach Harper, Travonne Edwards, and Jay King react to the Damian Lillard trade request, James Harden trade request, and the first few days of free agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, one day on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:11.0	New York Strip Stake!
0:13.0	This is the basketball Buds.
0:15.0	Brace Beef Short Ribs Day!
0:18.0	Hey, guys!
0:19.0	With Zach Harper and your favorite Athletic Brighters.
0:22.0	And that every bro, I'm wrong.
0:24.0	Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show Podcast Basket Buds edition here on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:36.0	We host Zach Harper.
0:37.0	We got Jay King.
0:38.0	We got Trevon Edwards.
0:39.0	We got free agency and trade requests.
0:44.0	We had James Harden request to trade out of Philadelphia after opting in deciding I don't want to be married to Darryl Moore anymore.
0:53.0	And so he's trying to get himself to the clippers.
0:56.0	We'll see if Darryl Moore wants to act with us.
0:59.0	No, in Darryl Moore, it will be a difficult process because that's just how he negotiates.
1:03.0	And we saw what happened with Ben Simmons.
1:05.0	Obviously a very different situation in terms of contracts and pressure and leverage and everything.
1:09.0	But we know Darryl Moore is fine being uncomfortable for a little bit.
1:13.0	And then Damian Lillard finally does it after I wouldn't say a day of futility on the free agent market for the Portland Trailblazer.
1:20.0	Because they did re-sign Jeremy Grant to a five year 160 million dollar deal.
1:27.0	But Jay, the damn thing.
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