Welcome on, everyone, to a live gamer recording here after one of the more satisfying feelings that we can have in this business.

Turning the TV off on the Chicago Bulls and the Sacramento Kings down 20 in the fourth quarter of a play in game.

I got to experience that feeling twice tonight.

It was, yeah.

A tearful goodbye to Bulls West and Kings East as home nine seeds on the same night.

And it was, I mean, I think that it is kind of funny to, because we've so roundly criticized these two franchises for, this isn't what they were pursuing, but they were at least open to this being the outcome with the ultimate of that being the bulls trading back for the remainder of their pick outside that protection so that

they wouldn't lose it in a scenario like us.

Yeah, bottle this feeling if you're Chicago Bulls management and Sacramento Kings management.

And don't take the idea that, okay, we need to be better.

We have to get better right away.

It's remember what this feels like

so that you can actually take the pain of doing what needs to be done to rebuild and ultimately

create a sustainable winner. To not trade away a top 10 protected pick for Demar de Rosen.

To not trade away the pick that became

Franz Wagner to get Nikola Vouchevich and then extend Nikola Vouchevich.

To not then trade for the 11 through 30 protected portion of your pick back in a Zach Levine

trade and instead ask for something that's higher

upside from the San Antonio Spurs, and then just actually keep your pick, which you have full

control over if you wanted to. For the Sacramento Kings, do not trade a 2031 pick swap to those

self-same spurs. This is, the Spurs dealing with the Bulls and Kings all the time, by the way, is it's like

when the Bulls dealt with Isaiah Thomas over and over again 20 years ago to get all of these

awesome picks, like Tyreth, they got Tyrus Thomas number two pick and then Jo Kim Noan back-to-back

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