NBA Trade Season Preview: Ben Simmons, The Celtics, Jazz, Jerami Grant, Pacers, and more w/ Dave DuFour

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Dave DuFour from The Athletic is here, and we preview the NBA's impending trade period. Who could be on the move? We start with the Danny Ainge news, that he's taking over the Jazz' front office. Then, we break down the Celtics situation and explain why the Jaylen Brown trade rumors are silly; we move into Ben Simmons discussions, and Sam gives a couple of interesting potential trade constructions there; we chat Jerami Grant and the Pistons; Cam Reddish and the Hawks; some weird Pacers constructions; and way more. Also, go subscribe to the Game Theory YouTube page! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:11.3	I'm your host Sam Vasini.
0:12.3	We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.
0:14.8	Dave Dufour is here and we are going to talk about one thing, of which there are many topics that we can discuss within that
0:23.0	one thing, but it's trades.
0:24.8	Today is December 15th.
0:26.6	It is NBA trade kickoff day.
0:28.9	There's trade deadline day.
0:30.7	And realistically, while trades can be made ahead of December 15th, December 15th,
0:35.2	is the day where a wide swath of the NBA's opened up to be traded
0:40.9	because it's the day that free agents that signed last offseason are eligible to be traded.
0:47.8	So I brought on Dave.
0:49.6	We're going to talk about some of the potential trade targets.
0:52.1	We're going to kind of reset the board a little bit here and break down just some of the more intriguing names, some of the more intriguing
0:59.7	potential moves on the market right now. Dave, before we get into that, you had something very,
1:05.8	very important near and dear to my heart that you wanted to talk about on the pod. Yeah, you know, over the last couple weeks, I realized I had a hole in my cooking game.
1:15.8	And that, that hole is the size of a pizza.
1:20.1	I did not have the ability to just have a go-to crust if I needed to make a pizza at home,
1:26.7	which as a guy who I pride myself
1:29.7	on my home cooking, like I'm a good home cook.
1:33.3	Not being able to make pizza from scratch, that's a glaring weakness.
1:37.4	I've got a good sourdough recipe, and I actually, we talked about this, I decided to go
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