What I like to do, and this is how I tried to look at the next trade deadline in activity, is just from a process standpoint, right?

It's just from a process standpoint.

Was it sound process?

Was it faulty process?

Was a process that is like hinges on something that is likely,

unlikely? Um, was it the correct time to do something? You know, I think there's so many ways

to look to look at these trades and there's extenuating circumstances and everything.

Like, you know, we'll start at the top and we'll start with the net Sixers trade.

And it's like, again, if you looked at that trade in a vacuum, you would have one opinion on it.

If you look at that trade, given all of the appropriate context, you might look at it in a different way, right?

Yeah.

The context around it is fascinating because there's a basketball reason for why you could argue

the Nets really got away with something good here and maybe even

something better. That's the basketball context. The off the court context of it is that

like also so we're just so this whole thing about Ben Simmons is he's just like going to a new job and now his mental health is okay.

There's still like the issue with his.

I really, it's an issue just the fact that like the last time we saw him play basketball, he froze up in a playoff game and the Nets have championship aspirations.

So here's what I'll say. I was watching

something I, this is something I don't usually do. I was watching the

tail end of the MSGs pregame show before the Warriors game.

And Wally and Bill Pito, I think it was, they were talking about the Hardin trade.

And Wally was like, this is an awful trade.

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