And it's Hoops to Jason again on the Athletic NBA show, D.A. here in D.C.

Marcus may join us. He may not.

Who know, Marcus is a pissy man.

We got James Edwards here.

James, all things pistons all the time.

And I asked you, why, who did your boys piss off that they can't ever get the first

pick when they're supposed to, man?

It's funny because I'm of the camp where you get back into the earth what you give and

if you look at when they got the number one pick and they got kade that team prior to that

draft was a young scrappy team that was in every single game they just didn't know how to win and

the basketball gods rewarded them with number one.

Since then, the wimby year, they were intentionally losing when Cade went down.

This year, they were trying to win, and they did not, and it was ugly, and they just didn't

deserve it.

I think Atlanta.

Now, does Atlanta deserve it?

I was like, was, does Atlanta deserve it? I was most like, well, Atlanta deserved to get? No, you're right. Atlanta doesn't. But Atlanta needed a sign that they should start rebuilding and that was their sign. Oh, that was it. Okay. That was it. It's time now. You shall trade this summer. That's up.

Yes, yes. You have no choice now.

Right, right, right, right, right. That's funny. That's funny.

Well, I mean, it's bad for your pistons, but, you know, this, look, if there's any year, it doesn't really matter if you have first pick or not, it's this year.

You can get the same caliber of guy at five or six that you're going to get at two or three.

It does not really matter.

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