The Julius Randle Player Option Conundrum + A Win In Orlando w/ Kyle Theige

The Dane Moore NBA Podcast

Dane Moore

News, Sports, Sports News, Basketball

4.8 • 722 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige to discuss the looming question of what is going to happen with Julius Randle's player option. Dane and Kyle take a look at the Wolves salary cap sheet, and in that detail how much they have to spend if Randle opts in and how much added financial flexibility they'll receive if he opts out. After salary cap talk, Dane and Kyle also discuss themes from the win in Orlando and ripple effects of the starting lineup change. Specific topics and timestamps below... - Wolves cap sheet update + The two paths of the Randle player option (2:00) - What position to use the MLE on in free agency, if Randle opts out/isn't on the team (15:00) - Big games for all 3 bigs in an ideal Orlando matchup (36:00) - Finch's applause for Ant finding consistent effectiveness in games following his comments (45:00) - Ripples of the starting lineup change and how they impact DiVincenzo and McDaniels specifically (65:00) If you'd like to support our partners... -- Try out our new sponsor WtrMln Wtr at Whole Foods or Target: https://drinkwtrmln.com/ -- Contact Adrianna Lonick with Coldwell Banker Realty for a free consultation at: https://www.thedancingrealtor.com/ or call/text 715-304-9920 -- For more information on Treasure Island Watch Parties, visit https://www.ticasino.com -- Get yourself a pair of Duer jeans for 20% by going to: https://www.shopduer.com/danemoore -- Contact Your Home Improvement Company: https://www.yourhomeimprovementco.com/ -- Sign up for Prize Picks, promo code "DANE" for a signup bonus: https://www.prizepicks.com/ -- Want to advertise on the show? Reach out to DaneMooreProductions@gmail.com -- Support the show by subscribing for $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/DaneMooreNBA -- #BlueWireVideo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the dayn'clock.
0:14.0	This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast.
0:16.7	We're brought to you by prize picks coming at you Friday morning.
0:19.1	It's January 10th after the Wolves win in Orlando on Thursday night, their third win in a row as they start kind of sort of trending back in the right direction at an important time.
0:32.3	We're definitely going to get into that game, ants dunk, all that.
0:34.9	But the first segment of this episode, we kind of pre-planned,
0:38.3	because we want to get to this stuff in advance of the trade deadline is we're going to
0:42.7	update my wolves salary cap sheet, talk about the wolves cap situation, sort of entering the
0:49.8	trade deadline, what it looks like now, what it might look like this coming summer, because
0:55.5	I think that should probably, having all that information should probably inform us how we should
1:01.6	be thinking about the trade deadline.
1:04.4	What I'm really saying is really trying to figure out this Julius Randall player option
1:08.1	decision that they have.
1:09.7	What can they have in addition to him if he opts in
1:13.4	and what more than that can they have if he opts out to help me talk through the Orlando game
1:19.4	and make sure I don't miss anything with this salary cap stuff. I'm joined today by Kyle Taggi.
1:24.0	This is good timing. All credit to you because you did a ton of work here to get ready for this.
1:29.3	And I think a lot of people are going to geek out overseeing the salary cap spreadsheet.
1:34.3	Again, so if you're listening to this, you want to actually see it, go to YouTube, click
1:37.3	subscribe.
1:38.3	But I also want to take a little credit because it was about a week ago when I texted and I was like, hey man, we're about a month away from the trade deadline.
1:44.9	We should probably get to work.
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