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Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike. Will Bond, the winner, Olympics actually started today. Today,

Tony. What's your favorite memory of covering? I'm Tony Kornheiser, landing that exclusive with Sonia Henney right after she won gold back in 28. Oh, that's, yeah, yeah, 28. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Not 2028 people, we're not there yet. No, 1928. Do you remember Sonia Henney at all? Do you have any sense of what she looked like or what she did? Yes, because the full disclosure, you and I have actually studied the Winter Olympics. Yeah. And we went. And you got to know something about it. He's a great skater. She won a billion medals. You actually liked it. I did. As much as the is. I loved it. I really did love it.

Welcome to PTI, boys and girls. In today's episode, James Hardin is a cab. Tom Brady plays it down the middle, and Steve Young joins us for five good minutes. But we begin today with the Mavericks trading away the man they got for Luca Donchards. Dallas Dell 10-time All-Star,Star Anthony Davis and three other players to the Wizards.

For Chris Middleton, three other players, two first rounders and three seconds. Wilbon, how do you

make sense to this deal? Tony, at first blush, I first heard about it. I thought, oh, Anthony

Davis is not going to play, Trey Young's not going to play. What is the point of this? But then continued thought about it. Some things that really stand out to me that I think are favorable about this deal for the Wizards. First, they didn't have to give up any of their own first round picks. Now, they got to give up one of Oklahoma cities, which is going to be 30th.

Let's face it, they're going to finish first in the standings and then last in lottery.

I'm the last in draft picking.

And also, they didn't have to give up any of their young core of players represented most by

Saar, who they got high in the draft last year.

I know you watch the team much more than I do,

and you have a sense of how each one of these young guys,

cool about how they come along. I know you do. And so I'm interested to hear you about this. So my thoughts are there's no risk. Yeah. Like even if Anthony Davis doesn't play much, and I hope he does. does. Because I just, I know Anthony Davis was a little bit, I root for him. him. But when you keep your own people, your own young guys that you need to build, and you keep your draft picks, or you keep your future, I think with no risk, I like it. I'm much more cynical about it than you are and have been for a couple of years about this particular team. Okay. But even this move? Well, let me get to this. Because the first thing I want to say is we can now close the book on Nico Harrison. Yeah. Nico Harrison, it turns out this is what he traded Luca Donchich for so far. Chris Middleton, nice player, 34 years old can barely move. And 29 games worth of Anthony Davis. Now they are accepting draft picks.

They're in a complete rebuild. They traded away 25-year-old Luca Donchich and they're now in a

complete rebuild. That's why he should have been fired that night. The Wizards on paper,

wow, Anthony Davis and Trey Young look great on paper. The problem, as you well know, is one of them is always hurt, and now the other one is hurt. Increasingly hurt. So we don't even know if they'll ever going to play together. I don't know what the Wizards are doing. I thought they were going to build through the draft. Are they going to now try to win? They've been trying to lose for three years. To give you some context, last night they played at home. They were down at the half, 7245 at home. So, you know, SAR may be a very good player, but the rest of the people you're talking about are indistinguishable from one or another. They're from 6-4 to 6-7.

You know, they have one good night and one bad night.

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