On today's show, the Dallas Mavericks took to the NBA draft and did exactly what you're supposed to do with the pick that they had.

Take Best Player available.

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Join me, as always, my co-host, the draft dude, the one we're thinking, what you got from me, Isaac Harris? Let's go! Let's go, baby, boy. Rez Johnson, welcome to Dallas. One of your guys. It is the one of my guys, yeah. We'll talk about the Morris Johnson pick. We'll talk about some of the drama from the NBA draft. We'll talk about who thebs will they regret passing on some players, a Brayden Burris, a Yaxa Lindenburg, or some other players like that. We will talk about the trade for Sergio De La Rea. We'll do that on a different episode. This is going to be all about Mores Johnson. So let's get into it, Isaac Harris. The Dallas Mavericks with a ninth pick, did not trade down, did not trade to go get somebody, did not even take a guard. And I think if you look at what the Dallas Mavericks did with this pick of Mores Johnson, you do what you're supposed to do with the ninth pick. There's a lot of talk about, well, they have to take a guard. Well, they have to do this because they need, they need this. No, they need talent. They need really good players. They need good basketball players here and build the culture of what Masayu Jiri, now Dusty May, obviously Mike Schmitz, and Cooper Flagg need for this team going into the next, going into the future of this team. And you can't look me in the eyes as a Dallas Mavericks fan and say, you know what, Like every position is safe on the Dallas Mavericks.

There are certain positions that are like, all right, we know for sure that we're going to get

this. And to get Mores Johnson, the defender that he is, the, you know, with the size, the motor, the ability, the culture setter he's going to be on defense. I think the Mavs went with best player available and I like the pick even though

I was a huge Braden Burys fan. We'll talk about that too.

I absolutely love tonight.

I mean, I think this is even in the words of Mike

Smith's just a little bit ago talked to us there in the press conference room home run I mean

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