Assistant to the General Manager

Assistant to the General Manager dives into every possible angle of the megatrade for Gobert 00:00:10

-The acquisition cost

-What teams were bidding against the Wolves?

-The fit with KAT

-Their projected place in the West

-Was it a good trade for Minnesota?

-Was it a good trade for Utah?

Sam & Chandler also break down the Brooklyn KD (& Kyrie) situation 00:40:46

-What is going on?

-Do the Nets have to trade him?

-Where could he end up?

-Where will he end up?

General FA rumblings 01:31:39

-Philly’s moves

-Dallas future

-Lakers confusing roster

@ChanNBAThots & @SamJ015 are finally back with a megapod - they hit on the upcoming Conference Finals, future outlooks for all eight Round one eliminated playoff teams and the upcoming NBA lottery

Timestamps:

Conference Finals

Western Conference Finals (1:10)

Eastern Conference Finals (16:26)

Team Outlooks

Jazz (21:19)

Pelicans (38:08)

Nets (45:09)

Wolves (59:24)

Bulls (1:15:21)

Nuggets (1:22:08)

Hawks (1:26:25)

Raptors (1:38:18)

Wrap Up - Ascenders and Fallers (1:50:06)

Lottery Chatter (1:53:28)

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Sam and Chandler split up the extension eligible players coming off their rookie scale contracts and attempted to agree to an extension as player agent Buddy Scott plays hardball going after the big payday for his clients. 

Did anyone else get the full max extension like Luka or Trae? Who all ended up agreeing to deals? Who might be playing out their final season before restricted free agency without long term extensions? We cover it all in this episode

Some of the players discussed include

-DeAndre Ayton

-Michael Porter Jr

-Mikal Bridges

-Jaren Jackson Jr

-Miles Bridges

-Collin Sexton

Twitter

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YouTube - clips from some of our highlighted player negotiations will be posted at the below

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx8n4ObQh4mlCRHr3ZOdXBA

Year 2 of our Top 25 Trade Value Rankings is here! In a throwback to the old Bill Simmons column, Chandler and Sam present their top 25 players who have the most trade value today - taking into heavy consideration age, contract, years of control, talent, potential, on-court production and more. 

This time we had our guest Buddy Scott try to nitpick and poke holes in our list, while adding in his thoughts and preferences along the way as we navigated our rankings through the best trade assets in the entire NBA. The episode begins with a bang when Chandler and Sam disagree on their #1 most valuable trade asset in the league.

Twitter

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The Assistant to the GM flew out to Vegas for some early Summer League action.

-Vegas Sightings

-First Impressions

    Cade Cunningham

    Jalen Green

    Scottie Barnes

    Evan Mobley

-Standout Performances

-Random Observations

Continuation of Part 1 where Sam and Chandler are joined by GM's Aram and Justin as well as one very power agent Buddy as they tackle 2021 upcoming free agency. We took control of all 30 teams and played out free agency, negotiating dollars and years and ultimately handing out contracts to the NBA's biggest catches of the summer. 

Part Two includes

-DeMar DeRozan

-Devonte' Graham

-Kelly Oubre

-Will Barton

& more

@aramgh @JustinMatch26 @buddyscottnba

Sam and Chandler are joined by GM's Aram and Justin as well as one very power agent Buddy as they tackle 2021 upcoming free agency. We took control of all 30 teams and played out free agency, negotiating dollars and years and ultimately handing out contracts to the NBA's biggest catches of the summer.

-Ben Simmons trade talks

-Kawhi Leonard

-Chris Paul 

-Kyle Lowry

-Mike Conley

& more

@aramgh @JustinMatch26 @buddyscottnba

Sam & Chandler continue their deep dive into the Golden State Warriors 2021 offseason

-Fake Trades

-Free Agents

-Predictions

Sam & Chandler take a deep dive into the Golden State Warriors 2021 offseason

-Warriors cap sheet

-Insane luxury tax issues

-Team Needs

-Key Decisions

    Kelly Oubre free agency

    James Wiseman

    Draft picks

-Fake Trades

-Free Agents

-Predictions

Sam & Chandler take a deep dive into the Boston Celtics 2021 offseason

-Celtics cap sheet

-Front Office shakeup

-Direction for the future

-Key Decisions to be made this summer

-Trade targets

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@otgbasketball

Sam & Chandler take a deep dive into the Houston Rockets 2021 offseason

-Rockets cap sheet

-Lottery Night Odds and Implications

-Houston’s complicated future draft asset stash

-Outlook for ’21-22

-Free agents

-Trade Possibilities

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Chandler & Sam check in on their predictions a few games into round one and discuss in detail how they see the remainder of the playoffs going

All things Sacramento Offseason:

-Stay over the cap or use cap space

-Rebuild or not

-What to do with Harrison Barnes/Marvin Bagley

-How much should they be willing to pay Richaun Holmes

-Fake trades and free agency signings + much more

We start by discussing some of the deadline deals and how much we like them a month later.  After we each picked a team to deep dive where they should go in the future.  

Everyone has a "Would You Rather" scenario.  This discussion leads to some super interesting teambuilding and lottery talk.  

We predict the top 4 teams in each conference and play out the potential conference finals and finals.  We ended up with very different strategies in our decision making processes.  Let us know who did better on Twitter @tothegm. 

We go through some of our predictions and how we are feeling about them now plus survey where the league is at.  Part 2 to be released soon where we do a 2 year lookahead and try to predict how things will look in two years. 

We go over the Mock Trade Deadline exercise the guys are running with @otgbasketball.  Many big names were moved and Chandler pissed off an entire fanbase on Twitter.  You can see all of the trades that took place on the OTG Twitter as well. 

We go through all of the spicy trade topics.  Chandler tries to get everyone on the Sixers and Sam has a few wild blockbusters.  We also go through all of the teams we think should be buyers and sellers.  

Despite talks of Bradley Beal wanting to stay put in WSH, friend of the pod @buddyscottnba join Sam & Chandler to stand in as the GM of the Washington Wizards to hear all the best offers. Sam pitches trade offers for all of the East teams & Chandler takes the West.

Find out which team (if any?) wins the Beal sweepstakes.

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Started with Harden trade analysis and touched on every other trade rumor out there.  Tonssssss of fake trades and general talk about the season so far. 

Other players involved trade talks: Bradley Beal, Lonzo Ball, PJ Tucker, John Collins, Michael Porter Junior, and many more. 

We go through our preseason prediction and how we feel about them after 1 week of basketball.  The two ended up with the same Finals matchup and MVP candidates.  We also touch on team performances, all other awards, and some general trade talk. 

General talk on Sam's hometown Timberwolves then we go through our Offensive and Defensive rankings.  

We go through the extensions for the 2017 1st rounders, and some of the 2018 2nd rounders.  John Collins, Lauri Markkanen, and OG Anunoby made for the most interesting debates. 

Throwback to an old Bill Simmons column with this one.  We each made a list of our top 25 trade value rankings where we essentially ranked players as assets and based off the return they would net in a trade in a vacuum.  In order to do this we had to consider contracts/potential/age/talent/etc.  We both had the same player as the most valuable asset in the league but there were many differences along the way.  

Part 2 of the Mock Offseason!  We finish out the offseason by completing the majority of free agency.  This part sees guys like Jerami Grant, Christian Wood, Gallo, Davis Bertans and most other free agents sign!  

The long anticipated Assistant to the General Manager 2020 Mock Offseason!  In part 1 we cover:

-James Harden/Brad Beal/Russell Westbrook trade talk

-The big name UFA

-The first few RFA

Part 2 and Part 3 will follow shortly

We go through all of the biggest trade rumors and finish with a Mock Lottery.  

Quick deep dives of the three teams fast upcoming offseason.  Still discussed plenty of fun potential moves for each team.  Don't forget Mock Offseason coming out very soon!

We take a deep look at Rudy Gobert's situation in Utah, San Antonio's plethora of young guards, and Orlando's constant state of mediocracy.  Another pod full of fake trades. 

We analyze Giannis' situation with the Bucks and go through a ton of fake trades for the Bucks/Raptors. 

We discuss Philly's Simmons/Embiid Situation in depth, then get into about 100 fake trades.

The Houston Rockets have been eliminated and we take a look at what it would look like if they decided to "Blow it up".  Like always, lots of fake trades.  

We recap/preview all of the playoff series

We go through the most interesting things we've seen so far in the first two days of the playoffs.  We touch on almost every game. 

We go through every series in detail and add in our predictions. 

We talk general return of the NBA and who has impressed/who we are worried about.  Front Office segment at the end where we dive into some roster construction theory.  

Is the future bright in the Big Apple?  The two have differing opinions on New York's future.  Like always, plenty of draft/trade/free agency talk.

The guys go through all of Minnesota's potential offseason moves.  We talk theory behind their current roster set up (and if it can win), get specific with which draft guys we'd like there, and like always, lots of fake trades and free agency signings. 

We finish our Golden State offseason deep dive by talking more specifics when it comes to trades and free agency.  

We have a deep discussion about the Warriors methods to improve their championship roster.  This includes the Andre Iguodola traded-player exception, their 2020 1st rounder, and more.  Chandler and Sam also have their biggest disagreement of pod's young history.  We get about half-way through trade talks in part 1. 

We each picked out some very interesting trades from the tradeNBA website.  We found some real hilarious ones that involved LeBron going to Houston, Giannis to the Knicks, and much more.  Believe it or not there were actually some really good trades that we found and discussed as well.  

We discuss Cleveland's crowded guard rotation and what kind of trade value they might have in the Cleveland section.  In Detroit's section we go in depth about how they should weight winning now and the future.  As always, lots of fake trades and free agency talk.  

We spend a lot of time talking Zach Lavine and Lauri Markkanen, how good are they and how will they contribute to future success.  We explore some trades for the two, many other fake trades, and some free agency talk. 

The two built squad with $75 million and a few other restrictions and compare their rosters

Somehow we went almost two hours on the Hornets.... We went off on lots of tangents in this one, lots of theory talk, trade talk from other team's view, and much more.  

A look at Brooklyn's upcoming offseason.  We spend close to a full hour just on Brooklyn trade discussions, some of our most spicy trades yet. 

Deep dive of the Celtic's offseason.  We look into their cap situation, how to maximize their free agency options, potential trades, and much more.  

Finished up the deep dive of the Hawks offseason.  We honed in on some specific free agency targets and talked about the specific offers we'd be looking to make.  

Hawks offseason deep dive part 1.  Hosts Chandler and Sam have an in-depth conversation about the Hawks upcoming offseason.  We took a deep look into this years performance, how the books look going into in the offseason, and lots of potential trade talks.  Free agency and the rest of the offseaon talk coming in part two.