Postgame Show: The Trade That Just Keeps Getting Worse

There's a new ESPN story making the rounds and this is interesting because it is a story

critical of Jalen Hertz and a tweet from Jeremy Fowler reports that Jalen Hertz stands

at a crossroads despite his immense success sources say he has a hand in the Eagles offense

becoming calcified and frustrations have grown. I'd assume that everything the Eagles

were saying recently about AJ Brown that AJ Brown remains an eagle is just because of

the calendar year in the NFL and the benefits of getting rid of AJ Brown after June 1st.

But this suggests at least in part that they may side with the idea that AJ Brown's

not the problem that Jalen Hertz is more of the problem. Unfortunately, I can't get to

this story in real time as the news breaks because an hour after it was funny, the video

team now has found Mike Ryan doing the pantomime of trying to take a gummy rectally and they

have now finally found the technology to reverse the video and now indeed we do have a video

that makes it look like Mike Ryan is wiping his butt and then smelling it. So thank you

to the video team for a full 90 minutes after this was funny. The video team finally did

betray Mike. Mike, how do you feel about what's happened here? It is embarrassing for you

to be portrayed this way. The internet is forever.

Yeah. You're just going to get a worse name from here on out. I don't know why I try

to help. You're the one that said the stupid thing.

I was just saying the stupid thing. Yeah, that was stupid, which is fun entertaining.

Right. You got in there very first words all day. You got, you got, you thought the best

thing to say to me to punctuate today's happenings. You thought was to look at me right in

the face and just say, yeah, that was stupid. Yeah, but I'm the punchline. Sorry. Smell

in your hand. Laughing at the meeting poop. I mean, I've been trying for the last hour

to get to you on Mark Cuban saying now because you don't get, you don't get in basketball

the story of GM's incompetent. What a fool. Trade gets made. Everyone shocked. Luke is

now the MVP is in his prime. He's doing all the things for the Lakers. He should have

been doing for the Mavericks and what you traded for without checking around the league

was Anthony Davis who didn't play for you so much that he has fewer points as a maverick

than Luca has this month as a Laker. Generally things don't play out that neatly. So Mark

Cuban, who none of us would dispute care deeply about the Mav's franchise sold it for the

biggest bag of money to a group of people he now regrets selling it to because it makes

him look best to distance himself from everything that happened there when he caused it.

I love how he does this thing. It's almost like he's doing his own version of public

trade finds out where he just lives this little brick, brick comes, right? So the last thing

he said was, I don't get selling I regret who I sold to. I made a lot of mistakes in

the process and I'll leave it at that. I'm like, no, you can't just leave it at that.

This is a little awkward because he's still like got a substantial stake in the map. 27%

correct. Yeah, he's just trying to distance himself from that tree. How can you distance

your partners with that? These are your business partners.

My favorite part is that Jason Kidd was asked about it. When can we move on? The poor

Jason Kidd, he's just like, I don't want to talk about this anymore. He's like, I respect

Mark. He's done a lot for my family. But like, I don't want to talk about this anymore.

I just want to move on. Well, when can we move on? I mean, when it happened, you said

this is a crater trade. This is a, they're only handful of these in the history of professional

basketball where it's something your franchise never gets up from because you betrayed

the, you've betrayed a misunderstanding of what the customer's emotional relationship is

with a superstar in his prime. When can we get over this? When Luke is not scoring 600 points

in a month for another team? Yeah, but Cooper Flag looks great, right? So it's like the,

the push and pull of, all right, we lost Luke, but when now we have Cooper Flag and things

are okay, better. They're decent. They're, they're, they're all right. Are the maps okay?

Cause they got Cooper Flag like, are they? Man, where they'd be without that 1% that they got.

But you can't blame Jason Kidd for saying, let's move on, right? Oh, but I'm saying we want

move on because you don't get crater trades where you trade a superstar in his prime for a player

who now plays for the wizards. Like that's. Well, plays is using very general term. Fair,

fair enough. And, and wizards is also using a wrong term. Like the whole sentence is flawed,

but Anthony Davis, look, man, I mean, if you're a maps fan and you get up in the morning,

cause you didn't watch the West Coast games and you see what Luca did this month. You're not like,

when is this over? Cooper Flag's not that. Cooper Flag will never be that. And I mean,

that is no indictment of Cooper Flag. Then they're going to have a lottery pick in this lottery

that they could add someone amazing to Cooper Flag and the thing that they're creating and

building in Dallas, which by the way, I told you guys months ago, if you're the Mavericks,

you have to tank this season. This is the one season because they don't own their picks,

moving forward. This is the one draft that they have it and it happens to be an amazing draft.

And guess what the Mavericks said? They said, you know what that I mean? No, hasn't got. He's on

a something. Greg, what does Mark Cuban have to do or what is he doing to change the punctuation

on whatever his relationship is with Mav's fans who blame him for this? Because you guys can

offer all that perspective you like, but it just doesn't account for the amount of hurt in a

customer base when you betray them with this betrayal, which is never a betrayal that a customer

base gets hit with. I don't know if this is trading Babe Ruth or Miguel Cabrera or whatever it is,

you would compare it to in the history of sports. But there are very few comps for what you did to

this fan base. And Mark Cuban is clearly trying to distance himself from something while literally

owning 27% of the blame. But that's not the majority. If he didn't, if he wasn't for this trade,

in favor of this trade, then why are you blaming him for it? Or are you suggesting that he was

privately in favor of this? Once you sell the team to people who don't care about basketball,

it risks this result. Like the Mav fans would like to blame everybody. Mark Cuban is saying what

you're saying, no blame goes to me. I'm asking a mean in the rest of you. Does 27% of the blame

go to him forever? Well, no, because he was left out of the decision making. Like that's what he's

always been saying is like, hey, they never consulted me on this. If they had, I would have talked

them out of it.