Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. evaluate notes on the place they imagine the greatest touchdown spot is likely to be for Demar. Check out the full dialog on “The Dunker Spot” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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While we’re right here, Steve, can we undergo another free brokers which are on the market?
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This will not be all of them.
This isn’t just like the list- Sure of all the greatest.
Just some intriguing free brokers which are nonetheless on the board.
And I wanna shout out teammate Dan Devine, who just lately wrote a bit highlighting a few of the most attention-grabbing free brokers left on the board.
And naturally it began with LeBron James.
We simply talked about LeBron James.
Hopefully he decides quickly.
We’ll see.
Dan cut up this up into ball handlers, wings, and bigs.
And so we’re gonna undergo that order, undergo a few of the names from his piece.
Steve, we begin the bidding with the, in the ball handlers group, we begin with DeMar DeRozan.
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What is the greatest match for DeMar DeRozan?
Or simply suits that intrigue you in relation to DeMar DeRozan?
I Anywhere, truthfully, at this level.
I believe the, the fantastic thing about getting DeMar DeRozan at this stage, you are not most likely, you are most likely not asking him to raise your group.
He’s gonna convey what DeMar DeRozan does to what you do, and that needs to be a lift for you in the half court docket.
So I imply, I might see him in Detroit.
I would really like that match so far as, “Hey, can you come just get some of that bucket-getting going- Mm-hmm in different stages when we need to get buckets?
And we’ll play defense around you, don’t worry about it.
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And we’ll have Cade, too, so don’t, don’t sweat it.
You’re good to go.”
So I would really like that match.
Mm-hmm.
DeMar in Toronto would intrigue me.
I believe that will be enjoyable.
I advised you already, I believe DeMar in Orlando can be enjoyable simply to look at the reactions to- That would do nothing to me all of the tweet that, that you’d get.
Yeah, I can see that.
Like, what do you say to, like, DeMar in Houston?
DeMar in Minnesota?
Like, does DeMar What place does DeMar not work?
Especially if it is a good group and we will get him at one thing that works for each of us.
Like, that is the place I’m intrigued to see the place does he need to go?
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How does that group worth him?
What’s that deal appear like?
Okay.
I believe for me, like, the Detroit one is funnier now since they find yourself making the deal.
I made the joke about Caris LeVert, like, how would he really feel if DeMar DeRozan got here.
He’s like, “Well, actually…” so Detroit can be attention-grabbing.
DeMar has been linked to Miami together with Russell Westbrook as the, “If LeBron doesn’t come here, Miami may circle back on those guys.”
And so, like, Miami would make some sense, particularly in, like, the non-LeBron context.
Let’s simply get an additional scorer/playmaker to up this stuff when Giannis is off the flooring.
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And I maintain coming again to Boston, Steve.
Why?
As, like, an interest- kinda assume when you simply need some, like, non-Tatum creation juice, particularly in mild of, like, Jaylen Brown’s not there, and you additionally simply need to safeguard in opposition to what number of video games is Paul George gonna be.
Like, once we talked about commerce, I like the Paul George slot in Boston.
But, like- Mm-hmm as you additionally introduced up, hey, Paul George hasn’t been the healthiest man.
DeMar has typically been fairly sturdy.
And so in the occasion that Paul George misses a while, okay, we now have one other man alongside Jayson Tatum that may create some offense for us.
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Or when everyone seems to be wholesome, you will have the Tatum, PG flooring/ceiling, and then off the bench, right here comes DeMar DeRozan to maintain issues afloat.
You have loads of three-point capturing round him.
Uh-huh.
You have rim runners for him.
And so, like, he can simply kinda be- Right that middle-of-the-floor counter to kinda add some issues.
And in order that’s the place I’m identical to, okay, this would possibly make some sense.
Hey, I’m telling you proper now, and I say this with kindness in my coronary heart, mild in my eyes, pores and skin glowing, rhythm flowing.
Okay.
If the Boston Celtics commerce Jaylen Brown and have Paul George and DeMar DeRozan on that roster, I do not need to ever, and I imply ever, hear the phrase possession maxing once more
