Last night, the team traded for Drew Holiday and Bogdan Bogdanovic sending off Eric Bledsoe, George Hill, Donte DiVincenzo plus three first rounders.

Yanis contract is up at the end of the season, Tony.

So do you think these moves these changes will do enough to prevent him from leaving?

So what they've done is they've said we made a mistake letting Malcolm Brogdon go.

We'll try and replicate him.

Withdrew.

Holiday will bring in Bogdanovich, who's a good shooter, 37% from three average, 15 points a game off the bench.

Take a little pressure off Chris Middleton.

And as you say, the moves are designed to keep onto the combo There.

I watch sports on television, I see people say, and I'm quoting them now.

Oh, yeah, Honest loves it in Milwaukee.

Oh, yeah.

Honest doesn't want to leave Milwaukee.

I have no idea how they have come to that conclusion.

Why would somebody not listen?

Toe offers?

Why would somebody not declare for free agency?

Just tell me why they wouldn't do that.

Well, Tony, this is your philosophy of life all the time that bigger and better places with bigger lights, brighter lights has always attracted to everyone.

You and LeBron James seemed to agree on that.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you I know Yanis so well that I can predict what he's gonna do.

But I'm getting to know Yanis have gotten a normal little bit.

Tony, he's looking if he can to stay in Milwaukee.

That is not the case for a bunch of people who are gonna be free agents.

Yannis is looking to do this because he also knows Tony, the city of Milwaukee is changing.

I'm not gonna say radically gradually, But around that arena who star attraction, is he honest?

So the question isn't what you're asking.

The question is, are they gonna put a good enough team around him?

And are these the changes necessary to make him say I can I can win right here.

I can challenge anybody.

I don't have to go out in the second round if we have these players and this is a start, Do you believe that I on a 1 to 10 scale, I'm about a 6.5 on that right now.

Okay, so So I will say this here is their jeopardy holidays.

A free agent at the end of this year, he could move.

He can say, I don't want to be here.

Anything you honest can move and say, I want to entertain offers.

And then they don't even have any first round picks for the next 400 years to do anything to float that boat.

Ah, Long, long time ago.

They ought to win a championship this year because a long, long time ago, Kareem Abdul Jabbar delivered a championship.

And then he said, Okay, I gave you what you wanted.

Let me out of here.

And that's what happened to Milwaukee.

And, of course, don't a post script as a postscript.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar Lew Alcindor was a New York kid who went to college in Los Angeles.

That's what honest on the Campo has a much much different life.

And so I'm going to say that I know what he's going to do, but I I'm going to say nobody knows at the moment nobody will stay with basketball, but we turn now to James Harden, who is going to be a staple on this show.

In upcoming days, Harden has reportedly turned down a two year extension from Houston that would pay him $103 million and I will pause a second so that number could sink in.

Now.

Hardness still obliged to Houston for the next two seasons, but this tells you he wants out.

WILBON What do you make of hardened turning down Hello, $103 million Tony.

There's a lot here.

There's a whole lot going on with Houston and some things that James Harden clearly doesn't like.

Some of it has to do with the team and what's going to be there.

Russell Westbrook has asked out Mike D'Antoni, Not there anymore.

Right?

And so Daryl Morey, not there anymore, who put together some teams that, at least they did contention when James Harden was there, he could go out and find the big star he wanted, whether it was Westbrook or Chris Paul.

Whomever.

There's also political stuff that I'm told in a lot of us.

We're told that James Harden isn't thrilled with.

I'm not gonna get too deep into that, but but that seems to be the case as well.

So if he feels you know what, I could still go somewhere.

I'm gonna make $80 million in so over two years subsequently.

So signing up, not signing up for 103.

It's not the loss that it may sound like in headlines, but for basketball purposes, riel, life, personal purposes.

It sounds like James James Harden is saying, I don't know if I need to be here.

Let me listen to some other things.

I don't know his politics at all.

I don't know him at all.

$103 million is generational wealth for the next 200 years.

For anybody with the name hardened, it's tremendous amount of money.

And I was It was a wow to me that he would do this.

He's never won anything, but I want to get to the rest of Houston for a sec.

Houston, at the moment is a Dumpster fire.

They got a new owner who came in a year or two ago and ran his yap about how he was smarter than everybody else.

And here's what's happened.

Mike D'Antoni is gone.

Daryl Morey is gone, and the only two players.

Anybody wants to watch now wants out off there.

Okay, so you're headed for Sacramento land in Houston.

No one's gonna pay any money.

Toe.

Watch your team.

It's a desert at some point.

So congratulations on the purchase, Mr Fertitta, because this thing has gone down the drain.

But Tony doesn't have to.

And by the way, $86 million.

Last I checked, if it was 86 or 88 or not, that's generational wealth to which is what he could pick up elsewhere.

So he's gonna have generational wealth.

But, Tony, let me say this.

If you made a trade and you got the pieces that really mattered to you from Brooklyn, a team that was in the playoffs, right?

Without be pre Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, they've been in the playoffs.

They've been competitive.

And you supplant those players.

Houston knows how far they're gonna go with James Harden.

Not all that far.

Not to a championship.

So don't tell me that if James Harden leaves Houston, it's all of a sudden Sacramento.

I'm not buying that for a second.

If proper trade is, you're wrong.

If the proper trade is made the How did Brooklyn get with those guys to the playoffs?

Explain that to me.

Brooklyn had a coach that they fired and they brought in two new guys.

And you don't know what's gonna happen in Brooklyn.

He doesn't have to end up in Brooklyn.

They own him for two years.

They could send him toe Lithuania to play with Lonzo balls.

Bad brother Leandro.

They could do whatever they want.

He has no leverage.

They have leverage.

Take bridge.

He has left.

Not as much as they do.

They got him for two years.

He's got a signed deal.

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