Anthony Slater

But that person doesn't exist.

It's Anthony Slater by default because he's here.

Yeah, occasionally it's Jason Jones.

It's whoever lives here.

He breaks news.

He tells the story about what's going on behind the scenes.

Anthony Slater tells stories.

He did that with the Sacramento Kings a few months ago, but he did it because he was at a dead time and there was nothing to write about the Golden State Warriors.

So if it's five for 150 versus four for 150, it's a little different, but is it still worth the risk? And are you confident enough to believe that at least one of the 10, 11 teams with cap space next year are going to still be interested in you next season? By all accounts, the reporting on this has been pretty heavy as of late.

I think spearheaded by Anthony Slater and something he said on the Hoop Collective podcast is the Sacramento Kings, Scott Perry specifically, would love to add Jalen Duren to the Darius Acuff-led version of the Sacramento Kings.

And is Jalen, I'll ask you, as Kings fans, is Jalen Duren, is he one of those build-with guys? Is he one of those build-around guys? How many build-around guys do you have? Darius is a build-around guy, right? Now you have, what, a 22-year-old entering his 1, 2, 3, 5th season? You pair them up.

Is that your build around core? Is Jalen going to wind up being a lot better than Demantis Sabonis? Are the offset in years worth enough to where like, yeah, it's like an eight year difference.

The only things that have come from the respective camps are stances on the contract.

Oh, believe we're close to a deal, like they're not too far apart.

Anthony Slater, Sam Amick said the same exact thing.

Two different reporters, two different outlets said the same exact thing, almost word for word.

They do have it down.

Yeah, I was even the other one where on the podcast, I literally said, I am going to read a quote from Anthony Slater from the Hoop Collective.

And then I read his quote.

Then they block quote me and put it out there.

And I'm like, those are Anthony Slater's words.

I am not plagiarizing Slater.

He said those words, not me.

This isn't accurate.

The rest is weird.

Anthony Slater put out a piece on Jimmy Butler saying January, February still looks possible for him.

Yeah.

But it's not

We've been talking about the Jalen Duren stuff for the past couple of weeks now because the fallout from the L.A. Clippers scandal, I think, plays a factor in Jalen Duren's potential free agency options next summer.

Anthony Slater went on ESPN and said that the Kings have Jalen Duren's name.

Scott Perry has Jalen Duren's name highlighted.

And while the Kings cannot make any promises.