Caleb Love

Wade, you got Anfernee Simons who's a bucket.

How Caleb Love get over there?

They just got him in the off-season.

Damn, too.

So my, my, my point here is that it's-

Caleb Love picked Philly guys

... it's very rare.

Right? Like it's rare.

So Ja will help there.

Number two, I think, you know, one thing that I remind myself when we're all worried about fit, it's like, this team had so many injuries last season that they were playing Caleb Love and Sid Sissoko.

People are going to get injured.

Heavy minutes.

Not even that they're injured, it's like, All due respect to Caleb Love and Sidney Sissoko, but is Ja Morant a better player than both of those guys? I would think yes.

So if the team is healthy this year, yes, the fit is strange, but you're still rolling out way more talented players for a team that still won 42 games last year.

So if health... is better um they they should just uh be putting out a better team every night

Matisse Thybulle has left and joined the Lakers.

Um, Caleb Love left and joined Philly.

Um, they then traded Kris Murray and Jerami Grant to Memphis.

Um, they brought in Bronson Colson as a free agent, Michael Potter as a free agent.

Um, I think you look at what they were able to accomplish with how many injuries they had.

Like, you talk about the log jam.

I w- I was like, "Oh, well, at least if everybody gets hurt, we'll still end up with some guards." 'Cause we had our, our guy Caleb Love getting starting minutes, right?

Mm-hmm.

I guess my question would be earlier for Phylon.

I think we brought this up after they signed to the two-way deal with Caleb Love.

And would he get more earlier minutes than Phylon? Maybe not more games overall because they would want to spread that out for the available games that he's able to play on the two-way.

So it's just more of a... who's where in the pecking order early based on him being in the league last year, Love, and Phylon just getting in there.

All right.

Caleb Love, rookie.

Jerami Fears.

No one, I imagine.

Let's go a little bit further.

While stealing somebody like a Caleb Love on a two-way who played real minutes last year in Portland, while being able to get a Ryan Ruppert, who may or may not be able to help, but had a 30-point triple-double last year in Memphis, getting him on a two-way, and then having a LeBaron Phylon-level prospect magically fall to him at 21 because the 2026 NBA draft is so deep in point guards.

So it's not the fact that, you know, oh, you know, Mike Gansey came in and, you know, he signed LeBron.

You know, it's a confluence of events that you just probably are never going to see replicated again.

games last year.

He's a good player.

A Dembona can play minutes, and Caleb Love can play minutes.

You know, these are guys that can play real minutes.