Dereck Lively II

Probably not, would be my guess.

Derek Lively, we'll see with the injuries.

Grady Dick, don't know.

Maybe not.

He's, like, one of the 10 best rookies in the NBA, which is possible, but I'm saying, like, it's a guarantee that that would have to happen.

Like, Derek Lively – 50 games played, 45 games played, at least something like that.

You need a lot to happen.

Playoff level lively.

He can defend one through four, whether it's at the point of attack, whether he's defending the best position.

perimeter player whether he's defending your best big forward he is capable of handling it all one through four and i'm even willing to bet that there are some center matchups where i would be personally comfortable like a center that shoots a lot of threes i would be comfortable with him doing that or a non-factor like i mean if they're playing dallas and i don't want to dismiss Derek Lively or anything, but I would feel comfortable with a Sar Thompson playing the five if you could play Cade and three other shooters out there.

I would feel comfortable enough.

I mean, obviously not a whole quarter or a whole game, but give me a few minutes of that.

All right, let's move on.

Derek Lively, extension, no.

No, can't give him one.

Man, he was looking like a max guy.

career games.

Jet Howard, who is, I mean, he's on his way out.

Jet Howard has played more games than Derek Lively.

He has not started a single game in the NBA and has not averaged over 12 minutes a game.

Yep.

Derek Lively, again, we don't know.

We haven't heard many updates in terms of his health, but High draft pick in years gone by.

It would be lovely to see him, even just from an NBA fan perspective, to see him back on the court sooner rather than later.

Yeah.

When you look at this team in Jalen Brown's absence, is there enough offensive infrastructure to unlock some of the all-defensive ability of someone like Jason Tatum? I think there was a discussion a couple weeks ago about what he was able to do in that 2024 finals, switching on the Luka, guarding Derek Lively, breaking up lobs.

And there's, I mean, throughout his career, there's been multiple stints, stretches of games where he's been an all-defensive level player, first team all-defensive level.

Do you think there's enough to support him offensively so that he can continue to play that level of defense?

And having those guys who can provide that interior gravity is a big part of that.

The next thing I'm curious about, you talked about the defense with the bigs.

But is there you also you recently put out a tweet about how Tatum's defense, particularly in the finals, has always kind of went overlooked his ability to be so versatile to switch on the Luca, but also have the ability to disrupt the vertical spacing of Derek of Derek Lively and Daniel Gafford.

He was the skeleton key that really shut down a Mavs offense that was steamrolling the West.

So now it begs the question from now this point on, the number two pick in the NBA draft, the number three pick of the NBA draft, which is Brandon Miller and Scoot Henderson, has yet to get any contract extension, hasn't yet.

You also got to consider Derek Lively as well, Kaysen Wallace, Anthony Black, and Jaime Jacquez Jr., From this and then also Brandon Pods or Brandon Prominsky from the Golden State Warriors.

They are still awaiting their contracts as of right now.

And it's still waiting something to basically put through.