Isaiah Stevens

He's got a little bit of FU to him, which I like as well.

You know, even like when Zay and, and some of those guys, Neek, were in the building this summer, like, Menard's sitting there [chuckles] kinda, you know, going back and forth with them, and it was something that, uh, uh, Isaiah actually loved to see, and he talked about that in our little interview with him.

But I, I think that you've got size and experience that you can bring off the bench, especially assuming that Bemba kinda stays in that sixth man role.

Uh, I think you bring, you know, Amondo, uh, Miller off the bench as well.

You know, you could really go big if you wanted to and put Bemba, Booth, and Jorgensen on the floor with, you know, like, Jace and maybe Pascarelli or, or Menard in, in that scenario.

I, I think you've got opportunities to go three or four guards, you know, if, if you wanna go small and, and run on a team a little bit.

There's, there's going to be some challenges in keeping everybody happy and bought in, which was kinda the same case, uh, with that 24 team with Isaiah Stevens and Neek Clifford.

You, you were just so deep, uh, that, you know, there are a couple guys who could probably, like a Rashawn Bemba, start at a lot of schools across the country, and he's probably gonna be a six-man, you know, playing 20 to 25 minutes a night.

Now, I was already slightly familiar with Lester Quinones because I read a couple of days ago that the Sioux Falls Skyforce technically traded for his rights, and honestly, I didn't like the move.

But it's because the Skyforce traded the returning rights to Isaiah Stevens.

I'm sorry, Summer League champion Isaiah Stevens.

Let me put some respect on his name.

But that was my guy.

If y'all remember that magical 2024 Miami Heat Summer League team, it was just such a great run.

And of course, that was led by the point god, Isaiah Stevens, although he technically ended up playing for the Stockton Kings last year in the G League.

But the Heat still held his G League rights until now because they just traded them for Lester Quinones.

He was adamant.

And then he told me, why would a team take Rob Dillingham over Wade Taylor and Isaiah Stevens?

And I retweeted

it today.

Daquan Jeffries, who was signed to a very late 10-day contract, who played at the G League last year, he is gone as well.

The same goes for Patrick Baldwin and Isaiah Stevens, who both finished the year on two-way contracts for the Kings.

They are gone.

So if we go back to the start of the 2025-26 season, gone are Dennis Schroeder, Russell Westbrook, DeMar DeRozan, Doug McDermott, Isaac Jones.

Alex Caraban is another young player that I could be watching closely, maybe early in the season, on the back half, because if Alex can stretch the floor, defend, and play within himself, he could force his way into the rotation.

Emmanuel Sharp, Jonathan Mogbo, Daquan Plowden, Adam Flagler, Isaiah Stevens are also going to be competing for opportunities if this team is out of it in the second half of the season.

And that's exactly...

One of the things I like about this roster, because there are legitimate questions, but there are also real opportunities for guys on this team to prove that they can play.