Ja Morant

He's interesting at this...

Actually, Ja Morant probably would've been the better choice, but I already had so many point guards.

So lesson for the next time we do one of these, you can save one of those picks for Ja, where earlier on, you know, third, fourth round I could go big man who steals kinda thing.

Uh, oh, it's back to my turn again.

Hey, the aforementioned Paul George is on it.

Ja Morant is on it.

Uh, Christian Bro- uh, Brown is on it, and Joel Hans Embiid is on the overpaid team as well.

50... just under $58 million, and on the, uh, salary cap percentage, 35.15%.

Like, Patrick Williams was a top four pick.

For those that do wanna know all overpaid team, Ja Morant at the one, Christian Brown at the two, Paul George at the three, Patrick Williams at the four, and Joel Embiid at the five [laughs] Bro, the, the-

Is Ja, is Ja Morant overpaid or injured?

He's, he, I mean, I think that's part of why.

Now, he wasn't good when he was on the court either, though.

This the tough part.

I, I, now we on a whole different conversation.

Does that make you mad if you was never good at it, though? Ja Morant's never been able to shoot the three.

Why? If Damian Lillard stays healthy.

Ja Morant stays healthy.

And oh yeah, we forgot about Denny Avila last year.

He may have got eaten up by the Spurs in the playoffs.

I'm going to put a pause on my...

Northwest Portland Latte Tour with Ja Morant.

Two reasons.

First reason, Ja's not getting back to me.

Th- I think people will be conflicted.

Like, my kids want Ja Morant to be awesome.

I walked in, uh, uh, Lou's room yesterday.

I don't think people are gonna be conflicted.

Yeah.

I mean, he's, he's the, he is the Trail Blazers now.

He's working with Ja Morant and Damian Lillard.

Yeah, I mean, I spent so much time trying to, you know, rep him.

Sure

... you know, kind of the talent level of what they had around them, the Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr.-

Right

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If you wanna go through the history of the Grizzlies, like, this is the type of guy that the Grizzlies have coveted, you know, for many years, right? You remember the reason I always talk about, the reason it was the core four and not the fantastic five or something like that is because there was that hole right there, that wing guy who could be the three and D, maybe put the ball on the floor a little bit, but also could guard on the other end.

And Cedric Coward has kind of, you know, started to become one of they guy because that was kind of the thing with the last case.

We had Ja Morant, Desmond Bane, uh, Jaren Jackson Jr. a- and whatnot.

It was the hole on the wing.

Now, expectations for new combos in D.C. and in Portland.

Trey Young, Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Ja Morant.

I like Trae Young and AD, but I ain't gonna lie.

I'm kind of scared of Damian Lillard