Maxi Kleber

Man, it's just...

Maxi Kleber.

That's pretty crazy.

Jeremy Sohan.

You sort of never doubt their process.

The comp for Luka Samanic was Maxi Kleber or Thon Maker.

The grades on him... were a C+, Yahoo gave him a B, and the consensus commentary was that of, yeah, it's the Spurs.

They're going to pick somebody who's a second-round pick on everyone else's draft board from Europe.

So they got Anthony Davis, gave him six years, injuries, memes, 24.8 points, 11 rebounds, 2.2 blocks, three-time All-Star, two All-NBA teams, two All-Defensive teams.

But in February 2025, they shocked the world and somehow traded him, along with Max Christie, a 2029 first-round pick to Dallas.

And in turn got Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, and Markeith Morris.

Markeith Morris gave him eight games, 15 minutes a game, five and a half points, 2.1 rebounds.

He's a stopgap for sure, which is why I don't wanna give up a second round pick.

But Dalton Knecht or Jericho Sims, I'm not gonna say no to a deal like that because the RAPM chart says that Jericho Sims is worse than Maxi Kleber and Kevon Looney.

And I'll pretty much leave it at that.

I think you've heard ad nauseam sort of my frustration with how I see, like, particular s- factions of this fan base evaluating specific players with complete disregard to the actual tape, what...

Yeah, I think he's gonna, I think he's gonna start

... well Max Kleber's hurt.

That's no fun.

Yeah.

Just happy to see him on the free agent list.

Maxi Kleber, I think he's an interesting name, a big that can stretch the floor with his shot, play solid defense, block some shots.

Uh, he's not what he once was when he was more of a high-level bench guy and a seriously valuable asset in the NBA, but I still think he can be a solid contributor.

34 now, obviously on the back end of his career, but a name that I think could end up on a NBA roster sooner than lady, later.

So I think that's where his real value is gonna come, although he's still gonna be option, like, three or four, right? Uh, and then the bigs here, Jayron Sharp 27%, then there's a drop to Sar, B-Ball Paul.

Look at this, look at this fucking graveyard here of Jusuf Nurkic and Maxi Kleber.

Uh, then there's some Goon Squad, some Zubac, some ED, iHeartRadio, Santi, Mail watch, Triple J.

The Mail watch exposure's going down just because his price has gone way up.

Like, I hope that never actually comes to fruition, because I don't want to walk into a store and be able to buy the like piece that I need for my collection.

Like, it, it kind of, as, as horrible as the last six years have been searching for the 2020 Prizm Maxi Kleber neon green fast break out of five, where it's like the bane of my collecting existence, if I could just have snapped my fingers or just like paid for the entire rainbow the day the product came out, like, what are we doing? Like, it just...

Yeah.

Give me the friction.

No, we still wanna look at you suffer, but we do not, you are not allowed to weigh in on this.

All right, so here comes the question.

"Chris and Josh, please cook on the topic of collecting cards in categories that aren't gassed to the nines." See, Christina specializes in categories like that, like Maxi Kleber, so.

"I've observed your shape-shifting over the years.

I think there's arguments for both players, just, like, the, the spacing.

If you think about the, the five-out spacing for Luka, we've seen that work with Maxi Kleber at the five, or when they would go smaller with, with DFS at the five.

That's worked previously in, in Luka's career.

At the same time, Austin is not the passer that Luka is.