Jun 29, 2026 · 19 min · 10 segments
Dustin and Sage jump on an emergency episode of the Holy Backboard Podcast after the stunning news that the Portland Trail Blazers have acquired 26-year-old All-NBA guard Ja Morant. The duo breaks…
Dustin HawesHost
Dillon SageHost
Traded the Portland for basically, in no disrespect to Jeremy Grant and Chris Murray, the worst assets that we have.
It was reported that we would have had to attach first round picks to get off of Jeremy Grant's contract.
And it is something that I have brought up on this podcast where it's like, if Jaws value is this low...
I don't know about anybody else, but like when it's Christmas time and you're buying presents for other people, usually there's a lot of deals, right? And there's a deal for things that you like too.
So I'll buy some stuff and then I have to press pause and say, okay, my wallet needs a bit of a break, but I'll keep my eye on certain things.
And then maybe a month or two later, or maybe a day before Black Friday or something, the price just drops so drastically.
The price got so low that you just say, yes, we will figure everything else out.
only, like, Minnesota and New Orleans were the only two people, like, talking about a Ja Morant trade.
So the fact that we bought extremely low for a guy that has the potential to be a superstar, like, even last year, everybody's gonna say he was bad, and he...
With Denny, he doesn't have the best handle in the world, but you know what John Morant has, even on a bad year? High passing, high creation, high responsibility with the ball in his hands.
Traded the Portland for basically, in no disrespect to Jeremy Grant and Chris Murray, the worst assets that we have.
It was reported that we would have had to attach first round picks to get off of Jeremy Grant's contract.
And it is something that I have brought up on this podcast where it's like, if Jaws value is this low...
I don't know about anybody else, but like when it's Christmas time and you're buying presents for other people, usually there's a lot of deals, right? And there's a deal for things that you like too.
So I'll buy some stuff and then I have to press pause and say, okay, my wallet needs a bit of a break, but I'll keep my eye on certain things.
And then maybe a month or two later, or maybe a day before Black Friday or something, the price just drops so drastically.
The price got so low that you just say, yes, we will figure everything else out.
only, like, Minnesota and New Orleans were the only two people, like, talking about a Ja Morant trade.
So the fact that we bought extremely low for a guy that has the potential to be a superstar, like, even last year, everybody's gonna say he was bad, and he...
With Denny, he doesn't have the best handle in the world, but you know what John Morant has, even on a bad year? High passing, high creation, high responsibility with the ball in his hands.
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