Ja Morant Traded! + Jalen Duren To Lakers?!?

Things are happening, and, uh, yeah, Ja Morant.

I was getting a lot of Shams updates on my drive yesterday.

This w- this was a big one.

This is a big piece falling.

Ja Morant to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jerami Grant and Kris Murray.

Um, we were starting-

Hmm

... to give up, starting to wonder if this was ever gonna happen, if he was ever gonna get any movement, and here we go.

Up to the Pacific Northwest he's headed.

Chandler, what do you make of it? Do you like the fit?

I do.

I mean, listen, it's a lot of guards.

It's, it's, it's a lot of guys that need the ball in their hands usually to succeed, and there, and there's only one basketball obviously on that team.

But I like the aggressiveness p- uh, you know, from Portland.

I know they wanted to get off Jerami Grant.

Um, and at least Memphis got back players that can play right now, starting level players, with Kris Murray and with Jerami Grant.

But I do, I like Ja Morant.

We still don't know what version of Damian Lillard we're gonna get.

I'd like to imagine he's gonna play more off guard.

I don't think he's gonna handle the ball, you know, and the usage rate is gonna be too high for 35 minutes, you know, coming off what he's coming off at his age.

But Ja Morant is extremely talented.

All the stuff he's been dragged through, all the distractions, he's got a great opportunity just to make that an, an old memory and go out there and hoop.

Because people might forget how good this dude is when he is on the floor, and he is healthy, and he is rolling.

So I like the move.

Portland might have, might not be done just because of all the depth they have, and they still have a lot of pieces, like Scoot Henderson, like Jrue Holiday.