Danny and Dusty
Utah pays Lauri Markkanen
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Follow and listen to reception perception on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Lori Markinin and the Utah Jazz have made it official. A new deal for Lori Markinin. It's technically a five year, 238 million dollar renegotiation and extension gives him $24 million more this year. And then a four year, $196 million extension. He'll go from making $18 million to $42.2 million this year. That's that's the key there with signing that extension is that he did not do that. He would have left an additional $24 million in the table. Yikes. So Lori Markin accomplishes a couple things here. First of all, he gets paid and the jazz who needed to get to the salary floor accomplished that goal. On top of that, Lori Markinin, because he signed the contract today, as opposed to yesterday, limits his ability to be traded until the summer. So he effectively gave himself a one year no trade clause. This is kind of the same thing that you get when you sign as restricted free agent. You have kind of like a right of first refusal in your first year. You cannot be traded without consent. And you cannot be traded to the team that offers you if you're a restricted free agent. Now that isn't the case with Lori. He just basically because of the timeline, had he signed August 6th, that would have gone to February 10th, ninth. I can remember the day of the actual trade deadline, which is exactly six months. So it would have meant he was trade eligible for a span of hours, but again, would be trade eligible on the trade deadline. Signing in the seventh, that day gets pushed out. He is no longer trade eligible. Done compute. There's no more. Well, the Warriors could know it's done. You are if you're a team who is looking to make a move before the season. Now you're talking, then you're looking at forwards, you're looking at two teams. You're looking at the Portland Trailblazers and Jeremy Grant, or you're looking at the Washington Wizards and Kyle Coos. There is also some news on Jeremy Grant as well as Yahoo Sports, Jake Fisher. He had his little briefing yesterday or late last night where he said that Jeremy Grant would prefer to stay in Portland. Here's an excerpt from what Fisher wrote. Few players want to face the general uncertainty of moving mid-season, especially those who've enjoyed newfound stability for the first time in their careers. That has been the same a word about Portland forward. Jeremy Grant, sources said, despite rival team's interest in the veteran trailblazer, he wants to be a blazer. You touched on this yesterday with Lori Markin and Jeremy Grant, where neither one of them wanted to be moved because their family situation. This is not a guess from Jeremy. I talked to him directly about this. He has told me repeatedly, repeatedly when I've asked him about this stuff over the last couple months. I've just had a kid. I like it here. I'm comfortable here. There's nothing here that's like, I want to leave. I can't share other things. Jeremy's very bluntly honest about things when you've got a good relationship with him. I trust him. He's flat out told me he's not in a hurry to go anywhere. He's got another kid on the way. Now, if a deal came up where it made sense for both sides, I think Jeremy would be amenable to it, if it made sense for both sides. And if it's to a place where he's not being sent to side beer, then that's what I mean. Because he's already there. Sending him to LA makes sense. It's number one. It's Portland, LA. You're not uprooting your family and going across the country. It's a very easy change for an NBA player to make. It's a trip that you make as an NBA player pretty frequently. Guys go to LA. That's where they spend most their summers. LA, Miami, that's kind of where in New York, those are the three cities. Everybody spends their summers at it. So it's not a big change. Going back to Oklahoma City, that's a big change. Going to the East Coast, that's a big change. So that stuff, and I don't think the blazers would do that unless the deal was so overwhelming. But even beyond that, the blazers have shown in the past, they're not just going to screw guys over. And despite what every Miami Heat fan wants to tell you, they did not screw gaming a little bit over by sending him to Milwaukee to play with the one player on the planet he wanted to play with more than anyone. So calm down. They see Jay McCollum got a list, right? Norm Powell and Robert Covington got sent to the Clippers where Norm Powell wanted to go to LA. Yeah, he wanted to go home. Like everybody they basically worked with, they have gotten them to a place. Well, Acabrogdon, wizards, but again, closer to home for him. And not a guy that Portland needed to do that for, because he didn't, I mean, when you produce and provide something of value to the organization, that's when you send a guy and say, we appreciate your value. Go on, and Acabrogdon was here for a cup of coffee. And they did do it for Drew, though. Yeah, Drew gave him a list. And I reported that when that deal, when that deal went down, that Drew Holiday had a list like the Utah Jazz pushed infinitely hard. They wanted your holiday unequivocally. And when they didn't get him, they, they cashed out on last year, last year was supposed to be a year that they were going to try and win. And then all of a sudden, they went, what they wanted to do was get Drew, have Lowry under control and have the salary space and a bunch of young prospects and a bunch of picks. So if things went sideways and Dallas, they can make a move for Luca. Yeah. That's, that's what they were going for. Like, how do we get the guys around Luca? Drew Holiday, who doesn't need the ball? Laura McConan, who doesn't need the ball, can both play off ball ones, a plus defender, one has plus size and shooting. It's like, so it was very easy to see kind of what they were doing, right? They've now pivoted, but they've got Lowry locked up long term now. And it was like, Oh, Lowry's making all his money. He's a 26 year old all star seven footer, who's a damn near 5049 shooter, who doesn't, who doesn't dominate the ball. Really damn good. He's so good. I don't, I can't, he's fulfilled his finish R is finish Air Force responsibilities. Yeah. The thing about Lowry, and this is the, that makes him so unique, there's not a team in the NBA, he couldn't play on and be effective. There are so few players in the NBA who are at his skill level, where you're like, Oh, you need to make concessions and they need to do it. Lowry plays off the ball, maybe better. Everybody talks about Steph. I think Lowry plays off the ball even better than Steph does because of his size. He can, he can do more, so to speak, off the ball as a cutter and as a finisher. Yeah, finisher. Oh, great nickname, by the way. But I think this is a win. Whenever there's a bunch of people out there like, what are the jazz doing? They're doing the same thing the players can do. You can have good players and suck at the same time. Calm down exactly what the jazz are doing. If you do, if you think all the jazz might go for it, no, there's one place on this planet that a Cooper flag jersey would go more platinum than Portland as Utah. It would, it would flag jerseys in Utah. That's the great white hope right there. My God, that, that jersey, you could put the, the total number of stock in Malone jerseys on this planet and it would pale in comparison to what a flag jersey would do there right now. All right. Well, Lori marketing now officially extended in Utah, which opens it up. As you said, there's now two guys that are prime targets, one Washington one right here in Portland on the forward trade market. And that is Jeremy Grant, who wants to stay in Portland. All right. An unknown. Oh, wait. Who was the guy from Washington? You said again? Kyle Coosma Kyle Coosma now is Coosma really that valuable though. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Six foot eight, two way forward. Who's got some playmaker versatility, some scoring ability to create off the bounce. Yeah. All right. Coosma despite being Coosma is still a good basketball player. All right. Trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with North sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. Nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable and well balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good. Hey, fantasy football owners. I'm Matt Harmon. And what's cracking on James code? Join us on reception perception as we dive deep into wide receivers, the position that will make or break your fantasy team. 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