cj mccollum has been traded from portland to new orleans and if you haven't been paying attention to the rumors of that for the last 24 hours you might be saying new orleans but yeah the pelicans here's a dirty little secret that no one is paying any attention to and i will confess if i wasn't hosting the nba show right now i might not be noticing either the pelicans are good the pelicans started this season one in 12.
A lot of that time they were playing without brandon ingram since he came back there are 500 team playing without zion and brandon ingramis a legit star like .
He is a legit opera echelon excellent nba player and now they bring in mccollum that's an interesting team should zion ever come back and i think there are real questions about what is going to happen with that and with him and what a terrible shame that would be.
If he's really never able to do practically anything but if he is which again i don't know that it feels like the likelier of the two scenarios but if he is with him and ingram and now cj mccollum some of the other good young players who they trade they traded josh hart i saw in this deal and who else .
When in this deal it's a it's a smorgasbord a lot of people yeah but but but so one way or another i'm telling you that's a team to watch and obviously this also and we talked about this on countdown wojnai a couple of weeks ago.
When the trailblazers hired their new general manager um that it was only a matter of time before they started thinking about just tearing everything down and starting over so mccollum gets traded now.
The question is what winds up happening with dame lillard that's the real question that's what philadelphia wants to know because if this james harden thing does not work out littler has been number .
One on our list for the last year you wonder if they're going to start this teardown if that might be the next shoe to drive here's what i can tell you weeks ago more than that now it's probably months ago stephen a smith told me and again .
This may not apply i want to preface this by saying this was something he said on the air this isn't um i'm not telling you anything that wasn't available on the air it just the circumstances may have changed over the two months or whatever it was since he said this he said that if lillard was going to get traded out of portland.
He wanted to go to the knicks that's where he wanted to go and that the people in his inner circle were trying to talk him into wanting to go to philadelphia they were trying to tell him philly is the place.
You want to go that gives you your best chance he wants for wanted for whatever reason to go to the knicks now this was at a time when i think the narrative on the knicks was they're a pretty good young team with some good pieces and a good coach sort of the last year narrative on the knicks not the disastrous this year narrative on the knicks so we'll see how that winds up going one way or another mccollum traded to new orleans it's interesting and and it just happened here .
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