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00:03 And I'll start with this NBA trade.
00:04 Raptors get, or Raptors send, excuse me,
00:07 Pascal Siakam to Indiana.
00:09 Bruce Brown in three first round picks,
00:12 two in 24, one in 25, go back to Toronto.
00:16 So this has been a complete now,
00:18 kind of tear down, I guess you could say.
00:20 Maybe not tear down completely,
00:21 but the Raptors changing things up, making some moves.
00:24 You had a few weeks ago with OG going to the Knicks.
00:27 They get RJ Barrett and quickly going back that way.
00:31 Now they send Siakam out to Indiana.
00:33 Big move for the Pacers.
00:35 They have clearly taken a little bit of a jump here
00:37 this year in the East with Halliburton.
00:40 He's injured out now and out,
00:41 but adding Siakam to Halliburton
00:44 makes the Pacers a little bit more dangerous.
00:46 They are not on the level yet of the Celtics and the Bucs,
00:50 and even the Sixers, these other teams in the East.
00:52 Now they've had some wins against those teams this year,
00:55 especially the Bucs who they've gone back and forth with,
00:57 but we'll see if this can get them a little bit closer
01:01 to that level into the top four or five in the East.
01:04 I saw they went from 80 to one to 65 to one
01:08 to win the NBA championship.
01:10 Still very far out there as we know.
01:13 And the other key point about this is
01:16 they got to sign Siakam now.
01:19 That's a lot of capital that you gave up to get him.
01:22 Three first rounders is a very big haul.
01:26 You know, you're getting Brown going the other way.
01:27 Brown's funny.
01:28 He signed that two-year deal with them in the off season
01:30 coming from Denver, winning the championship,
01:33 and it was a straight money play for Brown.
01:35 You go back and listen to him from when he signed that deal.
01:37 It was like, "They offered me two years, 45 million.
01:40 Just tell him, 'Yes, take it. I'm on my way.'"
01:42 So I don't know if he necessarily cares,
01:45 whether he's in Indiana, in Toronto, Sacrad Tomato, Denver.
01:49 Bruce Brown got his bag
01:50 after winning his championship last year.
01:52 I could see the Raptors maybe flipping him too
01:57 as we get closer to this deadline
01:58 and see if something can deal there.
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