Who Is JuJu's Joker Of The Day? | Postgame Show

The Dan Le Batard Show

The episode explores NBA cap violations, hypothetical solutions involving draft picks and team trades, and critiques the league's investigative process. It also covers personal takes on athletes, fan culture, and fun pol

Key takeaways

• NBA may avoid backlash by trading Kauai to Raptors

Transcript preview

We'll update some polls here with Juju in a second, but just Amin and Pablo, since we have the Pulitzer winners here, and just hypothetically, okay? Because I've been watching this Kauai situation and the reporting that you guys are doing, and I'm like, how is the NBA going to wiggle out of this? Just hypothetically? If you were to try to arrange things between all parties, so that you can get no... loud objection from any NBA people in this scenario. Wouldn't Toronto be the angriest group here because of how they lost Kauai and if they get Kauai now in the exchange years later, isn't this one of the creative ways that you could arrange it if you were trying to do that hypothetically? It's about the most convenient outcome is how this all is smelling like right now. of what does the NBA fear as a result of their decision on the clippers? They would fear the foremost example of a team that got wronged, the raptors. They would fear a, perhaps a podcast that would say how could you do nothing and they would ostensibly worry about the fans who would make noises. And if you can thread a needle by getting Kauai to the raptors, a fifth overall pick in a stack draft, a to the clippers. And if you could do something, something, so that a certain podcast can't say you did nothing, then suddenly you have read the board as strategically as you possibly could. The difficult part that they have to tread, we're all talking with the air of certainty that we know that the clippers did something untoward. But there is a realm where everything they do can be explained away in a way that, hey, letter of the law, we didn't. actually do anything wrong and so within that small window the NBA can make the leap according to article 13 that hey if this ended up in this way you're guilty anyway they can make the leap of saying we can't prove that they circumvented the cap intentionally even though that was the outcome and as a result we can levy this punishment which would be commissurate with what happened with the Timberwolves years ago a bunch of draft picks, suspension of he individuals. But the biggest gift that they could give is to take Quai away and give him to another team and that's what seems to be happening. That's why Pablo's Larry Tanamombe theory is very interesting because if there were someone who were going to be kept abreast of the situation, it would be the chairman of the Board of