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Reports of the Suns trading Chris Paul and Landry Shamet to the Washington Wizards for Bradley Beal are breaking up Father’s Day dinners all over the NBA landscape.
Some fans are drooling over how the offense might look and how Beal has an opportunity for a career year since opposing teams will have to focus on stopping Devin Booker and Kevin Durant.
Others are wondering about the depth in Phoenix since Booker, Durant and Beal make about a bajillion dollars in combined annual salary.
And the perpetual Deandre Ayton trade speculation is taking on a life of its own.
All that’s legit.
But for me, it’s just about basketball, right now; and purely from a basketball perspective, I don’t get this one.
Book and Beal have very similar games.
I’m just not a huge fan of redundant talent on NBA rosters. I struggle to remember a time when a roster like this won a title.
It didn’t work when the Suns had three guards (Isaiah Thomas, Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe.)
It didn’t work when the Lakers had three ball-dominant playmakers (LeBron James, Rajon Rondo Russell Westbrook.)
It hasn’t worked with the Clippers duo of all-everything, two-way wings (Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.)
It didn’t work when the Hawks had a slew of scoring tweeners (Kyle Korver, Paul Millsap, Thabo Sefolosha, Kent Bazemore, Al Horford and Elton Brand.)
It didn’t work when the Knicks had a pair of scorers at power forward (Amar’e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony.) Or when they had a pair of dynamic combo guards (Steve Francis and Stephon Marbury.)
OK, sure, it worked when the Bulls had Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Ron Harper.
And it worked when the Pistons had Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and Vinnie Johnson.
But those are a couple of the greatest teams of all time … and those titles came a long, long time ago.
Maybe I’m wrong here.
But I’m not interested in the offense and how it will look with Booker at point guard all season.
I don’t care much about salary cap concerns at the moment.
And I’m not even thinking about trading Ayton.
Right now, I’m struggling with the reality that the Suns swapped an aging, expensive, injury-prone point guard, for a younger, more expensive, injury-prone combo guard.
I just don’t see how it’s going to work.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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