The Deep 3 Podcast - Should These NBA Players Be Kept or Traded? | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: June 2, 2026

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I'm going to show you some NBA players. You tell me if they should be kept or traded this summer by their team. First name up. Donovan Mitchell, keeper trade. Trade him. He's 29 years old, fin to turn 30 soon. How much better he's going to be? I think he's playing at the peak of his powers right now.

You know that this team isn't going to be necessarily any better. They're not good enough to actually make a run at all. Why not just go ahead and give all your attention to Evan Moby and just retooled, bro. Selhaon, Donovan, Mitchell. We're keeping D. Mitch. You're keeping him? I'm keeping D. Mitch. There's not the true, true problem.

That's somebody else. But like, who's that? Mobley. No. Who? Mr. Hardin. He's not a problem. He's just there.

He's a problem. And the best player on your team not being good enough isn't the problem? We're trying to. Listen, there's somebody else who we can move here. Because if you're already thinking about like move, if you're already thinking about moving pieces around and you have already come to the idea that like this specific version

isn't good enough, okay, then we're just gonna go crazy. Yeah, I think they should go crazy. This is their last opportunity to sell hiding down from Mitchell. I don't think his values and he gets into his early 30s as a small guard.

If you can find a team that's willing to give you a package for him because they believe he still has some juice left in the tank as a true top 15 player in the world, I think it would be wise to take it this summer. Mobile, you're gone. Okay. What the fuck?

I don't know about that. Why does he have to die? Mowgli's got, because I feel like, I do think that they, they probably do have to, like, make a move. If somebody called you and said Mowgli for Yannis and like that and that, and that package is there. Yes. I would, I think I might go with that route more so than Thindemitt. If that was on the case, if that was on, like, board, then yes, I had 100% do that. But I think in general, a lot of teams will probably trade more for Donovan.

Mitchell because there's like no question marks. There's no like any type of ideal situation because he know, you know who he is. You know what type of production he gives you. You just need someone who's better than him to help carry it. Meanwhile with Mobley like he has to be a, he has to come into himself first and he hasn't done that yet. Does Mobley not have a bigger trade value with him being younger? With him being.

It's dicey right now. And like we're coming off of a couple years where like DeMitch, the, the small. guard, all the playoffs stuff, like he has been at, like outplayed. I feel like the peak, the peak value, I don't think that that's necessarily there anymore. I think you could trade mobility and maybe get more for him than Mitchell. So for that right now, I'm keeping all of my options open. I would keep D. Mitch right now.

Okay. Next one. Jalen Duren, are you paying him this summer, giving him $35 million plus? We're trying to work out a sign-in trade. A sign-in trade would suck because you're losing that no matter what and you're just getting like some filler contracts. So I think you would- Or picks?

Yeah, or picks, I guess. You gotta get him one more year. You got to run it back. You still so young. You got to give him a chance to try to gain his dignity back after having to be too bright in the playoffs. Give him a chance to recover from that and prove himself the next year.

Yeah, like he earned that right because he wasn't All-Star. He did make an all-N-B-A team. Give him a chance to go lift more weights, get more swore. No, stay away from the weights. I'm locking the weight. I'm locking the weight room up.

No, he needs to do more bicep presses. No, he needs to do more shoulder presses. He needs to move. More dips. He needs to be in Pilates, man. I've been saying he needs to get bulkier and slower foot in. That's what we need. You need Pilates and Plimetric.

Yes. Put down the protein shakes. No more protein powder, bro. Please. Pick it up. Pick up the deadlifting. Pick up the dips. Don't stop.

They tell you you're too big. Tell them they're wrong. They're too small. We are going 2000s body image stuff. I'm going to start pinching his stomach. No. Be skinny. Be quick.

Yeah. I'm keeping him. You can say no, I'm going to go eat my olive oil and my ice cream and get bigger and bigger and bigger You're not an offensive lineman You get bigger But I will I will keep him though Why can't he be Clay as Campbell? He probably

Listen, 10 years ago probably he couldn't Yeah, I think you keep him You give him one more chance If he fails to get in the playoffs next year he's super gone But for now you pay him is 35 million in the summer and you give him a chance Yeah 35 is like the sweet spot I like that

Yeah All right next Jalen Brown If he goes on Twitch and says all this stuff That scares me as a little bit Do you end this era and trade him Do you get the world's most

controversial Twitch streamer The world's bravest mind in the NBA Do you send him anywhere else Brad Stevens is a genius He hates this He hates him so much It's going on for years too Brad Stevens is a genius

He likes to sell off on things When they're super high That's how he got Isaiah Thomas or Kyrie Irving for Isaiah Thomas. And I think we might see something similar. Not obviously like Dylan Brown's not damaged goods. But in terms of like this, this whole chemistry and how he sees himself and how he feels like he might be bigger than the program.

Yeah, I'm getting off. And I'm getting off at an all-time high value for him. For sure, I'm training him. We look up. We see Yonis in the Celtic jersey. Is he Jalen Brown in the Bucks jersey? Are we surprised? I wouldn't be mad at all.

You do have to train him. I think you do I think the comments have been a little bit too much I wouldn't say you have to but if you do I'll respect you and say you're brave I'll say good move

you did a bold move that not everybody's willing to do and as one great mind in NBA once said Fortune favors the bold Who said that Nico Harrison They're gonna say Batman or something

That's true Fortune favors the bold Brad Stevens What are you prepared to do about it Trade him Yeah I'm training All right next Jared Allen

Yo, trade him Yeah As far as I concerned He's already a Laker Of course he is He's already a Laker Of course Those first time pictures

Are already on the way to Cleveland Now he has LeBron James is already on the way to Cleveland Again Sign and trade Trade Allen coming to Play with Luca It's done

You don't have to trade Jared Allen Not does he there Why? He's not the reason They lost But he's probably One of your best avenues To get better

Would probably be to force Evemobil into a center era If you want to try to get Some more offensive Output out of him So I wouldn't be mad at trying to reconfigure your roster. If you do that, then you have to trade demetsch to, like maximize on retooling, get as many picks and assets. Don't tell me with a good time.

Blow this team to Smithoreen's. Tell me more. Listen, this is the most expensive team in the NBA right now. Yeah. You're gone. And they're going to pay Hardin. They're not going to trade him and let him walk. That'd be ridiculous to give away Garland for half a season of Hardin.

So that's said in stone. They're going to be playing around Hardin. I'm telling Hardin. Make Mowbly a star. Feed him. Correct. Get him to have a star. 25 a game.

Yep. And how you do that? Put mobile at center. Okay. I get down to you. So to do that, gone as hell. Jared Allen for LeBron James. Put the Legos in the case, buddy.

Legos in the case. There's a hell of a good Lego stores in Los Angeles. Oh, yeah. He's got to love it out there. He will. He'll be an icon. Next. Jalen Suggs.

Do you mix up this magic roster? You can't trade Palo. You can't trade Fonz. Yeah. You can't trade Pallel. Unless. You could trade Farns. Unless.

But doing all that to save Jalen Suggs, I'm not doing that. Yeah. To do it to save the franchise. And I think you are already in a situation where you kind of feel stuck and doubling down and not trading Jalen Sugs. This all things I think will keep you in that purgatory. It's going to keep you in that middle that you've been. And it really just puts a lot of pressure on Paolo and Franz to both level up to be the guys. I think I would trade Jailen Sugs to give myself a little bit more flexibility.

Yeah. I wouldn't want to because I love Jailen Sugs. and you can just totally imagine a championship caliber team having J.Elin sucks on it as a defender. But you got to get better somehow. And you just trade it for Bain. You're low on picks. But as Wendell Carter Jr. are going to have some sweepstakes. Doubt it.

You kind of have to trade sucks if you want to make a big move. Yeah, he saw 40% at the room. I'm trading him, bro. I like him. He hate that's that. Yeah, great player, tenacious defense. Do you like that's that? 40% at the rim?

Do you know how bad you have to be or how small you have to be to do that? He's not a small guy. He's like 6'4. He's stout. too. Now I get it. It's just you've harped on it like three times this pot. That's how much jarring. It's so jarring. It's so darned. That's bad. That's what Tray Young did last season. Oh, wow. Like, and Trey Young's so much smaller than him. I made it up. Trey's like whatever. Even if he did that. I made that up. I'm sure he did that against Miami Heat. I'm sure he

he did. Probably worse. Yeah. In Miami Heat series, he was probably much worse, honestly. By a smooth 25% through him. Why is Trey in your mouth? For what? Chappish had I've been on. I don't know. They like a lot in your mouth. All right. Next time I should have you wrong then. No, my boss, I got a move type shit. Okay.

Next. Barnes-Vogner. It's always trainers shit, man. Rock. We keep Franz. Yeah. There's the argument that he could be the best player on this team. Imagine you trade Franz to try to get the most out of the Palo-Bank Carroll era

and realize Palo-Bin-Carril-in-Karle-Ei and realize Paulson that guy, while Franz is out there being an all-star and a new team they gave him the ball more. You know how sick thing? to feel. And if he was like a multi-time all-star after that too. Yeah, that could be one of the dumbest trades for them. That could be easily one of the dumbest trades over the next 10 years. I couldn't envision that happening. So I would want to keep it in their future. But on the other hand, I also don't feel like you're going to get the most out of Palo and Franz the next year. So it's tough. They kind of have to just sit down and do nothing. And you're saying all this.

And at this point, I think I just want what's the best for Franz. So trade him. Fuck it. Trade him. Trade him. Let him go get his own team. DeMitch for Franz. Everybody wins. The magic continue to make me not care about them, which I win and Franz Wagner goes to him to play Mobley and he wins. Everybody that matters wins. Him and Cleveland would be nice. It would be awesome. That would be productive. Trade him. Trade him. For our sake

and for Franzi's sake. Next. Tyler Hero. Oh, you're gone. He could stay for what? You're gone. Gone for what? Gone for what? Gone to me what? I'm over it. I'm over it. Really, I'm over this entire

era of heat basketball. But if I have you and Norman Powell, I can't play both of y'all on the floor at the same time straight keeping norm yeah i am like 32 year old yes nah you can go what is tally hero gonna do i'm i can understand if you wanted to he's not going to save you neither is norm pal you're gonna die regardless how do you want to trade them both why are we having this debate let's mix up this team entirely get them both out of here neither one half this day the only reason why i would i can understand that logic is you would get more

for Tyler Hero because he's younger. Tyler Hero can be the center of a Yonis package. Hero wear picks. Get him all out of here. Sure. Because if you did that, honestly, if you did that, the bucks would be 32 and 50. Like, they could win 30 games. You're right in that sweet spot of where the new lottery odds are going to be.

Tyler Hero, Tank Commander, okay. Okay. Let's go. Let's get into Milwaukee. That's what I'm saying. The old school tank commanders, those are kind of out. Yeah. Right.

Your Cam Thomas is, those are not there. You want your. Your child of heroes. That's going to be the new face of tank command. You just broke my brain right now. You have to be a good tank commander. So all I'm hearing is Tyler Hero for Donovan Mitchell, actually. And we try to get a number one pick to pair with Evan Mowgli.

Potentially. Being made the new meta, man. Fuck, we should have kept train. Damn it. Fuck, man. I missed the ninth seed now. You're going to be the fifth seat in the east now and it's just the new mid. Yes.

It's the new mid. Tough. All right. next. Jamal Murray, should the Nuggets be brave and blow this team up and give Yokets a whole new star team? For who? I don't even know. Exactly. That's why I think I would rather keep him. Yeah. He had the best year of his career. If you're training him, you're trading him for what? Maybe like Donovan Mitchell and I'm like, ah, it would make sense, but I'd rather have Jamal Murray at that point. I'd probably better keep Murray too. Because he didn't give over additional stuff from Mitchell,

just give me Murray. Yeah. It's long. Yeah, I think you keep Murray and you just pray that you don't see Minnesota in the playoffs. That's a tough path. And keep it moving. And pray you don't see OKC in the playoffs. And probably pray you don't see the Spurs in the playoffs. You better get in that church, man. Or whatever they believe in.

I want to read them verses, man. He had a building of some sort. Better build a fucking, fucking never mind. I was going to see some balls. I shouldn't say that. Salute. Next.

Kevin Durant. Bob friendly. Kevin Durant. So the Rock is blow it up. One year of KD. Hell yeah. Gone as hell. You don't want to be here.

The guys don't like you. You don't like them. I said for basketball reasons, they should keep them and try to run it back with the point guard and just be regular and not have a ridiculous team construction. But we do have the elephant in the room

that Jabari Smith said he got over it. Does time heal all or does the playoff movements make you not get over it anymore? Buddy, you're gone. You're gone. You're gone as hell. I could just give me some regular shooters in the door who could do something that you can do.

I'll go ahead and I'll just. and sign Max Struce, you know, and then I'll get it, I'll get like a pick or maybe two picks for you. It's very bad bearer. Yeah, I'll do this. Give me Max Trues. Max Trues.

I'm probably keeping Kevin Durant unless some kind of like amazing opportunity is in front of you that you can't turn down because it's just like obviously a smart pivot. But I don't know what that opportunity might be. So I'll probably just keep him for one more year. What if the Timberwell's like,

fuck, man, we miss out on Janus. Hey, we can get Katie further low. This is a great pivot from Julius Randall. And they offer you, more picks. I'm not moving Katie for the low. That's the problem. I mean, he's old. How much you think he's worth at this point? He missed the playoffs. He's old and he's bitter.

You tell me what's the low. He's always been bitter. We just deal with that. Like two firsts on the picks. No players. Of merit? Julius Randall. Fuck. Yeah. Give me a third person. Randall, Randall shangoon hoops. Third is tough. Third is tough. I'm not doing that. I'm keeping Katie. Then I don't want

Randall and a couple of mediocre picks. I'm keeping Katie. I'm not going to get better. I'm keeping Katie. You can retire here. All right. Next. he cannot. He can't retire. Julius Randall. He's gone too.

Everybody has to get traded. I haven't seen a single Timberwell's fan, a single Timberwell's media member, a single Timberwell's reporter, writer, podcaster, anything. Timberwell's Ball Boy, Timberwol's Maskat, Timberwell's Jersey salesman, Timberwell's Popcorn salesman,

Timberl's Hot Dog Salesman, anything of the sort. I haven't seen a single one of those people say Julius Randall should be kept. They've all said trade them. The mascot said no, too. The mascot said fuck out of here. You can't even talk. Damn, even the infants.

He's by the way to sign it. Damn. He doesn't have a pulse with thumbs. He still figured it out. He's got myths. To trade Julius Reynolds to start slapping his ass. That's the play? Let's get him out of here.

He's gone, man. Julius Randall is super gone. If he's here next year on some rules, I will be shocked. W. Reilly. Who's next? Next. Rudy Gobert. So the Timber was considered going even further than Randall

and changing up this team. Nah, you got to keep Rudy. I think, because if you trade Rudy, what is this team? Yeah. Like,

I don't, they already are in a crisis and like, Randall being there or him not being there. That's going to change your team again. You've already lost so many pieces from your team two years ago. If Gobert isn't there, then I really would be on alert that like, hey,

and it's six months away from requesting a trade. Yeah. Because new owners came in, messed everything up. Now it's just me by myself. Him and Terrence Shannon just. Chilling, bullying? Yeah. Yeah.

There's nothing to do. You're right. You guys missed out on draft picks continuously. Lost out on a lot of trades. Give up cat for Julius Randall. for flexibility and shit. You have inconsistent shooting. You have inconsistent

playmaking. Rudy's the most consistent player on this team outside of Anthony Edwards, obviously. He is like the identity of your defense. So just keep him. You have to keep. Okay. Kauai Leonard.

To the clip, I get something for him before they get the sentencing from the league. If they traded him, let's say they traded him today. Okay. And then the announcement came out like a month later but they have to

reverse that trade I don't think so no trade them today yeah get ahead of it bag door go on

so I know we broke the law together I'm writing you out it's a trade happy episode everyone can be gone no yeah for sure on trading them you said I got

dares gone for free basically then I got the fifth pick in this year's draft yeah just clear everything out they're really up you can't let this

scammer come in and take you down right now Yeah. What do you trade him for another core young player? Which, which team would want him right now? It's on top of our heads. Detroit.

Okay. You get, sir. Ron Holland, I guess. You could say Detroit. Um, you get Palo? Bro, I mean, if you have Clippers, like, yes, just age-wise, right? Yeah. Like, you just do it and say, okay, well, wait, we can fucking fix him.

Just once again go Ophrey Young. Yeah, like, why not? If I can have Garling, the fifth pick in Palo from where I was a year ago, hell, oh, my God. Pablo Tor would be damned. I'm up. That would be amazing. Who else?

There's actually not a, not too many. Fuck it, Palo for Kawas. Speaking to do existence, make it happen. Jalen, bro. Sure. Please. I don't know why you don't want to do that personally. Please?

I don't know how much better you get by doing that as a Celtics fan. I mean, you're better, I guess, but like pretty marginal. Less reliable, no, health-wise. Okay, maybe I'm hating too much. It's a little bit.

It's a little bit. Next. John Morantz. once again you're gone call your real estate agent now because I mean

the whole team's gone I mean they've been trying to trade him if he was straightable he'd been going on the deadline they've been trying to they've been picking up their calls damn they haven't put the phones down

it's not a buyer's market straight and ignored straight the voicemail yeah have hell of voicemails yo bro still want to me right here it's like when you're in a fancy football league

and you're trying to like do it two for one trade trade some bullshit for a good player. And you're like, bro, I promise you, Troy Franklin is going to pop in the second half of the year. Everyone ignores you. It's the Grizzlies gym right now. He's going to jump better next year. I promise. His legs will be all right.

On multiple occasions, this guy has tried to offer me Troy Franklin. You're a scammer. He tried to fight on his own sides. Multiple times. It's like he's the first man to pop my mind because he's on my team. Yeah. if they can trade him, they certainly will. He will be gone if there's a team that wants to

give up something of merit for him. Like, just 100% You have to trade him. Yeah. Have to.