TALKERS Chris Carlin and Ike Reese took to the airwaves yesterday presumably in search of a 4 share to discuss the #NBATradeDeadline, and what transpired was bad, archaic, loud-mouthed, gravel-munching sports talk radio. This is how they began their show, followed by a quick edit point hopping to the portion of the exchange where Carlin posited trading Ben Simmons for Damian Lillard, and Ike Reese, who doesn’t believe in dinosaurs, offered up the Sixers’ 2017 first round pick and Dario Saric all willy nily because he heard the word assets and thought he was saying something smart:

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Good Christ. That is, I believe, a real laugh from Carlin. But Simmons, arguably the best prospect in five years, hasn’t even played a game yet and Carlin is ready to run him out of town for a guy with a $25 million cap hit. You know your opinion sucks when Ike Reese becomes the voice of reason. Who knows if Simmons ever becomes Lillard or something better, but does Carlin realize that, you know, Lillard was a rookie once too? A favorite trope of shit sports talk radio is trading a prospect – in this case one of the best on the planet – for someone you’ve heard of, throwing all caution to the wind and failing to have even the slightest bit of foresight that your player might turn out to be something better. That’s not how you deal with assets, guys. You don’t just unload them at the first whiff of a second-rung superstar. Never mind that trading Simmons, whose ceiling is higher than Lillard’s, cuts off one of the legs in your troika of potential superstars, essentially swapping one for the other. Never mind that Lillard isn’t a franchise-changer like LeBron, Durant, Curry or Westbrook. Never mind that the Trailblazers likely have little interest in moving their best player and probably just floated his name in case an offer they couldn’t refuse that allowed them to stay below the tax threshold next season presents itself. Reese and Carlin jizzed all over Lillard and Paul George as if acquiring them was simply a matter of Bryan Colangelo placing a phone call. I’d love Damian Lillard! But it’s the first quarter of the big game and you wanna toss up a Hail Mary? I’d like to be pimps from Oakland or cowboys from Arizona, but it’s not Halloween. Grow up, Peter Pan! Count Chocula! The Sixers aren’t trading Ben Simmons for Damian Lillard.

This is smut. I’m not sure of any other way to describe it. It’s loud-talking, uninformed, (bad) opinion-driven radio appealing to the absolute lowest common denominator. Even the iron worker listening in his truck is like, “Yo, these MFers are totally irrational!” This, of course, isn’t particularly surprising. Carlin once called Derek Jeter a fraud on New York TV. That’s like going on North Korea state TV and saying Kim Jong-un is kind of bad at golf. It could damn near get you killed.