Speaker 1: Well, well, well, we are back the NBA full steam.
Speaker 1: The MVP debate is heating up as teams continue to
Speaker 1: jostle for playoff position. Basketball is back in New York City.
Speaker 1: The Knicks are officially the hottest team in the league.
Speaker 1: We have a new team atop the Eastern Conference. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you which one it is. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a cliffhanger, the tease, as we call that.
Speaker 1: There's some movement throughout the Western Conference. Jabari keptain nice
Speaker 1: and vague. We're not gonna say if it's the Lakers necessarily,
Speaker 1: but we'll get into it all plenty more with NBA
Speaker 1: TV and TNT sideline reporter Jared Greenberg on today's podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm Jack O'Brien and I'm Jabari in from Miles and
Speaker 1: this is my owns and Jack got mad boosties. Jared Greenberg,
Speaker 1: NBA Analysts, sideline reporter, host of Crunch Time. The NBA's
Speaker 1: version of Red Zone, which you can get on the
Speaker 1: NBA app, then you need to put that on that
Speaker 1: NBA TV as well, if they haven't already, because that
Speaker 1: gets me excited. I've been begging for an NBA version
Speaker 1: of the Red Zone You can also catch him on
Speaker 1: tonight's TNT Golden State Warriors Memphis Grizzly broadcast. It's Jared Greenberg. Jared,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me
Speaker 1: fellas excited to talk with you. Yeah. So are you
Speaker 1: still a Nets fan? Are you have? You had the
Speaker 1: fandom professionally drilled out of you? Yeah? I think so
Speaker 1: you're at that point. I think we all root for
Speaker 1: good games, but no overtime. That's the rule. That's right, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm right down to the buzzer and as long
Speaker 1: as it doesn't keep us up any later or at
Speaker 1: work any later. But now, I mean I grew up
Speaker 1: a New Jersey Nets fan, as I was telling you
Speaker 1: guys before we came on, back when they were you know,
Speaker 1: I was like fighting off fans because the only other
Speaker 1: people in the building with me were people coming to
Speaker 1: watch MJ or Patrick Ewing and the Knicks or Shack
Speaker 1: and the Magic Brain used to just eat it me
Speaker 1: so much. But now, you know, being covering the NBA
Speaker 1: for as long as I have, um man, it's kind
Speaker 1: of decentitized me a little bit. Yeah, you used to.
Speaker 1: I remember going catching the bus out of that that
Speaker 1: big bus station, which I've it's been so long since that.
Speaker 1: The report authority Yeah to to go out to the
Speaker 1: meadow lands back in the day, and man, that was
Speaker 1: that was a trek like a grim ride. Sometimes they
Speaker 1: did not make it easy to go watch games at
Speaker 1: the metal Lands. They're like, you want to watch the Nets,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do that for? Well, we
Speaker 1: are back to those days, perhaps because the Knicks are
Speaker 1: hot nine in oh since the trade deadline. As of
Speaker 1: this recording, Jalen Brunson and Julius Randall have been excellent
Speaker 1: and deadline edition Josh Hart looks just like the perfect
Speaker 1: New York Nick right now. It's exciting. I was saying before,
Speaker 1: I'm just had like I am still a Sixers fan,
Speaker 1: but I have that internal I just I just want
Speaker 1: to see good games. I want to see what's most
Speaker 1: what makes the league most fun to watch, and having
Speaker 1: the Knicks be one of the best teams playing right
Speaker 1: now is exciting. No, I agree, I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: I think that the Knicks fans kind of got fooled
Speaker 1: and teased a little bit a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: when they made the playoffs and then they got punted
Speaker 1: out of the first round by the Hawks, and true
Speaker 1: and what Trey Young did to him, but they seemed
Speaker 1: like a more complete team this year and Julius Randall,
Speaker 1: it just feels more legitimate than it did a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. You know, I was, I was all
Speaker 1: in on Julius a couple of years ago and then
Speaker 1: felt like really let down last year when he had
Speaker 1: as bad of a year as he did. And I
Speaker 1: actually talked to him a couple of weeks ago about it. Remember,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was like fighting with the fans, he
Speaker 1: was fighting with opponents, he was fighting with the referees.
Speaker 1: It was real contentious. And he flat out told me that,
Speaker 1: like he knew where his game was, he had to
Speaker 1: get his head right and he took the opportunity to
Speaker 1: do that, and he took some really cool steps to
Speaker 1: do that this past summer. And now I think Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson has brought out the best of him. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people, me included, didn't believe
Speaker 1: that Jalen Brunson as good as we've seen him be
Speaker 1: in Dallas. We didn't know that he was capable of
Speaker 1: being like a franchise difference maker or could he be
Speaker 1: the best player on a team that was really good.
Speaker 1: And I think we, and I'm as guilty as anybody,
Speaker 1: we didn't recognize the intangible factor of like how much
Speaker 1: of a leader he is and how polarizing he could
Speaker 1: be in a locker room. And listen, I don't want
Speaker 1: to take anything away from Julius Randall's hard work, but
Speaker 1: I think if we're going to point to how Julius
Speaker 1: Randall went from where he was last year to where
Speaker 1: he is this year, a lot of credit has to
Speaker 1: go to Jalen Brunson. Yeah. I had the narrative in
Speaker 1: my head that Okay, the Knicks from two years ago
Speaker 1: were a flash in the pan tight or you know,
Speaker 1: they were the aberration and like they're they're going back
Speaker 1: to being borderline playing team. And then this past run,
Speaker 1: it's starting to feel like, oh, maybe last season's kind
Speaker 1: of off year was the aberration, and like this is
Speaker 1: this is who Julius Randall is, This is who the
Speaker 1: Knicks can be, especially now that they've added Brunson, because
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were looking for them
Speaker 1: to make the home run swing move in the off
Speaker 1: season to get them into contention, and they seemed very
Speaker 1: confident that Jalen Brunson was the was the guy to
Speaker 1: get them to a place where they're now in the conversation,
Speaker 1: they're now at a place where you're in Miami and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, let's go Nets or let's go
Speaker 1: Knicks cheers or are ringing out. That was exciting, That
Speaker 1: was cool to say. I didn't I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know the Nicks fans travel like that. Well, now, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: they do, absolutely, But I also want to pump the
Speaker 1: brakes a little bit too, Like I don't want to
Speaker 1: pour water on this whole thing. But listen, it's a
Speaker 1: great story, it's really cool. I give Jalen Brunson a
Speaker 1: whole lot of props. I think what Julius Randall's been
Speaker 1: able to do, whether it's above the shoulders or below
Speaker 1: the shoulders, whatever. And give Tom Thiboda a lot of
Speaker 1: credit because he gets a lot of crap, so give
Speaker 1: him a lot of credit. But I also think Nick
Speaker 1: fans have an issue of like compartmentalizing things, right like
Speaker 1: this this is good, now, this is good. But like
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't be surprised the Knicks lost in the
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs, like I don't. I think
Speaker 1: we have to be careful about where where we have
Speaker 1: these conversations because like anytime we talk about a team
Speaker 1: in New York, it's like all or nothing, and we
Speaker 1: have to recognize that, like it's really good. They're taking
Speaker 1: a huge step in the right direction. They're building something,
Speaker 1: but they are miles away from where the top echelon
Speaker 1: teams are in the Eastern Conference. Now to that point,
Speaker 1: is it a matter of simply in Jack and I
Speaker 1: were discussing this before, you know, before the show. You know,
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Julius Randall and Jalen Brentson do it together,
Speaker 1: Like is it a is it a we don't believe
Speaker 1: you can need more people situation or is it you know, situational?
Speaker 1: You know, you just don't like how they how they
Speaker 1: would match up against some of the other teams. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just deleting the four paragraphs I had about how
Speaker 1: the Knicks are the new championship favorite. Give me one second,
Speaker 1: but you can go ahead and answer to body, But
Speaker 1: um no, I think number one and I think this
Speaker 1: is fair. Like Julius Randall for all of his success
Speaker 1: this year, and the guy may make another All NBA
Speaker 1: team like like he did a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: But he's got to prove that what he what he
Speaker 1: does is winning basketball in the playoffs. And clearly what
Speaker 1: we saw was it's awfully predictable in the playoffs. The
Speaker 1: last time we saw him there, a team like the
Speaker 1: Hawks were able to take him to school and embarrass them,
Speaker 1: literally embarrass them. So for me, it's it's number one,
Speaker 1: can Julius become less predictable once the playoffs roll around?
Speaker 1: And two? Who else is there? Like what's amazing about
Speaker 1: the knicks success this year? If you would have told
Speaker 1: me that the Knicks were going to be where they
Speaker 1: are now at the beginning of the season, I would
Speaker 1: have told you that that RJ. Barrett is in the
Speaker 1: most improved player, conversation, that RJ Barrett is this, this
Speaker 1: and that, and he's not. And they're getting performances from
Speaker 1: guys like Quentin Grimes on the defensive end, Emmanuel Quickly,
Speaker 1: you know, occasionally going off like he did the other night,
Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson defensively what he's able to do. But but
Speaker 1: where is that other offense coming from? In a playoff
Speaker 1: series where teams have forty eight hours between games to
Speaker 1: get ready for you. And we saw the last time
Speaker 1: that the Knicks and listen, they're they're a different team now.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to say, but I'm just not
Speaker 1: ready to put them in a place that's beyond where
Speaker 1: they are right now, because we don't know come playoff time,
Speaker 1: how Julius Randall, RJ. Barrett and any of these other
Speaker 1: supporting cast players are gonna react. I think it's if
Speaker 1: we're being honest, Knicks fans are much like Lakers fans,
Speaker 1: and I'll raise my hand. It's all or nothing, man.
Speaker 1: It's either worn't win a title or it's the worst
Speaker 1: thing in the world or you know the sky as
Speaker 1: so I get, yeah, I mean the thing that makes
Speaker 1: them dangerous to me, like I'm having just like based
Speaker 1: on cognitive biases, I'm having a hard time taking them
Speaker 1: and the Kings seriously, uh for the postseason And with
Speaker 1: the Kings, I get, I can look at the fact
Speaker 1: that they don't really defend that well, right, Like they
Speaker 1: aren't a great defensive Yeah, they're They're a bad defensive team,
Speaker 1: and um that usually doesn't play very well in the
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The Knicks defend like I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that is the one thing you're always going to get
Speaker 1: with the Thibadeau team, and that does make them a
Speaker 1: little scarier to me. I don't want to see them
Speaker 1: in a like my my brain doesn't want to see
Speaker 1: them in a in a playoff series, but my like
Speaker 1: gut is still stuck in like yeah, but there's still
Speaker 1: the Knicks, like sixers take them out. But the Julius
Speaker 1: ran the game winner against Miami was one of the
Speaker 1: worst looking game winners, like not not the shot itself,
Speaker 1: but just the play double fading to the right, having
Speaker 1: just lost it twice in a row. It was just
Speaker 1: one of those shots that never goes in and then
Speaker 1: and then it went in. Blunts, it tied up, finds
Speaker 1: Randle froze it low, Ramble gets it back eight seconds
Speaker 1: to go. Randle on the drive stripped by Bula Raddo
Speaker 1: gets it back, the Krabo puts up a three down,
Speaker 1: the three puts up touts on a second, the fading
Speaker 1: all right, and then quickly Emmanuel quickly put up thirty
Speaker 1: eight eight seven double overtime win over the Celtics. Very
Speaker 1: Street reminds me a little bit of Maxie Uh And
Speaker 1: they were you know, played together in Kentucky, hit out
Speaker 1: in Kentucky. Uh, and then and then you know got
Speaker 1: drafted too late. But has there been a player with
Speaker 1: a better name game match than Emmanuel Quickly? Well, Daron
Speaker 1: Fox is pretty good too, right, Yeah, it's good. Yeah, clever, fast, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just knows for the Yeah, that's a good one. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised by I hadn't really thought about that. Yeah's
Speaker 1: a good one, Jack. Yeah. Rarely, they rarely match up
Speaker 1: so well. And finally, we just got this tweet from
Speaker 1: Tommy Beer on the last week for the Knicks, and
Speaker 1: this is a good question. So the tweet Monday, Tatum
Speaker 1: rage quits and blowout win over Celtics Wednesday brunts him
Speaker 1: with thirty points in first half and brutal beat down
Speaker 1: to Brooklyn Friday, the double Bang game winner by Randall
Speaker 1: to beat Miami Sunday, IQ scores forty eight and double
Speaker 1: ot thriller in Boston. By the way, you don't have
Speaker 1: to give him a new nickname. His last name is
Speaker 1: Quickly and he's quick so we can just stick with that.
Speaker 1: You don't need to call him Ike. You that's that's
Speaker 1: a good nick That's a good nickname too if his
Speaker 1: wasn't quickly uh, And then the end of the tweet,
Speaker 1: best week for Nicks since question marks gotta be like
Speaker 1: that mellow year, the mellow year and even then, like
Speaker 1: I don't know if they had a run like that.
Speaker 1: This is a part of being an NBA fan, Like
Speaker 1: as a Sixers fan, we haven't had a lot of
Speaker 1: fun in the in the postseason over the past decade
Speaker 1: or two decades or so, but like when your team
Speaker 1: is on a run in the regular season, like playing
Speaker 1: meaningful games and putting putting up big wins like that
Speaker 1: and everybody's getting excited. That is about as fun as
Speaker 1: any experience as an NBA fan, I feel like, because
Speaker 1: you you don't have the in the playoffs, there's almost
Speaker 1: always unless your team actually wins it, there's always the
Speaker 1: reality of fate closing in to make make those memories sour.
Speaker 1: But with with something like that, like the Sixers had
Speaker 1: that time during Ben Simmons's rookie year where like Embiid
Speaker 1: went down with an injury, like and Ben, come on,
Speaker 1: man broke his face and then Simmons took over and
Speaker 1: he was a rookie and like the sky was still
Speaker 1: the one who was like all might and they won like,
Speaker 1: you know, sixteen in a row or something heading into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. That was about as as much fun as
Speaker 1: I've had as a as an NBA fan. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. All right, let's talk about michal Bridges, which
Speaker 1: since he's been traded to the Nets, he's already had
Speaker 1: more thirty point games in eight games with the Nets
Speaker 1: than he did in three hundred and sixty five games
Speaker 1: with the Suns. Three with the Nets and one with
Speaker 1: the Suns. I think that's right. Yeah, And we just
Speaker 1: we sometimes see players on a new team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he's he's James Harden, but it
Speaker 1: was like when Harden was suddenly with Houston the focal
Speaker 1: point of the offense and you saw like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: this is this is way better than what we were
Speaker 1: like kind of banking for him for this team. What
Speaker 1: do we think mcaal Bridge's ceiling is. Well, I think
Speaker 1: on a team that is not expected to win a championship,
Speaker 1: I think he could be a leading scorer and turn
Speaker 1: into a guy that you know, we should have already
Speaker 1: put in the conversation for one of the top two
Speaker 1: way players in the league. We know how a lockdown
Speaker 1: he could be defensively, although it'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: because you know, the Nets defense has been atrocious since
Speaker 1: since these guys came over. And the crazy part about
Speaker 1: it is, I was with the Nets the day of
Speaker 1: the trade deadline when they you know, got rid of
Speaker 1: Kyrie and and and I'm sorry when they got rid
Speaker 1: of Durant, and I was talking to a bunch of
Speaker 1: people and the one hope was like, especially with jack
Speaker 1: lon being the head coach, this team really fit Jack
Speaker 1: Laon because you had so many defensive minded players like
Speaker 1: you were, You're starting five, and this didn't even include
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons because you know, you didn't know where he
Speaker 1: fitted in. But if if you include Ben Simmons, like
Speaker 1: guys like Michail Bridges, Dorian Finney, Smith, Nick Klackton, even
Speaker 1: Spencer Dinwoodie to to a certain extent, these guys have
Speaker 1: a focus of defense. Ben Simmons obviously right, So they should,
Speaker 1: if nothing else, just be a really good defensive team.
Speaker 1: And they are not either. And I think it speaks
Speaker 1: to the point of just how elite the offense is
Speaker 1: the NBA right now. Maybe that's more than anything else,
Speaker 1: But the way I would think the Nets are envisioning
Speaker 1: it is that one day Mikhail Bridges is like their
Speaker 1: second offensive option but still their best defensive player. I
Speaker 1: don't know, And you know, we saw this with Kawai
Speaker 1: for a little bit, a little bit in San Antonio
Speaker 1: before we got hurt a little bit in Toronto, but
Speaker 1: they kind of backed off because of how they'd want
Speaker 1: to put too much stress on them. Can you be
Speaker 1: a team's number one offensive option asked to score, you know,
Speaker 1: somewhere between twenty four and twenty eight points a game
Speaker 1: and also be a lockdown defender on every possession? Like,
Speaker 1: think about it. I mean, even the great defenders like Kawai,
Speaker 1: and be honest, the guys who are great offensive players
Speaker 1: and are all billy Is good defensively don't often for
Speaker 1: for forty minutes get asked to take on that responsibility,
Speaker 1: at least in the regular season. Yeah, is there an
Speaker 1: ideal type of player or even specific player to pair
Speaker 1: him with moving forward? Is it a defensive big like
Speaker 1: you said, if he can you know, kind of slide
Speaker 1: into the second slot from a scoring perspective, you know,
Speaker 1: is it a scoring point guard? What is the most idea.
Speaker 1: It's a guy who runs the show like Ben Simmons,
Speaker 1: you know, who can just like rip off twenty games
Speaker 1: in a row. Dude, I don't know. It's obviously Ben
Speaker 1: Simmons's hurt right now, and I you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to take any shots at him with him being hurt,
Speaker 1: but like it's weird what's gone on with him in
Speaker 1: the nets, Like there's a lot of stuff behind the
Speaker 1: scenes that I don't think we know about, because like
Speaker 1: the day the trade was made and Ben Simmons should
Speaker 1: have been the starting point guard, they had him coming
Speaker 1: off the bench at the back up five again, and
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's weird. And you know, I worked
Speaker 1: with stan Band Gundy that game. He made the point
Speaker 1: like if there's ever a time when the pressure's gone,
Speaker 1: there's no kin, there's no kad. You know. Yes, this
Speaker 1: organization still wants the playoff. They have no reason, no motivation,
Speaker 1: no draft capital to miss the playoffs. But let's just
Speaker 1: go and throw all of our chips at the center
Speaker 1: of the table and see what we got. Like, now's
Speaker 1: the time where we can play up temple basketball, like
Speaker 1: you were talking about that year in Philadelphia where Brett
Speaker 1: Brown just said, let's run, Let's run every possession, Let's
Speaker 1: take advantage of our speed and our athleticism. And then
Speaker 1: as you're like, I know, Ben Simmons still going to
Speaker 1: be our backup five. Yeah, So that that to me
Speaker 1: was a little concerning. But yeah, I would think with Bridges,
Speaker 1: like you know, every good team I think needs a
Speaker 1: really good facilitator and a guy that is a great
Speaker 1: playmaker and a great decision maker. Yeah, in terms of
Speaker 1: people who have shown us something this season and who
Speaker 1: we feel like we might be seeing some things from
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. So now Mikhail Bridges
Speaker 1: is on my radar, is like this, this dude could
Speaker 1: be making a leap in the next couple of years. Haliburton,
Speaker 1: obviously any one else that you've seen something from this
Speaker 1: year that you feel like you're you're buying stock and
Speaker 1: in that person to be a superstar like Jabari I
Speaker 1: think you were saying Aunt, Yeah, I feel I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Aunt's been fantastic this year once, you know, once
Speaker 1: he was able to sit on in and get it going,
Speaker 1: but it feels like there's still at least another level
Speaker 1: as he continues to develop. I'm just wondering, like, you know,
Speaker 1: the bust out guys that you know that could be
Speaker 1: coming over the next few years. Yeah, I think Anthony
Speaker 1: Edwards is a great one. The one I'm leaning towards
Speaker 1: is kind of like this Sacramento duo. Like we've known
Speaker 1: that Sabonis is good, but we're like, yeah, he's camp
Speaker 1: that good. Sure, but he's the reason why they're in
Speaker 1: third place in the West, right Like and and Daron
Speaker 1: Fox has had a pretty darn impressive year as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, another one that's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see in the playoffs here if he can stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Is we always said, if Michael Porter Junior stays on
Speaker 1: the court, you could be a great player. And when
Speaker 1: he's been on the court this year, he's had a
Speaker 1: really good year. I mean, Aaron Gordon's had his most
Speaker 1: efficient here in the NBA. UM trying to think who
Speaker 1: else I'm I'm gonna have somebody in my mind here,
Speaker 1: and then after the show I'm gonna be like, ah,
Speaker 1: should he said that guy? Yeah? Yeah, hit us up.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the best performances. We finally
Speaker 1: got to see the UH the Suns in their fullness,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty It's pretty intriguing. So we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that when we come back and we're back, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say this was one of the most
Speaker 1: fun weeks of basketball. Like this past Sunday is run
Speaker 1: of games was a blast. There was a game where
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia seventy six Ers played the Milwaukee Bucks and
Speaker 1: UH prevailed at snapped the sixteen game winning streak. I
Speaker 1: think came from behind. I enjoyed it. It was a
Speaker 1: you know, a Grace and Allen game, which the fans
Speaker 1: are always kind of clambering for anytime you can see
Speaker 1: that guy go off. But I mean, seriously, put up
Speaker 1: twenty in the third quarter. Brook Lopez Jannis looked great
Speaker 1: and Be'd have thirty one. I think James Harden at
Speaker 1: thirty eight. It's what is starting to like, give me
Speaker 1: make me feel like, not not necessarily that the Sixers
Speaker 1: are getting it out of the second round, because I
Speaker 1: feel like that's where they they're not allowed. Actually it's
Speaker 1: the it's in the by laws of the franchise. Yeah
Speaker 1: they're not they're not permitted to get out of the
Speaker 1: second round. But they are for the first time since
Speaker 1: I've been a Sixers fan, winning games at the end
Speaker 1: that they don't have any right to win. Like it
Speaker 1: used to be a thing where they would give the
Speaker 1: game away at the end and you'd go into any
Speaker 1: fourth quarter where you were only up by ten points
Speaker 1: being like, Oh, this isn't this isn't gonna be good.
Speaker 1: And now they're closing really strong. They have some really
Speaker 1: good clutch stats, so that that was fun to see.
Speaker 1: And then they had just a barn burner against the
Speaker 1: Pacers where they won one forty seven, one forty three
Speaker 1: and regulation and beat had forty two hardened dish out
Speaker 1: twenty assists Haliburton forty and sixteen and the loss. But
Speaker 1: it's the eleventh time MBIDA scored forty or more this season. Like,
Speaker 1: just taking everything out of the MVP conversation, which I
Speaker 1: think is getting a little overheated. I'm just enjoying another
Speaker 1: pretty phenomenal MBID season right now, Jered, let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. I've been trying to convince Jack. Now. Jack
Speaker 1: is a cautiously optimistic fan, and I respect and appreciate
Speaker 1: that because completely pessimistic, I would say, Okay, you know what,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to put that on you, but yes,
Speaker 1: but I've been trying to convince him that this year
Speaker 1: they look different, and I'll whether it's his sixers, and
Speaker 1: by different meaning like I don't have to squint as
Speaker 1: hard to convince myself that they could make it beyond
Speaker 1: the second round. Let me ask you a question then,
Speaker 1: for people listening in their car or at work or
Speaker 1: wherever in the gym Pumpings of Iron, why does Jack
Speaker 1: have sunglasses on that that have like rosy colored like
Speaker 1: like why does he need to wear those sunglasses on
Speaker 1: this podcast? Hey man? This is just a look that
Speaker 1: keeps protecting his piece. Joel and Bad is playing liking
Speaker 1: MVP where we were recalls to where you put him
Speaker 1: in there? Right, If James Harden is playing at this level,
Speaker 1: and then you have Tyree's Maxie playing at this level
Speaker 1: and in vague get to bias Harris back, could you
Speaker 1: see a path where they could make it? You'll make
Speaker 1: a deep run? Finally, yeah, I mean listen, but before
Speaker 1: we even talk about the sixers, I mean, there are
Speaker 1: holes in the two clear cut favorites in the conference, right,
Speaker 1: Like Milwaukee's had their issues this year, although they don't
Speaker 1: feel like they have very many of them right now,
Speaker 1: and Boston clearly is going through something major right now.
Speaker 1: But I would say this like my my biggest thing
Speaker 1: with the Sixers, and this is kind almost like my
Speaker 1: conversation that I had with you about the Knicks, but
Speaker 1: just the same but very different. Like James Harden missed
Speaker 1: Tuesday night's game, right with it with an injury, and
Speaker 1: Jack you you know better than me as a lifelong
Speaker 1: die hard Sixer fan here, like every time things are important,
Speaker 1: there's a Joel embiad injury. There's a reason why he's out.
Speaker 1: He's fractured his face in two different playoff runs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know how that happens, and I'm not
Speaker 1: criticizing him. I'm not saying anything but a big breakable face.
Speaker 1: His face is that mister Glass quality that Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know, the Sixers, this is a dumb statement. The
Speaker 1: Sixers need and Bade right, they need hardened, and they
Speaker 1: need hardened to be at his best and when it
Speaker 1: comes to the playoffs, and Bead more times than not
Speaker 1: has missed a game in a playoff series throughout his career,
Speaker 1: James Harden has not shown up in playoff series regularly
Speaker 1: throughout his career. So like those things, you know, just
Speaker 1: make me wonder. Now I'll say this, you know, sneaky,
Speaker 1: some sneaky moves that Darryl Morriy made like this Jayla
Speaker 1: McDaniels move. Wow, slid him into this starting lineup on
Speaker 1: Monday night. That was impressive. I would say I am
Speaker 1: giving the Sixers a sliver of hope because right now today,
Speaker 1: as we speak, I have some doubt in the Boston Celtics,
Speaker 1: who I thought would be the clear cut favorite in
Speaker 1: this conference. And while I'm feeling really good about the Bucks,
Speaker 1: like they're not they're not the twenty sixteen Warriors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even the twenty sixteen Warriors clearly found a way
Speaker 1: to lose, So anybody's beatable. The issue though, is if
Speaker 1: the Celtics find their way, if Jason Tatum finds his
Speaker 1: shooting stroke. First of all, he's got to get back
Speaker 1: on the court herders need the other night, and he
Speaker 1: can find a consistent shooting like this has been really
Speaker 1: weird with Tatum, and I think this has gone undercovered,
Speaker 1: is Jason Tatum's shooting slumps that he goes in and
Speaker 1: out of this year. It's just really bad. But as
Speaker 1: we stand today, like the Sixers will to face one
Speaker 1: of those two teams in the second round of the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the thing is like I'm frustrated that they don't
Speaker 1: get to the Eastern Conference finals. That means you're one
Speaker 1: of the final two teams in the East. Like that's
Speaker 1: and the East is really good. That hasn't always been
Speaker 1: the Yeah, that's true, but like that, it's a tough
Speaker 1: year to be like, gotta get it out of the
Speaker 1: second round. So I get like Eastern Conference finals are
Speaker 1: bust because you know, Cleveland is tough. Even though I
Speaker 1: think I think the Sixers just match up pretty well
Speaker 1: against better than most teams against the Bucks. But I
Speaker 1: think they just if they if they face the Celtics
Speaker 1: in a seven game series, it's it's over for them.
Speaker 1: That's yeah. They just they can't beat the Celtics period.
Speaker 1: All right. It is that time. Jabari Anthony M F.
Speaker 1: Davis uh second of his name, leads the Lakers to
Speaker 1: victory over a Warrior's team. With Steph back in the mix,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are six and three since the trade deadline.
Speaker 1: Lens only played in three of those games, doing without
Speaker 1: d low since February twenty third, but they're finding a
Speaker 1: way to clawback still and very intrigued by this team.
Speaker 1: What say you, yeah? I mean the trade deadline made
Speaker 1: a lot of sense for them, and for as much
Speaker 1: as we've crapped down Rob Blinko over the years aka
Speaker 1: Lebron the de facto GM, they did an amazing job
Speaker 1: this year. Listen, I don't think I think some of
Speaker 1: the players name like we do like this thing during
Speaker 1: the trade Den Larner in the offseason when a team
Speaker 1: gets a guy and where like name recognition, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we're polarizing, like we know this guy? Do
Speaker 1: we know them? For good or bad or indifferent? Always good? Right?
Speaker 1: The thing about this Laker team is these aren't like
Speaker 1: all stars that came to the Lakers, although D'Angelo Russell
Speaker 1: one time was an All Star, but they got guys
Speaker 1: that make sense around Lebron and Anthony Games. And if
Speaker 1: this injury to Lebron had happened without those trade deadline moves,
Speaker 1: the Lakers ship is sunk right, dead are part of
Speaker 1: it too. It's like there's a reason, like why there's
Speaker 1: all these teams fighting like nobody's very good, like Dallas
Speaker 1: is not very good. The Clippers, yeah, they could be good. Like,
Speaker 1: the Clippers could win a championship or miss the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Who knows, Utah Utah not very good, Portland not very good,
Speaker 1: Perlican not very good, the Thunder not very good. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why all these teams are in this
Speaker 1: conversation for again, and let's remember, for as much as
Speaker 1: Lebron moaned about the play in a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: if not for the play in saving Grace, right, but
Speaker 1: the Lakers are out of this whole thing, and you know,
Speaker 1: so listen, the Lakers have a very favorable schedule coming
Speaker 1: down the stretch, I think until until they face Phoenix
Speaker 1: on March twenty second, I have that right, They don't
Speaker 1: face another team that is well, I guess the Knicks
Speaker 1: on Yeah, that became a tough game all the same,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that's a tough game. But they
Speaker 1: really they don't have teams, particularly on the road. They
Speaker 1: don't have to face teams that are in contention here
Speaker 1: until the end of March. So there's a path for
Speaker 1: the Lakers absolutely to get where they want to go.
Speaker 1: They just need Anthony Davis or as you called him
Speaker 1: another name. He needs to absolutely be a beast. He
Speaker 1: needs to be a guy that is so good over
Speaker 1: the final eighteen or so games this season that people
Speaker 1: are saying, well, why wasn't he in the MVP conversation?
Speaker 1: It's a it's a bad conversation to have, it's a
Speaker 1: it's an ignorant conversation. But there needs to be so
Speaker 1: much recency bias in the play of Anthony Davis over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks of this season that we are saying, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy's too good. Keep off the MVP belt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they have they have to catch Utah is one
Speaker 1: of the teams in front of them Portland and those
Speaker 1: are all teams with very difficult schedules coming down the
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch. So I think they have a shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And as your resident Anthony Davis fan, I will acknowledge
Speaker 1: I agree, But we go game to game over here,
Speaker 1: we're not even thinking about it in terms of like
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. I can't even go weeks at
Speaker 1: a time game to game just be that guy. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's just face it here, Like I was told,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys heard this report, I
Speaker 1: did on T and T last week. I was told
Speaker 1: by the coaching staff that not only was it expected,
Speaker 1: but it was anticipated that Anthony Davis would play last
Speaker 1: Tuesday at Memphis and then Wednesday in Oklahoma City. The
Speaker 1: coaching staff fully expected and anticipated that he would be
Speaker 1: able to play, and he would play well. Paul of
Speaker 1: a sudden game day comes second night of a back
Speaker 1: to back, he's not playing. Lakers have back to back
Speaker 1: coming up at New Orleans at Houston. Now listen, at
Speaker 1: Houston should be a winnable game without Anthony Davis. But
Speaker 1: you're not. There's a reason why you're battling for the
Speaker 1: tenth spot in the West because you're not that good.
Speaker 1: You need your best player to play. Yeah right. Then
Speaker 1: they've got another back to back at Utah at the Clippers.
Speaker 1: He's got to play, yeah right, Like he got two
Speaker 1: more back to acts. You can't afford to lose any
Speaker 1: of these. If Anthony Davis is not playing these games,
Speaker 1: then you know why you're going to miss the play
Speaker 1: in right. I do my best not to be you know,
Speaker 1: the sky is falling, guy, But I will say that
Speaker 1: over the next you know, over that three week period
Speaker 1: that you just mentioned, if I'm the Lakers organization, and
Speaker 1: this is obviously not based on any reporting, this is
Speaker 1: just my opinion. But if I'm the Lakers organization and
Speaker 1: this is you know, talking about a guy that one
Speaker 1: of my favorite players in the league, I have to
Speaker 1: look at him and say, well, can you do it?
Speaker 1: Or can you not? Can we Can you be trusted?
Speaker 1: Can you be leaned upon? Can you be expected to
Speaker 1: give us twenty solid games? You know, like you down
Speaker 1: the stretch of a must win you know scenario, And
Speaker 1: if you can't, then I have to, you know, we
Speaker 1: have to at least consider what, you know, what this
Speaker 1: roster looks like moving forward? Yep. And then finally, just
Speaker 1: the mav Sons game was a blast, Luca Kyrie, k
Speaker 1: D Booker, just a just fun back and forth game,
Speaker 1: KD Dagger, Luca missed the bunny and then you know
Speaker 1: the double texts. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Wait like eight
Speaker 1: to shoot back to Katie was six durand driving on
Speaker 1: hardaway pull up Chopper Duran got it man Phoenix has
Speaker 1: at two point late. I've never pulled for the Suns
Speaker 1: in like a just a stray game that I'm why
Speaker 1: I catch a stray game. It's just always been I
Speaker 1: don't I don't really care. I'm usually like find myself
Speaker 1: like at a gut level, pulling for whoever they're playing against.
Speaker 1: And now I'm I'm on the Sun's bandwagon because I'm
Speaker 1: you know, kad Lebron. Those are my guys. They're like
Speaker 1: generationally like some of my favorite players that have ever
Speaker 1: watched And I didn't know if if I was gonna
Speaker 1: be able to pull myself onto the bandwagon. I did it, though,
Speaker 1: I'm aboard. I'm excited, I feel great, feel awesome. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think though? Did you learn anything? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean has the chance to be freaking awesome in Phoenix? Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying this, like I'm not saying this
Speaker 1: like on behalf of the NBA because they don't pay
Speaker 1: my check, but like, there's gotta be some integrity into
Speaker 1: the eighty two games of a season. And I just
Speaker 1: find it very hard to believe even the best of
Speaker 1: the best players can pull it together over fifteen games
Speaker 1: and just go win a championship after that. It just
Speaker 1: to me there's something is not a video game, right,
Speaker 1: Has it ever happened? Has has a mid season trade
Speaker 1: ever resulted in a championship Detroit right with Wallace, But
Speaker 1: I mean, but he also wasn't their first, second or
Speaker 1: third offensive option, right, he was like, we already have
Speaker 1: a very solid team, and all of a sudden, your
Speaker 1: thrush sheet, right, you know, yeah, you throw a hungry
Speaker 1: seat in the mix. Well, NBA action, it's fantastic. Let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be back for the fastest
Speaker 1: segment in podcasting, Jared, I hope you're ready. I hope
Speaker 1: you did it like some next stretches, because these questions
Speaker 1: are gonna be pinging past your head just at a
Speaker 1: at a rapid rate. We'll be right back, and we're
Speaker 1: back and to the Do we have theme music for
Speaker 1: the segment? We do start the clock kick kick on
Speaker 1: the rapid Fire theme. Uh brought to you by John Williams. Um,
Speaker 1: we did spend the entire annual budget of the show
Speaker 1: on John Williams making a rapid Fire. It's not a
Speaker 1: good match. I gotta say, I don't know why we
Speaker 1: went with the guy who made the Star Wars theme
Speaker 1: for something that's supposed to be like up tempo and
Speaker 1: uh focused, But that's what we did. Jared, this is
Speaker 1: where we're gonna be asking you questions. We don't want
Speaker 1: you to even think about it. It's just your the
Speaker 1: fastest first shut reaction. Uh. Jabari just made a sound
Speaker 1: too that was supposed to be lasers. I guess it
Speaker 1: was a lasers ish lasers and Jabari is going to
Speaker 1: kick it off for us. Jabari take it away. All right,
Speaker 1: let's just go. Let's cut them nonsense, Jared, Cut the nonsense. Jared,
Speaker 1: first of all, cut the nonsense. All right, give me
Speaker 1: a second, give me get serious here, all right? Through
Speaker 1: your nonsense. Ready, I'm ready, Jared. You can go back
Speaker 1: in time and be on the broadcast of any single
Speaker 1: NBA game throughout history. Which game are you choosing? Game seven,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen NBA Finals? Okay, game the block? You got
Speaker 1: it all blocked a shot, come back? I love it.
Speaker 1: And there there it was a rock fight there for
Speaker 1: a little while. So you gotta fill that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's what a game? Ye? Best NBA city based solely
Speaker 1: on the food? New York. Oh okay, I always figure
Speaker 1: people who are going to say New Orleans here, but yes,
Speaker 1: a matter you know? Okay, So okay, I got you,
Speaker 1: all right? Jared, it's time for it. Let me get
Speaker 1: your boldest play in or postseason prediction. My boldest postseason prediction. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors will make the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, the exact opposite of last week's the
Speaker 1: boldest postseason prediction. Who somebody said they won't even get
Speaker 1: out of the plan Aaron, as he said, you said
Speaker 1: they're gonna get knocked out, you know, first game into
Speaker 1: play in. Okay, what do you think is gonna come
Speaker 1: together for them? Well? I mean what what really needs
Speaker 1: to come together? I mean they're they're like listen, I
Speaker 1: know they have. Okay, here's a different question. What has
Speaker 1: fallen apart for them that put them in this position
Speaker 1: where where where I'm surprised by you saying they'd be
Speaker 1: in the Western Conference? Fine? I just think, like what what?
Speaker 1: What stuns me about the Warriors? What's different about them
Speaker 1: from last year winning a championship to this year is
Speaker 1: these names, Gary Payton, the second Otto, Porter Namania, Beliza,
Speaker 1: and a little bit more of Andrea Godal. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: to me, once the playoffs roll around, I get that
Speaker 1: those three guys actually played pivotal role for the Warriors,
Speaker 1: but Jonathan Cominge if you watched him the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, bawling, Yeah, played, Thompson is actually putting together
Speaker 1: two better months than he's ever had in his career,
Speaker 1: like ever ever. And Steph Curry is just getting back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know a lot of what I
Speaker 1: think we're going to see in these West playoffs is
Speaker 1: a lot of teams trying to find their identity once
Speaker 1: it counts the most. And the Warriors know who they are, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: Like Denver, Denver, for as much as they've been in
Speaker 1: the postseason the last few years, like not with this
Speaker 1: group playing at this level, with this expectation. Memphis, no,
Speaker 1: and who the heck knows if Memphis is going to
Speaker 1: have their best player in the playoffs. Sacramento has never
Speaker 1: been here, Phoenix as constitute has never been here. Is
Speaker 1: Chris Paul gonna be healthy? What are they going to
Speaker 1: get from their supporting cast? Minnesota has never been here?
Speaker 1: Dallas never been here. We don't like their supporting cast
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Is Kawhi going to take a game off
Speaker 1: in the playoffs because he doesn't feel like playing? Like
Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions about a lot of teams,
Speaker 1: and I get that the Warriors have left a lot
Speaker 1: of doubt in people's minds. But when it comes down
Speaker 1: to it, I am taking the five man unit of
Speaker 1: Steph play Wiggins once he gets back, and he will
Speaker 1: be back soon, Draymond with Looney and Jordan Poole coming
Speaker 1: off the bench, Don David Pevencenzo coming off the bench.
Speaker 1: I'm taking that seven man group against any seven man
Speaker 1: group in the West. Wow. That's a really good point.
Speaker 1: And you know we're usually be a jokey in this segment,
Speaker 1: but that's a great point in one that I probably
Speaker 1: should have considered, you know, prior to now, you know,
Speaker 1: shout out to former guests Ben Galliver. He you know,
Speaker 1: he made the point that uh no he does, he
Speaker 1: does numbers two but no, um. He pointed out that
Speaker 1: there hasn't been a repeat conference finalists over the last
Speaker 1: four seasons and that would mean that obviously Golden State
Speaker 1: would be the you know, the first to do so.
Speaker 1: So yeah, started to slow down this segment. I just
Speaker 1: got passionate there, No, no, that's perfect. Passion spills over sometimes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, this past week, the Nuggets have started
Speaker 1: to make sense to me. As the team coming out
Speaker 1: of the West. Oh I'm still there. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you there, But like, have you ever
Speaker 1: felt less good about saying that about a conference champion?
Speaker 1: I have, like they for for some reason, Like I was,
Speaker 1: I was out, Like I was at that place where
Speaker 1: I was like, well, it can't be the Nuggets, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's like they as good as they look in
Speaker 1: the regular season, like we've seen them in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and like it hasn't worked out, and like just something
Speaker 1: about like there's been some articles about their metrics like
Speaker 1: in the clutch being some of the best in the league,
Speaker 1: and just they've just started to feel like this powerhouse
Speaker 1: and they're also seven games out in front. Like there,
Speaker 1: it's not even close. I mean, I guess that was
Speaker 1: the case the Sons that at some points last season.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, start they make sure the clock. Brian Um,
Speaker 1: All right, if you could trade one player currently in
Speaker 1: the NBA for the number one pick next year, so
Speaker 1: Wemben Yama would you? And who would it be? Jesus?
Speaker 1: So I would have to be the team getting you
Speaker 1: have the number one pick, let's say, But and you
Speaker 1: can trade for a single player in the NBA right
Speaker 1: now ready for this. Yeah, this is called a timely
Speaker 1: take John Morant, Wow, I love all right, But the
Speaker 1: fact that it's even a question is crazy just from
Speaker 1: a women or perspective, Like, No, nobody really, like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's probably somebody, but you have to like think about
Speaker 1: it pretty hard well because it's not just a misrey box.
Speaker 1: We've seen, you know, and we can we can we
Speaker 1: can see with our eyes, like man, that that could
Speaker 1: be incredible, not just special, not just great, incredible. And
Speaker 1: I'm not guaranteeing. I'm saying it could be he's shooting
Speaker 1: low thirties from three. I'm just saying I'm putting it
Speaker 1: out there. I think you should. I think you should
Speaker 1: slide to the six or something. All right, scoot, you're up.
Speaker 1: All right, my turn. Let's keep it going. If you
Speaker 1: could bet on any fan base to make the in
Speaker 1: arena challenge shots, you know, the layup, free throw, three pointer,
Speaker 1: half court, which fan base would you bet on. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking Boston or Philly because they've been getting
Speaker 1: ready for the game too much before the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking Atlanta or Miami because they may not
Speaker 1: be in the stands by halftime. Wow, Wow, shuts, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go Indiana. There, it is like that, that's the one, right,
Speaker 1: It's gotta be Indiana. They're so good that they only
Speaker 1: give out fifty dollars in gift cards to somebody who
Speaker 1: does lets all challenge your rules of quarters, get a
Speaker 1: get a fifty dollars target shopping card. Uh yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: I have this persistent nightmare, like it's basically a reverse
Speaker 1: like Mike, where I suddenly switch bodies with an NBA
Speaker 1: player in the middle of the game and I have
Speaker 1: my skills. Is there a player you would switch with?
Speaker 1: What would you do if you suddenly you are in
Speaker 1: Yokich's body in a big game? What do you do?
Speaker 1: Do you fake injury? Do you try and let it rock? Like?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? I'd probably be like I would
Speaker 1: take a zion and just try and like, you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I don't even know if I could touch
Speaker 1: the bottom of the net, let alone dunk, no, like
Speaker 1: like just to play bullyball bringing around. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I just hope that game, whatever game it is, he's
Speaker 1: dressed and active, so I'm not sitting in the on
Speaker 1: the bench and three clothes, you know, just any game. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, last question of the week. This is the
Speaker 1: most important one, by the way, Jack or Jabari. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's no question. It's Jabari. Oh, because anybody, anybody who
Speaker 1: slides into my DMS, I'm all four. There we go. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you've never slid into my my DM. I gotta be attentive.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't keep up with the seductive DM
Speaker 1: sliding powers of Jabari. It's, by the way, I've always
Speaker 1: But just for full disclosure and transparency, my wife is
Speaker 1: can't hear you, guys, But here's me talking about somebody
Speaker 1: sliding too my DMS and GSS right now, Sorry, missus Greenberg.
Speaker 1: It was me professional, I promise. Yeah. What about that picture?
Speaker 1: Such a Jabari does send a picture when he first
Speaker 1: reaches up people, he does send a picture. It was
Speaker 1: a good picture. It's in Vagas by the pool. You know,
Speaker 1: I figure it get people in the mood. It's fasting
Speaker 1: their roses involved. Jared Greenberg, such a pleasure having you
Speaker 1: on the show. Where can people find you? See you?
Speaker 1: All that good stuff? Well beyond TNT Thursday Night in
Speaker 1: Memphis for a Big Warrior's Grizzlies game. Nice. Um. Then
Speaker 1: all throughout the next couple of weeks, TNT is gonna
Speaker 1: take some time off here for March Madness, and I'll
Speaker 1: be on the NBA TV side of things doing a
Speaker 1: Crunch Time which Jack is going to become your new
Speaker 1: favorite show on the NBA app when we take you
Speaker 1: to the biggest moments to the night as they happened
Speaker 1: live at the NBA's only Whip Around show. When I'll
Speaker 1: be doing some some NBA game time appearance as well
Speaker 1: on NBA TV. Awesome, Well, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us. That's going to do it for us this week.
Speaker 1: Quick shout outs to some listeners. We asked for your
Speaker 1: MVP opinions and here were the results. Fifty three percent
Speaker 1: said Yokich or Joki, thirty six percent said Yannis, and
Speaker 1: seven sorry what is it? Seven percent? Did you? Man?
Speaker 1: I just I gotta say, if Embiid and Yokis would
Speaker 1: just play one another in an important nationally televised game,
Speaker 1: then we would actually be able to see or if
Speaker 1: Embiid went up against Jannis, was sixteen game winning streak
Speaker 1: on the line, you know? Um? Anyways, great picks listeners
Speaker 1: are Boosties Listeners of the Week at brock Denton said,
Speaker 1: Yokich is great, but it's insane to me that he's
Speaker 1: going to win three straight. Embad or Josh should have
Speaker 1: won last year, and it's surprising to me that the
Speaker 1: voters aren't getting tired of giving it to him. Lebron
Speaker 1: should have been MVP every year from O seven to fifteen,
Speaker 1: but voters got tired of him. M Yeah, the MVP
Speaker 1: conversation is the conversation about a narrative being told by
Speaker 1: NBA writers. So at this point, whatever, but make sure
Speaker 1: you give us a follow on Twitter at mad Boosties.
Speaker 1: That's m A D B O O S t i
Speaker 1: E S. And that's going to do it for us
Speaker 1: this week. Back next week with more NBA action, more
Speaker 1: of these spicy piping hot takes, we'll talk to y'all.
Speaker 1: Don have a great week everyone, Bye bye,