WEBVTT - NBA Futures Snake Draft | 2026 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.319 What these young bloods have to understand, that this game 0:00:05.140 --> 0:00:10.129 has always been and will always be about buckets. Just 0:00:10.230 --> 0:00:11.110 attack the basket. 0:00:11.130 --> 0:00:11.869 Stop it! 0:00:11.970 --> 0:00:16.970 Stop it! Do it like that! 0:00:17.150 --> 0:00:17.669 Oh! 0:00:17.770 --> 0:00:23.319 With no regard for human life! 0:00:23.420 --> 0:00:23.640 Bang! 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:23.820 Bang! 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.460 I cannot believe you've done it again! 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:28.530 Are you kidding me? 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:28.720 Oh! 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:33.320 Welcome to Buckets! 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.940 The NBA season is here. My name is Matt Moore. 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.479 This show is brought to you by DraftKings Sportsbook. The 0:00:41.540 --> 0:00:43.640 NBA season is right around the corner. And to get 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.460 us started, I've got the whole crew with me. And 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.370 we're going to do an NBA Futures Draft. We're actually 0:00:50.380 --> 0:00:53.690 going to go through. We've got categories. You have to 0:00:53.730 --> 0:00:58.170 fill out your entire slate. There will be betrayals. There 0:00:58.210 --> 0:01:03.790 will be objections. There will be Brief explanations because we 0:01:03.830 --> 0:01:06.740 have to make this work inside of an hour. Because 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:11.179 Brian Fonseca needs to go draft Musa Diabate with the 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.040 first overall pick of his fantasy draft. We have a 0:01:14.300 --> 0:01:16.040 lot to get to tonight. We're glad to have you 0:01:16.060 --> 0:01:17.900 guys with us. Make sure if you're watching live on 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:22.890 YouTube that you give us a like and subscribe. Feel 0:01:22.910 --> 0:01:24.890 free to agree or disagree with the picks. 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Myself, Matt Moore, 0:02:15.130 --> 0:02:20.740 Brian Fonseca, Brandon Kravitz, BK, the man straight out of 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:25.340 a 1970s porn film, Joe Dallara, Michael Fiddle, and of course, 0:02:25.740 --> 0:02:29.250 from Roto-Grinders, Jim Favreau. turvy i do want like that 0:02:29.270 --> 0:02:31.130 joe is no longer wearing the robe that he was 0:02:31.150 --> 0:02:32.889 wearing on the last episode that i did with him 0:02:33.350 --> 0:02:36.549 which just frankly made me very uncomfortable i'm glad although 0:02:36.570 --> 0:02:38.610 i will say his wife has assured me several times 0:02:38.650 --> 0:02:40.810 that she enjoys this look that he is rocking so 0:02:40.870 --> 0:02:42.780 i need to like just accept that i'm out of 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.260 touch with like current styles so good to see you 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.540 joe thanks. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.120 I uh threw the robe in the laundry so. 0:02:49.940 --> 0:02:56.470 Okay well now i'm uncomfortable again Win total, award, long shot, title, 0:02:56.590 --> 0:02:59.210 and division. Those are our categories on the night. You 0:02:59.230 --> 0:03:02.430 can see them on the board here at youtube.com slash 0:03:02.490 --> 0:03:07.020 the action network. Win total, an award. You got to 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.100 go a long shot. I did plus 400 or longer 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.260 because that is actually a pretty long shot, but most 0:03:13.340 --> 0:03:15.820 of the guys will go way longer than that. Title, 0:03:16.570 --> 0:03:18.270 and then a division bet. You have to get through 0:03:18.530 --> 0:03:20.870 all of them. in order to fill out your card. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.870 We do have a snake draft. We're going to start 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:27.170 tonight with Brian Fonseca. Brian, you get first pick. 0:03:27.730 --> 0:03:28.389 What do you want first? 0:03:29.350 --> 0:03:31.690 Indiana Pacers to win the title at plus $ 4, 000. Woo! 0:03:32.190 --> 0:03:32.710 Wow! 0:03:32.950 --> 0:03:34.570 Coming out hot! 0:03:34.990 --> 0:03:37.170 Is that your long shot or your title pick? That's 0:03:37.190 --> 0:03:38.030 your title pick? 0:03:38.150 --> 0:03:40.210 Is that your title pick or your long shot? 0:03:40.510 --> 0:03:41.290 No, that's my title pick. 0:03:41.870 --> 0:03:43.790 Matt, where do I send in the chat about the 0:03:44.010 --> 0:03:44.810 terrible draft picks? 0:03:46.750 --> 0:03:49.450 Oh, this number is too fucking low. Like, why are 0:03:49.470 --> 0:03:52.060 they behind the Heat, the Cavs, and the Pistons? And 0:03:52.070 --> 0:03:54.510 the Celtics, for that matter. Like, that just doesn't make 0:03:54.530 --> 0:03:57.080 sense to me. I understand Tyrese Halliburton's coming back from 0:03:57.180 --> 0:04:00.820 a devastating injury, but this team is good. Even their 0:04:00.860 --> 0:04:03.570 win total is like 43.5. Like, I just don't understand it. 0:04:03.620 --> 0:04:07.340 I know the East is deeper, better, but I think 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.960 the entire summer, like, I've just been staring at all 0:04:09.980 --> 0:04:12.860 these Pacers numbers, and they're just too low. I just 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.300 think this team's going to be better than 43.5 or 0:04:16.300 --> 0:04:20.360 is a legit contender and has one of the most seven, 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.260 eight meaningful players in basketball right now coming back into 0:04:23.290 --> 0:04:25.650 their lineup. So, yeah, I'm going with Halliburton and I'm 0:04:25.670 --> 0:04:26.369 going with the Pacers. 0:04:27.310 --> 0:04:28.029 That was spicy. 0:04:28.270 --> 0:04:30.130 You go ahead, Jim. 0:04:30.610 --> 0:04:31.290 No, I give a chip. 0:04:31.310 --> 0:04:32.850 But honestly, if you're going to play the Pacers, go 0:04:32.870 --> 0:04:34.890 for the like shoot the moon. It's like if Halliburton 0:04:34.990 --> 0:04:37.969 is back at Halliburton levels. I do think that like 0:04:37.990 --> 0:04:39.490 we just saw the last time they were healthy, they 0:04:39.510 --> 0:04:41.710 were there. in a game seven and could have won it. 0:04:41.740 --> 0:04:44.420 So I'm low on the Pacers. So it was surprising. 0:04:44.460 --> 0:04:46.419 It's surprising. I was like the first pick of this draft, 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.450 but listen, I fucking respect it. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.610 I was going to start off with something boring, a 0:04:50.690 --> 0:04:52.050 fucking wind total. 0:04:52.190 --> 0:04:55.450 I love it. I'm so glad. I'm so nobody wants 0:04:55.490 --> 0:04:55.750 to see. 0:04:55.850 --> 0:04:59.150 Nobody wants to hear fucking warriors under 38 and a 0:04:59.190 --> 0:05:00.390 half to start this pot. 0:05:00.450 --> 0:05:01.310 That's for the other pot. 0:05:01.390 --> 0:05:03.410 Well, now I'm taking warriors under 38 and a half. 0:05:03.450 --> 0:05:04.150 I get to be my turn. 0:05:04.490 --> 0:05:05.710 Go ahead. Okay. 0:05:06.029 --> 0:05:06.420 All right. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:11.170 Finseca starts off red hot with this one. Pacers, it's 0:05:11.170 --> 0:05:12.550 40 to 1. I got the number right? 0:05:12.550 --> 0:05:15.409 40 to 1. Still available. Multiple books. 0:05:15.850 --> 0:05:16.610 I bet it will be. 0:05:16.630 --> 0:05:21.300 All right. Shockingly, nobody is like, oh, man, that was 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.600 on my board. All right, Brandon Kravitz, your number one 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:26.200 overall pick. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.339 This is definitely how the Avengers felt when they descended 0:05:30.420 --> 0:05:30.980 on New York. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.320 This feeling right here. 0:05:32.500 --> 0:05:33.020 This is great. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:34.300 All right. 0:05:34.339 --> 0:05:37.380 Well, I am going of I'm going to go with 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.659 a different strategy where my first pick is going to 0:05:40.700 --> 0:05:42.920 be maybe not the bet I believe in the most, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.560 but the one that I think is going to get 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.480 sniped the most. I'm going to go with the Utah 0:05:47.540 --> 0:05:51.080 Jazz over 36 and a half wins. This is the 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.330 trendiest pick on the planet right now. I think a 0:05:53.370 --> 0:05:56.930 lot of us on this podcast channel have this team circled. 0:05:57.830 --> 0:05:59.910 and had them circled at the end of last year 0:05:59.990 --> 0:06:03.750 with 50% less talent. Will Hardy having to call off 0:06:03.790 --> 0:06:07.770 the dogs at halftime because these guys were overperforming when 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.280 the NBA still allowed tanking a full season of a 0:06:11.380 --> 0:06:14.940 full effort. Darren Peterson added to the mix in a 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:19.140 diminished Western conference. They're going to be within striking distance 0:06:19.180 --> 0:06:20.599 of the playoffs, which by the way, if you want 0:06:20.620 --> 0:06:23.140 to bet that plus one 50, not a bad one either, 0:06:23.660 --> 0:06:25.780 but I like them over 36 and a half wins. 0:06:25.820 --> 0:06:27.300 I'll take it before anybody else can. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:28.960 Oh, wow. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:34.560 That should have been my first. Yeah, that really should 0:06:34.620 --> 0:06:35.700 have been 1-1, honestly. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:36.640 Damn it. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.640 I was so close. I'm trying to type and fill 0:06:40.670 --> 0:06:41.170 in the graph. 0:06:41.430 --> 0:06:43.529 You were not close. We're six minutes into the podcast. 0:06:43.990 --> 0:06:45.450 We just started. 0:06:46.390 --> 0:06:47.130 Almost got there. 0:06:47.390 --> 0:06:48.650 So close. 0:06:49.089 --> 0:06:51.330 I think the most common one, I don't know that 0:06:51.350 --> 0:06:53.229 that's the most common one with this group. It is 0:06:53.270 --> 0:06:55.770 a very trendy pick. So I understand why you went 0:06:55.790 --> 0:06:57.190 ahead and grabbed it, because I do think that the 0:06:57.350 --> 0:06:58.890 Utah are going to be a trendy team this year 0:06:59.770 --> 0:07:03.580 for sure. So Fonseca Pacers 40 to one. Kravis takes 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.119 jazz over 37 and a half is best in market 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.880 that I saw right now. OK, back to the list. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.380 Joe DeLera, you're up next. Who do you want? 0:07:15.330 --> 0:07:18.070 So I'm going to do something naturally, like a little 0:07:18.110 --> 0:07:22.060 bit unconventional here. Um, and by that, I mean, I'm 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:23.800 going to take a title pick, but I'm not going 0:07:23.820 --> 0:07:26.780 to take exactly the title pick. Um, so right now 0:07:26.860 --> 0:07:29.920 we have in something that I think is a pretty 0:07:29.940 --> 0:07:34.060 good boost for this title odds. So I like the 0:07:34.100 --> 0:07:36.040 Oklahoma city thunder to get back to the title and 0:07:36.060 --> 0:07:38.020 I like them to win the title. I don't really 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.960 like their odds though. I think their odds are like 0:07:39.990 --> 0:07:42.010 a little bit shorter than what I would typically want. 0:07:42.450 --> 0:07:45.510 DraftKings has a special. And if you go to DraftKings 0:07:45.530 --> 0:07:48.600 and you go, uh, to like their team specials, You 0:07:48.710 --> 0:07:51.000 go all the way to the right, first team, Oklahoma 0:07:51.020 --> 0:07:54.340 City Thunder. And you can juice it a little bit, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.520 like add an extra variable here. And it's for Shea 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.480 to average 30 points per game and for them to 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.190 win the title. And it bumps the odds all the 0:08:03.210 --> 0:08:06.570 way up to plus 450. And that's something that I'm 0:08:06.730 --> 0:08:09.650 highly interested in. Shea has averaged 30 points per game 0:08:09.970 --> 0:08:12.390 in each of the last four seasons. And he's kind 0:08:12.430 --> 0:08:14.070 of done it for the most part by margin. The 0:08:14.170 --> 0:08:19.200 one season he had 30.1, but he's at 31.4, 30.1, 32.7, 31.1. Um, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.680 I'm more than willing to take on that little bit 0:08:23.700 --> 0:08:27.490 of extra risk to bump this up from, uh, what's 0:08:27.500 --> 0:08:29.730 their market price right now to win the, to win 0:08:29.750 --> 0:08:30.230 the finals. 0:08:30.310 --> 0:08:31.590 I was like, I was like appalled. I was like, 0:08:31.630 --> 0:08:32.270 I can't do this. 0:08:32.390 --> 0:08:34.630 I can't, I can't get into that, but, uh, I'm 0:08:34.670 --> 0:08:36.790 bumping it from plus two 70 all the way up 0:08:36.809 --> 0:08:40.010 to plus four 50 on shade average 30 points per 0:08:40.030 --> 0:08:44.410 game this season. So I really like that. He's currently 0:08:44.470 --> 0:08:48.859 listed to average 30 points per game. He's minus 310. 0:08:48.860 --> 0:08:51.939 So I am more than willing to take this extra 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.100 risk here to bump this up to plus 450. And honestly, 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.080 if he doesn't average 30 points per game, I'm going 0:08:57.100 --> 0:08:59.830 to be like a little bit confused about what's going 0:08:59.900 --> 0:09:00.800 on in Oklahoma City. 0:09:01.250 --> 0:09:03.050 So and I probably won't like them to win the 0:09:03.070 --> 0:09:03.630 title either. 0:09:03.790 --> 0:09:06.870 So shade average 30 points per game. Oklahoma City Thunder 0:09:06.890 --> 0:09:09.770 to win the championship plus 450 as my title pick. 0:09:10.850 --> 0:09:12.650 So you want this logged as your title and not 0:09:12.690 --> 0:09:13.250 a long shot. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:13.550 Yes. 0:09:13.740 --> 0:09:16.270 Oh no, we have something way longer than four to one. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.380 This is some, this is some Brandon Anderson breaking rules 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.120 bullshit right here. 0:09:23.140 --> 0:09:23.900 This is a sick pick. 0:09:23.940 --> 0:09:25.179 This is so, I love this. 0:09:25.500 --> 0:09:28.980 My sliding in the specials to get your title pick in. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:29.800 Yes. 0:09:29.900 --> 0:09:32.280 I got to respect it. We say to shop around 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.740 and Joe Dallara did in fact shop around at DK. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:36.820 The crown is yours. 0:09:37.580 --> 0:09:40.500 Are the thunders still on the board now? What do 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:44.530 you mean? Like can someone take OKC title? Then you're 0:09:44.550 --> 0:09:46.360 just taking a worse pick than me. So yeah, go 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:47.839 for it. It'll be good for the people. 0:09:47.860 --> 0:09:49.599 You could still take the straight plus 270. Yeah. 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.439 I'll allow that. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.380 OK. 0:09:54.470 --> 0:09:55.020 Damn, Joe. 0:09:55.990 --> 0:09:56.390 Inventive. 0:09:56.530 --> 0:09:56.929 I like it. 0:09:56.950 --> 0:09:57.650 Started off hot. 0:09:58.290 --> 0:09:58.969 All right, Fiddle. 0:09:58.990 --> 0:09:59.960 What do you got? 0:10:00.020 --> 0:10:02.949 Cooking? So I think like Brandon, a lot of people 0:10:03.190 --> 0:10:05.010 thought I was going to come in and say, here's 0:10:05.030 --> 0:10:07.430 going to be some CLV on a win total and just, 0:10:07.510 --> 0:10:10.510 you know, drive for show and putt for dough, but 0:10:11.450 --> 0:10:14.270 game theory here says there's like 12 win totals I'm 0:10:14.309 --> 0:10:16.890 comfortable with, so I'm not rushing to the win total board. 0:10:16.929 --> 0:10:20.710 I respect BK's jazz pick, but I'm not rushing to 0:10:20.730 --> 0:10:22.770 the win total board. The thing I thought that was 0:10:22.790 --> 0:10:25.210 going to get sniped, I'm going to put this in 0:10:25.250 --> 0:10:28.390 my awards, and it's going to be Cooper Flagg, most 0:10:28.450 --> 0:10:33.550 improved player, 80-1. And my question for this bet is, 0:10:34.450 --> 0:10:37.600 is there a chance that Cooper Flagg And what's the probability? 0:10:37.940 --> 0:10:41.320 Is it greater than 1.5% or 2% that Cooper Flagg's 0:10:41.340 --> 0:10:44.510 just already running in Defensive Player of the Year? I 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.350 don't expect him to win, but going to get votes 0:10:46.410 --> 0:10:49.890 in Defensive Player of the Year? And is he averaging 0:10:49.890 --> 0:10:54.550 24 or more points and 8 or more rebounds and 0:10:54.550 --> 0:10:58.730 3.5 stocks between this? And we're like, he's already an 0:10:58.809 --> 0:11:03.590 outside MVP candidate, and he's a no-brainer all-star, all-star starter. 0:11:04.110 --> 0:11:04.700 So at 80-1, they say. 0:11:06.860 --> 0:11:09.940 You can't really let a second year player get most improved. 0:11:10.500 --> 0:11:12.820 That's kind of the trope around this award that, oh, 0:11:12.860 --> 0:11:15.559 you expect people to improve in their second year. Well, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.460 at 80 to one, like it's already happened twice since 0:11:18.500 --> 0:11:21.740 the turn of the 21st century. Gilbert Arenas did it 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:26.540 in 2002. Monte Ellis did it. in 2006. So what's 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.460 stopping Cooper flag from being able to do that and 0:11:29.500 --> 0:11:31.520 going from a rookie year where he was in the 0:11:31.580 --> 0:11:33.819 race with con canipple of who's going to win rookie 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.420 of the year, some injuries, whatever to the next year 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.930 of like, holy shit, this guy's a potential MVP candidate, 0:11:40.429 --> 0:11:43.230 a potential defensive of the year player candidate, a all-star 0:11:43.250 --> 0:11:46.510 starter every year for the foreseeable future. And he's the 0:11:46.550 --> 0:11:48.449 most improved player. Okay. 0:11:49.070 --> 0:11:51.329 I respect it. I think I liked the, the idea 0:11:51.390 --> 0:11:54.300 behind it. I now kind of want him to win 0:11:54.420 --> 0:11:56.640 MIP and Conn Knipple to also go off and then 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.580 Conn Knipple leave for most of the year and then 0:11:58.620 --> 0:12:01.240 him lose again at Cooper flag. Like that's kind of 0:12:01.260 --> 0:12:03.860 what I want is like just every single time that, 0:12:04.020 --> 0:12:06.870 that I want Conn Knipple to be the Aaron Burr, 0:12:07.790 --> 0:12:10.470 the flags, Alexander Hamilton. 0:12:11.830 --> 0:12:12.150 Okay. 0:12:12.210 --> 0:12:14.829 Fiddle with an 80 to one was not on my 0:12:14.890 --> 0:12:17.250 board and I happen to be, and not even in 0:12:17.290 --> 0:12:17.890 the long shot. 0:12:18.380 --> 0:12:20.220 I got a 90 to one stored up. I got 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.780 a 200 to one stored up. We're swinging for fences. 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:24.100 Look at you. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.230 I'm proud of you. 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.220 Thank you for understanding the assignment, Michael. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.319 The win total, I'll win. Have no fear. I'll win 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.140 the win total that I choose. But let's see if 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:33.680 I can get one of these other ones as well. 0:12:34.100 --> 0:12:34.439 All right. 0:12:34.780 --> 0:12:37.500 Jim Turvey, your first bet. Just review the board real quick. 0:12:37.540 --> 0:12:40.780 We got Pacers 40 to one from Fonseca. Jazz over 0:12:40.780 --> 0:12:44.100 37 and a half from Kravitz. OKC title and Shea 0:12:44.100 --> 0:12:48.020 30 plus from Joe. And Fiddle's flag most improved player 0:12:48.140 --> 0:12:50.890 at 80 to one. Jim, what's your first pick? 0:12:51.710 --> 0:12:53.890 Yeah, where did Fiddle drop the game theory bomb? 0:12:54.010 --> 0:12:55.770 I thought I was going to have to go with 0:12:55.809 --> 0:12:58.810 a category here, but even though I'm with you, Fiddle, 0:12:58.830 --> 0:13:01.270 that there's a lot of win totals I like, I 0:13:01.350 --> 0:13:04.130 actually am seeing the board appear and maybe seeing, being 0:13:04.170 --> 0:13:07.390 able to get some other stuff based on bets or 0:13:07.450 --> 0:13:07.770 the people. 0:13:07.929 --> 0:13:09.329 So I am going to go to win total. I 0:13:09.450 --> 0:13:10.790 am going to go to the one that was referenced 0:13:10.809 --> 0:13:13.610 before the show. I think, actually, no, I'm not. 0:13:14.210 --> 0:13:16.329 Curveball, I'm going to do Philadelphia under. I was thinking 0:13:16.390 --> 0:13:17.860 about a different one. I'm just going to lock in 0:13:18.100 --> 0:13:21.380 what I think is the safest one, 76ers under. um 0:13:21.660 --> 0:13:24.179 it's a year i like unders in general more already 0:13:24.540 --> 0:13:26.760 injuries stacking up there their front court they could be 0:13:26.780 --> 0:13:30.280 starting dominic barlow on at center on on opening night 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.929 it could be a disaster there's enough talent there to 0:13:33.270 --> 0:13:35.890 drag them into the postseason picture but i don't see 0:13:35.910 --> 0:13:37.569 this team getting 50 wins i just don't think that's 0:13:37.590 --> 0:13:39.490 gonna be a priority for them so i will take 0:13:39.510 --> 0:13:42.069 the 76ers under as my win total. 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.679 Bet i've got them at 15 and a half are 0:13:43.700 --> 0:13:47.319 you good with that yeah even better Okay, that's the 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:48.590 50 and a half. We'll get you on there. 0:13:49.670 --> 0:13:52.770 Can I give a slight objection to this? Yes. I 0:13:52.809 --> 0:13:55.770 don't disagree with the bet. If I had to choose, 0:13:56.290 --> 0:13:58.630 I would take the under. But there's just no way 0:13:58.670 --> 0:14:00.690 that I personally could put a dollar on a LeBron 0:14:00.710 --> 0:14:04.100 season under. I'm just too beholden to... Come on. We 0:14:04.140 --> 0:14:07.680 have to root for LeBron and his... in his waning season. I, 0:14:07.860 --> 0:14:09.520 if it's, well, this is the last year. If it's 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.680 one more year after that, I could never sign up 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.730 to ride a full season. LeBron under no way. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.590 There's a great, I wonder what he is. His win 0:14:17.610 --> 0:14:19.830 total over unders are the last like 10 years. 0:14:20.270 --> 0:14:21.090 It's bad. I would guess. 0:14:21.310 --> 0:14:21.610 I would guess. 0:14:21.710 --> 0:14:22.950 It's probably always bad. 0:14:22.990 --> 0:14:23.210 Yeah. 0:14:23.390 --> 0:14:23.570 Yeah. 0:14:23.610 --> 0:14:23.970 It's bad. 0:14:24.090 --> 0:14:26.030 Cause it definitely went over last year with the Lakers. 0:14:26.510 --> 0:14:26.930 He did. 0:14:27.010 --> 0:14:27.250 Yeah. 0:14:27.470 --> 0:14:29.050 It went over last year, but he didn't play some 0:14:29.100 --> 0:14:29.300 of that. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:31.940 He also had a negative plus minus. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.880 So, uh, there's a movie called, cocktail that i like 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:37.620 very much in the 80s with tom cruise and there's 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:39.600 a line in it that i absolutely adore which is 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.280 he's talking to a girl that and the breakup is 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.220 going badly and he says of course it ended badly 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.490 if it wasn't if it didn't end badly it wouldn't 0:14:47.610 --> 0:14:51.130 end i just want to point that out with lebron. 0:14:50.870 --> 0:14:53.770 Apropos of nothing to do with the sixers father time 0:14:53.830 --> 0:14:56.850 and mother nature are the two undefeated there. 0:14:56.230 --> 0:15:01.030 You go uh okay bars uh my first pick is 0:15:01.090 --> 0:15:04.080 going to be I am going to play safe and 0:15:04.140 --> 0:15:05.960 conservative here, and I'm going to take the one that 0:15:05.980 --> 0:15:07.440 I'm pretty sure Jim was going to take. I'm going 0:15:07.460 --> 0:15:11.200 to take the Rockets over 48 and a half. That's 0:15:11.220 --> 0:15:13.710 going to be mine. I think 47 and a half 0:15:13.730 --> 0:15:15.540 is the best in the market. Talked about this over 0:15:15.590 --> 0:15:17.230 and over and over again. I like it the more 0:15:17.430 --> 0:15:20.110 I've thought about it. To be quite honest with you, 0:15:20.130 --> 0:15:22.170 I was thinking through all this and then had the 0:15:22.190 --> 0:15:24.770 realization when he played the other night, like, oh, yeah, 0:15:24.810 --> 0:15:28.470 and they got Marcus Smart. That helps. That just helps. Now, 0:15:28.650 --> 0:15:30.870 maybe it's bad because that means they won't play Reed 0:15:30.910 --> 0:15:34.030 Shepard because E-Mame Doka hates that kid. But I just 0:15:34.050 --> 0:15:35.690 think there's too much. If you want to know why, 0:15:35.730 --> 0:15:37.190 you can listen to any of the podcasts that we've 0:15:37.210 --> 0:15:40.670 done on the future stuff. Rockets Over is, I just 0:15:40.690 --> 0:15:43.050 think it's a really good bet. And I just feel 0:15:43.070 --> 0:15:45.950 like this was very badly mispriced in the market. Okay. 0:15:46.550 --> 0:15:48.730 I'm back to back. So I've got to go again. 0:15:50.430 --> 0:15:54.510 And I'm going to turn. I don't want to do 0:15:54.530 --> 0:15:56.150 my long shot yet. Nope. 0:15:56.430 --> 0:15:56.770 You know what? 0:15:56.970 --> 0:15:58.690 I'm going to keep it simple because I'm going to 0:15:58.870 --> 0:16:01.630 extrapolate on this and try and bank on getting it. 0:16:02.410 --> 0:16:05.070 If I'm right, I'm really right because I'm going to 0:16:05.110 --> 0:16:12.859 take Rockets division plus 650. I think if they're within range, 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.700 the idea here is pretty simple. If the Spurs regress, 0:16:17.540 --> 0:16:21.140 a regression from 60 is greater than a regression from 55. 0:16:21.140 --> 0:16:23.770 It's greater than a regression from 50. So if the 0:16:23.810 --> 0:16:29.070 regression from 60 happens, you're talking about, okay, I think 0:16:29.090 --> 0:16:31.290 it's probably more than three wins. So we're talking more 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.460 about 55, and I've got the Rockets projected at 55 wins. 0:16:34.980 --> 0:16:36.720 So I'm going to go ahead and take Rockets to 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.700 win the Southwest division, beating the San Antonio Spurs for 0:16:40.780 --> 0:16:44.800 it at plus 650. That's going to be mine. Any 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.240 objections to my bet? 0:16:46.260 --> 0:16:49.900 I think that was one of the three best division 0:16:49.940 --> 0:16:51.600 bets possible off the board. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.280 It was my third as well, yeah. 0:16:54.070 --> 0:16:56.590 Okay, Jim, back to you. We're doing Snake. Back to 0:16:56.610 --> 0:16:57.190 you for pick two. 0:16:57.930 --> 0:17:00.630 I'm going to go back to division as well. I'm 0:17:00.670 --> 0:17:04.430 debating between two, one of which because I'm not 100% 0:17:04.430 --> 0:17:06.090 certain on numbers. So someone call me out if this 0:17:06.170 --> 0:17:10.119 is a too stale a number. Lakers division minus 130. Fiddle, 0:17:10.390 --> 0:17:11.280 you got a screen up? 0:17:12.460 --> 0:17:13.020 Are we good there? 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.020 I think it's about right. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:17.220 I'll pull it up for you right now. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:18.940 Okay, I'll get the mini cap. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.780 Yeah, there's minus 120s out there. But yeah, you can 0:17:21.820 --> 0:17:24.350 find minus 130 as well. Okay, perfect. 0:17:24.369 --> 0:17:27.429 So Lakers, the rest of this division is just trash. 0:17:27.530 --> 0:17:30.040 Even if you aren't on Lakers Island with me, you 0:17:30.060 --> 0:17:33.580 have to be on the Suns, the Kings, the Clippers, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.920 or a team that I'm literally forgetting right now. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.340 The Warriors? The Warriors, who I'm all the way out on. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.560 At least Porzingis doesn't have AIDS, like you said today. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:45.340 Oh, no. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.790 Uh, Lakers minus one 20 division. I, I will, I'm 0:17:50.810 --> 0:17:52.710 just going to leave that there and, and throw it 0:17:52.750 --> 0:17:53.410 back to Matt. 0:17:53.910 --> 0:17:55.690 That was wild. Keep going. 0:17:55.970 --> 0:17:59.370 Just keep going. Keep going. 0:17:59.410 --> 0:18:00.770 Lakers minus one 20 division. 0:18:01.390 --> 0:18:01.590 Yeah. 0:18:01.690 --> 0:18:03.629 Hope I hope we're saying this is okay. I genuinely 0:18:03.670 --> 0:18:04.130 hope we're saying. 0:18:04.050 --> 0:18:05.649 Me too, but why did he feel the need to 0:18:05.690 --> 0:18:06.510 put in the last sentence? 0:18:06.570 --> 0:18:08.689 Because that's like how many people I will tell you 0:18:08.710 --> 0:18:11.940 people legitimately were asking about that. Yeah. People have legitimately 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.690 have legitimately been speculating that he has those conditions. which 0:18:15.910 --> 0:18:19.490 is because people are really, really awful. 0:18:20.430 --> 0:18:22.669 Um, he refuted it by the way, for those that 0:18:22.710 --> 0:18:23.250 haven't seen that. 0:18:23.270 --> 0:18:23.910 That was the point. 0:18:23.970 --> 0:18:25.170 Yeah. All right. 0:18:26.230 --> 0:18:29.480 Uh, here's the current board. Jim takes division for the 0:18:29.540 --> 0:18:34.320 Lakers at minus one 30. Um, look, it's a terrible division. 0:18:34.340 --> 0:18:36.080 I have them winning the division and I have them 0:18:36.100 --> 0:18:40.740 at 38 wins. So yeah. So that's how bad that, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.889 that division is a fiddle back to you. Where do 0:18:43.910 --> 0:18:44.240 you want to go? 0:18:45.109 --> 0:18:47.290 Yeah, we're getting a run on the division odds right now. 0:18:47.930 --> 0:18:50.570 That's that's probably the hardest market of these five to 0:18:50.630 --> 0:18:56.060 find value. I'll go with the Atlanta Hawks division plus 0:18:56.060 --> 0:18:59.780 275 in market. They're paired up with the Hornets, who 0:18:59.850 --> 0:19:02.070 I'm personally on a win total under not going to 0:19:02.090 --> 0:19:05.119 give it out here. Magic with a new coach and 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.560 endless injury history. Just ask Brandon about it. Miami Heat 0:19:08.660 --> 0:19:12.410 integrating Giannis and Bam and trying to keep those guys healthy. 0:19:13.070 --> 0:19:14.909 And the Wizards, who let's see what they can do. 0:19:14.950 --> 0:19:17.470 They might be frisky, but not division winners. The Atlanta 0:19:17.490 --> 0:19:20.169 Hawks went on this surge towards the second half of 0:19:20.390 --> 0:19:22.490 last season. And I think a lot of it was 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.520 thought to be kind of fraudulent because they played weak 0:19:26.580 --> 0:19:30.880 teams in that run. And I actually think that's not 0:19:30.980 --> 0:19:34.290 true to actually what they did this summer, bringing in 0:19:34.330 --> 0:19:37.889 Lou Dort, bringing in Aaron Wiggins. I'm totally fine with 0:19:37.910 --> 0:19:41.050 the combination of bigs that they have in Okongwu and Landale. 0:19:41.109 --> 0:19:44.270 I actually think this team has a lot of ways 0:19:44.330 --> 0:19:47.669 to play, and that'll make them really match-up proof in 0:19:47.710 --> 0:19:49.709 a lot of these games. They're the only team that 0:19:49.750 --> 0:19:53.040 took two games off the Knicks all playoffs. So I 0:19:53.340 --> 0:19:56.240 actually think let's not sleep on the Atlanta Hawks. Atlanta 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.880 Hawks division plus 275 is going to be my choice. 0:19:59.900 --> 0:20:03.230 I like this one a lot. I think that this 0:20:03.250 --> 0:20:04.770 has a lot of value. I think betting on the 0:20:04.810 --> 0:20:07.930 instability of the Heat is probably a sound proposition for preseason. 0:20:07.950 --> 0:20:08.070 Yeah. 0:20:08.869 --> 0:20:11.050 It's a terrifying prospect, but I've been thinking a lot 0:20:11.070 --> 0:20:13.110 about today about like, like, look, if you're, you know, 0:20:13.550 --> 0:20:15.590 the way to make money is to scare money. Don't 0:20:15.609 --> 0:20:15.910 make money. 0:20:15.970 --> 0:20:16.150 Right. 0:20:16.390 --> 0:20:17.570 And I just think that if you're going to, if 0:20:17.590 --> 0:20:19.730 you're going to bank on, if you have any question 0:20:19.750 --> 0:20:21.760 at all about Miami, this division is being treated as 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.990 if it's fate accompli. So I just think that there's a, 0:20:24.020 --> 0:20:26.760 there's an opportunity here for Atlanta with very solid coaching, 0:20:27.100 --> 0:20:30.300 more continuity, all of those types of things. So I 0:20:30.300 --> 0:20:32.040 think there's a good opportunity and the dog agrees too. 0:20:32.220 --> 0:20:35.330 So that's a, that's a win as well. All right. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.859 Let's head back. To Joe DeLera. Joe, what do you 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.700 got for us now? I am going to warn you. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:48.550 I will allow one more DK special before I start 0:20:48.570 --> 0:20:49.190 to get itchy. 0:20:51.970 --> 0:20:55.790 So I am going to use DraftKings. Oh, no, it moved. 0:20:55.850 --> 0:20:56.750 Never mind. Not going to do that. 0:20:57.030 --> 0:20:57.390 All right. 0:20:58.170 --> 0:21:01.500 I am going to do a bet here because I 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:01.760 have to. 0:21:04.140 --> 0:21:06.180 It wasn't going to be a normal one until whatever happened. 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:06.620 No, it wasn't. 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:08.520 It actually, it wasn't going to be, it wasn't going 0:21:08.540 --> 0:21:09.260 to be as normal. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:16.100 I'm going to do a bet here is officially the one. 0:21:16.460 --> 0:21:18.980 I'm debating a little bit of which, which market I 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:20.180 wanted to, wanted to kind. 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:20.840 Of nail down here. 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:23.590 But I'm going to actually go to, I'm going to 0:21:23.609 --> 0:21:25.189 go to division as well. And I'm going to go 0:21:25.250 --> 0:21:27.689 heads up a little bit with fiddle here. I'm going 0:21:27.710 --> 0:21:31.730 to grab the Orlando magic to win the division. 0:21:32.380 --> 0:21:33.659 Um, I, I kind of like them. 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.919 I think they're a little bit underpriced right now. Um, 0:21:35.940 --> 0:21:38.609 they're plus two 75. Uh, so kind of like right 0:21:38.630 --> 0:21:41.010 in line with the Hawks. Um, I, it's a little 0:21:41.030 --> 0:21:42.930 bit more of, I think the lineups were actually pretty 0:21:42.990 --> 0:21:45.889 good when they had their main. 0:21:45.730 --> 0:21:49.090 Five players play together. It just, they just never played together. 0:21:49.470 --> 0:21:51.420 So it's more of an issue in terms of the health, 0:21:51.540 --> 0:21:54.200 but I think from a continuity perspective, I liked the 0:21:54.220 --> 0:21:55.620 fact they got a new coach. So I'm not really 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:57.710 worried about that. I think that's a good thing. But 0:21:57.730 --> 0:21:59.710 I think the personnel, like the players, are going to 0:21:59.750 --> 0:22:01.170 be comfortable playing with each other. 0:22:01.190 --> 0:22:03.670 They know each other. They've now been practicing with each other. 0:22:03.690 --> 0:22:06.370 And I think that Desmond Bain had some growing pains 0:22:06.390 --> 0:22:08.369 with them last year. I think that'll be ironed out 0:22:08.390 --> 0:22:11.030 a little bit. But the biggest thing is really this 0:22:11.070 --> 0:22:13.300 is a bet on health and the fact that they 0:22:13.340 --> 0:22:18.340 just weren't really involved in the postseason at all. They're 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:19.840 a team that's going to be healthy. They are a 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:24.220 team that, presumably anyway, they're a team that has basically 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.370 gotten the entire summer off and extended summer Um, and 0:22:27.460 --> 0:22:29.390 I think they, they know that they had a missed 0:22:29.410 --> 0:22:30.150 opportunity there. 0:22:30.570 --> 0:22:33.709 And I think when you look at Franz and Paolo, especially. 0:22:33.170 --> 0:22:36.429 They they're a duo where it doesn't seem like, you know, 0:22:36.470 --> 0:22:38.790 it seems like the vibes are decent between them, but 0:22:38.810 --> 0:22:40.869 I think if something doesn't happen this year, one of 0:22:40.890 --> 0:22:43.350 them's probably gone. I don't know how much longer you 0:22:43.369 --> 0:22:45.409 can really kind of do this. So I think that 0:22:45.430 --> 0:22:47.909 they have, um, definitely a path and they definitely have 0:22:47.930 --> 0:22:50.430 a lot of talent. So I think a plus two 75, 0:22:50.430 --> 0:22:51.109 considering I'm a little. 0:22:51.010 --> 0:22:52.150 Bit lower on Miami. 0:22:52.910 --> 0:22:55.050 This season as well I think this is a pretty 0:22:55.070 --> 0:22:57.290 good opportunity for Orlando a team that we all really 0:22:57.369 --> 0:23:00.389 did like last year and you know they just kind 0:23:00.430 --> 0:23:02.970 of never managed to get up to expectations because. 0:23:02.850 --> 0:23:05.609 Of injuries I don't mind this at all either you 0:23:05.630 --> 0:23:07.510 know for the same reasons I like the Hawks pick 0:23:07.530 --> 0:23:09.780 I don't have a strong feeling on Hawks versus Magic 0:23:10.210 --> 0:23:11.470 I think with the Hawks it's like look at the 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:13.260 last four months of the season with the Magic it's 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:15.379 hey there's a coach that might actually get them to 0:23:15.420 --> 0:23:17.660 put the little ball inside the little net thingy that 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.760 would be nice one time I'm watching the magic and preseason. 0:23:20.780 --> 0:23:22.780 I like a lot of their scheme and structure. Wendell 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:24.939 Carr jr. Is spacing a lot more to the corner 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:27.639 and then crashing on the inside. They're using Franz Wagner 0:23:27.660 --> 0:23:30.770 as primary initiator, maybe getting Palo Banquero off the ball 0:23:30.790 --> 0:23:32.550 a little bit and using him as tip of the spear. 0:23:32.590 --> 0:23:34.590 That might work a little bit better for the offensive side. 0:23:34.609 --> 0:23:36.869 You know, we'll see what the defensive side of this 0:23:37.070 --> 0:23:39.470 looks like and how that kind of works out. They're 0:23:39.510 --> 0:23:42.929 having the Silva shoot in volume on threes. So it 0:23:42.950 --> 0:23:45.109 does look like they're adjusting some of the personnel stuff. 0:23:45.550 --> 0:23:47.609 I think there's, I think these are, these are two 0:23:47.850 --> 0:23:50.920 good coaches. Um, I think Swinney's good. 0:23:50.940 --> 0:23:51.720 I don't know. He's good. 0:23:51.859 --> 0:23:54.860 I know that Snyder is, um, I think it's worth 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.330 the upside pick on it. So I don't necessarily mind it. 0:23:57.380 --> 0:24:00.780 So plus two 75 for fiddle going head to head with, uh, 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.720 or going ahead with Dallara Dallara plus two 75 on 0:24:03.740 --> 0:24:05.740 the magic going head to head with fiddle Hawks plus 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.460 two 75 BK back to you, buddy. What do you 0:24:08.480 --> 0:24:09.140 want for your second pick? 0:24:09.670 --> 0:24:12.590 Yeah, I would assume that you guys would think I'm 0:24:12.670 --> 0:24:16.450 upset about the Magic Division odds getting sniped from me. 0:24:16.470 --> 0:24:18.169 I had to do it. 0:24:18.190 --> 0:24:19.970 I knew you were up. 0:24:20.869 --> 0:24:23.790 Well, I'm going to do the same thing to the 0:24:23.810 --> 0:24:26.280 guy that's in front of me or behind me here. 0:24:27.369 --> 0:24:30.040 And I guess we'll just mop up the remainder of 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:33.620 the division. I like the Hornets 9-1 to win the Southeast. 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:37.680 Woo! This is awesome. 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.000 We got a Southeast run going on here. 0:24:40.020 --> 0:24:41.639 Can we get a bet on if any of these 0:24:41.680 --> 0:24:44.369 teams will be outside of the play-in tournament, like in 0:24:44.390 --> 0:24:46.389 the top six? 0:24:46.510 --> 0:24:49.570 Brian Fonseca has the ability to do the funniest thing 0:24:49.650 --> 0:24:53.670 possible next. But BK, explain the Hornets real quick. 0:24:54.770 --> 0:24:54.970 So. 0:24:56.080 --> 0:24:58.340 I, like the rest of you, find value on this 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:01.760 division because I'm lower on the Miami Heat than what 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.020 the general public would be. I think all of these teams, 0:25:05.260 --> 0:25:09.290 Hornets included, with the Hawks, the Magic, and the Miami Heat, 0:25:09.330 --> 0:25:12.129 are going to be bunched up. So give me the 0:25:12.250 --> 0:25:17.010 longest realistic odds to win it. I genuinely don't understand 0:25:17.670 --> 0:25:21.650 why the Magic are 275 and the Hornets are 9-1. 0:25:21.690 --> 0:25:24.040 It should be much tighter than that. I don't mind 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:29.359 the magic bet from the prediction perspective. I hate the price. 0:25:29.859 --> 0:25:32.359 I like the moves that the Hornets made. Nas Reed, 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:34.859 Grayson Allen. I think they matured a lot as a 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:37.960 group last year. They're freed from the shackles of having 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:41.439 to play lamello ball basketball. This is a serious team 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:44.940 with elite coaching. They got hot late last year. If 0:25:44.980 --> 0:25:48.080 they're able to start the season that way, they're going 0:25:48.100 --> 0:25:50.620 to have a nice little runway here to at least 0:25:50.660 --> 0:25:52.160 be in this race at the end with a nice 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:52.920 nine to one ticket. 0:25:53.750 --> 0:25:55.350 I mean, I think you're going to be freed from 0:25:55.490 --> 0:25:59.030 the shackles of lamello basketball and scoring, like hitting like 0:25:59.030 --> 0:26:00.990 10 less threes a game. I think he drove the 0:26:01.030 --> 0:26:04.650 entire offense and I get the like serious, unserious argument, 0:26:05.210 --> 0:26:07.480 but like they were pretty serious when they were like 0:26:07.500 --> 0:26:09.860 a plus 14 net rating team in the second half. 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:11.340 And I think he was a large part of that. 0:26:11.740 --> 0:26:13.639 I also think that there's a chance that like the 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:15.780 schemes that Charles Lee, I think Charles, he's a great coach, 0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:17.680 but I think those schemes maybe get learned a little bit. 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.310 So I'm lower on the Hornets. Um, But again, I 0:26:21.550 --> 0:26:24.550 never mind these teams that you're not high on. I 0:26:24.590 --> 0:26:27.050 actually don't mind taking the long shot. So I agree 0:26:27.070 --> 0:26:29.460 that there's value somewhere in that division, and it would 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:31.700 be really funny if Brian finished this out here. 0:26:33.020 --> 0:26:36.270 Yeah, just to review this, we have gone five straight 0:26:36.470 --> 0:26:39.940 division bets. So if you're... I hope nobody is like 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:41.689 stepped away and was like, Oh, I can't wait until 0:26:41.710 --> 0:26:44.770 they get to the division bets later. Uh, rockets plus 0:26:44.790 --> 0:26:47.210 six 50 was mine. Lakers minus one 30 was turkeys 0:26:47.730 --> 0:26:50.510 fiddle went with Hawks plus two 75. Delara went magic. 0:26:50.790 --> 0:26:53.550 And then Kravitz went Hornets plus 900 on the back 0:26:53.590 --> 0:26:56.330 of extreme Lamello ball. Hey, which I honestly, I kind 0:26:56.350 --> 0:27:00.890 of respect. Um, all right, Brian, you have the ability 0:27:00.950 --> 0:27:02.770 to do something extremely funny here. 0:27:03.450 --> 0:27:07.149 The funniest thing possible. Um, would be for me to 0:27:07.190 --> 0:27:08.930 just take the heat division right now. 0:27:09.630 --> 0:27:13.510 Just a lengthy season long heat money line play from Brian. 0:27:15.890 --> 0:27:18.169 It's even funnier with it being Brian for sure. 0:27:18.630 --> 0:27:23.230 Unsurprisingly, I'm not as low on them as you guys are. Unsurprisingly. 0:27:24.010 --> 0:27:26.550 Now I shouldn't take a division bet now because I 0:27:26.890 --> 0:27:28.550 don't have to, since all of you. 0:27:28.510 --> 0:27:31.470 Pretty much already did. I'm going to do that anyway. 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:33.800 I'm going to go to the. 0:27:34.820 --> 0:27:36.680 That was the funniest thing that I thought. 0:27:36.760 --> 0:27:39.000 Still doing the funniest thing possible. 0:27:39.020 --> 0:27:41.369 Brian being the stuff at the top of this draft 0:27:41.420 --> 0:27:42.920 is the best thing that's ever happened. 0:27:42.980 --> 0:27:43.730 We're on a roll. 0:27:43.869 --> 0:27:45.590 We got to keep it going for the content. So 0:27:45.650 --> 0:27:48.010 I'm going to the Atlantic division. I'm going to the 0:27:48.050 --> 0:27:50.930 Atlantic division. I'm going to the Atlantic division. I'm taking 0:27:50.950 --> 0:27:54.170 the Celtics plus 215. It's the right choice. 0:27:54.210 --> 0:27:55.070 This was second on mine. 0:27:55.230 --> 0:27:55.350 Yeah. 0:27:55.390 --> 0:27:57.710 Celtics plus 210. 0:27:59.140 --> 0:28:04.230 There's a 2-15, 2-10. There's a 2-15 out there, though. Yeah. 0:28:06.350 --> 0:28:08.390 I don't love them as a playoff team, I don't think, 0:28:08.450 --> 0:28:10.550 but we'll see. I do like them as a regular 0:28:10.570 --> 0:28:13.690 season team, though. I'm expecting the Sixers to be kind 0:28:13.710 --> 0:28:16.470 of wonky again all year because they're always fucking like this. 0:28:18.420 --> 0:28:20.200 I think people are getting a little bit too high 0:28:20.240 --> 0:28:23.280 on the Raptors, although I feel better about them in 0:28:23.300 --> 0:28:26.139 the playoffs, if Kawhi is healthy, of course, than in 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:26.899 the regular season. 0:28:26.980 --> 0:28:27.820 And then with the Knicks. 0:28:29.260 --> 0:28:31.300 I think they're going to walk into 50 wins. I 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:33.900 don't know how much more than that they're going to get. 0:28:33.920 --> 0:28:37.200 I think it might just be capped at like 51 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:39.560 or something along those lines. I actually think Boston's regular 0:28:39.580 --> 0:28:41.960 season upside is really good. I don't know if they'll 0:28:41.980 --> 0:28:44.910 win a playoff series, but I think the regular season 0:28:44.950 --> 0:28:45.810 upside is really good. 0:28:46.370 --> 0:28:48.770 I like, I like, I like this bet. I'm going to, 0:28:48.850 --> 0:28:50.690 I'm like, I'm going to have this in Raptors. I'm basically, 0:28:50.730 --> 0:28:55.190 you know, fading Nick Sixers, um, and that's obviously, but I, 0:28:55.530 --> 0:28:57.410 I like this bet at plus two 50. I still 0:28:57.430 --> 0:28:57.910 think there's value. 0:28:57.950 --> 0:29:00.190 So instead of the heat, me of all people take 0:29:00.210 --> 0:29:01.430 the Celtics at the end. 0:29:01.470 --> 0:29:03.470 That's pretty great too, is that you get to every 0:29:03.510 --> 0:29:05.150 time that you're pissed off at the Celtics one again 0:29:05.170 --> 0:29:07.570 with their bullshit Missoula bowl, you get to be like, 0:29:07.630 --> 0:29:09.930 but I'm closer to my division back. 0:29:10.130 --> 0:29:12.060 Look, I like Jalen Brown. I kind of think their 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:14.660 team makes a lot of sense without him there though. Unfortunately. 0:29:14.760 --> 0:29:16.920 All right. You get back to back. This is a snake. 0:29:16.940 --> 0:29:18.160 So you get to go, but go again, Brian, what 0:29:18.180 --> 0:29:18.520 do you want? 0:29:18.980 --> 0:29:21.000 Warriors under 38 and a half wins. 0:29:21.540 --> 0:29:21.720 Okay. 0:29:21.820 --> 0:29:22.560 I was asleep. 0:29:22.620 --> 0:29:25.410 I was, I was thinking this wouldn't make it back 0:29:25.430 --> 0:29:27.690 to me maybe, but this made it back and I 0:29:27.730 --> 0:29:28.470 have to take them now. 0:29:28.510 --> 0:29:29.730 I just don't see it with this team. 0:29:30.330 --> 0:29:33.390 They're a Steph Curry injury away from being the Eric Pascal, 0:29:33.430 --> 0:29:34.690 D'Angelo Russell Warriors. 0:29:35.490 --> 0:29:38.630 Like, I don't think this team is that good. I 0:29:39.050 --> 0:29:39.970 think Yaxo Candy. 0:29:40.090 --> 0:29:40.290 Good. 0:29:40.310 --> 0:29:43.950 I think Pojemski is probably not as good as people, 0:29:44.660 --> 0:29:47.280 the most optimistic Pojemski people think he's going to be. 0:29:47.340 --> 0:29:49.560 But the contract that he signed, I thought was fine 0:29:49.580 --> 0:29:54.260 or can be fine. Draymond is basically like, if Steph 0:29:54.300 --> 0:29:56.340 is there, cool. If he's not, I don't know if 0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.690 he's going to give a shit. We've seen that already. 0:29:59.110 --> 0:30:01.790 And then Chris Asperzingas, this is not ready. 0:30:01.810 --> 0:30:02.430 He's not healthy. 0:30:02.470 --> 0:30:05.710 We don't know what to expect there. This was originally 0:30:05.750 --> 0:30:08.650 at like 40 earlier in the offseason. It's been dropping. 0:30:08.730 --> 0:30:11.690 I still don't mind it at 38.5. I think this 0:30:11.710 --> 0:30:14.410 should really be in like the mid-30s, and I could 0:30:14.430 --> 0:30:15.570 see them being under even that. 0:30:16.490 --> 0:30:21.870 All right, Warriors under 38.5 for Fonseca. We have four 0:30:21.910 --> 0:30:25.210 win totals off the board. We have five division bets 0:30:25.290 --> 0:30:27.230 off the board. We have two title bets off the board. 0:30:27.930 --> 0:30:30.350 including whatever the fuck it was, Joe, Joe, the, and 0:30:30.450 --> 0:30:34.060 flag most improved player won award off the board. Joe, 0:30:34.100 --> 0:30:36.650 we are, uh, sorry, BK. We're back to you. 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:37.120 BK. 0:30:37.140 --> 0:30:38.560 What do you want for your third pick? 0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:41.460 I'm just going to bag a win here. I'll take 0:30:41.500 --> 0:30:47.240 an easy dub in around three. Victor, when Benyama MVP 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:49.940 plus two 10, please. 0:30:49.980 --> 0:30:50.840 And thank you. 0:30:51.480 --> 0:30:54.010 If he plays 65 games, I just don't see a 0:30:54.030 --> 0:30:57.830 world where the Spurs aren't elite and And the case 0:30:57.930 --> 0:31:02.020 for who made the biggest impact in winning isn't Victor Wimbenyama. 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:06.720 I mean, what he's able to do defensively to impact games, 0:31:07.220 --> 0:31:12.010 the improvements on offense, the guy is still super young. 0:31:12.270 --> 0:31:16.050 Last year, they were way ahead of schedule. This is 0:31:16.070 --> 0:31:18.910 supposed to be the year where he becomes the guy. 0:31:18.930 --> 0:31:19.000 And. 0:31:20.050 --> 0:31:23.630 I mean, this is preordained stuff, even more so than LeBron. 0:31:23.670 --> 0:31:27.490 LeBron's first MVP was in the 0809 season. I went 0:31:27.530 --> 0:31:30.030 back and looked at what the preseason odds were. He 0:31:30.070 --> 0:31:32.890 was five to one. He was fourth on the board 0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:36.820 in the we've decided as an NBA collective that this 0:31:36.900 --> 0:31:39.660 is now LeBron's league. Well, we have done the same 0:31:39.740 --> 0:31:43.900 thing with Victor Wimbinyama here in the year of 2026, 0:31:43.900 --> 0:31:47.140 and he's plus 210 because he's just that good. 0:31:47.540 --> 0:31:49.020 So yeah, I don't add that one to the sheet. 0:31:49.450 --> 0:31:52.580 Yeah, man. I mean, look, I was talking about this 0:31:52.600 --> 0:31:54.580 with Turby today on One Bet for Every Team. Go 0:31:54.620 --> 0:31:57.020 listen to that podcast. Jim killed that podcast today. Go 0:31:57.040 --> 0:32:01.780 listen to that. I tried so hard to find a 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:03.520 way to fade the Spurs, and I got to the 0:32:03.540 --> 0:32:06.620 end of it and was just like, shit, can't. They're 0:32:06.640 --> 0:32:09.200 just going to win 62 games, and that's going to happen. 0:32:09.240 --> 0:32:11.640 The women's going to win MVP. I don't mind this 0:32:11.680 --> 0:32:14.900 at all. This is basically just like the season. You're 0:32:14.940 --> 0:32:19.630 getting plus 210 on the season goes as expected. That's 0:32:19.650 --> 0:32:22.440 a really good price. Like that's just a really good price. 0:32:22.880 --> 0:32:24.840 Last year, they like went out of their way to 0:32:24.900 --> 0:32:28.760 get him that DPOI too. And I was very surprised 0:32:28.780 --> 0:32:31.540 by that. And I can't tell if that was like 0:32:31.580 --> 0:32:33.220 to get him his first award or if they're like, 0:32:33.300 --> 0:32:34.220 or if that's a him thing. 0:32:34.260 --> 0:32:36.940 And he's like, I want to thing. Yeah. And you 0:32:36.960 --> 0:32:39.060 think they'll like, they'll bow to that again. 0:32:39.100 --> 0:32:39.380 You think? 0:32:39.940 --> 0:32:40.100 Yep. 0:32:40.540 --> 0:32:43.820 I think, I think that the Spurs have never encountered 0:32:43.880 --> 0:32:47.270 a player with the ambitions that he has. Yeah. Tim 0:32:47.310 --> 0:32:51.230 Duncan was elite and set an extremely high bar of success. 0:32:51.350 --> 0:32:54.910 And so did David Robinson. But they also weren't like, 0:32:55.100 --> 0:32:58.760 I want to be the biggest superstar in the world. 0:32:58.940 --> 0:33:01.620 And that's what women Yama wants. So, yeah, it's a 0:33:01.620 --> 0:33:04.040 little different. All right. Delera third pick. 0:33:05.140 --> 0:33:05.360 All right. 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:07.890 So I'm going to do I am going to do 0:33:07.910 --> 0:33:08.250 an award. 0:33:09.050 --> 0:33:11.110 And the award that I'm going to do is an 0:33:11.210 --> 0:33:14.490 All-NBA award. And there's been two bets that I've been 0:33:14.650 --> 0:33:16.890 waffling with, one of which I think I gave out 0:33:16.930 --> 0:33:19.080 on one of the shows. So I'm not going to 0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:20.420 do that one. I'm going to do a different one. 0:33:20.980 --> 0:33:23.180 And it's going to be to be named to any 0:33:23.640 --> 0:33:26.080 All-NBA team. So we can go a little bit further down. 0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:29.180 And I think that this is a good, this would 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:31.930 be like a good stepstool spot for Fiddle's bet. 0:33:32.150 --> 0:33:35.030 But Cooper Flag to be named to any All-NBA team 0:33:35.130 --> 0:33:36.010 at four to one. 0:33:36.870 --> 0:33:37.370 I like this. 0:33:37.390 --> 0:33:38.290 It's on DraftKings. 0:33:38.740 --> 0:33:41.260 I think that he is a player, again, that is 0:33:41.360 --> 0:33:43.880 going to be in a situation where I think he's 0:33:43.900 --> 0:33:46.120 going to play enough games. I think that the team 0:33:46.160 --> 0:33:48.140 might be bad. But I also think that he's going 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:53.560 to get enough national attention and national looks where I 0:33:53.580 --> 0:33:56.070 think the stats are going to improve. He was excellent 0:33:56.140 --> 0:33:59.690 as a rookie. And I think he is uber talented. 0:34:00.130 --> 0:34:03.520 So I think with Dallas and just the structure of it, 0:34:03.590 --> 0:34:06.090 I think that Kyrie should help him to a degree. 0:34:06.820 --> 0:34:10.480 We'll see if that necessarily works out that way. So 0:34:10.540 --> 0:34:12.440 if Kyrie does help and the team's better, I think 0:34:12.460 --> 0:34:16.980 that that kind of boosts that situation. If Kyrie, if 0:34:17.040 --> 0:34:19.719 the match doesn't really work and the Mavericks aren't necessarily good, 0:34:19.760 --> 0:34:20.680 then he's going to get to put up a ton 0:34:20.700 --> 0:34:23.279 of empty stats, I think. And those numbers are going 0:34:23.300 --> 0:34:25.860 to pop. So I think a four to one, it's 0:34:25.900 --> 0:34:28.160 a way to bet on Cooper flag. And I think 0:34:28.180 --> 0:34:30.259 there's a number of guys that are listed here in 0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:34.520 like the all NBA realm at minus money. that like, 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:36.020 I don't know if they're going to play enough games. 0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:39.100 I mean, you have like Halliburton's coming back from injury, 0:34:39.180 --> 0:34:43.580 Kevin Durant, you know, it just is getting older. Steph 0:34:43.620 --> 0:34:46.560 Curry continues in this games. Kawhi Leonard has rarely been 0:34:46.640 --> 0:34:49.620 eligible lately. You don't know what's going on with Jason Tatum. 0:34:49.820 --> 0:34:52.339 And we've seen from the guys at the top, whether 0:34:52.360 --> 0:34:56.770 it's Giannis or Luca in particular, like they seem to 0:34:57.070 --> 0:34:59.739 not necessarily always play enough games either. So I think 0:34:59.780 --> 0:35:02.060 there's plenty of opportunity for him to be a guy 0:35:02.080 --> 0:35:04.830 that steps up into that like upper echelon of the 0:35:04.930 --> 0:35:07.669 NBA and is anointed into an all NBA team, whether 0:35:07.710 --> 0:35:08.710 it's one, two or three. 0:35:08.830 --> 0:35:11.370 So at four to one, I like it for Cooper flag. 0:35:11.930 --> 0:35:12.149 Yeah. 0:35:12.250 --> 0:35:15.190 I mean, look, I, I argued, I asked this question on, 0:35:15.370 --> 0:35:17.870 on locked on NBA and I meant it. I have 0:35:17.910 --> 0:35:20.990 Kevin Durant entering the season as the 15th best player 0:35:21.010 --> 0:35:23.320 in the league. And I said, at the end of 0:35:23.360 --> 0:35:25.219 the season, do you think that we will consider Cooper 0:35:25.260 --> 0:35:28.390 flag to be better than Kevin Durant at age 38? 0:35:28.390 --> 0:35:29.830 that's how high I think you have to be on 0:35:29.850 --> 0:35:30.410 Cooper flag. 0:35:30.770 --> 0:35:31.629 That's how good that gets. 0:35:32.410 --> 0:35:32.629 Yeah. 0:35:32.790 --> 0:35:35.640 And I, and I think that with the positionless voting 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:37.520 for all NBA, I think that actually helps him a 0:35:37.660 --> 0:35:39.960 lot too. Uh, because some of the players that are 0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:44.580 like priced around him are Paolo, Joel Embiid, Evan Mobley, 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:47.940 Chet Holmgren, Jamal Murray. Um, like those are the guys 0:35:48.140 --> 0:35:50.440 right around him. And I think that you can make 0:35:50.480 --> 0:35:53.180 a case that he has a season and just catapults 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:55.540 a lot of those guys where you know, MB is 0:35:55.600 --> 0:35:57.350 never going to play enough games. So, I mean, plus 0:35:57.370 --> 0:36:00.230 four 75 to me is nuts, but you know, I 0:36:00.250 --> 0:36:01.950 think that you could make the argument that flags better 0:36:01.969 --> 0:36:04.029 than Paolo right now. He's better than Mobley right now. 0:36:05.050 --> 0:36:06.690 I don't think the defense is as good as what 0:36:06.730 --> 0:36:08.489 chat does, but on the offensive side of the ball, 0:36:08.530 --> 0:36:11.830 he's certainly better than chat. So I think that that's 0:36:11.930 --> 0:36:13.860 four to one is a great price for flag to 0:36:13.880 --> 0:36:14.799 make an all NBA team. 0:36:14.820 --> 0:36:16.160 Okay. 0:36:16.180 --> 0:36:18.640 Can I ask a semantics question is all NBA. Do 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:21.450 you guys consider that an award? I love the bet. 0:36:21.469 --> 0:36:23.009 I'm not, I'm not having a gripe, but I. 0:36:23.370 --> 0:36:25.630 And Brian already asked if we could use it and 0:36:25.670 --> 0:36:27.690 I told him yes. So it does qualify. 0:36:27.730 --> 0:36:28.850 No, I love it. I think it's great. 0:36:29.989 --> 0:36:32.690 Um, it is an accolade. We should have named it accolade, 0:36:32.810 --> 0:36:35.250 but I'm told that I use two fancy words. 0:36:35.969 --> 0:36:36.450 Uh, all right. 0:36:36.489 --> 0:36:41.190 Holiday player of the month or something. I, we would 0:36:41.230 --> 0:36:43.270 definitely bet on player of the month if we could fiddle. 0:36:43.350 --> 0:36:43.770 Oh my God. 0:36:43.870 --> 0:36:47.899 Love it. Your market, Carl Anthony towns. Um, Yeah. Okay. 0:36:47.980 --> 0:36:50.160 I'm going to go with a win total here. And 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:52.660 there's a lot of teams that we've talked about that 0:36:52.700 --> 0:36:55.129 I feel like I could give good win totals for, 0:36:55.190 --> 0:36:57.029 but I think I have the make can make the 0:36:57.070 --> 0:37:01.390 most interesting case, uh, for OKC over 61 and a 0:37:01.430 --> 0:37:03.700 half wins this year. And I think that's like the, 0:37:03.820 --> 0:37:07.120 the one with the most interesting handicap to explain. Um, 0:37:07.840 --> 0:37:10.980 there seems to be a deflating of the top wind 0:37:11.020 --> 0:37:14.160 totals and an inflating of the bottom wind totals given 0:37:14.260 --> 0:37:20.610 tanking and NBA lottery reform changes, the 3-2-1 rules. And 0:37:20.650 --> 0:37:23.910 so there's this theory around the NBA circles that, okay, well, 0:37:24.230 --> 0:37:27.050 the best teams are not going to get as easy 0:37:27.090 --> 0:37:31.029 of wins against some of these bottom feeders. 17.5 point 0:37:31.050 --> 0:37:33.350 spreads are going to become 12.5, 11.5 point spreads, and 0:37:33.370 --> 0:37:37.009 you're going to get more dogs that win outright. I mean, 0:37:37.780 --> 0:37:39.569 a seven and a half point dog will still be 0:37:39.660 --> 0:37:42.170 equally as likely year over year versus seven and a 0:37:42.170 --> 0:37:44.529 half point dog. But, you know, we're not going to 0:37:44.550 --> 0:37:48.150 see as many 20 point spreads this year. I actually 0:37:48.190 --> 0:37:52.150 think it's still an 82 game season. Here's the handicap. 0:37:52.190 --> 0:37:53.989 It's still an 82 game season and you're going to 0:37:54.030 --> 0:37:56.930 have to take nights off somewhere. And these teams are 0:37:56.950 --> 0:37:59.410 still going to want to prioritize wins to stay above 0:37:59.530 --> 0:38:02.049 the relegation zone. And so I think if you're looking 0:38:02.090 --> 0:38:05.270 at a schedule spot where say you have OKC and 0:38:05.290 --> 0:38:09.020 then the Lakers in two more nights, I think OKC 0:38:09.060 --> 0:38:12.640 is going to get probably the most amount of best 0:38:12.719 --> 0:38:15.860 player on opposing teams sitting that night still. And a 0:38:15.900 --> 0:38:17.759 lot of them are just going to say, this is 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:19.279 the one where we're not going to try and go 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:22.660 overboard for the win. Let's focus on the Lakers tomorrow 0:38:22.700 --> 0:38:24.859 night or two nights from now. So I actually think 0:38:24.900 --> 0:38:27.860 that OKC is pseudo going to face a much easier 0:38:27.940 --> 0:38:30.600 schedule than expected. And we're going to get like the 0:38:30.660 --> 0:38:34.660 pseudo tank teams playing against OKC in the fact that 0:38:34.700 --> 0:38:37.160 they're not going to see as many star players playing 0:38:37.200 --> 0:38:40.160 against them. So I'm going to go with OKC over 0:38:40.160 --> 0:38:43.040 61 and a half. I think they've gotten better year 0:38:43.100 --> 0:38:45.840 over year. Hopefully stay healthy. A lot of that is J-Dub. 0:38:46.660 --> 0:38:50.219 But the late addition of McCain obviously was fruitful in 0:38:50.239 --> 0:38:53.700 the playoffs. Morrow looks incredible. He looks like a baby 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.279 between Hartenstein and Wemby. And so we'll see what he 0:38:56.320 --> 0:38:58.430 can do. And so I'm going to go with the 0:38:58.770 --> 0:39:02.110 OKC over 61 and a half. Easier schedule than expected. 0:39:03.420 --> 0:39:05.680 That's an obnoxiously good cap, Fiddle. 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:06.780 It's so sharp. 0:39:07.520 --> 0:39:10.680 That was so sharp. I had not thought about that, 0:39:10.700 --> 0:39:13.200 that they're literally going to be like, we can rest 0:39:13.239 --> 0:39:16.720 them on this night because we're going to lose it anyway. 0:39:17.280 --> 0:39:17.480 Yeah. 0:39:18.420 --> 0:39:21.069 We can't risk losing against such a low, against such 0:39:21.090 --> 0:39:21.330 a low. 0:39:21.370 --> 0:39:24.350 We have Portland tomorrow night. Let's go for the Portland 0:39:24.530 --> 0:39:26.370 one and skip the OKC one. 0:39:26.510 --> 0:39:27.870 Fuck you, Fiddle. That's annoying. 0:39:27.910 --> 0:39:30.110 Good, right? I'm going to go add more to it. 0:39:30.140 --> 0:39:30.890 Get the knives out. 0:39:30.910 --> 0:39:35.100 I like it. I like it. Jim Turvey, your next bet. 0:39:35.460 --> 0:39:38.010 It has me shaking with my Spurs understock that I have, 0:39:38.030 --> 0:39:39.629 because that is a really good point. 0:39:39.650 --> 0:39:41.710 All right, I'm going to go to award. The smart 0:39:41.730 --> 0:39:43.430 thing would definitely be to do title, but I just 0:39:43.489 --> 0:39:44.770 kind of hate all. 0:39:44.610 --> 0:39:46.210 Of these teams for title. So I'm going to make 0:39:46.330 --> 0:39:48.669 you guys make me make a pick. So I'll do 0:39:48.890 --> 0:39:52.129 Will Hardy coach of the year, 12 to one. Talked 0:39:52.150 --> 0:39:53.830 about this on the pod with Matt a little bit. 0:39:53.850 --> 0:39:55.069 So I'll do a briefer thing. 0:39:56.270 --> 0:39:58.830 Favorites typically aren't great in coach of the year. It's 0:39:58.850 --> 0:40:00.509 kind of a weirdly priced market where you kind of 0:40:00.530 --> 0:40:02.000 want to sneak up on people. It's like one of 0:40:02.020 --> 0:40:02.480 those ones. 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:05.430 But we have seen it two years ago. Dagnall came 0:40:05.469 --> 0:40:08.130 into the season as the favorite. He was kind of 0:40:08.170 --> 0:40:10.530 similar timelines where he kind of paid his dues. Everyone 0:40:10.570 --> 0:40:12.489 knew he was a very smart coach with a team 0:40:12.530 --> 0:40:15.250 about to pop. Shout out BK. I was looking at 0:40:15.290 --> 0:40:17.810 Jazz 45 plus for one of my long shots as well. 0:40:17.910 --> 0:40:19.870 All over the Jazz this year. I do really like them. 0:40:20.510 --> 0:40:22.850 This is my way to play them at a decent number. 0:40:22.870 --> 0:40:25.550 You can get 12 to 1 out there for Will Hardy. 0:40:25.350 --> 0:40:26.109 Coach of the year. 0:40:26.150 --> 0:40:28.700 He's kind of like the hipster, buzzy favorite. I don't 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:30.950 think it will take much for them to be in 0:40:30.969 --> 0:40:32.200 the conversation for him to win this award. 0:40:32.930 --> 0:40:33.569 Yep. Good pick. 0:40:33.840 --> 0:40:36.279 I have no argument against this. This is a totally 0:40:36.300 --> 0:40:39.640 good pick. I think it's in particular, this doesn't require 0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:41.620 you to actually believe in the jazz. It just asks you, 0:40:41.780 --> 0:40:44.600 it requires you to believe if the jazz are better 0:40:44.620 --> 0:40:47.279 than expected, they're much better than expected. If they're much 0:40:47.300 --> 0:40:49.430 better than expected, will Hardy is likely to win coach 0:40:49.450 --> 0:40:53.950 of the year. And like that logic absolutely checks out. So, uh, 0:40:54.010 --> 0:40:56.370 I like that pick. Uh, I'm going to go chalk 0:40:56.989 --> 0:41:00.150 for my next one. I'm going cam boozer rookie of 0:41:00.170 --> 0:41:04.600 the year. Um, I thought about Ace Bailey. I really 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:06.640 like the Ace Bailey six man of the year bet 0:41:06.700 --> 0:41:12.530 I've been throwing around. I really like that. I'm probably 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:14.989 also going to bet Ace Bailey most improved player because 0:41:15.030 --> 0:41:16.489 I'm worried that what's going to happen is that he's 0:41:16.530 --> 0:41:19.750 actually going to take Peterson's spot or that he's going 0:41:19.770 --> 0:41:21.370 to start two and they're going to start Jackson at 0:41:21.390 --> 0:41:23.530 the five. There's all these ways in which that happens. 0:41:23.790 --> 0:41:25.850 So I will be on Ace Bailey. Back to Cam Boozer. 0:41:26.070 --> 0:41:30.239 Blood for the blood God. Cam Boozer is un-fucking-believable. He 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:32.880 is already one of my five favorite players in the league, 0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:35.400 and he hasn't played a single minute. He is unreal. 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:38.920 There is so much stuff that he does. And he 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:42.360 is the type of player that busts all of our conventional, oh, 0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:44.919 this is the profile. You have to do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0:41:45.340 --> 0:41:47.239 Everybody that watches him is going to be like, oh, 0:41:47.680 --> 0:41:49.120 that's the best guy. That's the best guy by far. 0:41:49.440 --> 0:41:53.560 He looks so goddamn polished already. He is leaps and 0:41:53.660 --> 0:41:55.799 bounds above the polish of the other guys. And I've like, 0:41:56.239 --> 0:41:59.410 I watched Caleb Wilson and Darren Peterson in person. And 0:41:59.430 --> 0:42:01.970 I've watched A.J. DeBonta, and I've watched all these other guys. 0:42:02.250 --> 0:42:04.550 Yaxha Lindenborg is going to be great, but those guys 0:42:04.670 --> 0:42:07.839 at that draft range usually don't win. Cam Boozer is 0:42:08.020 --> 0:42:11.040 unreal right away. I do think that this Memphis Grizzlies 0:42:11.060 --> 0:42:12.819 team is set up to succeed. He is the type 0:42:12.980 --> 0:42:16.300 of big that Asala likes. Cam Boozer, plus 300, rookie 0:42:16.440 --> 0:42:17.080 of the year. 0:42:17.180 --> 0:42:17.540 Let's go. 0:42:19.910 --> 0:42:23.230 I will follow that up with my long shot, which 0:42:23.290 --> 0:42:26.410 is going to be, I am going to go with, 0:42:27.700 --> 0:42:31.200 Celtics Sixers Eastern Conference Finals 14-1. 0:42:31.320 --> 0:42:31.720 Wow. 0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:39.469 Joe is booing because I had to find a way 0:42:39.510 --> 0:42:41.710 to fade the Knicks in this podcast as I will 0:42:41.730 --> 0:42:45.649 be doing almost every single episode of the season. But yeah, look, 0:42:46.110 --> 0:42:49.930 I think Boston is going to win 55-ish games. I 0:42:49.989 --> 0:42:51.910 think that the Sixers are not going to win that 0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:53.239 many games. But I do think they're going to be 0:42:53.260 --> 0:42:55.799 a better team in the playoffs than they are I 0:42:56.180 --> 0:42:57.520 think there's a very good chance they're going to be 0:42:57.540 --> 0:43:00.259 able to manage Joel Embiid, who is lighter. I think 0:43:00.280 --> 0:43:01.960 the Sixers are going to struggle in the regular season. 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:04.719 I'm on their win total under. They are the exact 0:43:04.739 --> 0:43:06.380 type of team that by the playoffs, it's like, oh, 0:43:06.620 --> 0:43:08.160 it took us a while, but we figured out who 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:10.219 we are. We know how to do, we know how 0:43:10.260 --> 0:43:13.239 to build around each other. We know how to play together. Yes, 0:43:13.510 --> 0:43:16.390 there are injury concerns. I have injury concerns with everybody. 0:43:16.450 --> 0:43:18.710 The Thunder had injury concerns last year and it probably 0:43:18.730 --> 0:43:22.780 cost them another title. the Sixers still have an incredible 0:43:22.800 --> 0:43:25.480 collection of talent. Nick nurse is a championship level coach. 0:43:25.860 --> 0:43:28.299 They have the depth. They have the site. Like I 0:43:28.340 --> 0:43:30.980 know the center position is Jim's talked about this. I'm 0:43:31.000 --> 0:43:33.080 big on a Dem Bono. So like, I'm not as 0:43:33.120 --> 0:43:35.739 terrified of the center stuff as some other people are. 0:43:36.040 --> 0:43:37.779 And they've got some maneuverability in season to be able 0:43:37.820 --> 0:43:39.200 to go make a move. They have to, they can 0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:42.859 fiddle with Anthony Simons is contracted. They need to, sorry 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:45.980 to mention fiddle, but like, I, I like this a lot. 0:43:46.060 --> 0:43:48.759 Celtic Sixers, 14 to one Eastern conference finals. I don't 0:43:48.780 --> 0:43:51.330 want the calves. I don't want a Southeast division team. 0:43:51.350 --> 0:43:56.380 I do not want the Knicks. I'm actively against the Knicks. Celtics, Sixers, 0:43:56.460 --> 0:44:00.430 Eastern Conference Finals, 14-1 is my long shot. Jim Turvey, 0:44:00.530 --> 0:44:00.870 back to you. 0:44:02.030 --> 0:44:03.930 All right. I don't think I can avoid it any longer. 0:44:03.950 --> 0:44:06.810 I'm going to do title and I'll partially explain why 0:44:06.830 --> 0:44:08.880 I was so rude to Fonseca with his first pick 0:44:08.890 --> 0:44:10.779 of the draft, because I did a little look this 0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:13.600 off season. And cause we think of, I think we 0:44:13.620 --> 0:44:16.460 think of this new era where there's all these non-repeat 0:44:16.500 --> 0:44:18.940 winners as like a little bit more chaotic. 0:44:19.060 --> 0:44:21.400 Like, like we see teams coming out of nowhere to 0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:21.940 win titles. 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:25.220 The sneaky thing is that it actually hasn't really happened. 0:44:25.239 --> 0:44:27.299 It's kind of the noise of the regular season that 0:44:27.340 --> 0:44:29.000 makes it seem that way. If you look, go back 0:44:29.040 --> 0:44:31.620 and look at preseason odds for the title winners and 0:44:32.040 --> 0:44:35.920 since kind of the dynasty's era, you know, 2018. So 2019, 0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:40.110 Raptors had the fifth longest, Lakers second, Bucks second, Warriors third, 0:44:40.550 --> 0:44:44.010 Nuggets ninth is the longest, but then Celtics first, Thunder second, 0:44:44.110 --> 0:44:45.730 and Knicks even were fourth last year. 0:44:45.790 --> 0:44:48.670 So we only have one title team, even in this 0:44:48.730 --> 0:44:51.690 supposedly spread out era, outside of the top five in 0:44:51.750 --> 0:44:53.830 terms of odds at the start of the season. 0:44:54.770 --> 0:44:57.310 Now, maybe we're starting, we are starting to, you know, 0:44:57.330 --> 0:44:59.490 we got a fourth last season, we got ninth four 0:44:59.510 --> 0:45:01.969 years ago. Maybe there's some trend here. but basketball is 0:45:01.989 --> 0:45:03.489 still a sport where we kind of know at the 0:45:03.530 --> 0:45:05.029 start of season who the best teams are. 0:45:05.050 --> 0:45:07.310 I don't really love any of these. 0:45:07.670 --> 0:45:10.109 Joe, Joe got kind of the good way to play 0:45:10.170 --> 0:45:12.600 a thunder. I love, I absolutely love that play that 0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:14.360 Joe had. I'll go the other side of it. I 0:45:14.380 --> 0:45:16.620 guess I'm low on the Spurs in general, but I 0:45:16.700 --> 0:45:18.640 do think that I want to be on one of 0:45:18.660 --> 0:45:20.719 these short numbers. And I do think that they match 0:45:20.780 --> 0:45:23.319 up really well with the thunder, like that matchup. If 0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:26.250 they are healthy, I do think that the Spurs will 0:45:26.270 --> 0:45:28.759 win that series. So I think, Listen, I don't love 0:45:28.780 --> 0:45:31.320 the number of Spurs plus 270, but we really haven't 0:45:31.890 --> 0:45:34.450 actually transcended into an era where long shots are winning 0:45:34.469 --> 0:45:37.370 titles all the time. I had one like mid tier 0:45:37.410 --> 0:45:39.989 long shot that I liked even less than this. And 0:45:40.010 --> 0:45:42.770 I couldn't talk myself into Nick's repeat at nine to 0:45:42.850 --> 0:45:46.690 one seems short sixers. I get the Sixers' interest, but 0:45:46.989 --> 0:45:49.589 I just can't see Embiid staying healthy. And I love 0:45:49.630 --> 0:45:51.890 a dumb boner too, Matt, but I don't see them 0:45:51.910 --> 0:45:53.819 winning a title with a dumb boner. So I'm kind 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:56.180 of just cornered into taking the Spurs at a number 0:45:56.200 --> 0:45:58.360 I don't really like, but that's how I got there, basically. 0:45:59.460 --> 0:46:01.919 What's your number on that one? 0:46:01.920 --> 0:46:03.300 270. 0:46:03.300 --> 0:46:04.140 You're so sad. 0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:05.400 I'm so sad. 0:46:06.070 --> 0:46:08.170 I mean, I would try and talk you out of 0:46:08.210 --> 0:46:10.370 this if we had more time just because guys. 0:46:10.489 --> 0:46:12.690 I will say the other team. No, I won't say 0:46:12.710 --> 0:46:14.610 the other team. Some might want them, but there's a 0:46:14.630 --> 0:46:16.120 team in the 20s. 0:46:16.840 --> 0:46:19.219 Nobody's made it back-to-back finals. They haven't even just won 0:46:19.239 --> 0:46:20.920 the title. Nobody's made it back-to-back finals. 0:46:21.020 --> 0:46:23.920 No, I know. I don't like it. Joe's, I will 0:46:23.940 --> 0:46:26.839 say this. Joe's boost, I do like that. 0:46:27.830 --> 0:46:29.670 You just want to copy Joe's pick. 0:46:29.690 --> 0:46:32.009 Can I copy Joe's pick? Is that how drafting works? 0:46:32.570 --> 0:46:34.670 Jim's like, how did you not incept this one into 0:46:34.690 --> 0:46:37.990 my brain? All right. 0:46:39.310 --> 0:46:42.290 Biddle, you have long shot and title left. What do 0:46:42.310 --> 0:46:42.870 you want to go to? 0:46:43.969 --> 0:46:48.460 I'm going to do long shot first. And I'm debating 0:46:48.540 --> 0:46:52.560 between the joke one that I had was Moussa Diabate, 0:46:52.620 --> 0:46:54.780 most rebounds, 200 to one for Fonseca. 0:46:56.940 --> 0:46:58.580 I would not take that. He has too many games 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:01.550 where he has like just eight rebounds. I mean, yeah, 0:47:01.610 --> 0:47:02.730 like that's the reason. 0:47:02.850 --> 0:47:04.450 The one I'm actually going to go with is Cleveland 0:47:04.489 --> 0:47:07.770 Cavaliers top seed, number one seed in the East. 0:47:16.810 --> 0:47:17.570 No way. 0:47:18.050 --> 0:47:18.339 No way. 0:47:18.380 --> 0:47:20.279 This was my literal number one pick for long shot. 0:47:20.380 --> 0:47:22.379 I was like, oh, there's 8 trillion long shots in 0:47:22.420 --> 0:47:24.160 the world. And this was what I wanted for the 0:47:24.200 --> 0:47:25.860 long shot. You have to be kidding me. I'll show 0:47:25.900 --> 0:47:28.069 you the sheet right now. Matt knows I drafted it. 0:47:28.090 --> 0:47:31.630 The win totals draft. And you gave me first pick, Matt. 0:47:31.710 --> 0:47:34.310 And I started out going Atlanta Hawks over. And Jim's like, 0:47:34.390 --> 0:47:35.850 what the hell? The same shit. 0:47:36.230 --> 0:47:37.239 How is this possible? 0:47:37.560 --> 0:47:38.700 I'm glad it's not available. 0:47:39.370 --> 0:47:43.510 It's about time somebody got sniped. That took too long. 0:47:43.770 --> 0:47:44.780 What's your number, Fiddle? 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:46.780 I can look it up from the doc that Jim 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:49.319 gave out earlier today, but what's your number on it? 0:47:49.680 --> 0:47:51.700 So I see plus 800 right now. 0:47:52.380 --> 0:47:54.279 This is 900. 0:47:54.280 --> 0:47:58.399 Yeah, there's a plus 900 as well. He knows. There's 0:47:58.460 --> 0:48:00.779 even a 10-to-1 at our beloved DraftKings, so I'll take 0:48:00.800 --> 0:48:05.500 the 10-to-1 conference top seed for the Cleveland Cavaliers. And 0:48:05.760 --> 0:48:06.910 the handicap for this is. 0:48:09.270 --> 0:48:15.680 The depth between bigs and guards, like having two elite 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:19.420 creators on ball and having two elite rim protectors, the 0:48:19.460 --> 0:48:22.820 fact that you just have some wiggle room of potential injury, 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:25.819 whereas the teams in front of them are Sixers with 0:48:25.880 --> 0:48:30.700 some injury risk, the Knicks with some depth risk without 0:48:30.739 --> 0:48:34.359 losing Mitchell Robinson. And now it's like, who are they 0:48:34.380 --> 0:48:35.920 going to turn to with the bigs? And are they 0:48:35.940 --> 0:48:39.080 going to lose the possession battle more often? The Celtics 0:48:39.180 --> 0:48:42.320 obviously have their own injury risk. The Pistons not coming 0:48:42.360 --> 0:48:44.299 into the year with the best juju. And, you know, 0:48:44.420 --> 0:48:47.430 how much of that motivation ball can they keep up? 0:48:48.040 --> 0:48:51.480 Analytically speaking, the Cavaliers will be number one. It's just 0:48:51.500 --> 0:48:53.360 a matter of if they actually do it. So I 0:48:53.430 --> 0:48:55.569 think they have the depth and the pieces. And so 0:48:55.610 --> 0:48:59.509 I'll take Cavaliers number one seed coming in immediately with 0:48:59.550 --> 0:49:02.399 something to prove, given the way last season ended. that 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:03.480 they're still in contention. 0:49:04.560 --> 0:49:08.120 I don't I said, I think I failed Jim on 0:49:08.160 --> 0:49:10.589 this on this bet earlier. So I can't I can't 0:49:10.690 --> 0:49:15.170 endorse it because I'm I'm anti. I'm anti hardened. I'm 0:49:15.190 --> 0:49:17.129 just kind of like tired of the whole like, well, 0:49:17.170 --> 0:49:19.989 Evan Mobley make a leap and uh, I like his own. 0:49:20.010 --> 0:49:20.230 Yeah. 0:49:20.450 --> 0:49:23.390 The addition of weight of Watson was good. It's good value. 0:49:23.790 --> 0:49:26.250 It's good value because there's so much, there's so much 0:49:26.330 --> 0:49:29.129 steam on the Eastern, on the Atlantic division, just like 0:49:29.770 --> 0:49:34.880 whether it's, Oh, Nick's bing bong Nixon five or like, Oh, 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:39.529 I'm going to, you know, LeBron sixers. Ooh, or the 0:49:39.570 --> 0:49:41.950 contrarian plays on Boston and Toronto. There's so much in 0:49:41.969 --> 0:49:44.069 the Atlantic, so I do kind of like this. 0:49:45.230 --> 0:49:46.810 Boston's never a contrarian play. 0:49:47.469 --> 0:49:48.030 Do what, Brian? 0:49:48.320 --> 0:49:49.780 Boston's never a contrarian play. 0:49:52.840 --> 0:49:53.160 All right. 0:49:53.840 --> 0:49:56.020 Fiddle locks that in. Joe, we're back to you. 0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:58.700 I'm going to grab my win total because I'm going 0:49:58.719 --> 0:50:01.720 to play with fire even after watching Jim get sniped 0:50:01.780 --> 0:50:04.219 on a long shot. I just have to live this way. 0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:07.600 I'm going to grab the Blazers under 41 and a 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:10.540 half wins. I just am not like super convinced with 0:50:10.580 --> 0:50:15.260 this team. Jim and I like incepted each other, I think, 0:50:15.300 --> 0:50:18.650 or maybe Jim incepted me. I also bet them to 0:50:18.690 --> 0:50:21.430 be the five seed or the fifth, the finished fifth 0:50:21.570 --> 0:50:23.870 in the division at plus three 30, a little bit 0:50:23.910 --> 0:50:26.649 earlier today, log that in the app. That's now down 0:50:26.730 --> 0:50:29.760 to like plus two 30 or so. I just am not, 0:50:30.760 --> 0:50:33.489 I just don't really think that this team is, as 0:50:33.570 --> 0:50:36.140 good as this number kind of indicates. I think they 0:50:36.160 --> 0:50:38.589 have a lot of pieces coming in and I don't 0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:40.160 really know how they're going to fit. You have a 0:50:40.200 --> 0:50:42.580 new coach who's on like one of the weirdest coaching 0:50:42.640 --> 0:50:44.200 contracts you could possibly have. 0:50:45.500 --> 0:50:46.360 I just, I don't know. 0:50:46.460 --> 0:50:47.400 I don't like this team. 0:50:47.620 --> 0:50:49.339 I think that especially some of the things that Fiddle 0:50:49.360 --> 0:50:52.960 was talking about before in terms of bringing some of the, 0:50:53.739 --> 0:50:56.239 some of like the numbers together, bring like the wind 0:50:56.260 --> 0:50:58.580 totals kind of coming together and getting a little bit tighter, 0:50:59.080 --> 0:51:01.880 I think doesn't sit well for a Portland Trailblazers team 0:51:01.940 --> 0:51:05.350 that When I'm shooting a ton of free throws last season, 0:51:06.030 --> 0:51:09.110 and I think that Denny had a great season, but 0:51:09.170 --> 0:51:13.200 now you're introducing Damian Lillard off an injury, Ja Morant 0:51:13.380 --> 0:51:19.000 off of whatever. You're bringing in a lot of different 0:51:19.080 --> 0:51:22.180 scenarios to this Blazers team. I think under 41 and 0:51:22.200 --> 0:51:24.080 a half wins, I'm basically saying this is not a 0:51:24.060 --> 0:51:27.089 500 team. And I know the Western conference isn't as 0:51:27.170 --> 0:51:29.970 good as it's been previously, but I think that overall 0:51:30.010 --> 0:51:32.150 across the league, we're going to see teams again, like 0:51:32.350 --> 0:51:34.870 trying in these games and Portland, I think did a 0:51:34.890 --> 0:51:37.690 really good job of trying last year. And I think 0:51:37.710 --> 0:51:39.969 that that's part of why they're a little bit overvalued 0:51:39.989 --> 0:51:40.570 in my opinion. 0:51:41.340 --> 0:51:41.620 Okay. 0:51:42.320 --> 0:51:44.980 I agree. I, the more I've watched the blazers, the 0:51:45.200 --> 0:51:49.279 more I'm kind of just like, it's pretty gross. I 0:51:49.320 --> 0:51:54.779 just think overall the wing depth isn't good. Clinging. I 0:51:54.840 --> 0:51:57.040 really like Donovan Klingin as a player, but there's offensive 0:51:57.080 --> 0:51:59.469 questions with him. Jaw looks terrible. There's all these kind 0:51:59.489 --> 0:52:03.529 of issues that are flowing along with it. All right, BK, 0:52:03.900 --> 0:52:05.920 back to you. Fourth pick, what do you like? 0:52:06.980 --> 0:52:09.480 Okay, I think now is the time to go. I 0:52:09.500 --> 0:52:11.520 don't think anyone's going to take my long shot, so 0:52:11.600 --> 0:52:13.020 I'll save that for last. 0:52:13.960 --> 0:52:16.540 I've got to take a title winner. I'm with Jim. 0:52:17.000 --> 0:52:20.220 I kind of just hate this market this year, but 0:52:21.260 --> 0:52:24.750 we've got to take somebody. I'll go with the Philadelphia 76ers, 10-1. 0:52:25.300 --> 0:52:27.700 They're the only team in the league with, when everyone 0:52:27.760 --> 0:52:30.500 is peaking, they're the only team in the league with 0:52:30.580 --> 0:52:35.020 four all-NBA-level players. And I get that this is the least... 0:52:35.690 --> 0:52:39.450 hipster play on in the universe. But if the 76ers 0:52:39.489 --> 0:52:41.710 pull it all together, they're the biggest threat to the 0:52:41.750 --> 0:52:45.049 New York Knicks. They're better than the Celtics, especially come 0:52:45.070 --> 0:52:48.969 playoff time. If that, if they gel, it's going to 0:52:49.010 --> 0:52:50.799 look really good. It'll be scary. 0:52:50.840 --> 0:52:51.860 Come playoff time. 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:57.560 I don't really worry about LeBron chemistry. He knows where 0:52:57.580 --> 0:52:59.839 he is at this stage in his career. And I 0:52:59.980 --> 0:53:04.149 love the idea of point LeBron and, And then two 0:53:04.270 --> 0:53:08.230 energizer bunnies running around that keep the team at a 0:53:08.290 --> 0:53:12.379 decent seed in the regular season. I'm not worried about 0:53:12.460 --> 0:53:14.860 who misses time. There's all this talk about injury risk. 0:53:15.180 --> 0:53:18.820 They've insulated themselves. If Embiid misses, are we going to 0:53:18.860 --> 0:53:20.180 hate this team night tonight? 0:53:20.460 --> 0:53:20.700 No. 0:53:21.260 --> 0:53:23.989 If Jalen Brown misses, will we hate this team night tonight? 0:53:24.219 --> 0:53:27.410 Probably not. They'll be priced better. We'll probably bet them 0:53:27.430 --> 0:53:30.629 in those situations. I just think if the gels come 0:53:30.650 --> 0:53:32.250 playoff time, this team's going to be scary. 0:53:32.270 --> 0:53:32.489 Good. 0:53:32.570 --> 0:53:33.590 So, I'll take it. 0:53:34.210 --> 0:53:35.670 Hard to hate it. I mean, it's hard to hate it. 0:53:35.750 --> 0:53:37.390 It's a lot of talent. It's a lot of talent. 0:53:37.790 --> 0:53:38.270 Yeah. 0:53:38.350 --> 0:53:40.069 I can understand it. 0:53:40.239 --> 0:53:41.600 I kind of hate it, but it's fine. 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:44.900 For all NBA players. That's a strong word for BJ Edgecombe. 0:53:45.820 --> 0:53:49.799 Brian Paseka, you get back-to-back picks to wrap up your card. 0:53:49.820 --> 0:53:50.819 Who do you want for your fourth pick? 0:53:51.320 --> 0:53:52.980 I have to do award and long shot, right? 0:53:53.380 --> 0:53:53.600 Yes. 0:53:54.280 --> 0:53:54.960 All right. Award. 0:53:55.020 --> 0:53:56.180 I'm going to go chalk-ish. 0:53:57.020 --> 0:54:00.399 Luka MVP plus 600. I don't know how I feel 0:54:00.440 --> 0:54:03.940 about this Lakers team yet. But I don't think the 0:54:04.000 --> 0:54:08.380 three seed is out of reach at all in the 0:54:08.400 --> 0:54:11.319 Western Conference. I think they're in that fight for third 0:54:11.380 --> 0:54:17.450 place with Minnesota, Houston, whoever else after OKC and San Antonio. 0:54:18.770 --> 0:54:22.210 And people have been trying to give Luka Doncic MVP 0:54:22.930 --> 0:54:25.350 for most of this decade. He enters as a preseason 0:54:25.390 --> 0:54:28.029 favorite basically all the time. I think this year is 0:54:28.070 --> 0:54:29.930 the first year where he's not even in the top 0:54:29.950 --> 0:54:32.760 three heading into the season. in a lot of different places. 0:54:33.440 --> 0:54:36.380 But if this works out and if he's mostly healthy, 0:54:36.400 --> 0:54:38.960 if he's mostly healthy, they're going to win 50 games 0:54:39.040 --> 0:54:41.890 because Luka Doncic wins 50 games. Like he walks into 0:54:41.890 --> 0:54:44.390 50 games when he plays enough games. So they're going 0:54:44.410 --> 0:54:46.730 to be in a conversation. You get the Lakers bump 0:54:47.770 --> 0:54:49.350 and the way that they're going to be able to 0:54:49.410 --> 0:54:52.810 play now, his numbers are going to be stupid. And 0:54:54.190 --> 0:54:57.570 maybe the voters have Shea fatigue, Jokic fatigue. 0:54:57.730 --> 0:54:58.169 I don't know. 0:54:58.810 --> 0:54:59.570 That could be part of it. 0:54:59.989 --> 0:55:02.850 But if this I'm not taking like an over on 0:55:02.870 --> 0:55:04.770 their win total, like I don't know what to do 0:55:04.810 --> 0:55:07.029 with that yet. But to me, it's like if this 0:55:07.090 --> 0:55:10.260 works out, Luca will be an MVP conversations. And maybe 0:55:10.320 --> 0:55:12.819 this is the year that he finally, finally, finally gets 0:55:12.960 --> 0:55:15.460 one because he's literally been a favorite to win this 0:55:15.520 --> 0:55:16.739 award every year. 0:55:17.180 --> 0:55:18.000 It's it's crazy. 0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:23.359 I think I bet him like five times and never, 0:55:23.540 --> 0:55:25.540 never cashed it. So I'm not betting it this year. 0:55:25.580 --> 0:55:29.410 So he'll cash it. That's sounds about right. From that perspective. 0:55:29.640 --> 0:55:31.250 I mean, you're right. Look, if the Lakers are good, 0:55:31.590 --> 0:55:35.310 if the Lakers went 50 plus, there will, I think 0:55:35.550 --> 0:55:38.750 one important thing to think about Luca, he's one of 0:55:38.770 --> 0:55:41.109 the few players that doesn't have to win more than women. 0:55:41.130 --> 0:55:41.450 Yama. 0:55:42.510 --> 0:55:42.880 Yes. 0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:48.279 Luca wins 50 plus. Then people will be like, Hmm. 0:55:49.040 --> 0:55:49.660 Okay. Sure. 0:55:49.900 --> 0:55:52.480 But Luca versus like, if you'll get to win 50 plus, 0:55:52.540 --> 0:55:52.940 it'll be like. 0:55:53.020 --> 0:55:55.890 Eh, and he'll be averaging 33, eight and nine or 0:55:55.930 --> 0:55:56.460 whatever it is. 0:55:56.489 --> 0:55:56.669 Yeah. 0:55:57.210 --> 0:55:57.350 Yeah. 0:55:57.950 --> 0:55:58.790 Yeah, absolutely ridiculous. 0:56:00.130 --> 0:56:00.470 Okay. 0:56:00.870 --> 0:56:02.290 So you get to wrap up your card with your 0:56:02.330 --> 0:56:03.509 long shot. Fonseca, what do you want? 0:56:03.530 --> 0:56:08.410 There's like eight bets that I want here. I'll go 0:56:08.510 --> 0:56:10.660 on brand. This person is one of the favorites to 0:56:10.700 --> 0:56:13.180 win most improved player. I actually take them to make 0:56:13.300 --> 0:56:17.480 all NBA. Brandon Miller plus 2,500. 0:56:17.480 --> 0:56:17.760 Wow. 0:56:18.780 --> 0:56:23.439 Just in case, just in case they're really right about 0:56:23.460 --> 0:56:25.779 this lamello ball trade. I don't know what, like, I'm 0:56:25.820 --> 0:56:28.240 not where I'm at. I'm not where I was with 0:56:28.260 --> 0:56:30.640 the Hornets last year. I'm actually like kind of skittish 0:56:30.700 --> 0:56:32.100 on like, I don't know what's going to happen. 0:56:32.780 --> 0:56:33.420 Don't love that. 0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:36.799 There are already injuries heading into the season, but I 0:56:36.820 --> 0:56:39.580 was even saying before last year, Brandon Miller is the 0:56:39.620 --> 0:56:42.010 best player on this team. When they had LaMelo ball 0:56:42.050 --> 0:56:43.770 was saying that I think that's going to be the 0:56:43.810 --> 0:56:46.230 case long-term if he's healthy, that's a big if there. 0:56:47.770 --> 0:56:50.830 And I think in LaMelo ball being traded, people forget 0:56:51.190 --> 0:56:52.670 how much they had to manage his minutes. 0:56:53.230 --> 0:56:55.879 It was 28 minutes a game. He was very good 0:56:55.940 --> 0:56:58.420 as a playmaker. He was still chaotic. 0:56:59.120 --> 0:57:01.000 I think Charles Lee is going to get to coach 0:57:01.060 --> 0:57:04.520 the way that he wants to now have more structure. 0:57:05.520 --> 0:57:09.020 And I think maybe this is one step back to 0:57:09.420 --> 0:57:11.430 make two steps forward. But what if they're just still 0:57:11.700 --> 0:57:16.090 pretty good right now? Brandon Miller, I think, can be 0:57:16.250 --> 0:57:18.470 like a star. I think he's going to be in 0:57:18.510 --> 0:57:21.590 first time all star conversations if he's healthy. So why 0:57:21.630 --> 0:57:23.270 not take a stab at him to make all NBA? 0:57:24.780 --> 0:57:27.160 I'm just glad that you had that despite not being 0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:28.950 as high on them, you have still somehow managed to 0:57:28.990 --> 0:57:31.790 get yourself on some tiny corner of Hornets Island. 0:57:31.990 --> 0:57:33.730 That's just pretty, pretty good. 0:57:33.750 --> 0:57:35.230 You checking that every day. 0:57:35.250 --> 0:57:39.430 I didn't, I didn't make my, uh, bam depoy donation, uh, 0:57:39.530 --> 0:57:41.030 as part of the strap. So you should be thankful 0:57:41.050 --> 0:57:41.330 for that. 0:57:43.370 --> 0:57:43.570 Yeah. 0:57:43.590 --> 0:57:47.170 I mean, yeah, yeah, that's that. That one might need 0:57:47.190 --> 0:57:49.990 some talk about at some point, uh, Fonseca's final card 0:57:50.090 --> 0:57:52.910 warriors under 38 and a half Luca MVP six to one, uh, 0:57:53.240 --> 0:57:56.890 Brandon Miller, All-NBA, 25-1. Pacers, 40-1 to win the title. 0:57:57.220 --> 0:58:00.450 And Celtics Division, plus 215. Kravitz, you've got a long 0:58:00.470 --> 0:58:01.390 shot pick. What do you want? 0:58:02.590 --> 0:58:05.670 I'm going to go with, if we're going last pick, 0:58:05.930 --> 0:58:08.470 let's go on brand. I've got to add a magic 0:58:08.530 --> 0:58:12.790 player to my card here. Let's go Franz Wagner, All-Defensive, NBA, 0:58:12.870 --> 0:58:18.730 first team, 100-1. Whoa. DeLair brought this up earlier. No 0:58:18.750 --> 0:58:23.550 Euro basketball for Franz Wagner in the summer. So he 0:58:23.590 --> 0:58:27.160 has put all of his energy and attention into being healthy, 0:58:27.800 --> 0:58:32.040 into gelling with his teammates. His brother is in Brooklyn now, 0:58:32.660 --> 0:58:34.820 and he has gone out of his way to develop 0:58:34.860 --> 0:58:37.240 a better relationship with Palo. That's not really a cap 0:58:37.280 --> 0:58:40.060 on the defense, but just an idea of how different 0:58:40.120 --> 0:58:44.360 this team could look if everyone stays healthy. But new 0:58:44.420 --> 0:58:48.370 coach in Sean Sweeney, I think they take real strides defensively. 0:58:48.390 --> 0:58:52.990 He's the best on ball defender on this team. And 0:58:53.010 --> 0:58:58.740 that includes Jalen Suggs, who's 15 to one to be 0:58:58.860 --> 0:59:01.900 all defensive first team. He's 15 to one and Franz 0:59:01.960 --> 0:59:05.230 is a hundred to one. That is a mispriced in 0:59:05.250 --> 0:59:08.430 the past. They've put Franz on the best offensive wing 0:59:08.450 --> 0:59:10.300 and the opposing team. I think they're just going to 0:59:10.320 --> 0:59:12.920 put them on the best ball handler all season. He 0:59:12.960 --> 0:59:14.820 was guarding James Harden the other night and they were 0:59:14.840 --> 0:59:17.820 last night in the preseason. Oh, of two, when guarded 0:59:17.900 --> 0:59:21.220 by Franz Wagner, he's a menace defensively. He doesn't get 0:59:21.240 --> 0:59:23.980 enough credit for it. And there's that space. If you 0:59:24.000 --> 0:59:26.080 look at the guys that are auto bids for first 0:59:26.120 --> 0:59:31.189 team defense, there's like four If you're generous. So there's 0:59:31.250 --> 0:59:33.230 a spot there for that fifth spot. 0:59:33.270 --> 0:59:35.300 I'm going to go with Franz. Okay. 0:59:35.880 --> 0:59:37.070 Franz, all defense. 0:59:38.090 --> 0:59:38.580 First team. 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:39.500 First team. 0:59:39.500 --> 0:59:39.820 101. 0:59:39.820 --> 0:59:41.100 I have to just. 0:59:41.000 --> 0:59:43.020 Put all defense because I don't have any more room 0:59:43.040 --> 0:59:44.340 for that long ass bet. 0:59:44.360 --> 0:59:47.360 You gave him a thousand to one, which is pretty sick. 0:59:47.420 --> 0:59:51.860 I might take it. Damn it. 0:59:52.260 --> 0:59:55.660 You could do number one ST. 0:59:55.680 --> 0:59:58.000 I do that a lot where I'm just typing out 0:59:58.160 --> 0:59:58.820 odds and it's just like. 1:00:00.690 --> 1:00:00.930 0-0-0-0-0. 1:00:00.950 --> 1:00:03.080 Something about that. Some number of zeros in there. 1:00:03.980 --> 1:00:04.240 Okay. 1:00:04.640 --> 1:00:06.660 Franz, I will do all defense first team. 1:00:06.680 --> 1:00:09.939 Just use the combos and then get rid of them after. 1:00:10.620 --> 1:00:10.860 Okay. 1:00:11.400 --> 1:00:15.570 And then, all right. So, Kravis has got Jazz over 37.5. Wemby, 1:00:15.650 --> 1:00:17.850 MVP plus 210. Franz, all defense first team, 101. Sixers, 1:00:17.870 --> 1:00:20.250 10-1 for the title. And Hornets, 9-1 for the division. 1:00:20.270 --> 1:00:20.530 Joe Dallara. 1:00:28.950 --> 1:00:32.330 You have a long shot. I can't wait to hear 1:00:32.390 --> 1:00:32.770 this shit. 1:00:34.250 --> 1:00:38.390 I was doing a lot of thinking about what teams 1:00:38.660 --> 1:00:44.280 might be playing competitive basketball as we're going along here. 1:00:44.300 --> 1:00:48.180 One of the teams I think is going to play 1:00:48.200 --> 1:00:50.920 a lot of competitive games. I do like one of 1:00:50.940 --> 1:00:54.060 their players that's been mentioned before for MVP. I think 1:00:54.120 --> 1:00:57.570 that maybe cuts into this a little bit. But one 1:00:57.590 --> 1:00:59.850 of the spots that I was thinking is there's obviously 1:00:59.870 --> 1:01:04.690 no LeBron James in LA anymore. And a play that 1:01:04.830 --> 1:01:06.630 I like, and I think a market that's a little 1:01:06.670 --> 1:01:11.070 bit fluid here, is Clutch Player of the Year. And 1:01:11.090 --> 1:01:13.450 the player that I'm going to actually go with is 1:01:13.680 --> 1:01:16.979 Austin Reeves to win Clutch Player of the Year at 70-1. 1:01:17.000 --> 1:01:20.060 I think the number is really, really long. 1:01:20.440 --> 1:01:22.640 And without LeBron there, I think it's just going to 1:01:22.680 --> 1:01:26.530 be two-man game with him and Luka nonstop. at least 1:01:26.670 --> 1:01:30.640 in those end of game scenarios. And obviously, you know, 1:01:31.260 --> 1:01:33.960 Luca could always just kind of take control of the 1:01:34.000 --> 1:01:36.180 basketball at the end of the game. But I think 1:01:36.200 --> 1:01:39.460 that the pricing here is worth a look at Austin 1:01:39.520 --> 1:01:41.420 Reeves at 70 to one, the dude is a bucket, 1:01:41.500 --> 1:01:44.180 he gets the free throw line. And he's also not 1:01:44.220 --> 1:01:46.920 afraid to just like keep the ball. And I think 1:01:46.940 --> 1:01:49.000 that that matters a little bit too. So for a 1:01:49.020 --> 1:01:51.780 long shot at 70 to one, I think you're getting 1:01:52.120 --> 1:01:55.460 a little bit of extra value on betting in that scenario, 1:01:55.780 --> 1:01:59.460 especially if Luka misses some time or whatever the situation is. 1:01:59.900 --> 1:02:03.280 We've really just seen this go to raw totals in 1:02:03.320 --> 1:02:06.990 terms of scoring in the clutch. And I think that 1:02:07.390 --> 1:02:09.450 this Lakers team, I think they're going to be good, 1:02:09.790 --> 1:02:12.090 but I'm not convinced that they're going to be great. 1:02:12.150 --> 1:02:14.290 And I don't really feel great about their defense. So 1:02:14.310 --> 1:02:15.650 I think there are going to be a lot of 1:02:15.690 --> 1:02:17.950 games where you're down the stretch and you're like, this 1:02:17.970 --> 1:02:19.780 is a tight game. And that's how you're going to 1:02:19.800 --> 1:02:22.740 rack up some more clutch opportunities. So I'm going to 1:02:22.760 --> 1:02:24.910 go with Austin Reeves at 70 to one to be 1:02:24.950 --> 1:02:25.800 clutch player of the year. 1:02:26.390 --> 1:02:27.490 Huh? Okay. 1:02:28.270 --> 1:02:30.750 All right. I was not expecting that. I thought I 1:02:30.770 --> 1:02:32.870 was getting set up for a Knicks thing. 1:02:32.890 --> 1:02:34.300 I thought about it. 1:02:34.770 --> 1:02:38.490 I thought about that did not happen. Joe's final card 1:02:38.590 --> 1:02:41.810 blazers under 41 and a half Cooper flag, all NBA 1:02:41.870 --> 1:02:45.850 four to one. Austin Reeves clutch 70 to one. OKC 1:02:45.970 --> 1:02:49.640 title and Shea 30 plus per game plus 450 and 1:02:49.660 --> 1:02:55.600 the Magic plus 275 for the Southeast division. Michael Fiddle, 1:02:55.800 --> 1:02:59.000 let's wrap up your card here. What do you want 1:02:59.040 --> 1:02:59.820 for your last pick? 1:03:00.570 --> 1:03:03.470 So my last pick is title and we've spoken ill 1:03:03.510 --> 1:03:05.490 will on this team, but I think that was mainly 1:03:06.270 --> 1:03:08.970 regular season focus. So now I'm going to go postseason 1:03:09.010 --> 1:03:11.880 focus and I actually think It might change. I'm not 1:03:11.900 --> 1:03:14.020 going to actually change one of my picks, but I'm 1:03:14.440 --> 1:03:17.720 almost regretting the Hawks division pick because I'm going to 1:03:17.740 --> 1:03:22.570 go Miami Heat NBA title 30-1. I thought about Giannis, 1:03:22.790 --> 1:03:27.370 rebounds leader. I thought about Giannis, MVP odds. The Heat 1:03:27.390 --> 1:03:31.100 have been in the play-in for four consecutive years. The 1:03:31.140 --> 1:03:32.980 thought that I had was, are they going to take 1:03:33.020 --> 1:03:35.920 the regular season really seriously to not be in the play-in? 1:03:36.100 --> 1:03:38.540 And then it's between the Hawks, the Heat, and the 1:03:38.580 --> 1:03:41.990 Magic to get two non-play-in spots. So I actually think 1:03:42.010 --> 1:03:44.950 the Heat are going to take this regular season really seriously, 1:03:44.990 --> 1:03:47.950 going to gel pretty quickly with Spolstra. And then you 1:03:47.990 --> 1:03:51.630 couldn't get me through this episode without doing some nerdy handicap. 1:03:51.690 --> 1:03:54.820 And so on the betting exchanges, this is 24 to 1, 1:03:54.810 --> 1:03:57.050 and there's a $ 0. 01 split in the $ 0. 06 yes, $ 0. 95 1:03:56.490 --> 1:04:04.010 no split. So it's a 1% hold in that market 1:04:04.110 --> 1:04:05.930 where it's like when you go to the 30 to 1:04:05.930 --> 1:04:09.130 1 odds, you're getting like probably close to 8 to 12% 1:04:09.130 --> 1:04:12.490 hold in there. So I think that this 24 to 1:04:12.490 --> 1:04:14.300 1 is much closer to true odds. You go to 1:04:14.340 --> 1:04:18.280 some sharp offshores, they're 16 to 1. So just blindly 1:04:18.320 --> 1:04:21.320 from an EV perspective, this is going to be a 1:04:21.340 --> 1:04:24.740 good play on the Miami Heat. And give me Giannis 1:04:24.920 --> 1:04:27.640 and Bam and Spolstra. And I think they might be, 1:04:28.040 --> 1:04:30.340 it's never mattered in the past, but we always think 1:04:30.380 --> 1:04:33.450 it might matter this year. They're probably the top buyout 1:04:33.530 --> 1:04:38.170 candidate spot, landing spot in the NBA. They're probably the, hey, 1:04:38.230 --> 1:04:40.850 we could give you some good usage at a guard position. 1:04:40.890 --> 1:04:44.490 If there is some sort of intriguing veteran guard in 1:04:44.530 --> 1:04:47.670 a buyout position, the Miami Heat are going to be very, 1:04:47.730 --> 1:04:49.050 very likely to land that guy. 1:04:49.890 --> 1:04:50.410 Zach Levine. 1:04:51.970 --> 1:04:53.710 You know how exciting that would get me to get 1:04:53.770 --> 1:04:56.280 Zach Levine on this team and have a 30-1 on 1:04:56.390 --> 1:04:58.180 the Heat? Pretty good. 1:04:58.440 --> 1:05:01.080 Be pretty good. I mean, look, I kind of like 1:05:01.160 --> 1:05:03.640 it just from the perspective of... Again, if the Heat work, 1:05:03.820 --> 1:05:07.590 they're a title contender. If they go over, they're a 1:05:07.610 --> 1:05:11.130 title contender. And I do think it's going to be 1:05:11.150 --> 1:05:15.020 dangerous seeing Spolstra with the ability to problem-solve with Bam 1:05:15.040 --> 1:05:17.880 and Giannis in a defensive playoff series. Like, that's just. 1:05:19.070 --> 1:05:20.850 I think it's kind of crazy that the Raptors and 1:05:20.870 --> 1:05:23.690 them are priced so differently when like, they kind of 1:05:23.730 --> 1:05:25.030 seem like similar, like. 1:05:24.910 --> 1:05:27.490 Shoot the moon type of, of teams. Like, aren't the 1:05:27.550 --> 1:05:29.510 Raptors like 12 to one for the title right now? 1:05:31.790 --> 1:05:32.990 Uh, for sure. 1:05:34.150 --> 1:05:37.070 Kawhi is like 175 to one MVP. I mean, I 1:05:37.090 --> 1:05:38.030 got real close to that one. 1:05:38.770 --> 1:05:39.570 I don't get that. 1:05:39.710 --> 1:05:40.970 The Raptors are 25 to one. 1:05:41.210 --> 1:05:42.130 Oh, okay. 1:05:42.150 --> 1:05:45.010 They dropped. They had been really, they, they were like 1:05:45.010 --> 1:05:45.270 12 to one. 1:05:45.290 --> 1:05:46.760 They were inside of 2000 for sure. 1:05:47.600 --> 1:05:51.430 Yeah, they were very trendy early on. 1:05:51.530 --> 1:05:53.090 Okay, that makes more sense. 1:05:53.250 --> 1:05:55.210 Well, I was talking high about them early, so I 1:05:55.250 --> 1:05:55.750 moved the market. 1:05:55.770 --> 1:05:57.170 You had to, obviously. 1:05:57.190 --> 1:06:00.150 You know, that's how that goes. It's me, big-time market mover. 1:06:00.910 --> 1:06:06.590 All right, to wrap up Fiddle's final board here. Thunder 1:06:06.700 --> 1:06:10.140 over 61.5. Cooper Flagg, most improved player at 80-1. The 1:06:10.500 --> 1:06:15.760 Cavs in the one seed, robbing Jim Turvey at 10-1. Heat, 1:06:15.780 --> 1:06:18.320 30-1 to win the title, and Hawks plus 275 for 1:06:18.340 --> 1:06:22.170 the division. Jim Turvey from Rotogrinders, what's your final bet? 1:06:22.910 --> 1:06:26.390 Yeah, so obviously my preferred long shot is no longer there. 1:06:26.410 --> 1:06:29.540 I was looking at Luka MVP. Brian got that as well. 1:06:29.700 --> 1:06:33.390 I was debating... AJ, sixth man of the year. You've 1:06:33.430 --> 1:06:35.210 scared me off of that by giving me a D 1:06:35.250 --> 1:06:36.490 grade every time I bring it up. So I'm going 1:06:36.510 --> 1:06:38.290 to go with a really long shot. I'm kind of 1:06:38.330 --> 1:06:40.230 hoping I might steal it from you, Matt. I know 1:06:40.270 --> 1:06:42.870 we agreed on this before. I'm going to do Amin Thompson, 1:06:42.930 --> 1:06:44.990 most improved player of the year, 71. May as well 1:06:45.030 --> 1:06:46.740 have a nice, long, fun number here. 1:06:46.760 --> 1:06:49.520 I think if he gets into like the 24 points 1:06:49.540 --> 1:06:51.860 a game range, if he's a first time all-star player, 1:06:52.460 --> 1:06:54.220 There is a lot of room. I think he is 1:06:54.260 --> 1:06:57.740 a kind of buzzed about, well-liked young player. They've got 1:06:57.780 --> 1:07:01.580 Chip England there. If any sort of shooting progresses, he 1:07:01.800 --> 1:07:04.980 can add to the points pretty easily. The rebounds and 1:07:05.000 --> 1:07:07.470 assists are already pretty high. The assists might even come 1:07:07.490 --> 1:07:10.470 down with Fred VanVleet in town, but he and Marcus 1:07:10.490 --> 1:07:12.790 Smart are going to make for more easier opportunities for 1:07:12.870 --> 1:07:15.290 Amin Thompson. The minutes might come down a tiny bit, 1:07:15.330 --> 1:07:17.130 but I think there's so much ceiling to. 1:07:16.990 --> 1:07:19.450 His scoring just on if he gets an outside shot 1:07:19.850 --> 1:07:21.710 or if Fred VanVleet frees up more for him. 1:07:22.340 --> 1:07:24.650 And again, I think he's a well-liked player who was, 1:07:25.150 --> 1:07:27.550 I believe, the co-favorite with his brother to win this 1:07:27.610 --> 1:07:30.690 last year, now getting a 70-1 when he did make 1:07:30.730 --> 1:07:33.130 improvements last year, but not nearly to the ceiling that 1:07:33.190 --> 1:07:35.970 I think is there for this guy. There's the potential 1:07:36.010 --> 1:07:37.710 for this guy to be the most athletic player in 1:07:37.730 --> 1:07:39.650 the league if he isn't already there. Those are the 1:07:39.670 --> 1:07:42.360 type of guys who usually scoop up awards. So at 70-1, 1:07:42.880 --> 1:07:43.880 I'll make it my long shot here. 1:07:43.890 --> 1:07:45.340 I mean, I love this bet. 1:07:45.660 --> 1:07:46.020 I bet it. 1:07:46.320 --> 1:07:46.740 I gave it out. 1:07:47.280 --> 1:07:47.640 It's great. 1:07:48.580 --> 1:07:51.960 I think there's a very good chance. I think voters 1:07:52.000 --> 1:07:54.080 are not going to hold, you know, somebody was commenting 1:07:54.140 --> 1:07:55.780 on me like, well, men was really good last year. 1:07:55.820 --> 1:07:58.150 And I was like, yeah, but we have a habit 1:07:58.190 --> 1:08:00.950 of doing the whole, he was good last year, but 1:08:00.990 --> 1:08:03.110 nobody noticed. And then the next year he's just like 1:08:03.130 --> 1:08:05.610 a little bit better and winning the award. Like I, 1:08:05.870 --> 1:08:07.630 I don't think voters pay attention enough on the most 1:08:07.670 --> 1:08:11.530 improved player to previous. It's more about, you have to 1:08:11.650 --> 1:08:14.390 outperform the idea of what you were versus what you 1:08:14.530 --> 1:08:17.719 actually were. Like nobody's going through and doing, Oh, he 1:08:17.770 --> 1:08:20.439 actually is scoring better. eight points more than last year. 1:08:20.520 --> 1:08:22.639 It's about, well, I didn't think you were very good 1:08:22.680 --> 1:08:25.420 last year and now I think you're awesome. And that's 1:08:25.600 --> 1:08:28.690 a lot more flexible to be able to pull off. 1:08:29.229 --> 1:08:33.309 So I like that. Jim Turvey's final board Sixers under 1:08:33.310 --> 1:08:35.689 50 and a half. Will Hardy coach of the year, 1:08:35.689 --> 1:08:39.450 12 to one men, Thompson, most improved player, 70 to one, 1:08:39.970 --> 1:08:42.059 the Spurs to win the title plus two 70 and 1:08:42.100 --> 1:08:46.000 the Lakers minus one 20 to win the division. A 1:08:46.280 --> 1:08:49.299 little chalky, Jim. Well, little, little chalky this year. 1:08:49.400 --> 1:08:51.080 If I got AJ, it would have been really chalky 1:08:51.100 --> 1:08:52.500 at six to one. So I need that 70 to 1:08:52.580 --> 1:08:54.269 one in there to kind of boost, boost my numbers up. 1:08:54.900 --> 1:08:58.110 Yeah, for sure. Uh, my final selection is for the 1:08:58.290 --> 1:09:01.980 NBA title, uh, and it is going to be the 1:09:02.080 --> 1:09:05.620 Detroit Pistons 25 to one. That's going to be mine. Um, 1:09:06.460 --> 1:09:08.520 I have the Pistons at 58 wins. I have the 1:09:08.550 --> 1:09:10.770 Pistons as the one seat in the Eastern conference. I 1:09:10.810 --> 1:09:12.530 think the Detroit Pistons are going to be better. I 1:09:13.050 --> 1:09:15.450 think they added shooting. I think John Collins is a 1:09:15.530 --> 1:09:17.809 more impactful player at this point in his career than 1:09:17.830 --> 1:09:21.189 Tobias Harris at this point in his career. I think that, uh, 1:09:21.380 --> 1:09:24.300 though I do, it would be like, you tell me 1:09:24.340 --> 1:09:26.360 like you are betting on JB Bickerstaff to coach his 1:09:26.400 --> 1:09:27.960 way to the finals. And I start to be like, 1:09:27.979 --> 1:09:33.160 I don't feel so good, but, but you know what? 1:09:33.280 --> 1:09:35.360 Doc Rivers was actually kind of thought of as like 1:09:35.400 --> 1:09:37.570 a little bit of a joke coach until he got 1:09:37.590 --> 1:09:40.530 the 2008 Celtics. And this team is not the 2008 Celtics, 1:09:41.050 --> 1:09:44.050 but coaching reputations change very quickly. So I am going 1:09:44.070 --> 1:09:47.689 to go ahead and pay with the Pistons 25 to 1:09:47.890 --> 1:09:50.210 one as my final one. And my final card is 1:09:50.229 --> 1:09:54.930 going to be the Rockets over 47 and a half 1:09:54.990 --> 1:09:59.390 on the wind total. Cam Boozer plus 300. Boston Philadelphia 1:09:59.410 --> 1:10:01.630 in the Eastern Conference Finals at 14 to one. I'm 1:10:01.689 --> 1:10:03.939 countering that with a Pistons plus a 25 to one 1:10:03.950 --> 1:10:06.979 so that the Cavs are definitely winning the East. Rockets 1:10:07.180 --> 1:10:10.020 plus 650. 1:10:09.060 --> 1:10:09.700 For the division. 1:10:09.840 --> 1:10:11.620 And that's my final board. This is your final board. 1:10:12.280 --> 1:10:13.900 Let us know in the comments who you think won 1:10:13.960 --> 1:10:17.330 this draft. Because this is the whole board. You can 1:10:17.370 --> 1:10:20.960 catch it on social and on the card and on 1:10:20.979 --> 1:10:22.800 the video on YouTube. If you're listening on the podcast, 1:10:23.120 --> 1:10:26.520 you can go back through. I'm not going to read 1:10:26.560 --> 1:10:28.920 all 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. We have 30 picks. 1:10:29.020 --> 1:10:31.340 I'm not going to read all 30 here on the show. 1:10:31.439 --> 1:10:33.200 I will, however, tell you what our best bets are 1:10:33.620 --> 1:10:38.630 brought to you by DraftKings Sportsbooks. Because those are going 1:10:38.650 --> 1:10:46.020 to be our first overall bets for DraftKings Sportsbooks. Our 1:10:46.060 --> 1:10:50.400 official best bets presented by DraftKings. Brian Fonseca, the Indiana 1:10:50.460 --> 1:10:53.920 Pacers title at 40 to 1. Like that one. Brandon Kravitz, 1:10:54.260 --> 1:10:57.920 Utah Jazz over 37 and a half wins. Dallara, OKC 1:10:57.960 --> 1:11:01.219 Thunder title and SGA 30 plus in the specials tab 1:11:01.360 --> 1:11:05.320 at DK plus 450. Michael Fiddle, Cooper Flagg, most improved 1:11:05.360 --> 1:11:08.130 player at 80 to 1. Jim Turvey, the Sixers under 1:11:08.130 --> 1:11:11.530 50 and a half wins. And for myself, the Houston Rockets, 1:11:11.689 --> 1:11:14.110 over 48.5 wins. 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