Speaker 1: All right, let's move forward. It's Friday, you know what
Speaker 1: time it is time to talk about the NBA Award
Speaker 1: Future market. This week, let's check in on the Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year, which might be more surprising than you think,
Speaker 1: because guess what, because what guess what? Victor wembin Yama
Speaker 1: is no longer leading the race. He opened up the
Speaker 1: season right a minus two twenty five, which in the
Speaker 1: biz is an overwhelming favorite. But as Lee Corso would say,
Speaker 1: not so fast, my friend, not so fast. No one
Speaker 1: showed Chet Holmgren. They wrote him off, but he did
Speaker 1: not write back. He was plus five hundred on opening night.
Speaker 1: But guess what he is now the favorite on some bucks.
Speaker 1: I guess that's what fifteen blocks and two games does.
Speaker 1: He's been insane, exciting. And what's crazy about this, right,
Speaker 1: is that Victor waman Allas hasn't even been that bad.
Speaker 1: He's been very good. He has been kind of, as advertised,
Speaker 1: a little green. But he is like nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: Chet's spent a year in the league. He's not even
Speaker 1: really a rookie. He's been with OKSEE since last two
Speaker 1: julys ago. He was drafted when Victor Wamanyama didn't even
Speaker 1: have hype like that. Nobody even knew outside of the
Speaker 1: people who were inside the league and really following the
Speaker 1: recruiting circle. People didn't even know Victor Womanyama like that.
Speaker 1: That is how long Chet's been with the OKC thunder
Speaker 1: chet Man right now, seventeen eight and two in his
Speaker 1: last fifteen games. Great numbers for a rookie. The defense, though, folks,
Speaker 1: the defense is what is standing out to me. Three
Speaker 1: and a half blocks and a steal per game, not
Speaker 1: three and a half stocks. Three and a half blocks
Speaker 1: and a steal. Four and a half stocks stocks stock stocks.
Speaker 1: Let's compare this to Victor Womenyama's last ten eighteen, fourteen
Speaker 1: and three with three and a half blocks and two
Speaker 1: steals per game. Whoa two steals for a man that's
Speaker 1: like the slender Man seven foot five stealing the rock.
Speaker 1: The difference, though, if you had to guess what the
Speaker 1: difference between Victor Wemenyama in his stats and Chet Holmgren
Speaker 1: in his stats were, what would it be? Shit, don't
Speaker 1: doubt my body spurs fucking suck right now. They're one
Speaker 1: in nineteen in their last twenty games. OKAC fourteen and six.
Speaker 1: So all that tells you is that winning actually impacts
Speaker 1: this race. Normally an award that has no regard for
Speaker 1: team success, apparently in this race it does. Chet is
Speaker 1: impacting winning in a massive way with Oka see man
Speaker 1: hitting last second shots to tie the game, go to overtime,
Speaker 1: blocking peeps in the laying with the game on the line.
Speaker 1: When Minyama his plus minus negative seven point four in
Speaker 1: his last twenty games, Chet plus six point two, that
Speaker 1: is a massive difference. That is a quick mask will
Speaker 1: thirteen points six turnaround. That is why Chet is now
Speaker 1: minus one twenty. That is why Victor stands at minus
Speaker 1: one ten. So it's basically neck and neck right now.
Speaker 1: Gonna be an incredibly fun race to track, and we
Speaker 1: will track it as now we have legit two generational
Speaker 1: stars going crazy back and forth like it's Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: and Evander Holyfield. Nobody bite each other's ear, folks, nobody.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it above board. If oh a question, if
Speaker 1: one of those guys was to bite the other one's
Speaker 1: ear off, who do you think it would be? I
Speaker 1: feel like it would be Chet Chat would bite the
Speaker 1: shit out of Victor's ear. Anyways, for the rest of
Speaker 1: the field. Jimi hawkez is now twenty five to one,
Speaker 1: Ausar Thompson one hundred and twenty five to one. Derek
Speaker 1: Lively actually out with an ankle sprain right now, no
Speaker 1: timetable for his return. Plus fifteen thousand, which is one
Speaker 1: hundred and set. That's a one hundred and fifty to one.
Speaker 1: We got Brandon Miller two hundred to one. Julian Strawther,
Speaker 1: by the way, was not even on the board. Julian
Speaker 1: Strather You might not know him. He's for the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 1: He's been playing incredibly well. He is now two thousand
Speaker 1: to one from off the board. That's some line movement.
Speaker 1: And Scoot Anderson is plus twenty five thousand, which is
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty to one. Banging rookie class. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be players that I would normally be in that
Speaker 1: would normally be in the mix, but this year not
Speaker 1: so much. It is a two horse race. It is
Speaker 1: going to be a blast walking watching them come down
Speaker 1: the face