Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the Hemi Award. It is Monday.
Speaker 1: It is time for he is I and I am him,
Speaker 1: pimped with the tilted brim. I forget how it goes
Speaker 1: every time. Now I did it once and now I
Speaker 1: can't do it again. The Hemi Award goes to Jokic. Jokic.
Speaker 1: We knew it was coming. It probably should be him
Speaker 1: every week. Jokic is fucking inevitable. Jokic is getting stronger,
Speaker 1: more powerful, and giving less fucks by the second. He
Speaker 1: might be the best player of our generation already, and
Speaker 1: he's just hitting his prime. I think there's a chance
Speaker 1: that Jokic, when it's all said and done, is up
Speaker 1: there in the all time greats debate because of all
Speaker 1: of the things that he can do simultaneously. How good
Speaker 1: has Jokic been right now? He's eighth in the NBA
Speaker 1: in points per game, third in assists per game, and
Speaker 1: leads the NBA in re bounced per game, averaging twenty nine,
Speaker 1: thirteen and ten. But that's just stats, that's just words,
Speaker 1: that's just numbers. That doesn't even give you the full
Speaker 1: picture of how absurdly good he has been. Half of
Speaker 1: the games that he's played. He hasn't even played with
Speaker 1: his running mate Jal Murray. Keep that in mind. He
Speaker 1: averages we know how much we like stock stock stocks.
Speaker 1: He averages two stocks a game, steals in blocks to
Speaker 1: go with the defensive rating of Remember when we said
Speaker 1: Yokic couldn't play defense, He fucking sucks at defense. That's
Speaker 1: his one knock. His defensive rating right now is one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight point seven. He heard the noise, he
Speaker 1: heard the chatter, and he said, you know what, I'll
Speaker 1: show you even better than his defensive rating last year
Speaker 1: when he was very, very effective. He is that good, folks.
Speaker 1: Let me explain Jokic's last game out. He put up.
Speaker 1: This is six thirty six, fourteen and thirteen in his
Speaker 1: six point loss to the Kings in the second night
Speaker 1: of back to back. That was his fifteenth career thirty
Speaker 1: five point triple double, which passed Wilt Chamberlain for sixth
Speaker 1: most in NBA history. If you get your name in
Speaker 1: any way ahead of Wilt Chamberlain, it is an accomplishment
Speaker 1: because part of me thinks about Wilt like the Greek
Speaker 1: folks thought about the pantheon of gods. They do deeds
Speaker 1: that we mortals can't even comprehend, and I think everybody
Speaker 1: in the NBA knows it as well. This is what
Speaker 1: King's coach Mike Brown said about Yokic in his postgame
Speaker 1: presser after that game. He said, Jokiic is a hell
Speaker 1: of a player. We threw the kitchen sink at him
Speaker 1: and he still had thirty six, fourteen and thirteen with
Speaker 1: zero turnovers. You have no answer for Jokicic. No one
Speaker 1: has any answer for Jokis. Jaron Fox said this.
Speaker 2: Back to back in MVP four Reason won a championship
Speaker 2: finals MVP four Reason. You know you're never gonna just
Speaker 2: stop him with one guy, or you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of times even with the whole team, he probably won't
Speaker 2: stop him. So, you know, most people want to try
Speaker 2: to make him a score, but he still finds ways
Speaker 2: to get guys involved. He passes guys open, and you
Speaker 2: just want to make sure that other guys don't really
Speaker 2: get it going because when they do, then you know
Speaker 2: it's it's pretty much pick your poison with that team.
Speaker 2: So you just want to try to limit, you know,
Speaker 2: most of his playmaking because he's so big. He scores
Speaker 2: on all three levels. You're not going to block a shot,
Speaker 2: so there's not many things that you can do, you know,
Speaker 2: when he's really going into you know, at tack moo
Speaker 2: trying to score, so you just try to limit everybody else.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's that good. He I mean, Jokic probably
Speaker 1: deserves his own award. It's not really even the Hemmy award.
Speaker 1: It's like the hand me the MVP award right now.
Speaker 1: I love Steph and I think he deserves it because
Speaker 1: this team is dog shit around him. But like we
Speaker 1: stole the MVP from Yokic, we stole it. We collectively said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're not good enough as a player in
Speaker 1: the collective of good players that can win back to
Speaker 1: back to back MVPs. You've never won a thing in
Speaker 1: your fucking life. You're chubby. We don't even think you
Speaker 1: want it. So we're just gonna give it to MB
Speaker 1: because he's been literally complaining and bitching him, moaning that
Speaker 1: he hasn't won, and he's been pretty good too, so
Speaker 1: it would be a shame for us to give it
Speaker 1: to you when you've done nothing to deserve it on
Speaker 1: the winning level. And now he went out and won it,
Speaker 1: and I wondered to myself, like, did we steal that
Speaker 1: from him? I think we did. I think Jokic deserves
Speaker 1: four in a row. Jokic is winning the MVP again
Speaker 1: this year. That's how good he is. The past eight days,
Speaker 1: Jokic went off for thirty two, ten and fourteen, including
Speaker 1: four offensive boards per game. That is ridiculous. We could probably,
Speaker 1: like I said, rename it the Jokic Award instead of
Speaker 1: the Himmi Award. Nicola is a everywhere unlike Thanos. You
Speaker 1: can't just take his rings. You can't just take this
Speaker 1: man stones. He's the best player.
Speaker 2: In the NBA.
Speaker 1: And the sooner we have Kendrick walking it back. We
Speaker 1: have Kendrick walking it back. Remember, folks, what Kendrick said
Speaker 1: about Jokic last year. He made it racial, and now
Speaker 1: he's out here telling the world Jokic is the best
Speaker 1: player on planet Earth. The sooner we all are Kendrick Perkins,
Speaker 1: the happier we will all be. That's all the time
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