WEBVTT - Best of NBA: Nico Harrison FIRED, LeBron James RETURNS to Lakers, Wemby's  MONSTER start | Nick Wright

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right

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<v Speaker 1>with Nick Right the best takes and moments from this

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<v Speaker 1>week on the show. Enjoy Tim McMahon, who is as

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<v Speaker 1>plugged into the MAVs as anyone with respect to Mark Stein.

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<v Speaker 1>Telegraph this a bit yesterday on The Great Hoop Collective podcast,

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<v Speaker 1>with he and Wendy and my pal timbon Temps talking

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<v Speaker 1>that Nico Harrison could be fired and Nico Harrison, Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to incorrectly report this as we record

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<v Speaker 1>live or we broadcast live at ten thirty four am Eastern,

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<v Speaker 1>Nico Harrison has not yet been fired. In a truly

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<v Speaker 1>mortifying end to a truly indefensible nine month reign of terror.

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<v Speaker 1>Nico Harrison has a meeting with MAVs ownership in twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five minutes where he will be fired. I gotta tell you,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure I'd show up to that. Meaning if

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<v Speaker 1>Shams has it and the whole world knows that, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what guys with, this can be assumed. So the

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<v Speaker 1>impacts and implications of this are far reaching. Most notable

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<v Speaker 1>is the following. And this might sound shocking, this might

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<v Speaker 1>sound drastic, but I believe this to be true. Teams

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<v Speaker 1>around the league should immediately call Dallas and ask about

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<v Speaker 1>Anthony Davis's availability. Certainly teams around the league that would

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<v Speaker 1>be interested. And this probably is going to have to

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<v Speaker 1>be something far later once you see him if he

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<v Speaker 1>returns pre trade deadline, should ask about Kyrie Irving. And

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<v Speaker 1>that is because the Dallas Mavericks are now in total

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<v Speaker 1>build around Cooper Flag try to rebuild our draft capital.

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<v Speaker 1>To keep in mind, they do not either have they

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<v Speaker 1>either don't have well, they either don't have a pick

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<v Speaker 1>or don't have their own pick. In the next four drafts,

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<v Speaker 1>they had gone all in around historically great superstar Lukadancic,

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<v Speaker 1>and then, because of ego and hubris, Lukadanciic was traded

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the night in the type of

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<v Speaker 1>move that if there were ever cause for a fan

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<v Speaker 1>base to file a class action lawsuit against management, this

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<v Speaker 1>would be it. You had one of the greatest players

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<v Speaker 1>ever at the very beginning of the prime of his career,

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<v Speaker 1>and I said it at the time and I will

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<v Speaker 1>say it again, And because of nothing more than power

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<v Speaker 1>and ego, you lit the franchise on fire. Power and ego.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone was searching for why Nico would have done this,

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<v Speaker 1>and the only logical and it's not logical, but the

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<v Speaker 1>only reasonable explanation was he did. I didn't like the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that someone within the organization had more power than him,

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<v Speaker 1>and that someone was Luca, So we got him out

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<v Speaker 1>of there. And it will go down in the annals

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<v Speaker 1>of sports history as one of the single greatest gaffs

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<v Speaker 1>in a front office has ever made. That is not

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<v Speaker 1>an overreaction, that is not an overstatement. That is simply

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<v Speaker 1>what it was the moment it happened, and now is

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<v Speaker 1>being exacerbated night in, night out as Luca instead of

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<v Speaker 1>coming off an injury as he was last year, reminds everyone. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I am the guy who dragged a Dallas Mavericks team

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<v Speaker 1>to the conference finals when I was twenty two and

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<v Speaker 1>to the NBA Finals when I was twenty four, And

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<v Speaker 1>now I'm twenty six, and I have more first team

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<v Speaker 1>All nbas under my belt than Steph Curry does, and

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<v Speaker 1>you got rid of me and I don't. I also

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<v Speaker 1>don't think this is an overstatement. Nico Harrison will never

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<v Speaker 1>work in an NBA front office again. He's gonna have

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<v Speaker 1>to work for Nike or an agency or something. But

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<v Speaker 1>this is you cannot recover from something like this and

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<v Speaker 1>the arrogance that less than you know. We are a

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<v Speaker 1>dozen games into this season and Nico after they spun

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<v Speaker 1>a one point eight percent lottery ball chance into Cooper Flag,

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<v Speaker 1>the fact that he said do you see the vision

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<v Speaker 1>now was one of the most tone deaf, ludicrous statements.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm not a MAVs fan. Hell, I'm an adopted

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<v Speaker 1>I guess Laker fan because that's who Bron plays for.

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<v Speaker 1>So the Lakers getting Luca, who's my second favorite player,

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<v Speaker 1>was and he and Bron playing together was a true dream.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm still mad about this trade on behalf of

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<v Speaker 1>mav fans. I can't imagine what this is. This was

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<v Speaker 1>a sports felony inflicted upon a fan. And yes, now

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<v Speaker 1>the villain has been captured and is facing justice, but

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't change the havoc he reeked and the long

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<v Speaker 1>term impact on your fandom. So I I want to

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<v Speaker 1>just revisit before we get to last night's game, before

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<v Speaker 1>we get to football, what I set off the top,

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<v Speaker 1>and credit to Tim Bond, TIMPs. He's been talking about

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<v Speaker 1>this for a while, but now it is to me

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<v Speaker 1>a more because it was never gonna happen with Nico

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<v Speaker 1>in charge, but the Dallas Mavericks have to consider a

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<v Speaker 1>fire sale the so let me, let me. I want

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<v Speaker 1>to give everyone the actual draft pick situation for Dallas.

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<v Speaker 1>In twenty twenty six, they have their pick, so my apologies,

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<v Speaker 1>I said that wrong. Twenty twenty six, they have their pick.

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<v Speaker 1>This year, they have their pick, and maybe that's good

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<v Speaker 1>because right now they're terrible. In twenty twenty seven, their

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<v Speaker 1>pick basically totally unprotected, protected only for spots one or two,

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<v Speaker 1>so unprotected goes to Charlotte. In twenty twenty eight, Jesus,

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<v Speaker 1>the rich get richer. The Thunder can swap with them.

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<v Speaker 1>In twenty twenty nine, their pick goes somewhere in a

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<v Speaker 1>swap and they do have the Lakers pick. And in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty thirty, my god, the Spurs can swap with them.

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<v Speaker 1>So first of all, in twenty twenty eight and twenty thirty,

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<v Speaker 1>the Mavericks first round pick is gonna go to the

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<v Speaker 1>Thunder and then the Spurs. Holy shit. In twenty twenty nine,

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<v Speaker 1>their pick goes somewhere. I can't figure it out. It

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<v Speaker 1>says two most favorable of Dallas, Houston, Phoenix to Houston

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<v Speaker 1>and then other to Brooklyn via Dallas and Phoenix to

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<v Speaker 1>Brooklyn via Dallas, or Phoenix to Houston via Houston. Swap

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<v Speaker 1>for Dallas or Phoenix. I don't get it, but whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>the MAVs will not after this coming year's draft. They

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<v Speaker 1>do not have control of their their first until twenty

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<v Speaker 1>thirty one until Cooper flag is in the midst of

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<v Speaker 1>his second contract, so they need to recoop picks they

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<v Speaker 1>need to figure out like Klay Thompson's contract is fully underwater.

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<v Speaker 1>Kyrie's an interesting one, and I it's just and by

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<v Speaker 1>the way, they're three and eight and I think, let

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<v Speaker 1>me check. I think they have literally the worst offense

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<v Speaker 1>in the NBA. I know, so let's just check in

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<v Speaker 1>real quick defense wins championships, because that's all we heard

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<v Speaker 1>from this this guy. All we heard from him. Their

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<v Speaker 1>offense is, oh, is it no longer dead last? The

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<v Speaker 1>hold on? Let me, I had it. I thought they

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<v Speaker 1>were dead last. Maybe I'm wrong because that says they're

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<v Speaker 1>fourteenth right now, so oh that's last year. I'm looking

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<v Speaker 1>at last year. It's like, hold on a second, this

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<v Speaker 1>can't be correct. They can't be the Mavericks having the

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<v Speaker 1>fifteenth offense. No chance, All right, here we go? Oh no,

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<v Speaker 1>if fair's fair, they don't have the worst offense in

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<v Speaker 1>the basketball. They have the second worst offensive basketball to

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<v Speaker 1>the Pacers. Who's best player Torre's Achilles in Game seven

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<v Speaker 1>of the finals and second best or third best player

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<v Speaker 1>left the team. Now, I mean this is just perfect,

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<v Speaker 1>just chef's kiss. Perfect defense wins championships. The Dallas Mavericks

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<v Speaker 1>are three and eight. They fired Nico Harrison. They currently

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<v Speaker 1>have the third best defense in basketball. Maybe that was

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<v Speaker 1>a miscalculation because you have the second worst offense in basketball.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so, as you know, we don't usually get too

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<v Speaker 2>deep into basketball until Christmas, but we got to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about some things going on in the NBA. Wimby yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>apparently was crazy. I didn't catch this one, but I

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<v Speaker 2>saw the highlights. Is it possible that this guy is

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<v Speaker 2>already the best player in the league.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, here's the thing. Demon's eight. No, no shame

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<v Speaker 1>in not catching it live Oh yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I was watching vij edge Combe welcome himself to the NBA.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh you were watching? You were watching a different game.

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<v Speaker 2>I was watching.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, Oh that's I thought. I assumed you meant you were.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh good for you, buddy. Yeah, yeah, that's a VJ.

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<v Speaker 1>Edgecombe all time record for points. Take you and the

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<v Speaker 1>Sixers won that game despite him being.

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<v Speaker 2>Show and the almost got bad for VJ with him

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<v Speaker 2>missing those two free throws at the end of the

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<v Speaker 2>Celticspense pulled through. That would have been a damn That

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<v Speaker 2>would have been a.

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<v Speaker 1>Great win for them. Yeah. Yeah. And and Maxie, our

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<v Speaker 1>guy Maxie had forty cooked, but someone else had forty

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<v Speaker 1>and he's a seven foot five problem. So I I

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<v Speaker 1>was a gog at what I saw last night from

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<v Speaker 1>Victor WindMan Yama. So he is the best defensive player

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<v Speaker 1>in basketball. We knew that was going to be the case.

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<v Speaker 1>And he had three blocks, but that doesn't really explain

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<v Speaker 1>it because he just dissuaded so much action because of

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<v Speaker 1>his length that I don't know what the advanced stat

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<v Speaker 1>is for, like shots not taken because you're scared this

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<v Speaker 1>guy's gonna swat it into the first row. But he

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<v Speaker 1>crushes in that so we had. So here's a good

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<v Speaker 1>comp we had on the show yesterday, A kim Olajuan

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<v Speaker 1>all right, and A Keem was never the best offensive

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<v Speaker 1>player in the league. But there was a two year

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<v Speaker 1>period when Jordan was a year and a half when

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<v Speaker 1>Jordan was retired, and the those two years when A

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<v Speaker 1>Keem was the best player in the league because he

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<v Speaker 1>was far and away the best defensive player. And those

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<v Speaker 1>couple of years probably like the fifth or sixth best

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<v Speaker 1>offensive player, and those two things can combine to make

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<v Speaker 1>you the best player. He usually goes in the other direction,

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<v Speaker 1>the best player in the league. Joker is far and

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<v Speaker 1>away the best offensive player, and then just for average defensive. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>And to deal with it with you know, it's very

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<v Speaker 1>rare you get prime. I shouldn't say it's very rare.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just special prime Giannis prime, Bron prime, Jordan, prime,

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<v Speaker 1>Kobe Kawhido. Also, I think was never the best offensive offense. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about a guy who can win the scoring

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<v Speaker 1>title while being the best defender in the league. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>it's only a handful of guys. If Wimby's gonna give

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<v Speaker 1>you forty let me put it like this. Here's why

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<v Speaker 1>it's so scary Tomanse and I loved that he only

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<v Speaker 1>took two threes, that he is stronger, his handles better.

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<v Speaker 1>I think Wimby. If Wimby averages twenty five points a game,

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<v Speaker 1>he might be the best player in the league like

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<v Speaker 1>that because of what he is defensively and if he's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna put up thirty. I I'm sorry to Joker and

0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:58.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry to Shay, but I just I am. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>ready to have the conversation that this guy might just

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<v Speaker 1>be the best, like the best player in the league

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<v Speaker 1>right now.

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<v Speaker 2>In the beginning, well, here's what I was probably more

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<v Speaker 2>on the injury side.

0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.240
<v Speaker 1>It was two things. It was two things. One was

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<v Speaker 1>the injury stuff, which still anybody that size it worries me.

0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.040
<v Speaker 1>But that's about it. Was my skepticism on Wimby. I

0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.479
<v Speaker 1>guess was here were the three different levels of it.

0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:26.959
<v Speaker 2>I think it was him shooting too.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, so I didn't like the style he was playing.

0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.000
<v Speaker 1>To me, he was trying to be Durant, and it's like, bro,

0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.200
<v Speaker 1>you're a half foot taller than Durant and Durant is

0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.720
<v Speaker 1>one of the greatest pure shooters ever. You're like the

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<v Speaker 1>So I didn't love that. The injuries potential concerned me

0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:50.600
<v Speaker 1>because literally every player in the history of the league

0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.879
<v Speaker 1>seven four or taller has dealt with injuries, and I

0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.400
<v Speaker 1>don't consider the blood clot an injury. I do, though,

0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.359
<v Speaker 1>I I'm gonna say it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Really I feel like that they're more prone to though,

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<v Speaker 2>just because they're larger guys.

0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.360
<v Speaker 1>I was about to say that exact same thing. I

0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:10.840
<v Speaker 1>was like, maybe this is dumb. Maybe a doctor's listening

0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.040
<v Speaker 1>is like, that's not how that works. But in my head,

0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.200
<v Speaker 1>that's how it works. It's like, I don't know, there's

0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:19.760
<v Speaker 1>more there's more error, you know, mileage for there to

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<v Speaker 1>be clots, like I don't know. But so that part,

0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.160
<v Speaker 1>and then the other part was I just thought we

0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:33.679
<v Speaker 1>were setting him up to be a disappointment by saying

0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:39.800
<v Speaker 1>if he's not better than a Chema LaJuan, he's underachieved.

0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.720
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, jeez, Louise Man, like he walks into the

0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.560
<v Speaker 1>league and it's if you're not one of the ten

0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:51.680
<v Speaker 1>greatest players of all time, you've you have failed. Yeah.

0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:57.000
<v Speaker 1>With that said, I mean I kind of get it.

0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:02.800
<v Speaker 1>I mean, this is fascial. This is really really special

0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.360
<v Speaker 1>and I don't know what you're gonna do with him,

0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:18.160
<v Speaker 1>and it does. He has become after one game Demanse

0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:30.479
<v Speaker 1>must watch every night and it makes me at least

0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:38.040
<v Speaker 1>with Len leaving, well, yeah, there's that, but yeah, but

0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:43.119
<v Speaker 1>also and so a couple things. It makes me take

0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:50.760
<v Speaker 1>the Spurs seriously. I mean, they obviously didn't even have

0:21:50.920 --> 0:22:00.960
<v Speaker 1>Fox and they beat the third and well, so that's

0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.520
<v Speaker 1>the other piece of it. If you were to ask

0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:13.399
<v Speaker 1>me going into yesterday, okay, if you are if you

0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:18.440
<v Speaker 1>can have any player in the league to try to

0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:25.440
<v Speaker 1>slow down Wimby on the defensive end, who is your

0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.360
<v Speaker 1>number one draft pick? It would have been a d.

0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:36.400
<v Speaker 1>Like that's the other problem, Like the is there anyone

0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:41.520
<v Speaker 1>in the league demands a better in theory equipped to deal.

0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:44.720
<v Speaker 2>With Wimby on the Celtics. I think it's the last

0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.000
<v Speaker 2>name is Vet someth Vet.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, you're I don't I don't know who

0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.760
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about, and you're being ridiculous. There is the

0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:57.080
<v Speaker 1>the I mean, maybe you're not the I don't know.

0:22:57.359 --> 0:23:00.920
<v Speaker 2>Nobody's guarding the van. Nobody can go the He's a

0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:01.720
<v Speaker 2>freak of nature.

0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:07.399
<v Speaker 1>Hold on, who are you talking about you're talking about Queta. Okay,

0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:11.080
<v Speaker 1>all right, yeah, okay, you were being silly. Uh No,

0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:15.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm just saying like a d is seven feet can

0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:17.800
<v Speaker 1>play on the perimeter, can play down low. It has

0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:23.000
<v Speaker 1>been one of the of his era. Yes, and Wmby

0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.000
<v Speaker 1>made him look silly. I don't so so, like who

0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:32.679
<v Speaker 1>is the Spurs? What's the Spurs next game? So the

0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:39.119
<v Speaker 1>Spurs next game is? Their next three games are New Orleans, Brooklyn, Toronto.

0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:44.960
<v Speaker 1>The hell is anybody gonna do? Like? Who on New

0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:53.639
<v Speaker 1>Orleans is gonna be? Like it's Trey Murphy It I

0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.960
<v Speaker 1>don't think New Orleans. I guess MESI I don't know, man,

0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:03.560
<v Speaker 1>this is so I do think. I do think Demonde.

0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.320
<v Speaker 1>It's on the board that he's the best player in

0:24:07.359 --> 0:24:10.200
<v Speaker 1>the league this year, and that would.

0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:13.040
<v Speaker 2>Be mind is right too, Like I just don't see

0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:17.120
<v Speaker 2>it's like he's going to do everything possible to stay afloat.

0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:19.520
<v Speaker 2>I see him taking care of his body, taking care

0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:20.280
<v Speaker 2>of himself and the.

0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:27.040
<v Speaker 1>Off Yeah, oh yeah, we haven't had a guy be

0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:38.040
<v Speaker 1>in the argument for there's only been I just want

0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:45.480
<v Speaker 1>to make sure I get this right. The only no

0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:52.320
<v Speaker 1>one since Broun has had a real argument that they

0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:57.919
<v Speaker 1>were the best player in the league. In year three,

0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:02.800
<v Speaker 1>like Broun in your was second in MVP voting. He

0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:06.640
<v Speaker 1>had a real argument. Tim Duncan in year three might

0:25:06.680 --> 0:25:08.359
<v Speaker 1>have been the best player in the league, but he

0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:14.520
<v Speaker 1>was a four year college player. Shack in year three

0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:17.919
<v Speaker 1>was I think, let me, I want to see if

0:25:17.960 --> 0:25:21.720
<v Speaker 1>I have this, had an argument he was second in

0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:28.239
<v Speaker 1>MVP voting and Jordan was retired, and they made the

0:25:28.240 --> 0:25:35.280
<v Speaker 1>finals but lost to a team those are best player

0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:39.560
<v Speaker 1>in the league argument? By year three, it's just the

0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:48.800
<v Speaker 1>holy grail of NBA guys, really, and this is this

0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:54.880
<v Speaker 1>is something else. This is really really something else. I'm

0:25:54.920 --> 0:26:06.720
<v Speaker 1>amazed by it, and I I I'm lost of words.

0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:11.960
<v Speaker 1>I didn't understand what I was watching last night. And

0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:19.800
<v Speaker 1>we'll see how it continues. Oh wow, what's the MVP Hodds.

0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:24.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so he climbed the top two in MVP odds

0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:27.320
<v Speaker 2>at plus two seventy five, and he was around plus

0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:31.919
<v Speaker 2>twelve hundred in the preseason. So do you see you

0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:35.399
<v Speaker 2>see after these three games him potentially being the favorite?

0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:36.760
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't see.

0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:40.920
<v Speaker 1>I mean, maybe here's the thing. The thing is this,

0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:46.600
<v Speaker 1>I just, in principle, if yesterday I could have gotten

0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:49.199
<v Speaker 1>to bet at twelve to one. I can't bet it

0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:51.360
<v Speaker 1>today at less than three to one.

0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:53.919
<v Speaker 2>And here's a lot of those tickets out there. I

0:26:53.960 --> 0:26:57.760
<v Speaker 2>feel like one us. Yeah, I feel like there's a

0:26:57.840 --> 0:26:58.800
<v Speaker 2>lot of those out there.

0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:03.240
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah. And I would have told you. I would

0:27:03.240 --> 0:27:05.760
<v Speaker 1>have told you one day ago those are dumb tickets,

0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:11.880
<v Speaker 1>just because I would have said, you know this injury Fling, Well,

0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:14.600
<v Speaker 1>he's coming off an injury. He might not play enough games,

0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:17.679
<v Speaker 1>and it's so hard to win MVP if you're not

0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:20.560
<v Speaker 1>a top three seed and you know how many games

0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.679
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0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:13.800
<v Speaker 1>course do apply Lebron's back and I have a lot

0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:28.560
<v Speaker 1>of takes. So no athlete in my lifetime has generated

0:28:28.800 --> 0:28:42.200
<v Speaker 1>more idiotic and immediately self refuting opinions than Lebron. And

0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:45.719
<v Speaker 1>it's because I think it's because he's been for basically

0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:52.200
<v Speaker 1>as long as daily sports television has existed, Lebron has

0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:56.840
<v Speaker 1>been one of, if not the main character, and because

0:28:56.880 --> 0:29:02.520
<v Speaker 1>he has played, you know, throughout the entirety of this medium,

0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:06.920
<v Speaker 1>and because he has been at the eye of the

0:29:07.040 --> 0:29:11.800
<v Speaker 1>NBA storm, which while the NBA has never in his

0:29:11.920 --> 0:29:16.600
<v Speaker 1>career been the country's most popular sport, but it has

0:29:16.760 --> 0:29:21.400
<v Speaker 1>been at various times in his career the country's most

0:29:22.200 --> 0:29:25.960
<v Speaker 1>talked about sport. When it comes to sports debate and

0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:31.760
<v Speaker 1>sports TV and sports talk radio, Lebron is the Lebron

0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:42.800
<v Speaker 1>commentariot has spawned just some truly ridiculous and upon reflection,

0:29:43.080 --> 0:29:48.080
<v Speaker 1>hilarious moments. And these are for me, friends and foes alike.

0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:58.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean, we are twelve twelve? Is that right? No,

0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:04.760
<v Speaker 1>it's not right. Eighteen years ago, my dear pal Dan

0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:10.719
<v Speaker 1>Lebtard announced Lebron was on the downside and Miami had

0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:14.800
<v Speaker 1>gotten the best of him. That was thirteen years ago.

0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:18.880
<v Speaker 1>And I'm gonna talk about guys that I love an adore,

0:30:19.560 --> 0:30:21.440
<v Speaker 1>so it doesn't seem like I'm trying to take cheap

0:30:21.480 --> 0:30:28.240
<v Speaker 1>shots here. Famously, the owner and founder of this company,

0:30:28.720 --> 0:30:37.960
<v Speaker 1>my mentor Colin, eight years ago said Lebron hanging up

0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:42.000
<v Speaker 1>whenever you want. We've got the NBA's got it from here.

0:30:42.480 --> 0:30:48.120
<v Speaker 1>It was actually nine years ago, and that's an all

0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:51.440
<v Speaker 1>time clip. A because Lebron would go on to win

0:30:51.600 --> 0:30:55.840
<v Speaker 1>multiple championships after that, but b because he was saying

0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:59.040
<v Speaker 1>that Ben Simmons is gonna take over. I listen, Colin,

0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:02.280
<v Speaker 1>I was as high on Ben Simmons just about anybody.

0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:05.480
<v Speaker 1>I have to hold that l as well. And there,

0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:07.880
<v Speaker 1>of course is all the skip stuff with the clutch

0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:10.520
<v Speaker 1>and then the latest stephen A stuff with the real

0:31:10.600 --> 0:31:14.520
<v Speaker 1>personal I don't like that guy so much of it

0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:21.440
<v Speaker 1>just outright silliness. And then we got an unexpected dose

0:31:21.520 --> 0:31:24.520
<v Speaker 1>of it in the week's leading in the week or

0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:28.320
<v Speaker 1>so leading up to Lebron making his debut, which was

0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:35.800
<v Speaker 1>Hey Will Lebron be able to fit in with the Lakers,

0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.800
<v Speaker 1>even though we saw Luca and Lebron and Austin Reeves

0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:44.440
<v Speaker 1>play together last year. Hey, will Lebron actually make the

0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:49.440
<v Speaker 1>Lakers worse? Will he screw up what they have going on?

0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:56.800
<v Speaker 1>These were real conversations, real discussions about the most malleable,

0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:03.400
<v Speaker 1>most uh flexible as far as how he can help

0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:12.440
<v Speaker 1>your team player in NBA history, about arguably the only

0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:18.400
<v Speaker 1>guy in the history of the league that can legitimately

0:32:18.760 --> 0:32:25.440
<v Speaker 1>and has literally made an All NBA team at all

0:32:25.720 --> 0:32:29.240
<v Speaker 1>five positions on the court. Check his Basketball reference for

0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:34.600
<v Speaker 1>that was an All NBA center one year for the

0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:38.400
<v Speaker 1>Lakers and an All NBA point guard the year after

0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:44.120
<v Speaker 1>that for the Lakers. Late stage, Lebron was an All

0:32:44.200 --> 0:32:48.120
<v Speaker 1>NBA shooting guard as a young player early and then

0:32:48.200 --> 0:32:52.040
<v Speaker 1>obviously All NBA small forward and power forward throughout his career.

0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:57.920
<v Speaker 1>That that guy that can play all five, and certainly

0:32:57.960 --> 0:33:00.160
<v Speaker 1>the younger version of him, and to a degree the

0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:03.440
<v Speaker 1>older version of him can guard all five, that that

0:33:03.560 --> 0:33:10.000
<v Speaker 1>guy was gonna screw up a team. And then Lebron

0:33:10.120 --> 0:33:17.320
<v Speaker 1>comes in keeps his double digit point streak alive, which

0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.760
<v Speaker 1>is going to be a very fun and funny thing

0:33:20.840 --> 0:33:27.520
<v Speaker 1>to watch this year because it's obviously an untouchable record

0:33:29.280 --> 0:33:34.560
<v Speaker 1>and we'll get more on the Lebron untouchable record stuff

0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:38.560
<v Speaker 1>in a moment, but he wants to keep it going.

0:33:40.800 --> 0:33:43.240
<v Speaker 1>But he is, I believe, going to play a very

0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:48.680
<v Speaker 1>different style this year. That game Tuesday Night, that's the

0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:51.400
<v Speaker 1>fewest shots he's ever taken in a game he didn't

0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:56.360
<v Speaker 1>leave with injury. And speaking of the double digit point streak,

0:33:58.400 --> 0:34:02.640
<v Speaker 1>one of those games that he left with injury, because

0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:04.720
<v Speaker 1>there's only been two games in his career he took

0:34:04.760 --> 0:34:08.040
<v Speaker 1>fewer than seven shots, which is what he took Tuesday night.

0:34:09.640 --> 0:34:12.000
<v Speaker 1>One he didn't play the second half because he took

0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:14.839
<v Speaker 1>an elbow from to Kim Bae Matumbo, and one he

0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:20.160
<v Speaker 1>left early when Solomon Hill fell into his ankle and

0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:25.520
<v Speaker 1>derailed the Lakers title defense in the twenty twenty one season.

0:34:27.640 --> 0:34:31.880
<v Speaker 1>But that game involves one of my favorite Lebron moments

0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:37.680
<v Speaker 1>of all time, which is Solomon Hill falls into his ankle,

0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:47.600
<v Speaker 1>Lebron recognizes he has suffered the first truly significant injury

0:34:47.719 --> 0:34:54.279
<v Speaker 1>of his entire career up to that point and is

0:34:54.360 --> 0:35:00.800
<v Speaker 1>going to be out months and his city at seven

0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:06.839
<v Speaker 1>points and the streak is dead, and despite suffering an

0:35:06.840 --> 0:35:09.600
<v Speaker 1>injury that is going to knock him out for the

0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:15.960
<v Speaker 1>next two months, he pretends he's not hurt badly, stays

0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:23.560
<v Speaker 1>in the game, gets the ball, takes a corner, three hits,

0:35:23.600 --> 0:35:27.879
<v Speaker 1>it keeps the double figure point streak alive, and then

0:35:28.160 --> 0:35:30.280
<v Speaker 1>is out for the majority of the rest of the season.

0:35:34.160 --> 0:35:41.400
<v Speaker 1>But that's sidebar Lebron being dropped in as a team's

0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:47.560
<v Speaker 1>ultimate Swiss Army knife and Lebron taking pride in that ability,

0:35:49.120 --> 0:35:56.960
<v Speaker 1>and Lebron then saying after the game with a smile, Yeah,

0:35:57.040 --> 0:36:00.279
<v Speaker 1>I heard what was being said. I've been a you know,

0:36:00.360 --> 0:36:02.759
<v Speaker 1>you could put me on any team and I would

0:36:02.800 --> 0:36:09.160
<v Speaker 1>make it work. Is just obviously true. And people's you know,

0:36:09.239 --> 0:36:12.680
<v Speaker 1>people say that about Kevin Durant all the time, like, oh,

0:36:13.000 --> 0:36:20.200
<v Speaker 1>you just drop him in anywhere, And yes, that's true

0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:25.080
<v Speaker 1>about other players, great players, You drop them in and

0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:32.279
<v Speaker 1>they would make any team better. The distinction is can

0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:37.040
<v Speaker 1>you drop a player in and can they instantly do

0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:42.240
<v Speaker 1>at a high level the exact thing that team needs

0:36:42.320 --> 0:36:47.040
<v Speaker 1>them to do. This Lakers team right now might need

0:36:47.120 --> 0:36:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Lebron to be more facilitator, cutter, screener than score unlike

0:36:57.440 --> 0:37:00.600
<v Speaker 1>some of the other great players in this league, he

0:37:00.680 --> 0:37:08.279
<v Speaker 1>has the skill set at forty in year twenty three

0:37:08.640 --> 0:37:12.319
<v Speaker 1>to be excellent all at anything. Now, is he the

0:37:12.360 --> 0:37:14.719
<v Speaker 1>best player in the league anymore? Of course not. Is

0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:17.640
<v Speaker 1>he a top five player in the league anymore? No?

0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:24.640
<v Speaker 1>But is he still have a legitimate shot at being

0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:29.800
<v Speaker 1>right around top ten? And is he, assuredly when he's healthy,

0:37:30.360 --> 0:37:34.799
<v Speaker 1>still a top fifteen guy in the league. Yes? And

0:37:34.840 --> 0:37:40.759
<v Speaker 1>that guy with that malleyability helps any team in the

0:37:40.840 --> 0:37:45.799
<v Speaker 1>history of basketball. Now, is it all right? Now a

0:37:45.880 --> 0:37:51.400
<v Speaker 1>moot point for the whole NBA because of who and

0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:57.320
<v Speaker 1>what OKC is. Maybe everybody might be playing for second

0:37:57.320 --> 0:38:06.319
<v Speaker 1>this year, but we'll see things happen. And there's an

0:38:06.400 --> 0:38:13.280
<v Speaker 1>element of, I don't want to say lack of appreciation,

0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:23.640
<v Speaker 1>but numbness to what we are seeing at this moment.

0:38:24.760 --> 0:38:28.040
<v Speaker 1>And this is something that you know I've said before,

0:38:28.280 --> 0:38:34.440
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know that people like fully take it in,

0:38:36.440 --> 0:38:40.640
<v Speaker 1>and especially because you know Steph is playing at such

0:38:40.640 --> 0:38:44.760
<v Speaker 1>a high level at an advanced age. Durant is playing

0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:49.319
<v Speaker 1>at such a high level at an advanced age. But

0:38:53.840 --> 0:38:57.240
<v Speaker 1>see whether you want to focus on the age forty

0:38:57.320 --> 0:39:04.839
<v Speaker 1>part or the year twenty three. Part the it being

0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:12.520
<v Speaker 1>without precedent is such a wild understatement, Like Kobe Bryant,

0:39:13.080 --> 0:39:19.920
<v Speaker 1>the late great Kobe Bryant. How old do you think

0:39:20.080 --> 0:39:25.279
<v Speaker 1>Kobe was when he played in his final playoff game

0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:29.960
<v Speaker 1>with the Lakers. I'm gonna give it a pause so

0:39:30.040 --> 0:39:33.280
<v Speaker 1>you can actually think about it. How old was Kobe

0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:40.359
<v Speaker 1>in his final career playoff game? Are you shocked when

0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:44.080
<v Speaker 1>I tell you the answer to that is thirty two.

0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:55.319
<v Speaker 1>Kobe Bryant did not play in a playoff game with

0:39:55.440 --> 0:40:00.680
<v Speaker 1>the Lakers after the age of thirty two. Like a

0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:11.200
<v Speaker 1>little context to that, Lebron joined the Lakers when he

0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:25.000
<v Speaker 1>was thirty four. So obviously, Jordan Fit, you know, stop

0:40:25.080 --> 0:40:27.160
<v Speaker 1>what that was done with the Bulls at thirty five

0:40:27.320 --> 0:40:32.319
<v Speaker 1>thirty six. Obviously, we've never seen a player play in

0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:34.520
<v Speaker 1>a year twenty three, and the only one to get

0:40:34.560 --> 0:40:40.920
<v Speaker 1>to a year twenty two was Vince It's I said

0:40:40.920 --> 0:40:45.719
<v Speaker 1>this a couple of years ago and people laughed. I

0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:50.400
<v Speaker 1>think we are now seeing it in real time. He'll

0:40:50.440 --> 0:40:56.040
<v Speaker 1>simply never be bad and he could easily play at again,

0:40:57.600 --> 0:41:03.800
<v Speaker 1>not an MVP level, but a high level throughout his forties.

0:41:05.200 --> 0:41:09.000
<v Speaker 1>Barring again, barring, you're always at this age of a

0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:13.520
<v Speaker 1>catastrophic injury away, but he's ducked that up to this

0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:19.920
<v Speaker 1>point in his career, and people can have the argument

0:41:19.960 --> 0:41:24.719
<v Speaker 1>about the greatest player of all time that is going

0:41:24.760 --> 0:41:28.880
<v Speaker 1>to age so well on my end and so poorly

0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:32.120
<v Speaker 1>for so many other folks, because it is when it

0:41:32.200 --> 0:41:36.120
<v Speaker 1>does come to And this isn't the whole discussion, but

0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:40.080
<v Speaker 1>it is at least a piece of it. The record books.

0:41:41.400 --> 0:41:46.040
<v Speaker 1>With the way things are going right now as far

0:41:46.120 --> 0:41:51.520
<v Speaker 1>as injuries, load management, guys not being able to make

0:41:51.560 --> 0:41:58.440
<v Speaker 1>it through a full season, Lebron's longevity records are going

0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:02.240
<v Speaker 1>to win. People look back on him in forty years.

0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:06.080
<v Speaker 1>It's going to be like if you look at complete

0:42:06.200 --> 0:42:10.480
<v Speaker 1>games in baseball right now and you're like, wait, a

0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:18.840
<v Speaker 1>guy had forty in one year. Like all of these games, minutes, points,

0:42:19.160 --> 0:42:25.480
<v Speaker 1>the playoff records are going to be Chamberlain esque, untouchable

0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:35.240
<v Speaker 1>and farcical in the numbers to future generations. And I'm very,

0:42:36.200 --> 0:42:43.440
<v Speaker 1>very interested to see the full role Bron takes on

0:42:43.600 --> 0:42:48.319
<v Speaker 1>with the Lakers, because in Game one of year twenty three,

0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:54.080
<v Speaker 1>he was like, Okay, I'll be late stage Magic Johnson,

0:42:55.600 --> 0:43:02.040
<v Speaker 1>and that's pretty damn good. There's one other Bron adjacent

0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:07.319
<v Speaker 1>thing I wanted to talk about, And this is one

0:43:07.360 --> 0:43:10.960
<v Speaker 1>of those things that I imagine will do well on

0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:19.360
<v Speaker 1>social media or YouTube or and might cause me a

0:43:19.400 --> 0:43:26.279
<v Speaker 1>little grief, but I just I can't leave it unaddressed,

0:43:27.760 --> 0:43:31.640
<v Speaker 1>and I don't. I'm not I'm not trying to start anything,

0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:35.480
<v Speaker 1>but this is so it was maddening when I heard it.

0:43:37.880 --> 0:43:44.239
<v Speaker 1>So the greatest sports podcaster of all time, the guy

0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:50.120
<v Speaker 1>who in some ways invented the medium, and a guy

0:43:50.200 --> 0:43:55.839
<v Speaker 1>I like a lot, Bill Simmons, brought the mail bag back,

0:43:56.480 --> 0:44:00.960
<v Speaker 1>which is awesome. It's vented Simmons. It's part of the

0:44:01.000 --> 0:44:05.120
<v Speaker 1>reason that he's who he is, and it's awesome, and

0:44:05.560 --> 0:44:12.000
<v Speaker 1>because I'm a fan who's listening. And he gets asked

0:44:12.960 --> 0:44:21.040
<v Speaker 1>about the biggest sliding doors moments in NBA history, and

0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:30.000
<v Speaker 1>he goes to the Draymond Groin shot of Lebron in

0:44:30.080 --> 0:44:37.000
<v Speaker 1>Game four of the twenty sixteen Finals, which is a

0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:42.279
<v Speaker 1>legitimate sliding doors moment, there's no doubt about it. And

0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:45.720
<v Speaker 1>he talks about how if the Warriors win that title,

0:44:45.840 --> 0:44:51.040
<v Speaker 1>Durant can't go, you know, to Golden State. So then

0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:54.000
<v Speaker 1>who wins the next two does Lebron ever win in Cleveland.

0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:58.239
<v Speaker 1>Does Lebron ever go to the Lakers. There's that is

0:44:58.640 --> 0:45:02.040
<v Speaker 1>you know, what does it mean for death? Back to

0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:05.399
<v Speaker 1>back championships? He and Lebron then at that moment would

0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:08.319
<v Speaker 1>have been two to two. He would have had back

0:45:08.360 --> 0:45:12.480
<v Speaker 1>to back league MVPs, including a unanimous There are it's

0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:17.160
<v Speaker 1>He's Simmons talks about all of it, and he's correct

0:45:17.160 --> 0:45:21.800
<v Speaker 1>about that being a sliding doors moment. But there's two

0:45:21.840 --> 0:45:30.359
<v Speaker 1>pieces of that commentary that are just one is enraging

0:45:30.480 --> 0:45:32.960
<v Speaker 1>and it's not about Bill, and the other one is

0:45:34.200 --> 0:45:38.840
<v Speaker 1>I he just must talk to very different NBA people

0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:48.440
<v Speaker 1>than me, because what Bill said was the conspiracy theory

0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:53.719
<v Speaker 1>that people believe more than any other conspiracy is that

0:45:53.880 --> 0:46:00.680
<v Speaker 1>the NBA suspended Draymond because they wanted Cleveland to win

0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:07.840
<v Speaker 1>the title. And I've literally never heard that. Now. I

0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:14.560
<v Speaker 1>certainly have heard the conspiracy that they suspended Draymond because

0:46:14.600 --> 0:46:19.120
<v Speaker 1>they hoped the series would go longer than five. But

0:46:21.760 --> 0:46:28.000
<v Speaker 1>the idea that in real time, anyone outside of the

0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:34.879
<v Speaker 1>Calves locker room, me and Zach Lowe, we're all on

0:46:34.920 --> 0:46:42.640
<v Speaker 1>the record during this, everyone's doing media, nobody else when

0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:46.960
<v Speaker 1>that suspension came down said, oh, well, now I think

0:46:47.000 --> 0:46:51.000
<v Speaker 1>the Calves are going to win. That Warriors team was

0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:55.399
<v Speaker 1>considered the greatest team of all time and had dominated

0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:57.920
<v Speaker 1>the Calves through the first four games of that series.

0:46:58.880 --> 0:47:02.960
<v Speaker 1>So the first the first point is the idea that

0:47:03.040 --> 0:47:09.480
<v Speaker 1>it is widely thought in NBA circles that the Draymond

0:47:09.560 --> 0:47:17.560
<v Speaker 1>suspension was going to lead to the Calves winning the championship.

0:47:19.000 --> 0:47:22.120
<v Speaker 1>We were all there in real time that was not

0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:22.560
<v Speaker 1>a thing.

0:47:24.680 --> 0:47:29.640
<v Speaker 3>And then and then to the opinion piece of it,

0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:35.360
<v Speaker 3>nothing is more.

0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:43.760
<v Speaker 1>Maddening for me as a Bron fan. Then the fact

0:47:43.800 --> 0:47:52.960
<v Speaker 1>that when that happened, and then the Calves win Game

0:47:53.120 --> 0:48:03.959
<v Speaker 1>five by fifteen and Lebron scores forty one points, the

0:48:04.200 --> 0:48:14.440
<v Speaker 1>entire media asserts that would have never happened if Draymond

0:48:14.560 --> 0:48:18.880
<v Speaker 1>was there. The Calves winning by double digits and Lebron

0:48:19.000 --> 0:48:27.319
<v Speaker 1>scoring forty plus never happened if Draymond's there. And then

0:48:27.360 --> 0:48:33.240
<v Speaker 1>in Game six, when Draymond is there, Lebron scores forty

0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:40.240
<v Speaker 1>one and the Calves win by fifteen points. Game five

0:48:40.320 --> 0:48:45.680
<v Speaker 1>of those finals, no Draymond Bron scores. Bron goes. I'll

0:48:45.680 --> 0:48:48.759
<v Speaker 1>give you his exact stat line, just so we all

0:48:48.800 --> 0:48:53.080
<v Speaker 1>are on the same page. Forty one, sixteen and seven

0:48:53.880 --> 0:48:57.920
<v Speaker 1>on fifty five percent from the field, sixty three percent

0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:02.960
<v Speaker 1>from three and the Calves win by fifteen. So again,

0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:08.520
<v Speaker 1>forty one sixteen seven fifty five sixty three splits, fifteen

0:49:08.560 --> 0:49:14.120
<v Speaker 1>point win. Game six of the Finals forty one eight

0:49:14.360 --> 0:49:19.880
<v Speaker 1>eleven on sixty five seventy five splits and the Cavs

0:49:19.920 --> 0:49:29.920
<v Speaker 1>win by fourteen Like, what are we talking about? What

0:49:30.040 --> 0:49:33.040
<v Speaker 1>are we talking about? Oh? Hold on, I gotta do that,

0:49:33.239 --> 0:49:37.160
<v Speaker 1>because I'm sure I have to fix that. I have

0:49:37.239 --> 0:49:39.520
<v Speaker 1>to fix that. I apologize. I gave you the wrong

0:49:39.600 --> 0:49:42.600
<v Speaker 1>field goal percentages. Let me let me do that again,

0:49:42.640 --> 0:49:45.040
<v Speaker 1>because I want this to be accurate. I gave you.

0:49:45.400 --> 0:49:52.719
<v Speaker 1>So Game five of the Finals, No Draymond forty one,

0:49:52.920 --> 0:49:59.319
<v Speaker 1>sixteen and seven on fifty three fifty splits in a

0:49:59.360 --> 0:50:03.840
<v Speaker 1>fifteen pl point When Game six of the Finals with

0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:08.680
<v Speaker 1>Draymond forty one to eight to eleven on fifty nine

0:50:09.719 --> 0:50:19.000
<v Speaker 1>fifty splits in a fourteen point win, it's just revisionist history.

0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:28.640
<v Speaker 1>And it's the the only other reason that's relevant to

0:50:28.719 --> 0:50:41.840
<v Speaker 1>me right now is that game happened ten seasons ago

0:50:41.960 --> 0:50:49.400
<v Speaker 1>and this guy's still playing. It's just a a career

0:50:49.480 --> 0:50:58.120
<v Speaker 1>that will never be even remotely approached. And it's if

0:50:58.120 --> 0:51:03.040
<v Speaker 1>you're if you're listening to this right now and a

0:51:03.120 --> 0:51:09.920
<v Speaker 1>sports fan of this era. The fact that we got

0:51:09.960 --> 0:51:19.560
<v Speaker 1>to experience Tom Brady going more than twenty years of

0:51:19.719 --> 0:51:28.520
<v Speaker 1>elite in the mix every single year, ten super Bowl

0:51:28.640 --> 0:51:42.400
<v Speaker 1>appearances across multiple teams, while experiencing Lebron doing the exact

0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:48.360
<v Speaker 1>same thing in the NBA, it's just unreal, just unreal,