Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Dave Pass Podcast. We took off
Speaker 1: for about a month. We're kicking things back off with
Speaker 1: a guest who not only can talk about the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champion LA Rams, but also can talk about the
Speaker 1: team with the best record in the NBA, Suns forward
Speaker 1: mckel Bridges, who has become one of the best two
Speaker 1: way players in the NBA. Terrific offensive player, borderline All Star,
Speaker 1: but also a candidate for Defensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: and certainly to make one of the two All NBA
Speaker 1: teams coming out. Mckel is going to talk about being
Speaker 1: at Super Bowl fifty six, his bet with teammate Cam Johnson,
Speaker 1: who's a Bengals fan, and what embarrassing thing Cam has
Speaker 1: to do after his team lost to mckell's Rams ongoing
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Speaker 1: some of mckel's favorite players growing up. He grew up
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia but became a Rams fan. How he became
Speaker 1: a Rams fan, his relationship with former Cardinal and current
Speaker 1: Sons owner Larry Fitzgerald, the differences between Manti Williams, his
Speaker 1: current head coach, and Jay Wright is national champion coach
Speaker 1: at Villanova. What it's like playing with Chris Paul and
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Speaker 1: with another edition of the Day Pash Podcast and our
Speaker 1: guest is Suns forward mckel bridges. Michael, let's start with
Speaker 1: talking about your rams were just a few days removed
Speaker 1: from winning the Super Bowl. I know you watched the game,
Speaker 1: Where did you watch the game with, Who did you
Speaker 1: watch the game, and what was your reaction when the
Speaker 1: clock hit zero? In your rams were Super Bowl champs. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I like to start. This is a
Speaker 1: great way to start. This is this is a leveling
Speaker 1: comments we have right now. But yeah, I was in
Speaker 1: I was in LA for Super Bowl. Me and Cam
Speaker 1: Johnson where you went. You know, I'm right saying he's
Speaker 1: just a bigle staying and he's just so five minute.
Speaker 1: It was really dope. That was my third time being
Speaker 1: in that building and it's just unbelievable what they do.
Speaker 1: But man, watching that whole game and experience the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl was unbelievable, you know, something I always wanted to
Speaker 1: go to and I just blessed that and happy that
Speaker 1: my team was there. It was dope. Man. I was
Speaker 1: so excited. I felt like when when we won, I
Speaker 1: felt like I won, man. I felt like I was
Speaker 1: a part of the team and it was just it
Speaker 1: was amazing feeling. Do you know any guys on the team.
Speaker 1: Have you been able to cultivate relationships with with any
Speaker 1: of the current players? Yeah, I think I know a couple,
Speaker 1: but the one I'm closer with is probably Ramsey. He's
Speaker 1: want to remember him hit me up when I got
Speaker 1: drafted and everything, which was pretty dope. He was in
Speaker 1: LA yet, but uh, that was just dopeing him for
Speaker 1: that man and just kind of doing a little fresh
Speaker 1: up with him. It's been really cool. How did you
Speaker 1: become a Rams fan because you grew up in Philly?
Speaker 1: Were you an Eagles fan growing up? Now? So I
Speaker 1: grew so, I grew up, so I became round saying
Speaker 1: off mad and alone playing a video game. Um, I
Speaker 1: was big on Marshall Falk and Kurt Warner, you know.
Speaker 1: I was Bruce tory Hill autumn guys man, so fell
Speaker 1: in love with them during the game. But I mean,
Speaker 1: growing up there, like, it wasn't like I hated the
Speaker 1: Eagles at all. Like I have a lot of fair
Speaker 1: players on that on Eagles man, like with Shady and
Speaker 1: big d like like Djack. Like I know the Eagles
Speaker 1: as much as I know my Rams, just because all
Speaker 1: my friends and stuff and enjoy watching them. It's just
Speaker 1: I was just a Rams fan, and I just I
Speaker 1: just stuck with him even when he was bad. I was,
Speaker 1: I'm rooted for the Eagles and everything. I liked them,
Speaker 1: and I always, you know, stayed with them. So this
Speaker 1: is primarily mckel since I worked for ESPN, but I
Speaker 1: also do the Cardinals games. This is primarily a football
Speaker 1: podcast and the first guest when this kicked off last
Speaker 1: summer was Kurt Warner. And you know Kurt obviously playing
Speaker 1: here with the Cardinals, but most people know him for,
Speaker 1: you know, least nationally for what he did with the
Speaker 1: Rams and the movie American Underdog is out. I've seen it.
Speaker 1: It's great. It's all about his story leading up to
Speaker 1: the Rams Super Bowl. Nothing on the Cardinals in there.
Speaker 1: The sequel would be just as good as the original story.
Speaker 1: And that's what Kurt said, Those aren't my words. Have
Speaker 1: you had a chance to see the movie yet? No?
Speaker 1: I have not, and I have to. Man. I remember,
Speaker 1: I actually didn't know they were coming out one until,
Speaker 1: like I saw the trailer and I was like, first
Speaker 1: ah saw was was they showing like cliffs? And also
Speaker 1: I was like thirteen and in the Rams color might
Speaker 1: hold up, this is not about to be And then
Speaker 1: I kept watching the preview of Oh that's that's dope,
Speaker 1: but I've never got a chance to watch it. So
Speaker 1: you said you went to the game with Cam Johnson,
Speaker 1: and I read about you guys had a bet that
Speaker 1: involved several layers of embarrassment for the loser. The one
Speaker 1: thing that struck me the most was did he have
Speaker 1: to set up a lemonade stand somewhere because he lost? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is uh, this will be. This is ongoing and
Speaker 1: we're figuring out the time and place and we will
Speaker 1: let the city of Phoenix and people in Arizona know
Speaker 1: where it will be because this will be very very
Speaker 1: very great and we're figuring out the date now. But
Speaker 1: he will have a lemonade stand. If he Cam's little
Speaker 1: lemonade stand, he can name it whatever he wants. But um, yep,
Speaker 1: this is my most favorite bet that we have. Is
Speaker 1: it is the lemonade gonna be free? Or is it
Speaker 1: gonna be like five cents? You're gonna have like one
Speaker 1: of those signs that as the of like the five
Speaker 1: is backwards, you know, like a little kid would write, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're talking to cam. I think cam My son off
Speaker 1: fifty five cents. You know. We had a combo about
Speaker 1: you know, the gas prices being up. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't you don't want to take two people's money, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So we're just we're figuring all
Speaker 1: that out right now. This is gonna be great. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll finish with football, but I do want to shift
Speaker 1: to basketball, because you guys are the best team in
Speaker 1: the NBA right now. They have only been seventeen teams
Speaker 1: in NBA history to win more than sixty five games,
Speaker 1: and you guys are on pace to do that. And
Speaker 1: I've got a couple of year games coming up on
Speaker 1: ABC against Utah and against Milwaukee. And I had you
Speaker 1: guys early in the year. I had you a bunch
Speaker 1: last year. The thing that stands out to me the most,
Speaker 1: and we can talk about Chris Paul and Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: but the thing that stands out to me the most
Speaker 1: is your guys chemistry. And I'm curious, did that start
Speaker 1: before Chris Paul's arrival or did it start when Chris
Speaker 1: got here and you guys and MONI that you guys
Speaker 1: all kind of came together and started to really build
Speaker 1: those relationships to a point where it's affecting whether you
Speaker 1: win games. Yeah, I started with money got here, man.
Speaker 1: You know, my second year, right, the bubble year, That's
Speaker 1: when it really started money doing that culture and everything.
Speaker 1: You know, after a tough year, a kindege of the
Speaker 1: league like dang and then the league was like this.
Speaker 1: But a lot of my vest has been on other
Speaker 1: good teams. STU tell me that this is not the NBA,
Speaker 1: and you know, so don't get better one day and
Speaker 1: you know it's switched from me fast going to my
Speaker 1: second year money, just embracing it and you know, building
Speaker 1: this culture and started then. And then we got to
Speaker 1: the bubble. And then bubble got us even closer because
Speaker 1: the whole pandemic and everybody in the world going through it.
Speaker 1: And then you know, our whole thing was they made
Speaker 1: this bubble up so that I was just us in
Speaker 1: our lando got nothing to lose. Uh No, we had
Speaker 1: to make good playoffs, we had to go undefeated and
Speaker 1: other things to go our way. So we just kind
Speaker 1: of just had that just us against the world mentality, man,
Speaker 1: and just got real closed down there, and it just
Speaker 1: kept things going. Well. We got CP going to the
Speaker 1: summer and goes for the next year. Where do you think,
Speaker 1: because we, you know, on the outside can look in
Speaker 1: and guess, but you're obviously a part of it. You're
Speaker 1: there every day. You've been there with Chris every day
Speaker 1: and just looking at his history, helping push the Clippers
Speaker 1: in the right direction, getting Houston to a position where
Speaker 1: they almost beat the Warriors in the Conference finals. Where
Speaker 1: is his biggest impact felt with you guys, and in
Speaker 1: terms of growing the culture and getting you to a
Speaker 1: point last year where you're in the finals see the winner. Man,
Speaker 1: he just drank so much to the table, and I
Speaker 1: mean bringing a Hall of Famer in. Man, it's just
Speaker 1: unbelie avoiding what he does. He's just who he is
Speaker 1: as a person and what his mind is. Everybody's not
Speaker 1: built like him, especially mentally, and he's just so crappy
Speaker 1: on the court, knows the games so well. That's why
Speaker 1: he's just so separated them a lot of other players.
Speaker 1: But I think his biggest thing is that he wants
Speaker 1: to win. And he's always a crazy thing. And I
Speaker 1: know people he hasn't won championship and stuff, but he's
Speaker 1: been on teams that go to players go far, so
Speaker 1: he's been a winner, you know, I mean championships on
Speaker 1: the five you being a loser, you know, you could
Speaker 1: win seventy percent of games and you win championship. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're a loser, just you just couldn't get over
Speaker 1: that hump. But you're winning games every year and putting
Speaker 1: your team in a position to win every year. So
Speaker 1: you know, he just he had that energy and everybody
Speaker 1: else had the same energy. Man, it's just great. There
Speaker 1: was no question in LA that there was some friction
Speaker 1: with him and Blake Griffin, and there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people that said, you know, Blake just couldn't take
Speaker 1: Chris's personality and a lot of guys don't respond well
Speaker 1: to that. You guys obviously have. Did you have a
Speaker 1: moment where you were challenged at all by him? And
Speaker 1: just based on your background, I'm guessing you welcomed it.
Speaker 1: Do you do you have any recollection of anything like that.
Speaker 1: I know what's happened with Ayton, but has it happened
Speaker 1: with you at all? Yeah? Always, Man, it goes on
Speaker 1: to this day. We're all competitors and see what's greatness
Speaker 1: one of everybody, and it's it's all the time. Man.
Speaker 1: We just were staying on each other and keep getting
Speaker 1: better and everything, uh not get satisfied. And we need that,
Speaker 1: you know, we you know, we won a lot of games.
Speaker 1: Right now we can easily just be relaxed and just think,
Speaker 1: you know, oh we're being everybody right now. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be easy to you know, I try, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: easy to win championship like, no, it's not like that.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta keep that fire and keep going
Speaker 1: and never being satisfied. Um, you know I learned that
Speaker 1: when I was in college. But m C and him
Speaker 1: demanding that at all times, it's just something that we need,
Speaker 1: especially coming from one of our leaders. Um, it's it's great.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what it takes. That's what it really
Speaker 1: takes to go far. And see's just keeping everybody, you know,
Speaker 1: just just right there. You know, we're all excited so
Speaker 1: how we're playing, but we all know that just our
Speaker 1: biggest thing is trying to be the best team that
Speaker 1: could be. By the end of the year, Well, you've
Speaker 1: become more than just a good player. You came into
Speaker 1: the NBA. You were a good player based on what
Speaker 1: you did in college, winning two national championships. I think
Speaker 1: everybody knew you were a good player, but you become
Speaker 1: one of the best two way players in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And I saw recently. I think it was just the
Speaker 1: other day that in NBA dot Com has you right
Speaker 1: now number two behind Jannis for Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: Now I'm one of the voters, so at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, I'll do all the all the awards, MVP,
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, all NBA teams, and I
Speaker 1: take a lot of time and effort when I vote
Speaker 1: because it's directly tied to your guys finances in your contracts,
Speaker 1: and so I'm very, very careful and respectful with the process. So,
Speaker 1: knowing that they're still a month and a half two
Speaker 1: months to go here in the season, give me your
Speaker 1: pitch on why you should be Defensive Player of the Year, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just that's just not think I
Speaker 1: think about. Man, Honestly, I just got there. I play hard.
Speaker 1: I just try to find ways to win, helps the
Speaker 1: team as much as I can. I just got there
Speaker 1: to play hard for my teammates and coaches. I promise you.
Speaker 1: I don't really, you know, think about things like that obviously,
Speaker 1: like you said, it was a contracts. I know, agents
Speaker 1: and everybody else, family friends, which is great, you know.
Speaker 1: I never I'm always grateful and I'm never gonna take
Speaker 1: anything for granted. But I just got there. Hoop. Man.
Speaker 1: I just try to be the best player I could
Speaker 1: be and try to give the best chance I get
Speaker 1: to help my team win. So um, that's what really
Speaker 1: all is. And I know a lot of people just
Speaker 1: saying just the same, but I truly mean it. I
Speaker 1: love this team, I love my guys, and I just
Speaker 1: I just got there and play and just do whatever
Speaker 1: it takes well, whether you win the award or not.
Speaker 1: But there's still time. But I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: question you're going to be on one of the All
Speaker 1: NBA defensive teams. That's that's a point that is I
Speaker 1: think set and Stone, you're you're gonna make one of
Speaker 1: those teams. You at this point probably first team, and
Speaker 1: again you you could still win the award. What is
Speaker 1: the biggest challenge with being a great defensive player in
Speaker 1: the NBA? Because you're guarding the other team's best player
Speaker 1: and it's not always going to be somebody that plays
Speaker 1: your position. So what's the key When one night you
Speaker 1: may have to be going up against James Harden, the
Speaker 1: next night it might be Lebron James, what's the key
Speaker 1: for you? Um, there's no in tantasy man, And I
Speaker 1: think that's just individually for myself that I take no
Speaker 1: pride ins is knowing what players do and know what
Speaker 1: they like to do and and go out and play hard.
Speaker 1: But um, it also an't done. You know, all the
Speaker 1: things that do off the court and then give us
Speaker 1: toff ready to guard those guys makes my job way easier. No,
Speaker 1: I got four guys behind me. That's just gonna make
Speaker 1: my life way easier. You know. I know it's never
Speaker 1: just me out there. They give me all the confidence
Speaker 1: in the world who out there and be aggressive and
Speaker 1: you know, do things and you know, play my way defensively,
Speaker 1: and I'm just really blessed, you know we just like
Speaker 1: I said this, the four guys behind me, man, they
Speaker 1: just make things way easier for me. And I think
Speaker 1: that's why where we're at right now, just because of
Speaker 1: how well we all play together. For you, when you
Speaker 1: talk about preparation, how much are you studying? So let's
Speaker 1: say you know you're playing well now Philly and you
Speaker 1: got to go up against James Harden or when healthy
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and you're playing Kevin Durant, how much are you
Speaker 1: studying of their games? How much are you preparing mentally
Speaker 1: ahead of time for that challenge? Um, I mean it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's tough in the league. Just you play. You play
Speaker 1: every other day, so it's not like an advance. But
Speaker 1: it's just you know, you see, but you just the
Speaker 1: next game, and you couldn't you know, if you have
Speaker 1: a couple of days off and they're plenty about to play,
Speaker 1: they might be on TV or they're playing the day
Speaker 1: before or one of your off days. You know, I watched,
Speaker 1: you know, just watch a lot of basketball and just
Speaker 1: watching just watching out the whole game, also looking at
Speaker 1: the players that might guard. Also just seeing their offense
Speaker 1: and how they play together. But that's what I was
Speaker 1: just watching a lot of basketball, man, just watching games.
Speaker 1: They know other games. And then kind of easier too,
Speaker 1: if you play them early in the year or a
Speaker 1: week ago, you could go back to the game and watch,
Speaker 1: you know, what they were doing as well. What's the
Speaker 1: greatest lesson you think you guys learned from the experience
Speaker 1: last year of going to the finals and getting that
Speaker 1: close to winning a championship. You know, some teams get
Speaker 1: that far and you know the next year after not
Speaker 1: accomplishing that goal. You see it more in football than
Speaker 1: the NBA, but you do see it where a team
Speaker 1: makes the finals doesn't win struggles the next year. You guys,
Speaker 1: haven't you guys have been better this year than last year.
Speaker 1: So what was the biggest lesson that you guys took
Speaker 1: away from that experience a year ago. There's no what
Speaker 1: it takes, you know, it takes everybody, and it's all
Speaker 1: the little things. Um. And that's what we knew. You know,
Speaker 1: we had that feeling, you know, being thirsty to be
Speaker 1: back there. We know what we have to do. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it was it was tough to sit
Speaker 1: there and watch them celebrate, but you know you can't
Speaker 1: stuck about it. You know, you gotta you gotta go on,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta right. If we sit here and
Speaker 1: just be upset about it, you know that's not going
Speaker 1: to help for the year after, for next year. We
Speaker 1: just knew we had to do obviously a stune, but
Speaker 1: you know, I still think it was just a hell
Speaker 1: of a year. But just knowing that we had to
Speaker 1: come back and do all the other little things. Even
Speaker 1: though we thought we was doing all the little things,
Speaker 1: you gotta do even more of little things, and right,
Speaker 1: we just you know, that's what it really is, just
Speaker 1: playing a whole forty eight every game. A couple more
Speaker 1: and we'll get you out of here. I'm curious you
Speaker 1: talked about Monty earlier in the culture that he started.
Speaker 1: You play for a guy Villanova that is different in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, how he approaches building culture, but
Speaker 1: he's built culture nonetheless. And you know, Jay Wright is
Speaker 1: a guy that has had as much success at the
Speaker 1: college level as anybody the last twenty years. What are
Speaker 1: some of the similarities with Jay and Monty? What are
Speaker 1: some of the differences? Oh? Man, differences, They really too
Speaker 1: many differences. Man. They're they're literally they're literally the same
Speaker 1: um Man. They want the best out of you. It's
Speaker 1: just all about the details, you know. That's that's what
Speaker 1: coach right and you know, defending and rebound everything, man, executing,
Speaker 1: Like they're literally the same person. It's crazy. Just I
Speaker 1: merro on my first guy here and how he was
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him like, dang, I just felt like
Speaker 1: I felt like I'm with Coach Right again, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's, uh, it's dope. And you know, especially knowing
Speaker 1: you know who they are. To think about Coach right,
Speaker 1: mind is that they both really care um at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, and they both they
Speaker 1: call you up, they're calling you out, and it's just
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to I've been coached by two great coaches.
Speaker 1: Man's just and they both helped me, you know, keep
Speaker 1: shriving and be the best player I can be every
Speaker 1: single day. And I'll just never take them for granted.
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, how is your relationship with him? If he
Speaker 1: had a chance to get to know fits? And have
Speaker 1: you seen him play basketball? He claims to be pretty good?
Speaker 1: Can he hoop it all? Fitz? Great, dude, man, I'm happy.
Speaker 1: You know me man kid watching football all the time
Speaker 1: and know who he is, and me always picking him
Speaker 1: up in maddened drafts and knowing that you're gonna catch
Speaker 1: every single thing. You know, my, my TV throws it
Speaker 1: to him. Um, he's great, man. You know, I love
Speaker 1: football and I know Larry fitz for so long just
Speaker 1: knowing the type of player he is, and uh, it's
Speaker 1: just great, you know, building a friendship with him and
Speaker 1: knowing the type of person he is, and everybody always
Speaker 1: told tell me he's the greatest person and meeting them
Speaker 1: and really saying the same as that thing to other
Speaker 1: people when they asked me about him, because it really is. Man,
Speaker 1: He's just he's just a great dude. Man, He's special.
Speaker 1: That's just not everybody's like that not everybody's like who
Speaker 1: he is and that's why that's why it makes him
Speaker 1: so different man, because he's just such a great guy.
Speaker 1: But I've never seen a hoop. Yeah, I've never seen
Speaker 1: a hoop. The big debate, for whatever reason, by the way,
Speaker 1: after the super Bowl is should Matthew Stafford be in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame? And I'm curious if you have
Speaker 1: a take on that, because people, look, he had great
Speaker 1: numbers in Detroit and then he wins the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and everybody says, well, that automatically makes you Hall of Famer.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where I stand on that. He's still
Speaker 1: got you know, who knows the guy could play for
Speaker 1: five more years. You have a thought on that at all? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to committee. I tapped into the numbers. But
Speaker 1: I know, I know a lot of people say that
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be All of Famer because he hasn't won
Speaker 1: a championship thing like that, and he did, so I
Speaker 1: just I wonder what the next excuse would be. So
Speaker 1: how the world goes there say one thing and then
Speaker 1: they do it that is another excuse. So so we'll see,
Speaker 1: all right, last one, if Sean McVeigh retires, what what
Speaker 1: will what will your reaction be if he decides, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna go do TV. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: a coaching for a while. You know, if you have upset.
Speaker 1: Man is one of the greatest coaches that I've seen.
Speaker 1: But um, it's his life, you know, just our respect
Speaker 1: it and uh, you know he did. He did a
Speaker 1: lot to me to make me happy about, you know,
Speaker 1: being a Rams fan, and as he's done to turn
Speaker 1: in the program around has He's been unbelievable and just
Speaker 1: grateful to have him as you know, as the coach
Speaker 1: for the Rams. Well listen, Man, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on you know, living vicariously through the Rams and
Speaker 1: feeling like you were a champion on the football field.
Speaker 1: I hope that you get an opportunity to be a
Speaker 1: champion on the hardwood this year with the Suns, and
Speaker 1: again I think you become one of the best two
Speaker 1: way players in the NBA. I know you're not going
Speaker 1: to say that, but I can say that. And I
Speaker 1: know this, man, you were going to make one voter
Speaker 1: for sure, and I know I'm not the only one,
Speaker 1: but I can just speak for me. You're going to
Speaker 1: make this a very very tough decision at the end
Speaker 1: of the year when it comes voting time. Because you've
Speaker 1: been fantastic and I look forward to senior person here
Speaker 1: in a couple of games coming up and watching year
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I appreciate it, man, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Great to catch up with Phoenix Suns
Speaker 1: forward mckel Bridges. You could tell how ecstatic he was
Speaker 1: his Rams winning the Super Bowl, him being an attendance
Speaker 1: to see it, and also how excited he was that
Speaker 1: he won the bet with Cam Johnson and that Cam
Speaker 1: now has to sell lemonade as part of restitution for
Speaker 1: losing the bet for the Super Bowl. Also some great
Speaker 1: stuff about the comparisons of Jay Wright to Monty Williams.
Speaker 1: You could also tell just how humble McKell is. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk about how great of a defensive
Speaker 1: player he is and whether he's truly a candidate for
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year. But NBA dot Com even
Speaker 1: has in its latest power rankings Bridges number two, behind Janis,
Speaker 1: who won the award a couple of years ago. If
Speaker 1: the Suns continue on this pace and finished with the
Speaker 1: best record in the NBA, I don't think there's any question.
Speaker 1: He is going to be heavily considered league wide for
Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year and certainly for one of
Speaker 1: the two All NBA defensive teams. It's really interesting too
Speaker 1: mckel's comments on the chemistry and the culture and Monnie
Speaker 1: Williams not calling you out but calling you up, and
Speaker 1: how the Sun's built on their experience going undefeated in
Speaker 1: the Bubble a couple of years ago to coming that
Speaker 1: close to winning an NBA championship, and how they've improved
Speaker 1: even from that season and will be in the hunt
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