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Speaker 1: have a bonus episode today. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: drama going on between Kevin Durant as well as his
Speaker 1: former Warriors teammates now Dreamond Green and Klay Thompson going
Speaker 1: at Kevin Durant after he tried to compare the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seventy six Ers to the twenty seventeen Warriors said they
Speaker 1: were better on paper. A kind of a bizarre set
Speaker 1: of social media interactions between those guys. I want to
Speaker 1: kind of dive into the comps between the Sixers and
Speaker 1: the Warriors. Talk a little bit about that twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: Warriors team, talk a little bit about the way that
Speaker 1: it is discussed, and Kevin Durant's kind of like hang
Speaker 1: ups about that team because I do think they're fascinating.
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Speaker 1: Durant has spent the last couple of days arguing online
Speaker 1: with folks about Lebron's move to Philadelphia and essentially making
Speaker 1: the comparison between that move in his move to Golden State. Now,
Speaker 1: this is of course completely ludicrous, but I want to
Speaker 1: dig into this concept more because I do think it's
Speaker 1: fascinating And just as a disclaimer up front, Kevin Durant'
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite basketball players ever. I think
Speaker 1: he's a great role model for hoopers all around the
Speaker 1: world his work ethic. I think if there's one of
Speaker 1: the biggest gifts that Kevin Durant's given to basketball community
Speaker 1: is what his workouts look like. I think one of
Speaker 1: the biggest reasons why kids struggle to translate workout stuff
Speaker 1: to games is they don't go game speed. And if
Speaker 1: you watch a Kevin Durant workout, tacks every single workout
Speaker 1: at game speed. I think there's a lot that he
Speaker 1: can give back to the basketball community just simply as
Speaker 1: an example. And I think also he just represents true
Speaker 1: love for the game, which I think is one of
Speaker 1: the most important pieces of a kid's success in the game.
Speaker 1: So everything that happened with his move to Golden State
Speaker 1: that doesn't really take away from that for me at all,
Speaker 1: even though I do find it a fascinating discussion. But
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant has always felt the need to defend his
Speaker 1: move to Golden State, and there's this debate. I saw,
Speaker 1: you know, Draymond talking about it on his pod. Basically
Speaker 1: this idea that like Kevin Durant actually just kind of
Speaker 1: has this view of basketball. He used the phrase uncle
Speaker 1: drew Ish, like he's just focused on things like points
Speaker 1: per game and does KDC the game that way? Probably,
Speaker 1: And I do think that that's something that's worth discussing
Speaker 1: at some point. But I don't think that's why he's
Speaker 1: so defensive about Golden State. I think he's defensive about
Speaker 1: Golden State and making these comparisons to Philly because he
Speaker 1: feels like he didn't get much credit for the success
Speaker 1: that he had in Golden State. He didn't get much
Speaker 1: credit from Warriors fans who viewed Steph Curry as the
Speaker 1: primary driver of that team's success, and he didn't get
Speaker 1: much credit from like the basketball masses for his titles
Speaker 1: in his finals MVPs that he got in Golden State.
Speaker 1: If anybody out there actually thinks that this Philadelphia seventy
Speaker 1: six ers team is in the same stratosphere as that
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Warriors team was, we've clearly just too much
Speaker 1: time has gone by. We've forgotten what happened in that area.
Speaker 1: That Warriors team won seventy three games the year before,
Speaker 1: and we're about as close as you can possibly get
Speaker 1: to being repeat champions without actually winning. They lost to
Speaker 1: a Chase Down block and a step back three pointer,
Speaker 1: otherwise they'd be repeat champs. After adding Kevin Durrant that summer,
Speaker 1: the Warriors were the largest preseason title favorite in the
Speaker 1: history of the NBA. Some sports books before the season
Speaker 1: even started had they bet minus one fifty to win
Speaker 1: the title, meaning that if you bet one dollar on
Speaker 1: the Warriors to win the title in October of twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: you would have received a payout of sixty six cents.
Speaker 1: When they hoysted the trophy if you bet a dollar
Speaker 1: on the seventy six ers today to win the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven title, you'd get fourteen times as much money
Speaker 1: in the payout. Even if you bet on this year's favorite,
Speaker 1: that Spurs team with Victor Weminyamu damn near won the
Speaker 1: title last year and all those young guys are going
Speaker 1: to get better, you'd get paid four times as much
Speaker 1: money as you'd get paid betting on the twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: Warriors to win the title. It was the most talented
Speaker 1: roster in the history of the NBA. There's no comp
Speaker 1: nothing comes close. They had the second best player in
Speaker 1: the world in Steph Curry. They had the third best
Speaker 1: player in the world in Kevin Durant. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: just that they were called the Hampton's five for a reason.
Speaker 1: They had perhaps the best defensive anchor in the world
Speaker 1: in Draymond Green. They had the second best shooter in
Speaker 1: the history of the league in Klay Thompson, who also
Speaker 1: happened to be an excellent perimeter defender in the NBA.
Speaker 1: And then Andre guadala is probably the greatest wing defender
Speaker 1: of the twenty tens, who is so valuable to what
Speaker 1: the Warriors do on both ends of the floor as
Speaker 1: a primary defender to guard the other team's best player,
Speaker 1: but also as the guy that is just a connective
Speaker 1: playmaking talent for them on offense. He won a Finals MVP,
Speaker 1: He has a Finals MVP trophy at his house, and
Speaker 1: he was the fifth guy in that lineup. If I
Speaker 1: even tried to create a comp in the modern NBA,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even make sense for starters. Imagine if Luka
Speaker 1: Doncic and Shay Gildess Alexander were on the same team,
Speaker 1: but the other three guys in there closing five were
Speaker 1: Alex Crusoe, Rudy Gobert and og Ananobi. Hell okay See
Speaker 1: has a version of this with Shae Chet and Alex
Speaker 1: Cruser right now, and we consider them to be tied
Speaker 1: with San Antonio for the most talented roster in the
Speaker 1: league today. Just imagine adding Luka Doncic and Ognanobi to
Speaker 1: this year's Thunder team. That's what the twenty seventeen Warriors
Speaker 1: were working with. That's why they were such massive favorites
Speaker 1: in that era, and it's why it required basically a
Speaker 1: complete physical breakdown of the team for them to miss
Speaker 1: out on a three peat, and they still were a
Speaker 1: Steph Curry three pointer away from forcing a Game seven.
Speaker 1: I've said this time and time again over the years.
Speaker 1: The amount of respect and admiration that a player gets
Speaker 1: for their success at the highest levels of basketball is
Speaker 1: directly proportional to the amount of difficulty and adversity they
Speaker 1: overcome in the pursuit. This is true for every single
Speaker 1: player and every single championship won. Lebron gets more credit
Speaker 1: for his win in twenty sixteen than he does for
Speaker 1: the other three titles combined. Steph Curry gets more credit
Speaker 1: for his twenty twenty two title than his other three
Speaker 1: titles combined. It's the struggle that resonates with fans. I
Speaker 1: said it a few times during the playoffs this year,
Speaker 1: like there's nothing in all of sports like the moments
Speaker 1: were a single supremely gifted basketball player digs deep within
Speaker 1: himself and completely takes over a game against impossible odds.
Speaker 1: That game one wemby performance against OKC this year. What
Speaker 1: did it feel like watching that? How did it resonate
Speaker 1: with you? Compared to Kevin Durant winning fifteen straight playoff
Speaker 1: games with the Warriors in twenty seventeen. There was something
Speaker 1: kind of empty about kd's success in Golden State, not
Speaker 1: that it wasn't impressive or anything like that, like predictably,
Speaker 1: considering the advantages and insane spacing that Golden State provided
Speaker 1: kg KD was surgically efficient in those playoff runs. In
Speaker 1: kd's last three playoff runs with OKC, he logged a
Speaker 1: fifty six percent true shooting percentage. In the three playoff
Speaker 1: runs with Golden State, he logged a sixty four percent
Speaker 1: true shooting percentage. His true shooting percentage didn't skyrocket by
Speaker 1: eight points because KD got way better at basketball. It's
Speaker 1: skyrocketed by eight percentage points because the basketball is just
Speaker 1: much easier for it. I vividly remember countless uncontested dunks
Speaker 1: for KD in that series, driving closeouts off of skip
Speaker 1: passes when Lebron is like in the paint helping on
Speaker 1: a Steph Curry action on the strong side of the floor,
Speaker 1: or him going right down the middle of the lane
Speaker 1: in transition because Caves defenders are out to Clay or
Speaker 1: Steph trailing on the wings. It showed clearly in the
Speaker 1: numbers two his unguarded catch and shoot three point attempts
Speaker 1: and his dunks both almost doubled per game from the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen playoffs to the twenty seventeen playoffs. In the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen playoffs with OKC, seventy eight percent of Kd's
Speaker 1: catch and shoot threes were contested. As a result, he
Speaker 1: made just thirty four percent of them. In the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen playoffs, only sixty three percent of his catch and
Speaker 1: shoot looks were contested, and so as a result, he
Speaker 1: shot forty five percent on them. A Kevin Durant iso
Speaker 1: post up or ball screen in the twenty seventeen playoffs
Speaker 1: with Golden State was worth one point two points per
Speaker 1: possession including passes. In twenty sixteen with the Thunder, they
Speaker 1: were worth less than zero point nine points per possession
Speaker 1: including passes, and his volume the number of times he
Speaker 1: had to do it was nearly double because he had
Speaker 1: so much more responsibility on offense with twenty sixteen with
Speaker 1: a twenty sixteen thunder. In twenty seventeen, when Kevin Orran
Speaker 1: took a rest in the playoffs with the Warriors, the
Speaker 1: Warriors had a plus fifteen point four net rating. They
Speaker 1: grew the lead massively every time he stepped off the floor.
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Speaker 1: And look, I'm not like I've talked about this all
Speaker 1: the time when we talk about the flaws in data.
Speaker 1: This is why I think data is so flawed. It's
Speaker 1: not like Kevin Durant went from zero point nine points
Speaker 1: to one point two points per shot creation possession because
Speaker 1: he just got magically so much better when he went
Speaker 1: to the twenty seventeen Warriors. It's surrounding circumstances. It's the
Speaker 1: difference between having Andre Roberson in the corner versus Klay Thompson.
Speaker 1: It's the difference between having Steph Curry instead of Russell Westbrook. Right,
Speaker 1: it is the difference between being surrounded by the most
Speaker 1: talented roster in NBA history, a team that already had
Speaker 1: a seventy plus win infrastructure before you showed up, and
Speaker 1: that very talented but flawed OKC roster. And again, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to sit here and say one like the
Speaker 1: data from OKC was also flawed because of the fact
Speaker 1: that the team was so bad at spacing the floor
Speaker 1: for him. The reality with KD has always been somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle, right, a lot easier than it looked
Speaker 1: in OKC, a lot tougher than it looked in Golden State,
Speaker 1: and I have never begrudged KD for wanting to leave
Speaker 1: OKC and create a better basketball situation for himself. But
Speaker 1: he had to know that when he decided to go there,
Speaker 1: to the seventy three win Warriors that had just beat him,
Speaker 1: that it would come with a certain connotation that was
Speaker 1: different than if he had tried to build something else
Speaker 1: or go somewhere else. Kd's run with the Warriors felt
Speaker 1: empty for fans because we already knew he was awesome,
Speaker 1: But instead of getting the payoff the massive like oh
Speaker 1: Man he finally overcame adversity in the NBA playoffs and
Speaker 1: hoisted the trophy. Instead of getting that type of moment, instead,
Speaker 1: we watched everything look way too easy for him as
Speaker 1: his team just racked up fifteen straight playoff wins and
Speaker 1: back to back titles. He signed as a free agent
Speaker 1: in the absolute heart of his prime thanks to a
Speaker 1: loophole in the CBA that led to a cap spike,
Speaker 1: a unique circumstance that probably won't ever happen again with
Speaker 1: the very team that just eliminated him in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and that team was one block and one shot away
Speaker 1: from repeating his champions the year before. Without it, he
Speaker 1: should have known that his success there would not have
Speaker 1: resonated with people the way he wanted it to. He
Speaker 1: wasn't the first player to ever try this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I don't again, like I think there's a unique balance
Speaker 1: in these sorts of situations. When you're trying to improve
Speaker 1: your circumstances in the NBA, want respect and you want admiration.
Speaker 1: You want to give yourself a position where you feel
Speaker 1: like you can compete, but you don't want to just,
Speaker 1: you know, go to a situation where it's gonna look
Speaker 1: so easy that you don't get the credit. That's a
Speaker 1: fine line. But people have tried to stack their championship
Speaker 1: odds before. I said Lebron tried to do Lebron literally
Speaker 1: tried to do this in twenty ten. Not quite as
Speaker 1: taky as joining the team that just beats you, but
Speaker 1: Lebron really was trying to make his pursuit of a
Speaker 1: championship much easier. He didn't say not five, not six,
Speaker 1: not seven because he felt like just a small tweak
Speaker 1: and his circumstance was going to unlock them. He said
Speaker 1: that because he thought, oh, I'm just gonna stack my
Speaker 1: team will win every chip. That's why he said that.
Speaker 1: But what ended up happening when Lebron went to Miami
Speaker 1: was very different. For starters, the team wasn't nearly as
Speaker 1: deep as the Warriors, like they didn't have a Clay
Speaker 1: Igudala Draymond infrastructure to put to Wade and Lebron James around.
Speaker 1: Their stars also broke down, like Chris Bosh got hurt
Speaker 1: in the twenty twelve playoffs, which led to great adversity
Speaker 1: against the Pacers and against the Celtics. The Heat trailed
Speaker 1: in both of those series, and then Dwayne Wade was
Speaker 1: never the same after twenty twelve when his knee kind
Speaker 1: of fell apart. So like Lebron might have said, not five,
Speaker 1: not six, not seven, but the reality as we watched,
Speaker 1: it was a fucking struggle and they needed absolutely heroic
Speaker 1: performances from Lebron to win both titles. Game six in
Speaker 1: Boston down three to two thirty points and a half
Speaker 1: to save the season. Game six of the twenty thirteen Finals,
Speaker 1: down double digits with a facing elimination in that crazy
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, he had that helped force overtime. The insane
Speaker 1: Game seven performance with the five threes in the late
Speaker 1: jump shots that iced the series. Lebron gets more credit
Speaker 1: for those two titles because they looked difficult and he
Speaker 1: had to be amazing to put push them over the top.
Speaker 1: When Lebron designed the team, he thought it would be
Speaker 1: a lot easier, and had they just ripped off four
Speaker 1: straight titles and won fifteen straight playoff games and just
Speaker 1: generally cruised to success, I'd argue even though he'd have
Speaker 1: more titles, he wouldn't be viewed the same. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: have given Lebron much credit because we would have watched
Speaker 1: what happened in Cleveland and then watched what happened in
Speaker 1: Miami and been like, Ah, that just feels cheap. Instead
Speaker 1: of getting to see the Lebron finally getting over the
Speaker 1: top and the coronation that comes with it, it would
Speaker 1: have felt like skipping steps, skipping steps on that pathway
Speaker 1: to greatness. For the record, Steph had to go through
Speaker 1: the same process. Remember the way Steph was discussed in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and in twenty twenty one, everyone was talking
Speaker 1: about it's going to be different for him now. His
Speaker 1: own peers like Damian Lillard were saying things about him.
Speaker 1: Steph was really good, amazing actually in those back to
Speaker 1: back champion years in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, but
Speaker 1: no one was giving him credit for it because he
Speaker 1: lost to Lebron when Lebron had his teammates at full strength,
Speaker 1: and then he won after the deck was completely stacked
Speaker 1: in his favor, so no one was running outside of
Speaker 1: Warriors fans. Warriors fans have always you know, put Steph
Speaker 1: in like above Lebron, and you know, in the goat
Speaker 1: conversation like, Warriors fans loved Steph, but outside of Warriors fans, like,
Speaker 1: no one was really giving Steph that much credit. When
Speaker 1: he won in twenty twenty two with less talent around him,
Speaker 1: overcoming adversity with a signature moment in Game four in
Speaker 1: Boston that saved their season. Steph's global reputation was never
Speaker 1: the same after that. No one will ever disrespect Steph
Speaker 1: Curry's name or try to undercut his success as ever. Again,
Speaker 1: that is the process of achieving the respect from the
Speaker 1: basketball masses when it comes to success at the highest
Speaker 1: levels of the NBA. As for this Philly team, the
Speaker 1: way that it'll be remembered entirely depends on what it
Speaker 1: looks like as it pertains to Lebron's legacy, Like if
Speaker 1: the Sixers win the title, but like Lebron is just
Speaker 1: another piece and the talent level is clearly just overwhelming
Speaker 1: their opponents, and it's clear that Lebron didn't really have
Speaker 1: to be great for them to win. It's not going
Speaker 1: to move the needle much when he gets a fifth title.
Speaker 1: But if they win, and it looks hard and Lebron
Speaker 1: is front and center on both ends of the floor
Speaker 1: as a vital cog in the system, and he has
Speaker 1: like a massive game in a big series like Game
Speaker 1: seven against the Nixon Madison Square Garden, he has like
Speaker 1: seventeen points in the fourth quarter to send him to
Speaker 1: the finals, and he guards Wemby in the finals and
Speaker 1: is like instrumental to a championship win. It'd be a
Speaker 1: massive ad to his legacy. People might even change their
Speaker 1: mind about it. So again insummation, like this Sixers team
Speaker 1: is very talented on paper, but to Katie's point that
Speaker 1: even though there are some impressive resumes on there, right,
Speaker 1: like Katie called it out, like Joel Embiid's an MVP. Lebron, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Brown Finals MVP, Lebron four Finals MVPs and four
Speaker 1: MVPs Joel Embiid regular season MVP. Right, Like, they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of like impressive resumes in there. But there's
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Speaker 1: why they're plus eight p fifty to win the title
Speaker 1: right now in hard Rock Bet is because Joel Embiid
Speaker 1: is a former MVP, but he's a shell of his
Speaker 1: former self. Lebron turns forty two in December. Jaylen Brown
Speaker 1: is super talented, but is generally regarded as flawed and
Speaker 1: tough to fit with other players. That's why he got
Speaker 1: traded for such a cheap price this offseason. And Tyree
Speaker 1: s Max he's really talented, really talented up and coming guard,
Speaker 1: but he's a third team All NBA guy, not prime.
Speaker 1: Steph Curry, I would argue the Sixers actually need to
Speaker 1: become greater than the sum of their parts to have
Speaker 1: a chance to win the title. They need to maximize
Speaker 1: each other to have any shot. I do think it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning that the Sixers group does have on paper talent.
Speaker 1: I'm not undercutting the fact that this is a talented
Speaker 1: roster or that lebron chose the roster for talent. He
Speaker 1: certainly did. The potentials off the charts. Raw talent is
Speaker 1: a strength for this roster. But no, it's not the
Speaker 1: same as the twenty seventeen Warriors, not even close. We'll
Speaker 1: never see anything like that again. The talent on the
Speaker 1: roster unprecedented. The move from KD to the team that
Speaker 1: beat him, to a team that had already won a
Speaker 1: title and almost won a second one, that is such
Speaker 1: a unique set of circumstances and it'll never be that
Speaker 1: way again. And the way KD is behaving on social
Speaker 1: media right now is a reflection of the way he
Speaker 1: feels like he didn't get credit. It is a defense
Speaker 1: of his move when it was indefensible at the time,
Speaker 1: indefensible in the sense that again, he has the right
Speaker 1: to do whatever he wants. That Warriors team was fun
Speaker 1: to watch. I enjoyed watching the KD Warriors. They played
Speaker 1: a fun brand of basketball. But ultimately if Kd's goal
Speaker 1: because again, the way he's acting is a reflection of
Speaker 1: the fact that he feels like he's underappreciated and that
Speaker 1: he doesn't get the credit that he deserves, but if
Speaker 1: he wanted credit and appreciation, that wasn't the move to make.
Speaker 1: And the reason it rings hollow for fans and the
Speaker 1: reason he doesn't get credit and appreciation for those years
Speaker 1: is because it just looked easy. Watching him dribble right
Speaker 1: down the lane and throw down uncontested dunks in the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals doesn't resonate the way that him hitting a
Speaker 1: turnaround fadeaway jump shot to force overtime against the Bucks
Speaker 1: in Game seven in the second round of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one resonated with fans. I'd argue KDE's stock as a
Speaker 1: basketball player went up more from his twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: playoff run, where he was a toe on the line
Speaker 1: away from a potential finals run and maybe a championship
Speaker 1: on a flawed roster. He gained more with fans then
Speaker 1: than he did hitting game icing jump shots in the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals or horsting the Finals MVP trophy twice. Again,
Speaker 1: Like I that whole era is really weird to look
Speaker 1: back at, because you know, I remember at the time
Speaker 1: there was this kind of like attempt on both camps,
Speaker 1: like the Warriors camp was trying to elevate Steph Curry
Speaker 1: over Lebron, and the uh I say Say Say Warriors
Speaker 1: Camp Warriors fans were like trying to elevate Steph Curry
Speaker 1: over Lebron and all the Lebron haters and just a
Speaker 1: good chunk of like the national masses were like trying
Speaker 1: to elevate KD over Lebron. Remember that was the narrative.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, KD outplayed Lebron in the twenty seventeen finals,
Speaker 1: and it's like, I just can't even imagine a scenario
Speaker 1: now where like Victor Wembin Yama loses a playoff series
Speaker 1: to Luka Doncic and Shay Gil just Alexander or Nikola
Speaker 1: Jokic and shake Gil just Alexander, and we go, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's evidence they're better. Like one of these guys is
Speaker 1: better than Wemby. It was a really bizarre era of
Speaker 1: NBA basketball because the East was really weak. So even
Speaker 1: though that Cavs team was like great, but not like
Speaker 1: all time great, they were just cruising through the East
Speaker 1: every year. And then you had this absurdly talented Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors roster and they played each other every year
Speaker 1: in the finals, and the Cavs never had a shot
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, they never had a shot.
Speaker 1: It was it was just kind of it was just
Speaker 1: kind of a weird. It was just kind of a
Speaker 1: weird era, you know. And like again, like I I
Speaker 1: when I look back at it, I just I hope
Speaker 1: people understand, like what happened was so unprecedented, it was
Speaker 1: so unusual. We will never see anything like that again.
Speaker 1: I'd even Lebron's situation is unprecedented in the way that
Speaker 1: he had a vet minimum contract UH offering to these
Speaker 1: teams as opposed to something more difficult to fit in
Speaker 1: the cap. And even then he wasn't able to come
Speaker 1: close to accumulating the amount of talent that the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen Warriors did. It just was it just was unprecedented
Speaker 1: and unusual. And again, like I don't like, I think
Speaker 1: the best thing that Katie can do now is focus
Speaker 1: on trying to get that moment, get the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two steph moment, get the twenty sixteen Lebron moment, find
Speaker 1: a way to win a championship, or to go on
Speaker 1: a playoff run where you show everybody which you're capable
Speaker 1: of when things are tough. When things are hard like unfortunately,
Speaker 1: like if he's seeking credit for that twenty seventeen twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen run, he's just gonna have a hard time getting
Speaker 1: the type of credit. It's not even like it's not credit,
Speaker 1: it's just not the same type of credit as even
Speaker 1: what Jalen Brunson just did with the Knicks. Like, it's
Speaker 1: just we've just seen a lot of guys hoist that
Speaker 1: finals MVP trophy and it never felt quite as empty
Speaker 1: as when Kevin Durant held up his All Right, guys,
Speaker 1: it's all I have for today. As always, as sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for supporting us and supporting the show.
Speaker 1: Will see you next time for some more player rankings.