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Last night Task has our Worst 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.080 of the Week nominees and our winner. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.119 You can't wait, we. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.480 Got the nickname game, It's back, baby, Tweet of the Night, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.120 and so much more. But first, the All Star starters 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.360 have been announced. Here they are guys. In the East, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.959 your captain once again, Yannis, your other forwards Joel Embiid, 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.560 Pascal Siakam, and your guards Trey Young and Kemba Walker. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:48.200 In the West Lebron again the Captain, his bigs a 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.160 d Anthony Davis and Kawhi Leonard, and in the backcourt 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:57.400 Luca and Hardin. I think, overall pretty well done. But 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.480 do you have a snub Is there somebody that you 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.080 were at least shock maybe made it into the starting 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:03.800 ten or it should have been someone else. Can you 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.200 make the case. Can you get worked up about it 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.360 or is it fine? 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.240 No matter if you get worked up or not. I 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.760 think everybody in the universe, everybody in the universe will 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.320 look at those ten stars and say, hey, they should 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.040 all be in the All Star Game. So it's not 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.040 a big deal that they got in. But I would 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.040 say the guy who's got snubbed is Kyrie Irving because 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.520 I think the coaches, not me, I don't think he 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.720 should be in the All Star Game. At all, but 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.640 the coaches are likely not to make him a reserve. 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.280 I think if he was going to get in, he 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.440 would have gotten in as a starter and a starter 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.640 only he's played in sixteen of his team's forty three games. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.840 It's not a lot, and that's thirty seven percent according 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.079 to my calculator on my Apple Mac computer. And if 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.400 you look at the player ranking and the media ranking 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.760 for Kyrie Irving, he's six the Monk Guards, so I 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.320 think the coaches will be in the same boat. So 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.160 I think he got snubbed. Although he said I was 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.560 voting for an Ostar game, I'd want to see me 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.839 in there, you know what. I would want to see 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.799 carry everything else the game. So maybe I'm wrong. Maybe 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.600 I do want to see him. But the best ability 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.920 is availability, is what I've heard, and he hasn't been 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:12.560 able to do that. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:12.840 Yeah. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.280 And also I think as well he might rub up 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.320 the coaches a few of them the wrong way too, 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.080 shrub them up. Yeah, So I don't think that helps 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.200 his case. But personally, I think the biggest snub for 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:26.040 this game, or for this starting position, was actually Kyle Lowry. 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.119 In the end, I swerved back on Kyle Lowry look 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:34.560 and honestly, I read Zachlow's All Star article there, yeah, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.080 and he had him in there. He made a strong case. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.760 You know, Kyle is just a great play He missed 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.960 a lot of games with injuries, but he really has 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.480 been brilliant this season when he's played for the Raptors. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.040 And I think the respect factor comes in there as well. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.200 And not to disrespect Tray Young for what he's doing 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.360 on a bad team here in Atlanta, but I think 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.760 Kyle Lowry has kept his team. You know, siachm has 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.640 been great. They had a lot of great contributors. But 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.480 I love the heart and the hustle that he plays with, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.280 and the energy and the determination, and sometimes that can 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.040 be enough to sort of when you are trying to, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:03.960 you know, find a reason to pick one guy or 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.480 over another. That's that's what I would like to see. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.600 So I think Lowry will get in any way. I 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.320 think he's gonna make it. The coach is gonna put 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.280 him in there. But I think the respect vote, the 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.000 sort of legacy vote, whatever you want to call it, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.279 I think I would have liked to see Lowry get 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.719 it this season because of everything he has achieved. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.480 Something that sort of tasks was talking, But do you 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.839 think Trey Young is a deserving All Star? Maybe not 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.039 a starter, but an All Star this year? 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:29.719 Yes? I do, Okay, I'll come around them. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.960 Then it comes down, do you really truly care who 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.360 starts the All Star Game? Like does that matter to 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.280 you at all? Whether you know you're an All Star selection? 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.160 But do we ever go, oh, he was a ten 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.320 time All Star, but he started three times. I don't 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:43.480 know about that, Like, we don't. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.160 You care about it in the moment. You care about 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.320 it while it's happening up until this week, and we 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.120 care about it this week, and then we'll care about 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.720 it at the draft, and then we'll just look at 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:52.680 the Basketball Reference page and it says all Star, Right, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.040 It's all that really matters, And yeah, Trey Young is 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.480 a deserving All Star because the East guards are really. 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:58.920 Tough to pick. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.799 Honestly, I think it that you see Bradley Beal finishing 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.080 second in the player rank, that to me just says 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.800 there are no great candidates. Because Bradley Beal's candidacy for 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.799 an All Star birth is the same as Trey Young's. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:11.680 It's the same as Zach Lavin's. You're playing on a 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.640 bad team, you're taking all the shots, you're the main 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.920 offensive guy. But Bradley bial has been there doing it 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.520 for the longest, so he finishes second among players, right. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.640 I will say though, with this starting spot, I think 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.520 it means something to the players because it's kind of 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.800 like All NBA First Team. It's even though you're still 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.280 an All NBA player for second or third, first team 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.560 just gives you that little bit more. And I think 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.120 being a starter as well, the players would like that 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.080 a little bit more. And you're right, when we go 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.000 back and evaluate, you only see eleven time All Star whatever. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.120 But I think if you're Kyle Lowry, he's probably looking 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.320 at Trey Young saying, come on, man, he's in his 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.720 second season. Like I've I've been around this league a 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.640 long time. I've achieved a lot more. I'm more deer. 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.360 That's just my Yeah, players care, Yeah, I mean Bradley 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:55.440 Beal told Chris Hanes this week, after seeing that, you know, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.960 the voting come down, he told him on his posted 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:02.800 up podcast that fan shun well because he cares. He 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:06.360 cares that he's not voting. Yeah, and as you said, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.400 he finished second in in Uh what is that the 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.960 player player. So that's gonna be an indicator of where 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.360 the coaches vote him, too, right, I think I think 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.240 they probably put him in because he's been there before, 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.359 because he's a two time All Star. They always like 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.200 to vote the old dudes. Definitely, No, you're right. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.520 I just back to the Trey Young thing. My point 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.760 is I can't get myself too worked up about him 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.440 being voted as a starter if I also then believe 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.599 he's just gonna be there anyway, Like yeah, if you 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.800 don't think that, then sure, then you're upset. You're like, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.360 how can a guy be Yeah, he's got awesome stats, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.080 but he's maybe one of the worst defenders in the 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.160 league and his team has won eleven games at the 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.600 bottom of the barrel. Like, Okay, if you don't want 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:47.960 him starting, well, then then to me, you sort of 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.000 got to leave him completely off your team. But there's 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.280 a lot of like this, like he doesn't deserve to start, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.160 but yeah, he's probably still an All Star. Like I mean, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.440 like I just heard Simmons and Rissillo and the house 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.840 do all that. They're like, god, all upset about what 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.360 I got. Like Trey Young winning means something, and in 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.800 the end when they were making their final picks, They're like, yeah, Trey, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.560 I'm still an All Star. So it's like, who cares that? 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:06.920 Really? 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.800 Honestly, the thing good thing for him is that he 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.200 is an Eastern Conference backcourt player, and it's such a 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:17.440 wishy washy spot. It's the weakest of all four positions here. Yeah, right, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.480 if he was a let's say he was a Western 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.920 Conference front court player with the likes of Lebron, Anthony Davis, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.240 Kawhi Jokich, Paul George, then maybe he doesn't get an ingram. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:30.280 There's tons of dud Rudy Gobert. But but then, yeah, 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.920 I understand where the arguments come in because now he's 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:38.200 battling Lowry Levine Simmons, like he'll bel Yeah, if he 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.880 wasn't a starter on your team, then he's he's sort 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.960 of a borderline guy. But I think, also, I guess 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.280 a loser in all this is, you know, the players 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.960 in media voted Zach Levine pretty low. I think we're 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.440 a loser because he's not going to be an All Star. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.600 Doesn't look like if that's an indicator, And I think 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.280 he's not going to be in the dunk contest it's 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.679 just a guess, but I think he's going to be angry. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.720 He sees a guy like Trey Young get in his 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.200 first All Star game. Zach Lavine has not been an 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.200 All Star. He's balling. It's in his hometown. He said 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.360 he'd rather be in the don contest if he is 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.920 an All Star as well. It doesn't vote well for 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:15.200 us if we want to see old Zach on Saturday Night. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.000 But yeah, who knows. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:17.360 Oh, you're gonna see him. He's going to do the 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.360 three point contest. That's gonna be the thing that's gonna way. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.520 Oh boy, Well hopefully he wins that. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.160 Yeah, we were talking about here. The two biggest discrepancies 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.119 in the NBA All Star voting from fans to players 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.400 to media were that Kyrie because he was voted second 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.520 by the fans but only sixth by the players and 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.920 the media. And then Beale voted ninth by the fans 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.240 but second by the players and fifth by the media. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.439 I'm also like, look, I'll throw a little love to 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.079 Jimmy Butler. I know when we were making our All 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.760 Star starter selections, you know it was, well, who do 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.720 you have? As we know Giannis is there, But then 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.400 who are the other two guys? Is of Embiid Siakam 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.480 and Butler, because Butler, I mean the whole thing here 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.120 too is Butler. If he was a guard, then this 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.319 is all perfect. Then we're all happy. We're like, oh, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.960 Jimmy Butler's the second guard with Kemba, We're good to go. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.720 But he's not. He was a forward on the ballot, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.920 and he finished fourth in the fan vote for front court, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.200 third in the media vote, so they actually had him 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.240 above Siakam, but he was not in the top five 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.719 of the player vote. So then in the end he 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.920 sort of film and. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:18.440 Teammate. That's a surprise to me. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.960 That really was too to me. But you know, look, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.720 I again, he's going to be there, so I can't 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.160 get so so upset about it. Like there's if he 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.880 is not selected by the coaches, then wow, then all right, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.199 well you know, like Charles I won't be going to Chicago, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.280 I'll say it, but he will be. So it's it's 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:36.440 it doesn't really matter. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:41.160 Players voted Bam Jimmy Butler. Either they're watching Miami Heat 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.760 games or they don't like Jimmy Butler. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.440 It could be the latter. There quite a bit I 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.880 think it's fair to think these reserves by the way 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.560 the coaches pick them. They're going to be announced next 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.640 Thursday on TNT. We'll have a bonus podcast on Tuesday 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.520 this coming Tuesday where we make and debate our reserve picks. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.760 I like that we now know the starters and now 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.400 we're forced to pick, you know, seven from each conference, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.240 so that'll be fun. But let's play you know, a 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:12.200 little hypothetical here. We know the captains have to pick 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.800 first when they do the draft from the starters, right, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.760 So Lebron he's gonna have the first pick. He's on 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.360 the clock. Who will he take from these you know, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.040 eight other starters obviously can't take you, honest, being the other. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.319 Captain for sure. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.360 Anthony Davis, even though he was joking with Christal last 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:31.800 night after the. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.520 Game, Yeah, I can't of imagine he's gonna pick someone 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.280 who's not his teammate, who's a free agent this summer 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:40.720 as well, and he took exactly I mean, let an 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.960 interview there with Kristin. Maybe maybe he's trying to build 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.240 it up a little bit. Yeah, there's no way he's 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:46.880 not gonna take his own teammate. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.240 Which is too bad. It's too bad he can't draft 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.920 be honest and start tampering. It's too bad that he 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.280 is gonna take Anthony Davis first, which means he's not 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.280 gonna take Luca another tampering opportunity. There are a couple 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.040 of big swings that Lebron could be taking during the 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.720 draft that he's not going to be able to because 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.440 his teammate is there. He's got to keep that bond strong. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.079 And there's nothing that's a bigger diss than being picked 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.480 less or lower than first than an altar. Yeah, you 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:12.000 don't want to. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.679 I mean, he could really set the internet on fire 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:15.800 if you took even Kawhi. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.480 Well, he might want to pick because heights going up 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.079 against exactly. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.440 Yeah, Lebron ain't afraid. He's uh, he's perfect right now 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.840 as Team Lebron as captain of the All Star Game, 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.840 he's two and oh that speaks well who is drafting 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.640 skills and his play on the court and leading those 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.520 guys to victory. So Jannis is the one that really 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.360 needs this because Lebron beat Curry the first year and 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.360 Giannis last year, and it'll have those two going head 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.480 to head. I wonder who Giannie will take first. Like, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.520 I'm with you, guys, I think eighty is the number 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.200 one pick. Then Giannis goes where does he go? Here? 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:49.400 Does he go Luca? 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:51.800 Oh? Yeah, right? Does he go? 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:54.439 Does he go? Kawhi? I think he got to say 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.679 this thing's maybe he sticks with I think he took 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:58.760 him beat very high last year when he was drafting again, 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.760 so maybe he goes there. But it's beat even playing. 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:01.240 Who knows? 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.040 So yeah, I think you guys, Luca actually Luca has 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.439 been the star this season and he wants to have 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.640 him money his team. They'll they'll work well together. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.920 So I think he goes east. He keeps it easy 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:17.200 and keeps it and keeps it Team Africa, possibly drafting 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.200 Joel Embiid in pastal. 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.600 I think that hossible. So I saw this question from ESPN. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.920 I think it's a fun one because we have three 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.160 first time All Stars that are starters, right. I think 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.960 I have that right in Luca and Tree Young. Who 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.000 is going to be the next player to be a 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.360 first time All Star starter? If you're like, is it Zion? 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.200 Is it someone All Stars? 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:39.560 Yeah? 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.000 Like if who would be the next person down the line? 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.319 I thought that was a fun question, like Zion Williamson, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.480 Ja moranswers Ion. I guess it's. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.240 They're in the next stuff. I would say a being 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.080 town Boy could definitely be in the mix. They do 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.160 obviously quite well in voting. Maybe ad Jason Tatum next 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.920 he actually takes over and is the number one guy. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.360 I suppose he can sneak in there, though I guess 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.320 the front court in the East is kind of unsettled, Like, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:04.880 I mean, you're not guaranteed to be voting in Siakam 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:05.959 and then beat every single year. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.559 Yeah it maybe a Donovan Mitchell could sneak in next 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.520 season if he has a great season, because but he 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:11.200 could make it. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.679 As a reserve this ikay, Yeah, wipe them from the board. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.800 Same with like a Bam or something like that too. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.160 But sabonus even you know, that's the tough part of that. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.000 But like it's really looking at next year. Who doesn't 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.400 make it this year could be starting like a Luca 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.480 or Trey I think Zion or Jaw yeah Josh, probably 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:31.120 your two favorites there. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.079 You Yeah, ultimately he would have to take James Harden 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.080 spot right because Luca ain't going nowhere from those Western guards. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.040 But yeah, maybe there'll be a little bit of a 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.840 backlash against James Harden. You got to score forty or 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.440 unless you're if you want to start in this game. Son, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:47.760 I did like that. 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.280 I guess it was the media. They only voted when 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.960 they were looking at their Western Conference backcourt. They only 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:55.839 picked from three guys. It was Luca, Harden and a 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.920 little got all the votes. But then it looked funny 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.640 because there was like they had on the graphic last 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.920 night with their aound, Westbrook is fourth, and everyone's like, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.080 what Westbrook's forth? What was the media doing? But it 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.439 was just because Westbrook was tied with everyone else because 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.720 no one else got to vote. Yeah, in fourth place 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:12.400 from the media. When it came to the West backward, 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:13.280 I thought it was pretty. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.640 Fall It was weird. It is weird when you look 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.840 down the spreadsheet. Yeah, and the players vote for everybody, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.600 because I guess that's what they do. They just they 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:25.560 literally gave a vote to everybody, like twenty one guys. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.160 I think it seemed like they voted for twenty one 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.560 guys in most cases. I don't know, maybe I'm looking 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.120 at the wrong spreadsheet, but they did more voting than 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.400 the media. I thought if you're a voter, you vote, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.960 you vote all the way down the ballot. But I 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:39.960 guess you just voted for the starters and you said. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.680 Yeah, No, that's why you said yeah, yeah. You just 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.560 picked your guys and lock them in. And no one 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.800 was taking Westbrook or Mitchell or Booker Morant or Chris 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:49.080 Paul or Russell or Cray. Like when it came to 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.280 the media making their picks, yeah, which is a no brainer. 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.800 It should be from one of those three guys in 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.600 your Luca, your hearts, your little Yeah. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.160 But the Eastern Conference guards is the spot where everybody 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.320 got votes from the media. Jaalen Brown got a starting 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.200 vote right right, bunch of people. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.560 And that goes to speak again to like just how 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:07.800 sort of open ended it was, and in the weird 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.440 way sort of Tray just sort of fell into it 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.120 because he had such a fan vote. Yeah, I think 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.320 that was a big part of it. But he should 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:14.760 be pretty fun in the All Star Game. 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.200 So goes to show you fans like three pointers. Ben 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:21.320 Simmons is fourth in player voting, third in media voting, 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:25.280 but eighth in fan voting, because you know, people want 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:26.840 to see those threes. So if people tell you that 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.880 too many threes is the reason ratings are down. Too 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.720 many threes is the reason the guys are at the 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.720 top of the voting here. People actually like three pointers. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.000 Trey Young is the first All Star voting here. 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.240 What did you guys think of the All Star weekend uniforms. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.000 We saw a whole bunch of them. We got the 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.520 red and blue All Star Game ones, the purple and 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.240 orange Rising Stars ones, the green and pink Celebrity Game ones, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:52.320 and then the yellow and the brown Nike NBA Cares 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.000 Special Olympics Unified. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:57.960 Game one, DHL versus UPS, Yellow versus Brown. I mean, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:58.480 I love them. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:15:59.960 They look awesome. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.480 I'm gonna try and pull some strings and get some 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.440 orange Chicago shorts, no doubt about that. I thought the 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.360 All Star Game ones were kind of my least favorite 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.200 of the crew. But uh, I can't get I can't 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.120 get mad at a nod to Chicago. Even if the 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.640 six pointed star looks a little weird out there. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.040 Yeah with the NBA, yeah it does look a little strange. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.840 They are pretty basic. I gotta be honest. The red 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:23.200 and blue just All Star Game. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.240 They got pin stripes. I guess you know they're fine. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.440 They got pin stripes, but they're better than the black 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:29.960 and white ones. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:30.840 You like them more? 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.200 Yeah, definitely, Yeah, they should be something funky. 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:37.160 I do love the purple World Rising Stars ones and 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.840 the orange USA ones. I think awesome. You can't buy 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.200 those though, the team really Yeah, the World in USA jers. 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.280 I've never seen being able to purchase them online anywhere. 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:48.800 I'm sure someone like he could have hook you up, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.360 but yeah, I don't think you can. I don't think 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.240 you can. But god, I would love a World one 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.720 Little she Gildes Alexander World one there beautiful color. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.360 Is Brown making a comeback? I mean, was Brown ever 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.400 at the top of anyone's list? I guess comeback's not 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.240 the right word. Maybe Brown's on the rise. 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.560 Is Brown having a moment yet? 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:10.679 Not yet, but soon? 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:11.640 Yeah? 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:12.080 I think so. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:12.640 Yeah. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.240 I just imagine and somebody walking down to the pool 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.399 full NBA brown uniform just kicking back. I was thinking about, like, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.840 this is cool man brown uniforms. I'd love to have 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:24.719 a pair of brown shorts. But then I'm like, I 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.520 have khaki shorts. What's the difference. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.879 Really? Oh, I just thought of it. You know, it's unfortunate, 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.880 I said Celebrity game were the green and pink jerseys, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.000