WEBVTT - What's Wright - Best Of - Lakers-Wolves predictions, Luka Doncic will “light up” Gobert + Nick’s NBA Awards 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.520 Welcome to the best of the week for What's Right 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.240 with Nick Right the best takes in moments from this 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.040 week on the show Enjoy. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.200 Lakers have the second best odds of the West to 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.040 win the title right now at minus one ninety five. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.320 Anthony Edwards says he loves the position that the time Real. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.760 Quick hold on there the second mess odds to win 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.560 in the West to win the title minus. 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.600 Won in round one. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:29.400 You're fine, go ahead and h yeah. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.880 So Anthony Edwards says he loves where the Timberwolves are 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.760 at right now and saying I love the fact that 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.519 everybody wants the Lakers to win. That's how it's supposed 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.600 to be. They don't want the Timberwolves to win, and 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.800 I get that. What is the key to this series? 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:51.800 Well, the only chance the Timberwolves have is if Julius Randall, 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.600 for the first time in his career, plays well in 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:59.920 the playoffs. And we've never seen that happen. So I'm 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:02.000 I'm gonna pull it up. I'm looking down if you're 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.440 watching on YouTube, because I'm pulling up on my phone. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:12.240 Julius Randall's playoff career is truly disastrous, and it's not 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.640 overstated it's not being unfair. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.280 It is what it is. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:17.280 It is. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:24.920 In twenty twenty one in the first round against the Hawks, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.840 that's the famous Trey Young series. You see, Oh, he 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:35.040 was eighteen eleven and four. That that's actually good on 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.560 twenty nine percent from the field. So his first playoff 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.560 series ever, he was twenty nine percent from the field. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.640 Then two years later against Cleveland in Round one, he 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.840 was fourteen and six a game that was after an 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.840 all NBA season, on thirty three percent from the field, 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:05.080 and then and they won that series. And then the 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:10.160 next round against Miami he was eighteen and ten, which 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.960 is much better on forty one percent from. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.359 The field, which is okay. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.239 In his playoff career is twenty eight percent from three 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.640 and then last year obviously he was hurt for the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.560 playoffs and it didn't really seem like Knicks fans were 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:34.079 all that bummed about it. And so he is yet 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:39.720 to have a single great playoff series. And even if 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:47.560 you go to individual playoff games, you are hard pressed 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:54.560 to find more than one good one game. One last 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.280 or two years ago against Miami he was really good. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.040 He was twenty five twelve and eight on forty four 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.480 percent from the field, which is about as good as 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.959 you can hope for from him. But in his playoff career, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.040 and he has one other game against Miami where he 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.800 was twenty and nine on sixty one percent. But what's 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.960 that joke everybody likes to make he is shooting. He's 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.000 shooting tour dates or whatever. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.239 Like he's that thing. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:27.160 Three eleven. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:35.480 Yeah, So in his career, in ascending order, he is 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.880 in the playoffs from the field two for fifteen, three 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.600 for fifteen, three for fourteen, six for twenty three, four 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.920 for fifteen, three for ten, five for sixteen, seven for twenty, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.800 seven for nineteen, eight for twenty one, and then five 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.400 games forty percent from the field or better eight for twenty, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:04.000 eight for eighteen, four for nine, and then the two 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.640 good games seven for thirteen and eight for thirteen. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:08.440 So that's a. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.200 Fifteen game playoff sample size. He's been good in two 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.680 of them. So he's got to be what are you 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.920 laughing about that, I'm being to me, No, No, after 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.800 you said that, I just I whispered, go ahead and 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.000 swing that rock, big dog. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.520 I don't think, oh yeah, I didn't hear it. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.960 Yeah, So for real though, So that is he's gotta 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.520 be good for them to have a chance. And by 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.920 the way, gonna be tough because he's gonna be guard 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.039 On the other end, He's gonna be guarding Lebron James 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:47.360 a lot. So he is the absolute key now other 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:58.279 than him, I am really interested in how much can 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:06.960 Austin Reeves, how much energy can Austin Reeves make Anthony 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:12.640 Edwards expend on the defensive end, because I know there 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.080 have been some thoughts that ant is going to try 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:20.160 to guard Lebron or Luca. That's a terrible idea. Ant's 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.200 a very good defender, but he is simply too small 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.359 for either one of those guys. Jaden McDaniels will spend 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.560 a lot of time on Lebron and Luca. Julius Randall 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.560 will spend some time on Lebron and Luca. Nazrid might try. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.400 Dante's not going to be able to do it. But 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:44.120 point is Anthony Edwards is going to end up matched 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.760 up on Austin Reeves a fair amount. Now, I don't 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.640 think the Lakers have anybody who can slow down Anthony Edwards. Now, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.160 oddly they did well against him in the regular season, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.720 but I would just go ahead and pencil in. Uh, 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.480 Anthony Edwards for thirty a game. He's gonna average thirty 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:11.120 in this series, just so be it. Can Austin make 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.080 him have to defend enough and run around enough that 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.680 he is a little tired on the offensive end at 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.960 the end of these games, because you do remember that, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.640 I listen, I get it. You had to trade Luka 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.039 Doncic because he's an out of shape alcoholic. I understand Nico, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.200 but it was Anthony Edwards, who might as well be 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:37.680 chiseled out of granted, who said he was exhausted in 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.640 the conference finals last year, not Luca. And so now 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.440 it's a lot of time off and it's round one 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:49.200 and there's a lot of days between the games. But 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.640 how much energy can you make Ant expend on the 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:59.159 defensive end? And then the only other real the only 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.920 way for in my opinion, for the Timberwls to have 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:08.440 a real chance, is if Luca's three is not falling, 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.600 Because if Luca's three is falling, then what you are 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:19.440 going to see is Lebron really picking and choosing his 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:25.720 spots in the first three quarters of these games and 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:29.120 then taking over in the fourth, something he has not 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:33.680 had the luxury of doing much at all in his 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:38.320 whole career, but certainly in his Lakers career. But you 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.600 saw it in that Lakers MAVs game where Lebron you know, 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.360 hand off the joystick for the first three quarters and 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.600 then best player on the court in the fourth quarter. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.920 You've seen it a few times this year, and so 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.960 Julius Randall's gotta be good for them to have a chance. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.160 Nas Reed's going to be super important. And I haven't 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:04.280 even mentioned Rude go Beart because here's the thing. I 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.320 think Rudy's in a really rough spot here. It's not 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:12.120 just that Luca has tortured him on multiple continents. It's 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.200 not just that Luca hit the biggest shot of his 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:22.840 career over him, but it's also that the Lakers want 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:28.840 to play small. His offensive limitations will allow them to 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.800 play small, because they're not going to be able to 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.120 just you know, dump the ball down to go bear 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.280 and be like, hey, you have Dorian Finney Smith or 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.920 Rudy Hachimura on you give us that sweet baby hook 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:44.240 you've got. That's not going to be a thing. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:54.920 And defensively, we have seen if you play five out it, 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:04.280 Rudy really really struggles and so I would guess that 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.600 Ant is awesome and it doesn't matter all that much 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:09.720 in this series. 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.720 And I said it to you guys on Tuesday. I'll 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.520 say it again. The Lakers minus a game and a 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:21.880 half at plus one point twenty, I think is probably 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.480 my favorite bet of this round of the playoffs. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:26.480 All right, what else you have. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.680 On this series? Do you think this could be the 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.720 start of a Luca Ant rivalry? 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:39.160 So I'd love that, and I do think that they 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:46.040 have personalities that would mesh for a rivalry. I do 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.920 think that both of these teams, you know, they should 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:55.280 meet in the playoffs consistently moving forward. I don't look 0:09:55.320 --> 0:10:01.480 at Ant yet as the caliber of play player of Luca, 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:10.880 and I don't think that there is much of an argument. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.160 What demons You don't see them as the same caliber 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.680 of player. I get like that better. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.640 Yeah, I look at Luka as a guy I expect 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:27.600 to win multiple MVPs. That's that's There's only two other 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.840 guys in the league in that caliber, and they both 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:33.400 already have multiple. As far as prime guys, I mean, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.319 you know, in Giannis and Jokic, and I look at 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:42.720 Aunt as a guy who might win one you know 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.080 what I mean. So, like, I, if you set luca 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:52.000 career MVPs number one and a half, I would immediately 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.120 say over. And if you set Ant's number of career 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.800 MVPs at a half, I would say I needs, like, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.000 I got to really think about this so that you 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.960 know that's the eight And I think it's I think 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.800 it's an almost impossibility that Luca never wins a league MVP, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.560 and I think it's a coin flip of Ant does 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.000 so again, it were in the margins here, but yeah, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.760 I do look like and I think a good evidence 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:26.000 of that is if the Lakers had traded Anthony Edwards, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:30.720 Max Christi and a first round pick. I'm sorry, if 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.400 the Lakers had traded Anthony Davis, Max Christi and a 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.920 first round pick for Anthony Edwards, we wouldn't two months 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.320 later still be like, that's the dumbest shit I've ever 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.320 seen in my life? Is it because they want to 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:50.360 move the team? Like the you would have legitimately, you know, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.880 debates on each side like okay, who got better? 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:54.760 Like does it make it? 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.520 And I understand for the way the Timberwolves are constructed, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.600 it wouldn't even make sense. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:04.040 But yeah, that's how I. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.480 So, and I really like it, but I think he 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.040 needs to level up a tiny bit. 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:09.319 Now. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.520 He's not as old as Luca, you know what I mean. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.520 He hasn't been in the league quite as long. And so, uh, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:16.840 there is that go ahead? 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.080 Do you well, were you done with the with the 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:19.840 first follow up? 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.200 I was, I was gonna ask you if you see 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.079 JJ reddicks stock rising or how much you see it 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.160 rising this offseason? 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.040 Well, it depends on the playoff run. I mean, if 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.080 they get bounced in round one, it won't. People like 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:36.200 Darvin Ham made the conference finals his first year. But 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.720 I I think it's already pretty obvious that JJ Reddick 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.079 has done an excellent job his first year as a 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.599 Lakers head coach. Now we'll see how he handles the playoffs. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.080 I know there's some in some circles there is a 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:54.760 belief that the Lakers have been kind of using a 0:12:54.840 --> 0:13:00.319 playoff style defense in the regular season and to deal 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.679 with their lack of size, and that that might have 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.040 been a mistake by JJ because now they're not going 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.120 to have an extra gear and more people have seen 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.240 it so they can prepare for it. I'm less concerned 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.360 with that than others. But yeah, I think JJ's done 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.880 an excellent job. 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For additional 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:48.000 terms and responsible gaming resources, see DKNG dot co slash 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.840 b ball. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.160 The so MVP to me is quite simple, and I 0:15:55.240 --> 0:16:05.160 have been sorry, Daniel, really, I have found it unbelievable 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:10.280 the number of people who have just decided all of 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:14.480 the rules that I laid the groundwork for last year 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.200 no longer apply. And so for me, the only question 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.640 for MVP is the fifth spot. One through four are 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:28.240 pretty obvious. Shay is the league MVP. He's thirty three 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.400 a game on a sixty eight win team. Joker should 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.840 be the unanimous second place MVP guy. He's thirty a 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.360 game with a triple double, carrying a team that is 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.440 terrible defensively. Some of that's on him and just fired 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:49.600 their coach. Jiannis is third, Tatum is fourth, and if 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.360 you want to say Tatum's third, Yanis is fourth, that's fine. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.800 I think what Yannis has done, especially despite Dame being out, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.120 is remarkable, but that's a debate. And then or fifth place. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:12.960 It was a debate between the following Donovan Caid, Edwards 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:22.359 and Lebron and I still want well, I'll talk about 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.080 All NBA first team because my one through five, my 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:30.800 MVP ballot is not my first team All NBA, and 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:37.119 I'll explain that in a minute. But my fifth place 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:43.680 spot goes to Lebron, and it goes to Lebron because 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:50.399 despite the injury, still played seventy games. He seamlessly did 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:55.840 what a lot of people thought he either wouldn't be 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:01.000 willing to or able to, which is fit with Luca. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.639 People are recreating history that, oh, the Lakers were headed 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.360 for the play in before the Luca trade. The Lakers 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.800 were the four seed the day Luca made his debut 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:19.959 with the team. They stayed even though Anthony Davis had 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.919 gotten hurt. They were on a winning streak when Luca 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.280 first got to the team. They're only real losing this 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:33.800 year happened surrounding Lebron's injury. Lebron was a Swiss Army 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:38.240 knife defensively once they got Luca, and honestly, once Ad 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.000 went down. They are the three seed in a loaded 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:47.480 Western conference. They were only Oklahoma City was better this 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:52.280 year against the best ten teams in basketball. Lebron's been 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.440 the through line of it all. I have in his 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:59.000 fifth place in MVP now to the top of the ballot. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:05.640 So here's why I find these folks who are now 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:11.480 saying they are going to vote for Joker to be 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.760 so disingenuous and what they simply should say is he's 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.080 my favorite player. He's the best player in the league, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:25.760 so I'm voting for him. Last year, the numbers for 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:32.119 Joker v. Luca were not close. I will remind you 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:32.560 of them. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:33.080 Okay. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:43.920 Last year, Luca averaged thirty four nine and nine. He 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:49.159 won the scoring title on good efficiency. He averaged thirty 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:53.879 four points, nine point two rebounds, nine point eight assists, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:59.400 so basically thirty four nine to ten. The league MVP 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:06.320 was Nikola Jokic, who averaged seven fewer points twenty six 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:11.200 and a half, three more rebounds twelve and a half, 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.280 and one fewer assists nine. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:17.320 And it wasn't close. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:22.879 Luka got four first place votes, and the argument was 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:29.600 purely well, Jokers team won fifty seven games, Luca's team 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:34.720 won fifty, and Luca was not very good. Even though 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.320 the team was fine defensively, Luca was not very good defensively. 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:45.359 Those same people now this year are saying throw those 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:46.359 rules out. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:50.480 And even though. 0:20:50.400 --> 0:20:56.400 Shay's team has won sixty eight games and Jokers team 0:20:56.480 --> 0:21:00.920 won fifty, the same exact number where lucas seen won 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.000 last year, I think Joker's gonna get it because I've 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.600 never seen an offensive season like this, And my question is, 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.560 didn't you kind of see an offensive season like this 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:17.879 last year by a guy who got four first place votes? Again, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:24.360 Luca last year was thirty four, nine and ten. Joker 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:30.320 this year is thirty let me get yeah, twenty nine 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:35.399 point six called thirty thirteen and ten. So four or 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.439 fewer points four more rebounds on a team that won 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:44.040 the same amount of games. And so that now you 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:49.320 might say, Nick, last year, weren't you a guy that 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:53.239 was arguing for Luca. Wouldn't that then follow that this 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:57.200 year you should be arguing for Joker one hundred percent 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:01.960 if one of two things were won, I had an 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.439 actual vote and it was impacting it. So I must 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:09.680 vote with consistency or two. And this is more importantly 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:17.000 and really the reasoning. I do feel like the previous 0:22:17.160 --> 0:22:22.560 winner winners, but certainly in the most recent year continues 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.959 to set the precedent for the voting public because it 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:31.520 is an undefined award. So last year when a guy 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.560 with fifty wins who's playing in the four to five game, 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.520 who averaged thirty four to nine to ten, got four 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:43.240 of one hundred votes because we said best player on 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.359 the best team with really good stats is going to 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:51.920 run away with it to then not give Shay when 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.800 Shay is again. It's like Shay's averaging twenty five a game. 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:59.600 He's thirty three, five and six with excellent defense on 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:04.679 a sixth win team. And the history of guys on 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:09.760 teams who have won sixty eight plus games, all of them, 0:23:09.800 --> 0:23:14.280 every team that has ever won sixty eight plus Steph 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:19.280 won MVP. Jordan won MVP the sixty nine win. Lakers 0:23:19.320 --> 0:23:21.840 did not have the league MVP. Kareem won it in 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:25.960 seventy two, but that is because two Lakers split votes. 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:29.920 Wilt and West finished third and second. That's why the 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:35.399 Lakers didn't have one. The who are the other ones? 0:23:35.680 --> 0:23:38.879 Dave Cowen's on the sixty eight win Celtics won MVP, 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.879 Jordan won sixty nine games and shamefully didn't win it. 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:44.879 Ninety seven of the voters got to Sickle giving it 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:47.080 to him, gave it to Karl Malone. But it's just 0:23:47.600 --> 0:23:50.639 folks need to just say, I like Joker the most 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:52.919 so even though his coach got fired and his defense 0:23:52.960 --> 0:23:55.320 has been bad, and even though last year it was 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:58.119 about wins, this year it's about ross stats. I'm just 0:23:58.119 --> 0:23:59.960 not gonna lie. I just think it's I think Shaye 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:04.480 the MVP now to All NBA. So again I don't 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:09.160 have an actual vote, but and I know they changed 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:13.239 the rules. I want my All NBA First Team at 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.840 the very least to be two guards, two forwards in 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:21.760 a center, and I want all of my All NBA 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:24.480 teams to at least be credible teams you could roll 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.640 out on a basketball court. So even though I had 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:31.919 Lebron as my fifth place in MVP voting, I do 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:34.880 not have him as All NBA First Team. I gave 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:39.399 that to Donovan. So I want my two guards to 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:43.439 be Shayan Donovan, my two forwards Jonason Tata, my center Joker. 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:50.240 Second Team All NBA for me was very simple. My 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:54.080 two guards are Stepan ant Cade's technically a guard, but 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:55.960 he's tall enough we can just put him in kind 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:59.280 of that point forward spot. He and Lebron are second team, 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:03.000 and Alp Shingoon, who was the best player on a 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:06.200 Rockets team that was the second seed. He is second 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:12.280 Team All NBA, Third Team All NBA. With apologies to 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:18.720 Tyrese Haliburton. Halliburton had his spots stolen in Game eighty two. 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:24.639 Demons by James Harden thirty nine to ten to lock 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:26.960 up the five seed and stay out of the play in. 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:33.280 So it's Jalen Brunson, James Harden, Jalen Williams as a forward. 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:36.439 Because your team wins sixty eight games, it's not just 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:40.040 one guy. Carl Anthony Towns is the other forward and 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.560 Evan Mobley as the other center. Again, that team wants 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:46.760 what sixty four they need someone other than just Donovan. 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:49.840 My Defensive Player of the Year was not difficult for me. 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:52.680 I think Draymond really hurt himself at the end of 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:56.240 the year. It is Evan Mobley, my sixth man. 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:58.359 Of the the Mobley thing. 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:00.520 You have him in as your defensive place the year, 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:03.320 but he's only in your third team All NBA. 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:07.960 Yeah, so that happens sometimes. The where in hell there 0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.359 have been years defensive Player of the Year didn't even 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:14.280 make any All NBA team. I don't think Marcus Smart 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:16.600 made an All NBA team when he won it. 0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:17.080 I don't think. 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:18.959 I don't know if Tony Allen, did Tony Allen ever 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:20.720 win Defensive Player of the Year, I don't remember, but 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:21.919 that happened sometimes. 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:24.520 But I think he's the defensive Player of the Year. 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:28.359 Six Man of the Year is Malik Beasley. Just an 0:26:28.359 --> 0:26:32.680 absolute flamethrower off the bench, and I guess somewhat controversial 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:36.840 most improved. I think it's if he's a zubots I 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:40.720 almost had zubots On as my on my All NBA team. 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:45.200 He jumped his scoring by fifty percent over his career. 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:49.240 He's been great defensively, Clippers have been excellent, He's been huge. 0:26:49.520 --> 0:26:51.440 I think he's the most improved player, even though he's 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:54.359 old and it usually doesn't go to old guys. Clutch 0:26:54.400 --> 0:26:58.160 Player of the Year is Lebron. Lebron's the only player 0:26:58.160 --> 0:26:59.920 in the league with four hundred, one hundred one hund 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:05.359 in the fourth Lebron's fourth quarter plus minus and the 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.320 Lakers record in the fourth quarter and his assistant turnover 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:11.960 ratio is better than either of the previous Clutch Player 0:27:11.960 --> 0:27:15.520 of the Year winners. And Stephan Ant and I understand 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:19.640 Jalen Brunson's clutch numbers are going to probably make Jalen 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:22.480 Brunson win this award. That is in part because they 0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:26.119