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Speaker 1: with No. Number twelve. Devin Booker finished the season averaging
Speaker 1: twenty eight points, five rebounds, and six assists per game.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent true shooting, and then went up an obscene
Speaker 1: level from there in the playoffs thirty four points, five rebounds,
Speaker 1: and seven assists on sixty nine percent true shooting through
Speaker 1: two rounds. Had one of the craziest pull up jump
Speaker 1: shooting hot streaks I've ever seen in my time watching basketball.
Speaker 1: In back to back home games home wins against the
Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets, he was nineteen for twenty five on pull
Speaker 1: up jump shots, including six for ten from three oh
Speaker 1: and in the paint, he was sixteen for twenty one
Speaker 1: in those two games, meaning he averaged eight makes per
Speaker 1: game in the paint. To go with the outrageous pull
Speaker 1: up jump shooting, he did cool off in Games five
Speaker 1: and six, shots just twelve for thirty two from the
Speaker 1: field as they lost those last two games kind of
Speaker 1: got their butts kicked too. Average margin of victory for
Speaker 1: Denver in those last two games was twenty one points.
Speaker 1: It's the weirdest thing about that series, like Phoenix was
Speaker 1: both the only team that got two wins off of
Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets and the team that got their ass
Speaker 1: kicked the most, because outside of those two wins, they
Speaker 1: just got pretty much dominated. So it was kind of
Speaker 1: a strange playoff run from that perspective. But so I
Speaker 1: want to zoom out before we zoom back in on
Speaker 1: Devin Booker. To me, I told you guys kind of
Speaker 1: coming in that there were tears, and to me, everybody
Speaker 1: from roughly about number thirteen all the way to number
Speaker 1: thirty nine call it with the fourteen guys that I
Speaker 1: had that were kind of honorable mention, those are all
Speaker 1: really close. There are the guys that have listed. I've
Speaker 1: listed based on who I think is better, for sure,
Speaker 1: but there's small gaps between all of those guys. But
Speaker 1: from here on, from number twelve on, starting with Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: I believe these are the superstars in the NBA. I
Speaker 1: view this as a very exclusive club that includes a
Speaker 1: top tier regular season performance for a team as well
Speaker 1: as a top tier playoff performance for a team. I
Speaker 1: think there's only twelve of these guys in the entire NBA,
Speaker 1: but I thought Devin Booker this year cracked into that group.
Speaker 1: And I want to zoom in in exactly why so
Speaker 1: that you guys can see because I do think there
Speaker 1: are some specific check marks that I look at for
Speaker 1: that superstar tier, and I think Devin Booker is officially
Speaker 1: hit those Oh and by the way, they're my one
Speaker 1: through twelve. I do have those split into two tiers
Speaker 1: as well, So like one for one through three for
Speaker 1: me is like my top tier superstars. These are the
Speaker 1: guys that I think are just a small level above
Speaker 1: the rest of the superstars, and then from four to twelve,
Speaker 1: it's all very close, and you can actually make a
Speaker 1: case for any one of the guys from four to
Speaker 1: twelve to be above any of the other guys. And
Speaker 1: totally would respect and understand if any of you guys
Speaker 1: disagreed with the order that I had in this stretch.
Speaker 1: But as I look kind of below Booker, I see
Speaker 1: a little bit of a drop off. Like shaeke Yio
Speaker 1: justs Alexander is insane, but he needs to build a
Speaker 1: playoff resume. He literally has not played a playoff game
Speaker 1: as the number one option on his team, so I
Speaker 1: can't call him a superstar, right. Damian Lillard has only
Speaker 1: won two playoff games in the last four years and
Speaker 1: has missed the playoffs a couple times, So like that's
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to put him in that group
Speaker 1: until he kind of gets back to the point where
Speaker 1: he's playing meaningful basketball. And then Anthony Edwards, who I
Speaker 1: had at fifteen, is just twenty one years old and
Speaker 1: has only played in eleven playoff games himself and has
Speaker 1: never gotten out of the first round. So, like as
Speaker 1: we go up from Dame Sga and Anthres, this clear
Speaker 1: elevation in regular season dominance in playoff dominance within the
Speaker 1: recent years, and so that's where I have that delineation
Speaker 1: there at number twelve with Devin Booker, he was one
Speaker 1: of only nine players in the regular season last year
Speaker 1: to average twenty seven, four and five at least twenty
Speaker 1: seven points, four rebounds and five assists, only nine guys.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker has now played in forty three career playoff games,
Speaker 1: all in the last three seasons, and in those forty
Speaker 1: three playoff games, he's averaged twenty eight points, five rebounds,
Speaker 1: and five assists on sixty percent for shooting. That's a
Speaker 1: ridiculous resume for a twenty six year old shooting guard.
Speaker 1: So in my opinion, as you kind of zoom out
Speaker 1: on this three year stretch, in the regular season, for
Speaker 1: three years now, he's twenty seven, five and five on
Speaker 1: fifty nine percent for shooting, and in the playoffs he's
Speaker 1: twenty eight five and five on sixty percent your shooting.
Speaker 1: So he actually has consistent regular season dominance and he
Speaker 1: goes up a little bit of a level in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So the last box there for being considered a legitimate
Speaker 1: superstar is can he be the best player on a
Speaker 1: title team? And in my opinion, the answer is absolutely yes,
Speaker 1: because let's not forget that three years ago, a lesser
Speaker 1: version of Devin Booker was the very best player on
Speaker 1: a team that came two wins away from an NBA championship.
Speaker 1: You can tell talk all you want about that being
Speaker 1: the season after COVID and all the weird factors that
Speaker 1: were at play there, but you guys know how I
Speaker 1: feel about that kind of stuff. Everybody's dealing with the
Speaker 1: same circumstances. A win is a win is a win.
Speaker 1: I do not believe in diminishing playoff success, regardless of
Speaker 1: the circumstances. I feel the same way about the bubble
Speaker 1: the year before that. I feel the same way about
Speaker 1: the lockout year. I just don't care. To me, everyone's
Speaker 1: got the same circumstances. A win is a win is
Speaker 1: a win, and the bottom line is is it was
Speaker 1: two really close games too that kind of swung the
Speaker 1: outcome of that series. The Suns were this close, and
Speaker 1: that was a lesser version of Devin Booker. So I
Speaker 1: absolutely think Devin Booker can be the best player on
Speaker 1: a legitimate championship team. And I mean on that team,
Speaker 1: his second best player is Chris Paul and his third
Speaker 1: best players Deandreton or maybe Michael Bridge, depending on that
Speaker 1: you ask. So I didn't actually think he had some
Speaker 1: sort of super team either. I think that you can easily,
Speaker 1: relatively easily build a championship quality roster around Devin Booker,
Speaker 1: and I actually have Kevin Durant above Devin Booker on
Speaker 1: the list this year, but we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: Devin Booker has a chance over the course of the
Speaker 1: season to demonstrate that he's a better player. And like
Speaker 1: I said, the gap between four and twelve is really
Speaker 1: non existent in this group, and all those guys can
Speaker 1: be jumbled around in a bunch of different ways. But
Speaker 1: as we look at that Superstar list, I think he's
Speaker 1: clearly at the bottom of that list, but I think
Speaker 1: he's clearly on the list. Consistent regular season dominance, consistent
Speaker 1: playoff dominance, even going up a level, a clear pattern
Speaker 1: of winning basketball games for your team, and you get
Speaker 1: to be in the club if you do those things.
Speaker 1: That's just the way that I view it. Devin Booker's
Speaker 1: turned himself from a pure scorer into a really versatile
Speaker 1: offensive engine. The Sun scored one point zero five points
Speaker 1: per possession of possession and pick and roll with Devin
Speaker 1: Booker this year. That was seventy fourth percentile. He's actually
Speaker 1: become a very good passer out of pick and roll
Speaker 1: over the course of the season. That was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest things that stood out to me every time
Speaker 1: I watched the Suns this year was just how gifted
Speaker 1: he was at making the right play as he was
Speaker 1: coming off of ball screens. He was down in ISO
Speaker 1: situations in the regular season, down to zero point eighty
Speaker 1: seven points per possession, kind of just fluky, missing a
Speaker 1: lot of shots, but he was great in the post
Speaker 1: one point one points per possession, which was in the
Speaker 1: sixty ninth percentile. His shot making was ridiculous forty seven
Speaker 1: percent on catch and shoot jumpers, forty three percent on
Speaker 1: pull up jumpers, and he made four point nine pull
Speaker 1: up jumpers per game. Which was second in the entire
Speaker 1: league against you guessed at Kevin Durant in first place.
Speaker 1: He was forty nine percent on runners in a really
Speaker 1: really good mark of sixty eight percent in the restricted area,
Speaker 1: which for a two guard is really really good, although
Speaker 1: somewhat low volume, only two point six makes per game,
Speaker 1: which is in the middle of the pack for starting
Speaker 1: guards around the league. That's kind of like one of
Speaker 1: the biggest weaknesses in my opinion in Phoenix's roster is
Speaker 1: they've got tons and tons of offensive skill, but they
Speaker 1: don't generate a lot of rim pressure. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, between Beal, kd and Booker all combined last year,
Speaker 1: I think they were right around like eight restricted area
Speaker 1: makes per game. That's I mean, I think I think
Speaker 1: the top tier guys in the league are averaging that
Speaker 1: by themselves. So they're not getting a ton of rim
Speaker 1: pressure from those guys, and that's going to be the
Speaker 1: interesting thing to look at with that team. But as
Speaker 1: we've seen with teams like Denver, if you're really good
Speaker 1: at everything else, you can win anyway, and so that
Speaker 1: will be the challenge for Phoenix this year. These are
Speaker 1: Devin Booker's ridiculous shooting percentages during this year's playoff run
Speaker 1: sixty three percent on catch and shoot jumpers, fifty on
Speaker 1: pull up jumpers, fifty eight percent on floaters, and seventy
Speaker 1: one percent at the rim. Legitimately one of the most
Speaker 1: accurate shot making playoff runs I have ever seen in
Speaker 1: my time covering the NBA, albeit only in two rounds.
Speaker 1: One of the key things in my opinion, that has
Speaker 1: helped Devin Booker reach the superstar level. When we talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about this yesterday, especially when we were
Speaker 1: talking about Jamal Murray or two days ago with Jamal Murray,
Speaker 1: he's actually committed to the defensive end, and I think
Speaker 1: I think the tool that Devin Booker used to kind
Speaker 1: of reach this level is his competitiveness. Seven. Booker is
Speaker 1: a freaky competitor. He talks a lot of shit. He
Speaker 1: takes this stuff super personally, and I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of a need when it comes to winning basketball games
Speaker 1: at the highest level, and he has channeled that into
Speaker 1: just working and committing on the defensive end of the floor. Now,
Speaker 1: he's not the quickest player or the most athletic player
Speaker 1: in the league, and he doesn't have great size, so
Speaker 1: even at that level of commitment, he's just become more
Speaker 1: of like an average defensive player at his position. But again,
Speaker 1: so many of these stars, they're giving you a lot
Speaker 1: on one end and taking away on the other end,
Speaker 1: and it diminishes their overall winning impact by becoming average
Speaker 1: on the defensive end. Devin Booker has made it so
Speaker 1: that his offensive impact can shine through as a basket
Speaker 1: for the basketball team. Not to mention, it sets an
Speaker 1: example when your stars are willing to commit, that works
Speaker 1: its way down the roster, and then other people defend it. Also,
Speaker 1: it also just flat out helps you win games to
Speaker 1: have another player on the floor that's at least average
Speaker 1: defensively at his position. He's become a very well rounded player.
Speaker 1: He's a bona fide top tier three level score, a
Speaker 1: very good playmaker, and an average defensive player at his position.
Speaker 1: To me, that puts him in the superstar tier. We
Speaker 1: got twelve of them in the league. He's at the
Speaker 1: bottom of that list, but he's on the list, and
Speaker 1: that's a very big deal in my opinion. Moving on
Speaker 1: to number eleven, Kawhi Leonard. This is a player who
Speaker 1: at his peak, I genuinely believe is a top five
Speaker 1: player in this league. He's gonna be. I won't reveal
Speaker 1: it right now for the sake of the suspense, but
Speaker 1: I would either if he was. If I was just
Speaker 1: looking at healthy peaks, i'd have him at either four
Speaker 1: or five in this current field of superstars. I thought
Speaker 1: he demonstrated that pretty profoundly in the two playoff games
Speaker 1: he played this year before he got hurt. He's down
Speaker 1: at eleven because of health issues. End of story. Looking
Speaker 1: at his last three seasons, he looked great in a
Speaker 1: playoff run and then got hurt in the middle of
Speaker 1: a series, missed in a season entirely, and then looked
Speaker 1: great in a playoff run before getting hurt in the
Speaker 1: middle of a series. So it doesn't really matter how
Speaker 1: good you are if you're never able to actually complete
Speaker 1: a playoff run, which is why I have him down
Speaker 1: at number eleven. But at his best, he's so clearly
Speaker 1: better than just about everybody in the league that I
Speaker 1: have to have him up at eleven. I still think
Speaker 1: that there's all let's just put it simply. There is
Speaker 1: a chance, a non zero chance, probably a pretty decent chance,
Speaker 1: not a great chance, but a decent chance that Kawhi
Speaker 1: can finish the season this year. If he does, he's
Speaker 1: a top five player. That flips all of the math
Speaker 1: and all of the way that we have to project
Speaker 1: this NBA season. So in my opinion, if we're factoring
Speaker 1: that in and you're a superstar, so I still have
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard at the superstar level. This year, he played
Speaker 1: in fifty two games. Scoring volume was way down twenty
Speaker 1: four points per game, seven rebounds, four assists, but super
Speaker 1: efficient sixty two percent true shooting off off the charts
Speaker 1: creation season one point one four points per possession of
Speaker 1: pick and roll, which is insane. That's ninety second percentile,
Speaker 1: although somewhat low volume, only four hundred and forty five
Speaker 1: possessions one point zero eight points per possession in IO.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember that list I had of the
Speaker 1: twenty five players that I considered high volume ISO players
Speaker 1: running at least two hundred and fifty. Kawai came in
Speaker 1: on eighth at that list, at eighth with that list
Speaker 1: at one point zero eight points per possession, and then
Speaker 1: he was one point one to two points per possession
Speaker 1: of the post. There were thirty one players in the
Speaker 1: NBA this year that ran at least one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty post ups. Kauai came in at seventh on that
Speaker 1: list with one point one to two points per possession,
Speaker 1: so still super super versatile with his shot creation. He's,
Speaker 1: as we kind of zoom out from there, sixty two
Speaker 1: percent true shooting. Obviously low volume compared to his peers,
Speaker 1: but in terms of actual shot making efficiency, some top
Speaker 1: tier stuff from Kawhi this season. And then he had
Speaker 1: two incredibly dominant playoff games thirty five points, seven rebinds
Speaker 1: and six sists on sixty seven percent true shooting, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, in the twenty twenty one playoff run
Speaker 1: before he got hurt, he was at sixty eight percent
Speaker 1: true shooting on thirty three points per game for eleven games.
Speaker 1: So he's only played thirteen playoff games in the last
Speaker 1: three seasons because of his injuries. But in those thirteen
Speaker 1: playoff games, he's been off the charts good. And that's
Speaker 1: again why I keep talking about how I view his
Speaker 1: ceiling so high. But obviously we've talked enough about his
Speaker 1: injuries to this point, so I want to kind of
Speaker 1: focus on why Kawhi is such a dominant playoff player
Speaker 1: compared to his peers, because again, as we look at that,
Speaker 1: you know, averaging, what's that over two years, somewhere between
Speaker 1: thirty and thirty five points per game, probably closer to
Speaker 1: thirty one thirty two, right, because of the small volume
Speaker 1: this year, But like thirty two ish points per game
Speaker 1: on sixty seven and a half percent true shooting. That's
Speaker 1: like way better than everybody. That's like Steph Curry's right.
Speaker 1: That puts you in the very top tier in terms
Speaker 1: of offensive production. Right, And we know that that's not
Speaker 1: flukey because we've seen Kawhi do it as a finals
Speaker 1: MVP and in long playoff stretches before that. So what
Speaker 1: is it about Kawhi Leonard that makes him so freaking
Speaker 1: good in the NBA playoffs? I put it down to
Speaker 1: four things. First of all, he has no shot making weaknesses.
Speaker 1: Forty eight percent on catch and shoot jumpers this year,
Speaker 1: fifty percent on pull up jumpers, forty six percent on floaters,
Speaker 1: sixty percent on hooks out of the post, and sixty
Speaker 1: five percent at the rim. Those are all off the
Speaker 1: charts good percentages. If he gets to a spot, he's
Speaker 1: got a really good chance of making it. Secondly, he's
Speaker 1: one of the strongest players in the league at his position.
Speaker 1: We talked about this a lot with Anthony Edwards yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's about the concept of getting to your spots when
Speaker 1: you are physically strong, especially when you have a low
Speaker 1: center of gravity, meaning you have strength in your legs.
Speaker 1: That makes it so that when you fight for position
Speaker 1: anywhere on the basketball court, whether that's setting your man
Speaker 1: up for a screen, whether that's ducking into the post,
Speaker 1: eneral calling for post position, just for an iso if
Speaker 1: you're fifteen sixteen feet away from the basket, whether that's
Speaker 1: dealing with hand checking in ISOs, dealing with hand checking
Speaker 1: and pick and roll, putting your defender in jail, in
Speaker 1: pick and roll, dislodging your defender when you're posting up
Speaker 1: on those back down dribbles. Every single one of those
Speaker 1: things becomes infinitely easier when you have a strength advantage,
Speaker 1: particularly with a low center of gravity. And so in
Speaker 1: my opinion, that's what gives Kawhi the ability to get
Speaker 1: easy shots so frequently. He's so good at getting to
Speaker 1: his spot. Now again, we talked about this a little
Speaker 1: bit with the strong guys yesterday. There are guys that
Speaker 1: are more skilled than the big, strong guys in the league.
Speaker 1: And Kuai has great touch for the record, like, he's
Speaker 1: got better touch than the Anthony Edwards and Lebron James
Speaker 1: comps that I used yesterday, but he probably has less
Speaker 1: touch than the top tier guys right in terms of scoring, right, Like,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the same touch as Steph Curry or
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Devin Booker. You know, those guys all probably
Speaker 1: have a little bit better touch than Kawhi Leonard does
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. But the difference is is Kauai is
Speaker 1: always getting great looks, like fantastic looks, and so he
Speaker 1: hits them at an insanely high percentage. And to me,
Speaker 1: that comes down to that strength the comp that I use.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this actually when we did our
Speaker 1: player rankings last year, but I'll do it again here.
Speaker 1: I look at Kawi's uh fadeaway jumper as the perfect
Speaker 1: example of this. The vast majority of guys who shoot
Speaker 1: fadaway jumpers do it with their athleticism. Like even as
Speaker 1: we go back to Kobe and MJ like they do
Speaker 1: a shoulder bump, but most of their separation that they're
Speaker 1: getting on those fadeaway jumpers is just outrageous athleticism. Like
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan could do a drop step into a pivot
Speaker 1: fadeaway over his left shoulder and make it look so
Speaker 1: outrageously quick that the defender just didn't have a chance
Speaker 1: to get there, and so he's getting a good look
Speaker 1: every time. Kawhi does it one hundred percent with strength,
Speaker 1: and I think that's kind of one of his calling
Speaker 1: cards and what allows him to be so efficient shooting
Speaker 1: over both shoulder out of the post. He doesn't hit
Speaker 1: that shoulder and then fade, He hits you hard with
Speaker 1: that shoulder and almost goes straight up and down. Go
Speaker 1: on to YouTube and just look up Kawhi Leondard highlights
Speaker 1: from any one of his big scoring games and just
Speaker 1: pay close attention to his turnaround fadeaways over both shoulders
Speaker 1: out of the post. He is not fading a dramatic amount.
Speaker 1: He is getting into your body with physicality and rising
Speaker 1: up for largely pretty straight up and down jump shots.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference. Because guys like mj would shoot
Speaker 1: fifty percent on post fadeaways with ridiculous fading athleticism, Kawhi
Speaker 1: is shooting ridiculous percentages on post fadeaways by going straight
Speaker 1: up and down. So again, he buys himself leeway with
Speaker 1: his touch just by virtue of him having such a
Speaker 1: ridiculous strong base and the footwork to get to his
Speaker 1: spots on any spot on the floor. So one, his
Speaker 1: redous shot making to his strength compared to his peers. Third,
Speaker 1: he can impact the game at a very high level defensively,
Speaker 1: that always is a huge part of playoff winning impact.
Speaker 1: And then lastly, Kawhi Leonard has worked really hard to
Speaker 1: become to become an above average playmaker. He used to
Speaker 1: be flat out bad at it. Kawhi averaged two point
Speaker 1: three assists per game in San Antonio. He logged an
Speaker 1: eight assist game just once in his entire time. There
Speaker 1: was a playoff game against the Houston Rockets in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: He's done it twenty one times since joining the Clippers
Speaker 1: and has averaged five assists per game during his time
Speaker 1: in a Clippers jersey, which is perfectly fine. That's like
Speaker 1: right around where his peers are, right Like, most of
Speaker 1: the big scoring wins in the league are somewhere between
Speaker 1: four and a half and five and a half assists
Speaker 1: per game Like that, that's just what those guys average.
Speaker 1: So Kawhi legitimately went from being a guy who was
Speaker 1: bad passing the basketball and not good at setting up
Speaker 1: shots for his teammates to perfect fine at it. He
Speaker 1: took a one of his biggest flaws and turned it
Speaker 1: into something that no longer hurts his game. This season,
Speaker 1: he was over a point per possession in every single
Speaker 1: type of pass out of pick and roll, out of
Speaker 1: ISO and and post up situations. He also handled traps
Speaker 1: well one point two to nine points per possession when
Speaker 1: he was trapped in pick and roll and that happened
Speaker 1: almost once a game to him this year, and then
Speaker 1: handled doubles out of the post super well one point
Speaker 1: one points per possession passing out of doubles in the post. So,
Speaker 1: like obviously like it's Kawhi is is a super interesting
Speaker 1: example of a of an archetype of player that is
Speaker 1: more of a late bloomer, right. And this is what
Speaker 1: makes Jabari Smith Junior so exciting. Is like You're looking
Speaker 1: at these guys that come out of college and they
Speaker 1: have like maybe one thing that stands out as a skill,
Speaker 1: Like I remember early on Kawhi Leonard showed some flashes
Speaker 1: of shooting ability Jabari Smith Junior was actually a really
Speaker 1: good shooter at Auburn, but like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: raw stuff outside of that, like mostly a defensive player,
Speaker 1: so was Kawhi, you know not couldn't put the ball
Speaker 1: on the floor. Neither could Kauhi. Like those guys struggled
Speaker 1: in a lot of those areas, and then there's like
Speaker 1: two phases to their development when they get into the league.
Speaker 1: It's like the learning the skill piece, like just relentless
Speaker 1: reps in the gym by yourself with the trainer going,
Speaker 1: working on your pull up jump shot, working on your
Speaker 1: ball handling, working on all these different drible combinations and footwork, right,
Speaker 1: But then there's the on court reps part of it,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to making reads and becoming a
Speaker 1: decent passer, you just need a shit ton of five
Speaker 1: on five reps against NBA level competition. And so that's
Speaker 1: why when I look at guys like Kawhi like to
Speaker 1: go from two point three assists per game for his
Speaker 1: entire San Antonio career, which by the way, he was
Speaker 1: consistently in MVP conversations, won multiple Defensive Players of the
Speaker 1: Year if I remember correctly, and also was literally one
Speaker 1: Finals MVP, multiple long playoff runs. Just was a dominant
Speaker 1: player in that run and was a bad passer, and
Speaker 1: he's taken that and turned it into something that actually
Speaker 1: helps his game a good amount now with the Clippers.
Speaker 1: I think that's a testament to his work ethic and
Speaker 1: a good example looking forward when we look at really competitive,
Speaker 1: really hard working young forwards that have a lot of
Speaker 1: raw potential, and that's what I'm looking for with Jabari
Speaker 1: Smith Junior in the future. But Kawhi Leonard again bona
Speaker 1: FIE top five player in the league when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: and he's a bona fi top five player in the
Speaker 1: league when he's healthy, and obviously we have to factor
Speaker 1: in his health in this list, which is why I
Speaker 1: have him down at eleven. But all I'm hoping is
Speaker 1: that we get to see Kawhi finish the season healthy
Speaker 1: this year because I think the league is better when
Speaker 1: he's playing, because I think he's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to watch, and I think he's a really good example
Speaker 1: for young basketball players on the things that they can
Speaker 1: work on to become better in every situation on the court.
Speaker 1: That's all I have for today. As always, I sincerely
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. We have number ten coming on Monday,
Speaker 1: and we'll go ten, nine, eight, seven, six Monday through
Speaker 1: Friday next week, and then five four three two one
Speaker 1: on Monday through Friday the following week. Because always, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, and I hope you have a great weekend,
Speaker 1: and I'll see you on Monday. The volume