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Will Steph Curry & Lebron lead their teams to the playoffs? Predictions for NBA play-in games plus more! · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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  Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to another episode of the so called
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  Sports Analyst, Episode number forty one. Josh, how you doing. I'm
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  doing pretty good. You know, we're not gonna talk much about them today,
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  but the Spurs finished the season seven and four, so I'm feeling very
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  good, on a really good high right now. Can't wait to get into
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  this playing tournament talk as we get closer to crowning a new champion. Yes,
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  sir, Yes, sir, And we're we're gonna kind of go with
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  a different format here a special announcement. Our episodes aren't gonna be as long,
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  big shot, Yes sir or any of the platforms. We appreciate and make
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  sure you share this to anybody who likes sports. But, like Josh was
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  saying, let's go ahead and get into it, and before we get into
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  the playing games, let's just give a quick recap of what exactly happened through
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  the standings. So we're gonna just start in the Eastern Conference. Obviously,
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  Boston Celtics are the one seed, Nicks are, the two seed Bucks are
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  the three seed, Calves are the four seed, Magic, five Pacers,
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  six, and then obviously the playing games. But just a quick question here
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  for you, Josh, were you surprised by any of this movement as far
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  as Milwaukee dropping down or the Calves going back up or going from six to
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  four. Were you surprised by any of this? No, I think the
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  Calves have the better overall team between the three Calves, Magic, and Pacers,
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  so I'm not surprised with them being at the four spot. But I
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  was very surprised how the New York moved up to the number two spot and
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  taking over the Milwaukee Bucks position. I think me and you both predicted last
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  episode that it would probably stay around the same that it was, but the
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  Knicks kind of closed out the close out these last couple of games pretty good
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  and secured that number two spot. So there, I'm a little surprised because
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  we kind of harp on Jalen Brunson being the only guy that can really get
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  stuff done, but looks like it doesn't matter if he's the only guy getting
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  stuff done. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I think it's kind of
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  a big deal for the Knicks year. I'm not gonna lie. I think
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  them avoiding the Boston Celtics that's gonna be essential because that's the one team where
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  they don't match up favorably against. I don't know what you think about that.
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  I think we'll get into it here in a minute. But they're still
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  gonna have a tough matchup in that round one, So yeah, either between
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  one of the between the heat and seventy six ers. So they're not they're
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  not home free just yet, so we'll see. We'll see how it plays
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  out. But it is helpful that they won't have to play the Boston Celtics
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  in like in a round two scenario. Yeah exactly. And let's going and
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  move on to the Western Conference here. So the Thunder end up as a
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  one seed. The Nuggets are the two seed, Timberwolves are the three seed.
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  Clippers in math, that's kind of been known, they're the four to
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  five seed. The Suns they're the sixth seed and then Pelicans, seven,
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  Lakers, eight Kings, nine, Warriors ten. So you predicted that the
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  Timberwolves were gonna be one and they fell all the way down to three.
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  So do you think this is a bad sign going into the playoffs here?
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  I'm not. I don't know if it's a bad sign. They are playing
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  the Phoenix Suns, who I get they have Kevin Durant, Bradley Bill,
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  and Devin Booker. But I think when it comes to the depth of a
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  team, I feel like the timber Wolves have a deeper, a deeper,
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  a deeper bench than the Suns. And I do think their defense is is
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  pretty well. I understand better offense be better defense, but yeah, it
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  can. I think when this defense is like the way that the two Ruleves
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  play the number one defense in the entire NBA, I think this this matchup
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  suits them pretty well, especially especially when it comes to having men on the
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  interior because they have the bigger the bigger players when it comes to Najory and
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  Rudy Gobert going into this matchup, Yeah, exactly. But we don't want
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  to get too much into the playoff details here. That's gonna be no,
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  no, But is it a big deal? Yeah yeah, yeah, no,
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  I asked you that just to give a snippet, just a little piece,
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  just a little piece, but little snips, yeah, little snips.
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  But let's go ahead and move on to the playing games, the playing games
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  that hold on. My prediction almost came true. The Kings almost fell all
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  the way to the ten seed. They almost fell. Yeah, yeah,
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  no, you were. You were damn close. You almost predicted it spot
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  on because you said Sons get in, right, You said Sons get in
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  and Pelicans Sons six? Did I say Pelicans seven? Yeah, I believe
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  you said Pelicans seven. I just needed the Warriors and Lakers to switch.
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  I do need the Warriors and Kings to switch. Man, So so damn
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  close to perfection, sodamn close. They have sad records too, I think
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  the well, I'm I'm gonna say that stat for in a second. But
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  let yeah, let's go ahead and get into this plan. So the first
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  game that's gonna happen tomorrow is the Lakers versus the Pelicans here, in which
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  the Lakers they played the Pelicans on Sunday to secure that eight seed, in
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  which they blew the Pelicans out. But Josh, who's winning this game and
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  why? I think the Los Angeles Lakers are gonna win this game, and
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  they're gonna win this game by a lot. I think in three out of
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  the four matchups that they have played this year, the Lakers have won one
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  thirty three to eighty nine, one thirty nine to one twenty two, and
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  one twenty four to one. Await, they have dominated every single game that
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  they have won against the Pelicans, and I think, and I just think
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  it's gonna end up the same exact way. Especially with the fully healthy Lakers
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  squad going into this game, and especially with and the confirmation of Anthony Davis
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  will play in this game, I think it's gonna be too much for the
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  Pelicans to deal with, especially with Lebron going into the playoffs. Yeah,
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  so it was kind of scary at first seeing Lebron with the backspasms or not
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  Lebron a d because if AD's out, then that's that's a whole different complex.
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  But I honestly think this game is gonna be really close here, Josh,
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  I just feel like there's gonna be okay. First off, I think
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  the Lakers are gonna win, but I think there's gonna kind of be a
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  letdown factor as far as we just blew this team out of the water and
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  they're completely healthy, so there's gonna be somewhat of a letdown. I'm seeing
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  like mid third quarter it's a nip and tuck tuck ball game, and then
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  to start the fourth the Lakers they're gonna pull away. But one thing that
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  I want to take away is that the Pelicans, Yes, they have a
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  great defense, but they're as far as long pop pause, no Didty,
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  no Diddy, But they have long defenders and they're not physically capable of stopping
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  the Lakers. They're good against teams that have perimeter scores, like the Warriors,
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  like the Kings, but the Lakers are the opposite of that. They
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  drive to the basket, kick out, and shoot threes. That's exactly what
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  they do. So it's a bad matchup. And like you mentioned, playoff
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  Lebron, playoff ad you can't stop that. And Okay, one question I
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  want to ask you, because I've seen it a lot as far as with
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  the sports media, everybody has been saying the Lakers they should lose this game
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  on purpose to avoid the Nuggets. How do you feel about that. Do
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  you think that it's smart or do you think you're kind of playing with the
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  basketball out here? H he lose his game and you avoid the Nuggets.
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  It's tough, Honestly, I feel like you want to catch the Nuggets earlier
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  going into the playoffs, rather than wait for them deeper into the playoffs when
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  they're in full strength and Jamal Murray's getting back into the grow of things because
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  he has been injured. I think you want to catch the Nuggets as soon
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  as possible, as soon as you you still have fresh legs. They still
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  have fresh legs, and I'd be willing to bet on Lebron and ad on
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  some fresher legs. So that's that's why I would rather as the Lakers play
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  the Nuggets first. Yeah, in the first round. That that's just me,
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  but also who they avoiding. They're still going to play the Thunder.
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  I understand that thunders inexperience compared to experience to the Lakers is night and day.
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  But there's still a hell of a team all around the Oklahoma City Thunder
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  offensively, andy offensively. The only thing that the Lakers maybe match well better
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  up against them is the penetration offense, that they're gonna be able to get
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  into the inside offense at offensively at will and the Thunder half, and the
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  Lakers have played good against the thunder throughout this season, So I really do
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  think you're just nitpicking who you would rather play. I understand the Lakers aren't
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  very good against the Nuggets, we have said that before on the pod,
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  but it's almost you'd rather catch them early when you are both on even ground,
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  rather than wait until your older legs have to play against these guys deeper
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  in the playoffs. Yeah, exactly, I one hundred percent agree. And
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  if hypothetically you lose this game here, who says the Warriors and Kings,
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  who could get very hot from three, they could just shoot you out of
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  the building and you go from having a pretty much locked in spot to now
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  you're out of the playoffs completely. And yes, there's that big stat oen
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  eight versus the Denver Nuggets over the past two years, but eventually you're gonna
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  win one. That's just it just balances out. I'm not saying that the
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  Lakers are gonna upset the Nuggets here. I would still pick the Nuggets,
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  but I could see this being a six game maybe a seven game series if
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  if this happens. But yeah, no, I believe in the basketball gods,
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  and you losing this game on purpose, you're gonna get struck back.
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  You will there, there's no doubt about it. And like you kind of
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  meant to the point, Lebron, it would be the freshest he'll be going
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  into the playoffs, same with Anthony Davis. So so yeah, you're better
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  off trying to catch them early. But anything else you want to say before
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  we move into this next playing game. Have you heard any confirmation on whether
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  Brandon Ingram is gonna play in this game or not, because towards the end
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  of the season, there was a lot of speculation whether you would play in
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  the games if he was getting he was getting closer to being healthier. Do
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  you think he's gonna play in this one? So he's not listed on the
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  injury report right now, so yeah, I think he's gonna play. So
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  he played. He played Sunday a very few minutes, but he played,
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  So I I think he's gonna play. But it's not gonna be the brandon
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  Ingram that we're used to. It's not gonna be that twenty to thirty point
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  scorer and that good primerative perimeter defender. So even if he is there,
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  I don't think it's gonna be that much of a factor. Also, one
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  more thing, so in that game Sunday Lebron you could tell he still has
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  it. Defensively, he shut down Zion Williamson completely. He did, He
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  just took him out of the game. And Zion he's been dominant this past
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  month or so. So you're gonna get playoff Lebron, playoff ad like we're
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  mentioning. So again, I know we don't do score predictions because it's really
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  hard for the NBA, but kind of give a score prediction right here of
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  who he is gonna win and how much. I'm we'll go one twenty three
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  to one hundred and four. Damn. So you really think it's gonna be
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  a blowout blow up? I do think so. I do. I think
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  that Lakers are going to control this game from start to finish. M hmm,
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  well all right, so I have the Lakers too. I don't see
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  it being as high scoring. I probably say one oh eight to ninety eight.
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  That's what I see it. Being a little bit low scoring playoff basketball.
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  But you want to go to move on to this next playing game.
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  Yeah, we can do that, all right. So the next one that's
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  gonna happen after the Lakers and Pelicans is the Warriors versus the Kings. So
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  the Kings in this matchup throughout the year, they've been three and one against
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  the Warriors. Obviously Warriors are more experienced team. But who wins this game?
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  Josh? And why I'm gonna go with the Golden State Warriors in this
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  game? And I think I understand the there they have. They split the
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  season series in this one. It came down to one point literally in three
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  of the four games that they played against each other, and the and the
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  one game that it wasn't one point, it was still very close. So
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  these guys have played very well against each other this season. The only thing
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  I'm I'm gonna go with the Warriors is they have been the hotter team to
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  finish the season and I do think they're gonna keep that momentum going into this
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  game. And they're starting to figure out a couple of their role players roles
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  in this within their offense and defense. The Kings didn't finish the season very
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  well, uh, dropping from the all the way from the fifth seed to
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  the ninth seed isn't isn't very good? Isn't a good confidence builder going into
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  the plane, especially playing Stephen Curry and Steve Kerr led basketball team, and
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  then plus the missing Malik Monk and Kevin Hurder, is is just I just
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  feel like it's gonna be too much for the Kings to overcome to playing the
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  Warriors. And you're also playing a Draymond Green with his defensive mind and playoff
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  experience, So I don't know, it's just it's going to be a tough
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  matchup for the Kings. I think. Yeah, I agree with you one
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  hundred percent. If Malik Monk and Kevin Hurder they were playing in this game,
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  I would kind of lean towards the Kings here. But even at that
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  so, I don't know the exact record, but the Kings, I believe
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  there were twenty four and seventeen at home and the Warriors are twenty six and
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  fifteen on the road, So they're actually a better team playing on the road.
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  So somehow it plays in the Golden States favor And like you mentioned,
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  they're an experienced team and so when they played the Kings and how they lost
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  a couple of those games Draymond he didn't play, and a couple of them
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  due to suspensions or multiple suspensions. But a stat that I want to give
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  is that when Draymond Green was on the floor against the Kings, there were
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  plus fourteen plus minus. So, like you mentioned, Draymond Green, he's
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  going to be a really big factor. So yeah, I think that the
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  Warriors, they end up winning this game, go ahead, and he's shooting
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  the best he ever has from the three point range this year, So I'm
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  just saying he's a sniper this year. He's a marksman. You can't leave
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  him open now. But as far as score prediction, I think this one's
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  going to be highest scoring. I don't know what you think, Josh,
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  I think so too. I think defense is going to be kind of limited
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  in this game. Trace Jackson Davis. He's a very good room defender,
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  I think, and he's very athletic. I do think he couldn't answer to
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  some of the pick and rolls that they do play with a lot with the
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  Aaron foxon Demonta Sabonis. They could probably limit that with him and Draymond,
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  I could see it being a high scoring game. But also I can see
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  also see it being like a trap game for both of them when we're it's
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  just like a like a one to zero one, like a one to twelve
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  to one aweight game, which is low scoring in today's NBA. So I
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  don't know if people are gonna like be like, oh, it's still pretty
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  high. Yeah, no, not not in today's game. But I think
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  that both of these teams they're gonna be shooting the lights out of the ball.
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  They are, And even the games that the Kings have lost, they've
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  been playing good basketball in those games. How they lost to the Suns close,
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  they lost to the Pelicans close, they lost to the Celtics close.
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  So these games, yes, they're four and six over their past ten,
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  but they've been really competitive. And I think, if I have to give
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  a score, I think this is gonna be like a one twenty five to
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  one twenty type of ball game. It's gonna be back and forth the entire
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  time. So I think that the Kings they have a realistic shot of winning.
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  And I'm gonna give you a reason why. I think because Andrew Wiggins,
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  he hasn't been the same player overall offensively and defensively, and Gary Payton.
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  He's not playing tomorrow, So that's a couple of the perimeter defenders that
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  won't or that won't be able to contain Daron Fox. And if Dearon Fox,
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  he could just get or get on fire and not miss, and it's
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  going to be a blowout in the Kings favor. That's just what I think.
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  But did you want to say anything else before we move into the next
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  one. Also, I think Brandon Podziensky is going to be a pretty good,
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  pretty a factor in this game. He stepped in as a rookie pretty
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  well into starting roles and and even roles where he's needed off the bench,
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  playing defensively and offensively within this Warriors team, I do think he can kind
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  of make up for that Gary Payton loss. And I do think he's gonna
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  have a pretty big, pretty a pretty important role in winning this basketball game.
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  Yeah, definitely. So Okay, So I want to say this,
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  but I don't want this to be taken out of context. So not that
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  he's Klay Thompson or what Klay Thompson was, but he's kind of feeling that
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  Klay Thompson role, if that makes sense. Like the three and D three
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  D player. Yeah, that's what I mean. I don't mean he's going
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  to be this next top seventy five player, but he's he's definitely there.
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  I'll score eleven, score sixty six on eleven dribbles. Imagine he does that
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  against the Kings, same as Klay Thompson. Wait he did that against No,
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  no, no, he's scored thirty. He scored thirty three points in
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  what the third quarter against the Kings, right, something like thirty seven in
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  that quarter. Thirty seven thirty seven, eleven dribbles. That was the Bulls,
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  That's what it was. Yeah, sadly that's the But what so who
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  you're picking the Warriors in this one? Oh? So yeah, yeah,
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  I'm picking the Warriors. So I think the Warriors. So then that would
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  be Pelicans versus Warriors for that last spot. Yeah, Pelicans versus Are you
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  taking it? Oh? Are we doing to talk about that one? Yeah?
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  We could. We could go in and talk about that one. Get
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  done with the West first. So I'm gonna say this. I kind of
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  hinted at it a little bit earlier. I'm taking the Pelicans to win this
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  game very convincingly against the Warriors and taking the Warriors to win this game.
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  Okay, closely, let me hear. Let me hear your reasons. Why.
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  Let me hear your reasons why. Honestly, I understand that Zion has
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  been pretty dominant, but I do think they can throw bodies at him with
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  Draymond and then Trace Jackson Davis. I'm pretty high on Trace Jackson Davis after
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  seeing him play against Victor winm Binyama. Let me tell you, I wasn't
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  gonna talk about him very much on this part, but how we played against
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  Victor Wim Binyama showed a lot to me. And I do think he can
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  contain with his athleticism and his movement with to he can contain as Zion Willison.
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  I'm not saying he's stopping Zion Williamson, but he can contain as Zion
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  Williamson. And I do think that Stephan Curry, I don't think there's a
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  guard on the on this team that can defend Stephen Curry ninety feet. Jose
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  Alvarado's on the other side, but I don't think I don't think he's enough
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  to stop With Stephen Curry and then plus the other pieces that we talked about,
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  I still do believe that Andrew Wiggins will show up when the playoffs come
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  around, and Dremond Green is gonna be there. I do think they I
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  do think they know their time is coming to an end, so they're gonna
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  try their hardest to win and keep moving forward, especially Steve Curry. I
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  think Steve Kerr wants this team to have one last ride together. So I
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  do think the Warriors are going to beat the Pelicans in this game, and
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  they have the more experience going into it. So I'm not denying that at
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  all the Warriors experienced championship pedigree. They definitely do have that. But I
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  think that the Pelicans just defensively and what I handed at, they could they
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  can stop or they have a stifling perimeter defense, interior defense. That's their
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  struggle and there's not really a threat as far as with the Warriors driving to
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  the rack. Occasionally you'll have you'll have Tyson Jackson, Davis, Steph Curry
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  going up there, but not somebody you know consistently is going to get there.
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  Their offense mostly comes from the perimeter. But you have Trey Murphy the
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  third, and you have Herb Jones, who's the All defensive team. You
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  have Brandon Ingram. You have Zion Williamson there, So you have four guys
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  right there that that are just long, lengthy defenders that could bother Steph Curry.
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  And one thing that you could do with the Warriors that you couldn't do
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  in years past, you could throw the kitchen sink at Steph Curry and you
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  say, alight, Klay Thompson, all right, Wiggins, al at Kaminga.
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  You need to beat us. And I know that's kind of contradict what
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  I said against the Kings, but the Kings they don't have the firepower the
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  Pelicans do defensively, So that's why. And this is where the Warriors are
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  going to run into a challenge. And again, if Draymond Green can somehow
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  shut down Zion Williamson completely, then okay, I can see that, But
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  you still have to deal with CJ. McCollum, You still have to deal
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  with Brandon Ingram. So there's still other scores on that team. It's not
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  just dependent on Zion Williamson. I do think they match it pretty well,
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  though, I will say I think Brandon Potziemski and even Klay Thompson and he's
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  having a good day, they can they can, they can play against a
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  CJ. McCollum, and I think slow him down. And then plus I'm
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  taking Andrew Wiggins right now versus Brandon Ingram just because Brandon Ingram has missed so
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  much time of basketball. Okay, So I think that's a fair statement.
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  I do. I do think he's still going to have to get into the
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  mix mix of it all. I understand ballers or ballers, but when you
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  miss a lot of the season and you go up against a guy who has
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  played most of the season, and Andrew Wiggins, and especially a guy that
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  I believe will show up when the when these when this when these games start,
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  and Andrew Wiggins, I do think it's gonna be a tough matchup for
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  Brandon Inger. See. I can definitely see that. I I can definitely
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  see that. I see that. But I'm just thinking as far as offensively,
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  I don't think that the Pelicans they're they're this great team. It's just
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  a defense where they're that damn good. So okay, So we haven't done
• 23:26
  wagers or bets as far as on basketball games because it's kind of hard to
• 23:32
  but okay, hypothetically say Pelicans and Warriors happens. Did you want to put
• 23:36
  something on the line or no, m what what will we do? It
• 23:42
  would have to be I won't. I don't want to get you another jersey.
• 23:48
  I'm telling you that I can't. I'm not gonna let Cat afford another
• 23:52
  jersey right now. But hey, you could enjoy that Rashid Rice jersey.
• 23:57
  It's all right, okay, Okay, something simple, just twenty bucks.
• 24:07
  That's all right, We'll do twenty bucks. We'll do a cool dug on
• 24:11
  it. Yeah, okay, Yeah, So that's if it happens. Obviously,
• 24:15
  if stuff doesn't happen, then we're I gonna do I'm I'm excited about
• 24:19
  that one. Now, I'm ready for that. But did you want to
• 24:23
  go to move on to the Eastern Conference? Yeah, let's do it,
• 24:26
  all right. So this first Eastern Conference game that we have here is a
• 24:32
  Philadelphia seventy six ers versus the Miami Heat. And what's the sixers? They're
• 24:37
  going to be the home team here, so this this is gonna be a
• 24:41
  fun matchup. But Josh, who's winning this game? And why I'm gonna
• 24:47
  take the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and I do think they're gonna win by
• 24:49
  at least twelve points. I'll put it out there. I understand that Heat
• 24:56
  have historically good defense and they have split the series, but we're talking about
• 25:00
  Joel Embiid, who's hungry, I think and since and the seven Sixers have
• 25:04
  won eight in a row, so I do think they're doing in very high
• 25:07
  I understand that Heat are also seven and three in their last ten games,
• 25:11
  but the SEVNY seison is winning eight in a row, and they're winning all
• 25:14
  four games that Joel Embiid has played since coming back, where he's averaging thirty
• 25:17
  points, eight point three rebounds, four point eight assists, one point eight
• 25:19
  steals, one point three blocks, and only thirty minutes of play. I
• 25:23
  do think they're gonna up that, and I do think they're gonna be ready
• 25:26
  to play against his team. I understand Bama is having one of the best
• 25:30
  seasons he's ever played defensively, but yeah, when you go up against the
• 25:33
  guy that's more likely to score forty than thirty, I'm taking the guy that's
• 25:37
  more likely to score forty than thirty versus a good defender. So I'm gonna
• 25:41
  have to go with the seventy Sixers in this one, especially with Joel Embiid
• 25:44
  on fresher legs. Maybe he already got his injuries out the way and he's
• 25:47
  ready for the playoffs this year. Well, so a quick stat I want
• 25:51
  to I just want to share. I texted it to you. I don't
• 25:53
  know if you remember, but Joel Embiid throughout the whole NBA associate he leagues
• 26:00
  a league in fifty point games throughout the regular season, and he missed thirty
• 26:04
  five, thirty six games. That's just ridiculous there. But okay, Josh,
• 26:11
  So I was leaning towards the Sixers the entire time. I was like,
• 26:15
  Sixers have to win a game winning streak. Joel Embiid, he's back
• 26:19
  healthy, Tyree Snacks, he's playing good. But I just have a feeling
• 26:25
  that the Miami Heat they're gonna just win. They're gonna pull out this gritty,
• 26:27
  tough game. And Eric Sposa always has something up his sleeve. And
• 26:33
  I don't know what it is. You can't measure it, you can't put
• 26:37
  it into stats. But the Heat they always turn up come playoff time.
• 26:41
  They do. Nobody can explain it. It's happened these past four or five
• 26:45
  years. And one thing that I've that's kind of been better. Is that
• 26:52
  it's not so Jimmy Butler depended as far as Terry Rogier. He's his own
• 26:56
  shot creator, so it's not Jimmy Butler or Fell and bam ada bio.
• 27:02
  He's actually attempting to stretch the floor and shoot a little bit. Further.
• 27:07
  I know he's made I think it's like ten threes in his last thirteen games
• 27:12
  something like that. So he's at least attempting threes, at least stretching the
• 27:17
  floor. And I just think, yes, Joelle embiid, he's been he's
• 27:22
  been playing, but it's been against the easiest schedule in the in the NBA
• 27:26
  as far as all of the playoff teams. So I think the heat,
• 27:29
  they're gonna pull this game out. And I think this game is going to
• 27:33
  be in the nineties here, Josh, I see it being being like a
• 27:37
  ninety eight to ninety three type of ball game. I don't know if you
• 27:40
  have a score prediction. I did what I say, like one, I
• 27:45
  said, I forgot what I said, but I gave a call. You
• 27:47
  said by twelve something like that, Yeah, twelve, I think I said
• 27:49
  like one twelve to did I I don't know Okay, let's just say a
• 27:56
  new one. Uh yeah, one twelve to one oh four mm hmm okay,
• 28:02
  okay, yeah, so it's it's fairly close. But again, I
• 28:07
  see both of these teams they have a good chance of winning. But all
• 28:11
  right, so we'll just say, we'll just say, hypothetically, before we
• 28:15
  move into the playing game, we'll just say the Sixers advance and the Heat
• 28:19
  they lose this game to face the winner of this game, which it's It
• 28:23
  features the Chicago Bulls versus the Atlanta Hawks. And what's the Bulls? They're
• 28:30
  the home team here, Josh, who's winning this game? And why Chicago
• 28:36
  Bulls are winning this basketball game? And I'm gonna tell you why Jalen Johnson
• 28:41
  and onka At Congo are both out in this game. I think those are
• 28:45
  two big pieces that are gonna be missing for the Atlanta Hawks. And I
• 28:48
  do think Jalen Johnson has missed a lot of time and they have played without
• 28:52
  him. But I think he does so much all around on the basketball court
• 28:56
  that is going to be a big, a big, a big missed opportunity.
• 29:00
  Uh, He's just gonna be missed by the Atlanta Hawks in this game.
• 29:03
  And a Congo gets a lot of rebounds and he's good offensively also,
• 29:07
  so that's another that's another point to be made there. But I do I
• 29:11
  don't think this Hawks team is very motive to play with each other anymore.
• 29:14
  It's just there. I think there's a lot of rumors going around if who's
• 29:17
  gonna stay to Jean Terror Trey Young, if they're gonna get rid of either
• 29:19
  of them. So I do think these teams kind of realize that it is
• 29:22
  coming to an end, with the Atlanta Hawks and then for the Bulls too,
• 29:26
  but those guys that are leaving are not playing, so it's with the
• 29:32
  With the Hawks, I just don't think there's as much motivation as there might
• 29:34
  be on the Bulls, with a lot of players trying to prove themselves,
• 29:37
  especially into Kobe White. So I'm gonna take the Bulls on this one.
• 29:41
  And they have played most of the season without the without the players people may
• 29:44
  say, like a Zach Levine or Patrick Williams, So I do think they're
• 29:48
  they're they're more prepared to play this game than the Atlanta Hawks are. So
• 29:56
  I'm gonna go with the I'm gonna go with the Chicago Bulls. Here,
• 30:00
  I am, but no way, I'm kind of I'm I'm kind of I'm
• 30:03
  kind of scared. I'm not gonna lie. This is this is my playoff
• 30:07
  series right here, this is my championship right here, Josh, because this
• 30:11
  is the best I'm gonna see the Bulls do. So it's kind of scary
• 30:15
  that the Bulls they lost to the Hawks April first, and in a pretty
• 30:21
  dominant fashion. The scoreboard didn't say so, but like you kind of mentioned,
• 30:26
  and this may be a slight to this player, but Trey Young coming
• 30:30
  back kind of helps the Bulls here. It does because the Jontay Murray,
• 30:37
  when he's been the focal point of the offense, the Hawks offense has actually
• 30:41
  been pretty damn good. And now that Trey Young's back in the mix,
• 30:45
  you're kind of having him split between him and Dejonte and Trey Young. He's
• 30:48
  not in rhythm yet. And you could throw people at at Trey Young and
• 30:53
  Dejontay Murray. You have Alex Caruso, Yavon Carter, Tory Craig, I
• 30:59
  would assume, moud you, Vonte Green. So you have these guys that
• 31:03
  you could throw at them, and not to mention Damar DeRozan. He's just
• 31:07
  a baller in the play in so far, in the play in these last
• 31:11
  year, and then I think it's gonna happen this year again. He's just
• 31:14
  been balling. Look what he did against Toronto. I know we don't have
• 31:18
  Zach Lavine and Patrick Williams, but like you mentioned, we haven't had those
• 31:22
  players since November December, so that's not gonna be much of a factor.
• 31:27
  And I think that Kobe White bold prediction here. Kobe White, he drops
• 31:32
  thirty five plus points. Yeah, it's a bold prediction. I'm only giving
• 31:40
  it because it's my favorite team here. But yeah, Kobe White, he's
• 31:42
  gonna come through. And I think there's gonna be a bunch of points on
• 31:48
  the board. I don't think much defense is gonna be played here. I
• 31:52
  could see this game being high one twenties, maybe maybe one thirty. I'm
• 31:59
  not gonna lie, so I don't know if you want to give a score
• 32:02
  prediction here, I think I'll go and this one, I think I'm going
• 32:12
  to go one one, sixteen to one. Awight, I'll go pulls.
• 32:22
  I'll sixteen to one o eight pulls. By the way, if we happen
• 32:27
  to get these score predictions. Right, we need to go to Vegas right
• 32:30
  away. For real, we need to go to Vegas right away. I'd
• 32:34
  be mad that I bet on this. I'd be mad that I didn't bet.
• 32:37
  If they do, we do get over, right, just imagine how
• 32:40
  much that's what it's probably like plus ten thousand odds or No, it has
• 32:45
  to be more. It has to be a lot if especially if we put
• 32:49
  all these in like as a joint like one time bet, like if we
• 32:53
  put in probably twenty bucks, we'd probably make a lot of We probably make
• 32:58
  like over four hundred thousand for sure. Yeah, yeah, it's worth the
• 33:04
  shot. No, But as far as this playing game, so we both
• 33:07
  have the Bulls advancing, but we're gonna go into as far as what you
• 33:13
  think the first playoff or playing matchup would be, which would be the Blues
• 33:17
  on this side you have the Sixers playing the Bulls and I have the Heat
• 33:22
  playing the Bulls. Yeah, so we're gonna go over Bulls versus Heat first.
• 33:27
  Oh, I was just gonna say, I just think both of our
• 33:30
  guys, if our scenarios, I think the Heat or seventy six years will
• 33:32
  win either. Okay, okay, okay, yeah, okay, I'm glad
• 33:37
  we could agree right there. If the Bulls make the playoffs, I don't
• 33:42
  I don't care what happens. I don't care if we get swept, and
• 33:45
  you shouldn't care what happens if they make the playoffs. And honestly, we've
• 33:51
  kind of played good against the Celtics this year. We've got we haven't won,
• 33:54
  we haven't won much, but we played pretty good. They've been pretty
• 33:59
  competitive games. And the last time and the last time we played the Celtics,
• 34:05
  we were the eight seed. We had Rondo, Jimmy Butler, and
• 34:07
  Dwayne Wade. So I don't think the Celtics want to see the Heat or
• 34:12
  the Celtics. So yeah, I don't think they want to play any either
• 34:16
  of those teams. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I think or the
• 34:21
  Celtics, the Heat or the seventy six Ers. Yeah, I knew what
• 34:24
  you meant. But I think that the Celtics they're kind of hoping that,
• 34:30
  well, they're they're both tough matchups. They're kind of hoping that the Sixers
• 34:35
  win this game and they go up against Miami again. But even at that,
• 34:39
  you're playing against Miami, the team that that's been dominating you over these
• 34:45
  past several years. So if you're in the situation of the Celtics here,
• 34:52
  who would you rather play the Heat or the Sixers? The Heat I don't
• 34:58
  want any part of Joel be going healthy playing against me in the playoff,
• 35:02
  especially the way Tyres Maxie is playing right now. I do not want any
• 35:06
  part of that team. I understand that the Heat have a good what is
• 35:10
  it a good like you said, they they've fared up pretty well against the
• 35:15
  Subjecks over the past couple of years. But the thing is, who's more
• 35:20
  dominant of a basketball player between any of the guys on the court is Joel
• 35:22
  Embiid And I do think at this point in their careers, Tyrese Maxie might
• 35:27
  be the second best player between both teams at this point in all their careers.
• 35:32
  I'm just saying he balled out this year. He played very well.
• 35:36
  I do think Bam might have overtaken Jimmy Butler just a little bit. I
• 35:38
  don't. I just don't get the same, the same, the same fear
• 35:43
  that around the NBA of what we're hearing that's compared to other years from the
• 35:47
  Miami Heat, and they are still a young team. I understand they are
• 35:50
  coached by one of the greatest coaches of all time, but I don't know.
• 35:54
  I don't know if you want to see Joel Embiid in the first round,
• 35:57
  who's gonna stop him? They don't have in tiar your defender Chris Prazingis
• 36:00
  isn't known to be a defender. He's not gonna contain Joel Embiid. So
• 36:06
  I do think they'd rather see the Miami Heat in the first round. You
• 36:09
  know what's gonna be so funny, is that Jimmy Butler. He's about to
• 36:13
  flip a switch. He probably will, and would I be surprised and not
• 36:17
  at all. But we have to go off of what we've seen so far
• 36:21
  this season. We've been going off what we've seen these past three four years,
• 36:25
  and he's been proving us wrong these entire time, for this entire time.
• 36:30
  But now that you kind of mention it as far as different players and
• 36:36
  in the postseason, we're gonna go ahead and move on to our next topic
• 36:38
  here. So before before the postseason officially starts, obviously you have players who
• 36:46
  have different pressure on them, different expectations. But there's players and coaches that
• 36:52
  have a lot to gain from here. So we decided to make a top
• 36:55
  ten list as far as players with the most to gain, And did you
• 37:00
  want to go ten through one or one through ten? Go ten through one,
• 37:07
  ten through one, Okay, so I'll go first year. And I
• 37:14
  kind of mentioned it with this last topic, But Jimmy Butler, he's a
• 37:17
  tenth player as far as somebody who has the most of the game. And
• 37:22
  why I would say that is, obviously, if they win a championship here,
• 37:25
  it'll be again another historic and unprobable run becoming a seven to eight seed
• 37:31
  to win, and you've already made it to two finals. And if you
• 37:36
  make it to the finals again and win, he's already he's already in the
• 37:42
  door as far as becoming a Hall of Famer, but he would become as
• 37:45
  far as in a different stratosphere as far as with the Lebron James Michael Jordan
• 37:52
  Kareem, players that elevate in the playoffs, somebody who you could say,
• 37:58
  all right, the playoffs start, we could count on him. Maybe he
• 38:01
  won't, maybe he won't be up there as far as top twenty wise all
• 38:06
  time, but he'll definitely be in the I would have to say he'd have
• 38:12
  to be top thirty. Obviously, I'm not I don't have twenty players in
• 38:15
  my head as far as all time, but he would definitely be up there
• 38:19
  with top Top thirty is pushing it. I kind of I'm kind of estimating
• 38:23
  here, but at okay, at bare minimum top fifty player. Let me
• 38:30
  name players if he hasn't, Jimmy Butler hypothetical has a championship and you can
• 38:35
  tell me when he'll stop. All right, okay, Michael Jordan really really
• 38:42
  I'm going through like my version of Top thirty. Okay, okay, how
• 38:46
  goes restart that? Lebron James, Michael Jordan come in to stop? Uh?
• 38:52
  Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Stephen
• 39:01
  Curry, hackem Dirk KG, Paul Pierce. Oh no, Why why did
• 39:10
  I think about Paul Pierce right there? Why did I think about Charles Barkley?
• 39:17
  So by my standards, Paul Pierce is the eleventh greatest player of all
• 39:22
  time? Why he come to my mind? Why did why did I think
• 39:25
  of we're not doing that again? That was so hard? Like I just
• 39:29
  started naming players bro, but doing that just like just guessing he'd have to
• 39:36
  become bare minimum top fifty. But I'm just guessing here, Okay, I
• 39:40
  can see thirty now that I don't know why Paul Pierce was on my mind
• 39:45
  at all. Like, I don't know how he ended up there. I
• 39:47
  didn't even say Larry Bird or Shack or like, fuck those guys. You
• 39:54
  got what you got, you got the truth, You got the truth here.
• 40:00
  No, but I'm saying he could possibly possibly be elevated because you you
• 40:06
  could just make an argument saying I'm so mad at myself right now. I'm
• 40:09
  like, I'm so mad that I said Paul Pierce like before. I don't
• 40:14
  know why, bro, Like why did I think of that? Like this
• 40:16
  is something Paul Pierce would do in real life. Like you, you didn't
• 40:23
  even get to like Dwayne Wade, you, Klay Thompson, you didn't get
• 40:29
  to nobody like that. You just Paul Pierce. Hell. Yeah, I
• 40:32
  don't know what was I don't know why in my mind he popped up Like
• 40:37
  we probably just lost all credibility right there. I don't know why Paul Pierce
• 40:40
  came to my mind. Just just a side note, Paul Pierce is not
• 40:45
  Josh's eleventh best player of all time, Just in case anybody's wanting he is
• 40:50
  not. I don't know, Like as soon as I said his name,
• 40:52
  I was like pause, like coulda but but yeah, Jimmy Butler, he
• 41:00
  would just have a case as far as one of the best playoff performers ever
• 41:06
  if he happens to win a championship here. But that's why he's better legacy
• 41:09
  than Chris Paul with a ring. No, no, I get it,
• 41:22
  but Chris, that's a close position. But that's close. That's something that
• 41:27
  you could debate here. That that's something that's damn close. That's for another
• 41:32
  day. Yeah, that's for another day. But who's your tenth who's your
• 41:37
  tenth player here, Josh, I'm gonna go with my coach. I'm gonna
• 41:40
  go with the coach Mark Dognall. I put him at ten. I guess
• 41:44
  he can be. He probably shoudn't even be on this list, honestly because
• 41:46
  he has so much time. But I do think him winning with the second
• 41:51
  youngest team in the NBA winning a championship would go long way for his career.
• 41:55
  I think it would put him like in that Steve Kerr and Eric Spolster
• 41:58
  like range where they won championship is very young. Like even I get Grip
• 42:01
  p Hoovich wasn't young, but he won a championship like early into his head
• 42:05
  coaching career. So I think it would put him like at a different level
• 42:08
  and have like a whole total different trajectory for his career. It'd be like
• 42:14
  he'd have to if he keeps winning, he's on a good pace to be
• 42:17
  one of the greats. Yeah, I could definitely see that. That's a
• 42:22
  strong case and an interesting point because especially with how young the team is.
• 42:28
  That's why I'm saying, like, I think he would gain a lot of
• 42:30
  like acknowledgement across the NBA in the sports world if he were to win a
• 42:36
  championship with the team of age, with the average teammates that he's dealing with.
• 42:40
  If Mark Dagnall wins a championship, is he better than Eric Spolsa just
• 42:45
  based off of this year? Just based off of this year, like this
• 42:52
  year alone, Like like if you'd win a championship hypothetically, I know sposure
• 42:57
  he has to, but just based off of this year alone, what would
• 43:00
  he be considered a better coach or at least in the conversation to be better
• 43:06
  at this point in their careers. Ah that I don't want to answer that.
• 43:13
  That's too hard, that's harder question. Okay, yeah, so because
• 43:16
  I think I think it's Pop Spostra and then like, of course you have
• 43:22
  Pop Billy Donovan. I know you didn't want to mention his name. Yeah,
• 43:25
  okay, buddy, Mike, Mike Malone, Yeah, Mike Malone,
• 43:31
  Darvin. I'm just kidding, definitely not darving him, Mike Malone, hailu
• 43:43
  that I need to look through NBA teams as far as coaches wise, m
• 43:53
  tomb Chris Finch, Jason Kidd. I think he's above those guy, not
• 44:01
  Steve Kerr. He's not above Steve Kerr. M Yeah, Nick Nurse,
• 44:10
  that's close. I think. Yeah, he he's definitely up there as far
• 44:15
  as one of them, he'd be in the top five. Mm hmm.
• 44:21
  So all right, So I'm I'm gonna go ahead and get on to number
• 44:23
  nine here. So number nine, who I have right here is Rudy Gobert.
• 44:29
  And he may not be up there as far as all time wise,
• 44:32
  but as far as legacy wise. Every time in the playoffs when a Rudy
• 44:38
  Gobert let team defensively wise, they always flame out in the defense. It
• 44:44
  doesn't become atrocious, but it's not the same. If Rudy Gobert and the
• 44:49
  Timberwolves win a championship, it's gonna be based on their defense. And this
• 44:53
  the head of the stink as far as their defense is Rudy Gobert. And
• 44:57
  with him having three Defensive Player of the Year potentially for after this season,
• 45:02
  and you add a championship to that, you could say he's one of the
• 45:07
  most It's gonna sound crazy, but as far as most impactful defensive players of
• 45:13
  all time, you you would have to say that there's he would have to
• 45:16
  be in the argument. There no question that's He's already in the argument.
• 45:22
  Just a championship would propel him so much more forward. But okay, well,
• 45:29
  at least what I see from the from the media wise, as far
• 45:31
  as everybody else, there is respect. There is Ben Wallace's and and yeah,
• 45:37
  White Howard there's there's not the same respect. I get that. Yeah,
• 45:43
  but like and I get what you're saying. I agree, Yeah,
• 45:47
  a championship would elevate him. I think I wouldn't say pass Ben Wallace,
• 45:54
  but it would be right there. It would It would be neck and neck.
• 45:58
  You could argue, you could argue both k and And that's why I
• 46:01
  think Rudy Gobert he has a lot to Dwight Howard's too high. Yeah,
• 46:06
  no, I was gonna say Dwight, I'm like, no, but that's
• 46:08
  that's too crazy. Even if he didn't lead a championship, he made it
• 46:15
  to the finals. Dennis Rodman. It's tricky because he was on the bad
• 46:22
  Boy Pistons and then obviously the m J led Bulls team. So I don't
• 46:27
  know, Victor, stop it, stop it all right. I'm gonna go
• 46:32
  with my nine. I'm gonna say my my number nine. I understand if
• 46:39
  he does win, he's gonna get a whole lot gained, but it's not
• 46:44
  as important to him to win to compare it to other people. And I'm
• 46:45
  gonna go with Nikola Jokic. I understand if he wins a championship and probably
• 46:52
  another m v P and a finals m v P again, that might that
• 46:58
  might prepare him until ten as soon as next year all time. I do
• 47:05
  really believe that because there's not other many other guys in the top ten that
• 47:08
  have the same resume that he would have two championships, three MVPs, right,
• 47:13
  three MVPs or four MVPs three three MPs. Yeah, it would be
• 47:16
  three yeah, two finals MVPs. It would be an historic run over the
• 47:22
  last four years. Basically for Nikola JOKICCH. He'd be if we want to
• 47:25
  take Patrick Mahomes and Nikola JOKICCH and put them next to each other, that's
• 47:29
  what the equivalent if Nicola JOKICCH were to win a championship, an MVP,
• 47:34
  and a finals MVP all in the same season, again, it would just
• 47:37
  add so much to his career. I don't know why he's number nine now.
• 47:40
  I think I just talked myself into number one. Yeah. Possibly,
• 47:45
  Gosh. I have a question for you. If Jokic wins the MVP and
• 47:51
  wins the finals, does he surpass Steph Curry as far as top ten,
• 47:55
  because Curry's in that top ten right now? Because Steph Curry, he has
• 48:00
  two MVPs to lodge one. Hold on, I have to redo my top
• 48:07
  ten. Hold on, let me go through my top ten. Yeah.
• 48:09
  Yeah, you need to redeem yourself. You need to redeem yourself here.
• 48:14
  I have Lebron, MJ. Freem for sure. Top three. There's Cole,
• 48:20
  Tim Duncan, and Magic somewhere in my four and five mm hmm.
• 48:27
  Then I have co back. Oh, okay, we'll be right there.
• 48:32
  Then this is where you can put him in. I think you can put
• 48:35
  him around this area like Larry. I don't know Steph, Tim Duncan,
• 48:38
  Larry, Tim Duncan. Well, I have Tim Duncan five. Okay,
• 48:45
  So there's Larry, there's Steph, there's a team. There's Kevin Garnett.
• 48:51
  No, he's he's already passed Kevin Garnett all time, He's already passed.
• 48:54
  No, I'm just listening just what people would have. And he's in an
• 48:59
  argument with hakem and Stephen Curry. And it's hard. It's hard to say
• 49:04
  because most people have Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell in their top tens. But
• 49:08
  it's hard to not doing that. I'm not doing that bullshit. I'm not
• 49:12
  doing that. I'm not doing it. Not doing that bullshit, all right,
• 49:17
  not doing Guys that played sixteen against sixteen teams, I'm not doing that
• 49:22
  against twelve teams. Not doing it. Yeah, let's let's not get into
• 49:28
  that we've already segregation ended two years before they joined. Like, it's not
• 49:31
  it doesn't work that way. I'm not no, Like, come on,
• 49:35
  bro, not doing it all right, I'm gonna go ahead and say my
• 49:40
  number eight. So number eight for me, it's gotta be Jalen Brunson for
• 49:45
  me, Jalen Brunson. If he could do what which is seen from last
• 49:52
  year, him being just seen as a star and potentially pairing with somebody else,
• 49:57
  and he could be a number two, potentially being the number two seed
• 50:00
  with all these injuries and winning a championship, it'll it'll put them put him
• 50:07
  up there as far as one of the best, if not the best point
• 50:09
  guard in the league. He's already up there on the best point guard in
• 50:13
  the league's conversation. But after a championship, he would have to be he
• 50:16
  would have to be up there just due to what happened, recency biased,
• 50:21
  he would have to be up there, and and the injuries. No,
• 50:23
  Julius Rondo, Ojiannaobi's been hurt and like and like you've been like you've been
• 50:29
  mentioning Jalen Brunson. It's hard to have a team just be around one player,
• 50:37
  and especially a guy that's undersized, so he would have to be up
• 50:42
  there as far as one of the better point guards in the league, if
• 50:45
  not the best point guard. Okay, go ahead. I don't have them
• 50:49
  on my list. I don't have them on my list. I think these
• 50:52
  other guys are probably gained a lot more because he doesn't have to win a
• 50:54
  ring based on what's around him. Like you said, But this is gonna
• 51:00
  be a very serious thing that I say right here, and it's gonna mean
• 51:04
  a lot. I'm curious, is he rank above Alan Iverson and Derreck Rose
• 51:10
  if he wins a championship. I'm just saying, they never want to ring.
• 51:15
  They never want to ring. And he led his team by himself to
• 51:21
  the championship and would have won with his second best player being Dante DiVincenzo.
• 51:30
  I'm just saying, Bro, I'm just saying, like it's a really real
• 51:34
  hypothetical question. And he's gonna win finals MVP. No one else is gonna
• 51:37
  win finals MVP besides Man Jalen Brunson. Man, Josh, you're pulling my
• 51:43
  heartstrings right here. I'm literally looking at my Derreck Rose jersey right here in
• 51:46
  front of me. Bro. But it's the truth. It's the truth.
• 51:52
  I wouldn't want to say it, but sadly it would have to be true.
• 51:55
  Even though he wouldn't have the MVP, he would have to be.
• 52:00
  He would have to be because in any other whether it's not a Luka and
• 52:04
  Anikola Jokic, he'd probably be the MVP. Yeah, no, I agree,
• 52:07
  one hundred percent. I agree. Is the number two seed in the
• 52:10
  Eastern Conference. Like then then Yuka was averaging a triple double and Nikola joki
• 52:19
  wasn't one of the greatest players to ever live. Jalen Brunton is an MVP
• 52:22
  any other year. That that's fair. That's fair, man. You you
• 52:28
  just pulled my heartstrings. I feel sad now you you mentioned my boy Derreck
• 52:32
  Rose, man, But I don't know's they're also trying to the same position.
• 52:37
  Same it's same positions, same, same kind of build around the teams.
• 52:43
  I wouldn't say same as far as they're in the same level. Right
• 52:46
  now, I'd still have Ai and Derreck Rose, but that championship would say
• 52:50
  it would surpass the MVP. It would it would, So yeah, all
• 52:55
  right, I don't know if you want to go ahead and move on to
• 52:58
  number eight, but yeah, I'll be number eight. I'm gonna go with
• 53:00
  Stephen Curry, and I think a lot of for the same reasons as a
• 53:05
  Nikola jokicch and even a Lebron Another ring for Stephan Curry would make five,
• 53:12
  right, it would be five rings. M M. That's five championships on
• 53:15
  your finger. And how are you not argued with the magic Tim Duncans and
• 53:21
  Kobe Bryant as higher than those guys are at the same level, he would
• 53:24
  move automatically to top five. He would be arguably top five or top six
• 53:29
  all time easily. I don't think there would be any debate because he's the
• 53:32
  greatest hard to ever live. Unanimous MVP and five championships, he's that's he'd
• 53:39
  probably be four. He'd probably the fourth greatest player to ever live if he
• 53:43
  won another championship in Stephen Curry, especially with an aging team that he's playing
• 53:46
  around against with a bunch of youngsters. So this is really Stephan Stean on
• 53:51
  Stephan Curry's back right now. It's not on anyone else's but his. So
• 53:55
  I do think him winning a championship would put him in a whole different conversation
• 53:59
  and the whole different company and could be argued, I get having KD on
• 54:05
  his team would be a pretty big argument for most people, which is an
• 54:09
  argument for everybody about their teammates around them. People will still argue, oh,
• 54:13
  Tim Duncan had one of the greatest teams of all times every single year
• 54:17
  in his career. Michael Jordan had Scottie Pippen, and Lebron had no one
• 54:22
  and nobody, you know, So I'm just kidding. He had Kyrie and
• 54:29
  Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh like he formed super teams, and then it Magic
• 54:34
  had Kareem So there couldn't be an argument really for that. So it'll be
• 54:38
  even playing ground, it'll be even playing around. I do think him winning
• 54:42
  a championship would elevate him to a top five status or even close to being
• 54:45
  considered a top three player all time. It would be one of the most
• 54:51
  dominant runs because look, best case scenario is the eight seed. They would
• 54:54
  have to beat the Kings, then the Pelicans or Lakers. Then you'd have
• 54:59
  to beat the thunder then the Mavericks are Clippers, and then you'd probably face
• 55:04
  the Nuggets, Nuggets, Lakers, Sons, or Timberwolves and then you go
• 55:08
  into the finals and potentially play the Celtics again. That would be two championships
• 55:15
  where you're massive underdogs and you find a way to win. So I could
• 55:22
  definitely see that. I could definitely see that. And top five. It's
• 55:25
  hard to it's hard to deny. I don't know. I so I have
• 55:32
  Kobe three. I have Kobe three online. But okay, I'll say this,
• 55:37
  Okay, I'll say this. I'm kind of a little biased here because
• 55:40
  I am a Kobe fan. I'm not gonna lie. I'm a big time
• 55:45
  Kobe fan. So that's why I have him so high. But he would
• 55:51
  he would have to be in the bro he would have to be in the
• 55:54
  debate with Kobe. He would have to be. He would have to be,
• 55:59
  because no would they would both have five championships. He clears him in
• 56:02
  MVPs and is not the greatest. Okay, Kobe's not the greatest in a
• 56:09
  singular thing, but he's so dominant in everything. Yeah, but I think
• 56:17
  being the greatest shooter to ever live when the job is to shoot the basketball,
• 56:23
  I think Stephan Curry would elevate. But Stephan Curry has handles. Kobe
• 56:30
  might get to the rim better than Stephan Curry. Does he get to the
• 56:32
  rim better than Stephen Curry? I don't know. I think Stephan Curry is
• 56:37
  one of the best finishers of all time if you really go back and watch
• 56:40
  his game, especially at his size in today's NBA where the point guard now
• 56:45
  is six foot five, six foot six, and he's still doing what he's
• 56:47
  doing at six foot two, six foot three. I do think there's a
• 56:51
  separation. Yeah, it would have to be a tough conversation. Man,
• 56:55
  if some of this stuff happens, it's gonna be it's gonna be some heated
• 56:59
  debate on Twitter. It is there is, Yeah, there already is.
• 57:06
  But I'm gonna go ahead and get into number seven here. So this person
• 57:09
  would be a for sure top twenty player all time and would be the only
• 57:15
  thing that he's missing from his resume, and that's James Harden. If James
• 57:20
  Harden wins a championship, he will officially have everything and potentially be known as
• 57:27
  one having some of the most dominant stretches. And well, he already has
• 57:31
  some of the most dominant stretches in NBA history, but adding a championship to
• 57:36
  that resume, no matter how it's done. Even if he's the number three
• 57:39
  on a team, he would be looked at very differently. He would be
• 57:45
  looked at, for sure, better than d Wade. I would say that
• 57:47
  he's already looked at as far as on the same playing field as d Wade,
• 57:52
  and d Wade's looked at him. He's a better player than d Wade,
• 57:54
  but he's not better all yeah. Yeah, And I think if you
• 57:59
  add that championship, you could argue him over d Wade, which would be
• 58:04
  the third the third, yeah, the third best shooting guard of all time.
• 58:08
  It would be it would have to be is he a shooting guard or
• 58:12
  a point guard? Okay, I'll say this when he was point he's a
• 58:17
  point guard. Yeah, But would most people remember him as a shooting guard
• 58:23
  because of his Houston days, I don't know. In Houston he was he
• 58:28
  was averaging triple doubles, like, oh, not averaging drible doubles, but
• 58:31
  he was getting triple doubles on a nightly or getting double doubles on a night
• 58:35
  the basis. But he he's still he's still a two guard. He he
• 58:39
  goes an assist in Houston, Yeah, he did. No, I'm not
• 58:45
  I'm not acting like you can't argue he's a point guard, but shooting guard
• 58:49
  wise, people would argue more shooting guard. Yeah, for what he came
• 58:53
  into the league as a shooting guard. Yeah, I can see that.
• 58:57
  I can see him being three. Okay, So yeah, that that's number
• 59:00
  seven for me. So who's seven for you? The entire is kind of
• 59:05
  on the same playing field. The entire Los Angeles Clippers team would be number
• 59:08
  seven for me. Perfect Kawhi and Paul George are together because they were brought
• 59:19
  here four years ago. Right, four years ago, we're already five years
• 59:22
  into this, So four years they came in four years ago have yet have
• 59:27
  shown anything of improvement for the Los Angeles Clippers. From the Blake Griffin and
• 59:31
  Chris Paul days to the now, they all end at the same point in
• 59:36
  the playoffs every single year. So that would go a long way because they
• 59:39
  had a job to bring a championship to Los Angeles Clippers and they still have
• 59:43
  yet to do that. And then Russell Westbrook, also we're forgetting, would
• 59:47
  go a long way winning an NBA championship as much as it would James Harden.
• 59:52
  All these guys would be argued in the Top twenty. There'd be four
• 59:54
  players argued in the Top twenty from this one basketball team if they all win
• 59:59
  a championship one more time. And I do think Kawhi Leonard would have three
• 1:00:01
  rings, so it put him a little higher than all three of them.
• 1:00:05
  But that top ten like not there. But but the thing is, what's
• 1:00:09
  gonna hurt him no MVPs. Yeah, and he and he averages less than
• 1:00:15
  these three guys in every category besides defense. Mm yeah, okay, that's
• 1:00:22
  that's crazy. It's Kawhi Leonard even the best player on his team. That's
• 1:00:28
  a that's another day. That's another day. But yeah, yeah, that
• 1:00:30
  that's another day. Yeah, another topic. But all four of those guys,
• 1:00:36
  we go Russ Westbrook, James Harden, Paul George, those three for
• 1:00:38
  sure, because they have no rings. Winning a ring would adds so much
• 1:00:42
  to each of their legacies that it would be unfathomable. And then Kawhi Leonard
• 1:00:46
  having his third ring would do a lot for him also. So the entire
• 1:00:50
  Clipper squad is number seven for me. That that's very interesting right there.
• 1:00:55
  So I'm gonna take a little bit of a different route here. So number
• 1:00:59
  six, Yeah, TJ. McConnell. So number six is Doc Rivers for
• 1:01:08
  me, and people may be thinking Doc Rivers. He won a championship in
• 1:01:15
  two thousand and eight with the Boston Celtics, but everybody knows if you really
• 1:01:19
  knew what happened, Tom Thibodeau was really coaching that team there, let's be
• 1:01:22
  honest, and that was the first one of the first super teams to be
• 1:01:29
  created. As far as with that Big Three and Doc Rivers just his legacy,
• 1:01:34
  I don't know exactly how many, but I think four to three to
• 1:01:37
  one leads that are blown and then you have then you have like six three
• 1:01:42
  to two series lead blown. And so if you win with the Milwaukee Bucks,
• 1:01:47
  who you got or when you got hired mid season for Adrian Griffin,
• 1:01:52
  and you find a way to win a championship, that's gonna do a lot
• 1:01:54
  for you. It's gonna take the monkey off of your back because you need
• 1:01:59
  to keep her dem in yourself as far as in the sports business, and
• 1:02:01
  he hasn't done that in a while. So Doc Rivers winning the championship,
• 1:02:06
  that would definitely do a lot for his legacy. I agree. I do
• 1:02:12
  think it would do a lot for him because they do ride that two thousand
• 1:02:14
  and eight championship like nobody's business. So him winning two championships would put him
• 1:02:22
  in a in a pretty in a good class. He would be in a
• 1:02:24
  great class, immediate hall of I think he would be a Hall of famer
• 1:02:28
  for sure winning another ring. His legacy would be cemented if he won another
• 1:02:32
  championship. Yeah all right, Yeah, So who's number six for you?
• 1:02:37
  Number six for me is Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. They're both number six
• 1:02:42
  for me. They're both I think both of them have the same amount to
• 1:02:45
  gain if they win a championship because they've been together for so long. Understand
• 1:02:49
  they're still young, but they've been together for almost eight years already, seven
• 1:02:52
  years, eight years already. Yeah, So them winning a ring and building
• 1:02:55
  this team around them to them two specifically, I get Jason Tatum. It's
• 1:03:00
  this quote unquote star of the team. But we're in reality it's a two
• 1:03:04
  man show. It's Jylen Brown and the Jason Tatum team. It's not just
• 1:03:07
  one or the other. So then winning a ring would help them out quite
• 1:03:09
  a bit because they're consistently the number one seed, the number two seed in
• 1:03:14
  the entire Eastern Conference, but they never and they've come close to winning it
• 1:03:17
  a couple of times, getting to a championship, but them winning would help
• 1:03:23
  them out a lot, and it would kind of put a rest on a
• 1:03:25
  little bit of for them on them for a little bit because there's so much
• 1:03:30
  pressure from the media from NBA, even for me personally as a podcaster,
• 1:03:35
  for them to win a championship. Yeah. So I don't want to get
• 1:03:39
  in too much Jason Tatum because I have him somewhere on my list. I'm
• 1:03:45
  not gonna reveal where, but I have him somewhere, but I'm gonna just
• 1:03:47
  go and move on to the next one because I'm gonna talk about it in
• 1:03:51
  a second. But so now that we're getting to the top five, hor
• 1:03:54
  texting Kobe right now? All right, So number five I have right here
• 1:04:02
  is Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant has a lot to gain if he wins a
• 1:04:08
  championship here. Yes, I know it could be a quote unquote super team,
• 1:04:12
  but it hasn't been up to the Brooklyn level or definitely not the Golden
• 1:04:15
  State level, and this would be the first team as far as where he
• 1:04:20
  leads a championship just so well, not solely off of him, but where
• 1:04:25
  he's the number one guy in Golden State. Let's not get it twisted.
• 1:04:29
  Stephan Curry was the number one guy there. Yes, Kevin Durant might have
• 1:04:31
  had the better stats, but Stephan Curry was getting all the damn attention,
• 1:04:35
  and Klay Thompson was in his prime. Draymond Green was in his prime.
• 1:04:40
  If Kevin Durant wins this, he for sure cements himself as far as I
• 1:04:45
  know. We keep mentioning top ten, but they would It would be damn
• 1:04:49
  hard to keep him out of the top ten. Kevin Durant if he wins
• 1:04:53
  this championship with the Phoenix Suns, yeah we're I don't have him on my
• 1:04:59
  list only because I just feel like a lot of these other guys, I
• 1:05:01
  probably should put them at ten, honestly above coach above Coach Dagnall. But
• 1:05:06
  that's for another day. But I'm just gonna agree, like we're saying a
• 1:05:11
  lot of these players are close to the top ten, because they are,
• 1:05:15
  you know, so winning another ring would add so much. Like with the
• 1:05:17
  James Harden, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant, It's almost like all three of
• 1:05:20
  those guys from that one team have paved out really good careers for themselves.
• 1:05:27
  So they're all MVPs. They all are insanely good at what they do.
• 1:05:32
  Russell Westbrook being triple double king aggression MVP, making teams every team better that
• 1:05:40
  he's played on, James Harden being probably the greatest one of the if the
• 1:05:44
  greatest, if not top five greatest scorers to ever live, and then Kevin
• 1:05:46
  Duranck possibly being the greatest scorer to ever live based off a pure game standpoint,
• 1:05:53
  not talking about like statisticals and like on a game in game out basis,
• 1:05:57
  but if you watch him play basketball, you understand how he gets to
• 1:06:00
  his shot. Him winning another ring and adding that to his resume that's already
• 1:06:04
  great, would just add a lot to him. Yeah, for oh,
• 1:06:10
  go ahead, I was gonna go for my number five, so you can,
• 1:06:14
  okay. So one last thing I want to say is that, so
• 1:06:16
  Kevin Durant, everybody I know he has championships, but the biggest thing they
• 1:06:21
  say is you haven't won outside of Golden State, who already won a championship
• 1:06:26
  before you. So if he wins in Phoenix, where he brought up the
• 1:06:30
  quote unquote culture and brought up that team, that organization to win a championship,
• 1:06:35
  their first championship. It'll do so it would be twice as much as
• 1:06:41
  when he won twice in Golden State. Honestly, it would to everybody,
• 1:06:44
  to the media, at least to me, I think at least for you,
• 1:06:46
  Josh, after hearing what you say, but you go ahead and move
• 1:06:49
  on to your fifth. Number five for me is coach Stibbs, coach Dibudeo
• 1:06:56
  New York Knicks. For y'all that w't know, go Bulls legend. He
• 1:07:01
  has has held his next team in check. I think Timberwolves, right,
• 1:07:06
  yeah, yeah, he was great. He was great coach for the Timberwolves
• 1:07:10
  also, especially with what he had to deal with and the talent he had
• 1:07:14
  there. He has been nothing short but a great coach in his entire NBA
• 1:07:18
  career. Just been dealt really bad hands and it's the truth. He loses.
• 1:07:23
  Derick Rose deals with the kind of a younger, up and coming Timberwolves
• 1:07:27
  team has to put that all together with a cat I believe Zach Lavine Andrew
• 1:07:30
  Wiggins when all of them were there, he had to put that together then
• 1:07:33
  kind of create this little thing that they got going on now he was kind
• 1:07:36
  of the sacrificial lamb, and then now going on with the New York Knicks,
• 1:07:42
  having to deal with injuries to a Julius Randall, to uh Mitchell Robinson
• 1:07:45
  and having to rely solely on another point guard to get you through with Jalen
• 1:07:50
  Brunson. I do think no one disregards what Thibodeaux does in his career.
• 1:07:57
  Everyone gives him all the respect in the world when you listen to the bouncers
• 1:08:00
  talk. But the thing that he is missing on his resume. He's been
• 1:08:02
  Coach of the Year a couple of times, I think so. I do
• 1:08:06
  think what he is missing is that championship, and that championship for him would
• 1:08:12
  put him right up there. I don't. I do think he's a better
• 1:08:15
  coach than Doc Rivers. I will say that. I do think he is,
• 1:08:18
  and I think that will elevate him above a Doc Rivers, and possibly
• 1:08:23
  he it will do a lot for him. I'm not saying he'll be in
• 1:08:26
  the Gretkovich, Eric Spolstra's, Phil Jackson's, he won't be in that area,
• 1:08:31
  but he will for sure put him pat Riley's. He for sure will
• 1:08:36
  edge himself in basketball history. If he wins a championship, yeah, most
• 1:08:42
  definitely he would. He would be that second tier, that second or third
• 1:08:45
  tier, and you could argue he does he's kind of like Eric Spostra as
• 1:08:50
  far as does more with less, because Steve Kerr, Phil Jackson, Greg
• 1:08:57
  Popovich, pat Riley, they they were great, damn coaches, one of
• 1:09:01
  the best coaches of all time. But they always had that top tier talent.
• 1:09:05
  They had great, great luck with healthy players also, yeah, exactly.
• 1:09:11
  And Tom Thibodeau he hasn't had that even this year. So yeah,
• 1:09:15
  I could definitely see that case and he would be a Hall of Fame level
• 1:09:17
  coach. But okay, this is way it starts getting interesting here now that
• 1:09:24
  we've reached that top five. Number four right here would be Joel Embiid.
• 1:09:29
  For me, Joel Embiid hasn't made it past the second round throughout his entire
• 1:09:34
  career, and if he could, and if he could win a championship after
• 1:09:40
  getting hurt in mid season, come back eight games left in the regular season
• 1:09:45
  and become a playing team and make it all the way to the championship,
• 1:09:47
  have this dominant run, then you would have to argue this is the most
• 1:09:51
  dominant two year stretch of Joel Embiid's career, or just you could argue with
• 1:09:58
  it with anybody else. Because you go from MVP last year to potentially win
• 1:10:02
  the championship after being hurt, that's something you don't hear of. And it's
• 1:10:08
  a very damn good possibility, possibility that it can happen, because he's just
• 1:10:13
  that damn dominant. And I wouldn't say all time it would it would bump
• 1:10:18
  him up so much, but for sure top top thirty, maybe twenty because
• 1:10:26
  he he's still arguing for MVPs. He's still young in his career, so
• 1:10:30
  that's why I think he'd be the fourth most again. Yeah, for me,
• 1:10:33
  number four, it's gonna be Dame Dollar, Damian Lillard. You leave
• 1:10:38
  Portland, you join a contender, join a former MVP and Giannis, you
• 1:10:43
  join Chris Middleton, Brook Lopez, guys with experience. You join Adrian Griffin
• 1:10:46
  who leaves, and then Doc rivers. So I'm just throwing slugs at FONNSA,
• 1:10:51
  right, Yeah, Yeah, Adrian Griffith left he was too good for
• 1:10:55
  the bus. No, he didn't leave, he got he got, he
• 1:10:58
  got fired. I was gonna say a word. Before that, I would
• 1:11:00
  say effing fired. But we're we're a We're a family podcast here, So
• 1:11:06
  now he said some pretty outlantic Steam said, But No. Number four for
• 1:11:15
  me would be Damian Lillard. I understand people already regard him as one of
• 1:11:17
  the greatest shooters of all time. Not greatest obviously, but he's up there,
• 1:11:23
  probably second third around that Klay Thompson, Ray Allen area of people consider
• 1:11:27
  Damian Lillard, especially as a clutch performer. He has to win a ring.
• 1:11:32
  I do think that the Bucks have probably the most pressure on them.
• 1:11:35
  That's why I have two of them in the top four. So I'm gonna
• 1:11:40
  go with Damian Lillard right here. It's gonna be It would do a lot
• 1:11:44
  for his career winning a championship, because no one disregards the talent, no
• 1:11:47
  one disregards disregards the hard work. What he has been through in his career
• 1:11:53
  is just you haven't got it done. And I understand you haven't been dealt
• 1:11:56
  the best circumstances being on the Trailblazers, but you made this move. You
• 1:12:00
  wanted this move to win a championship. And if you don't win a championship,
• 1:12:04
  that's gonna be looked at as like, so what was all that for?
• 1:12:09
  So it kind of segues into mind perfectly. So I have Dame number
• 1:12:13
  three, but I have an analogy here, Damian Lillard. He's looked at,
• 1:12:18
  or he would be looked at if he didn't win a championship as the
• 1:12:21
  same level as Carmelo Anthony, two greaton scorers who were just dominant were on
• 1:12:30
  this crazy team. Obviously, Dame he has a chance that well, Melo
• 1:12:34
  had a chance to anyways. But to the same extent, Melo was always
• 1:12:40
  the best player on his team. Damian Liler is not the best player on
• 1:12:43
  his team anymore. But nine times out of ten, if you put Dame
• 1:12:46
  on any other team, he is the most Like, yeah, he most
• 1:12:50
  likely is the best player. Giannis, he's looking like he's on a trajectory
• 1:12:55
  for top fifteen player. Ever, so it's kind of hard to be better
• 1:12:59
  than you're honest, But still him winning the championship, it'll just surpass that
• 1:13:04
  Carmelo level because that's where he's at right now. And we know how they
• 1:13:09
  viewed Carmelo. He would be in that area. Oh yeah, you love
• 1:13:15
  Mellow, Yeah, he would be around that. He would so, now
• 1:13:20
  that I got who's number three for you? Yeah, that's weird to think
• 1:13:26
  about. He would be like, I'm just saying this is totally off topic,
• 1:13:29
  but he would be in that ewing nash mellow like he would be in
• 1:13:33
  that area of players. Yeah, for sure he would. Well I would
• 1:13:38
  I be oh, go ahead, go ahead, Okay, yeah, go
• 1:13:43
  ahead. Number three is Joel embiid a lot for the same reasons you said.
• 1:13:47
  But the thing is for me, I said it last week. We've
• 1:13:48
  been trusting the process for ten years now. So when if the process is
• 1:13:54
  going to be fulfilled you you've had many talent around you. It's not like
• 1:13:59
  you've been with that out talented players Jimmy Butler, James Harden. Now you
• 1:14:03
  have a Tyres Maxie emerging. You've had to Bias Harris, who is a
• 1:14:09
  great role player. I get that name is gonna be like to buya his
• 1:14:12
  Harris, But if you watch basketball, you know he's a big It's a
• 1:14:15
  big role that he plays on a team led by Joel Embiid. So and
• 1:14:19
  so now you have to win. You have been ridiculed with injury going into
• 1:14:27
  every single playoffs you play. You haven't showed up in some of the big
• 1:14:30
  moments. Your team has fallen short, and you've been saying every year,
• 1:14:33
  we're gonna get it done, We're gonna get it done. We're gonna get
• 1:14:35
  it done. And you've gone through a couple of coaching changes, so it's
• 1:14:40
  gonna have to happen. It's gonna him doing this already being regarded as probably
• 1:14:45
  the best scorer in basketball. Adding this to him adding a ring would do
• 1:14:50
  wonders, especially having an MVP and then possibly you getting a Finals MVP.
• 1:14:56
  Entering it would add a lot to your legacy. Yeah, yeah, I
• 1:15:00
  know, it definitely would. And now that I'm thinking about it, he
• 1:15:02
  would be on that mellow territory too. I'm not gonna lie, well he
• 1:15:06
  would be or Steve Nash territory m v P. Yeah he would. Yeah,
• 1:15:13
  he would be in that Steve Nash area. But I'm not gonna get
• 1:15:16
  much into Joel Embiid because if I can see that, I can definitely see
• 1:15:25
  that right there, both have the same one m v P. Yeah.
• 1:15:30
  Yeah, great offensive scores. Yeah, I see that. That's that's actually
• 1:15:35
  perfect right there. But thank you, great analogy. But number two right
• 1:15:45
  here, Luka Doncic, Luka Doncic has one. He's in a he's in
• 1:15:54
  a situation where it's high risk, low reward. Here if they lose,
• 1:16:00
  was like, okay, well, the Nuggets were supposed to win, the
• 1:16:02
  Celtics were supposed to win. If he happens to win, If he happens
• 1:16:08
  to win, Luka Doncic would be on a trajectory for one of the greatest
• 1:16:13
  players of all time. He would be because he's in year five right now.
• 1:16:18
  Michael Jordan, Lebron James. They didn't win till year eight around that
• 1:16:23
  time, and Kobe Kobe was a little bit younger, year four or five,
• 1:16:28
  but Kobe obviously wasn't leading. Luka Doncic would be the number one player
• 1:16:33
  and leading a team to a championship and kind of levels to Jimmy Butler,
• 1:16:39
  but even higher. He would be considered one of the greatest playoff performers ever,
• 1:16:45
  already into his career, already five years in, because every time he's
• 1:16:48
  made the playoffs, he's cooked. He has and if he happens to win,
• 1:16:56
  so he goes from the first year losten to the Clippers in the bubb
• 1:17:00
  then the following year. I believe he lost to the Clippers again, then
• 1:17:04
  he makes to the Western Conference Finals, misses it last year, and then
• 1:17:09
  you go on to win a championship. That's that's improvement every single time.
• 1:17:15
  And it would be hard to look at Luka Doncic as not the best player
• 1:17:19
  in the league, and with Nikola Jokics, with the Giannis in the league,
• 1:17:25
  you would have to view Luca as the best player in the league.
• 1:17:28
  So that's why he's number two for me. The reason why I didn't put
• 1:17:31
  Luca on my list because I think it's more on the MAVs to win a
• 1:17:33
  championship than it is on Luca. I don't think anyone's doubting Luca's I don't
• 1:17:39
  think anyone's doubting Luca's hard to say talent at all. Like, you can't
• 1:17:44
  watch a basketball game that Luka Doncins plays and tell me that guy's not good.
• 1:17:47
  You can't tell me that that guy is the problem, because when you
• 1:17:50
  watch him play, that guy's just different animal. When he's out there,
• 1:17:56
  it looks so silky smooth. When you watch Luka donct play basketball, it's
• 1:18:00
  insane. I do think it's more on the MAVs because you miss the playoffs
• 1:18:03
  with the Luca on your team the year, last year, and then this
• 1:18:06
  year you try your hardest to you resigned Kyrie, You bring in a Daniel
• 1:18:12
  Gafford, a PJ. Washington, you have some Derek, you draft Derek
• 1:18:15
  Lively. You tried, but it still wasn't enough. You still have ye
• 1:18:20
  possibly one of the greatest point guards of all time next to him, and
• 1:18:24
  it still wasn't enough. So there has to come to a point where you
• 1:18:26
  realize we're the problem. So I think that's why it's more on the MAVs
• 1:18:29
  to win a championship than it is Luca Donchs because no one's going to disregard
• 1:18:31
  his legacy if he if he loses or doesn't this year, if he wins
• 1:18:35
  or loses this year. Yeah, I'm just saying it. Yeah, if
• 1:18:41
  he happens to win it, it's gonna be levels and question. I want
• 1:18:45
  to ask you this right now. No, would Luca. So if Luca
• 1:18:50
  wins a championship, would he be better than Derek in Maverick's history. No,
• 1:19:00
  Okay, we're not going to get into that somewhat on the pod,
• 1:19:03
  but no, No, for different reasons why. But yeah, I just
• 1:19:10
  want to ask that. I don't know. They kind of have to be
• 1:19:12
  on the same playing field. But the thing is, Dirk didn't have a
• 1:19:14
  Kyrie irving next to him. I don't know, I don't know. That's
• 1:19:17
  just yeah, I feel like that's a fair statement. Uh huh, it
• 1:19:23
  is you. It would be hard not to argue against it. It would
• 1:19:29
  because Luca. I think Luca needs a little bit more. I just think
• 1:19:33
  Luca they played in different eras. I'm pretty sure Dirk, if he played
• 1:19:39
  in today's NBA it would suit his game a thousand times more. Yeah,
• 1:19:45
  but but again, you you can't do the hypotheticals. It's just no,
• 1:19:48
  you can't. You can't. But I don't know. It'd be close,
• 1:19:53
  it'd be super It'd be an argument. There'd be an argument to be made.
• 1:19:56
  It would be close, all right. Who's number two for you?
• 1:20:00
  Number two for me is gonna be Lebron James because he one's another ring.
• 1:20:02
  He solidified himself as the NBA's greatest basketball player to ever live on the face
• 1:20:06
  of the planet, in the history of the world, in the universe basketball
• 1:20:10
  player. I don't just I don't disagree with you at all. Being to
• 1:20:16
  explain anymore, why Lebron winning another championship would would put him Man, Jordan
• 1:20:24
  fans would be going crazy. Man, it would be the end of the
• 1:20:26
  world for him. No, but that that doesn't need that doesn't need much
• 1:20:32
  explanation. It's Lebron. He's already one of the goats. He would be.
• 1:20:38
  I think he's clear cut. I think he is to goat. But
• 1:20:41
  he would be the goat. Yeah. There would be no arguments, all
• 1:20:45
  right, So I'm gonna get into them. From an especially from an eighth
• 1:20:48
  seed, from an eighth from a seventh or eighth seed, Yeah, and
• 1:20:54
  beating the finally beating the Nuggets, then going through who would it be the
• 1:20:58
  Sons or Timberwolves, and potentially the toughest Western Conference of all time if he
• 1:21:03
  were to you would yeah, it will be one of the hardest roads to
• 1:21:06
  a championship ever. It would be. But all right, number one for
• 1:21:14
  me, Number one for me as far as the player with the most to
• 1:21:19
  gain from winning the championship, exactly, Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum would would
• 1:21:29
  have the most to gain from winning the championship. And the reason why I
• 1:21:32
  say this is because Jason Tatum, he has the mold of a superstar he
• 1:21:40
  he has. He has the ability to become a top three player in the
• 1:21:44
  league, one of the best players in the league. He hasn't proved that
• 1:21:46
  yet. He's been damn close plenty of times. He's been to the Eastern
• 1:21:51
  Conference Championship four or five times. And if he gets over the hump this
• 1:21:56
  year with being one of the most dominant regular season teams of all time,
• 1:22:02
  it's facts the third best net rating and NBA history. You do that throughout
• 1:22:08
  the regular season and you go on to win a championship, you would have
• 1:22:12
  to be regarded as a superstar player. And why it's the most of the
• 1:22:15
  game is because everybody they they hate on Jason Tatum. Let's be real.
• 1:22:21
  The only reason why the Celtics they're not viewed as high, or they're not
• 1:22:27
  championship favorite, or they are a Vegas wise, but by the consensus by
• 1:22:31
  the public, everybody thinks Denver's gonna win it. If Jason Tatum wins this
• 1:22:36
  championship, it's gonna be hard not to see the Celtics win another two to
• 1:22:42
  three championships in his career. And also, he would be better than Paul
• 1:22:46
  Pierce. So I'm just saying that I'm gonna Bleacher Report right now and it
• 1:22:57
  says Paul Pierce he's a sixth best Celtics of Celtic of all time. All
• 1:23:01
  right, just doing Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Kevin mckel Would you have
• 1:23:13
  halcheck up there? Yeah, Bob Coosey. I mean, they've only won
• 1:23:24
  what three championships in the last forty years, so it have to be like
• 1:23:28
  they have to be up there. I mean you have to put the guys
• 1:23:30
  and the old guys in there. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
• 1:23:34
  That's true. Okay, we'll go on, keep going on. Number Number
• 1:23:42
  one for me is Giannis and Tosa Kumbo. He's gonna be the number one
• 1:23:48
  player for me of winning a championship. And I'm only gonna say this because
• 1:23:55
  he's a multiple, multiple time MVP. He has a championship. But I
• 1:23:59
  think a lot of the stuff that it does for Jo Kisch why I talked
• 1:24:01
  myself into probably I should put Yokich a lot higher. For gaming, it's
• 1:24:05
  the same thing it would be for Giannis on the exact same for the exact
• 1:24:11
  same reasons that it would elevate them to a different standard of basketball and Top
• 1:24:15
  ten arguments all the way around. I do think for Ay, honest,
• 1:24:18
  especially because how young he is still he is not an old player, honest,
• 1:24:23
  is still not an old player. He's like twenty seven, I believe,
• 1:24:26
  twenty seven twenty eight years old now, so he still has a lot
• 1:24:29
  of basketball left to be played, and winning another championship would probably propel him
• 1:24:33
  back to being probably the best player in basketball, and he would be arguably
• 1:24:41
  one of the greatest defenders of all time and greatest players of all time if
• 1:24:44
  he were to win another ring. Yeah, it's hard to disagree with that.
• 1:24:48
  And he was argued after his championship against the Suns he was already kind
• 1:24:55
  of up there as far as top ten conversations. He was, thank you,
• 1:25:00
  him and Jokic, they're on the same level. It's whoever wins first.
• 1:25:04
  I'm not gonna lie whoever wins the next championship first, They're gonna get
• 1:25:09
  that none because what helps is that they they played in the same era and
• 1:25:14
  they could potentially be in a finals matchup against each other. But let's go
• 1:25:19
  it, and let's go it and relist our top ten. So number ten,
• 1:25:23
  I have Jimmy Butler, nine, Rudy Gobert eight, Jalen Brunson seven,
• 1:25:28
  James Harden six, Doc Rivers five, Kevin Durant four, Joel Embiid
• 1:25:32
  three, Damian Lillard two, Luka Doncic and one Jason Tatum okay for me
• 1:25:41
  ten, Mark Dognall number nine, Nikola Jokic number eight, Stephen Curry number
• 1:25:46
  seven, the Los Angeles Clippers number six, Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown number
• 1:25:53
  five, Tom Thibodeaux number four, Damian Lillard number three, Joel Embiid number
• 1:25:59
  two, bron number one. Be honest. Mm hmm. All right,
• 1:26:02
  well, there're different players on the list, but they all have damn good
• 1:26:06
  cases. But let's go. Let's go to move into this fantasy draft right
• 1:26:12
  here. Josh, So you got to cook you a game. Could don't
• 1:26:15
  lie, don't lie, don't lie. I'm kind of I'm kind of whooping
• 1:26:18
  your ass right now when it comes to fantasy drafts. No, the last
• 1:26:23
  one I won easily, easily. Last one it was the College n c
• 1:26:29
  A CHA n C Double A Championship. I won that one easily. Bro.
• 1:26:32
  No, you didn't know, you didn't. I have the teams right
• 1:26:36
  here. Let me go see I can find it. Bro, I have
• 1:26:39
  the teams too. Yeah, I got receipts too. I got receipts to
• 1:26:45
  Brunson, Mellow, Horford, A D. James Worthy, Michel Bridges,
• 1:26:51
  bro Magic, Magic, h Hill, injured m there's a mask nickname Thomas
• 1:27:02
  Bill, Russell, Kimball Walker, Shan Bay, Shane Batty, and Patrick
• 1:27:06
  Ewing. And my coach is John Wooden. I think I'm winning that basketball
• 1:27:11
  game. Bro. No you're not, Bro, No you're not. But
• 1:27:13
  the other one, you don't see the other one before that one? Who
• 1:27:15
  won that one? We're not gonna talk about that one. Yeah, exactly
• 1:27:18
  exactly. That will that will fuck me over. That will fuck me over.
• 1:27:24
  It did, it did? But all right, So the criteria for
• 1:27:29
  this fantasy draft is playing teams only, so it includes the Pelicans, Lakers,
• 1:27:35
  Warriors, Kings, Heat, Sixers, Hawks, and Wolves roster.
• 1:27:42
  So, Josh, are they all fully healthy? That's my question? Yes,
• 1:27:45
  they're all fully healthy? Okay, Okay, So Josh, it's it's
• 1:27:55
  your call, heads or tails here, and is this based off this year
• 1:27:58
  or career base based off of Okay, we'll do it like this. How
• 1:28:03
  they're playing right now, how they're playing right now? Okay, that'll it'll
• 1:28:09
  be easier. Yeah, okay, So Josh heads Er tells for you,
• 1:28:14
  uh tails, give me the boogie, Hey, sirih flip a coin.
• 1:28:21
  It's tells. So you get the first give me Joel embiids. That was
• 1:28:30
  I feel like that was simple there. I would have went the other way
• 1:28:35
  if we were doing careers, obviously. But yeah, So for my point
• 1:28:43
  guard right here, I'm gonna have to go with the man, the myth,
• 1:28:49
  the legend, the goat, Lebron James at my point. Le Bron,
• 1:28:58
  all right, I'm about this whole thing up at my four. Give
• 1:29:00
  me Anthony Davis. You just let me get Lebron and Steph Curry on the
• 1:29:05
  same team. That's all right. No one's scoring on the interior. Nah,
• 1:29:14
  that that's that's true. You put a d Yeah, you're putting Curry
• 1:29:20
  at the two, Yeah, because I put Lebron at the one. Yeah.
• 1:29:25
  He can. He's a good off ball player. Yeah, okay,
• 1:29:29
  all right, all right, now we started draft. Now we started draft.
• 1:29:33
  Okay, Josh, who's your next pick here? All right? Crap,
• 1:29:41
  this is where strack comes in. This is where strack comes in.
• 1:29:45
  It's all about strategy. It's a tough choice. I'm trying to good players.
• 1:29:54
  There's there's a lot of good players. Yeah, there definitely is.
• 1:30:00
  You know what, I can wait on point guard. There's a lot of
• 1:30:01
  good point guards. Lift mm hmm. At my three, give me Jimmy
• 1:30:06
  Butler. That that's a damn good pick. So I'm gonna kind of do
• 1:30:13
  this out of need. Wise, it may be somewhat of a reach.
• 1:30:19
  Give me give me Bam at my four. That's where I expected you to
• 1:30:25
  go, honestly, Yeah, because I couldn't afford for you to put Bam
• 1:30:30
  on your bench, and I'm fucked. Yeah, you would have had no
• 1:30:34
  height or he's not even that tall, but you would have had a good
• 1:30:39
  a great defender, yeah, a good interior defender. Yeah. Mm hmm.
• 1:30:47
  Oh wait, can I change it? I can I move Bam to
• 1:30:49
  my five? Yeah, I don't know why I put him at my four.
• 1:30:57
  Okay, this is a little tougher, a little tough for I think
• 1:31:10
  I already know where I'm going with my next pick. Give me Austin Reeves
• 1:31:16
  as my two as your two. Yeah, okay, need some shoes,
• 1:31:25
  so this is just gonna be a defensive move right here. Give me Draymond
• 1:31:30
  Green at my four. That's a good move. That's a good move because
• 1:31:35
  because he could actually guard a D, he could actually guard him. So
• 1:31:41
  yeah, I got that covered for the most part. Crap, Do I
• 1:31:45
  go Baron or Dijone? That is a tough choice because Dejonte facilitator, rebounder,
• 1:31:57
  defender for suret or because I need he All he has to do is
• 1:32:00
  get the ball to a D and Joel Embiid. Yeah, Trey Young doesn't
• 1:32:05
  defend. That's why I'm not going Trey Young. But the Aaron Fox facilitates
• 1:32:11
  and plays offense, but his defense isn't as strong as de Jonte's. Yeah,
• 1:32:15
  his offensive ceilings way higher than Dejonte's though. Yeah, But defensively that's
• 1:32:23
  where Jontay he has an edge. That's a tough choice. Crap, crap,
• 1:32:31
  crap, crap, tough choice. Tough choice, oh man, that
• 1:32:41
  could make or break a team right there. Your decision, Your decision.
• 1:32:46
  Give me Daron Fox. Okay, so I'm gonna take this guy just on
• 1:32:55
  purpose. Give me Tyree Smacksy as my six man. Nice, Okay,
• 1:33:06
  Now give me de Jonty has my six man just in case I want to
• 1:33:10
  sub him. Out. So give me Zion right here as my three.
• 1:33:15
  That's damn that's a I don't know about three. Well, he would have
• 1:33:20
  to go there. Yeah, all right, since I have Fox, give
• 1:33:28
  me some bonus. That was my next pick. Damn it. All right,
• 1:33:36
  so I got three, Well, Draymond, he's a ball handler.
• 1:33:40
  Two. Now I need Now, I need a shooter. I need somebody
• 1:33:45
  that could shoot. We can go ten. Let's go ten players. Let's
• 1:33:50
  make it interesting. Okay, Yeah, I'm good with that. The more
• 1:33:55
  that I was looking at, I was like, okay, there's definitely more
• 1:33:57
  than enough for ten. You know what, I'm gonna just take this player
• 1:34:01
  because I feel like he has too much talent here. Give me, give
• 1:34:05
  me deebo or DeMar DeRozan. But that's your seventh player, right, yeah,
• 1:34:13
  that's my seventh. Yeah, okay, all right, eight eight,
• 1:34:17
  eight. You know big man that can do kind of everything. Give me
• 1:34:28
  a Nikola. That's a nice Pickoch is nice, bro, he's underrate.
• 1:34:41
  I think I'm the big man. Now I'm gonna get somebody who's a three
• 1:34:45
  and D player. Give me Herb Jones. That's a good pick man.
• 1:35:02
  This is tough. This is tough, right, here. I didn't think
• 1:35:06
  I was gonna go with Kobe White. I was gonna go with Kobe White.
• 1:35:10
  But I can just go with the better Kobe White and take Trey On
• 1:35:13
  right here. Mm hmmm. I'm surprised he kind of fell this late.
• 1:35:19
  Oh now, I have many options at point guard. So okay, so
• 1:35:31
  I'm gonna have to take I'm gonna have to take Brandon Ingram here. Yeah,
• 1:35:36
  I was I wanted to the whole time. Yeah, but we're going
• 1:35:41
  based off this year, so I just like, hmm, I was like,
• 1:35:45
  mm hm, I get that al right, my last pick based off
• 1:35:57
  this year. You know what, give me Jima Yaks Junior. Okay,
• 1:36:10
  so I definitely take a well, no, not really right there. My
• 1:36:15
  team has size because le bronze eye on Draymond Bam half perimeter defense. I
• 1:36:25
  think I'm gonna get another three point shooter here. I'm I'm kind of thinking
• 1:36:33
  Clay. But you know what, I'm gonna go a little bit biased here.
• 1:36:38
  Give me Kobe White here from my last spot. Nice since he's been
• 1:36:43
  knocking the three down this year. And all right, coach, who's your
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  coach? Oh my coach? Do you occur? Okay? So give me
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  our exposure. Then yep, that's good. All right. So you could
• 1:37:02
  go and list your team first here, UHD Aaron Fox, Austin Reeves,
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  Jimmy Butler, Anthony Davis, Joel embiid De John Sat, Murray Demonta,
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  Bonis Nikovich, Trey Young and nheim ma Yakis Junior. And my coach is
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  Steve Kerr. So my team it's Lebron out the one, steph at the
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  two, Zion three, the four, Draymond five is bam My bench,
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  Tyrese Maxi, Deebo, Herb Jones, Brandon Ingram and Kobe White and then
• 1:37:38
  coach is Eric Spolsure here. So I'm not gonna lie you have As far
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  as the sinners, you definitely do have the that. But as far as
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  wing wing players, I think I definitely have that right there because you have
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  guards and sinners other than Jimmy Butler, who's the That's what you means,
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  I have the bonus who can play the four. But yeah, that's true,
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  but he's more known as a five. You know what I mean?
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  You got the centizen cards, I got all the wing defenders or wing players.
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  I don't know where this game is going. Yeah, this game could
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  go anywhere. I'm living people this time. Yeah, yeah, I don't
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  know. Again, Lebron and steph Ale and beat on this same team is
• 1:38:31
  kind of scary. Nah, they getting hurt. I just need one game
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  now. But all right, so our second or you know what, let's
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  go and do our so called MVPs before we do this, before we do
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  the last one. So so called MVPs of the week. We do it
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  every single week, but this week we kind of have a little bit of
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  a twist to it. So we're gonna have the so called MVP of the
• 1:39:02
  season. And it's not gonna be Jokide Luca say, it's gonna be somebody
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  that just stood out throughout the year that it wasn't look looked upon among most
• 1:39:13
  people. So, Josh, who's your so called m VP Victor? I'm
• 1:39:17
  just kidding. I'm just kidding. I thought you're gonna do it for real?
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  This is tough. I didn't think too much of it. I forgot
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  we were doing this. Uh, you know what, do it? We've
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  mentioned them these past few episodes like crazy, I think it's I'm gonna go
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  with mister Brunton here. I think Jalen Brunston is giving my so called MVP
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  of the Year. That's what I'm gonna give it to because I think it's
• 1:39:51
  much deserved. He's not gonna win real life m VP. So I'm gonna
• 1:39:55
  give Jaalien, mister Jalen Brunton my so called m v P. So I'm
• 1:40:00
  staying in the Eastern Conference here, but I'm gonna go with a team that
• 1:40:04
  definitely nobody expected. I'm picking Paulo ban Carrol here for my so called MVP
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  of the year, second second year in the league. Nobody expected the Magic
• 1:40:15
  to make this jump now that now they're the five seed, one of the
• 1:40:17
  best defenses in the league, and he's looking like one of the best young
• 1:40:20
  stars. So he's my so called MVP of the Year. But all right,
• 1:40:27
  last topic is my rankings. Josh. We need to redeem ourselves from
• 1:40:30
  last week we had we we had a bad one, so it's it's time
• 1:40:36
  to It's time to redeem ourselves. So all right, first, we're gonna
• 1:40:41
  start off with desjon Tey Murray f Yeah, I like four here, Shaye
• 1:40:48
  gilgis Alexander. This has to be I feel like two. Okay, we
• 1:40:53
  can go. Yeah, we might get or a step for a Okay,
• 1:40:59
  k is is she better than Steph this year? We're doing this year?
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  Yeah? Yeah? Is he better this year? I think he? He
• 1:41:13
  has to be better than well, Okay, so should we stay at two?
• 1:41:17
  Yeah? Okay, I'm not mad if we get Steph at one?
• 1:41:24
  Okay, perfect, Luka doncic easily one? Okay, okay, he worked
• 1:41:28
  out three and five. We need a three and five? Tyler Hero,
• 1:41:32
  this has to be a five, right, five? Five? Five?
• 1:41:35
  Come on? Last one? Not better than Pascal Siako? I like that.
• 1:41:41
  I like, I don't think I was better than Dijonte, But that's
• 1:41:45
  a pretty good list there, arguable de Jonte Tyler Herro. That was.
• 1:41:53
  I think Pascal is the most random player, Like he's an AI generated player,
• 1:41:57
  Like I don't like he's not he's not a real player. He's not
• 1:42:00
  a real person. He's just there. Yo. Oh okay, next one,
• 1:42:08
  James Harden is this three or four? Three? Can't be five?
• 1:42:14
  Okay? Three? Three? Put him in the middle, okay, Kawhi
• 1:42:19
  Leonard, Oh, we have to put him to We have to. Yeah,
• 1:42:28
  crap, this one's kind of feels like you can go this shit,
• 1:42:30
  Zach Levine. We could put him at five. He hasn't played majority of
• 1:42:33
  the season. Yep, I mean we could have argued Kawhi hasn't played a
• 1:42:39
  majority of the season. Two. No, Kawhi has played about sixty sixty
• 1:42:43
  something, Okay, Tyler Herro one right, four kidding, and number one
• 1:42:49
  is Austin Reeves. Damn, damn damn. I'd argue who's better than all
• 1:42:54
  of them? This year? I would argue that we had Eves, Austin
• 1:43:00
  Reeves, Kawhi, James Harden, Titdler, hero Zach Levine. All right,
• 1:43:03
  we'll do a couple more, all right, This next one Joel EMBIID
• 1:43:10
  two one, two, let's go to how he's been injured. Yeah,
• 1:43:15
  Jaron Jackson Jr. Three or five. I haven't heard crap about Jaron Jackson
• 1:43:20
  Jr. This year? Okay, five? Deanslow Russell. I feel like
• 1:43:26
  this has to be three oh four. I think, okay, we could
• 1:43:30
  keep him at four because yeah, there's a big gap between him and Joel.
• 1:43:33
  Yeah, okay, Kyle Kuzma, he has to go three. She
• 1:43:41
  has is better than him this year, Darren Fox, damn, we should
• 1:43:46
  have had Joel at one. Damn. Yeah, Okay, last one.
• 1:43:51
  We gotta we gotta make this count. Chris, Chris stops porzingis. I
• 1:43:59
  don't know. I'm feeling like there's gonna be a bunch of heat on this
• 1:44:01
  one. I'm thinking of three or four first, top four. Four,
• 1:44:10
  Okay, hopefully that Drew Holiday three. You think Drew Holidays, it's just
• 1:44:20
  having Drew five. Yeah, we could put him at five. We could
• 1:44:25
  put him at five, justin Paul George, is that a two? I
• 1:44:32
  have the top three open, we have the top so three. We're depending
• 1:44:36
  on a lot here. Hey, okay, you're go home, baby.
• 1:44:41
  Trust Paul George at three. If it's Kelly you Brad, he's won.
• 1:44:47
  Chat Holmgren. I'd argue he was better at some points this year than no
• 1:44:58
  Ship number two. You're over two first of Paul George or Paul Pierce,
• 1:45:03
  and now the chet Holmgren statement. So we'll put him at two. It
• 1:45:08
  was it was the me defending the thunder today coming to my mind, no
• 1:45:12
  for real, then the one, Then the one is Pascal Siakam. Okay,
• 1:45:16
  that was like a dog ship. Last one. Okay, we can't.
• 1:45:19
  We can't go out like that. We've had one good this this that
• 1:45:26
  okay, Kevin Durant two, right too, Okay, Lawry Markinen, I'm
• 1:45:33
  filling the floor for real. He had a good season, he did.
• 1:45:39
  But four we can go for. Okay, didn't he make the All Star
• 1:45:45
  Game? I don't let me check. I thought that's kind of the m
• 1:46:00
  hmm. Yeah, see he wasn't selected to the All Star Game this year?
• 1:46:03
  Okay for fine Forest Fine four? Anthony Edwards, Oh that number two?
• 1:46:14
  Yeah, we could argue both one and three here. Put them smack
• 1:46:17
  dab in the middle. Put them smack dab in the middle, right there,
• 1:46:21
  Christops pors Christops five, Yep, easily. Okay, we're just hoping.
• 1:46:30
  We're hoping for damn it. Austin Reeves. He might be he might
• 1:46:36
  be better. He might be better than I think he's better than Kevin Durraight.
• 1:46:43
  Hey, facts are facts. You can't argue with. The blind Ring
• 1:46:45
  is his nickname? AR fifteen? I don't think so. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:46:48
  The sniper or you want a sniper or an ar Which one do you
• 1:46:53
  want? I think I'm thinking I'm choosing the ar here. I'm picking the
• 1:46:57
  colonizer every single time. That's what I'm doing. Let's go edit in this
• 1:47:03
  episode. Josh, Yeah, let's go. Let's go editit this episode.
• 1:47:10
  Josh, do you have anything else you want to say before we wrap this
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  up? No, I don't. Y'all be blessed, have a good week.
• 1:47:30
  We'll see y'all again, or y'all on third Friday, Friday, or
• 1:47:36
  it would be Friday or Saturday after the plan. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:47:40
  okay, yeah, yeah, two episodes this week is coming out,
• 1:47:44
  so definitely more playoffs in Yeah, exactly. But before we get out of
• 1:47:50
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