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A Way Too Early NBA League Pass Ranking · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: All right, it might be pretty early for this video.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to do a league pass ranking. All right,
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  Speaker 1: ranking NBA teams based on watchability, the first version. I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably going to do this again right before tip-off of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA season. I'll probably do it a couple months
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  Speaker 1: into the year. I'll probably do it halfway through the
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  Speaker 1: season because this is always evolving, right? This is how
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  Speaker 1: excited I am to watch all 30 NBA teams for
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  Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Reminder that it is, again, evolving, and
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  Speaker 1: it is subjective. I may value something in an NBA
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  Speaker 1: team that you don't care about, or I might not
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  Speaker 1: care about something you value. Let me know in the
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  Speaker 1: comment section what you agree or disagree with. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly what I would see. if I got
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  Speaker 1: these tickets. Then I can see some good baseball. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe not good baseball, I don't really know what the
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  Speaker 1: Astros or the Giants are doing nowadays. But I could
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  Speaker 1: purchase of tickets. So, I broke it down to five
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  Speaker 1: different categories. I got the first category is two words,
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  Speaker 1: must see TV. Second category is love it. Second category
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  Speaker 1: is pretty fun. The fourth category is I'm intrigued. And
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  Speaker 1: the fifth category is I'm not going to lie. And
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  Speaker 1: usually those I'm not going to lie teams are ones
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  Speaker 1: that like, I'm going to say this right over. I
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  Speaker 1: have some level of interest in all 30 teams before
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  Speaker 1: the season starts. The I'm not going to lie tier
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  Speaker 1: is for the teams that I may watch a lot
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  Speaker 1: of for the first couple weeks of the season just
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  Speaker 1: to get a feel for. But by February, I might
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  Speaker 1: not be watching their games every single night. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the first tier and the two words must see TV.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the teams that I'm trying my very best.
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  Speaker 1: And I know it's impossible, but I'm trying my very
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  Speaker 1: best to watch every single time they sued up. You
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  Speaker 1: feel me? And everything in between is in between. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go in the alphabetical order that I
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  Speaker 1: see right in front of me, starting off with the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks. The Atlanta Hawks had a really good second
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  Speaker 1: half of the season. They basically gave the Knicks their
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  Speaker 1: most interesting playoff series in the Knicks run to the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals. And then they added some pieces. They added
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  Speaker 1: in Luke Doerr. They added in Aaron Wiggins. I think
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  Speaker 1: this is a... I'm going to put them in the
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  Speaker 1: pretty fun tier. They got a brand of basketball that
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy, but maybe not enough to put them in
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  Speaker 1: the first two tiers. The Boston Celtics, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: put into... Oops. I'm going to put the Boston Celtics
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  Speaker 1: into the love it tier. I think that I am
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  Speaker 1: just so intrigued by what's going to happen with... Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have a whole category from I'm intrigued. But you
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  Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. We're like... I've said this before,
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  Speaker 1: but one of my least favorite timelines... My least favorite
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  Speaker 1: outcomes of the season is that, you know, Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 1: is gone and they replaced him with Paul George. And
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  Speaker 1: now it's Tatum's turn to do basically what Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 1: did when Jalen Brown led them to a 53 wins
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  Speaker 1: last season. My least favorite timeline is that that Celtics
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  Speaker 1: team for the season is significantly worse than what the
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown team was. Because I've been a Jason Tatum
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  Speaker 1: backer and supporter for a very long time. And I
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  Speaker 1: kind of hate some of the conversations and narratives that
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  Speaker 1: be around Jason Tatum. So I want to see him
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  Speaker 1: and the team look successful. But boy, would it hurt
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  Speaker 1: my heart and my feelings if they aren't as good
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  Speaker 1: next season. But I do also like Jalen Brown. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to put the Brooklyn Nets into the I'm intrigued thing.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Brown, I really like him as a prospect. The
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  Speaker 1: way Yeager, Droman, Yeager, Demick. was playing in his summer league,
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  Speaker 1: made me interested. They traded for Julius Randle. And now
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  Speaker 1: that we're in a world where no team is actively tanking,
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  Speaker 1: I think a team like the Brooklyn Nets, who had
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  Speaker 1: been bad on purpose last season, automatically adds some extra
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  Speaker 1: charm to the team. I don't think it's an awful,
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  Speaker 1: awful roster. I don't think it's a good roster either.
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  Speaker 1: But they got some very interesting stuff. I was at
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  Speaker 1: an open run and got to see Danny Wolfe play,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked pretty solid, at least in this open run.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows how much that'll translate to the NBA season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also recognizing I got a lot of ads for
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  Speaker 1: some airfare. Can I do this differently? Nah, this don't work.
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  Speaker 1: Or maybe it does. Yeah, it does. All right, cool.
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  Speaker 1: Now those ads are gone. If you want to add them,
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  Speaker 1: you got to pay me like Sigi just did. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so now we go to the Charlotte Hornets. Yo, before
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  Speaker 1: they pull off the LaMelo trade and then also, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: the Miles Bridges trade, that team was a two words
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  Speaker 1: must-see TV team. But they've fallen down a little bit, man.
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  Speaker 1: They were one of my favorite teams. I think they
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  Speaker 1: were literally my favorite team to watch the second half
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  Speaker 1: of the season last year. They played a fun brand
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  Speaker 1: of basketball. Everybody was eating. The defense was good. Moose
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  Speaker 1: was getting all the offensive rebounds. LaMelo had them going.
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  Speaker 1: Khan was looking like a great rookie until he hit
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  Speaker 1: his little wall later in the season. But without LaMelo,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm just a little bit less intrigued with them.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to put them in the pretty fun tier.
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  Speaker 1: They did add, I'm sorry, retain Kobe White, who's one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite players in the league, which I like.
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  Speaker 1: I like Nas Reed's fit over there. Like I don't, again,
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  Speaker 1: in a vacuum, I don't love the lamello ball trade,
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  Speaker 1: but I think the team still could be decent. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: I think they lost some of their fun factor about
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  Speaker 1: not having a lamello. It's lamello ball. Say what you
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  Speaker 1: want about lamello, his crazy ass penthouse in Charlotte, or
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  Speaker 1: the man shouldn't be on the streets driving. He's super
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch basketball, play basketball. So let me get
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  Speaker 1: my first two, uh, two words must see TV team
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  Speaker 1: out of the way. This is of course, a hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: My bias used, um, I'm going to try my very
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  Speaker 1: best to watch all 82 games like I do every
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  Speaker 1: single season. But I think this is the most I've
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  Speaker 1: been excited for individual season, even though my newly acquired
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  Speaker 1: shooting guard came out and said, we have the potential
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  Speaker 1: to be really good, but we also have the potential
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  Speaker 1: to be really bad, which is like, it's real. You
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean? So like for me, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: there regardless. But for you, oh, the ads are back.
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  Speaker 1: But for you who have no attachment to the Chicago Bulls,
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  Speaker 1: I could see most people probably having the Bulls in
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  Speaker 1: this tier or this tier. Because I think that Kayla
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  Speaker 1: Wilson is going to bring hella highlights with, like, Josh
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  Speaker 1: Giddey running the break. But the average fan will probably
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  Speaker 1: have him over here. But for me, two words, must
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  Speaker 1: see TV. Next up with the Cleveland Cavaliers and to
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  Speaker 1: the love it. I know some people are probably bored
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  Speaker 1: with the way the Cavs have played over the last
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  Speaker 1: couple seasons. I still look at them as a really
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  Speaker 1: good and fun regular season team. Just waiting for James
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  Speaker 1: Harden to get that contract to stay. Then we get
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks, a team I haven't thought about too much.
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  Speaker 1: I actually really like the Mavericks offseason from trading for
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  Speaker 1: Santi Aldama, Zachary Rich, I say. Of course, Cooper Flagg
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  Speaker 1: in year two. Ooh. This, I'm teetering between love it
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  Speaker 1: and pretty fun. That's where I met with this Dallas Mavericks.
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  Speaker 1: Cary Irvin back? I got to go love it. I
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  Speaker 1: just remember Cary Irvin to be back. Ooh, Cary Irvin back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets. I'm going to put them back
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  Speaker 1: in the two words must-see TV. Recognize that maybe the
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  Speaker 1: last season was the season that they wanted, but New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers by himself was enough. You add in Jamal Murray's
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  Speaker 1: coming off the all-star appearance. I just went on numbers
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  Speaker 1: on the board and said, there's no way Christian Brown
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  Speaker 1: doesn't bounce back, right? Nobody on the panel agreed with me,
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  Speaker 1: but I think there's a chance Christian Brown is better
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  Speaker 1: this season. And they just find a way to play
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  Speaker 1: really fun games at the end of the day. Like
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about an 82 game regular season, I
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  Speaker 1: think having one of the best players in the world,
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  Speaker 1: if not the best player in the world, automatically bumps
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  Speaker 1: your score up because you never know if he's going
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  Speaker 1: to have a 20, 20, 18 game or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: a 30, 15 and 12 game. And those types of
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  Speaker 1: things are ridiculous or hit a game winner. or lose
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  Speaker 1: to a Washington Wizards team that had lost 18 in
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  Speaker 1: a row. You never really know what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get with the Denver Nuggets. Detroit Pistons, I think they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in my pretty frontier. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: play a brand of basketball that I feel like years
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  Speaker 1: ago would be really prime for who I was as
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  Speaker 1: a viewer of basketball. I still do like them as
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  Speaker 1: a team, don't get me wrong, especially when they bring
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  Speaker 1: back Jalen Durham, whatever the hell that's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe it's not the team itself,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm looking at what their offseason was and thinking
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  Speaker 1: to myself, hmm, That was kind of underwhelming. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm grading them unfairly because of how underwhelming their offseason was.
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. I'm sorry. Listen. Steph Curry, as a machine,
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  Speaker 1: can only do too much as far as my watchability goes.
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  Speaker 1: He is one of the best shows over the last
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  Speaker 1: 18 years in the NBA. No ifs, ands, or buts
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  Speaker 1: about it. But I think I might be grading them
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  Speaker 1: differently just like I graded the Detroit Pistons differently because
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  Speaker 1: I look at their offseason and I say, eww. And
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  Speaker 1: because of that, I'm not really interested in, like, of course,
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested in watching Steph Curry. But, like, who's number two?
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  Speaker 1: Who's your second most exciting player that you're looking to
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  Speaker 1: watch with the Golden State Warriors? Is it Yaxo? You
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  Speaker 1: tell me, like, the drop-off between Curry and player two
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to watchability is ridiculous, especially when Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Butler's going to be out with an injury. So while
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  Speaker 1: they are a better team than what their Brooklyn Nets
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  Speaker 1: team is next to them, when it comes to the watchability,
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  Speaker 1: it's just Curry, bro. It's just Curry, and that's not
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  Speaker 1: enough for me no more. I want to see Curry
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  Speaker 1: have another star next to him. I want him to
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  Speaker 1: have another very watchable player. If Jimmy Butler was here,
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  Speaker 1: that would raise them at least one tier, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: two tiers. But the fact that Jimmy Butler's going to miss,
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  Speaker 1: if not the entire season, but most of the season,
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  Speaker 1: I got to go into mine. I'm intrigued, but I'm like, ah, ah. Houston,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put into, Freddie's going to be back. I think
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  Speaker 1: that changes some things. KD, I'm in Thompson. It's a nice,
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  Speaker 1: fun team. I'll put them. For now, I'm putting them
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  Speaker 1: in pretty fun with the possibility of moving up to
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  Speaker 1: love it by the end of the video. I'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers. I'm going to love it. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's just having a year, basically having a, yeah, truly
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  Speaker 1: a gap year. You know, when I graduated, can I
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  Speaker 1: use the word graduated? When I left college, I told
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  Speaker 1: my family, I'm going to take a gap year. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be back. I'm going to go back to school. I
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  Speaker 1: never went back to school. I never went back to school.
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  Speaker 1: The Pacers just had a gap year. And guess what?
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  Speaker 1: They're going back to school with a, a healthy Halliburton,
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  Speaker 1: a new Zubats as their five guy. And I'm curious
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  Speaker 1: to see how good Halliburton looks coming off a major injury.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what him and Zubats look like
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  Speaker 1: as a two-man game. We're like, when he, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about Halliburton, when Halliburton played with the Kings, he had
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  Speaker 1: like him and Rashawn Holmes had a nice little connection.
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  Speaker 1: But once he ended up in Indiana, he was basically
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  Speaker 1: playing with a popping big. And obviously he's running more
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  Speaker 1: than just picking roles to five men. But like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: curious to see how him and Zubat's gels like there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good intrigue and obviously the team was
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  Speaker 1: really good last time they were healthy and on paper
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  Speaker 1: they look like a better team so I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 1: them in 11 I cannot wait to watch this team
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  Speaker 1: play the Clippers go out of the team no right
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  Speaker 1: we talk we talking about Gray and Brandon Abram right
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  Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by that team I'm intrigued we did our
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  Speaker 1: breakout players for the 2026-2027 season one guy that I
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  Speaker 1: had number one on my list It was Kobe Sanders.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what Kobe Sanders looks like.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see how the NBA physicality impacts
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  Speaker 1: Keaton Wagler in his first NBA season. Rui Hachimoro just
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  Speaker 1: switched to the other arena. But overall, not the most
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  Speaker 1: fun team on paper, so I'm putting him in intrigue.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers are two words must-see TV. You know, Luka Doncic,
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, J.J. Redick at the helm. I just, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Luka is just enough. And his supporting cast,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not the greatest... But, like, I'm trying to compare
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  Speaker 1: what I was saying with the Warriors, right? With the Warriors,
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  Speaker 1: it's just Steph Curry and then a big fall-off. While
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers are a ton of Luka Doncic, the fall-off
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  Speaker 1: between Luka and Austin Reeves when it comes to watchability
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  Speaker 1: is a big one, but it's not that crazy. And
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  Speaker 1: then you do have the question marks about, like, how
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  Speaker 1: will Walker Kessler look after getting paid and getting traded for? Or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who's going to defend anything? Like, I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of my intrigue when it comes to love
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  Speaker 1: it pretty fun or two words, must-see TV, has to
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  Speaker 1: do with, like, the questions I've personally had for these
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  Speaker 1: teams and watching to see if... they can answer those
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  Speaker 1: questions or what the answers to those questions are. Or
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  Speaker 1: if they, some of these, they won't be able to
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  Speaker 1: answer because like there's a world of Lakers defense is trash.
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  Speaker 1: After us asking, how are they going to defend? There's
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  Speaker 1: a world where they figure it out. And I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to see. The Memphis Grizzlies is one of my
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  Speaker 1: most underrated picks here. I cannot wait. I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: I think I said in the video last week, I
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait to watch the Memphis Grizzlies play basketball. And
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  Speaker 1: part of me feels like this is just like off
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  Speaker 1: season thing. When I look at their roster, and I
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  Speaker 1: really like Cam Boozer as a player. I really like
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  Speaker 1: Zach Eady when he's healthy. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players on his roster that I really like. Ty
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  Speaker 1: Jerome and Seti Coward. Like, these are guys that I
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  Speaker 1: really love, and I can't wait to watch them. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing is, I think there is also a world
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  Speaker 1: where we're 30 games into the season, and it don't
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  Speaker 1: look as interesting as I think it will. And then
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  Speaker 1: they go from a team that's really high on my
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  Speaker 1: watchability to a team that's really low. But as of today,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to watch the Memphis Grizzlies play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't. I don't know. That's really hot. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be better than most of the teams
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  Speaker 1: beneath them. I understand. Again, this is not ranking them
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  Speaker 1: based on how good they're going to be. Because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: a good team could be somewhere boring. And sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: bad team or a mediocre team could be really fun.
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  Speaker 1: You feel me? You would think immediately you go to
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  Speaker 1: a two-words must-see TV because Giannis is on a new team.
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  Speaker 1: But I actually feel like I'm more of a love
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  Speaker 1: it for this team. I think I'm more of a
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  Speaker 1: love it for this team. I think it's some fit
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  Speaker 1: issues and stuff like that that they're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to wrinkle out. But I'm definitely seeded. I'm definitely seeded.
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  Speaker 1: But maybe just not the two words one. The Bucs,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. And I feel bad because
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  Speaker 1: now that I look at the rest of these teams,
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  Speaker 1: the Bucs have messed around to be the only team
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not going to lie to you. But the
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  Speaker 1: year after you trade your superstar player is always a
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  Speaker 1: tough one. And I said, I don't think this roster
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  Speaker 1: is as bad as some of the other rosters when
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  Speaker 1: like some of the other superstar players got traded. But
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  Speaker 1: I also don't think it's going to be very good
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  Speaker 1: or very fun. Tyler Hero's talking about the chip that
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  Speaker 1: he's playing with on the shoulder. I love that for him.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope that he goes out there and balls out.
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  Speaker 1: And then now they go from I'm not going to
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: lie to I'm intrigued or pretty fun. But as of today,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: if every team invited me to an open practice right now,
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: I got all 30 NBA teams inviting me to open practice.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: The one that will be dead ass last on my
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: list for attendance would be this thing. And it's nothing
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: against them. Actually, nothing against them at all because last
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: time I was in Milwaukee, they showed me nothing but
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: great love and hospitality. But, like, the roster itself, again,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: it's year one. Now, they do got two lottery picks
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: that they can– I really like Braden Burrys for a
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: while when the Bulls were projected to be the ninth
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: overall team before we jumped up to where we jumped
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: up to. Braden Burrys is the guy that I wanted
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: the Bulls to draft. Obviously, you jump up, you get
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: Caleb Wilson. But, like, I'm excited to see him play.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: But for the most part, I'm not going to lie. Hey,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: two words, must-see TV for the Minnesota Timberwolves. I'm sorry.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: I missed you on Mellow earlier with the Charlotte Hornets.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Whether this is going to equate to a finals appearance
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: or a conference finals appearance or nothing close to that,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: I don't care. Minnesota always detained. That's pretty fun to
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: watch for me. And now they add a lamello ball.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Sign me up. When was the last time Rudy Gobert
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: hit somebody that could throw him the ball? Tell me that.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Tell me that. When was the last time he had
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: a point guard that could dip? And I know he
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: ain't got the greatest of hands, but damn it, he
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: going to score sometime. The Pelicans are a tough team.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: On paper, a lot of interest in talent. Young talent,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Fierce, dear queen. older talent, like a Trey Murphy, Zion,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: and stuff, but obviously it hasn't been able to work.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: You can look at that second half of the season
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: where they were okay. I think they were close to
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: like a 500 team. For the most part, I think
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: it's more of I'm intrigued. If they start playing a
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: little bit better, I could definitely move them up, but
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: New York Knicks have to be two words, must see
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: TV coming off a championship run. Even deeper than that, hypothetically,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: they lost in the finals. I still really enjoy watching
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: that team play, so got to keep it there. Jalen
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Brunson is a absolute stud, and I have some level
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: of admiration for the smaller guards and the fact that, like,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: he was the smallest guard to be a Finals MVP
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: since I don't know who. Gotta love it. Gotta love it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: And the team camaraderie, if that's the right word, has
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: been 10 out of 10, especially doing that run. So, yeah.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I'm also putting OKC. Same thing. Every year, y'all make
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: fun of me because I really like watching OKC basketball
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: and some of y'all look at it as, like, I
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: don't know, petty ball or whatever. I really like watching OKC.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: I think the defense is as real as it gets.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: And they also still have some of their questions. You know,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: how would Chad Holmgren look after what happened to him
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: in the conference finals last season? Who's going to step up?
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Not saying that Aaron Wiggins and Isaiah Joe were super
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: important to, like, the championship runs because a lot of
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: those guys end up losing a lot of their minutes
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: in the postseason. But when you talk about an 82-game
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: regular season, you do need guys that have filled the
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Lou Dort shoes and the Wiggins and the Isaiah Joe shoes.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to matter as much postseason. But, like,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: will you see a Topich? Will you see– I mean,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a lot of Jerry McCain and A.J.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Mitchell for sure. But somebody else also has got to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: soak up some of those minutes. So I'm just excited
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: to see who's going to be. The Orlando Magic. Hmm.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to put Orlando in the pretty fun tier.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to put them in pretty fun tier. They
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: didn't do a ton this offseason. They ended the season
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: pretty solid. Got to the postseason, almost took down a
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: one seed. Ended up blowing that, but whatever. Must-see TV
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: also has to go to the Philadelphia 76ers. Like you say,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: they added LeBron James. They added Jalen Brown. They were
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: also already fun to watch with Vijay and Maxie in
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: the backcourt. And then you get what you get from process.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: And then now, boom, boom, boom, must-see TV. And I
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: do want to say, once you get to the tiers,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: there's no ranking within the tiers. Some of y'all are
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: weird like that. Kenny, how can the Bulls be before
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the 76ers? They're not. They're the same tier. They literally
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: are the same tier. It's not a competition. They are
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the same to me. Suns go pretty fun. They always
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: tell you that the year after the surprise year is
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: tougher than the surprise year. And I do believe that
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: the Suns surprised us last season. They made some trades, right?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Whether I agree with what they gave up for Miles
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Bridges or not, they did make some trades. And Miles
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Bridges is a good ballplayer. Maui Watch should be a
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: real rotational player this year after only playing, what, eight
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: minutes a game last season. And then I picked Rashear
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Fleming as one of the breakout players and just meaning
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that he's going to be a real rotational player this season.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: They also got Colin Gillespie, the guy that I also
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: predicted was going to break out, who actually did break out. So, like,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it's some fun stuff there, but, like, I think that
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: the teams I have above them will be more enjoyable
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: for me to watch. Portland. Ooh. Ooh. I got to
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: go pretty fun for Portland. And the reason they're going
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: pretty fun, there's a couple reasons. I cannot wait to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: see what the backcourt of Damian Lillard and John Murray
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: looks like. That's one. Second is, Scoot Henderson ended the
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: season so good. And I just feel like I can't
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: use the word lost in a shuffle because he's better
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: than most of the people that will be coming off
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: that bench. But, like, you just used a top three
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: pick on Bro like four years ago. And, yes, he's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: been in and out of injury. Started his career with
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: an injury. Started the season with an injury. But he had, what,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a 30 ball in the playoffs with zero assists. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he's playing off the ball. He's playing pretty solid stuff.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I'm curious to see where he ends up landing as
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: far as rotations go. I'm excited to see Michael Norrie
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: with an opportunity to, like, maybe get in a second
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: year on his contract, which is still nuts to me.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: And then, obviously, you got all the drama about the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: new owner and everything. So, like, it's got to be
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: pretty fun. Kings. Kings, you know what? You also going in.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie to you. I think you're
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: also going to, I'm not going to lie to you.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: You got your guy. Darius A. Coven, I hope he
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: ends up being exactly what you need him to be. But, but,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I can't lie to you. Those West Coast games are
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: going to come on, and I'm going to have the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: option to either watch a Warriors game, a Kings game,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a Lakers game, and the Kings are going to be
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the last choice every single one of those times. Unless
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: they're the only West Coast team. So they have to go, no,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie. Next, we're going to have
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: to go back here with all our ads because we
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: have another. Oh, no, no, we don't. No, we don't.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Boom. The Spurs. Two words. Must see TV.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Can you tell that I love watching? I enjoy basketball.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Everybody's must see TV. Toronto Raptors have to go to Lubbock. Assuming,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: assuming Kawhi Leonard is on the team. I just, I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: don't know. Kawhi, Scottie, CMB. Anyway, Utah Jazz has to
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: go to Lubbock tier. I'm intrigued. Oh, did that mean
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I go to here? No, no. I'm going to put
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: him in pretty fun. I'm going to put him in
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: pretty fun. I'm going to put him in pretty fun.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see Jaren Jackson Jr. I think he
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: only played, what, three games with them last season. I'm
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: excited to see what their starting lineup looks like going
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: into the next season and how much you see all
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of the bigs play together from Lowry to Nurk to
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Jaren Jackson Jr. It's time to see which of their
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: young players take a next step, whether it be Ace,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: whether it be Cody, whether it be Isaiah, whether it
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: be another jump from Keontae. I don't know. But they
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: got a lot of intriguing guys there, and they're actually
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: going to try to win basketball games completely next season.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: And then lastly, Washington Wizards. I got to put them
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: in a love-it. I got to put them in a love-it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Train young Anthony Davis. You don't know what you're going
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to get from those guys necessarily. But these young guys
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: just got thrusted up into an opportunity. to play with
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: two guys that are trying to win today, and the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Wizards are trying to win today after they just got A.J. DeBonsa. So, like,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to play a lot of fun games.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: The only reason that I'm thinking about maybe bringing them
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: down is I hate their jerseys. And I do believe
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: you have to have good jerseys to be in this team. But, like,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: their jerseys are pretty bad. Can we agree? Can we agree?
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I think we can agree. Do I feel good about this?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, it feels weird to have the Warriors down here.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: with these teams. So I'll maybe move the Warriors up
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: just out of respect. But I don't feel good about it. Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: it's the first row. Like I said, I'll do it
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: again before the season starts. I think we got 70
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: something more days left before the season starts. I'll do
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it again 20 games to the season, maybe 40 games
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to the season, 60 games to the season. But no,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. I always lock in around this time
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of the year. And I am locked and I can't
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: wait to do more content.