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- Malcolm: think that. now, I think I do think that there should for sure be a minimum game threshold for awards and end season awards. I think that it's just like I was telling you before, like it's just hard to pick a number that's going to make everybody happy. ⁓ Just because there are so many it's like, like, how do you determine what's enough? Right? Like, how do you determine what's enough? Like, obviously, NBA, it's a professional sports league, physically demanding, best athletes in the world. 65 games. So I think it's a good number. I think it's just kind of like random, though. Thomas: Mm-hmm. Malcolm: But I think people only are making such a big deal because their favorite players get hurt or don't finish out the season. it's like, feel like I personally would guess I would say 70, 75 % of the season is a good threshold for being eligible because I think you can't let a guy that played 40, 50 games, miss 30, getting the same awards as the dude that played all 80. This is backwards to me. But I think that that kind of like threshold, I think that It's going to be hard to pick whatever number they pick, whatever number Silver and the rest of the team picks or the executive, whoever, whoever picks, it's going to be hard to make everybody happy because everybody's going to have a complaint somewhere. You can move it down to 60. Somebody's favorite player is going to get hurt at 59. There's going to be a complaint. You can move it up to 70. People won't complain anymore. So it's like there has to be a threshold. But I think there should maybe be criteria. for certain things. feel like if a dude, like a guy like a Wimby or an Ant, right, you know for sure they're all going to be a first, second team. Unless they get hurt, they play 63, 64 games. Maybe. I think there should be exceptions for dudes who are like a sure fire lock in this, within like a margin of games that they played. Like I'm not saying like you can't give it to Wimby if you only play like 40 games. If you're like within like five games, like 60, 61, 62, 64, like whatever. Maybe there should be some type of exception criteria, but I mean, outside of that, mean, I don't know how people are really getting mad at there being like a requirement when you showing up to work. it's, I get his basketball and you're a millionaire, but still your job, bro. You feel me? So yeah, that's, just, I guess my own ⁓ take on. Thomas: Mm. Yeah, I mean, I don't know the work thing. It's like if I showed up to work 80 % of the time, would I still get paid as if I'm showing up 100 % of the time? I don't know. But I do agree that it is. think it should be kind of, it's hard to say situational, but like, for example, right? If it's an individual award, that is a little bit more challenge. Like MVP, like if someone's clearly a front runner for MVP, They play 50 games, 60 games, get hurt. out for the rest of the season. But there's like a very close second. I feel like the rules should be enforced there. Granted, this is just me as a fan, ⁓ just saying like it should be enforced there because that player could have had a drop off and the second player could have kept going or they could have just kept dominating. So either way, it's hard to know. It's like what ifs. ⁓ But for team awards, I do agree. Let's say somebody's balling all season. Malcolm: Mm-hmm. Thomas: They have a season end injury at 60 games and they've played all 60. They've been going crazy. Not giving them the team award because of something like that when they're clearly top five. That's like, I don't know, because then if I'm the guy who gets moved up because the other guy got hurt, it's almost like, you know, didn't like deserve. Like I'm not trying to discredit them. It's just like, I would feel the top of ways. Like let's say if this is 2012 and Malcolm: Yeah. Thomas: Braun gets hurt and this rule is applied and he's supposed to be first thing on the second team. I'm gonna be like, I'm not better than Braun. You know what I mean? it's like, but I don't know. All of that is just kind of subjective. Malcolm: You Yeah, yeah, nah, I feel it, bro. People always gonna complain, bro. A product is never good enough for people, so it's always gonna be complaints. You just gotta set it at a number and forget it.