All right, let's get into the Hemi Award. It is Monday. It is time for he is I and I am him, pimped with the tilted brim. I forget how it goes every time. Now I did it once and now I can't do it again. The Hemi Award goes to Jokic. Jokic. We knew it was coming. It probably should be him every week. Jokic is fucking inevitable. Jokic is getting stronger, more powerful, and giving less fucks by the second. He might be the best player of our generation already, and
he's just hitting his prime. I think there's a chance that Jokic, when it's all said and done, is up there in the all time greats debate because of all of the things that he can do simultaneously. How good has Jokic been right now? He's eighth in the NBA in points per game, third in assists per game, and leads the NBA in re bounced per game, averaging twenty nine, thirteen and ten. But that's just stats, that's just words, that's just numbers. That doesn't even give you the full
picture of how absurdly good he has been. Half of the games that he's played. He hasn't even played with his running mate Jal Murray. Keep that in mind. He averages we know how much we like stock stock stocks. He averages two stocks a game, steals in blocks to go with the defensive rating of Remember when we said Yokic couldn't play defense, He fucking sucks at defense. That's his one knock. His defensive rating right now is one
hundred and eight point seven. He heard the noise, he heard the chatter, and he said, you know what, I'll show you even better than his defensive rating last year when he was very, very effective. He is that good, folks. Let me explain Jokic's last game out. He put up. This is six thirty six, fourteen and thirteen in his six point loss to the Kings in the second night of back to back. That was his fifteenth career thirty five point triple double, which passed Wilt Chamberlain for sixth
most in NBA history. If you get your name in any way ahead of Wilt Chamberlain, it is an accomplishment because part of me thinks about Wilt like the Greek folks thought about the pantheon of gods. They do deeds that we mortals can't even comprehend, and I think everybody in the NBA knows it as well. This is what King's coach Mike Brown said about Yokic in his postgame presser after that game. He said, Jokiic is a hell
of a player. We threw the kitchen sink at him and he still had thirty six, fourteen and thirteen with zero turnovers. You have no answer for Jokicic. No one has any answer for Jokis. Jaron Fox said this.
Back to back in MVP four Reason won a championship finals MVP four Reason. You know you're never gonna just stop him with one guy, or you know, a lot of times even with the whole team, he probably won't stop him. So, you know, most people want to try to make him a score, but he still finds ways
to get guys involved. He passes guys open, and you just want to make sure that other guys don't really get it going because when they do, then you know it's it's pretty much pick your poison with that team. So you just want to try to limit, you know, most of his playmaking because he's so big. He scores
on all three levels. You're not going to block a shot, so there's not many things that you can do, you know, when he's really going into you know, at tack moo trying to score, so you just try to limit everybody else.
Oh yeah, he's that good. He I mean, Jokic probably deserves his own award. It's not really even the Hemmy award. It's like the hand me the MVP award right now. I love Steph and I think he deserves it because this team is dog shit around him. But like we stole the MVP from Yokic, we stole it. We collectively said, I'm sorry, you're not good enough as a player in the collective of good players that can win back to back to back MVPs. You've never won a thing in
your fucking life. You're chubby. We don't even think you want it. So we're just gonna give it to MB because he's been literally complaining and bitching him, moaning that he hasn't won, and he's been pretty good too, so it would be a shame for us to give it to you when you've done nothing to deserve it on the winning level. And now he went out and won it, and I wondered to myself, like, did we steal that from him? I think we did. I think Jokic deserves
four in a row. Jokic is winning the MVP again this year. That's how good he is. The past eight days, Jokic went off for thirty two, ten and fourteen, including four offensive boards per game. That is ridiculous. We could probably, like I said, rename it the Jokic Award instead of the Himmi Award. Nicola is a everywhere unlike Thanos. You can't just take his rings. You can't just take this man stones. He's the best player.
In the NBA.
And the sooner we have Kendrick walking it back. We have Kendrick walking it back. Remember, folks, what Kendrick said about Jokic last year. He made it racial, and now he's out here telling the world Jokic is the best player on planet Earth. The sooner we all are Kendrick Perkins, the happier we will all be. That's all the time that we have for this episode. The heat checked come
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