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We had some unfortunate injuries around the league that we'll need to address with NBA writer Jasmine Wimbish on today's episode, I'm Miles Street.
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Jasmine Wimbish, you cover the NBA for CBS Sports.
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Jasmine, thank you so much for coming on the show when we have I think this is just a question I like to ask a lot of NBA journalists where you are as a journalist and as a fan do you keep them separate? Do you try and embrace both? Obviously you're professionals, so you don't let that interfere with your coverage. But are you also because of your coverage of the league, you have transcended.
And you have no team.
I would say that I'm definitely not transcended. That's certainly not.
Not a transcendental NBA cover.
I'm not trying to be two above it.
By boy, those people are all lying to themselves.
Yeah, you feel anything when you watch basketball, then you got to have something.
That's a lie. I grew up a Dallas Mavericks fan. Dereknovitsky is all time. So this conversation is going to be rough because the last month has been incredibly depressing for Mavericks fans. Yeah, but obviously, you know, keeping it professional and separate from fandom is you know, I have to. But it also makes my writing a lot better, especially now the Mavericks are always in the news for the wrong reasons.
So sure, sure, sure, right. Well, well, so to a wildly unprofessional podcast where yeah, we.
Fandom obscures our coverage and perspective to a degree that it's almost unlistenable. But people come in for for the jokes either way. But yeah, I mean we're I guess we just get right into it.
I will say I am a seventy six Ers fan, so I don't know exactly how you're feeling, but uh, it's bad. Yeah it's bad over here as well. At least your generational big is coming back soon.
We'll see about.
Yeah, we'll see our ours is untradeable permanently. The only hope I've seen in Sixers forums is like, maybe we can get them to retire and then then we'll do the retirement clause or something. I don't I don't know any of the contract stuff. But Kyrie has been slowly winning us over with his game over these past couple years. And yeah, I mean just one of the most impressive one on one players, one of the best ball handlers, shot makers in the league, one of the most fun
players to watch play basketball. So it is I think devastating obviously to Dallas fans, but also to basketball fans that he is has a torn acl and out for the remainder of this season. And it's one of the injuries that usually takes a toll the next season, if not takes you out for the next season, but obviously gave us an indelible image on the way out shooting the free throws with tears rolling down his face after
the injury, because he seemed like he knew what was happening. Yeah, but I don't know, like where do we begin with what the past month has been like for Dallas Mavericks fans.
I don't know. I mean, I'll tell you where I began, which was the day that Luca got traded. And I was awake when that happened, which was at like twelve thirty in the morning. Yeah, and I was scrolling on my phone. I get the alert and I'm like, there's no way this is real. And then I think I went to like my company's slack and nobody was on because everybody's asleep. And I go back to Twitter, and I think sham Sin tweeted more reporting about it or something,
and I was like, oh, this is happening. And I felt like I was having the worst nightmare and got like like the night sweats and was just like completely in denial for about five hours. And then the next day was it was like mourning somebody like a loved one who just passed away, Like that's the best way
I can describe it. And it's still like, if you are a Mavericks fan, watching Luca play for the Lakers right now is like he's doing everything that he was doing in Dallas and watching him do it in a different team's jersey is like the most depressing thing that you could ever imagine happened to your franchise, Like I can't And there's nothing else to compare this to in the NBA, Like genuinely, it's never happened. And so it's just like it's like living in the worst time timeline possible.
I don't even know it's And to this day, all of the reasons that the Mavericks have been trying to filter out through all of their flimsy reports make zero sense. Like oh he was fat, I mean, okay, he's still averaging a triple double and went to the.
Finals, took you on his back to the final, right right.
The amount of like that same sweet tea anecdote I've seen come up over and over again, I'm like, what they're still doing this.
Yeah, I've been telling that anecdote for years. Okay, right, no, but I mean like that's what he still I know, But it's so wild that that's like they got that one story in their craw and they're just like, yep, no, we're going to take that drink out of his hand. Yeah, well, he's celebrating taking us.
To the finals, even when Kyrie got hurt. Nico Harrison came out with the statement yesterday or the day before whatever, and again was like, you know, I see the same work ethic in him that I saw in Kobe Bryant. I'm like, oh my god, dude, you gotta let it go. Like it's all just like another slight at Luca being like he doesn't have Mamba mentality, which is ridiculous. Yes, it's gross.
Yeah yeah, and also seems like somebody who does play with a lot, like the biggest chip on his shoulder, Like oh absolutely, you just gave him another chip for the other shoulder. Oh yeah.
I mean just like when Nico was courtside during the warm up for that Laker game, I was like, no, we're Luca's about to go off.
Why you're even visible? Why are you even visible hold of this man right now? Yeah? I would be watching that game from under my bed in my own house.
Like.
Ad mission impossible, Like just going with somebody completely different. You're like, yes, and I am enjoying this basketball game.
But I think that's the thing is Nico thinks that he's right, so he has all the confidence in the world. He's never afraid of it. Aside, I should take that back. He's afraid of being in front of Mavericks fans at home because he's sitting up in a skybox at home games whatever. On the road, he is totally comfortable, especially
in Crypto dot Camerina. He just helped set up this team for the next ten to fifteen years plus, like he has no reason to be like shameful or whatever, and he still thinks that he made the right decision. Like there's just no way.
Yeah, yeah, I know at that game, I know they had the Luca seventy seven T shirts on the on the seats, but it was also Nico Harrison night. I think Harrison, Yeah, yeah, just they didn't know, they didn't know. But I'm I'm I'm wondering too, because just seeing the frustration from MAVs fans, which is so understandable, and I said this before you came, was like it even even for us, we like, how we how do we have Luca, Like that's impossible. It's like their franchise player. This never happens.
What do you see happening to even win the good will back? Because I feel like everything you see from the fans is just like they're dejected. They feel absolutely just like empty after this trade and now the subsequent injuries to Ad and Kyrie just in the finals nine
months ago. What is like, what is the path forward or is that how do you see that situation the relationship with the fans or this is just something that these decisions are being made completely without consideration of that dimension.
Uh, Immediately, they need to fire Nico Harrison. That I think is like step one to try and like rebuild a fan base that is completely in tatters right now, especially at the rate that this thing is just like falling off the lake, just completely falling apart, like Kyrie's hurt, eighties hurt. Kyrie's gonna be out for probably most if
not all, of next season. Like, okay, so now next season is lost, And Nico Harrison during his press conference was like, oh, well ten years from now, it doesn't matter. I care about the next three to four all right, Well, those next three to four years are pretty look at bad. Yeah, So I mean at the next if at the end of next season, if Nico Harrison still has a job, I would genuinely be surprised. Like there's just no way, especially with the new owner, Patrick Dumont, Like he said
some crazy things about Luca as well. But I don't understand how you could own a team, have somebody like Nico basically just running it into the ground at a rapid rate, and then still try and keep him employed for the long haul. It doesn't make any sense, doesn't make sense at all.
Yeah. Ah, where does this rank with the calling Steph Curry Steven do we think on his career highlight reel? Oh no, it's Seth right, he called himself. Okay, all right brother in the slide show. Sorry, we meant to switch those Outland. What No, I'm not from Maryland?
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No? Wiles? What so much? It's there's so many everything is unprecedented right now, just in every dimension. So I'm just like, what what, Okay? A picture. It transcends basketball. It's it's wild, it is biblical, it is job is how it feels. So we'll stop asking you about the Dallas Mavericks. We we got the game of the week, so uh, Jasmine. Every week we take a look at the upcoming slate and we're like, here's the game of the week, here's the game that you're gonna want to watch.
We'll watch it, we'll talk about it. And for the first five times we did this, they were all like thirty point blow. We got one right. This time. It was the Cavs playing the Boston Celtics. And the only thing I enjoy in this league more than a seventy six Ers win or now that we're tanking a seventy six Ers loss, is a Boston Celtics loss, particularly come from behind victory. Jasmin, I am a root for the rest of the league against the Celtics person. That's my
philosophy in following basketball. In this case, the Celtics built a twenty two point lead, We're maintaining a double digit lead for most of the game, even with Porzengis and Drew Holliday out of the rotation, and then Cleveland was able to come back. Donovan Mitchell went off for forty one and just yeah, it took it to him. There's a very viral clip of Jason Tatum inviting the Cavaliers
to get the heck out of here. Yeah, hey, you guys, get get on out of here, editation, it takes this personally, Yes, exactly. They were up twenty five to three and at the end they lost one twenty three to one sixteen. Donovan Mitchell gave a little little thumb as Jason Tatum had. Mitchell scored twenty six of his forty one in the second half. He's actually been pretty dominant against the Celtics, Like this is shaping up to be. I think for
a while, I just like didn't believe. I was like, I still think it's just going to be the Celtics in the playoffs. But if they play in a seven game series, Cleveland has home court advantage. I don't know that they have an answer for Mitchell unless Drew is like able to just like take it up to another level defensively in the playoffs, which he has been able to do in the past. So maybe maybe that's what happens.
But I think it's like kind of a coin flip at this point, Like, I really think Cleveland Boston is like could go either way. What do you guys think?
I just out of my need for the Celtics to not be good, I am fully invested in that. I watch this game with such joy in my heart. I mean, I don't know, just looking at the momentum they have, I'm like, I'm not gonna say that for sure it's happening, but I think it's well, it's more than reasonable to believe.
I'm like, okay, no, no, no, this isn't a fluke, Like this is something that's going to be sustainable. At least. That's my sort of half hearted entry into it. What about you, Jazmine, I feel.
Like if Boston's healthy, I think, like you said, Jack, like if jew Holliday can turn it up a notch, then they have an answer for Donovan Mitchell. But the thing that I watched in that game was like Evan Mobley also like just completely stood out in that fourth quarter. I think he had like sixteen of however many points he scored on the night in the fourth quarter of that game. All season long, he's just been like his offensive game has just been like just crazy impressive compared
to his previous seasons. He's already like super dominant on the defensive side of the ball, but he's getting to the ram at a rate we've never seen before. Like he's handed to the all like he's ending them in the ball so much better, like shooting with so much more confidence. Like Kenny Atkinson has just been like a wizard over there for the Cavaliers, and specifically with Evan Mobley that like, if he's their second best player every night or sometimes their best player in that series, like
then Cleveland could win. But I'm also very like, I don't know, because Cleveland kind of gets nervous in the playoffs and the lights are too bright and whatever that quote is that year at Allen said last year, like so I'm not sure, like Boston's scary when they're on, but Cleveland's been really good this year, so I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, okay, what's the most hopeful version that way? So I could it can sue my fears of other Celtics.
All right, get to us again, but pretend that actually the Celtics stinct.
I pretend I'm not crying because you said the Celtics might do it and these tears is just the lights are right.
Phil Jackson had a measure for like whether a team's championship aspirations were realistic or not, and it was whether you could win forty games before losing twenty. And the Calves are fifty to ten, which is pretty incredible eating the watermark. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like one of I feel like we do this a lot where it's just like, because we haven't seen it yet, we just assumed that it's it's not going to happen this year because of
like what we've seen historically. We're like, well, the Calves were bad last year, but even they weren't like from a personnel standpoint, a completely different team. They are a different They look like a completely different team this year. They really have it going. And yeah, Evan Mobley being the kind of biggest step forward. And then DeAndre Hunter, you know, ten games Celtic Hunter. DeAndre Hunter, he's always been good against the Celtics. So should we let's take
a quick break. We'll come back and we'll take a look further afield around the league. We'll be right back.
And we're back.
We're back, and we're going to take a look around the league. One of these is going to be somewhat unpleasant. But at the hottest teams in the league, the Cavs
ten straight pretty good. We also have the Pistons now they're nine and one over the last ten, have the nineteenth toughest remaining schedule, so like, not that bad a remaining schedule, just nine and fifteen on December fourth, following a double digit loss to the Celtics, and have gone twenty six and thirteen since then, which makes them the second best team in the NBA since that date. And Kate is just awesome. I love it. I love it. Okate is just balling out of his mind. What do
we think the ceiling is for Detroit this year? Can they get to the Eastern Conference Finals? Or we think it's just Celtics calves with a bullet and anybody else is just kind of kind of for the Pistons to make it to the Eastern Conference Finals.
We would love for that. I just love when the Pistons are doing great.
But what's where are they at right now?
There's six I just looked up the standing Yeah, okay, the face. If the playoffs started today, they placed the Knicks in the first round a tough matchup just off the bat. Yeah, so I don't know about Eastern Conference.
Finals, but or the second round.
Yeah, maybe a seven game series in the first round. In playoffs. I mean, getting to the playoffs at all for Detroit is just like throw a parade, to be honest, because the season that they've been having after last year where they set multiple records, where like with their losing streaks, this is just nobody thought that they would be one
of the top six teams in the East. I mean, nobody thought the Sixers would completely implode either, but it's just been like you said, Kate Cunningham has been an
All Star. He's been. It's funny because, like I remember when Kate came into the league and he had this rookie season and like everyone was just kind of like, oh, I don't know, he doesn't look like the number one pick, and he started off really slow, and then like his efficiency like was really poor in the first season, and I feel like he didn't get enough shine in like his second season, and now he's kind of getting that moment and the Pistons are benefiting from that that I
think like next season is when we can start talking like all right past the first round. I think this is a team that could go a little bit further, but right now I don't see them making out of the first round.
All right, and onto the Lakers, who've played eight teams with an above five hundred record in the month of February and went eight to oh hadn't given up more than one hundred and two points since the break since the All Star Break, which is seven games. They did give up over that to the Pelicans last night, but that was mainly garbage time, and they do just seem to be able to put all the different pieces together in a way that works. I do just want to
talk about Lebron real quick. I just want to talk about what he's been doing since his birthday. He's putting up twenty six to eight and eight. His Lakers have won over seventy four percent of the games during that stretch. His birthday was on December thirtieth, so this is basically
full twenty five. So as a forty year old, twenty six eight and eight Lakers are winning at a non president rate for them in his era with the Lakers, He's not an MVP candidate, but you know, could finish top ten for the first time since the twenty one to twenty two season, and most importantly, we're approaching the ten year anniversary of the tweet that said Lebron is thirty this Blankerrie won't go on for much longer, thank God. Twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen, blifically my gosh.
Yeah, yeah, truly, you know, that goes great watching him score fifty thousand points against the Pelicans, just to smash through that ceiling. But I don't know, I mean, it is wild to think just what he's doing right now and his even his defensive output, even that Pelicans game, some of the just the runs he was making to chase down a block or something. It's it's just wild to see that that intensity is still there at that level.
But now it's just more about when he deploys it at the right time, and that wisdom is definitely there.
But yeah, I don't know, I'm.
Just I'm I'm hesitant to get too excited about anything with the Lakers, although it is generally very fun to watch, and I hate to say that in front of Testament does maver e space.
It's fine, I'm totally fine.
It's wild, because I mean, I think the one thing too, Like JJ Reddick was like, Okay, maybe we're gonna we'll
be a shoot a higher volume of threes. And now we're I think, just second to the Celtics right now in that department in terms of our effectiveness there from three and a lot of that has to do with Luca, but it's I don't know, things are, things are moving in the right direction, but part of me is also just conditioned to at this point not ever get my hopes up high, just because it's hard for me, but it is.
It is difficult to not be excited and you know, at what we're seeing. Just one note of because I I want to talk about the face of the league thing real quick, because that's like a big conversation that is, like, I think, an interesting conversation. But even though it sounds like sort of a dumb ESPN conversation where they're they're just like, he's not the face of the league. He doesn't, you know, where I do like Lebron looks tired in a way that I've never seen him look on the court,
Like even at the end of the Pelicans game. I'm not saying like he had an incredible game. I do just want JJ to start taking him out like five minutes earlier, Like I just work, Like after the Kyrie injury, like I do worry about like it can't go on forever. It can go on until it stops and he gets hurt and he is forty and he's playing a lot of time, not as much as he has in the past, but like just really lean on those breaks, you know, drive it. Let's drive very cautiously. Heading to the to
the playoffs would be my urging. But yeah, I think a lot of people are having this conversation about like the face of the league and like who's going to take over once Lebron and staff are gone, And like hearing people talk about that, I was reminded of that Detroit playoff game where Lebron like before anybody thought it was possible, like took over a game in a series and just like single handedly won it for Cleveland against
you know, defending champions or you know. So I forget if Detroit had won the year before or recently, but
it was it was just an incredible experience. It's always like stood out to me, and I think it was because like I really do think the NBA benefits from having a main character, like whether you know I grew up with Jordan, Well, I don't think we'll ever have a Jordan again who's like, you know, approval rating is like probably eighty percent, you know, whereas Lebron became like the main protagonist slash antagonist of the league, like a lot of people didn't like him, but like that was
the character or that was like all the attention was focused around, and I think that was like what was happening in that Detroit game was like me as an NBA fan who grew up with Jordan, being like, ah, we we have a main character again. We have like somebody who's like kind of driving the league and is
kind of the face of the league again. And it is just amazing that he's been able to be that for as long as he has, and I like, is making another run at being like one of the most relevant, if not the most relevant player, like heading into the postseason, like in terms of like narrative, in terms of like people paying attention, and like, you know, I think the Lakers are going to be a part of the conversation of like who wins this year, And I think people
are going to be like rooting for and against Lebron like that he is still just like the protagonist of the NBA or antagonist depending on your opinion, but like he is that like main character face of the league that I think is for whatever reason, Like I don't think it's true of like other of the NFL or like Major League Baseball. I don't think they necessarily need
like the a main character. But for the NBA, it's like a movie, you know, like the real like stat Nerd, like basketball nerd or like film nerds might not need like a strong protagonist, but like I feel like everybody else just needs like that main character who we're either like rooting for or against. And it's just he's been carrying a lot of weight over two freaking decades.
It's crazy, Jasmine, who do you see being close to that? Like when you look at the bevy of options, I.
Mean probably Luca, especially now that he's in LA, like you know, the whole circus of being in LA in general will just like heighten his you know, image even more.
The thing is is from watching Luca in Dallas for seven seasons, like he doesn't really look for that kind of attention, So I don't know that that's going to Like if the league was like we want you to be the face, I don't know that Luca is going to be like, oh yeah, I want to do this, like yeah, jam Yeah, Like I don't know, Like I think that's the problem that the league's gonna run into.
I don't know that a lot of guys want that burden, because it was a burden for Lebron, like like you said, Jack, like Michael Jordan was like so revered. It's like this mythical creature like that can be that's like not touch and then you have like social media and like the twenty four hour news cycle with Lebron's era, that you can't really go back to something like Michael and so
going forward, it's just gonna get worse. Like Anthony Edwards said at I think it was All Star weekend, He's like somebody asked him, Oh, are you the next face of the league. He's like, no, that's what Wemby's for. But I don't know if Wemby is even going to be that because people are already like an international player can't be the face of the league, which is the rules. Yeah, apparently some made up just put together in place all of a sudden now, So I don't. I don't know.
I feel like it's going to be, uh, it's Lucas if he wants it, But if he doesn't, then I don't know where they go.
I don't I mean between Jordan and Lebron. Obviously we had like Shaq and Kobe, and there was that one moment I remember like like I'm viewing all like the history of league or like my experiences with the league through this, I'm realizing like a lot of the times, I'm like like when Iverson won Game one against the Lakers and it was like, oh my god, like maybe he can just like do anything, you know, like maybe this is going to be Like he was like the
guy who like he's kind of like you know Jordan. In his early career, they were like, he's a ballhog. He just like if I shot that many times, I'd score thirty a game. And that was kind of how Iverson was viewed. And then he had that one season where they like put Ma Tumbo in the middle to like protect the rim, and I was just like, oh my god, like this we might have like the next guy and then who could like you know, defy the
laws of physics. But yeah, I do feel like it's been a Lebron league for a long time, and it might be Luca. I don't know. I don't know who it is.
Maybe maybe I don't know, but he doesn't.
Yeah, like that Tatum and like the Celtics team reminds me of like the that when Lebron like kind of took it over. I think it was like back and forth between him and then like the Spurs, you know, like the the like just Spurs team being dominant, and I feel like that's kind of what the Celtics team is is like the Spurs. Like everybody is just like yeah, man, like you got to be impressed with how they ate, but we're all actually rooting against them, except for like super basketball nerds.
It's like a hard balance of a having that aura that feels mythical to the point that you can be bestowed the label of the face of the league. Into Chasment's point, the enthusiasm to want to have that kind of scrutiny on you all the time and be able to handle that is like a whole like because a lot of people want it, but then can you handle it? And then can you handle can then can you sustain it?
It's just such a it's like a hard thing. It's like, I don't think it's one of those things where someone like you can just anoint someone in the face of the league. It just all of those factors have to come together around a player and then it just sort of makes it obvious rather than someone's like, yes, I'm in line next for face of the league. It's like, well, no, I mean, I know you popping with the stats, but people don't, like people are low key clowning you all
the time or whatever it is. But I think that's just kind of Yeah, it's hard to see where it comes from.
But I don't know.
I mean, for a long time we were like we love doctor Mark Green, Anthony Edwards just coming through with that energy. But he also, yeah, like to your point, he's reluctant. He's definitely reluctant, and I think he knows where he probably just falls short of those sort of certain factors.
But yeah, not as a shooter, but definitely to have that yeah rule bestowed on.
It was find like every other night.
So yeah, I know, I know, it's so funny the league's favorite either Yeah, yeah, yeah, It's funny here all the vents.
Like don't give your money away, like that are you doing? Keep your money please?
I mean there's Jannis too though, Like I mean I felt like for.
A moment, yeah, after that championship win and like he was just like just posting his stories. Everyone's like yes, oh yeah, oh my god, his stories are so great.
Yeah. Yeah, that chicken nugget order, like fifty five chicken nuggets or whatever after Yeah, yeah, exactly.
He's probably going somewhere and then it'd be cool if he went to the Knicks and then like had another run with the Knicks or something like that. I feel like that would be the face of the league status. Yeah. Time will tell, Yeah, I think I think yeah, because he's had it for US season, I feel like maybe we do see him kind of take it over for a little while.
He does have the space Jam quality. I think that's the important thing. Is like, if you got more than anything, you need the space Jam quality. And if you don't have the space Jam quality, there's you're not going to quite be the face of the league.
You mean, arms that look like he's in that scene in Space Jamuy stretches arms out condunge from the three point line, just by reality.
And mildly green skin and red nails.
Yes, let's uh, let's take a quick break, and when we come back, we are going to do the rapid fire Round questioning to close it out. We will be right back and we're back. We're back. Wow, you want low on that. I had to.
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Buy at o'clock. Jack. You're gonna go first, I go first. Oh I could go first, Miles, if that's okay with you, that's all right, okay, all right, So this is a this or that segment where we give you some fictional players. They're like little fictional player combos if you will, yes, and you have to choose one or the other. That was probably clear from though this or that. Okay, Yeah, Brian.
Start started all right, uh jazz jazzm there, ye all right, waiting on y'all right now you Actually, that's that's why I asked, having to do with us slowing it up.
Jack, do you take Dirk with the Keems defense or Jannie with the Keem's offensive package.
Dirk, because I'm a homer.
Yeah, I still got that shot. Ye, you still got that iconic rise up one footage jumper. That the euro step. They should just call it the Dirk step. Oh yeah. And then does he still play saxophone?
He played saxophone.
I just always think of that, and about his shooting Clinton, He's like German shooting coats. That always made him saxophone season Wait what coach? He would always his big thing was like yeah and just be like try.
Something new, like let's give you a new skill, like not just shooting a basketball So like, do you learn sacks like let's learnt?
Yeah yeah yeah, very shooting off of like one leg with his eyes closed or something.
Yeah yeah, just very quirky.
I love that, okay, Jasmine, This or that Luca in the late nineties and early two thousands, like you know, playing against t mac Vance, Kobe Mellow, et cetera, or Dirk in today's game.
M I'm gonna go Luca because then he wouldn't get shamed for drinking beer.
That was just what you did. Yeah, Jordan ripped a whole rack of Corse lights on on a golf course before before putting up forty on somebody here you go Lucas all right. And finally you can't pick Dirk or Luca, but you can put together any two players to team up from through at history. Who are you choosing just in general?
Oh my god, I'm gonna go Steven ash because again Mavericks and Lebron James. I was easy.
Oh yeah, that would be nice.
Yeah, service, we like that, okay, Jasmine. Last question, Okay, you can go back in time and live one year as an NBA player and experience everything they experienced in that single year. What player and year.
Are you choosing?
What year was it that Steph Curry won like unanimous MVP? Whatever year that was?
Was that? Like that was fifteen sixteen?
Yeah, fifteen sixteen? Oh never mind?
Is that from my final?
So then I'll do that year as Lebron James winning the NBA Finals.
Yeah, yeah, there it is. Yeah, that'd be fine. I want to be a Lebron James all right. And finally, psych that wasn't the last one because we got to pick the game of the week.
Oh that's right, yep, Jasmine, let us know what do we pay?
What do we need to keep our eyes on? We got three to choose from only one right answer. On Saturday, the Los Angeles Lakers are playing the Boston Celtics on ABC. On Sunday, the Nuggets are playing the Thunder on ABC. Also later that day or maybe earlier, I'm not sure. The Calves are at the Bucks on E S p N.
Where we going with I'm going Lakers Boston?
Okay, good, thank god? Yeah, that is the right answer, and we appreciate you choosing the right answer. That's gonna be something that is I'm gonna feel after that, but probably bad. I feel like you guys don't match up that well with the Celtics'. That's the other reason that you know, my my main quest at this point as a Sixers fan is like Sixers loses many more games and we get to keep our pick. They have to be in the bottom six to keep their pick. And
also a chip for Lebron. If we could get one last chip for Lebron, that would be so fun. But that's yeah, So I mean, if the Cavs can knock off the Celtics for you, that's a that's a big mitzvah. That would be very nice for Yeah, too.
Early, too early, but Jasmine, those were all the correct answers.
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