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last night in excruciating fashion. So not shockingly, if you know me, little trouble sleeping. Had those those dreams that you have typically when like you're kind of at least for me, when you're you know you're making bad decisions in life, or your life is like spiraling out of control, or you're worried. It might be like you're driving a car and you don't have control of the car and it just keeps accelerating. I used to have those dreams all the time when I was a maniac. I didn't

have those exact dreams. Instead, I had like the adult version of like super angsty, hard to sleep dreams. Because I love sports, there are a couple of teams I really root for on a personal and professional level, and they both had their gut ripped out last night. So we'll get into all of that, but I want to say something to you, the listeners, because I got a smile this morning when I walked in to Trentage where we do the podcast, and someone had slipped through the

grate of the you know the gate a letter. I thought it was a letter. It says I'll hold it up right here. It says Nick Wright, Trentage with the address of the store, and it's a letter from Dallas from I guess I'm not going to give their last name, but Trey and Dalon or Dylan, I apologize. I think it's Daylan and what it is, and I'll cover up.

The important info is a wedding in vatation to a wedding in Dallas that is in a few weeks that they know I can't go to because I said months ago I'm the best type of person to invite to your wedding because I won't go, but I'll send a gift. So, Trey and Dalen, when you get those air tags that were on your registry, they're from your buddy Nick, right. I saw the nice little four pack of air tags. They actually I even did same day delivery they're getting.

You'll get them today and it's awesome. Pro tip if if I don't know Trey and Dalen, because I don't know you people, if you have a dog or a pet, get for their collar an air tag holder and put the air tag on it. Because micro chipping dogs is not gpsing dogs, it's just micro chipping them. Someone still got to find the dog, so you don't ever afterwards.

So if you ever years from now, your dog away and you're able to find him, it'll be because you listen to my advice for months ago, which was, hey, invite me to a wedding if I'm you know, in a good mood, or even just you know, feeling like I want to do something nice, or lost enough money betting on the Lakers money line last night, my first bet since the Super Bowl. Then I'm like, ah, what's another one hundred bucks, Go ahead and do it. I

was so confident the Lakers are gonna win. I'm out here buying demand's great seats to tonight's Clippers MAVs game. Wish I could rescind that transaction. I'm feeling they're up twenty. I'm like, I got this at plus two eighty. Oh my god, I don't need the points. The Lakers got this, and it was all going according to plan, until, of

course it wasn't. So we'll get to that. We'll get to the sixers, and we'll get to what is a legitimate changing of the guard in the NBA, which I think is actually the most interesting thing happening in this postseason, and I don't think anyone has quite explained how stark it is. We'll do that here in the next twenty minutes.

But if you can't be presented with mountains of new evidence and then change how you feel about things, then why exist in the world? Then why you know to watch things, read things, learn things whatever. The biggest reason the Lakers lost.

old school. And by the way, I evidently texted, I sent the wrong text to I sent a text to the group chat, uh that I didn't oh the oh never mind, I didn't send her text to the group chat. A group chat found the wedding website for the people I sent the but we'll keep that private. The so as I was saying, even when Lebron I thought had a great game and paced himself well, like to where he was just distributing early so he had more in

the tank late, Uh did all of that? When the Nuggets cut it to two, Lebron hit back to back threes, then had those big time drives at the end of the game, and it wasn't enough because Yo Kitch's greatness kept in the game. And then this So the first reason is something the Nuggets did employ Nikolejokic. The second reason is, and this is this is when if you had bet on the Lakers, if you're rooting for the Lakers.

If you were being honest, you were nervous. That's second half of the third quarter was utterly disastrous again, second straight game. They got annihilated in the second half of the third quarter, stopped running offense after it seemed like that Lebron a d high pick and roll, there was no answer for it. They went away from it, and after the Lakers went up seventy four to sixty five at the seven point fifteen mark, here are the Lakers

offensive possessions. Ruey missed three, a D missed three, a D turnover, Ruey missed dunk, AD missed putback, d Lo missed three, Lebron missed two, AD turnover, gab Vincent missed three, AD missed jumper, AD offensive foul turnover, which was the key moment. So from that seven minute mark to two

forty mark, the Lakers had eight possessions maybe nine. There got zero points, and at the end of it, Anthony Davis picked up his fourth foul, which then made Ad have to go to the bench, and then Jokic did literally whatever he wanted, and so even then the Lakers were able to score at the end of that quarter because Lebron came back in Delo hit a three, Lebron made some free throws every possession, Nuggets had their scoring because when Ad went to the bench, Joker was unstoppable.

So instead of it being a sixteen or eighteen point lead at the end of the third, it's only ten. And then one other sequence and then we'll get to Lebron's complaints about the officiating. One other sequence that is, you know, it's just what basketball is, but man, oh man,

it can be painful. Lebron has the steel burst dunk, which is one of the dopest plays and old guy in sports has ever made a guy his age at that point in the game, one point game, minute and a half left, sniff out the pass, have the burst get there. I thought he might be gonna be get hung on the rim. Guy's thirty nine year twenty one and was on fumes.

actively trolling. You can pick which side you want to be on, but that's that's not a viable opinion. You can't watch that game be like, oh, Lebron blew it. Lebron was great in the fourth. Thing is the Nuggets are better. And what's frustrating for me is people are like, Nick, you pick the Lakers win. I picked the Lakers to win the series because a lot of my series analysis actually was correct, and it just hasn't mattered yet. I said that Lebron would be better in fourth quarters than

he was in the first series. Just that one fourth quarter last night alone was better than all his fourth quarters combined. I said Jamal Murray was not going to average thirty to a night on fifty five forty splits. Jamal has had his struggles. I said that d Lo was not going to be thirteen percent from three. He hit seven last night and it didn't matter. I mean, it mattered, but it didn't matter. And so it is.

It is a painful loss for the Lakers, and it is really interesting to see what their mind frame is going back to La because had they won it, they're now like, don't have to win there again. Win er two at home, punt game five, go win game six. Now the path is either, and it is a winnowing path. Beat the Nuggets, who have beaten you ten times in a row, four straight games. Or beat the Nuggets four out of five, including a game seven in Denver. Win games five, six, and seven. I'm sorry, Game six and

seven are one day apart. That's a very very thin path. Now, do I think that were the Lakers to get past Denver, they could win the title. I actually do. If Denver is the best team, the Lakers are going blow for blow with them. But sometimes that happens, man, and I I was incredibly and I still am retroactively as a sports fan, incredibly frustrated by the existence of the KD Warriors because there were a lot of things I thought

that kind of robbed from sports fans. I think Lebron versus Steph going toe to toe in those finals year after year should have been kind of the story of that little mini basketball era, and there's a lot of part of it. And I also think Steph versus Durant. I think, like those three guys, an aging Lebron, a peaking Steph and at his Apex Durant, those three superheroes, all kind of leading their own crews should have been the story of the NBA. It didn't en it to me,

made the league less exciting for a few years. I don't feel that way at all about Denver because Denver doesn't feel unfair. Denver doesn't feel like, Ah, you had a salary cap spike and you gained the system, and no, Denver did it the way it's been done in NBA history, which is guess what we got. We were fortunate enough to either win a draft lottery or in their case, have one of the greatest developmental stories in sports history,

this mid second round pick turn into this goliath. We were smart in how we filled the team out around him, and he's the apex predator of the league right now. Come get him, and I the and folks can say that I make too many things or focus too much on Lebron. I I think that what Lebron is doing right now is one of the most remarkable things any of us will ever see in sports. And we'll talk about why that is when we get into the passing

of the torch. But this guy at this age, in the biggest game of the year, saying all right, I'm gonna go vintage Lebron, run, point, control every aspect of the game, play great defense in the There was a spot at the end of the first half when Ad had two fouls and the Lakers didn't want to risk Ad picking up his third, and Lebron for four straight possessions just said, all guard joker. The fact that that guy is guarding that guy at this stage of his career,

We've never seen anything like it. We won't ever see anything like it again. And yeah, I would have liked if they had gotten the win last night, but it's sports man, it doesn't always like there's the storyline you think you deserve and then there's the one you get, and such is life. And Ties typically go to the team with that dude. For a long time, that meant they went to Lebron's team. Not anymore. Ties now go to jokers team because he's that guy and he's just

he deserves it all right. Now, demon's we can get to the officiating.

The reason the Lakers have a massive free throw differential is they defend without fouling better than any team in the league but Boston. Okay, So they they get a bunch of free throws because they don't shoot a ton of threes, they don't foul a lot, because of their style of defense, and because to be honest, Lebron is as still to this day, either really not defending or just a smart defender, and ad in my opinion's the

best defensive player in the league. So that leads to the discrepancy when you actually look at Lebron, when you look at the facts on players who get you know, x amount of points in the paint or have x amount of drives per game. Lebron, by that metric, gets one of the worst whistles in the league. Now, was Austin Reeves a bit of a foul merchant? Do the

Lakers have guys that are not a game? It's sure, but Lebron has not gotten the benefit of a whistle, at least according to the data, ever since he's been with the Lakers. So what is Lebron's frustration? So I'm gonna give you the Micro and then I'm gonna give you the Macro, and I promise you no one else in the world is gonna bring up the macro thing. But I have should I say this, Yeah, okay, I'll

say this. I have in the last six months talked with Lebron personally about this scific play that I'm gonna bring up here in a moment. That's the Macro, But the Micro is this. I didn't understand those reviews either, to be totally clear, I when I the first review, Lebron was daring them to review it. He's like, yeah, review it, and I tweeted like, well, okay, you're gonna lose this review. I was shocked they won it. The second review, D'Angelo Russell does get hit in the face.

That's undeniable. Now what they said is he got hit in the face after the shot had been released. That is flatly right or wrong an adjustment, and how they have been calling that. Then over the course of the year, the and mate, you can argue.

What was the final basket of the game for the Lakers. Was it the DiAngelo bucket or was it Lebron's layup? No, it was yeah, it was the Lebron's layer. He gets hit in the head and he is screaming, demanding an and one. He gets hit in the head and doesn't get it, so he's pissed, and yet all of that matters. All of it matters because if going into the final possession, instead of it being tied, the Lakers are up one, they do everything different. So I understand the general frustration,

but calls do tend to even out right. The Sixers are gonna say they don't because of how the game ended. I stand that, But let me talk to you about the replay center thing for a moment. This is the macro. What is Let me ask the room. I don't want to put I want to ask the production room. Not the most important. The most important game Lebron's ever played is the forty five to fifteen and five game six

before he'd won a title. Down three to two, the Blueprint game in Boston, he had thirty in the first half. They had just lost three straight. It was coming off the MAVs series. From that moment, that is the line of demarcation of Lebron's career. It could have gone one way. He played one of the greatest games ever played, and the most important game of his career came through. And from that moment forward he went title title thirty six,

thirteen and ar I'm sorry. Title Title Finals loss to the Spurs thirty six, thirteen and nine in the finals, loss three to one co back Finals finals against Katie's Warriors, injured title. That's what he did after the forty five to fifteen A nine. What is the best game Lebron has ever played in his career? Anyone want to grab a mic and say what it is, because one game should stand out above all else. Any if anyone wants to guess, and I'll give context on why I'm saying

this in a moment. Daniel, You're I know you're reveling in the Nuggets fandom. I'm putting you on the spot. Do you have a guess?

State Warriors. Lebron in that playoffs prior to that game, had seven forty point games in the playoff run, had just come off back to back forty eight minute games against Boston down three to two. He had two buzzer beaters in that postseason to one to beat the Pacers, one to beat the Raptors. It was a Pex somehow Lebron at in twenty eighteen, so in year fourteen or fifteen, whatever it was, had channeled something he had never channeled before.

And that game against Golden State, which is forever remembered as what the Jr. Smith game? He had controlled every aspect of the game. So why am I bringing it up? And again, I'm not trying to betray confidences, but this is something and I never talk about this on the show. I think it's the first time I've ever even acknowledged this, But it is something that I actually discussed this play with Lebron personally. And don't by the way, social media

folks don't clip out this certain moment. If somebody else aggregates it, that's fine. I'm not trying to like clout Chase off that I just want to give you. I want to give the audience contract Chase and the play, and the play is this, Okay, there is, and I'm trying to find the exact moment in it. But anyone that saw the game, the situation is this that Warriors

are up one with a minute left. Lebron drives to the basket, gets fouled by two people, makes the layup, makes the free throw, and all of a sudden, the Calves have the lead with thirty with forty five seconds left, and they just got a hold on and Lebron takes a charge on Kevin Durant. They call it a charge and it is going to be Calves ball thirty six seconds left, up one, the best game of Lebron's career, the best playoff run of Lebron's career against arguably the

greatest team ever. He's going to steal home court. And the referees go to the review center to see if Lebron was in the restricted area. He was not, and they verify that he was not. But because they went to the review center to review that, they then opened up the Pandora's box to review anything, and they said, oh, he was moving slightly, which was not a challengeable play

and was not an auto review. But because they went to review something erroneously, they then were like, well, let's look at this, and they switched charge to block, and Katie hits both free throws, and then by the way you know it, then Lebron makes a layup steph hit, gets an hand one, George Hill makes a free throw miss free throw Jr. Time out, whatever overtime loss. That was right when the NBA was really embracing replay. And that is a six year burr in this guy's saddle.

So now once again he plays being he feels used improperly. It's driving him crazy. And so say what you will about that game. I don't think I'm blaming the refs. I actually don't think Lebron is specifically blaming the refs. Embiid was very mad at the refs and was obviously uh, but that is the context for that conversation there. And so you know the short version of this, demonse I said, Lakers in six, and in order for the Lakers and six,

they gotta lose twice. So I'm halfway to a correct prediction. Let's get to the.

it's over. But up twenty with a quarter, you know with early in the third that game is not over. And at the end of the Lakers game, it was clearly in the balance, right. It was back and forth, back and forth. I did think when Lebron hit those back back threes to go up eight that they were in real good shape, but at no point where the

Lakers certainly won. When you're Philly and you're up five and the ball is loose on the ground and there's less than thirty seconds remaining, you feel like you've won the game. And then the confluence of events of Brunson front rims of three and it goes in that you know, and this is where sports can be cruel, and this is where I feel sick for my pal Daryl Morey. The last big time playoff shot that I saw get front rimmed and bounce in was Kawhy's game winner against

the Sixers and Darryl and now Brunton hits that. But even there, okay, you're up two, You're okay, And I I know Nick Nurse was like, I called time out, man, I've watched the tape. Nick Nurse does this thing, the old do I want it? Do I want it? And then pulls it back when he thinks it's getting inbounded, and then when he does start definitely calling time out, the ball's loose. Now, did MAXI get his jersey pulled?

Did he get held? Should there have been a foul? Sure, but that happens, and it was.

court as you can go on the back court. Let's calm down.

has the four point play. I think that was probably the best moment in Madison Square Garden in a big spot since then. And and it is you feel sick for Philly. Embiid is playing on one leg and still I mean, I don't even know how to like put in context what Embiid's doing because he is clearly injured, he clearly doesn't trust his leg, and yet he has you know, thirty four, ten and six and so and MAXI played out of his mind the knicks man.

playing a game of tag. Like I need to make sure I don't get close enough right for someone to foul me. And so if I take time to try to, you know, get to my spot and gather, they might foul me. So I go and then pass it quick like it's a weird thing. On the up three, I don't want to get fouled. I know the other team might want to foul, So those spots are brutal. If those spots are absolutely brutal. Where MAXI it's hard to say he's screwed up, but the play he wants back

is the full court layup down one. Yeah you know what I mean. When they give it to him, he has a full versus speed. Hartenstein, to his credit, drag the shast down and great play. Great play by Hartenstein, and so uh I I don't think Philly's dead. I want to make this clear. You're never dead. The only time game two is a must win game is if you are the home team and you lost game one. Okay, you can't go down O two at home. That typically, not always, but typically is a death knell in this league,

down one on down oh two without home court. Right now, we have had eleven in NBA playoff games held home teams are eleven and zero. And so if you can get over the emotion of how you lost game two, if you're the Lakers or the Sixers, you go home win game three. And then here's what does happen when you fall down oh two. You then all of a sudden have back to back must wins. Right like you are, You have back to back must win games, which is a tough shot to be in. And so I think

that here's what I think. I think that we are going to know from the Sixers by the end of the first yeah, by the end of the midway through the second quarter in Game three, whether or not this thing is going to be to two going back to Philly, or whether or not they're gonna get swept if they look like a team that is emotionally drained and the Knicks punch him in the face early they could fold up shot.

type of spot And now they don't have it. Like my guess is, had the Lakers one that game, what you would have seen is game three, because you have two days of rest, another all out effort Game three to go up to one if you're Los Angeles, and then game four for Lebron. The day between a little bit of a margin of error, a big distribution game, right, you know what I mean? Like, Hey, if we steal it, we steal up three to one. Amazing. If not, we'll take two to two with Denver in Bead's a little

different because he's not orchestrating the offense. But I want to see al embiid emotionally recovers because he was beside himself. Also, you got to keep this in mind for Himbead. I mean, the guy's never been passed round two, So like these are, it is hard to putting context of, like, oh, it's only game two of round one, Like he hasn't played a ton of games as crazy as the sounds bigger than the one last night. So I do worry about

a Philly a bit. All right, let's quickly get to Luca and then we're gonna do uh the We're gonna change torch passing stuff.

he can look great. I don't believe in the Clippers. I do believe in the MAVs. The Clippers were the home team. Uh Luca was fine but not great, which considering he had thirty three, thirteen and six speaks to the player is now. Kyrie was extraordinary and we got to see what level Kyrie can stay at. But I'm not worried about the MAVs.

Right with Nick Wright? All right, so demandse, let's get to the changing of the guard part of this, because I don't think people understand exactly what could be happening in these NBA playoffs.

their age on January first is okay. The oldest Lebron James thirty nine. Well, I don't want it to be true, and it's not the pick I made. The odds say his season ends in ten days, right or less. Okay. The next oldest Chris Paul, He's not playing right now, keep going. The next oldest, Kevin Durant's thirty five. He might be thirty six now. Again, again, this is their ages on January one. Kevin Durant thirty five. His season could be over ten days. Steph Curry, he's not playing anymore. Russ.

Maybe his season keeps going. Maybe not. He is obviously, you know, a different version of himself. DeMar DeRozan thirty four, not playing. Jimmy Butler thirty four, not gonna play in this postseason, James Harden thirty four. By the way, every single Clipper is going to show up on this list. We'll see Dame thirty three, Paul George thirty three, Clay thirty three out of there, Kawhi Leonard thirty two, not healthy, CJ. McCollum not even All Star thirty two. And that's the list. Guys.

You could include Drew Holliday who's thirty three, but Drew Holliday is also, like, you know, the fourth or fifth guy on that team. Here's the point I'm making. If we want to extend it to thirty one or older at this as of January one, Kyrie Irving would be added to that list. Here's my point. If the Clippers get bounced, we are going to be in a spot where every single top level player left in the post season is either a super young guy, prime of their

career guy, or just turned thirty guy. All of the old guard could be gone Steph Clay, Draymond already gone.

Dame is, you know, an older guy. He could be the oldest relevant guy remaining would be Dame, and then after him it would be guys a hell of a lot younger than him, Like I don't even know if I mentioned again age at January one, Lebron thirty nine, down oh two, Chris Paul thirty eight didn't make the playoffs or didn't make the real playoffs, Katie thirty five, down oh one, Steph thirty five didn't make the playoffs.

Russ thirty five, we'll see demartros In thirty four didn't make the playoffs, Jimmy Butler thirty four injured for the playoffs. Harden thirty four, we'll see Dame thirty three, maybe the one bastion of it, because he's the one guy who got attached to right one of these younger stars, Uh Paul George thirty three, Clay Thompson thirty three, didn't make the playoffs, Kawhi thirty two injured, and then Kyrie Irving

thirty one on January first. So think about it like that, the playoffs are going to be where Kyrie Irving is the elder statesman left and Dame and that's it. A league that has just leaned on the And I was looking at it via draft classes, which is what's so crazy about this, Like so on this list of old guys, so to speak, are guys from the twenty twelve draft, like Dame, who was the sixth pick of the twenty twelve draft. The fact, so if you do it by

draft classes, this is what you get. Dame twenty twelve, twenty eleven, Kyrie and Clay and Kawhi twenty ten, Uh, Paul George two thousand and nine, Harden and Stephen Derozen two thousand and eight, Russ two thousand and seven, kd two thousand and six, Nobody two thousand and five, Nobody two thousand and four, Nobody two thousand and three, Lebron and so like there. Lebron, by the way, came into the draft ten years it's came into the league ten years before some of the old guys. Now, Dame's an

old guy. Lebron came in ten years before Dame. But it is the new generation in the NBA's here, man, and it's gonna be a weird playoffs. If all these guys are out of there, it's gonna be fun like it is.

and the Bucks. They're X factors because they have injuries to their superstars late twenties or in Bead's case, I think just turned thirty, you know, prime superstars. Uh, the I'm leaving somebody out. That's it's gonna bother me. That I just thought of, but now I can't. The Oh, the Knicks middle of it mid twenties entering his prime, butting star, the Timberwolves in OKC early twenties not yet to their prime future superstars. That's who. That's who's here now.

And it is a miracle that Lebron still being here is insane. Take Lebron out of it. That the point I almost wanted to make is because Lebron's thirty nine, it skewed everyone thinking that Steph and Katie and Kawhi and Harden and Russ are younger than they are. They aren't. Those are the really old guys.

Dwight and Iguadala were the last men standing. I mean, but that also just to give some context, you know who also was in that draft class, lou All Dang, Like, how when was the last lou All Dang came into the league one year after Lebron the five draft class, Chris Paul still hanging on for that draft class, but the second best player in that draft class, second and third best players were Darren Williams and Andrew Bogant and Andrew Bidam. Think of the last time you thought of

Bogan or Bien Williams. Oh, I mean Williams exactly. Darren Williams, who was awesome, is been out in the league since twenty seventeen. It's twenty twenty four. That's the five draft class six, the best players from the six draft class. All right, so Kyle Lowry hanging on. But you know who else was in the six draft class, Demonte, This will bring a smile to your face. Man, your favorite player, one of your favorite players, Rondo or Rondo? Rondo? Rondo,

Rondo was the six. Rondo came into the league years ago. Yeah, but he really left a while before that, you know what I mean. Like Rondo's last Rondo technically played for the Cavs in twenty twenty two, but his last super relevant season was with the Celtics. I mean he did help the Lakers. I mean, he did help the Lakers. I give him credit, but but the he's three. Rondo's

three years after bron and one year before Durant. Like Durant's contemporaries are Al Horford, who is an old man, Mike Conley, who's having a nice role, you know what I mean with the Timberwolves, and Joe kim Noah the same draft class as Kdi Joe kim Noah. So it's just the old guys have held on way longer than to be expected. This is where mind everyone Michael Jordan's final playoff game with the Chicago Bulls. He was thirty five years old. He was younger than Steph is right now.

He's the same age Durant is right now. Kobe Bryant's final playoff game with the Lakers, he was thirty three years old. This is not a mid thirties league man, never has been. All Right, real quick, Demons, let's talk about this Athletic player pole, and then we'll try to do a very fast NFL draft thing.

to forty three. And sorry, Mike, but you know, winning those NASCAR races ain't gonna close the ain't gonna spread out the gap much. And so folks can say it's crazy, count Thers. All this time marches on and as Lebron keeps writing his story. And this is the tweet I had this weekend which smart people understood what I was doing, which was when Michael won his first title, it had been twenty two years since Russell won his last title.

Think about that. When Michael won his first title, we were twenty two years removed from Russell winning his eleventh ring. This year we are twenty six years removed from Michael winning his last ring. So whatever, folk, whatever, if you're old enough to remember the nineties, whatever you as a kid thought of the Bill Russell era of basketball, you were closer to to that, then we are right now

to the Jordan era of basketball. And while the other guy's still out here playing and competing, it's not going to end here's the other thing that's going to end up happening for the next twenty years. Every big accomplishment, every postseason record, every time a guy has x amount of anything, and they show the all time list on all these categories, it's going to say number one Lebron James. I'm sorry, but MJ's not going to be on that those lists because he didn't play long enough. And people

are gonna see, oh wow, look at Kevin Durant. He just moved into X place on the all time playoff scoring list, and first will be Lebron. It's like, oh wow, look at Chris Paul. He just moved into X place on the all time playoffs steals list. It's gonna be first place Lebron. It's gonna be like, oh my goodness, look at Wimby in eighteen years. He just moved. He just played his two hundred and fiftieth career playoff game,

and in first place is gonna be Lebron. And so yeah, this is probably the last pole that.

What's Right with Nick Wright. Let's get to some listener questions to want to day before we get out of here.

With it. I definitely would have challenged. So I agree with that, but because because now maybe they didn't want to let the Nuggets make a defensive adjustment, but I don't think they were going to, So I agree with that critique. All right, go ahead.

I don't really want to do. George Miken, but George Mike and I guess you know, we want to go real old time has a case. How do you can what do you consider? Bill Walton? You know those are the that's now the waters you're swimming in. H. Then you get to ewing and those waters and things like that. Uh. Jo Kich has passed Moses already. My opinion, you passed him this year if I don't think winning this year's MVP is enough for him to pass Shack or a

Keem even though they each only have one MVP. Winning this year's MVP and the championship, you got to start to have some real conversations about it. Now. I'm in a Keem over Shack guy. I know a lot of people are a Shack over a Keem guy, but Jo Kich is now uh in the in the discussion. Oh, here's the uh. Here, here's the Jokic photoshop. It's uh, it's actually yeah, I think Jokic should do more media stuff. I think he's funny, all right.

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