NBA MVP Race and Stat Discussion

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It is your start of the day. This set of the day is presented by Money Lion. Download the Moneylion app or visit MoneyLion.com to learn more. Moneylion, make money easy. This set comeses courty of NCAA buzzer beaters . For the fifth time in women's NCAA tournament history, all four number one seeds have reached the final four. Even crazier than that though, not a single one of those number one seeds had a game decided by 10 points or fewer on their path to Phoenix. I mean, I've been watching this tournament for like the last two rounds. Uh number one, Blanca Quin ones for Yukon. That's a good player. Really? Incredible. Ecuador. Yeah, they're pretty good. So good, in fact, that South Carolina, we'd all agree, good team. Great team. Yeah. Before this tournament started, I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked at DK Sportsbook because you could lock them in at plus eight fifty. Yeah. They're a number one seed, perennial title favorite. They're plus six hundred now? They're plus six hundred after last night. By the way, six straight final fours for South Carolina. That's the third longest streak in NCAA history, men's or women's. A number of things to clean up here because uh there's uh news breaking. Olivier Rue, the Florida seven foot nine center has entered the transfer portal. He's available to all. There is a seven foot nine uh sophomore. Oh look at Tony shaking his head. Grande por Guto. Yeah, una tatua . A statue. Yeah, he can't he can't play. If you're seven foot nine and not a top fifty recruit, you're stiff. He uh he is literally a stiff. Uh that uh seven foot nine doesn't move around very well. What are you smiling about? I would take him in a heartbeat if I were almost any coach in the league who thinks I'm good enough to turn seven foot nine into something. I mean he couldn't get on the floor. He's much slower and and he's much more rigid than everyone out there. He can't he just can't play. Well he couldn't get on the floor for a very good team. It doesn't mean he can't get on the floor for a team that's 13 and 18 and and bringing in a new coach. College programs who need to take a shot on that this kid because every coach who's worth a salt thinks that he can turn around the guy that nobody else can help. And maybe they can. I would, if I were a college team, seven, nine? Damn right I'd take it together . Uh put it on the poll. Yeah, air uh air cement Nike 's uh put it on the poll at Lebetard Show. Uh is the seven foot nine sophomore still physically growing? Yeah. If you're a sophomore in c if you're a sophomore in college, aren't you still growing? So he's nineteen, right? Is he nineteen? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Who thinks any nineteen year old is f ully formed. He can get quicker. He can he can be taught to to play at his height. Weird endorsement of the seven foot nine stiff. A dry cleaning rack cannot cannot get he can be more agile, right? Florida tried him in two sports. He wasn't enough at either. Uh, but one last thing on the women's tournament. Are we finally gonna get good games in this final four? I I've watched all four of these teams play. Jaime Hawkes' sister plays for UCLA . They they're all super good. The tournament's proven that. But are we gonna get like these clash of Titans or is it just gonna be UConn running through the entire competition? Yeah, I mean I I think like first of all, TCU last night was a good game up until their best player got hurt and then like South Carolina just beat him on a in attrition. But yeah, no, I think you've reached a point now where these are all elite programs. These are all elite teams. And by the way, three out of the four was it were in the final four last year. So it's like this is there's a continuity there where I think we're gonna get good games, but this also highlights kind of what I've been talking about for women's college basketball for a while, which is the haves and the have nots, the gap is so big. Yeah. And so What happened with NIL in that sport is really interesting because around 2022, 2023, you did have Cinderella's. Hell, Miami made an Elite Eight and and gave Kim Mulkey and LSU a good game in that tournament. You had these programs that were, I guess, on the forefront of NIL and you had all these legacy programs that just thought the logo would do the recruiting, and it took them like a season and a half to realize: oh, okay, I guess we have to dedicate the resources, even though we're Kentucky, even though we're Yukon women's. And now we're getting back to a day and age where it's like the mid nineties. Yeah, Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, and Yukon, and then everybody else is have not Gino Riem is the this team is the most Dan I gotta tell you like watching South Carolina last night, I was uh all I could think of was LSU a couple of years ago, and how I was like, why are they guarding Caitlin Clark like this? And you guys go, well, Kim Moki's a da-da-da. I'm like, that doesn't mean she's making the right decision out there. Contrast with South Carolina last night. And I'm like, this is a machine. They are executing so well on every single And so when you talk about UConn and Gino Ariema and and how overwhelming they are, this is going to be a great example of execution versus talent to me. Because for South Carolina to be plus 600. Obviously it's the only t uh team with neg uh minus is uh UConn is UConn. Yeah. Right. This tells me like okay. Well put as a gambler. The only team with minus. Yes, I'm notorious gambler, Amino Hassan. Uh but i the it it's going to be the exact example of what we were talking about yesterday, which is like, hey, you can't overcome a massive talent gap, but you can overcome a talent gap with good coaching and good execution. Tune in for Kinones , stay for the Fuji's bumper music. Because this tournament nailed it with Ready or Not as its official song. Uh thank you to the video team for putting an assortment of failing robots behind uh Tony just keep playing an assortment of failing robots like arresting that robot like a sick cop behind them just like carry him down the stairs. We we have uh we have now now is the time to laugh at the robots because soon we will no longer be able to do this and we will look back at this time when we've been imprisoned by them uh as uh as a reminder of uh how dumb we were. But uh I mean uh I I wanted to keep talking about chalk advancing and what it is that Mike Ryan said about NIL. Uh because Corey Close, the coach at UCLA, this this is one of the powers. This is the this is one of the people who's winning as the uh distance between the great and the less than great is is as large as it was when uh Ariama was making his name in that sport with the Rebecca Lob os of the world and they were just that much more dominant than anyone else. Uh Corey Close says, quote, I've never been as tired as I've been in the last two years, and it's made me think how much longer I can do this. And I'm just being transparent with you about that. There are so many things that are harder and we keep losing incredible people on the men's and women's side. Now, Jeff Waltz, the Louisville coach, countered with this, and a lot of people countered with some version of this. I'm friends with Corey. My favorite line I would tell her is if you don't like your job, find a new one. I'm listening this morning at 420 as the workers outside my window at the hotel in the street are working. I mean you choose your profession . If you don't like it, find a new profession. A lot of them are. Titans of the game. Like champions. Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett ups and quits because he doesn't like it anymore. Down here, we had Katie Meyer be an incredible women's coach for 20 years. And I mean, reached a tournament, advanced to the Elite Eight, historic high watermarks for the program , and just as you think she's finally getting everything together, she walks away from the sport because of the the way that it changed. And there ain't nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean I will judge you for quitting. No, I won't. I mean you got Tony Bennett, I will forever judge. Still the young man. To me to me, it's like if you've decided you don't want to put up with these new factors . That's fine. Now to me when you start to blame things, bl oh it's the da da da that's that's where it becomes problematic. You know the college coaches I've talked to, you know what they they hate more than NIL, what they hate more than the transfer portal, was the realignment because of football. That's what they all hate. It's like we were all in conferences that made sense geographically and and now all of a sudden we're to go on road trips from Chicago to Los Angeles. All the time about this in press conferences. The Big Ten, the ACC credit to the Cal schools, because they're actually not doing it because they were kind of in no man's land. But the Big Ten schools do not shut up about this. I think Corey Close is being more truthful than the coach who says, if you don't like your job, do something else. Portland N. I. L. It's it's what drove Laren Yeager into retirement. Now granted he was an old guy, but it's I would not want to be a college basketball coach now in a way that I didn't think even consider five, seven years ago. Larinaga is an interesting one because he got uh in the middle of this to the final four and uh he would be guilty of being what Amin is accusing him of you didn't start complaining about it until you started losing, until you you you produced a a roster that was seven and twenty-four last year with the with the players that you had, and that's when you started complaining about it. Closer here to the professional football team. Uh I'm gonna talk to Jeff Hafley about this on South Beach sessions, but when I've heard him talk about what his experience was at the head as the head coach of Boston College, he was arriving at his dreams. You know how these coaches live , right? It's 20 hour days, you're doing you know what the lowest levels of this look like. It's 20 hours a day, thanklessly, to get to your dream job, you're running a college program and you get there and you realize oh my god this is gross I hate this I don't like who I am this is this is foul I'm I'm dealing all the time with parents and family and money and and it's not even just playing time, which could make me plenty unpopular. It's business, but with fewer rules than we've had around business, so the player being empowered laps upon your shoulders with what must be a litany of endless daily headaches that puts you to sleep at night, and then you can't sleep, and you get up in the morning, and you've got another endless list of things to get to. I imagine that all of these coaches are dealing with this. The ugliest parts of, oh, it's just a bunch of greedy teenagers. Yeah, like it look, any coach who' gsone and coached at the pro level and then come back down, they've all seen the light, like, oh my God. Like the the ability to just focus on basketball, not have to worry about the coaches show and the this these boosters need to meet and all that yeah it's so much stuff that you have to deal with on the collegiate level but the trade-off was I tell these little pissants to do whatever I tell them to do and they gotta do it and that's it and now you've removed that power dynamic. You've basically given the players the same amount of freedoms that a pro player has. You can't coach like that on the pro level. You can't tell hey man, you gotta do this right like no hell no man, I make more than you do. Well now the you're that at the concept, but you still have to deal with T As in like study halls and this guy didn't make it . So it's all the bad sides of college, none of the upsides of the pros, and that makes it I can imagine to be a a difficult thing. I've spoken to a bunch of agents that rep coaches throughout all the ranks and they all tell me universal consensus outside of a handful of outliers. We got one of them down here in Coral Gables. Every single coach in football is trying to make it to the pros . Every single one. This is crazy. And there is no real blueprint to fix it. Just hail Marys . Hello, listeners and friends. Boy, the feedback on that night that I had with my good friend Mochetta while we were drinking Miller Lights watching hoops, it's been outstanding. So much so that we've decided to do it again. That's right. I'm gonna pick up the phone and call up my good buddy Mochetta and say, hey, this college hoops tournament is still roaring. Why don't you come over? And on your way over, pick up some Miller Light anywhere they sell beer and let's put those bad boys on ice. I'm gonna take that first sip. I'm gonna look at Mochetta and say, you know what? We made the right call. 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We're gonna get to Greg Cody's back in my day in a second here, but I want to relive something from earlier in the show, I don't remember, Greg, how it is, uh what it is we were talking about specifically, but you were surprised by my question, and the reason I gathered you were surprised by my question is because of how you reacted to it . It it it's it's AI . He's right. That wasn't me. Uh I want to ask you as the news comes out here on Tiger Woods, the police report has been released. Okay. He glanced at his phone uh when in the car, and the car ahead of him slowed down. So it's uh it is a common affliction on the roadways. I don't know if you guys uh have noticed the sheer number of people texting on the highway, texting at fifty-five, sixty, sixty-five, and seventy miles an hour at Lebutard Show. Uh have you noticed the number of people texting at seventy miles an hour? I haven't because I've been looking at my phone. Yeah. So he glanced at his phone and the car ahead of him slowed down. Officers said he was l lethargic, slow, and sweating profusely. His eyes were bloodshot, glassy, and extremely dilated. And two white pills were in his pocket, hydricoton, which is pretty strong. Uh I don't know. Can you look up for me uh if it if hydro uh cord one is as strong as oxycotton, uh and if it's in the family of stuff, Jeremy, because uh two white pills in the pocket I wanted to get uh back to something that we were discussing yesterday The first time I was ever introduced to the conversation in sports around addiction, baseball had suspended Steve Howe five times and Tommy Las orda was going crazy because Daryl Strawberry was suspended. And Tommy Las orda was speaking for a lot of people when he said of Daryl Strawberry, that's not a sickness, that's a weakness. That that was a choice being made. When we talk about yesterday Tiger Woods getting help or needing to get help, when you view everything happening with Tiger Woods, do you guys think he's still making choices for himself on how it is that he's doing this or, you believe he's addicted to the pain relief medicine that comes after seven back surgeries? If you had to choose and be right. Then he's choosing not to have a driver. That's a that's a clear one. That's not him high 24-7 not mean in his right mind that's that's a dude is choosing not to have a driver and everything else becomes secondary after that because if he has a driver these accidents don't happen. Now, he still has a problem , perhaps, with substances. He still has an underlying problem like we talked about yesterday, like what puts you in a frame of mind where you feel the need to do this beyond the physical pain. All those things, yes, still exist and still need to be addressed. Fair enough, but that's not what I'm talking about here. Yes. That that would eliminate some risks involved for himself and others. Anthony Joshua also had a driver. Bad things can happen all over the place for a lot of different reasons. I'm talking those specifically. Sickness or weakness. Where are you on this? Sickness or weakness? We're not turning this into a first take debate. It's b Decision that my mother couldn't, which was to really try and get clean and get clean, not half measures. So while I understand it's a sickness, I also don't think you can totally absolve somebody of the choices that they make here. If it's an addiction, it the the definition is that it's out of his control. Whether it's a uh an addiction to pills or alcohol or some of both, I believe he is incapable right now of behaving . I I really do. And and when he says he doesn't want a driver because it invades his privacy. It's also why he didn't want a urine test, because they knew what he was gonna what they were gonna find. Right. Is it fair is it fair to say he's not capable of behaving ? I mean, he went to TGL just fine. He's been in social settings and no one's been like, Man, Tigers Tiger's a mess. Well that just means he's a functioning alcoholic. You know, I mean alcoholic, functional addict. Fun functional addict. I mean addict. Somebody who's out of control of their behavior is capable of of having episodes where where they're capable of of hitting a golf ball into a mat, into a video mat. Yeah, I d I I don't know. I I can't answer the question. Is he high when he's playing golf? I I I don't know. I don't he he just flipped the car in a neighborhood. And I think golfing, like if if he were that level he wouldn't be flipping a call. You're pulled over by the police and you have two of these pills in your pocket. Like you're you're taken to the station because you have pain medic ation so readily available that at two o'clock in the afternoon on a Friday you do not wish to be without it. It's on your person. It's what they find on you when you're sweating profusely, your eyes are dilated. And you guys saw the mugshot? Like that that that mugshot Which one beyond age? That mugshot was haunting. Yeah, incriminating . Incriminating. No, but haunt just haunting to look at everything that's happening there and to be filled with sadness. Yeah, and and also I think that looking at my phone is the excuse you use that's more palatable than uh He did use that too. I mean he th there were several other distractions on top of what was in his system. Oxy by the way is one point five times more potent than hydrocodone, uh but hydro stays in your system about twice as long . So that's that's called the delayed release. The long release, the extendo. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I look, man. There's no easy way to say this, right? In that he's someone who has a massive problem. That's the only way you can say it. You have a massive problem and you need help. That's it. Regardless of whether it's a choice or a sickness, he has a massive problem and he needs help. And the one thing that he should not be doing until he receives said help is oper ate heavy machinery. I think that's one thing that we can all agree on, and it's crazy to me that he can't agree on it. Like, yo, Tiger, what are you doing in your life? He says it's because of a privacy thing. He don't want to drive her life. Come on, bro. You can't get somebody to sign an NDA and you don't have to worry about anything. You're Tiger Woods for God's sake. But I mean to that point, like you usually get to the point of rock bottom when you've lost everything, when you've lost all your money, where you have to make a change. When you've got the kind of money the tiger has, what is rock bottom? He's not gonna lose a billion dollars. Like, what is his rock bottom? Killing somebody? Hurting himself past you know past repair? Like he's already been at that point. I like I I wonder I remember John Mullaney's uh stand-up when he's talking about the intervention and how they they pulled it off on him and and like I wonder if he needs like an intervention. Cause like, hey, I'ma tell you this, that picture of him, you talk about the m mugshot, Dan. How about the picture of him in the cop car with his head resting against the window? That's the one to me that's haunting. It's like you want your kids to see that man? Well be like, yeah, that's my dad again. Well I feel bad for Tiger Woods. Maybe I'm alone bec because I think he's out of control. I don't think he's capable of of reining in his own inability to control himself. And and when he's he's publicly embarrassing himself. He's supposed to be such a private man, that's why he's not hiring uh the chauffeur that he can I mean that's that's terrible to look at. I feel bad for the guy. You know, I I I don't condemn him because I think he's just incapable of of fighting his addictions right now. He probably does need an intervention because it's clear, not just the latest episode, but years of of these wrong steps that he's incapable of controlling his behaviors. That suggests to me both sickness and weakness, the distinction I'm making between the two that Tommy LaSorda didn't when talking about Daryl Strawberry is if it's something you view as a sickness, it doesn't come with your judgment. If you're viewing it as a weakness, it is coming with an inability to extend that person compassion. I believe that what you're seeing play out in front of you, he could have lost a leg in a previous accident and is not learning from whatever it is needs to be learned here. You hear in sports all the time that some pain or some shame will result in growth, will result in improvement. Did he or did he not almost lose his leg? Never mind whatever it is that he's suffering, the compounds, the problem because the car accident to a body that has had seven back surgeries when it's a car accident at that at that size of car accident where you're almost losing your leg, your body holds all sorts of trauma in it that requires pain medication. Yes, and and it derailed his career when he had that auto accident, and he's never recovered from it. He's 50 now. He should be dominating on on what used to be called the senior tour. Ken I I thought about this when Miles Garrett got into his accent. I've told you guys the story. I was riding a bicycle ten years ago down the street and somebody opened the car door as I was riding the bicycle, and the bicycle stopped. The door did not give, didn't come off on the car door, and I sort of flipped over the handlebars. I have been dealing for 10 years with the things that happen when your body seizes up like that in a moment because of whatever the adrenaline rush is. If you're in a car accident that almost takes your leg, don't you imagine, uh the never mind the derailing of the career, that whatever Tiger Woods' back pain was because he needed seven back surgeries is going to be compounded by whatever it is absorbing the car rolling over is going to do to your body. You can have empathy and judge somebody. This one, I think, is pretty easy for pundits to weigh in on who aren't super comfortable talking about things like uh addiction issues. You have all the resources in the world. Get a driver. My mom drove with me and my sister in the car while she was impaired. She crashed into a mailbox and the car got totaled because it was a cement mailbox. My mom was sick. She was also an asshole for doing that with children in the car. It's not hard. Folks, listen up. DraftKings Sportsbook, the number one sports book for live betting, is built for March. The tournament is unpredictable, but the rewards are guaranteed. 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And what that say'ings is is it basically absol ves 100% of the responsibility. It's not to say that it's not a sickness. It's not to say that like these people aren't suffering. But when we say opened the door that was like yeah it's a sickness it then allows for the addict to say none of this was my fault I'm just a uh I'm I'm a victim I'm sick and it's like hey, yes, but also you do have some agency in this. Maybe not as much agency as someone who's clear-headed and sober, but you do have some agency. And that's the part that we're coming back to with Tiger Woods, is he has agency in all of this. It's not just the devil made me do it. When you're sick, you seek treatment. When you're physically ill, you seek treatment. When you're mentally ill, it's wise to seek treatment. Tiger Woods has all of the resources in the world. Seek that treatment if you have that problem, and if you are sick, seek that treatment. Greg Cody has informed us that he has it back in my day for the first time in many, many weeks. I cannot wait to hear where we end up on this palate cleansing joyri de . And now it is time to take a trip down memory lane. Here's your guy, Greg Cody , with back in my day . Bowling . I'm in a weekly bowling league. Why? Because I'm an everyman, a lunch pail guy, the face of blue collar, and I love it. The camaraderie, the competition. Not a lot of people know bowling was the first thing I covered at the Miami Herald even before high school sports. I was a teenager. I'd sneak my friends names into the bowling agate with a made-up score. As a kid, I'd nap on a Saturday to the muffled scatter and clatter of pins and the droning commentary of Chris Schenkel. Ah, but bowling has changed from what it was back in my day. We're in a hand icap league, meaning all different levels of player, women and men. On any given Wednesday night, the person bowling on the next lane might be a sharpie with six strikes in a row, or might be a gutter duster lu,cky to make a single pin spare. But all bowlers nowadays, except me, have this in common. Everybody thinks they're a pro. They waltz into the bowling alley with rolling luggage full of four or five , six different bowling balls. I'm the only one in my entire league, no lie, with a single handheld bag containing one ball. The others have a ball for oily lane conditions, another ball for dry lanes, a ball for particular spare combos, please. The ball racks get filled up, and there's so many bags and rollers of surplus balls. The poor waitress trying to bring me another bucket of Miller Light. Ridiculum. Also, fella wearing his name and script on the back of your bowling shirt, nobody knows who you are or cares. You're bowling a 138. Get in your lane, and I don't mean lane 11. Also, Don Carter, quit dancing into my lane with your body English after the ball leaves your hands. Another thing, if you're not using three fingers, two digits, and a thumb, you're not bowling. Make bowling bowling again. Three fingers, a two-ball limit, and no name on your shirt because you're in a handicap league for a reason, Jack also bring back Chris Schenkel even though he's dead. I'm Greg Cody and that's how it was back in my day. Is that a Greg Cody first down? Are you guys really He's marching up and down the field today. I can't do that. You sound a bit winded. You guys were shaking your head. Do you agree or disagree with some of his bowling takes there? It seemed like the fingers was a problem. The holding of the ball, you guys seem to disagree with in there. I didn't know, my bad. I didn't know that the people were coming with multiple balls in a ball. Oh my God. I'm gonna Wednesday night. I'm gonna take photos of what I'm talking about. It's it's an epidemic. It really is. In in the bowling circles, it it's an epidemic and bowlers out there, y'all know what I'm talking about. Greg, there's no way you take a picture of it on Wednesday night, you're gonna completely forget what Don't you play? Do you play or do you bowl? Like what's the adjective? I bowl. Do you bowl? Okay, so it's not play. You don't play bowling. Oh, I'm serious about it. Hey, playing. You you bowl with Chris, right? Chris is a part of your team It's like well, we're the Jets this year. You know, it's like Storm NFL. We all get the name of an NFL team at random, and we happen to be the Jets. That's the lady that that that uh announces all the team names right where you said storm NFL Storm NFL So Chris has multiple balls yeah Christopher comes with like three balls Chris has got three balls yeah and that's and that's average amount. A lot of guys it I swear there you you you feel like you're going through an airport. People are pulling bags of luggage with nothing but bowling balls, and they all have these fancy shoes. They have the the little uh sock that goes over the shoe that they don't take off until they're stepping onto the lane itself. It's just powder on their hands. It's just like it's ridiculous, this handicap league. People who are no better at bowling than me with all these accoutrements. It's ridiculous. And those balls are of different weight, correct? Different weight, different uh surface, you know, some of them are made for an oily lane. I'm looking at a uh a piece of wood. I can't tell whether it's a dry lane or oily . It it's shiny. It's they're all shiny these lanes. What does that mean? Greg, all you need is one ball, a raggedy pair of shoes and about twelve Miller lights. Thank you very much. You got that right. And here's the here's the weird part. I tend to bowl better in my third game, even though that's when I've, you know, got a little hammer time going on. You know what I mean? It's cause you're not overthinking it. It could be. It's gotta be that. But also Yeah, it relaxes you a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, I really am. I agree. Yeah. You don't? I mean he's going to the bowling alley with the equivalent of a lunch pail. He's going with one bag, one ball, old school style, uh just a Casey at the Bat poem tucked into his bowling bag from the eighteen eighties. Onis has a great stat here. You ready? The last quarterback to lead the Dolphins and the Jets to a division title is the same. It's Chad Pennington in both instances. Do you realize how long ago that was . That's 18 years. That's cra but that's crazy for for the last time it to happen for both franchises, the quarterbacks, the same Chad Pennington came closer to winning the MVP here because of what he did with the Dolphins and he did with uh with the Jets. I've got some basketball stats to throw your guys' way uh as uh JJ Reddick is now uh adding his voice to Lucas should win the MVP, okay? You have uh last night in OKC uh free throws attempted by Shea Gal uh Shea Gilgis Alexander the last two games in OKC 4 1 free throws attempted by the entire Knicks and Pistons teams combined in their games the last two nights versus the Thunder? 40. This is not a good thing, the way that Shea Gilders Alexander is saying I'm the mvp i let the speak i let the game speak for me reddick is trying to make lucca the mvp and the stats for luca over the last 16 games are crazy they're they at at the time when this is being decided, Lucas averaging thirty-six and a half points. That's Jordan territory. That's Jordan at his best territory. He's shooting better than Jordan did. He's shooting forty-nine and a half percent on thirty-six and a half points a game and thirty-nine percent from three. He's also got eight rebounds, seven assists, two steals, and they're fourteen and two in their last 16. Uh LeBron as the oldest player in the league had a triple-double again. And it's the it's the perfect role for him to be playing at this point in his career. Like that's happened fairly quietly, all things considered. The seeding of the team to Luca. Luca's allowed to go twenty for twenty seven uh I'm sorry, twelve for twenty seven because Luca's allowed to take all the shots. Uh I mean uh Lebron is playing the perfect complimentary game taking a secondary role to Luca here Yeah, I mean the best that he could possibly do at this stage of his career. Yeah, sure. Uh which of course lined up perfectly because they're playing the Wizards, who nobody really cares about. But yeah, no, like I think LeBron is doing the best he could possibly do. Do I wish he was shooting better from three? Sure. Like, I mean, there's ways he could be better, but it's like given that his entire career has been the ball is in my hands and I decide whether we succeed or fail, and now he's off ball, it is pretty remarkable how well he's playing. To go back to the SGA point, obviously him being the front runner for MVP, you've got Wemby who's now talked his way and obviously played his way into being number two. Great Lucas. Yeah, great game last night, 41. I saw a stat by the way. I don't know if you do you want a start of the day, Dan? Another one? Another one? Just a quick one. Sure . Start of the day. Start of the day. It is the start of the day. Start of the day , star of the day, f this yesterda of the day , star of the day, star of the day, si est star of the day , star of the day, star of the day. It is the start of the day . Six games with 40 or more points in his NBA career. Victor Wemba Nama has. Do you know how many 40-point games the Iceman George Gervin had as a San Antonio Spur . 69 . 69 40 point games for the Iceman. The Niceman. Hada boy. So with that, I mean, obviously, SJA won the MVP last year. Wemby has not oh Jeremy. Wow. The nice man. I defer here to Greg Cody. Uh what are your thoughts there on the uh sixty nine joke? You didn't call him the nice man? You didn't even notice the joke, did you? Yeah, no, I didn't. Of all the people to turn to and ask for the nuance of the sixty-nine joke, you turned to your He's in a handicap bowling league. I might have given it a very good but that's about it. Uh Michelle Beadle is going to join us in a little bit uh to talk about this and other things. Three years. Alright. It's an Iceman thing. Nice man. Chris has got three balls.