We're running the point, and we begin with at five.

Brooklyn's best in the West.

J explain this.

Well.

Brooklyn is undefeated right now in the West on their trip.

They've been playing phenomenal basketball, and I will say this.

James Harden is a dark horse candidate for the M V.

P.

I mean, he had 37 last night in their win against the Clippers without Kevin Durant.

Now I know down the stretch, Paul George didn't play.

But the way the Nets have looked defensively against the Lakers against the Clippers going on this West Coast swing, they finishing up tomorrow night.

Uh, they are playing the best basketball along with the Utah Jazz in the NBA.

Next up at four.

Bradley, Beal and Luca Don Check should not not start the All Star game.

So here's my thing.

Dame Dollar got robbed in the All Star game.

There are fourth in the West.

He should have been a starter, and I wanna have a rule.

I want to create new rules.

This is like Bill Maher production here.

New rules.

Okay, Szubin, you have to be 500 or better in order to be a starter in the All Star Game.

Now Bradley Bill, I know is a bad boy.

He's incredible.

He is an All Star, No doubt about this is not me hating on Bradley Bill.

I watched him rock out since Florida.

He's one of the most phenomenal players in the league.

But I just want there to be some kind of standard if you're going to be a starter.

If you're gonna be a starter, you gotta elevate your team to a different level.

And that means guys like Dame.

That means guys like Zach Lavine, you know who actually is in playoff contention.

Should be starters.

Everybody else should be all Stars, but those guys should be starters.

My opinion.

Evidence for J.

The Wizards Air 10 and 17 Luka and the Mavericks Air 13 and 15.

Next up at three.

Joel Embiid is trending towards M V P.

After dropping half 100.

Man, this dude have 50 in their game on on ABC the other night, 50 50 and 17 against the Bulls.

He punishes people and the way Doc has unlocked him and Tobias Harris dwelling beat is being Joel Embiid.

He literally went coast to coast and hit someone with the Euro step and finished at the rim.

He's shooting the ball extremely well over 50% from the field, the way Joel Embiid this plane.

PHILADELPHIA They need their love, their prime position to be in the NBA championship, not saying it's gonna happen.

I still the Nets, but they're gonna be in Eastern Conference finals next up at two.

Could LeBron's N V.

P run a chance to win jeopardized the Lakers championship aspirations?

So here's my things.

You remember last week when we talked about Are we worried about the low management of LeBron James and keep kept saying, Well, we're gonna know I'm like, Whoa, whoa, wait a second.

You played against Minnesota, By the way, Minnesota just fired their head coach let you know where Minnesota was going.

Since then, they've been oh, and to they lost to the Heat on Friday night.

Then they lost again to the Nets.

So what I would say to this is LeBron James is one of eight from the three point line.

The other day he played 37 minutes.

How do you handle this.

If you're their head coach, Frank Frank Vogel, moving into this new direction here, do you lessen his minutes to a degree?

Because if you play him a lot and he's got the shoulder this carry, you know, trying to keep them in a position, what does that mean for a guy who only had 71 days off after winning the championship coming back into the season now playing without Anthony Davis?

How do you manage that low for LeBron James going into the playoffs?

It's gonna be so fascinating to watch.

Don't worry about the Lakers.

I do worry about the Lakers because I covered covered basketball covered basketball.

No, you don't.

You don't like talking about basketball.

I like talking about basketball in this show.

The Lakers man.

Coming, LeBron LeBron gonna win the thing, man, Stop coming, faras the all star stuff.

Go, Jay, Why do I care?

I'm if I start in the N b a All Star game and I don't care, right?

I'm in the All Star game.

If I started, I started.

If I play the second quarter, wait a second quarter.

What?

I don't understand that pet peeve.

I'm a starter.

Be a starter starter is to be recognized that you're the best of the best.

I'm at the All Star Game.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

There's a difference between being an alternative or being one of last alternate selections than being a starter in the All Star Game key.

But I'm not.

I'm not a alternate selection.

I'm a selection because I am one of what is it?

12 on each team?

Essentially, essentially, Yeah, I'm one of 12 on the team.

I'm just saying, Just don't get it.

It's to be a starter.

Is different.

One thing I would say Damian Lillard actually took the high road, he actually said.

When asked about the snub, he said, You know, early in my career really would have worked me up, but at this particular point, I ain't worried about it.

So he defused the situation pretty interesting.

He's always angry, though.

Zubin, what's that?

Dame is always angry.

That's who Dame is.

That's how you channel it, right?

LeBron and the Lakers dropped another one without a D this time to the Heat on Saturday night.

Just gotta pay the bills and the Monday morning.

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Anthony Edwards Entire stat line in a game vs One great dunk.

So this was This was the thing that went viral over the weekend.

Anthony Edwards absolutely punished a play.

Punished a play.

It was getting the Raptors.

I mean, the dunk was phenomenal, and it was everywhere.

People were talking about this as the dunk of the year, but the stat line when you think about it, he was 07 from the three point line, three or 14 from the field didn't play well at all.

And Minnesota loss.

So it turned into people saying that Oh, you guys air hating on him because it's that line was good, but this is the play of the year.

So how do you see it?

Szubin and Key?

Is it the player of the year?

Is that the one point that we take away due to social media?

Or is it the stat line that Anthony Edwards actually didn't play well in the game?

Hard to defend the staff line?

I e.

The stat line.

The dunk is cool, but the stat line I don't have I didn't draft you and have you here for a dunk in for us to talk about it from a marketing standpoint.

What is that gonna do for the team, right?

I mean, it's the stat line that concerns me as faras his play The dunk.

I don't It's like it's a highlight reel.

It's a poster young YouTube.

It's gonna be all that throughout his career.

But then that stat line is what matters most cause that's when you gonna get the W's and l's.

And then it's so funny because when you talk about hey, he only had seven points or that he was 07 from the three point line, three or 14 from the field.

People like, Why are you hating?

Why can't you just show love like, Well, that's not hating?

Hey, that's not hating the dunk Crazy.

Yeah, the dunk is crazy.

There's no question about it.

But that over seven dog or whatever it waas, we gotta fix that.

That's the problem, because you, Duncan, we know you're gonna do that right.