Janice is the two time defending M v P.

LeBron is making a great case for the award himself, playing without a D.

He's getting a little bit tired of answering this question, but yes, it is again after the game last night, his job to figure out how to move this team forward.

It's my job to like you said to figure it out, uh, on both sides of the floor.

And, um, I think defensively, I've just been more a little bit more active, you know, trying to be in the right position where, um, that would benefit our team, benefit myself.

But I've just been, um I've just been flying around and, uh, this helped our team, and everyone's been flying around and help me out as well, too.

So, you know, I'm definitely not, uh okay with losing.

And, uh, so it's my job to figure it out was gonna be the best for our team.

And we've done a good job with that Alaska Games.

And J I think if you make the case for LeBron being the M v p, it's a strong case to make.

But you've got another guy.

You briefly mentioned it here at the top.

Another guy that's closing fast in your mind has surpassed the King for the moment.

I do.

I got I got James Harden leading the leading board right now.

James Harden, Joel and Beat and LeBron James.

I think LeBron James lost a little bit of that luster during that stretch when both Dennis Schroder and a D have been out.

Um, obviously, they didn't win the game.

It was tough for him.

Um, he still played well.

But I think we're kind of wondering if LeBron James could put this team on the on their backs on his back and really carried them to the next level.

Joel and be.

He's been dominant in the East, and I think James Harden without K D.

Even though they lost one the other night at home to Dallas, he's been playing out of his mind.

Now look, LeBron James can easily get back into this race.

This is not over.

This is constantly fluid and moving.

But as of right now, James Harden, number one jewel and beat number two LeBron James.

Number three James Harden has been cooking for sure, but I'm not ready to just because LeBron James dropped three games without a D in the lineup and Schroeder in the lineup.

Was it three or four?

Well, I don't remember.

The number is either three or four games for Game four games without those two in the lineup.

I'm not ready to just decide that LeBron James isn't the M v P.

And he doesn't have the momentum that he had prior to that, Um, you just gotta You got to look at where they or down the stretch opposed to before the All Star break, which I would say, Look, James Harden was by himself without Kyrie and Katie.

They lost to the Dallas Mavericks.

So kind of, you know, hints the keys point a little bit, but still that four game losing streak, you did want to see something a little bit extra from LeBron.

Potentially, You guys did bring some anecdotal things to the table there on hard, and let me just be the guy that didn't play.

Let me give you the statistical notion for what you didn't play.

It's hard to believe if you're listening on the radio, you probably can't tell, but it's one of those things where I would say this is the number one reason for hardened for M v.

P.

Right now, he used to lead the league or be the league leader in a stat that's important but not flattering.

It's called usage rate, right, always touching the ball, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble.

Kick your leg out.

Go to the free throw line with two seconds to go in there.

Well, that's his thing, right?

I just looked at James Harden's usage rate.

It's down to 34th in the league.

All this familiar characters, Yannis is up there.

Lucas number two Yannis is there in the top 10 hardens.

At 34 he has to share the ball with Kyrie and Kevin Durant, Yet he's still making a huge impact.

So if you can evolve your game doing something different than you used to do the your entire career to me, it says you're definitely evolving as a player.

That could be, in my opinion, the best argument for him.

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