I cannot ignore that.

He played nine basketball games in Houston.

Y'all do know that that's like 15 20% of the season.

The regular season does matter.

When he first got to the Nets, they had the all time worst defense in the history of the lead.

Before they got it together, I sat courtside and watch them lose to the Detroit Pistons.

I was covering the game You, us to J will when they just lost to the maths.

So again, James Harden.

I love the way he's reinvented his game.

He's a fantastic player.

I'm a huge fan.

I voted for him to be envy people for, But you can't ignore the journey.

How can he leapfrogging player like Koa Leonard, who've been doing it all year on both ends of the floor?

And James is not a defender by the way, or Joelle and Bead LeBron James.

If you want to just go by stats.

You can look at the Joker, Luca and James Harden.

They basically have the same stats, but I can't say James to me when I'm watching.

League past has been more valuable.

Then Dame Lillard or even Steph Curry when I'm watching games so far.

Wo J.

Rose You gave me, like, seven names, right?

There are those, like, seven days, all seven of those names ahead of James hardening your MVP voting right now, I'm saying that in 30 plus games played this year, LeBron James has played like 36 overall games.

James Harden has played like 24 and nine of them were in Houston.

So, no, I take that back.

He played like 20 games with the Nets, but my point still stands the body of work.

Of all of the individuals that I name since training, are we going to ignore what happened?

Did you remember when James showed up a training camp?

Right?

J remember that little baby's party, like the season the season has started, the season had started.

The other people that I'm talking about was playing, and I just heard you guys debate, and that's why I like regular season awards and then I like a postseason award because if you only give a postseason award, the champion, the best player on the championship team, is gonna win finals.

M V p every year, and you can't have that, But they can't.

You have a finals, M v p.

And then after the season is over after you have the entire season, the full body of work, then can't you make an assessment of who your M B A M V.

P is of the entire season?

Said a lot of all of you guys know this N b a M v p you can.

You guys can't ignore this.

They're just different phases to the season.

There's the preseason, the regular season in the postseason, and we're gonna judge each player as such.

You can't ignore if you take away a regular season award you get.

You don't give players incentive to go out and show up every game to put on the show for the fans.

Other than their check, Russell Westbrook did win M v P as a six seed as 1/6 seed.

Yeah, I was just playing so outstanding, averaging a triple double J.

Rose.

No, that's historical.

Alright, we hadn't seen none of us in our lifetime ever seen because we were not around with Oscar Robinson.

Big old wasn't we was like peas.

If if that's so of course he wanted, then I mean, he had to win it.

But here's why.

I have a issue with the regular season MVPs versus going into the postseason.

Because, typically, dudes that win the M V p their teams are fighting hard to win a world championship.

So why not just let it run its course and into the playoffs?

Because it's two separate seasons is like How many times key have you said This guy plays really good in the regular season, but he's vastly different in the postseason.

That happens all the time, so you still you still have to row.

You still have to reward the regular season.

Though the regular season deserves awards, the postseason has awards.

You know what they are?

Finals.

M V P.

In championship.

Those are the rewards.

J.

Let me ask you this.

I keep saying Jake because I j not J Wilbur J Rose.

Um, if cool, why not quiet If Katie doesn't play for some reason in and out of the lineup come to postseason.

Same thing when Anthony Davis, in and out of the lineup, can the Lakers or the Nets win the world championship with those two big guns, second round exits, second round exits, both situations.

Second round exits as much as we love and Kyrie is dynamic like I've been calling them Kyra's and I sit back and watch them watch those games eat popcorn.

This dude got jumping off both legs, finishing with both hands, showing up with his verb stick burning sage like I'm actually a Kyrie fan.

Um, and James Hartness is terrific at setting the table and being a triple double threat, but we know who make that thing go.

We know who the big dog in the yard is.

That's K D.

We all know why everybody is there.

And so if he's not available to play up front, they're already thin up front.

So you ain't going against the Bucks and Johannes, the Sixers and Joel Embiid without that physicality upfront, it's just you're just not going to have the size of the versatility, because KD now opposes that with this vast range of skills being able to score from all faster to the floor.

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