Okay, 65 on a state to another.

I mean jail time.

Mhm.

Sounds like more cheers than booze than they did a nice video tribute at the first time out.

So all things considered a nice moment there and then J.

Will.

James Harden does what James Harden does.

He's been spectacular.

We'll look Yeah, Bruce Brown at the five.

Actually, I want to give a lot of credit to Steve Nash and Mike D.

Antoni with the system that they've implemented for this team, and James Harden can do it in a variety of different ways.

Bring.

He almost had a triple double in the first half alone.

Now, here he is in the second half.

This is sort of the patented three.

Then he's gonna knock another one down with a hand in the face.

You probably you probably want to switch on a high pick and roll, and you probably want to follow him to the basket as well.

29 points, 14 assists, 10 rebounds In an easy win for James Harden upon his return.

He's got greetings for everybody and then a nice moment.

He's got some shoes for some kids in the stands over.

And all the success for hardens return to Houston.

Here he was after the game.

Hopefully I did something right?

Obviously, I came up short of a championship.

But to work on and off the court that I put in over the past eight years, you know, was was elite, you know?

And obviously, I think that's the only thing that I didn't do or didn't accomplish is the championship, which is difficult to, uh, you know, obtained.

All right, As I mentioned, Jay Williams is here with us.

So again we see these superstars going back to the places they forced their way out of from time to time.

How did you feel?

It was handled last night.

Oh, I thought he was a professional.

And I actually thought that Tilman Fertitta, the owner by announcing that they were going to retire his jersey at some juncture of the season was an olive branch.

It was Look, I am sorry.

I'm sorry we didn't handle this properly by hiring a new coach by letting go over your GM that got you here.

I know you probably didn't handle it in the most professional manner that you could have handled it, but by me announcing that we're going to retire your jersey, we want to make amends.

I want you to feel comfortable here.

We'll do.

A tribute video will do whatever the hell you need us to do in order to make you feel comfortable in case you ever want to come back.

In the meantime, right now, he's not thinking of going anywhere because I know there were three letters you're ready to attach to his an M V P M V P as of right now.

And I know Joel Embiid had an incredible game last night, but they've been doing this without Kevin Durant.

Now he's their A game and a half behind the Philadelphia 76 years.

He is number one on my list right now, but the way he's playing triple doubles leading the league in assists uh, it's really him and Kyrie have been so unique.

Everybody wondered, How could they do it together?

Greeny.

Well, look, I told you he's going to be on the ball.

Kyrie is gonna score.

When this team is that they're complete health, they are the best team in the Eastern Conference.

Joel Embiid is making a lot of headway.

Don't get me wrong.

50 points against the Bulls, 40 points last night in 19 rebounds against the Utah Jazz.

That's right now James hard number one, and number two LeBron James.

Number three.

And again, they will get K D back.

And we would assume that those guys are healthy and at full strength on one side, and the Lakers are at full strength and healthy on the other side.

This seems to be a collision course that we're looking at here.

How would you see that?

Which team do you like right now for the championship?

If they're fully healthy, fully healthy, I'm still going to take the Lakers.

But I will tell you, I said at the beginning of the year, people blew their mind.

Uh, this is the best scoring trio in the history of the game, greenie the game has never seen.

I will compare them to Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.

These guys are all wizards with the ball, and K d doesn't need the ball because he doesn't need to dance with you, can be efficient with the way he plays.

Why would anyone lose their mind over that?

I think it's a fairly simple and obvious statement of fact.

Kevin Durant might be the greatest score of all time.

James Harden puts up numbers we haven't seen since Wilt Chamberlain and Kyrie Irving can score with absolutely, anyway, because people complete best scoring trio of all time with best team of all time.

Potentially, I don't know if they have.

They have to win championships to be the best team of all time.

Golden State has proven that they have won championships.

That's why we put them in that category.

But this team has the potential in the ceiling to be one of those teams we haven't seen.

Durant in quite some time, won't see until after the All Star break.

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