 What's the word, y'all? Today we're talking about award voting. It is a major problem in the sports world. And I'm just going to talk about the NBA. I have literally no idea how NFL voting goes or any of the major sport. I only know about basketball, and that probably should change. That's probably diversified my portfolio a little bit. But it's what I know and love. So the way things work, if you did not know, there is a select number of media members that get a ballot every single year. Then they get to vote on their MVP, all the major awards, all NBA teams, all rookie teams, all the buff. And it's just media. It's just media related. And it's coming to light now. The reason I'm talking about it now is because it's on my mind. Because after LeBron James got his win against Denver Nuggets, he was asked about the MVP award. Yanis was announced yesterday or a few days ago. And LeBron said he was pissed that he only got 16 out of the 101 first place votes. It kind of makes sense for his standpoint. But he also went on to talk about all the inconsistencies when it comes to the voting. And this is something that NBA fans have talked about for a long time. But it's really bothering me right now. And that's why I turned on the camera. Because the NBA released the actual ballots today. And when I was looking at them, I was upset. LeBron talked about how the 2012, the year that he probably should have won defensive player of the year. Marcus Saul won. Shout out to Marcus Saul, man, one of my guys. But he also made all defensive second team that year. And it's one of the most inconsistent thing ever. How are you going to tell me he was the defensive player of the year, but he wasn't even the best defending center in the league? What does that make? So stuff like that has happened all the time. And the reason there's a major problem here is because there are some people that get these ballots, these media people that don't take it serious enough. There are people that I respect. Like Zach Lowe is a guy that though I do not agree with every vote he's given over the course of these, whatever, many years, I know for sure that Zach Harper, not Zach Harper. I guess Zach Harper is cool too. Zach Lowe puts together the time to come out with a ballot where like if you question him, why did you have this guy? He would have a logical reason for it. And it's not the case with everybody. There are people like low level media guys that somehow get a ballot and just screw up everything. And the reason why it's a problem because there are financial incentives for a lot of these players to make an all NBA team to win this award, this award. You make an all NBA team, you can qualify for a super max. And there are media people out there that will throw their vote away. And today I wanna talk about some of those inconsistencies because man, does it really bother me? Let me let you know that there is an episode of my show, The Real, that dropped yesterday. I sat down on Jamarite, it was a fire interview. So I recommend you watch that, I'll put the link in the description, go show some love, let them know that you're from here. Okay, let them know that these boys, we, you know what I'm saying? We respect each other, we support each other. So yeah, the NBA, here it is, NBA communications. I think it's really funny. We got the NBA, we have the G League, we have the WNBA. And then the 2K League thing is here. I wanna open that up in a different tab because I'm very curious to, huh? I'm that, oh my God, big time trace, season two MVP, my mom and that man traded to the Kings Gore. Bro, I have a Kings Gore hat. Okay, all right, back to here. These were released the 19th and I think today is the 19th so we finally got the voting. So the way I've been doing things is looking at like the voting, they overloaded the site. Oh my God, don't tell, I just wanna record my video. No, we overloaded the site? Okay. Wow. So though the site is down, Twitter is forever and people got screen shots, which is amazing. Shout out to Twitter for being great and terrible at the same time. What we're looking at now is a defensive player of the year selection. As you can see, all of these names are here. These are some of the people that get votes, right? We have people from Turner, we have people from the athletic, ESPN, NBA, all these guys, right? People from different little small publications, Detroit News, Miami Herald, so on and so forth. But as you can see, this is defensive player of the year. As you know, Giannis won the award, he kinda ran away with it. So one vote doesn't really matter, but let me show you. We got a group of Giannis's up top, makes sense. Giannis deserved the award. We got a Rudy Gobert. I'm not gonna be mad if you voted Rudy Gobert. That's cool. Giannis, Anthony Davis says, and then right here, Joe Cowley from the Chicago Sun-Times throws his vote away completely as he votes for Patrick Beverly, ladies and gentlemen. Patrick Beverly, Joe Cowley, it's fooled. He's just been fooled. There is no way in the world you can tell me and give me an explanation to why Patrick Beverly deserved defensive player of the year. I would love to sit down and talk with him. Please give me your reason. Please give me your explanation to why Patrick Beverly is the defensive player of the year. There is nothing you can say that will make sense. But again, this doesn't really matter because Giannis ran away with his award, but this guy right here is bad. And the fact that he has the award, it tells me a lot about the Chicago Sun-Times. He is your best, your best sports reporter slash writer. And this is what he thinks. This is also the guy that told Bulls Feds a few months ago that be prepared for another year of Jim Boiland being your head coach because the Ryansdorf family has told me, this is him, he has told me, they have told me that they don't wanna pay another coach. And then boom, Jim Boiland gets fired and now this guy is sitting there with pie all over his face, looking like a clown. So he votes for Patrick Beverly as defensive player of the year. But it's not the only thing he had done. He is also out of the 101 people that sit in a ballot for rookie of the year. Joe Cowley is the only guy to vote Zion to the first team. The only guy preventing Jah from being one of the few unanimous rookie of the years. But again, it doesn't really matter because Jah ended up winning the award. But imagine if we had a close race and this guy has an award and he has a vote and he throws it to Patrick Beverly for defensive player of the year. If we have a close vote for a rookie of the year and boom, he throws it away. I just, I don't understand how a guy like this who has continuously shown that either he's not watching basketball or he does not give a damn, the NBA allows the Chicago sometimes to give him a vote. The Chicago sometimes is huge. You're trying to tell me there's not another reporter that we trust more with the NBA ballot because I know for sure Joe Cowley is not watching basketball if Patrick Beverly is his defensive player of the year. I unblocked him just now because I wanna see if he has explained himself on Twitter. Remember that debate on who won the 2017 Jimmy Butler trade between the Bulls and the Timber Puppies? Oh my God, this guy is so lame. Oh my God, Jimmy whoop both their behinds. And the reason why he's doing this because he also gave Jimmy Butler a MVP vote, a third vote for MVP. And again, you remember that the MVP award is for the regular season. Though Jimmy Butler has looked amazing and he is a great leader, he is not the third best MVP voting. Is there anything else that this guy has tweeted? Didn't have my first place vote long live the king. He also voted for LeBron, but I'm not mad as somebody for voted for LeBron. That's not a big deal. It has to be other things in here. Oh my God, the site is back up. So I can actually show you. So here we go with rookie of the years. You can see Zion ended up getting that one vote and I already showed you who that was. Okay, but when you see it on paper and you see all of them a wrenched jaw and you see the one guy here who had jaw second and then Kendrick Nunn third is actually insane. But it goes on. It's not just him. If we go over to most improved player, Brandon Ingram ended up winning it, barely beating out Bam Adebayo with the first place votes by just a few. But if you go down here, you're like, okay, who has some other votes? See a guy like Christian Wood had a, oh, he had a first vote. So let's go see who voted for Christian Wood. Whom you trying to tell me a guy that writes for Detroit News, voted Christian Wood? I'm shocked and appalled. Very interesting stuff. No biases in this whatsoever, huh? This is where things get really interesting. We're talking about defensive teams here. If we go down this list, there is a few players that you like, how the heck did this player get a vote? James Harden got a first team vote along with Luca and we know though James Harden is a definitely an improved defender from when a couple of years ago, everybody's making fun of him being a bad defender. He's definitely improved from then. He's definitely not the best if one of the top two defending guards in the entire league. He got a vote. So let's go see who that was from. Here, James Harden is right here. Huh, a guy from the Arizona Republic. And if you did not know, James Harden went to Arizona State. Not biased at all. There's no biases in this one, but we just think, me at the Arizona Republic think that the best player to go to a school in Arizona deserves to be on a defensive team. He also voted Damian Lillard as a defensive player. So this guy doesn't watch basketball whatsoever. So cross him out, take his vote away. And somehow we get Luca. This guy, I don't know who he is. He writes for the news day. I don't know what that is, but there's something going on here. He gave Anthony Davis a yonus or not. That makes sense. Drummond somehow gets one. Okay, Luca Ben Simmons is right. Then he gave one to Porzingis, the Sun White Side, Russell Westbrook and Cal Lauri. How, how does this guy, Greg Logan, get a vote if this is what he's doing with his vote? I don't understand it. And then lastly, we get to the rookie voting. Up top, I cannot complain about anything up here. I thought that rookie voting was fine. I'm very confused on how RJ doesn't make it over like a Terence Davis got a bunch of votes. And I like Terence Davis, but personally RJ probably deserved to be there. Somehow we had a situation where Cody Martin got a vote. Cody Martin, Cody Martin got a vote. Cody Martin now has like four points per game as Ricky season on a very, a pretty bad team. And the guy that did it was Sekul Smith from theNBA.com. This is the guy y'all giving a vote to from the NBA. He put Cody Martin as a guy I don't under, I don't understand it. I don't understand it. And that's just a few of the inconsistencies throughout the entire thing. And we see it every single season, every single season. When LeBron was close to winning a unanimous MVP, there was somebody from the New York Times or some New York publication gave a MVP vote to Carmelo Anthony. Why? Because he didn't want LeBron to be unanimous. And this is not about LeBron. That's just the one that's on top of my head. But there are people that have votes that don't deserve it. I know there are plenty of great reporters and media people that care about the game of basketball, that care about the votes that will really take it serious. That's it. That's my rant. Joe Cowley just got blocked again. I just had to do that before I got out of here. I refused to see his tweets on the timeline. Just really, just really, really bad.