 What's the word y'all? One of the league's most dangerous players might be even more dangerous going into the 2021-22 season. And that's scary. It's scary because I'm just in the same division on a team that's trying to be competitive and his dude has already won two MVP's. He's won a finals MVP and he will not stop getting better. And the preseason, Giannis has been doing things a little bit out of character. One of the things people have said about Giannis for an entirety of his career is that he's got no bag. Or if he does have a bag, it's this beat. He ain't got no duffy. He ain't Harry Irvin. But people always talk about his bag being non-existent or very small. And in the preseason, for a lot of NBA players, it's a place for them to try new things and do things they normally don't. And, well, let's just react. Let me just show you what the heck is going on. I talked about this in yesterday's video. When I wake up, I go on to write it and see what's going on in the world. It's a terrible place, but a great place at the same time because I haven't been watching many preseason games. We talked about the fact that the Charlotte Hornets lost by 50 the other night. So yes, I ain't been tuned in, but I probably should have been tuned in to this one because Giannis is looking a little bit different. It's a time to try new things. And if this isn't Giannis, we're getting the season. We might want to get his man historic MVP award. Royce Donia on him, pull up, jump shot, cool. Now, I'm not going to be wanting to overreact from the fact that he shot five for eight from the field on jump shots, but it's stuff within this that's interesting. This move right here, if we're going to say every NBA player has a signature move, this is what I'm saying Giannis' signature move is. It is the turnaround mid-range jump shot. He's done it for a couple of seasons, and this might be the year's pose to really, really break out as his move. A little steal from Drew Holiday. What we got? Eric Pascal, shout out to my homie, man. He look good in that New Jersey. He got a good close out, but Giannis is built differently. I don't know, ladies and gentlemen, this might be scary for the league, man. This might be scary for the league. This is, I'm pretty sure, a miss, but he found the open spot, a mid-range jump shot, and he took it with confidence. Let's see what you got, Eric. Little pick from Chris. Size up, size up, mid-range jump shot, cash. Listen, man, Giannis might be poised for another MVP. He sees the open look in the corner, takes it in his bottoms. Are we ready for this? Now again, we know overreacted from the fact that he shot well in the pre-season game, his pre-season, but I'm looking at when I'm watching that is the fact that he was taking shots in rhythm, and it was significantly faster than the jump shots he had been taking over the course of the first couple years of his career. And if that is the case, if he's getting it all faster and he's shooting it better, gee, geez, hand this man another MVP award. Now it's not just from the field, this is the same game versus Utah Jazz, and you're gonna notice something significantly different. You will not be here in crowds, count to 10 on Giannis, because he has improved the speed of his jump shot. It is a spin, it is a dribble, it is an exhale, and it is a release. Now Giannis has said in the past that part of the reason why he doesn't shoot the free throw well is like cognitive, it's all in his mind, and his new free throw routine can help him, I believe, stop thinking about the fact that it's a free throw, because the man was sitting there for more than 10 seconds on a lot of the occasions to miss a free throw. So we'll see what his free throw percentage looks like this year, we'll see what his three point percentage is like this year, but the reason why I love Giannis and this has been on the record for a very long time, this is not me joining the bandwagon, I've been a fan of Giannis since his very first season. Maybe not, I wouldn't call myself a super fan though, I know there are super fans out there, but I didn't see that Giannis was gonna be one of the best players ever, his rookie season, but I definitely saw the fact that I liked him. Y'all know I'm a dude that likes projects. Seku Dumbuya was one of my favorite players in his draft class, that boy just got flipped around like, you know what I'm saying? I like project players, so when Giannis came into the league and I didn't know much about him, but other than he was a scrawny small forward that I put at point guard in 2K, I liked him a lot. And the reason why he has continued to get better and better and better and better and better is that he's never satisfied. And that's something, and I'm not taking it from Giannis, but that's something that I can relate to on one way or another, whether it be my own personal life in the world, I can never be satisfied. This man just came off an NBA Finals where he won MVP, submitted himself as one of the greatest players of all time. What is he ranked? It doesn't really matter. He's like 26, 27 years old. He's got a long time left. But the fact that he won a Finals MVP, he had already won two NBA, NBA MVPs and the defensive player of the year. He's a Hall of Famer right now already. He can retire tomorrow. He's a first ballot Hall of Famer. He could have been a dude that's like, ah, I've done what every NBA player strives to do. I won a championship, but I also won it as the guy. I dropped 50 in a closeout championship game. I could take a month off of practice. I could come into next season a little bit out of shape. Not with a guy like Giannis, man. I don't remember the exact timetable because I'm thinking about things that happen in like real time, but he did not take a ton of time out of the gym. I remember him on Instagram Live going to Chick-fil-A and getting a 50 piece. I remember him taking the Larry O'Brien over to Greece. And then the next thing I saw of him was he was back in the gym. And one of my favorite tweets, oh my God, this is crazy. I'm like, hey, I'm fanboying out about Giannis. Give it to me. I mean, you're gonna see stuff like this very often, but there is a tweet that Giannis dropped. And I got to find it real quick because I'm pretty sure I quote tweeted it. So I just got to stroll through my tweets. And as I do this, I'm realizing how often I tweet and my excuse is that it's a part of the job. Part of my job is tweeting, you know? Okay, so I didn't actually quote tweet it, but I did retweet it. It is a picture that say they asked me what I'd do it, what I'd do it for. I obviously quoted in the song. And it's a picture of his son. I think his name is Liam. And he got the pictures flipped. It should be him on this side, what I do and what I do it for. But I related to this so hard, even though my future child is not here yet. This is like the mindset that I think everybody should live by. This man won an NBA championship. And went right back to the gym because he's thinking about his kids, bro. And then he had another kid this off season, congratulates to Yanis and his wife. I'm actually gonna quote that tweet on my burner account and do the same thing, you know? Shout out to Yanis. Now, what are the chances that Yanis goes in and wins another MVP? I don't think it's as low of a chance as a lot of people are saying. If you look at the Vegas odds, Yanis is down at fourth, which is still pretty high, but the Milwaukee Bucks will continue to be a very, very good regular season team. And there has been a gap from the last time Yanis has won MVP. You're like, Kenny, why does that matter? Because Volta's fatigue is a very, very real thing. LeBron should have way more MVPs than he actually does. But again, Volta's fatigue exists. People get tired of the same player dominating and dominating and dominating and I think so we have the two MVP years, then we got no award, but also an NBA championship which boosts Yanis up even more because the last memory saw him taking over a game and dropping 50. And if he keeps that momentum up, I think it is a possibility that Yanis comes in and wins his third MVP award. And it's also, you're seeing growth with it. For example, like I said, LeBron deserved to win way more MVPs than he actually did, but LeBron wasn't necessarily getting better. He was just already the peak of the athlete. LeBron was doing the same thing and that same thing was good enough to have him at the top of the league for a decade. Yanis won two MVP, won an MVP award, then the next year he got significantly better, right? He won another, he won a second MVP award, then he won an NBA championship. And now if this footage where we're watching and all of this is gonna correlate and go to the NBA regular season, he's even better than he was with the two MVP awards. Insanity. And I think that could be good enough for him to win it again. Would I bet my money on it? No, I just, I don't know, I don't know. Voting on, look at me, just like backtracking. Voting on like season long things is, I can't do it. I'm an impatient guy. I can't put a bet in October 14th and wait until April or June or wherever they give the awards to to reap my reward. I can't do that. I don't know how y'all be doing that, bro. I couldn't do it. But out of the options of Luca Doncic who obviously is gonna be amazing this year, I've set this on the show before. I'm not a huge believer what the Dallas Mavericks I don't really like Jason Kidd as a coach. And you have to be one of the top two to three Cs to win MVP award. I don't think Luca and them are gonna do that. It's a possibility. But right now, if I'm making my prediction, they won't. Joellen Bied has a storyline behind him dealing with the whole Ben Simmons stuff. If they don't have been Simmons and they still end up being one of the top seats, I can see that. Kevin Rand is dealing with the Carrier of a situation and he was in a conversation for MVP before he injured himself last year. And then you got Yana. So you got Steph Curry. So there is a little narrative part of every or majority of MVP, MVP awards. But I do believe Yana's got a very, very good chance to get that third MVP. And then now we're talking about him on another level of tier ranking when we talk about the greatest players of all time. To end up with three MVP awards, an NBA championship, and at the minimum two defensive player of the years. I don't think he's done get the, or one defense player of the year. I don't think he's done getting defensive player of the year awards either. That it's so insane that when Yana is done, again, we don't know what his career looks like. Hopefully he plays a very healthy, at least another decade. We don't really know. He has the potential to be like one of the greatest players of all time. I made this tweet a little while ago and I can actually find this tweet because I know I actually sent it. It's a clip of Kevin to rant all the way back in 2017. He was asked about Yana's. This is before Yana's won any MVP awards or any defensive player of the years. Everything is gonna look super blurry because it's Twitter. You can't even tell this is Kevin to rant. He's like a unlock character. But this, when Kevin to rant recorded this, Yana's had just made his first all-star game appearance and hopefully the audio sounds good. Let's see what we got. A pretty freak I think is a force and he's nothing, I've never seen anything like him in his ceiling or his prior. He could end up being the best player of the play that he really wanted to, so. He can probably end up being the best player to ever play if he really wanted to. And there's one thing that is true about Yana's. He really wants to be the greatest. It's the reason why he's always in the gym even though he just won a championship. So, man, I'm excited to watch Yana's this season. I'm excited about everything NBA related. I'll know this. If you enjoyed it, leave it a like and I'll see y'all tomorrow. Maybe, I don't know. There's no real schedule.