 this game was a Saturday night game. I think it was the first on the docket, at least the big one Nuggets sixers. Oh my goodness. Joe Ellenby with 47 and 18. It was a win over Denver. Yolkich ended up with 24 eight and nine. This will be I hope a topic moving forward. Did did mbead finally catch Yolkich Chandler? Is it possible that we can switch the narrative to now just these two? It seems like now you kind of Luca and Tatum taking a step back and it's these two guys and it's fun and it's rare to see two centers battling it out and being the two most dominating players in the league. And to me, this was a statement game for Joe Ellenby. He knew this was national TV. He knew everyone's talking about Yolk. It's three in a row. He's the clear cut favorite and indeed has just been carrying that Philly team with Tyrese Maxie out a lot of time. Joe Ellenby was in the game. He went straight at him any time you got a chance to an ISO. He was kind of going right at right at Yolkich. And if there's a flaw in Yolkich's game, it's it's defense and and Joel really went at him and just any way he could pulling up jumpers, posting him up driving pie him with nasty dunks. You shouldn't be able to do that at that size. So he just kind of put on an amazing job. You know, I mean, Joel is hilarious. He's going to troll. He's going to he's going to make jokes. He is a big, huge personality and games like this on national TV. It's tough to now look away from him and is looking like a two man race for now. But who knows? Like I said, there's a lot of basketball to be playing. Yep. I appreciate the pettiness. I appreciate the competitiveness. I appreciate the fact that he's going to play a lot of basketball. He's going to get over and over with pick and roll and just getting him involved in every action on the floor. I mean, to me, that's what separates the two players and separates Yolkich from the other top players is. A lot of clips he's getting scored on is not say that these guys don't get scored on, but you know, they're attacking him in a way that they don't attack. Joel Labeath, he doubled him up and points and rebounds like that's pretty absurd. That's dominance and he started it from the opening tip on like Chandler said, he knew exactly what this matchup was. He knew exactly the point he wanted to prove and he went and did it. And I kind of hate the rhetoric that goes around these two players where Joel Labeath is a stats guy and Nikola Yolkich is a winning player. They both want a ton and they both have done the same thing. They've came up short every single year of their careers and that's fine. They're both great players. They're both winning players and Joel Labeath continues to get the better of him when they match up. It is what it is. I think he's the MVP favorite. I think he should be and I love that he cares about this matchup and I love that in today's NBA, the two leading favorites for the MVP are centers and like true that I love this that this still exists. I love the idea that Joel Labeath takes everything personally. I think that's how it should be. So you combine the fact that he's got to hear all the Yolkich MVP talk. You combine the fact that he's not starting in the all-star game Chandler. First of all, how does that make you feel that he's not starting in the all-star game and also I think it's almost a good thing for the Sixers. You're poking the bear as we speak right now and he's not starting in the all-star game. I think they do need to change it. The all-star game is entertainment. It's for fun and it should be the five best players, you know, that season starting and no one plays defense anyways. The game is very carefree and very lagged. I'm looking at the starting lineups here and you and bees got to be in there. I don't care if there's one guard put Tatum at the two KD at the five, but Joelle and bead as good of a year as Don Mitchell's had as good of a year as Kyrie Irving's had Joelle and bead is a top three player in the world right now and the fact that he's not starting in the eastern conference. All-star team is a joke and he should be in there and again, not to take away anything from these other guys because they're having great years, but there is no reason that that guy is not starting any of it. I don't think that's going to be the top three top five. Let's say MVP. That means he should be starting in the all-star game. That's the problem, right? Who would you replace on that? Yeah, I do think they have to consider what they do here and I think this is going to come up again with all NBA. You know, one of these guys is not going to be first team all NBA and that's unfortunate. I do think they have to kind of reevaluate how they are going to play. I think he's a wing. Maybe go front-court, backcourt. Maybe go guard wing center. I don't know, but I think he ended up getting losing out to Giannis winning the captain's spot and getting the guaranteed spot and it's unfortunate, but he'll be in the game. He'll play a lot. He'll finish the game and, you know, if he ends up winning the MVP then he won't be so upset about this anymore and I think he's on the top three then Kyrie might be the best player in the world right now and he's going to watch the tip off of the All-Star game, which is just, you know, that's up. You've seen this before too, like Siakam isn't an All-Star, but he's all NBA. Like I think it's just, it's just it's confusing. It's the two had the first two or three best months of the season, especially when he comes to starting like the NBA and the five best guys, you know, play five minutes of the game sub out whoever you want to sub out. I mean, didn't Jay Crowder and Chet Holmgren pick up votes so there you go. That's that's how much that's nothing to see about the parlays last week because we're starting fresh this week when we come back we'll pick for tonight.