 What's the word, y'all? Welcome back to another Ramble Man. I've been trying to make Sundays for the Ramble. Some people wake up and start thinking about their favorite football teams. Some people wake up looking for Kenny for real Ramble and I appreciate you. There's a lot of things I wanna get to in today's video. If you're new around here, a Ramble is just me, a microphone and a camera. We can talk for five minutes. We can talk for an hour. Just all things that's on my mind. It starts off in the NBA. It probably won't end that way. That's what the Ramble is. And today I got topics like the Phoenix Suns, the Toronto Raptors, the Golden State Warriors. It's just a lot of different stuff. It's the Ramble. So before we get into it, let me tell you about our sponsor. Today's video is brought to you by Shopify. A lot of y'all know that I started a business named Joy Basketball a little while ago and I had literally no experience on starting and growing a brand. 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I had to sponsor yesterday's video, right? And instead of people talking about the contents of the video, all of the comments are like, dang, can he sponsor by them? Dang, can he Hollywood? I'm not Hollywood. I'm not big time. They hit the DMs. I said yes, simple. You know what I'm saying? The same thing with the sponsor for today's video. So shout out to everybody that sits through those. If you don't appreciate you too because your click means the same to me. Let's talk about the Phoenix on the start-off where it's the hot topic right now because Devon Booker today gets a pelicans who have become a rivalry. This is a rivalry, a modern day rivalry. We don't have a lot of those. You know, we have rivalries in the NBA that are ingrained in the Jersey. Lakers Celtics, Bulls, Knicks? I don't find them. The Bulls don't really have a rival. I don't know. I mean, you could say the Bulls, Knicks, but in reality, I don't know if Knicks fans are looking at the Bulls like, I wanna see them fail. And I don't think Bulls fans are looking at Knicks like, I wanna see them fail. That's what a rivalry is to me where the opposing team hates the guts of the other team. But even if you're not even associated with each other, you wanna see them fail. Bears Packers? Bears Packers? Bro, I could go on about stories where my family is hate watching Aaron Rodgers in them. You know what I'm saying? Because that's the way it works. So Lakers Celtics have that and this is becoming a modern little sum sum. And it's not engraved in the uniform because this basically started last season in the playoffs. So unfortunately for us, we won't see this again unless they see each other in the playoffs again because, well, they played three out of their last whatever games in the last two weeks. They have no more regular season games against each other. Which is crazy. It's ridiculous. Devon Booker today put up 58 points on 60% from the field, 50% from three, but he also missed five free throws to make it 66%. And now let's, Devon Booker's an 85 to 90% free throw shoot. I don't know, I'm not Googling it, but I know he's a really good free throw shooter and 66% is probably haunting him because if he just hits two more free throws, he get that big all-round number. And I don't care what you say, the philosophy speaks for itself. I remember a professor talking about this before. I remember what class it was in. Talking about the round number and why humans are attached to it. We're like, of course you wanna score 20 points instead of 19 because it's more, but it just looks prettier. Having that zero or having a five looks prettier and we want that. So 58 points is two less than 60, but it ain't as impressive as getting 60. You know what I'm saying? So if he just hit a couple more free throws that boom, he get a 60 piece and yada yada. I think we're gonna look back on this game. It is a regular season. So maybe not, but like highlights of this game gonna be played throughout the course of Devin Booker's career. Because not only did he draw 58 points on 60% shooting, but he scored 26 or 24 straight points for the Phoenix Suns on a comeback where they were down double digits. It's the regular season. So whatever, but this game is incredible. Now again, I'm watching this as a guy that just enjoying the game basketball. I'm not rooting for the Pales. I'm not rooting for the Suns. I'm just watching, right? And I make a tweet when Devin Booker hit a shot that put him at like 44 points or something. And I think I tweet like, oh my God, Devin Booker or something crazy like that. And we're gonna get into this first topic about the Phoenix Suns, but I'm actually surprised at how unlike they are on NBA Twitter and NBA media. I mean, I can understand it partially, right? Cause Chris Paul is basically an unlikable player unless you're me and quickly explaining this. Cause anytime Chris Paul's name is in news negatively for on or off the court stuff, if you know, you know, I'm the first person that get mentioned. My mentions get flooded. So for example, the other day when they were going against the Pelicans in one of those games, he tried to throw a little, little, little bump at Jose Verrata like, can he help me support this dude? How do you become a fan of this dude? Here's my quick one minute explanation of my fandom with Chris Paul. And I'm looking at the time right now when I was younger, I thought I was going to play going to the league. I knew my dad was short. My dad is like five, 10, 5, 11. My mom is like five too. I knew I wasn't gonna get six, four, six, five. So as a young dude that's let's say 10 years old, I'm trying to figure out, okay, how the hell can I make it to the league? I saw a guy named Chris Paul who was like six one and he was controlling the game as if he was LeBron James. And like he was controlling the pace. He was controlling the game offensively, defensively and legitimately younger me thought there was a world that this man Chris Paul could see the future. And because of that, I fell in love with his game because I thought I could be the next Chris Paul. Obviously I was mistaken, but if you, you grow up watching a player and watch them be successful, it still goes even to this day, you know? So yeah, he has a plethora of dirty plays in his career. He's a flopper and this season he hasn't looked as bright as some of the other ones, but I'm still a Chris Paul fair. But people also mistake that for me being a fake son's fan. Those two are not together, you know what I'm saying? So if they lose this game, I'm like, dang man, Chris Paul lost tonight. That's not the way it works. I wanna see Chris Paul be successful. I've come to the realization this season as long as he here is not gonna get a ring. I think, yeah, not last season. Two years ago when they were in the finals with the closest he'll ever get. And that's, I guess that's fine. But Chris Paul, unlike a new player, Devon Booker's a trash talker, which is not nothing that's abnormal. A lot of people in the league talk trash. But when it comes back to bite you on a national stage like it did against the Dallas Mavericks, it might turn people off. Like him flopping and saying, I gave them a look especially to the crowd. And then one day game later, Lugadans is looking at them, you know the infamous, you know what I'm saying? And then they lose by 150,000 points in that game. Then you got to work out videos to rub people the wrong way. They might be the most unlikeable team in the NBA according to like NBA consistency. I don't really care. I'm 26 years old, my boy. I don't really look at somebody working out after winning like, oh, that's kinda douche baggy. It doesn't matter to me. I'm here to watch basketball and enjoy basketball. So I don't see them as unlikeable but I can understand why people would. But I also see like when Mikhail Bridges and DeAndre Aden is dancing with the fan to young boys, Nevada, that stuff. Anyway, I make a tweet and the comments are crazy. I just, I do want to say it's okay to have players or teams as you're just like, I'm not here to tell you how to look. But a game like tonight for Devin Booker should be a minor. Even if you hate Devin Booker, you can say, hey, I don't mess with bro but that brother can ball in my Stephen A Smith voice. That brother can ball because tonight was ridiculous because they had no business coming back. They were down about double digits and Devin Booker scored 24 straight points to win. And you know who's an unksun here on this one? That boy, Joshua Cogie got four offensive rebounds laid down in the stretch, also 4,000 or whatever. This team, I've mentioned it before and people keep asking me to dive deeper into why I don't think they're a contender. And it's not even nothing that's too, too crazy. I don't think they're talented enough. Simple. I do not trust anybody on this team in a seven game series anymore other than Devin Booker and Chris Paul occasionally. You're not a contender if I say that about you. We don't know a version of ADU we're gonna get because we get to the Pelican series. Aiden was one of the main reasons they won this series. It was close. I think they went to six, right? Deondre Aiden showed why he was the former number one overall pick. Look past the fact that Luke was in a draft. He showed why he was the number one pick in that series. And then we get to some of the later series you question whether or not he's on the floor. So they paid him all his money. So be it. McElbridge has been better this season. He was a 50-40-90 candidate and then he shot two for 24. The other thing he shot two for 20-40 and at one point he was one and 18. So that 50-40-90 stuff is dead but they just don't have enough talent currently constructed. And at the end of the day that's what it boils down to. Could they get there with some traits? Sure, maybe. But right now you have Devin Booker in the prime of his time and you have to figure out how can we continue to be contenders while he's playing like this? And right now you haven't built that roster but it's funny how fast it flipped. Four years ago, four years ago this team had no direction. And it's three years later and Suns fans are asking for major, major change. So they had two and a half years because right now this has been a successful season as maybe not to the stairs they want because they want to win a championship but you think about what was happening before the Chris Paul Trey, before the bubble, before McElbridge's broke out and compared to now this should be light years better for fans. But if you ask the fans of the Phoenix Suns which season did you enjoy more? They might not even say this year because they're good but not good enough. And being good and not good enough for three straight seasons, it takes a toll. And you're seeing that across the league and the Suns have been somewhat hesitant to do anything major over the last couple of seasons. After the Chris Paul Trey, they saw they had a recipe that could be successful. We made it to the finals and then we were the number one seed that won 65. They went 65 games last year, holy hell. And it's like, okay, we know that that team's telling them so why should we move and do some other stuff? But I think you should because I don't want to use the words wide open. The West is wide open but the West is wide the hell open. Now you ask Kenny, what does that look like for the Phoenix Suns? What pieces are they missing to potentially do it? I believe if you're going to tell me that Devon Booker, Deondre Aiden and McElbridge's is my core. And I'm assuming that's the case even though it's a bit weird this off season with Deondre Aiden and the contract not want to give it to him to give it to him. Boom, boom, boom. I don't think he's going to finish out the contract as a Phoenix Sun. But what do I know? But if let's say you're convincing yourself that that is your core. You got Devon Booker who's an all NBA player. You have McElbridge who's an all defensive player and you got Aiden. He's, he's, you know, if you're convinced to yourself that that's your core because Chris, the only reason I'm not adding Chris Paul because he's aging. He's, he's not going to be there for three seasons. He's, I don't. So if you're convinced to me that that's my core I think that core is good enough to be a competent playoff team every year. That's not what you want. That's not the ceiling you want, but I feel confident in saying that. So we feel confident that the picks that we are going to have are 20 through 30 every season. Why don't we try to do some things that some of the other teams around the league have done? Now all of them have not worked out. The Atlanta Hawks are struggling. They gave up three first round picks to get Dijontes but Dijontes currently have an ankle sprain and Clickapela's out and, and John Collins is out and Buck Donovan's just came back. So they've been ridiculously unhealthy and unlucky right now. The Minnesota Timberwolves weren't good with quarantine towns and they're not good without quarantine towns. So I guess those are the arguments against doing something like that. Hear me out. I think what you have as your core is maybe more secure than what those other teams have. And I will take back pushback on that because you had Trey Young. That's pretty much it actually. John Collins is up in the trade. There's nobody else on that team for the Atlanta Hawks pre-Dijontes Murray trade that felt like they were 100% going to be there for the next three seasons. The Minnesota Timberwolves had Cat and they had Anthony Avers which is dope. I mean, those two dudes are ballers. But like the Suns, again, have an all NBA player and all defensive players are sitting there. So maybe you can feel like that core alone, no matter what, we're going to be good enough. So let's start packages some of these, some of these picks. Let's, let's start figuring out how we can legitimately put around, put talent around book and bridges and all of these to, to build a team that can win, come play off time. And I'll have the answer. I don't think anybody have the answer to mid-February where we really figure out what teams are selling. But the Suns are just not that right now. They're still going to watch in my opinion. I think because of Devin Booker alone, they're still going to watch, but right now they're not on the top tier where I can feel like that they can win the Western Conference right now. Let's talk about the Toronto Raptors. Cause they have been my most disappointed team this season, right? Let me look at the standings, boom, boom, boom. Other than the Bulls, obviously, they have been my most disappointed team this season by far. If you go back and watch my video about my Easter Conference standings, I would, I was very, very high on the Toronto Raptors and their ability to be like a top four. I think I put them at the five seed. And of course, anything can really happen. This team is a team that could go on a five game win streak just like that, because they're still a talented team. But right now they sit at 13 and 16 on a four game loser streak. And it ain't looked, it ain't looked pretty. I can't, I can't like a lot of fans be like, oh, it's cause they're injured because every single team is injured. Do you want me, do you want me to go down the list? Okay, Robert Williams has just played for his first game of the season. Chris Middleton was out for a bunch of time. Have the calves been, oh no. Darius Garland, Mr. beginning to seize cause he got hit in the face. Kyrie Irrigas suspended, Ben Simmons been in and out of injury, in and out with injury. Tari's Maxi and James Harden was out. Come on, bro. I could go on and on and on every single team. Desmond Bain has missed like a month of basketball. The Pelicans are without Brandon Ingle for the next couple of weeks. I go on and on. Every single team is injury riddle. So I can't use that as an excuse for the Toronto Raptors for being a successful. The real thing is they can't shoot and they can't score in the half court. And I knew, you know, it's not like they were a supreme half court team last season. They weren't very good last season either. But I thought that the defense and the turnover making and the running gun was gonna be enough for them to win a bunch of games. And so far through the first two months or so, I've been wrong. A lot of the conversation around the Toronto Raptors right now is about Scotty Barnes and the sophomore slump or the sophomore wall. He's been better compared to the first month or so. This is why I don't overreact to rookie's and their sophomores. And even like your three players when they start off slow because it is a long season. It is an 82 game season. You know what I'm saying? I didn't expect Scotty Barnes to come out and be a superstar. Maybe you did. I didn't. I always explained to people when they asked me about their young talented player not being great, especially in year number two or year number three. Its progression is only linear in 2K. That's the only place. He goes up by three overalls in year two, four overalls in year three. That is the only place progression is linear. Every other person around the league, it's a case by case basis. Scotty Barnes, I'm using him as a hypothetical right now, can look exactly the same in a sophomore year to a freshman year and you would think, okay, maybe he not gonna be that in a year number three, something clicks. I like the interviews that I'm beginning or hearing from Thaddeus Young, from Chris Boucher and more recently, Fred Van Vliet about Scotty Barnes where Freddy said, we can do everything we want to help him but it is his decision to determine whether or not he's gonna blossom into a butterfly. In this case, of course, a butterfly is a superstar in the NBA and it's the right thing to say. I mean, from everything I've heard about Scotty Barnes, he's a hard worker. Obviously people are like, oh, he gotta stop the screaming. He gotta stop gaming. That has nothing to do with his work ethic on the court, you know what I'm saying? But when he's in the gym, he's working hard and he's in the gym all the time. So as somebody that's not a part of the organization that's not rooting for the team, I'm not really worried about Scotty Barnes. Again, he's already looked way better in the last month. I think the first month, he was scoring like 13 points per game on some mid-efficiency. Now he's averaging like 18 points per game this month on some decent efficiency. Like, you know what I'm saying? I mean, obviously the numbers don't tell the full story but it tells part of the story. You know what also tells story? Fred Van Vliet has not been good. I was giving the Toronto Raptors the benefit of the doubt on a few different things. Pascal Siakam is a absolute workhorse. Where I say progression is not linear as a case-by-case basis for Pascal Siakam in his career. It has been goddamn, oh, I can't say it has been linear because the Tampa season was a dip. It's been near linear where every single season other than Tampa, everybody's bad in Tampa, other than Tampa, he's been better and better and better. And he said he wanted to be top five or top three where the hell it was. And I didn't think he was gonna get to top five, top three, but I knew for sure he was gonna take a jump and he's done that. I thought that what happened to Fred Van Vliet on the second half of the season was with lingering injuries and whatever, the full off season of work and rest, he gonna be back to playing at a near also caliber level because he wasn't also last season. I was wrong on that, I was right about Pascal. I was wrong on that right about Pascal. They just, it's a tough team to watch sometimes because of how bad they can be in the half-corp. And I respect their commitment to development while also trying to compete. Christian Coloco was not ready to be starting NBA games from my own vision. He is not ready to be starting NBA games. And you can tell that. And I mean, they're basically doing it because they use the draft pick on him. And he's, he's projects to be really good. You know, he's a smart defensive player. He's just got a, don't got great hands. So you don't really score like that and that's fine. But because they basically have nothing else at the center position, I would rather develop my guy Christian Coloco to give Kim Burch 30 minutes a game. So let's do that. And I honestly do believe that this, this trade that line is about to be really something for the Toronto Raptors. I don't know exactly what that means. Everybody keeps talking about Fred Van Vleet being extension eligible and him not taking an extension or them not offering them extension. What could that possibly mean? Could that mean that they're willing to trade them at the deadline? Does that mean that they just let them walk a free agency? I don't know. O.G. I don't know. His name has been in trade bus for years. And I've never really understood it unless it was literally O.G. going into the office and saying, I won now. I don't know if I'm Masai, why the hell would I trade O.G.? He's one of the best defensive players in basketball and the offensive game is coming along with side. Why would I trade him? Unless he tells me that he wants out. Gary Trent Jr. feels like a guy that will be traded on the last year of his deal. I mean, he's like one of the few shooters on the roster but even his shooting is wishy-washy. I still believe that they can do some of the stuff I predicted them to, but right now it's been rough. It's been really rough. I mean, they blew the game to the Nets the other day or carry everything to the big shot and Uda Wada Navi also had a big shot. I'm just, the last thing I want to talk about is something I heard on the No Dunks podcast. Set out to the guys, man. They formerly the starters. If you watched the starters back in the day, because one thing I've noticed is that anytime I talk about the got them, people are like, oh my God, I didn't know they were still doing work. Yes, they're still working. There's no dunks here on YouTube. Not in the half of them but I listen to their show every single day that they do it and they're really the guys. And they were doing a segment where Trey Kirby was trying to figure out what fan bases are currently happy. And I thought it was a really, really cool thought experiment. So let's do it ourselves. My own personal opinion, all 30 teams, do I think their team fans are happy? Right now the bosses Celtics, even though they're six and four in their last 10 and they lost to Orlando Magic and Gorgias Orlando again today with no Jason Tatum. We'll see what that looks like. Their fan base should be a static. They're still the best record in basketball. Not by a ton right now but they're still the best record in basketball. And even though over the last couple of weeks the offense hasn't been as good as we saw. I didn't expect them to be the best offense of all time for the entire season but it's been really mid over the last couple of weeks. Nonetheless, the fan base should be extremely happy right now. The Bucks fans should always be happy. You have Giannis and when you have Giannis you lose and games is rare. The Cavaliers fans, happy. Brooklyn Nets fans, happy. 76ers fans, I would probably say they're happy. Maybe I should be doing like on a skill of one through 10. I'm already be. I'm gonna say happy Nicks fans happy. Everything out to that, I don't know. Cause like even though the Miami Heat are on a four game win streak, finally above 500 for the first time in a long time I still believe that their fan base is probably not happy mostly because you built the team to compete for a championship and you're really not in that same thing right now. So even though they're currently streaking you let me know if I'm wrong if you're supporting these teams. You let me know. I don't think he fans are happy right now. Pacers fans, I think they're happy. They're 500 team with nobody had expectations. And even if they continue to be 500 or less than 500 I think that the Pacer fans will be happy because they have been and they have Reese and both those players project to be really good. Atlanta Hawks fans, I do not believe they're happy. I think they're really upset with the fact that they have the injury bug and the fact that the Trey Young led thing has had so many stories over the last couple of seasons that I can't keep track of it. Now Trey Young did have one of his best games of the season the other night. So maybe right now you're slightly happy but I think overall based on the season being 500 based on what you gave up is not something that was in the books. You know what I'm saying? Raptors fans unhappy, Bulls fans might be the fucking maddest fans in the world at the moment. I'm me, I'm mad, I'm Bulls fan. I said on my podcast today that like obviously a long time ago I detached my mental health with the Bulls because for the inside of my life we haven't been very good. So if I let my mental health be on the bad side of a Bulls loser streak I will never be happy. So I stopped that. But I said on our podcast that like I'm okay with the Bulls losing all these games. Obviously I'm rooted for my Bulls every single night but when they lose I'm not like damn because it's gonna put the front office in a position to make a decision. At the end of the day I think that's all Bulls fans wanna know. What are y'all thinking? What are y'all thinking? Are y'all thinking that maybe we become sellers? Are you thinking that you're gonna try to retool? Are you thinking you're gonna buy? We just wanna know where your head is at because every single individual Bulls fans has a different mindset. Some of us wanna hit the reset and rebuild. Some of us wanna retool around DeMar and Zach. And some of us are like go trade that Portland pick because we want more. Wizards fans are not happy. They should be though. Because you're losing games and you own your own first round pick this season. Be happy, be happy. Orlando Magic fans are static right now because after being the worst in basketball curling, fire game, loser streak. And that five game, I mean winning streak, five game, winning streak. But we know it's not super sustainable. So eventually you'll be back to being bad. I mean, that's the idea. Pistons fans are in the worst spot because their franchise player, Kate Cunningham just went down with an injury that'll hold them out for the rest of the season. I'm gonna say they're happy. Jalen Duran has been a revelation. Shout out to him. He broke a record for like youngest player to get double digit rebounds and X amount of games. Shout out to him for that. Isaiah Stewart has become a really plus three point shooter out of nowhere and Killian a showcase that he can hope. So I would say they happy especially cause you're in a Vic sweepstakes and the Charlotte Hornets. I'm gonna say this is probably the happiest you've been in a long time. It will, you should be cause you're bad and that means you're gonna get a top pick. Now what you do with that top pick, I don't know, you're the Hornets. I don't know. You ain't got a crazy great track record there. The Memphis Grizzly fans are static even though John Moran got ejected today if we're talking to the fans. The Palakins, our Suprix are good. They're low key biting their nails right now cause they're on the three game loser streak after they were at the top of the conference and looking amazing. The last three games they have not losing two to Utah and then one tonight after blowing a double digit lead. So I would say they're happy but has a tip. The different nuggets are at the tail. I would say happy. Sure. Sons not happy because again, they're the four seed two game win streak but I think majority of Sons fans realize that there's a ceiling here. Sacramento Kings fans are static. The Montsibonis is playing out of his goddamn mind and they've been staying afloat even though Darren Fox was playing through an injury where he, like the first month of the season for Darren Fox, he was unstoppable. He was looking like the top three point guard in basketball strictly based on that first month. And then he had a low like knick-knack injury and you could tell that he was laboring and he had like a five game stretch where he was not very good. And then eventually they convinced him or he convinced them to like, let me rest for a couple of games and since he's come back he's been playing better and the Kings are back to doing some crazy stuff. I don't know if they end up getting two All-Stars, especially like I mentioned with the Darren Fox down part even though it was like five or so games. Who knows? But if I'm making an All-Star battle right now Sibonis is a guaranteed lock, not so much Darren but they could have two. Shout out to Sibonis. Turbolaser fans, I think they're still pretty good because they've been able to win games now that Damon's back and Damon's looking like the best version of him. Clippers fans are feeling damn good right now because Kawhi and Linda Gator won 29 today and they had a 20-peat, 25-piece tonight before. Yeah, even though they still can't keep everybody on the court at the same time and be completely healthy they should be happy with what's going on. Jazz fans, still pretty good. Madras fans not so much, five or five their definition of like eh, they got a superstar kind of a player and they're still the definition of eh, 15 to 15, five or five in their last 10. Kent went on the road. They almost won today with Kimba Walker looking great so I'm happy for Kimba. I don't think Dallas Madras fans are happy. I don't think Timberwolves fans are happy because they did all of that and then Carter Towns went out and they can't win games. Warriors fans might be super sad. They're in the conversation for saddest fan base in basketball. Lakers are so hard to tell, bro. The fan base is so good that I gotta stop letting a few bad apples like really mess with my mind when it comes to the Lakers. For example, the other night, here's the story time. I'm watching, I'm nine in my business. I ain't made no tweets on the day. I ain't talked about nothing. Mind in my business. Watching Lakers versus Celtics. The Lakers come back on a 30 to something run and there's a dude in the mentions and you might be watching this video. Shout out to you, appreciate you for watching. Where he say, yeah Kenny, keep that same energy come playoff time. What the f*** did I do? So, you know, I don't respond to a lot of tweets so I ask him, what are you talking about? He said, you made a contender's video and you ain't even mentioned the Lakers. The Lakers are not contenders as currently constructed. That entire video I kept saying is currently constructed. It's currently constructed. I can't predict what trade the Lakers could do or what trade whatever it's he could do but based on their roster and their 25 games of basketball, they're not a contender. They just not, right? So I said, I say that currently constructed the Lakers are not a contender and he say, hi bro, I'm just letting you know and the Lakers proceed to have the big ass come back and blow the game. And I was tempted to tweet at bro but that's too petty of me. It's too petty, I didn't do it. I didn't stick that low. They're not contenders. They're just not. That's fine. That's fine, they're not contenders. Everybody can't be contenders. They're not, they're not one of them. But I can't tell you if their fans are, I mean, well, I'm gonna go out and let me say they're not happy. They're a self-understanding. No way. No way you have LeBron, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook and you're happy with the production right now. Now you might be happy that they're looking better now that started the season but overall on the temperature check of this season, not happy. Okay, see fans, happy. Spurs fans, probably happy. Rockets fans, happy. Cause Wendy, cause Wendy. I think that's enough ramble about basketball. I don't know if I made any points worth talking about whatsoever. One thing that's been going on in the Kenny Beach in life though. If you care, you can click off if you only care about basketball. I had a nowhere started to wanna read manga. There's a store like an hour away. It's a Japanese store or market. But inside the market it's like the biggest manga seller in Illinois. I'm like, I'm taking that drive. I took the drive and I felt like a kid in the candy shop and I didn't even know what I was looking for. So I look for familiar names like Juju Kaiser. Like I'm an anime watcher for y'all to know. I watch anime but I was like some people always say that the manga is better than the anime. So let me go out there and go read some anime, right? So I pick up, I pick up this thing called Oh Sakamoto Days. I read the first three of this is a Sakamoto Days. I'm hooked on manga. I have been back to the bookstore like six times. I'm exaggerating a lot. And I just finished the fourth volume of Chainsaw Man. And like I'm reading stuff about shows I've watched. You know what I'm saying? Because the manga is cool. It's enjoyable. So like, you can't really tell, these are books. These are manga. This is a set of a show, I mean a manga that somebody recommended. I'm saying that to say my basement is about to become a goddamn library. Cause I'm putting this on the ground. I have no place to put it. So I'm taking all, and I mean all manga recommendation. Don't, I don't care about the genre at this point. I'm a big Shonen guy fighting. Throw me boxing. I found some stuff that's not Shonen that I'm like, yeah, I like this. So I'm always open, you know? I know the main ones. You know what I'm saying? Don't say Berserk. I got the first seven editions of Berserk over there. I ain't started it, but I got it. I already read Venlon Saga. I already read Venlon Saga. I'm reading Chainsaw Man, Sakamoto Days. What else is over there? Slim Dunk. I only can find the first two editions of Slim Dunk. They're like on Backorder or whatever. Kaiju number eight is another one. And they just dropped the trailer for Kaiju number eight. Oh snap, it's getting an adaptation. So here we have on Twitter. You know what I'm saying? Thank you.