 What's the word, y'all? I hope all y'all had a merry Christmas, happy holidays, bro. I just love this day, mostly because it's basketball from the very early part to the very end. The clock has went past midnight, ladies and gentlemen. We've had like 13 hours of straight hoops. And it was insane. I know a lot of people were talking bad about it. Before it even started, people said man, the NBA gotta be better at picking their games. And even after just wrapped up, people are still saying it was a bad day and I'm just being honest with you. I think you just don't enjoy ball. The first game of the day to the last game of the day, it was not the best straight bangers. Even gave you a little moment in one of the games where you can take a nap. I think that's the perfect holiday season and I'm here to talk about it. I think the title of this video is like Yolkich is inevitable because he really is. I was affirmed, believe it, before the season started that no matter how good of a season Nikola Yolkich was gonna have, I think the politics of everything was not gonna allow him to win an MVP award. There's only a few people in NBA history to win three back to back to back. And I just thought that the voters would be like, we don't know if we want to put him in that category just yet. He's making it hard. I mean, if you ask me right now who's the MVP of the season, I don't have a legitimate answer between Tatum Yanis, Yolkich, Embiid, KD. I would argue those are the top five guys. Actually, when we talking of your piece, I'm not even going past five anymore. Those are my top five candidates and I don't know the order, but now the Denver Nuggets hold the sole spot for the number one seed and you know, things are looking better. If you look it back on my video from maybe three weeks ago or so, I was trying to figure out what teams are contenders or pretenders. And I had a really hard time once we got to the Denver Nuggets. And my main argument against it was the fact that their defense had been dreadful this season. At that point, I think they were 28th in basketball. They allowed the highest field goal percentage at the rim. It was just all gloomy and bad and not to mention the bench had been terrible as well. When if Yolkich is not on the court, then every time he comes back in and feel like he playing catch up and that's still kind of the case. We're gonna talk about that in a second. But since that video, they've kind of put it together defensively. They've jumped up to 24th in basketball in the season. But better than that, they have a top 10 defense in the last couple of weeks, which is a great, great sign. This game today, obviously upset that book didn't get to play as he wanted to. You saw each other go out there and do his thing. But Landry Shaman stepped up. Damia Lee hit some huge shots down the stretch. So they held their own. But I feel like if they had Devin Booker, you know, things might have been different. But I still enjoyed this game so very much from Yolkich dropping, what, a 40 point triple double on Christmas to Aaron Gordon catching the body and showcasing why he should be in the conversations for an all-star appearance. Now I know the Western Conference is ridiculous or I guess the NBA general is ridiculous. So he probably will not make it, but he should be in consideration because he's having an amazing season. And to see Jamal Murray have another really good game when Ashley TV had put it all together for it to be the perfect game for the Denver Nuggets. But the thing that scares me about the Denver Nuggets as good as they are, like I predict that they would have the most win in the Western Conference because I know that Yolkich is that good and with Jamal Murray coming back to form, Michael Porter Jr. being back, I knew they were gonna win a ton of basketball games. The thing that scares me the most about them though is the fact that when Yolkich is on the bench, it seems like people just running around and not doing nothing. And then someone said recently that they think part of that is a product of Yolkich being so goddamn good that the system is him. So when he's not in, they don't have a secondary system to run with the bench people, which I guess is a theory worth talking about. But in general, I just think they need a couple guys. People kind of assume that Bones was gonna be that guy, but people have to realize Bones is a year two player and it's not like he was a top five pick or something. Even though he has a bright future in his league, I didn't expect him in year number two to be like, oh, I'm about to be the sixth man and I'm gonna take over the offense when Jamal's on the bench or Yolkich is on the bench. But they need to figure out something because there's a lot to be desired with that second unit. And I was projecting a little bit. If you watched the videos early this season, I was like, oh, before the season start, I was like, hey, it's gonna be Zignagi. Zignagi gonna get minutes and they gonna need those minutes. He don't really play. He played today and it just, it looked bad. Like I'm saying, the bench looked bad. I think he had what, four fouls in less than 10 minutes. Like it was rough out there. But both versions of their starter unit are great. Jamal Murray, KCP, Bruce Brown, Aaron Gordon, and Yolkich, of course. That's what Michael Porter Jr. been out with his injury. And then the one with Michael Porter Jr. in replacing Bruce Brown is even better than that first one. So like both of their starter units are so amazing, but it seems like everything outside of, I guess six, I'm putting Bruce Brown at six because he's been a great pickup for them. Shout out to that. They basically stole him away from the Brooklyn Nats, gave him, it seemed like nothing for what his production could be on a really good team. But everything out there has a struggle. And I don't know how you fixed that, how you remedied that. I don't know if they're not usually a team that will make a big time trade, even though the Aaron Gordon deal, the Aaron Gordon trade has been amazing so far. But still, I got a lot of love for the different nuggets. They gave us a great Sean Christmas and we love that. The second best game of the day for me was the Philadelphia 76ers beating the New York Knicks and the Mecca. I'm mostly because it gave us a lot of different story lines to talk about. Before this game he was starting, this man, whoa, just talking about James Harden might go back to Houston. What, on Christmas? This is what we doing right now? What was he reporting on this man who got a hoop in 15 minutes? That's what he did. And early in this game, it felt like it was the New York Knicks game, bro. They was, you know, obviously on the A game, once you get a little wild and going down there in the third game, Louis the Street got to this one. And it felt like they were just about to pick up that same momentum because Julius Randall came out very early and he was hooping Jaylen Brunson into a couple of big shots to start off the game. And yeah, the first quarter school was 37 to 25. Like they really went out there and hooped their butt off. And then I remember specifically on the broadcast, this had to be middle through the second quarter. Whoever was commentating, I don't remember the names because it's all blend together, we had five games. And they were saying Joel and B it's been relatively quiet so far today. From that moment, that man, Joel and B put on that MVP cap and said, I'm here and he really took over this game between him, Harden and George and Yang. That's all they really needed today to win. And Harden is playing really good basketball. So obviously not the same basketball he was playing in Houston where he was averaging 35 points per game and doing the ridiculous stuff. But this is a better version, the best version that we've seen of him in like the last season and a half. And that is a good sign because they need stuff like this 29 points, 13 assists and what I was so impressed with is some of the turnovers that he caused. He knew that he was on national TV. I am a firm believer that when players know that they own national TV, they just perform better because he knows that like 75 to 80% of the people watching this game won't be able to watch his next game because they ain't got league pass. So I need to get him a show and let them know I'm still him. Maybe I'm making that up but that's what it felt like for James today. And even in the post game presser, George and Yang was like, hey, they was playing drop coverage on me and I ain't seen that since college. And the Yang game was out the minivan. They set it 100,000 a broadcast, 16 points from him and they turned that game around in a split second. We still don't know exactly what happened to Jaylen Brunson. I hope he's okay because again, he's been playing great basketball for the Knicks and this would be terrible for them to have this eight game winning streak and then now in a blink of an eye, things changed like rapidly. So see if they put it together. The next game goal to stay wars with the Memphis Grizz. Now I know that the Warriors controlled this game for a great majority of it but I think what made it interesting was the antics. The thing that I hate it the most about it is that the refs, the refs also know they're on national TV. How about we talk about that? They know when they're on national TV because they just bloated. There was no reason for it to be as many texts as it was today. It just wasn't. I understand the tech if people get start throwing punches, pushing each other maybe even yapping at the ref when we get to people talking to each other that is not, that should not be a technical fact. And I don't agree with Stephen A. Smith on a lot of stuff. I'm enjoying this stuff, I don't agree with Stephen A. Smith but that was one thing I did agree with him on saying that the refs think that we are here to watch them and that was not the case. But this was a huge win for the Warriors because obviously with no Steph Curry, a lot of people with me included predicted that they were about to go on a huge slump because we saw what they looked like without them on court. They had like an offensive rating was like a 98 which is God awful when they're off the court and before the injuries. But since then they've been waking up obviously Jordan Poole kind of slides into the Steph Curry role. Even of course he's not Steph Curry but he can play it where the off ball movement is so great getting himself open shots. Jermaine Green with three points, 13 assists, 30 rebounds just Jermaine being Jermaine. On the other side, I was very disappointed in Jaren. I was very disappointed in Jaren. This was your opportunity to show the world that you belong at DPOWAC Conversations. If you to come out there and have 5,000 what 10 minutes or something like that at one point in the game, it's unacceptable to Jaren, it's unacceptable. Boston will occasionally just come out and hit every shot in the world and you have no chance. And that's what happened today. They hit eight threes in the first quarter alone, 36 total points from Jalen Brown to Tatum having a great game on Christmas with Deuce. Don't even care that this pops us out there going crazy. But this was the conference finals right here. This is a conference finals preview. Obviously Chris Middleton didn't play and I know a lot of people gonna discredit the Celtics because of that. I mean it's a part of the game. Everybody's gonna have injuries. I mean we will see once they're fully healthy. I'm not gonna say because the Boston Celtics won this game that I'm picking them to win the Eastern Conference now. It's not, we're not going that deep. But they did come out and they showed the world. Hey, I know our offense have been struggling over the last couple of weeks. I know we lost our last three home games but we still actually liked that. And they showcased that to the world. I was disappointed in the Bucks though. Again, no Chris Middleton. So obviously the offense is gonna be iffy, but like I was more disappointed. Maybe it was the defense. Yeah, I think I was more disappointed in defense than their lack of shooting. This team in general just doesn't have a lot of great shooters, which is a scary thing if you Yanis or whatever. Yanis ended up with 27 points. Didn't feel like he had 27. One of his worst games I would say at a season, 27 points deal with 27 points. You get what I'm saying. When it comes to overall impact on the offense or defense side of the ball, I feel like I didn't get a lot of Yanis that's credit to the Boston Celtics because they packed the paint. Hey, we gonna let y'all shoot. Y'all got people that we might trust, but at the end of the day, we really don't. And Yanis needs those people around him to maximize himself and to maximize the team. And they don't really have a lot of great three point shooting. I mean, I don't know if the number's backed it up. I guess I'll look it up. They have the 20th best three point percentage in basketball. They're shooting the ninth most. So you can maybe do some math to figure out if that's good or bad. I mean, let me compare it to like the previous season. I feel like the last season, they were really good three point shooters and obviously the championship season too. Yeah, the season before that they were ninth in percentage. Obviously the volume is super high as well. Number six in value with ninth percentage is actually insane. The last game was the Lakers versus the Dallas Mavericks. This was the game that you could have fell asleep on. And that's exactly what I did. In the middle of the third quarter, you know, you know what I'm saying? It's Christmas. You know, you get a couple of plays, you eat a little bit of dinner, you go sit on the couch to watch some hoops and you kind of, you kind of just doze off. And that's what happened in the third quarter. Actually, I saw a tweet. Hold on, let me pull up this tweet because I thought it was insane and I must have been asleep once this man, Darvaham, did this. The Lakers have played a five guard lineup against the Mavs with Russell Westbrook, Dennis Schroeder, Austin Rees, Patrick Beverly and Lonnie Walker. I must have fell asleep because I did not remember that. And apparently, according to the comments under that tweet, Christian Wood was lighting their ass up when that five was out there. So the Lakers is just such a rough spot without Anthony Davis being there, bro. LeBron gave us a great performance, hit all his free throws, 38 points. And he was excited. He was saying, I'm fun for it to be Christmas and stuff. And I think he really enjoys it. 17, 17 games on Christmas so far in this crew, which is ridiculous. But that's, yeah, that's all. That's too much. I appreciate y'all watching. Hopefully y'all had a happy holidays. I got a link in the description. Two, I should have probably said this at the top, but thank you so much for watching. I have another channel. I don't know what I'm saying. Can't even believe you're doing whatever. Actually, go subscribe to all the channels. There's a gaming channel. There's another channel, another NBA channel. But this new channel is what I'm calling my burner channel. We're like, I'm just gonna drop videos. No themes, no like common themes. Like this one is talking basketball. The other one is also talking basketball. And the other one is playing a basketball video game. This one has no correlation to all of that. The first video I dropped is about manga. Like, like brother, I'm reading, I think I mentioned that in the video before. I'm reading hella manga. So the first video is about me getting into manga. I'm gonna do a video about soccer slash football this week. So like, you just want other Kenny content that's outside of this room? Go subscribe, I guess.