 We are obviously an NBA show and we will talk NBA in a moment but we're also a sports show and sports taking an absolutely awful turn last night so we want to send our positive thoughts if you pray are inclined to do so do that as well to Buffalo Bill's safety Jamar Hamlin who collapsed on the field last night in what is just some of the worst images that sports can offer unfortunately and shams it wasn't just the NFL community that was obviously reacting to this in real time but the NBA had a bunch of games and those guys were finding out about what had happened as games ended and I understand there was just a lot of a lot of outpouring of feeling from them as well. Yeah there was a lot like you said Michelle obviously our continued prayers are well wishes with Jamar Hamlin his family and just you know that that site that we saw we you know players gave their immediate support throughout the NBA whether it was Diamond Mitchell after scoring 71 points the Ron James had another big game 40 plus points he offered his condolences right after his game Clay Thompson had a big 50-point game he gives his condolences and then dozens and dozens of more players on social media and Michelle just a quick update from two people close to Jamar Hamlin he remains sedated and he will have a tube for his breathing in his body through his throat for the next few days and so our thoughts of course will be with him throughout his recovery and we're going to keep praying for that. Absolutely I think sports fans and fans everywhere will be watching the story all day every day until more information comes out for us we are going to take a quick break right now when we come back it was a huge night in the NBA and a lot of points were scored and we will talk about every single one of those points when we come back. Welcome back to run it back guys there was a there was a lot going on in the NBA last night and we have we have to start with Donovan Mitchell what is happening with the points in this crazy league season high 71 points led the team over the bulls by the way to Martin Rosen had a measly 44 no big deal it was an overtime game of course Mitchell actually scored or assisted on 99 of the 145 points that is the most since you guessed it Wilt that name has come up a lot lately this season so far Chandler your reaction when you saw this result I mean this was crazy this was one of the greatest individual performances ever and the history of the NBA and you look at this kid this is the most points in the last 17 years since Kobe the eighth most of all time it's just an elite company just to think about all the legends and all the players to kind of play in this league and and Donovan Mitchell is now no matter what else happens he's he's in that group and it's how it happened to a such an exciting game he did it in so many different ways they were down 21 points and without their two of their three best players with Robert and Moby out this was super impressive and this just kind of shows you that Donovan Mitchell was on another level he's really helping this team possibly get home quarter van engine a really tough conference he also had 11 assists like the guy it was just 2234 from the field he did it so efficient so excited and this was again this is one of the best performances I've ever seen greatest cab of all time Eddie I don't know Marcus I like to set up the first 70 point tennis this game of all time which doesn't even sound like a real thing you you'd be hard pressed to do this on 2k if you were if you were being a ball hold the whole game this is insane I looked down at my phone during the nets in Spurs game yesterday I couldn't believe the numbers on the screen and there was still more time left on the on the on the scoreboard so it was just nuts to watch this and kind of see those types of shots he was making he was was he 22 of 37 from the floor like I know he made a lot of free throws I bet he's pissed he left four free throws on the floor because he could have had 75 of you know look you can try to minimize it and say he had overtime he had extra five minutes he did this in a close game within the flow of the offense score 56 points in the second half and overtime like you cannot minimize this this is one of the greatest performances of all time there's no two ways about it Luca had overtime and we celebrated that and that was five minutes ago by the way that's how quickly we've outdone ourselves here but not to be dismissed or ignored Robin Lopez also had a night last night so let's not ignore that he wanted to get out of the way right away combined for 72 with Donovan Mitchell last night hashtag historic game indeed look we're in New York right now and shams there was just a collective cry if you really listened last night into the streets of this great great city because we all know how the off season could have maybe sort of had Donovan Mitchell becoming a nick and then of course that didn't happen how should Nick's fans feel this morning I mean I'm sure they feel they feel they might feel terrible um you know Donovan Mitchell wanted to be a nick I think he he's spoken about it publicly privately there was definitely reporting that I did during that moment but I reported right after that trade to Cleveland the next final offer was RJ Barrett two first-round picks two second-round picks another young player like Emanuel quickly they only needed either Quinton Grimes or another first-round pick to get a deal done and they essentially from what I was told refused to give up another asset Donovan Mitchell ends up in Cleveland for that haul that they ended up with with lorry marketing uh multiple first-round picks swaps etc so Cleveland just outdid them got Donovan Mitchell and right now he's performing like kind of that franchise centerpiece we all thought uh he's just the third player in the last 25 years a score of 70 or more points all were shooting guards Devin Booker Kobe Bryant and then Donovan Mitchell last night yeah this could this could go down as one of the dumbest non-trades in the history and you know it's like I like I like Grimes I like RJ Barrett a few chance to get a franchise young cornerstone stud like Donovan Mitchell and you just don't do it because of a reason you know you like the way the kids mesh with Grimes and you like your picks like I'm sorry that is so so wrong and so bad and they gotta feel you know like damn we really missed out on this kid especially after a night like last night yeah look you know this is a hometown kid this is a sure shot all-star probably an all-star starter and you could have had this in the garden you could have had him doing this and maybe he's not scoring 71 with on the right conditions but you have your franchise player that you've been searching for for how long if you're the Knicks you know you had a few years of mellow and then you go back beyond that you've been searching for this guy for decades and yes it was the hall a lot of course it was a ton it was a lot of draft picks you would have to give a starter level players but he's that good and he's showing that all season long he showed that in the playoffs before I'm not sure what the reservations were but I know the Cavs are thanking them for being for being a little reluctant to make that trade and they're going to ride that straight to the playoffs look the 71 points most since Kobe with with the 81 shout out Jalen in 2006 but it feels like the seal of huge points games has officially been broken do we think we'll see Mitchell Mitchell specifically flirt with 70 again Chandler I mean yeah it's it's hard to say a lot of guys can't get there I mean you look at clay last night you look at tomorrow like these guys get hot and at the clip that the three-point shot is taken now and how many times these guys are getting to the free throw line I think we're going to continue to see these explosive scoring numbers um you know and and I think they're not going to stop anytime soon and the most impressive part is how efficient Donovan did it last night like being 22 of 34 from the field and seven of 15 from the three having 71 points that is insane that is very very hard to do and you look across the board a lot of these other guys last night had unbelievable games and it's not even close to what this did this dude did in a close game in a win at home it was very very impressive and they got an absolute stud and Donovan Mitchell I feel like you're so wired after a game like this I don't imagine you fall asleep anytime soon Eddie look and on the other side of thing the bulls I mean it wasn't a bad game they just happened to be on the wrong end of what was a historic night but they almost won it in regulation so give me a silver lining Eddie I mean it was only an overtime because of miraculous play another purposely missed free throw that worked out I feel like this never happened before that we've seen like four or five in the last two weeks uh you know you you come away feeling strong they were able to compete with this team on their home court and it took this historic performance to beat them and and and Donovan had to keep this up until later overtime uh you know yeah you you feel like you're playing much better ball since Shams kind of blew the whistle on them a few weeks ago and you feel like you're training upwards problem for them is your Brooklyn coming into town tomorrow and you know that's not going to be easy out and it goes from there so it doesn't let up in the Eastern Conference right now so the bulls can't arrest on yeah we compete it they have to actually start winning some of these games the silver lining for the bulls is that they've won five of eight but like last night there was a screenshot I saw a couple screenshots last night Donovan Mitchell kind of committed a lane violation on that free throw I'm not gonna lie the ball was still in the area he got five listen it was a great play but I did peep that online on Twitter so listen for the bulls I'm sure they're gonna look back at that I think Billy Donovan even spoke about a post game that we're gonna see that in the referee report after the game where Donovan Mitchell committed a lane violation on that free throw so that's an unfortunate luck you know showing for the bulls they've had a couple of those moments this year where even the other night DeMar DeRozan was fouled on a potential game-winning attempt you know but those those things are part of the game shout out to Donovan Mitchell sometimes you got to get luck too it happens sometimes a little karma kicks in for whatever reason all right next game Hawks seconds away from beating the Warriors that would have been our fifth straight parlay win selfishly but Mr. Devin Chenzo with the other plans clutch three we go into overtime Clay Thompson ends this thing with 54 then we go into double overtime Kavon Looney Kavon Looney is the guy that got it done steals the deal in double OT uh Chandler we'll start with you because you're the one that ruined our parlay do you regret betting against Clay and the Warriors last night I mean this was we the Hawks we now that I took them in my parlay I'm had so many opportunities just to close this game out and this is just the consistent struggles that the Hawks have this is the level of maturity that they have they can't finish a game and Trey actually played very good last night he meant to hit some big free throws he had 30 points and 14 assists but yeah these are the type of plays at the end of the game where you you gotta lock in you gotta get a rebound you gotta box out and I know Nate is showing this film over and over again uh because these are the little plays that add up and that caused losses just like Chicago last night like yeah Donovan did he did create a lane violation there but you gotta box out one of the guards behind him has to get in there and avoid even bringing luck into a play so this was a great game it was exciting Clay Thompson it's good to see him and you know what he had an extra pep in his step last night he was hitting step backs he was going off the dribble he got a 39 shots I don't care how many he made that is hard to do in a game and takes a lot of conditioning just even get those up and to make 10 threes in a game is a special special performance and this is what they're gonna have to do they're gonna have to have nights like this unfortunately to keep staying afloat from either him or Jordan pool uh while this basically their whole team is this this is a big win for them and it was a really really exciting game and and I'm happy to see clay kind of you know putting up gaudy numbers like this like we've seen in the past yeah this is a fun game I don't know if it was a classic there's a lot of mistakes late guys look tired uh jacking up some ugly shots of Dejante Murray and Trey young and Trey got an offensive rebound on a long jumper and just threw a shot a three up and Trayman space for some reason it was a lot of curious play out there but you got to love the performance from clay hit a big shot at the end of the first overtime off the dribble which isn't necessarily his forte and it's just a little bit of poetic justice they get sent into overtime off of the three offensive rebounds and then they lose in double overtime off another offensive rebound Kevon Looney one of the more unheralded pieces of this dynasty right they trapped him in the first round they've had him for three rings and he just seems to come up big in each playoff run I remember the Celtic series last year people were wondering if he could even stay on the floor because he was slowing them down and he ends up playing big in the last three games of that series a ton of offensive rebounds I mean he's he's one of the gems of of this dynasty which is you know a little tough to say when they draft the Steph Curry they drafted Clay Thompson they drafted Trayman Green but this is how you keep your run going you take your end of the first round picks and you pick somebody as vital to your team is Kevon Looney so it's dope for him to have that moment one of the few guys on that team with a buzzer beater under his belt now and uh you know big night for them and as they get closer and closer to Steph Curry coming back they're creeping up the standings and they're looking like the words we thought they were going to be before they had the little rough stretch uh in November and by the way while we're on Looney he's he's so valuable because he's available this guy played every game last year and he's played every game this year like that is really really hard to do and he's not going to show up a lot in the box scores but like last night 14 and 20 you bounce that is so so necessary for this team that's just hoisting threes and doing what they do in this style they play so yeah i'm with Eddie you know Looney is a is a huge piece going forward for them yeah Looney's always been just an amazing yeah he's been an amazing veteran player for them i mean even when the whole Trayman pool thing happened Kevon Looney was one of the guys on the front lines as far as leadership perspective but i mean for me it was great seeing Clay Thompson make and take clutch shots again he's been telling everyone all year publicly privately he's going to figure this out he's going to turn it around he got off to a really slow start and i think you're seeing those averages come back the shooting percentages come back and i think the one silver lining you can probably take from Steph's absence right now is that Clay Thompson is getting a lot more usage he's getting a lot more looks the balls in his hands a lot more they don't really have anyone else to turn to besides him and pool at guard then you got Kaminga and Draymond Green playing a vital role as well but listen Clay Thompson is one of the greatest shooters of all time you know him, Dame and Steph are the only players in the NBA that have scored that have hit nine or more threes for at least 10 games so Clay Thompson one of the best shooters ever i think that gets overlooked a lot you know what's funny about Clay Thompson too is because he's he has been more vocal this year than ever i'm clearly listening to the outside noises but he seems more relieved when he has games like this than even the fans do as if he's convincing himself i'm officially back Chandler from what you saw last night and we know how much time he has lost in the last few seasons does it look like he's officially back back okay are we there i i mean i don't it's tough still because going through injuries like he's went through you need games like this for your own confidence and you can tell how vocal he's been he's been with the critics and with media it starts lingering and you start having those doubts and i don't care who you are when you miss that amount of time and you struggle the way he struggled coming back nothing feels as good as him going out and doing this and yeah you could say he took some bad charge he was inefficient but the fact that he still has that mental space to take these shots and the fact that he's making a lot of them is super super huge just for his mindset for his confidence moving forward and this is a great opportunity with those guys out where it's him and jordan bull nobody else on that team is going to score a lot of points nobody else on that team is going to take the shots that those guys take and this is a great time for him just to build that confidence to build that endurance and nights like this go miles for clay thompson's future i just love that he's able to back up the talk we were kind of laughing at him all of us on this show people everywhere else were like yo come on clay like you're crying you're whining but he's able to back it up he told Charles Barkley yo i still got a lot left in the tank and he's showing us that performance last night was incredible it was vintage clay is one of his best games of his career which is crazy to say after all he's been through with his injuries and just kind of just getting through the mentality of that and it's exciting to see that the game is a little bit more fun when clay thompson is out there being clay thompson we know and love and and so it was great to see last night well said i i thought of a Mitchell didn't play last night i this this is he's leading the show yeah i remember when i was hurt and i came back i had like 25 one game and i thought i was the man because i was like back this dude just had 54 points like that is that is that is really really impressive yeah i'm telling you it's it's the the points thing right now is just out of control i want to go to the atlanta hawks for a second because shams you had the reporting on nape mcmillan and sort of what seems to be the uneasiness and internally the i guess the drama that is going on as far as this kind of a loss wot in it does this do anything for the confidence within that in the ranks of that team it doesn't help um you know there were a couple moments down the stretch there where you know rotationally they didn't like on the last play where divan chenzo had that three they had john collins who was leading the team in rebounds i think at that point at 12 rebounds um he was on the bench uh for that play uh where you need a rebound you need to secure that moment so just little moments like that of course are going to be something you look at as a coaching staff you look at as a roster moment so you could have back but these this road trip that they're on right now is going to be a tough trip um this is definitely not one that they wanted to go on especially after an l to the lakers they want to win that game against the lakers on friday um especially given everything that's going on but right now this team just got to pick it up and try to get a w because that's what that's they really need that right now yeah this loss is almost more frustrating i think than any silver lining you're playing a team where you're pretty much fully healthy um and this team is not and you had multiple opportunities to win this game this is a game i don't care who they are they're missing a lot of their players this is a game that alana hawks should have won last night and they made a lot of mental mistakes they made a lot of physical mistakes and this is this is a game that's going to be tough to swallow this is one that they should have had um and with all the drama and all the noise surrounding them this is only going to hurt them and and i don't see silver lining in this loss at all man i guess that was just me trying to be positive in the new year i was trying to see a silver lining for them but i guess not all right fine uh moving on lebron again just another ho hum 40 plus points for lebron james too many points what is going on he had 43 leading the lakers who went over the hornets that the play of the game oh good that's happening uh play of the game the reverse aliyu um who by the way i'm not sure you guys know is 38 years old channeler how surprised like at this point we've talked about how old he is and what he's still capable of doing what do you feel when you watch him doing this i feel like he's 27 i feel like he's i feel like he's which age is just a number of michelle it doesn't really matter hey but uh yeah this guy the thing's looking like that is not a normal dunk for a 27 year old let alone lebron james and the fact that he's doing this is still doing this at this clip in front of michael love it that eddie said last night michael jordan's game like you know he was gonna ball that was a great pick eddie um and he's with 500 points of kareem and he is just ripping off chunks of those points every single night um and he's making us somewhat believers in the lakers that if they can find a way to get anthony was healthy this is a this is a tough this is a tough out so games like last night it would the shots he was taking or the step backs the one-legged fadeaways the the way he was doing it last night was really really nuts yeah i don't think he can be overstated how ridiculous this is it's not even the age at this point it's the fact that he's played 20 NBA seasons and he's still at this level he's averaging 29 points a game this season he's eighth in the league in scoring he's also adding adding eight eight assists on top of that eight rebounds excuse me and so he should not be performing at this level at at this point in his career it's the best 20th season we've ever seen which doesn't even sound real uh and the crazy part is like it looks like he could keep doing this for a while i know he was joking about playing until brawny comes around or playing until he's 45 or whatever but it really looks like he could do this for a few more years and then even tell off into like a role player level after that if he wants it's absurd that he's doing this every night and and darvin ham was speaking last night about letting him carry the team and him taking care of his body and that's all great and fun and dandy but yeah you'd love to have anthony davis there to carry a little bit of the load and lighten it a little bit for them i know it's not translated into a playoff spot just yet they've won a few games here in last week but it's it's still it's funny like chandler mentioned if we don't have that 71 point game maybe this is the story of the night or maybe it's still 54 from clay but it's it's almost like we're desensitized to the fact that he's doing this every night and i get it we've been dealing with this guy in his story for 22 23 years and it's almost old but it is ridiculous that he's doing this at 38 years old 20 years into his career and he does not look like he's stopping anytime soon well it's it's baby steps eddie you know the liquors are creeping up on a on a playing spot so it's it's going to be baby steps especially without ad seems like he is still a ways away but to me this is just lebron's greatness i think you just at this point like you said you become desensitized to it he has these big games especially at this age but the back to back 40 plus point games i mean it's unreal what he's doing at his age and so um we'll see when ad is going to be back on the floor but at this rate he should be passing kareem's record by mid february-ish so uh we'll see exactly when that'll be yeah i mean at this point i was gonna ask you eddie because if he if he averages 30 he's gonna catch him he's gonna catch kareem in about 16 games so i don't know which unlucky team is gonna get to host that moment but yeah are you excited to watch that eddie i mean as a fan of the game yeah i hope the runner-back crew gets to go and watch this from somewhere close give a nudge the fandal but no it is amazing it's one of those records that you know it's not like 756 and you just run it off the top of your head and know what the record is but you know kareem scored the most points ever you know it's a big deal and you didn't think this was ever gonna happen again i remember when like lebron was younger it was like yeah maybe he could get to x them out but he's he's a past first guy so he's not gonna get there but he's this far in his career and it's within his sight and he'll likely do it you know without injuries this year uh there was a stat last night and it was uh nobody over 35 years of age has scored 40 and back to back nights besides two guys it was it was lebron and it was mike and you kind of just love to see those two names on a list be the only names on a list but yeah this is walking history and we're seeing it every night and the big game is coming up soon and i i i look to them giving a coordination kind of like they did step last year and it's going to be a sight to see i can't do the math i can't even figure out which team could possibly i'm trying to figure out the three team window in there to see who it might be but do you i mean look he is very aware of what is going on at all times and he loves the drama does he get that extra point like does he do a hook shot is he gonna try to do something like that to make it just uber iconic i mean chandler i like that's not out of the can we bet on that like i feel like there's a chance i don't honestly he's going to do something and it's going to happen sooner than later this guy he's healthy he's on a mission as much as he's saying he doesn't care about that he is i pretty much i would all i'd be playing for if i was him right now my team's gonna play less and the more i score the better chance we have to win so i am if i'm him i am gunning the next 484 points until i break that record yeah i'm calling bs and when he told the fan still think he's gonna cry i think he's gonna do it yeah and by the way it is all he's playing for chandler for the record i just want that that's all they're playing for right now fact well we've run out of time that's unfortunate um no i'm just kidding we have to talk nets shut up eddie just ahead of time i want to go ahead and say that there was another game last night um 12 straight for brooklyn and they look good i know you left the game with slight concern in your heart edward oh can you please tell us how you could possibly have had that after last night uh i didn't i mean i know they play the Celtics next week and they play the pelicans this weekend so i'm a little concerned about those i'm actually concerned about the pools game as well but uh what i what i liked about last night is they took care of business they they blew out a team that they should have blown out they did the same the other day and charlotte and to me that's the marker of them really hitting their stride they were squeaking these wins out earlier this month against teams they should have been running away from and now they're actually handling their business got a whole quarter of garbage time for the guys to rest and like i mentioned last week kairi looks amazing like he looks outstanding out there and it's not even just the dunk it's his ability to make the three off the dribble him using seemingly only doing layups with his left hand but he just looks free on the court and he's unstoppable and then you have kevin doing whatever kevin's going to do you know i was uh we were laughing with kevin after the game because he missed i think his first three shots and then he didn't miss again after that for the rest of the night so it's like he was all frustrated missed the layup and and he was chirping at us on the sideline and then he ends up never missing again because he's amazing and he wasn't even didn't look like the best player on the court because kairi Irving was ridiculous that dunk you know we've been kind of teasing him about what he's going to start dunking again we haven't seen him dunking forever and he's been saying oh i can get up there still and that was the loudest i've heard bar plays since i've been coming there for the last few years it was it was insane so uh it was nice to see them take care of business tough little road trip on the way now and then and obviously the boston game next week to really prove themselves but yeah look they're creeping up on the one seed and uh it's it's going to be interesting now going forward for them depending on what they want to do with their roster how they want to improve and and where things go yeah again and when you have kade and kairi playing at a clip like this and then you get 18 from tj warren at 16 from curry uh i i still think they got to get joe harris going he has really been struggling but yeah the nets are now they're having fun and if the first month or whatever the season wasn't there and all that drama wasn't there we would just be looking at the nets right now like a real contender and they've had a great season so as long as that is in the past and they continue to to grow and play at this level and do like like like eddie said nights like this bury them like get out fourth quarter or get your guys out and get ready for the next game um and and kairi is on another level right now he has really stepped his game up that i haven't seen him do that dunk like that and and years just going 139 points like the nets look really really tough they look motivated and they're having fun i mean i i had my bold prediction last night was i think the nets come out of the east if as long as kairi doesn't wake up one morning and decide to do a kairi thing i i just really you know what's fun about being a fan of a team when they're on a winning streak like this and eddie i'm gonna go to you first on this one because i don't know if you agree with me is you literally for a split second in your mind you're like what if they just win every game here on out like that could happen right like so i asked you this they're at 12 straight right now what where do you see it ending do you see it ending i mean i definitely got asked yesterday what the record was and and if i remember the 27 from the heat and all of this stuff and it's cool to look forward and and see that and you know i'm i'm hearing combos about it's harder to get tickets now and and they're they're more expensive on seat geek and all this good stuff so yeah guys are definitely looking ahead and and i think you know if they get through this road trip and they come home and they're looking forward to that boss again next thursday then you then it starts creeping in then it starts saying okay can we push it to 20 do we go from there what is the record that 33 that's that's that's tough to get you know it's tough to even think about that you're only at 12 you're not even halfway there you're barely a third of the way there but yeah i mean if they get through this road trip and and who knows what Zion is he's gonna play and then brand an ingrow and and it's always tough to go to miami on a sunday night and then you know who knows how the weekend's gonna go on miami but uh yeah they're looking like one of the better teams in the league right now and then they're tough out for everybody every night out and that's how you get a win streak going yeah like we said this is this is it's they're not going to win every game right they're going to have an all right they're going to get one of those guys that would be incredible if they did but again when you have chi and you have kv playing at this level saw a quote last night ben Simmons that it was easy last night and i'm like if he's saying that and then things and it's like and they're rolling so i'm happy for them i feel like all their their bad stuff is in the past and this is really really impressive what they're doing and again when you have two guys are top five guys like like katie and kairi anything is possible yeah look the team is confident like you mentioned they're having fun you can see that they're having fun the kairi dunk when yuda hits the three guys are running on the court they're excited they're enjoying themselves and i think again to contrast this with earlier in the season they walked into that back to back against the pacers in november like okay this is where we turn our season around we're a better team than them we're going to win these two and we're good well they lost the first one and yeah they won the second one but they got their coach fired in that second one as well so it's just an entirely different approach they weren't overconfident last night like they were against the pacers but they were in good spirits and and they feel that they're just a better team than the other teams in the court when they walk out there and it shows they showed up with a focus last night and they jumped out to an early lead and they kept that lead going the entire night that they did indeed it was tough it's like oh man maybe the first nope it wasn't it wasn't at all shams thank you we shall see you bright and early tomorrow as it is Wednesday and for us we're going to take a quick break right now when we come back how about yonis maybe an mvp kairi all-star for sure and staff an underrated crash talker we shall discuss and run it back to turns grizzly's breakthrough band's got to get it in gets it in for clark bounces for marant marant downhill to the rim plays it up too strong ballgame warriors win it marant didn't get enough body control to lay it in warriors win 117 160 that's too soon that's just too soon and too close in that moment chaneler I look Steph Curry should be a great trash talker I have no idea is he underrated as a trash talker yeah he is but it's it's like a friendly arrogant banter it's not like a physical i'm going to fight you i'm going to punk you it's more like i'm the best player on the court you can't stop me i'm going to hit this shot i'm going to dance and do things like that and it's funny because he's such a good dude with such a great reputation but a lot of like he gets the benefit of a lot of a lot of other players would do half the stuff he does people would hate that people would try and like you know foul them hard and they would not let you dance like this on my court so it's the way he does it it's a gift it's a very good delivery it's it's it's harmless but yeah he definitely does talk a lot and celebrate a lot where if i'm having a bad game or if he's doing what he's doing usually and they're dominating us i'm pissed off he's right there it's kind of hilarious that we get this you know quietly legendary moment we didn't even know happened and it's him going this is fun right this is but we're talking about a guy who you know he's literally caught the squat it pantomime dropping a deuce on a court so this is not the friendliest basketball player of all time very sneaky part about this uh about this moment he wasn't on the court for these defensive possessions so he ran over from the sideline to let them know that yo you're going down but no i think he's definitely underrated his trash sucker and i like him i like secretly got this edge to him because he's that he's that good and he should he should let you know that he's really that guy when he gets that chance but yeah him being defensive sub dog makes it a little bit more funny amazing i love that clip hilarious too because he's just like he's dropping and they're like team conversation he's right here yeah like i feel like somebody else maybe not job but somebody else that's just too much in my personal space in a moment where i need to take a second like i would have pushed him or something but it's that babyface that babyface buys you so much equity it's just like oh he's sweet meanwhile just as you said dropping deuces on your court if drake mon had come up and done that it's a fight it's just a scuffle yeah 100% yeah no one's buying that first of all get out of my space hey and there's that all right we're going to do a little you buy in that we haven't done this in a minute and so i'm happy to be back doing it first up we got to do some honest here he's averaging 32 almost 12 rebounds over five assists a game right now on pace to be the first player with a 30-10-5 season since MVP rush chandler are you buying his MVP chances this season i mean he's definitely right there and obviously the value of him on this team and the season he has and the efficiency he's doing it at and he's just a dominating force the way he gets downhill um the way he reads the line it's really impressive it's just tough because i have yoke it's in front of him i have tatum in front of him i have kevin durant in front of him and i have luka in front of him it's it's tough um he's having a great year he's always going to have years like this he's just an unstoppable force that's always going to put up great numbers he's he's going to be efficient he's if this guy could ever get a consistent three-point shot i don't know what would happen but listen if they happen to go on a huge run on a heater here and win 20 out of in a 25 out of 30 and they separate themselves as the best team in the east yeah he's right there but i just think right now there's a lot of guys and a lot of other teams um that are ahead of him yeah there's a reason we talk about MVP every day on this show because it's such a crowd at race right now and it's sliding every single day and we have yeah kevin durant on a 12-game win streak but we have a yokich is doing in denver as well we have jason tatum doing he's doing as the one seed still and and you know somebody like yonis gets lost in this show even though he's putting up legendary numbers that never seen before uh and then we talk about voter fatigue he's one of the guys who suffers from that as well you know i said when he won mvp and defense player of the year in the same season i'm like man he might have the average 40 to ever win this award again and he might he just might mess around and do it it's stuff for them right now they're they've only won four of their last 10 games they're a little bit of a rough patch they're trying to wait to see what's going on chris middleton but he's up there he's always going to be productive he's always going to be in the conversation and like channel said a big january we talked about him as the mvp going into the all-star break it's just a crowd afield and it's tough to really give out that award today but that's testament to those guys and their performances so far this year i love how healthy the league seems to me as far as the fact that we have this many people really realistically in the mvp race the the rush year the mvp rush year i feel like we've got a little bit spoiled and again probably a little desensitized has it taken the shine off of what could be a 30-10-5 season is that what's happening here we're not that impressed we just we talk about the numbers all the time and these guys are just putting up these crazy numbers like that is a stat is an mvp and you know 10 of the last 20 years 15 the last 20 years if you look at that stat next to the you know the mvp that won it so it's like eddie just said there's so many guys that are doing this now and on good teams and and and the reason that those teams are winning are those guys and you look at a guy like yoke itch and and luke and katie and tate and those guys are doing the same thing they're doing but they've had these loud performances next week yannis gives us 60 and then 45 and then 15 he's jumping now kd and like you know i mean so it's going to go back and forth all year long um but it's going to and then by the way joel mb is not even on here and i think they're for a good reason really you could you could blindfold me right now and point to any one of these five guys and i'd be okay with all of them winning in mvp yeah and you got somebody like donovan mitchell donovan mitchell having a great season on a winning team just scored 71 it's testament to a beetle just said a lot of a lot of good health in this in the league this year knock on wood i know stef curries out i know a couple guys are out but we're seeing a lot of superstars and we didn't get that the last few years for whatever reason so yeah we've been lucky to have that and we're getting we're getting rewarded for it with these performances i'm knocking on all of the wood because i want people to stay healthy it's just so much more fun to watch all right enough with the mvp talk we we we spent a lot of time on that there are other awards that we need to discuss and yannis's team might might very well be in the running for one of those bobby portis averaging 14 and 10 six man for the bucks this season first in rebounds and double doubles off the bench eddie buying him as a very deserving six man of the year candidate yeah absolutely and he you know when you watch him he plays so free like he plays like he has the ultimate green light which is kind of funny because if you remember bobby portis earlier in his career it was just not the player he was and even when he had the thing with miratik in chicago people were wondering how long he was going to stick around the league he found a really great spot for him here and they give him the freedom to do whatever he wants on that court and he's rewarded them a great play a great playoff performances in their finals run they gave him a big contract and and yeah that's ten rebounds off the bench is tough and and yeah he's one of those guys you gotta wonder about him for this award and it's it's a long time coming from him because he's been a key contributor for that team for quite some time and so yeah it'd be more than deserving of winning that yeah i mean yeah he's so important to the team when he watched him play he's that muscle he's that physical presence he posts up he gets offensive rebounds he knocks down threes he's having a really really good year i don't even know who else would be in it i mean like westbrook maybe uh bernic mathrin but the the importance of this guy and what he does he's a starter on a lot of teams milwaukee's having a great year they're gonna get home quarter advantage um but but bobby portis is definitely in the running for this award if he continues to play the way he's playing like a sixth man why are we giving a grace and allen to shout out right here you know why because every once in a while yeah the port is shot also sometimes you just gotta remind the world who's punchable and then you just show a grace and allen villiola right there and then the world says thank you very much really high on the list that guy oh not you know he is my whole list and he has been that clip shows bobby portis's value too because if someone's gonna meet it with grace and allen bobby portis is right there right i feel like the list of people who are willing to take a shot at grace and allen is very very very long and getting longer by the day all right kairi erving eddy are you ready for this this is the big mystery as we get closer and closer to all star weekend because will he or won't he we obviously know how kairi erving started the season a lot of chaos right but since then averaging 26 five just under five assists a game shooting 49 percent from the floor 36 and a half from three and he's played in 26 of the next 36 games so far so i'm gonna start with channel on this one are you buying him as an all-star yeah and keep doing it he's gonna be an all-star starter like i put jaylin brown and donovan michel as my two guards earlier in the season but i mean you can't sleep on what he's doing he is making us forget all the nonsense off the court that you know he has brought to the table this year um and he's a huge piece obviously kd is as well but he's a huge piece to the success and the turnaround that this team is having i mean you just said his numbers he's shooting 50 percent from the field 38 from three and and he's hit huge shots for them in the fourth um he's letting kd you know kind of rock and they're going yin and yang back and forth uh i think if he continues this you put him and donovan michel as not only all stars but starters yeah john ghan has had found a great balance for kevin and kairi a lot of these past couple years you know they occupy a lot of same spots on the floor they like to do a lot of same stuff people are wondering like how is that going to work that's early second quarter and that fourth quarter has been kairi's domain and john ghan has unleashed him with the offense and and in a lot a lot of ways it's made been Simmons better with that second unit as well as they start those second quarters and he's able to come off the ball he's able to be a facilitator when he wants to be and he always has an escape valve with kairi i think he's a starter i said that when we did our list of a week ago and i yeah it's going to be a convo all the way until it's announced whether it's michel uh jalen or kairi and it's it's a tough decision to make you know one of those guys has to miss out and come off the bench but they're all three deserving of being all stars for sure and i told kairi yesterday you might have to win that jerry west award this year he's looking clutch and you know i don't know if he'll get the votes i don't know if he has the good the good fortune to get all the votes from the from the media at this point but he he liked that he liked hearing that he'd be the first guy to win that award so he's in that like he put himself in that berry bonds room where like yeah you did stuff but people aren't going to vote for you for a variety of other reasons so it'd be interesting and it also just shows you how good and talented this dude is that he was in and out of the lineup dealing with all this stuff he's not with the team and then the minute he gets back to the team like all right game on like let's go i'm still kairi erring and i'm going to dominate the game tonight so it's hats off to him and honestly this is he's had a fantastic year and and again he's a critical piece of them going forward and he's kind of making us somewhat forget about what's going on i mean it was crazy when i'm reading that three that's a 17 and three since he came back and he only missed 10 games that that period of time i mean even last night when jack bond was talking about he's really only been on the job for two months it felt like an eternity so i was a little bit shocked by all of those numbers like okay um we gotta talk playoff because i this is that why not speculate right the dallas mavericks right now on a nice little run i hate to admit it as his first man uh seven game win streak they beat the rockets last night they won eight of their last elevens right now sitting in the four spot in the west so eddie as the lock for home court are you buying the mavericks so the teams above them are the pelicans grizzlies in the nuggets the teams right below them are the kings and the clippers and yeah i could see that i i i could see them passing up the pelicans they look great i mean you gotta remember this is this team had one of the top five defenses in the league last year when they had all their guys and and they figured out a way to play great defense even with luke and as much as i joke about yokich's defense luke i actually will get out there and try and get physical guys reach and and try to to be disruptive so they've shown they had playoff potential with this roster and what they can do in the playoffs they shown they can win a ton of playoff of regular season games as well definitely see them as a top four seed going forward especially as they get maxi cleaver back that might take a month or two but they're only going to get better as this season goes on and as they all get more well-defined in their roles luke has been amazing like we said he's an mvp candidate and by the end of the season he might be the runaway mvp with his numbers so yeah i got him up there for sure really a lock channeler i know you like the mavericks but a lock i don't i don't know if it's a lock i'm looking at the standings i they're better than the kings and they're better than the trailblazers and i think depending how quick the warriors the suns and the clippers can get healthy i think those three teams have the potential to be better than the mabs and finish stronger than them but yeah when you have luke doing what he's doing and those other guys that we always talked about was the tim hardaways dinway those guys if they can keep giving him 15 to 25 a night and and finding a you know a robin to his batman yeah to say a lock i don't i don't know i i don't think it's a lock but i think they're having they're gonna be right there you know what i don't know who's keeping track in a notebook of all the things we say um but i'd like to go ahead and put it down the mavericks finished seventh in the west i just i just had a vision it's one of those visions i can't help myself so yeah write it down danie uh taking a quick break when we come back it's time to start another streak with our parlays or we just eliminate chandler from making guesses and we continue to be on a hot streak when we return america's number one first book just got even better because you can now bet on horse racing directly in the sportsbook app not only can you place bets on live horse racing but you can watch horse races live right from the app we make it easy to bet on horse racing with races going off every five minutes free picks and easy tutorials to help you learn about horse racing bet on horse racing today directly in the fandall sportsbook app or learn more at fandall dot com slash horse racing well it's that time of the show where we show how genius we are uh this was our parlay from yesterday gone we almost continued the streak chandler what's that you about this i mean we lost by half of a point but it's you and that's what makes it on brand so i love it so it was it was a while watching that late because it just it looked like they did it right hit the freak don't look like it was over there's also not a worse feeling than you both hitting and mine being the last game to either win or lose it i hate i'm gonna start great really to be honest honestly i haven't missed yet but you know i don't want to brag about that too much um the good news is we can we can start another streak right now and we're gonna try to so eddie kick us off your leg is what i got the kings with the points actually more than i picked this morning so i'll take the three points they just beat them last week at home they're coming off a tough loss in memphis they're going to utah i got the kings beating them again okay okay uh yeah i'm going with somewhat of a layup here i'm going bucks just to outright beat the footage which you know pretty self-explanatory keep it simple chandler keep it i like that i need to get back on the board yeah you start back at the bottom and build back up okay i'm gonna go uh oakland city playing boston tonight i decided to go shagill just alexander under 29 and a half points that is which happens if you would wait your 20 bucks you could possibly win 69 hey um i feel good about it guys streak starts today again yes yes yeah no i hope it's $70 that's 69 i know we that's gonna do it oh my god we're gonna be 12 yes that's gonna do it for us we'll be back tomorrow morning it's time to go take a nap be safe