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You know who else is joining in on the fun? MrBeast, December 14th, MrBeast got his own skin in the Fortnite item shop. So don't miss out on chapter four of Fortnite shout out to Epic Games for sponsoring this video. And I can't wait to drop in with y'all. What's the word y'all? The Knicks on a five game win streak and the Nets on a five game win streak. Basketball in the state of New York. Oh, it's looking good y'all. And this is why I love the NBA because everything is so very fluid. A couple weeks ago, Knicks fans were calling for the head of Tom Thibodeaux. He was on the hot seat. Julius Randall was getting crucified by the fans. RJ Barrett, oh my God, we gave him the money and he can't shoot and he can't play make and he can't really defend anymore and what's going on. And just like that, they're back in a swing of things. And they're a half game away from a top four seed in the Easter Covers. This is why we do this, man. They were in the gutter and they switched it up. Now we ask it, how the hell they do it? This is the happiest the Knicks fans have been since the year that they did the thing. Since the year of Julius Randall making an all NBA team. Cause last year, of course, a big disappointment. And in the first couple of weeks to the first month and a half of this season, big disappointed, but things have been changing. And you know what? I gotta give someone credit to Tom Thibodeaux. Listen, I was a fan of a team that was coached by Tom Thibodeaux. He has been throughout the entirety of his career whether it been in Chicago, whether it been in Minnesota, or it's time with the Knicks. He is a stubborn coach. Stubborn to a fault in a lot of cases. We were playing a lot of Evan 48. They were playing a lot of people that don't really provide production the way you want to. And then he decided, you know what Evan? I know we gave you this contract a couple of years ago and though you're still a good shooter, you're not giving us nothing on the defensive side of the ball. So we don't replace you with Q Grimes. I was at Summer League this season and Quinn Grimes looked like one of the top three players in all of Summer League. And Pierre, who's my cousin, Knicks fan said, the next to me, he said, oh yeah, this is Q Grimes this year. This is his year that he gonna get into the rotation. He gonna take a start in the spot. And then early in the season, Q Grimes is getting like DMPs and Knicks fans like, oh my God, for Evan 48, we'd rather be bad because they were already bad at the moment. And just like the young dude play at least he can develop. And eventually it got to the point now where he is lighting it up. But we knew he can score. I mean, he did that at Houston. He did that in the Summer League. I've been impressed with his defense over the last couple of weeks. And let me get this out of the way right here. Do not tweet at me if your favorite team beat the Bulls. We're bad. It is not an accomplishment to beat a bad team. Okay, shout out to the Knicks. But Knicks fans, as all of my mentors, how you feel right now? You must be upset. I'm not upset. I gave up on a season a while ago. We get it wimpy, you feel me? But no, I've been really, really impressed with the defense from not just Q Grimes but from the team collectively. In their last seven games, they're six and one. And the only loss is that one we were talking about where they gave up 41 points to the Dallas Mavericks in that third quarter. They have the second best defense in basketball in that timeframe. This team is defending like the Julius Randall all NBA gear but better right now. And that is a little bit scary because let's be honest, you look at the weapons on that team with Julius Randall, Jalen Brunson, RJ Barrett, they're never gonna be a team that's gonna be looked at as an offensive juggernaut. They probably won with this core, be a top 10 offense. But on the defensive side of the ball, you could continue this and be a top 10 defense and you still be an average offensive team because that's where they are right now an average offensive team. This is a recipe to be a good team. And right now they have been playing like a really good team. RJ is alive. During this win streak, RJ is averaging about 20 points per game, 43% from the field, about 39% from three on five and a half attempts. That's pretty good for RJ Barrett, especially we compare to the first part of the season where he was still giving you about 19 points per game but the shooting splits were bad. And the defense is looking good obviously as the team continues to do it but the body language from Julius Randall tells you a lot about what the hell is going on with the New York Knicks. When he was in his all NBA season eight, the body language was a one, no complaints. Last season it was in a tank where he's given a thumbs down to the home team after he had a clutch shot because he was so upset that they were so upset with his production, everything. And right now he's playing some of his best basketball in his career. And when you do that, obviously you're gonna be happy. You're gonna be locked in more defensively. I saw him switch up to Zach Levine so much in the last couple of days and hold his own. That's the type of person Julius Randall can be but through the first couple of weeks of the season, they weren't even switching Julius Randall onto the other guards or Forts and Lee cause he weren't really engaged. And recently they've been allowing him to do that. So Thibs decided to bench Evan Fournier, bench Derek Rose, who played today at the UC which is fun. And then bench Cam Wright as she was a young dude that should be getting minutes because people think he's gonna be good. But I mean, if you couldn't get minutes on the Knicks when they were struggling at the end of the day, it seems like what Tom Thibode was doing right now is allowing the players that play hard to play. I mean, Miles McBride took the spot of Derek Rose. And part of that is because he's a hard-nosed on-ball defender. He's gonna hound you. Him and Quentin Grimes when they on the court together if I am a guard, I'm like, come on man cause you're not gonna get anything easy. And that's what they're doing. They're not allowing their opponents to take any threes. And when they do take them, they're never wide open. I think they have like a 20% open rate in the last two weeks or so. So they're closing people out from getting open looks and it's been amazing. So shout out to the Knicks, man. If they can keep this up, this team can be really solid and secure themselves a playoff spot, which at this moment, that should be the goal. Even though I'm gonna say this about any team that have a plethora of first round picks and the Knicks are one of those teams that have a plethora of first round picks. You don't really know. You know, Julius Randall's in a lot of trade talks and I don't know if that was specifically from the fans or something that's buzzing around the league. But it felt like Julius Randall might have been on the chopping block a little bit and now he's playing good basketball again. So I don't know what happens then. But this could be a team that buys at this deadline. They could buy because you know what? Even though they've been playing well, they're still playing a lot of their guys heavy minutes because it's a time to put away. You want to alleviate some of that pressure because it's just a smart thing to do in the longterm of the NBA scene. So shout out to the Knicks, man. Big wins, five game streak is getting good. Now let's go across the bridge to hit up the Brooklyn Nets who are also on a five game win streak after a game when it's shot from Cary Irving. Cary Irving hit the biggest shot. But I'm a bigger fan of the shot before that. And I think Cary Irving might have created that shot too. So shout out to Reeve for creating and hitting the biggest shots of the game. But you did a shoot up. I saw a TikTok from the Brooklyn Nets. Shout out to the Brooklyn Nets, by the way. I worked with them a couple of weeks ago and they finally posted it on socials the other day. Beautiful. They gave me a Polaroid camera and let me sit court side and I was snapping pictures. And I had never been behind the camera before. I usually do this type of stuff. I had a lot of fun taking pictures of Kevin Durant and Cary Irving. They gave me 27 pictures, 27 snaps. I think 22 of them were Cary Irving and Kevin Durant. I mean, they were the ones doing the cool stuff. You know what I'm saying? So shout out to the Brooklyn Nets for just being very cool and allowing me to experience the Barclay Center like that. You did a shooter. That was where I was going. I saw a TikTok a couple of days ago where you was asked, where's your favorite place to play outside of home? You know what he said? Toronto. And boom! He had one of his best games of the season right there against his former team in Toronto Raptors. It was just, it was a good performance all around. We'll probably make a Toronto Raptors video eventually. Actually, people on Twitter was like, Kenny, come on, go ahead, give us the work. Talk about us. But I'd rather highlight the good things going on around the league instead of the bad things, even though the Toronto Raptors have been one of my most disappointed teams this year. But they were with our OG again and no Gary Tran Jr., South Pass, everybody's banged up. South Pass though. It's so crazy what a different voice in a locker room can do to a team. There's nothing different about this team right now as far as on paper, when Steve Nash was the coach and now JV Jacques Vaughn, who's what they call him. And after this game, I think it was Kevin Durant. I'll be watching all the post game interviews and I get a mix. I think it might have been Kevin Durant that was saying we're giving a lot of credit to JV for changing the mindset of all of our players here. They're locked in on both sides of the floor. And let's be real. I know people are not talking about Kevin Durant as an MVP candidate because the Brooklyn Nets are 18 and 12. And a lot of the people that are above him in the MVP standings are also above him in the team success standings. Kevin Durant is an MVP candidate very, very easily. He won't get a lot of buzz. I don't think he'll get a lot of buzz. Even if they continue this streak, I don't know if Kevin Durant will get the buzz, but bro, every single night, it just feels like he cannot miss. The efficiency is ridiculous. And this is still true. The man is shooting nearly 60%, 60% on mid-range jump shots this season on almost 350 attempts. Do you hear that? If it wasn't for his three-point shooting only, being 35%, this would be his most efficient season of his career. And it's damn near his most efficient season of his career when it comes to effective field goal percentage. A lot of people don't like effective field goal percentage. I understand. It's 61%. That was a few years ago, his first year in Brooklyn. Right now he's at 60.2. So even though he's not shooting the three ball well for his standards, he still is having the second most efficient season of his career. And it's by 1% his point. This man, Kevin deserves to be here. And defensively, I mean, we've talked about basically in his time once he went with the goal to stay. Whereas Al, Kevin Durant has turned into, he was never a bad defender, but turned himself into a more than just an average to slightly plus defender. He's playing some of his best defense of his career right now, y'all. He should be in the conversations for most valuable player. And I remember, this was right after he requested that Steve Nash got fired. I was listening to a bunch of podcasts and they were saying, even if Kevin Durant had the best season of his career, I don't think that what he did with his front office and requesting the trade that the voters would give him the respect enough to give him the vote for MVP. And I say that's BS. Cause if he is the MVP and he's playing like the MVP, he deserves those votes. But let me actually, let me go look at the MVP ladder and see where he's at. Cause last time I checked, he wasn't even on it. He's fifth. I cannot be mad at fifth because that means he is least in the conversations right now and there's a world where he can, he can get there. Come on, 30 points per game, almost seven assists, five and a half. I mean, seven rebounds, five and a half assists. That's ridiculous. Anyway, they're playing more cohesively if that's, that's even a word. I'm still trying to figure out where I ranked them in the hierarchy of the MEA. Well, let's say hierarchy of the Eastern Conference cause right now I have the boss that sells his loss to Orlando today. Shout to Orlando. The team on a five game win streak after being the worst team in basketball before the streak, they're on a five game and he's to be the best team in the league. So I still have the bosses Celtics in the Milwaukee Bucks 1-2, but do I, is the Brooklyn Nets closer to being the first team on the second tier or are they closer to being on the, the third team on the first tier, if that makes sense? I don't really know just yet. I think this week they go against, let me, actually let me look at their schedule cause I know for sure they go against Milwaukee this week. So they go against the Warriors with them in Milwaukee and then Cleveland. Those three games could be interesting but you know, Steph Curry is out so maybe that won't be less interesting but seeing Boston and Cleveland and then Atlanta still with a bunch of injuries. So they got two games this next week that are big games in my opinion to help me determine where the hell do I rank them? But deeper than whether or not they're contender right now they're an extremely fun watch. The people on the bench are excited. Everybody except for Cam Thomas cause he doesn't smile is excited. They're winning games. Cary is still a monster. And then Kevin Aran, like I mentioned MVP candidate. So the vibes are back good in Brooklyn after, whoa, what a crazy last three months for them. Four months between Kevin on question to trade. Kevin giving them ultimatum. Cary Irvin's controversies to now the last couple months have been ridiculous. And right now for the first time they just went two weeks of strictly basketball without nothing else happening. Whoa, even though James Harder did say something about his time in Brooklyn, but they ain't got nothing to do with that. They ain't got nothing to do with that. That's the James Harden thing. So shout out to them. New York basketball is like a good, let's take a look around the league and some other stuff that happened. Lou Rapify or Trey Young, shout out to Trigatray. I can't give him Trigatray cause I gave Trey Murphy, Trigatray, Ice Cold, Trey Young, had his first what felt like super dominant game. I know he's had times this season where the counter stats look good, but the shooting was so off today. A for 18, two for five from three, 31 points. He got to the free throw line like a madman. Also ended up with nine assists. I always say, if you need to get out of the slump go and get Charlotte. Go get Charlotte. Let me know. It's been looking good since he come back. He had seven. I didn't realize he had seven threes today. If you need to get out of the slump go and get Charlotte. That'd usually help. So shout out to him because they desperately needed a win after the last couple of weeks or so with all of the injuries. We just found out the click of pellets gonna be out for a couple of weeks. So it's just been weird, weirdness, injuries, all of that. But Trey Young was him tonight. The Kings beat the Pistons. Okay, I must say that. They're the superior team. That should be a win. The Moe Wagner game, 25 and eight from Moe Wagner against the Boston Celtics. I've always said that I really enjoyed the magic when they're in games. Like their times, of course, they get blown out and I turn the game off. But as long as their game is close, they're fun to watch. Because Palos are growing in France and I guess Moe now are really good players and I didn't watch this one specifically, but there you go. Kevon Looney was an assist away from a triple double. I didn't watch that game. I decided though that that's crazy. Nasred, 28, nine and three steals. Okay, so these are games I didn't watch and then Luca was Luca again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This wasn't a Luca game. Shout to Luca. I can't, that's so crazy. Luca's at the point where I see a stat line of 33, nine assists to six rebounds. And I'm like, eh, this game is about Christian Wood because he was given use of knurkets to hands tonight. And the feet, the post up, the jump shot. He was giving everything he wanted. He's getting everything he's wanted. So shout to him. As you could probably imagine, I didn't get to watch a lot of basketball today. That's why my recaps of the last couple of games they've been much because today was my anniversary. Me and my fiance have been together for nine years. Nine years is crazy. So we went out to dinner and stuff. So I missed a ton of these games. But what I will do tomorrow is watch the stuff I missed because that's what we do. We never behind the day. So I'll see y'all tomorrow.