 and we have a new NBA champion. It is the Toronto Raptors and all props and kudos go out to them. First championship north of the border in the NBA and the acquisition by Masai Jiri of Kauai Leonard paid off. Even if he leaves it paid off. It's hard to win championships. I always had some doubt whether or not if they got to the championship and they lost whether it was worth it to give up a guy like DeMar DeRozan. But now there's no argument. And I have a feeling that Kauai Leonard is going to leave because he had many opportunities after the game yesterday to say this is where I want to be. He said well I'll take care of that. Now I just want to celebrate with these guys. Never ever ever tipped his hand that he was going to stay in Toronto. I don't think he will. If he does I'll say I was wrong. But even if he does leave that's a deal you do over and over and over again. And you know with the news that's coming out yesterday from Woj. Jiri might not even care. The Washington Wizards are preparing an offer of ten million dollars a year. Wow. For Jiri to take over their role of president of basketball operations. And you know some people might roll their eyes at that. The way sports are right now. I think a front office genius is almost as important as a superstar on the court. It just is. Look at the team he put together. Now one top 15 pick. First time ever in the NBA that a team without a top 15 pick actually won a championship. And he made a bold and decisive move to get Kauai Leonard. And I give him credit. Let's see if he stays. He got into a little bit of a kerfuffle yesterday where he supposedly allegedly threw a punch and hit a police officer in Oakland. So he's in a little bit of trouble. But he does have a championship ring. It's probably going to get a huge offer from the Washington Wizards. And you know on the other side the Golden State Warriors. It's hard to say they lost. I know people might not like that take. Would they have lost if they had Durant. Would they have lost last night. If Clay Thompson didn't tear up his knee. Would they could they should they. They did. So the Raptors can't take the championship away. But I do wonder would the Raptors be able to beat a team like Golden State with all of their players healthy and playing well. I just don't think they would. But this just comes down to Michael it's Golden State. And this is why it's so difficult to repeat. And it's certainly difficult to repeat multiple times. Just the sheer number of games you have to play. And this is something that I think a lot of champions should file away is that you've got a lot of games that you play. So maybe going six with the Clippers going six with Houston. They did sweet Portland. But maybe you got to try to make sure to work at the Clippers. Maybe if you had swept the Clippers maybe that's two less games that that Clay Thompson would have had to play that some of the injured players would have had to have to go through. But all the games there are just thinking of the mileage that are on all those players Michael over the last four years the sheer number of games they've had to play. Now the Raptors played their fair amount to they were going to the playoffs every year. But it's different getting bounced in the second round as opposed to going to the finals every single year. It's got to catch up with you at some point to war nutrition and it's hard when you got that many more games than everybody else that you're playing. I'm glad you brought it up and Steve Kerr brought it up yesterday. Not as an excuse but the amount of injuries significant injuries that happen to the Golden State Warriors. You've got to attribute some of it to playing extra games that other teams don't play. And that's why frankly well LeBron James did go into the finals for eight straight years. You know what wear and tear on the body is. Oh yeah. He missed the 17 games this year. I get it. So finally sooner or later the age of 34 his body is going to pay the toll for all those those miles that you put on it. And that's why when you look at the New York Yankees and what they did in 96 98 99 2000 2001 those players held up over long stretches of play. I mean you look at Mariana Rivera and Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada. They essentially added one more year to their career in terms of games played. If you took the games they played in the postseason it's a full season and the body does not react as well. That's just baseball which is tough enough. But basketball the wear and tear on your body. I think the body of Durant the body of Clay Thompson not as strong. The body is not. You're not a machine. You're not a robot. And you are going to wear down. And I think the bodies just gave out. And I believe that's why Golden State lost. And I know that sounds like I'm taking something away from Toronto. Maybe I am. But Kevin Durant at full health Clay Thompson at full health and Steph Curry. I'm sorry. I don't think the Raptors beat him because look at everything that happened yesterday. Clay Thompson goes down and they were in it right till the very very end. And with all the injuries even without Durant Durant essentially playing 12 minutes in the series and the Golden State Warriors still won two games. I think the Golden State Warriors as they were once constructed and probably will never be constructed again. They're better than Toronto. But but isn't that just that's I mean that's life. That's sports that's every year. I'm trying to think of there's so many examples of it whether it's the Philadelphia Eagles a couple of years ago or basically every NFL playoffs where someone critical is missing from a team who goes deep. That's just part of the game. And frankly look how good Golden State was even with what happened that they found a way to do it and keep bouncing back. Now it's almost good to me that it ended last night because I do think that minus Clay Thompson in game seven would have been a waste of time. I don't think they I don't think it's even possible. I agree with you. You could see they were sucking wind in the fourth quarter and it shows you I tweeted this out the other day when they won in Toronto. Champions don't die easy. And you can see the championship timber came out in them. They were fighting an uphill battle battle. They were Sisyphus pushing that rock up the hill. It was going to roll back down on them. They knew it but they kept grinding. They wanted a game seven and in my opinion they went to games. They play a game seven. They probably would have gotten blown out in Toronto without Clay Thompson. They just didn't have enough. They never enough weapons. And you could see that when it's all on Steph's back as great as he is. He's one of the great players that we'll ever see. He's slight and stature. He's a he's a small guy. He is going to break down and wear down. He didn't have it yesterday. That was an open look for the game winner. Totally. And he just clanked it. Everybody's complaining. Well they were down by one. Why wouldn't they just go for two drive the lane? No no no. Well because there are three point shooting team. You have one of the greatest shooters of all time and you got him wide open and he clanked it. He doesn't clank that well in November. I don't think