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“It was like one of those plays where like five things had to happen perfectly at the same time. They send the two guys rushing at him, right? He's got two teammates wide open, 50 feet away. UConn practices all the time, they know, oh, either he thinks we're going to foul or not. If he starts to throw to the wide open guys, we're just jumping up like this. And they were like synchronized swimmers. The way they both went up at the same time tipped it. But then the kid had to make a 38 foot shot.”

“There's just no precedent for somebody playing 29 minutes a game, playing about 67, 68 games and winning the MVP. And that's where we'd be with Wemby. He'd be around 65, 66 and he'd be 29 minutes a game on a minutes restriction for a lot of it. You could argue he's been the most impactful guy in the league for the last 10 weeks, but SJ has either been 1, 2, 2, 1, 2 for the entire time and he's on the best team.”

“It’s a wire to wire number one seed for the Thunder. It's another year in which a lot of the supporting cast is injured for good parts of the season. And it's a guard shooting 55% from the floor and being a plus defensively. Like it's just, it's outrageous. It’s on par with Jordan Magic picking MVP season. So if the Spurs were able to pass them and get the number one seed, I'm ready to have that conversation. I just don't think OKC is going to let it out.”

“The big thing is, he, there was like a character reinvention in a fun way, where they became more villainy, which I think kind of weirdly helps the case, because I was like to think of the MVP years like, what happened that year? Like 30 years from now. What happened that year? Oh, what was that year? And this was like, oh, it's the year SGA went back to back, got better than he was the first year, and got a little villainy.”

“It’s a boring argument to make and it feels like you're finding the right hair to split to swing an argument. But it's 350 more minutes that SGA has played than Wembe. And Luka is like 500 something more minutes. 350 minutes is like seven full NBA games. Even if you think Wembe's per minute value or contribution is a tick higher than Shays, and it's actually hard to find any statistical evidence that is true. But let's just say you believe that it's not 350 minutes difference worth of impact.”