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#182: Embiid-Giannis & the MVP “conversation”

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Thinking Basketball

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4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Why are so many MVP “debates” about tearing down one player? We dive into the historical criteria of the MVP, the shift in the conversation these days, and more. Plus first, a Quickley apology, Harden's big game, and the Embiid-Giannis (Lopez) battle after the Bucks impressive win streak. With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0

Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

0:07.0

Welcome back to another episode and today we are going to talk about

0:19.1

NBA basketball.

0:20.9

Cody, how are you doing?

0:23.8

How are you feeling coming off a 16-game win streak?

0:26.9

Let's get to that in the second, Ben.

0:28.1

I have an NBA adjacent thing to comment on.

0:30.9

So I don't know if you saw us this but I saw there was a clip of a

0:33.7

Wembuyama right he was doing some kind of like foot exercise pre-game

0:38.2

right he was doing some kind of like lunge things barefoot and his feet were like

0:41.3

spreading all over the place I found this really really interesting then. I like kind of went

0:44.7

I went down a rabbit hole. Yeah, it's really interesting, right? It's like he's strengthening his feet because these big men have

0:50.0

such issues with their feet in their life and then I went down the rabbit hole of feet strength, Ben.

0:54.3

Oh yeah, you're doing some towel grips?

0:56.4

Listen to me.

0:57.2

Ben, I consider myself like a, you know,

0:59.7

I can tell you how to throw on some slab on that meat sack of yours you know I can

1:05.0

get you some protein in your body what's happening what does that even mean listen

1:09.3

one minute into the show this is where we are today. This is the energy. I had no idea about any of this foot strengthening thing.

1:16.4

Like I found this video that's like you should be able to independently raise your big toe without your other toes.

1:22.2

I went to my wife and I'm like can you do this she's like yeah I can't do it. Yeah, that's because most people have kind of for lack of a better word shut off feet from shoe wearing where you don't really ever do anything with your

1:35.7

foot. Your foot kind of turns into a claw. That's what it does. Yeah, no I

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