Hello and welcome to the Who Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA. It's Sunday night.

We are joined for a special thing that we do about this time every year. Some years I feel like I ask

our guest Kevin Pelton is joining us from Seattle. I feel like sometimes I say, hey, is it time for

small sample size theater and you're like, I don't know, it's a little early, a little early.

So teams have played between nine and 13 games. And when I asked Kevin Pelton a couple days ago,

he said, okay, he gave me the stamp of approval. So Kevin Pelton, the machine, thank you for joining

us for our annual small sample size theater show. Yeah, I mean, we don't want to get too large a

sample. Then we get into medium sample theater, which you know, we usually do. Yeah, no, we need

that. We need there to be some slightly fluky things happening. So we don't want to wait too

along. Okay, so we're going to go over some of the stuff that is sort of happening in the league

that we question whether it's going to last. If I was responsible podcast host, I would have

gone back and listened to last year's small sample size theater and saw how how successful

our projections were. But I didn't. So we'll just focus on this year. And one of the things that

has been the theme of the season so far, Kevin is scoring, scoring, scoring, scoring. And it's

personified by the fact that as of tonight, and I don't think anybody's going to change the

Lakers and nets haven't played tonight yet. But Kevin Durant is the seventh of these guys on

about the list. But in Joel and Beast playing right now, he could, I guess, technically become the

eighth, but something like seven or eight guys at a time midnight strikes are going to be averaging

30 points on the season. That is crazy. We've only had a few dozen players average 30 points in

the modern era. And I'm just going to go over them real quick before throwing it to you, Kevin.

So as of this moment right now, it's almost 10 o'clock on the East Coast. You know, those games going

on. But I think for the record, I think Joel and Beast is already there. He came in tonight.

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