Welcome on to Dunkton Prime. I'm Daniel Rue your host alongside Nikaia Stuncan for this episode and

Nikaia and I are going to do a podcast that Nate and I really enjoy and

Now that we've been doing it long enough that we can go back and evaluate it and that's the crystal ball

And so for those of you who are unfamiliar with it what we do is we we kind of imagine ourselves

Two years from now. So this is not super far out. This isn't five years

This is anything like that. It's two years so

Around the end of the regular season in the 2324 so two full seasons from now and

Working through who's gonna be good who's not going to be good. How is the league going to evolve?

Nikaia, how did you enjoy this as a first-time experience?

The fine enjoy I guess is where I start

I absolutely love the concept. It's like okay cool get to put my future head on like I've played enough 2k to try to

Sort this kind of thing out like this is fun and then you actually do it and it's like oh right

It's not enough to say oh this player might be better than this one's gonna be okay

This guy might be in this context this guy might be up and free and seeing a year or two

This guy might get traded that could lose some stuff this team has injury concert like it's just

I

Understand why y'all enjoy it and I think I still ultimately land on this is fun, but this is also work

Oh for sure and I think the part of it that's really useful is to think about

How players and teams evolve and so I mean well because we'll talk about best teams and worse teams and individual players as well and

So like part of it for me is just thinking about okay

Well, where's the league gonna be and I think that's kind of the place to start is the NBA right now has a lot of very good players

in their early to mid 30s and

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