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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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What exactly has made Shai Gilgeous-Alexander the MVP favorite this season, and where does he stack up historically with some of his skills? We discuss the great MVP race between Shai and Jokic, the all-time seasons their having, and more. But first, the rise of Quentin Grimes and misinformation on NBA Reddit! With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball
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0:00.0 | Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another episode. And today, I think we're |
0:15.4 | going to have to talk about what has turned out to be a splendid MVP race on a splendid regular season. |
0:23.1 | This has been an amazing regular season with all the happenings and developments and changes |
0:28.1 | and random trades in the middle of the night of superstars like Babe Ruth from, you know, |
0:33.6 | one team to the Lakers. |
0:34.6 | And there's a lot going on. |
0:36.8 | I'm very excited. I told, I told Cody, Lakers and, uh, there's a lot going on. I, I, I'm very excited. |
0:38.2 | I told, I told Cody we, we, we told everyone. We told everyone a long time ago about Quentin Grimes |
0:47.3 | being the greatest basketball player of all time. And now look at what is happening. Quentin |
0:52.8 | Grimes is averaging like 32 points a game in the last couple weeks. |
0:56.1 | He had 46 last night. |
0:58.2 | He's completely unstoppable. |
1:01.5 | What do you think? |
1:03.0 | What team does he play through the 76 years? |
1:05.4 | What is going on? |
1:07.7 | I'm going to be honest, Ben. |
1:09.0 | I'm going to be honest. |
1:09.8 | I haven't tuned into a Philadelphia game in the hottest, going to be honest, Ben. I'm going to be honest. I haven't tuned into a Philadelphia |
1:10.9 | game in, in the hottest, the hottest of second spin. So I have not seen Quentin Grimes play |
1:17.0 | probably any of those, those scoring explosion one. So I'm just going to have to take your word for it. |
1:23.3 | Yes, you'll take my, what do you mean take my word for? Like the box scores and the video |
1:27.4 | doesn't exist outside of my brain. You're convinced this is such a strange story that you're convinced I'm having a fever dream about Quentin Grimes randomly taking over games. Well, actually, I heard it from you first before the box score. So you told me and then I could look at the box score. So technically, like, you were the first piece of evidence. |
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