Hello, welcome the Who Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing a little bit in advance of New Year's Eve, bear with us.

Because we have a little special thing that we do at the end of every calendar year.

Joining me from the East Coast, Tim Bontems.

Hello, fellas.

And joining us from Texas, where he's I'm sure headed for a big New Year's Eve celebration,

is Bam McMahon.

Howdy, partners.

My celebration will not consist of leaving the couch.

Interesting, that can go a lot of ways.

All right, so we like to do taking, since Adam Silver

is such a big fan of world soccer, proper football as it was,

and since the NBA has now embraced, you know, cups such as they are. We had several years ago came up with our unofficial baller door, which

is fashioned after the Balendoor, which is the award given every year to the top international soccer player and it takes into account not just the play within the players league but in international cups and competitions and so this is a great year to do this

where we take into account everything the player did in the calendar year so that would be what he did

last end of last NBA season into the playoffs.

This summer where there was a World Cup that took place in the Philippines.

And of course this fall where we have an extra little competition to consider which is the

uh... nba cup that was handed out in Las Vegas uh... a few weeks ago

so it's actually a more it was a little when we first started doing this a couple

years ago was basically like you taking the you know the guy who won the you know the finals

MVP but it's a little bit more complex of an honor still prestigious. I agree. I think

Durant won the first one we did a couple of years ago and Steph Curry took the

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