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I break down the candidates for what I think is the most open award of the year, defensive

player of the year.

And let me tell you, folks, I could see a 50-1 long shot winning it.

So do me a favor, Nick, and drop that beat.

I wanted to do something that is quite wide open and something that there's a lot of early value on.

So tonight we're going to talk about the NBA future to me that is the

most wide open and by wide open I mean is about as wide as the deep blue sea, about as wide as

the Pacific Ocean. I could legitimately see a player at 60 to 1 or higher winning this award this

year. So let's get into it.

Defensive player of the year. First of all, for that to happen, we've got to have all the

favorites, right, not rise up and not snatch this award. And I don't actually think that's

going to happen. So let's look at the favorites and explain why I think that they are bad

bets so that we can get into the ones that I think are actually good bets. Here's a look at the favorites. Rudy Gobert, plus 350. Not again. I don't think it's going to happen. I think there's voter fatigue there, the perennial winner. I think he's going to continue to get used to the way that they play in Minnesota. And honestly, like the defense has sucked. Like Minnesota's defense has been absolutely trash. It's actually worse this year than it was last year. And that's the reason that he came over. They've given up an average of 123 points to the Spurs and Jazz this year. Two teams doing everything to lose. So I don't think he's going to win it specifically because he's already won it before.

He's always in the mix.

And that's why I think he's got the shortest odds.

But I think that's wrong.

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