Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Varyer and joining me the two runners up for the Twyman Stokes Award, Rob Mahoney, J. Kyle, man. Congratulations, guys, but not quite your year, best yet. No chance. I get this one. Yeah. I thought Kyle should have won it, you know? This is me like opening the door teammate style so that I can backdoor win teammate of the year.

But I guess DeAndre Jordan won it.

So what are we to do? Do either of you guys know who Twyman or Stokes are? I'm going to be honest with you. I thought it was one name and not a hyphen-it. They're two different guys. But whenever I say Twyman, it makes me sound like I have a lisp or like I'm saying

something particularly twee, like Twy, like Twyman.

Just a very weird word to say.

But his legacy lives on in being the best teammate.

This year, unfortunately, didn't go to Rob or Kyle.

I went to DeAndre Jordan.

Yeah.

Who just hung out most of the year for the Pelicans. Did start a couple of games improbably, but congrats to him for being just a jolly good chum. Well, that's a team that needs good teammates. You know, if you're going to be a Pelican, you need someone to console you on a near constant basis. A couple of good clips that got around of him with his arm around Derek Queen.

You know, you just got to get just a few good opportunities. That's really all it's about. You just got to get the right shot. It's not unlike an Oscar where you get a close-up, you get a little Mark Ruffalo, we knew, just put a little lump into it. And you get your little self, a little Twyman Stokes Award. Yeah. I think the question is like, will he be able to be a teammate next year?

Are teams just going to, like, carry him around almost like Taj Gibson because he's such a good guy? Like, at a certain point, you become such a good guy that you could be a good guy for as long as you want. I don't know if it's quite as long as you want. And certainly if you have the institutional, like, reputation of a Udonus Haslam type with one team.

Yeah, he could have stuck around basically, as long as he could have wanted, signed his own ticket.

Now he's broadcasting good for him.

But, I mean, DJ is notoriously a famously good hang among NBA players who really enjoy his company.

I do think it's a good spirit to have in a locker room.

I think he could go on a 40-year-old Taj Gibson trajectory. Why not?

Well, there's the dark side of this, too, where if you're a James Johnson, where if you're a good teammate for other reasons, you know, like put a little, put a little neck in there, put a little elbow in there, you can hang around, you know. James wasn't going to be contributing because they were just, remember how that all went down? They were like, we're getting picked on. We got to get some good teammate scrap vibes in here. So we can go both ways. This is the JV model, right?

Like the who do you not want to meet in a back alley? Justin Barrier, James Johnson. Maybe on the wrong day, DeAndre Jordan. I don't know. Pruning shears in a back alley with Justin. I'll bite. I'll do whatever I have to do. But I have to say, Charmed Life for DeAndre Jordan. First First team, all-N-B-A, improbably defensive player of the year.

Now he just might be running an organization because he's a good old guy.

Love that for him.

Absolutely.

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