Welcome back here on the PHLY Sixers podcast. Joining us today, our friend, our teammate from All City Network and DLS Mavs, and he's the NBA reporter for us, the national NBA writer for All-City. Tim Kato. Tim, what's going on, man? Man, I'm having a lovely day. Good to be here. Always good to talk to you guys. How's everything up in, up in Phillylands? It's 17 degrees.

That's where I was going to go. A little jealous of you because it's very cold here, man. Oh, the cold's coming for us too. We're not, we're not going to escape it even here in Dallas. I mean, it's not going to get to East Coast levels, but it is, it is on its way. It will be here this weekend.

All right, man. Well, we'll just have to return to Dallas.

I wanted to start off talking about the All-Star this week, Tyrese Maxie, second All-Star,

not first as an NBA All-Star starter for the Philadelphia 76s. And you had a couple of stories up there for us on our network

and of course here at all p.hly.com. First talking about just how, who's deserving of these

spots because we also know that it's now going to world and USA and the first run comes in

players, media, and fans.

So with Tyrese, getting that All-Star birth,

which we thought he should have been a starter and well deserved,

just your thoughts, talking about your story,

then we'll get to your other piece that you had as well.

Yeah, yeah, I, you know, I did my version, unofficial.

I don't have a vote this year, but I did my version of the all-star team, starters and reserves. And for me, Tyrese Maxi was just very clearly a starter. To me, it was not really a, you know, a difficult case, a difficult decision to be made. In fact, I thought that Donovan Mitchell versus Jalen Brown, and I ended up

going against what I've seen, a lot of popular opinion. I went Donovan Mitchell over Jalen

Brown for kind of the fifth spot, but Tyrese had the fourth spot to me in my eyes and what I've

seen this season, you know, pretty much the whole time. It was an easy decision.

I don't think there's anybody in the NBA who moves quite like Matt. It's just, you know, his blend

of speed and stop-start athleticism and the way that he leverages how good his jump shot is,

you know, like there's just so many times or he takes one more dribble than you're expecting.

And all of a sudden, you know, he was, he was 20 feet out. It looked like the, you know, there was no danger. And then all of a sudden, oh, Tyrese Maxie has two feet in the paint. You know, like that stuff happens just so often. He leverages. He shapes to shoot and then explodes out of it with just such, you know,

like, like it's just so deadly.

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