Welcome to another episode of In The Zone. I am your host, Chris Broussard. We've got a tremendous show for you today as our guest, Earl Watson, dropped some bombs, some great stories about Russell Westbrook, Devin Booker, talks a little bit about Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, LeBron James.

Great show for you, great interview with Earl Watson, former coach of the Phoenix Suns.

We also, of course, will have Knockdown Jay with my man Jason McIntyre.

But first, as always, we have to start off with the top five.

So I was sitting back earlier this week watching a game with the Houston Rockets.

They came back and beat the New Orleans Pelicans.

Chris Paul and James Hardin looked tremendous, combined for 46 points and 23 assists.

So that got a brother to thinking,

hmm, who are the best five backcourts in the NBA today?

So that is this week's list, top five NBA backcourts.

And at number five, we go go to Portland where we have Damien

Lillard and C.J. McCollum. Now I know you're saying what? Why so low? These guys are the

second leading back court scoring wise in the NBA but there's more to basketball than scoring, namely especially when you got two

point guards or two guards, six foot three and under. There's something called passing. And

Portland is dead last, dead last in the NBA in assists. And it really isn't even close. 18

assists the game. Only team in the league,

under 20 assists the game. When you have two of the best guards in the league, that should not

be the case. Then defensively, they got to step it up. Their size hurts them a little bit,

but Damien Lillard ranked 62nd in defensive plus minus among point guards. There's only

30 starting point guards in the league. He's 62nd. And then C.J. McCollum 68th in defensive

plus minus for shooting guards. So defensively, they leave a lot to be desired. That's why they're number

five. At number four, I was tempted to move these guys up to three, but I'm going with Toronto's

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