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Hello, welcome with the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Sunday evening, basically Monday morning.

Joining us from New York City is Tim Bontemps.

Hello, everybody.

Join us from Dallas, Texas at the American Airlines Center, where the Mavericks just beat the New Look Lakers.

Is that putting an optimistic bent on it where Cooper Flag finished off a weekend where he scored,

I believe, 96 points in two games, is Van McMahon.

Howdy, partners, Cooper Flagg flipping the rookie of the year odds with one hell of a weekend.

Folks around here fired up by the old Bontemps bonus straw poll, baby.

It's the last time Bontemps does a bonus poll.

Did he flip, did he flip McMahon's fake vote?

Yeah, actually, to be honest with you, yes, he did.

Yeah, the Hornets did get a big win today.

Con Canipa.

Con Canipa has actually just not played great for the last eight to ten days and some key games.

I'm not sure that has anything to do with it, but I wasn't surprised that Khan was ahead.

I was surprised at 80 to 20, but maybe in a strange way, that poll is going to help Cooper because I think it may be accentuated that the race wasn't really that close and kind of fired everybody up about it and, you know, whipped up the conversation and then put more focus on Cooper as he had these two amazing games. Do we want to hit on this now or do we want to get back to this later? Well, we'll go back to him later. I mean, I think we can talk about it not get out of the way. I mean, the thing that's interesting about rookie the year compared to MVP, everybody's talking about MVP all year, right? So there's like a pretty defined narrative of the race. I think the

reality is nobody was really talking about this award at all, right? Like, con's had this unbelievable

season. We've talked about it some, but it's not a daily topic of discussion. Sure. We really

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