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All right, Jason, Timp and I, all things basketball for about the next 30, 35 minutes.

And I was thinking about this today.

So basketball has a very unique place in our sports consumption. We wear, a lot of people wear their favorite

basketball player because of shoes and apparel. We don't wear our favorite hockey player unless you buy a stick or something. We don't wear our favorite basketball player because of shoes and a pair. We don't wear our favorite

hockey player unless you buy a stick or something. We don't wear our favorite baseball player,

our favorite football player. We're not around wearing cleats to work, or at least shouldn't be.

But in basketball, it's different. There's a loyalty to your favorite basketball player because

it's part of your being and and and because of that

i think people are it's just hard to let go if you're a nick fan with all his flaws it's hard to

let go of carmelo he's your guy it's not about like a baseball card it's like i got his shoes

you know i've got his apparel know, I've got his apparel.

And so I've always thought, like, basketball fans are more loyal to their stars. I'm not talking

teams. Fans are all loyal to their teams. They're more loyal to their stars. And I do wonder,

because as much as you love the NBA, when somebody's on your team, you see all the warts and the flaws that you don't see on the highlights or YouTube or when they play your team.

And now we're a year into Luca.

And he's got more technicals than he does defensive stops.

I think he's at 13.

I think he's at 13. I think he's at 13.

And I was saying this today on the show in FS1 is that of the 22 Laker losses, 19 are blowouts.

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