There's this thing on. One two, Mike a shake, one too. Man, this is our city. This is our city, man. We did it, man. It's unbelievable. Feel like Black Jesus. We've seen the story before. We've seen the story before. Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. Monday on the Athletic Podcast Network. Welcome to Pied Africa. No, let me stop by Zach. Let me stop my Zach impersonation.

We need to keep that in.

I do have a take.

The only thing I'll say about, obviously,

congrats to Nicola. you know, he deserved it.

They had an amazing season.

You know, there's no right of all.

You know, there was a lot of candidates.

He could have gone either way, Yannis, you know, Devin, Booker, you know, being on the best team in the league by fall.

So I guess every year is all about, you know, whatever you guys decide, whatever fits the narrative.

Welcome to point of contention.

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today is may 27th happy national grape popsicle day that's a thing i'm zach harper andrew schlect

is producing in this corner the long metal legend, the king pen from Beantown who calls it like he sees it and often calls it before he sees it and sometimes sees like he calls it. In his heyday, he liked a hot box because he wanted all the smoke and is exactly who Omar from the wire was talking about when he said you come at the

king you best not miss he is the one and only Jay King Jay have you ever seen an NBA player

hit nothing but backboard on two different three point attempts in the same possession like

Vic Oladipo in game five. Probably not

identically the way that he did.

How about any level?

It was the same miss twice

on the same possession.

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