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Heavy Friday, everybody. Hope all of you guys had an incredible week. It is a mailbag day. It's been a few weeks since we've had a mailbag. And so as a result, we've got a ton of questions to get to. I've got 15 questions today. We're going to be bouncing all around the league, hitting all sorts of topics. You guys know the Joe before we started. to subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos.

Make sure you guys like this video and sign up for post notifications. That helps us a lot. And then last minute of least, if you guys want to get questions into our mailbags, go to our full episodes on YouTube, go into the comments underneath those videos and write mailbag, colon, write your question. That helps me sort through

as I'm going through the comments and we'll get to them mostly on Fridays throughout the

remainder of the season. All right. Let's talk some basketball. First question. Hey, Jason,

love the show. Watch every single one. Thanks for the sport. My question is, how is Cade and

Jalen Brown not two of the top three MVP frontrunners? I thought MVP was most valuable player to your team. Cade doesn't even have a 20-point score on his team and nobody thought he would be first in the east. And J.B. lost his whole starting five from last year and everyone thought they were tanking, but they're number two in the east and my pick goes to, and my pick to go to the finals. What's your thoughts up the great work my friend thanks again for the support this is an interesting question and this has been a popular topic over the course of the last few days as for one uh shea looked like he was running away with it but then suddenly luca kind of made a run at it wemby has made a run at it and i think both of those guys have have compelling cases. I still think Shay's in the lead. But then we had that Mike Wilbon quote that came out and he's an actual voter who came out and said that he plans on voting for Jalen Brown. And then he said, basically said, don't even consider Luca because he only plays one side of the floor. And so we've seen all sorts of different angles come at this over the course of the last few days.

And so I think it's worth diving into.

Now, in yesterday's show, or I should say Wednesday's show, I talked more about why

Che is number one, why I have Wembee number two, why I have Luca number three.

But I want to zoom in on why.

I think there's a large gap between Luca at number three

and guys like Cade and Jalen coming after that point.

And the answer is pretty simple.

When you talk about these teams and why they have successes,

when you dig into the Thunder, for example,

they have been utterly devoid of ball handling this year.

And you have the, you have the injury to AJ Mitchell that took place through the year,

the multiple hamstring injuries for J. Dub. And a lot of ball handling responsibility has fallen

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