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Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Izzy and Amin's All-Star Picks: Western Conference

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4654 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Amin and Izzy reveal their Western Conference All-Star ballots this week on Oddball. From LeBron James and Kevin Durant to Victor Wembanyama and Alperen Şengün, they debate who deserves a spot and who missed the cut. Does Luka Dončić earn a spot despite missing time due to injuries this season? And where does Steph Curry rank amidst the Warriors' recent struggles? To close the show, Izzy and Amin dive into the Draymond Green–Jordan Poole saga and play 'Odd-acity,' where they challenge each other with escalating betting odds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Oddball.

0:10.2

I'm Amino Hassan.

0:11.3

That over there, Izzy Gutierrez.

0:13.2

He's fresh off the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

0:16.2

That's correct.

0:17.2

That's exactly where I was.

0:18.6

Yes, I was skiing down Mount Kilimanjaro in Aspen.

0:22.6

That's what you do. That's what you do when you have a long weekend, right? You do that. But we're back and we're excited about today's show. By the way, today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings. Draft Kings, the Crown is yours. Yeah. All-Star ballots, right? All-Star voting has ended for the fans. If you remember, correct, Leck, the fans account for 50% of the vote. Remember, once upon a time, we let the fans, Izzy picked the starters. They used to be trustworthy. Yes, and we almost got Zaza Petitlia starting in the All-Star game. So thankfully, the league stepped in. We said, we're not doing that anymore.

0:55.3

So now this is the ratio.

0:56.7

50% of the started vote comes from the fans.

0:59.8

25% comes from the players and 25% comes from selected media, 100 media voters, right?

1:07.1

So Izzy and I were not players last I checked.

1:10.3

And I don't think we're voters either.

1:13.2

So I guess we're going to have to just do this on our own because gosh darn it, we want to.

1:18.6

All right. So today we'll do West. Tomorrow we'll do East. Let's get started. Isi where are we going to start?

1:25.8

Let's start with the starters. Like we said, we're in the West here. By the way, I we going to start? Let's start with the starters.

1:29.4

Like we said, we're in the West here.

1:35.3

By the way, I'm going to preface all this by saying you could strong army into changing almost every one of these.

1:36.5

And I don't mean you.

1:37.4

I mean, I mean anybody.

1:41.5

So my position is strong so far.

1:43.7

But let me give you my five starters.

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