Hello and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which will make

you a little bit of an alteration for our schedule this week. Sorry, we didn't tell

you. This is Wednesday morning. This is going to come out Thursday morning. If you came

on Friday, you're unexpectedly a day late. Sorry. That's because Bon Temps and I have some

travel to all star weekend going on. But that is joining us from Boston where he flew

in from Philadelphia this morning and I assume is going to Cleveland tomorrow. There's 10

Bon Temps. That is correct. Hello, fellas. Where he went out to see James Harden's press

conference, but not James Harden's first game because he'll get to it eventually. Don't

worry. Everybody relax. He'll be nice. Nice him to let Harden borrow one of his outfits.

That of course is band McMahon. I'd be banned from commenting on fashion after that remark.

How dare you comment on fashion? I wish I could say I was taking advantage of the

solid star break to go on some like luxurious vacation, but I was being chillin at the house

fellas. Got a 13 year old birthday party coming up this weekend. That amount of

go. Those are your peers, the 13 year olds. So this is a big day because we have the

next edition of the Bon Temps poll, the straw MVP poll. Bon Temps, this is a little bit off

your schedule because the MVP race has changed so much. Do you have or do you remember the

results of the poll? Your first straw poll came out. Of course I have the results. Of course

I do. The second week of December. There's one of us on this pod who comes prepared. That

is correct. Yeah. So in the first in the first straw poll that we did this year, you did

it. Well, the proverbial we. Steph Curry was the royal we do this. Your royal pain

and something. If you put on a crown though, I suggest a veil with it to cover that up.

There you go. There you go. I'm going to be a little slow on the uptake on my responses

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