Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini.

Today we're doing midseason awards, MVP rookie of the year, defensive player of the year,

all of that fun jazz. We're going to start real quick, though, with Jonathan Cumminga's trade demand

and the Lakers, according to Kevin O'Connor, maybe looking to make some moves to get extra first round picks.

We'll talk about that and more.

But first, let's hit the music.

They do have a time now They're trying not to use it

Play down to

Bank! Thanks!

What is this going to be?

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Are you changing?

Hello and welcome to Game Theory podcast.

I'm here on Samson.

Got the step and stuff.

But if you watch the tape,

what you will see completely orchestrated this game.

Bryce, it's your least favorite four times a year day. It's awards day. How are you, buddy?

I'm so excited to dive into awards. I started putting my

ballots together yesterday. I feel pretty good about most of it. There's always some stuff

where I'm just like, man, I really have a hard time deciding between this or that. And, you know,

I tried not to go too far down some of the advanced that rabbit hole because then that just like, it just becomes a loop of like, of all sorts of things. So this one I always try to do just like, okay, I'm going to do this off the top. And then I'm going to look at a few things here and there. Maybe this music player here or there, and then just kind of see where

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