A hardy welcome back to Ben Taylor, our favorite historical analyst, but one who's been watching a ton of NBA this year as well.

I shouldn't talk about that like it's a change because he always does that.

But I would ask my first time.

Yeah.

All right, let's uh...

No, I'm good.

Yeah, what do you want to talk about here?

What do you've been uh...

What have you been focusing on this year since I've just...

We do so many of these, I'm like people don't want to hear an intro.

They just want to hear us talk about basketball.

Yeah, I'm like really hopped up on hoops.

So actually before we start a recording, I binge listened to a bunch of podcasts and I'm like I'm trying to make a YouTube video in the background which is much harder than they make it look.

It's easier to watch YouTube than to make one.

So I mean, I guess we could start with the rookies?

Yeah, no, rookies seem to be one of the more controversial topics.

I think number one because they go to these downtrodden teams that have no hope other than this rookie and so they put all of their hopes in them and if you are not seeing that rookie as the greatest thing since sliced bread, they get a little upset about it.

But it also just because it's so interesting, right?

We don't have as much information.

You can have a greater variety of opinions.

You know, everyone knows that Kevin Durant is pretty good at this point in time.

So yeah, I mean, I think let me just start by asking this question.

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