All right. Let's talk awards here through January 5th, actually January 4th, because that's when the stats were compiled, of this 24-25 season and any preliminary remarks, or should we just get rolling here with the MVP picks?

Very briefly, since it's a public pod, normal caveats, this is what has happened, not predictive.

And as a general concept for me, I am not doing this on the NBA's award eligibility yet.

My rule is not for MVP, because how much you play actually matters, is that if you've played more than half of your team's games, I consider you eligible

conceptually for all NBA and some of the other stuff. For the things where value minutes played

doesn't matter. Yeah, at this point in the year, we can, some people at least can give you

the benefit of the doubt that you're going to play the rest of the season. I skew more towards

value on all NBA than you do, but we will see how that changes things.

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All right.

Let's get rolling here.

Who's your MVP?

So I think it's a top two that is pretty clear.

And that is Nikol Yokic and Shay Gildos Alexander.

My question for you is, how confident are you in the order slash tiering of those two individuals?

Yeah, I still feel that Nicole Yokic is my guy pretty obviously.

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