Shai Wins MVP! Can Any American End the Drought? & Inside OKC’s Elite Defense

Road Trippin’

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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After locking up his first MVP Award, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder look to add more hardware to their resume. Is this the BEST defensive NBA team ever? Is it accurate to criticize Shai for getting to the foul line, and does it even matter? And is there a fundamental problem with how hoopers in the United States are being taught the game? Listen to our takes on this edition of Road Trippin'!

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0:07.8	This is one of the greatest defensive teams that we've seen in NBA history.
0:14.0	I've never seen a team with all of their guys top through bottom that are great defensively in isolation. Those guys are locked in.
0:23.6	We're over here chopping it up. I told Chan Chang that I've been to Portland five times to hang out with him.
0:31.6	And he was like, what, what? And then he was like, no, you have you been, you've been here like once.
0:36.6	And then I start naming all the times.
0:38.4	He's like, well, that was in 2009.
0:40.5	That was in 2012.
0:42.3	That was it like, damn, bro.
0:43.6	I'm just saying how many times I've been out
0:45.5	to kick it with my guy.
0:47.9	I heard I call me an invite.
0:49.8	I haven't got an invite.
0:51.9	I invited him to my lake house.
0:53.3	And he said, no.
0:55.0	This is how the conversation started.
0:57.0	The conversation started shitting on like not going to Allie's house.
1:01.0	Allie, where is your lake house located?
1:03.0	Oh, bitch like Portland is fucking in the, like, it's a top 12 city in America.
1:09.0	Perk. It's a top 12 city.
1:13.4	Perk, if I invited you and your family to my lake house, would you come?
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