Hey everyone, it's Kevin O'Connor.

AKA Kevin O'Bomber, AKA Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Connor!

Wait a minute, you're not Chris Verna.

No Kevin, sadly I'm not as terubic or as raspy as Verna, but it is I, J. Kyle Man and folks.

Basketball has been and continues to be so very good.

That's exactly why Kyle and I are hosting a brand new basketball show on a brand new podcast feed,

The Ringers NBA Draft Show.

We're gonna have you covered every week as we go in depth and deep dive in hopes of answering an ever important question in the NBA.

Who's got next?

Whether it's an international phenom like Victor Windbanyama or the G League Scoot Henderson or stars from overtime elite like Aimeen Thompson as well as a full-blown swarm of talented prospects from the promising 2023 NBA Draft Class.

For sure Kyle, and we're also gonna get into players from the college ranks because this is a loaded class for us to discuss prospects rising and falling and we're gonna revisit and redraft recent draft classes and get into how the league's evolution could help inform what's valuable in a prospect of the future.

This is a podcast for a fan of every team whether you're losing and have high draft lottery odds or you're looking for sleepers later in the draft.

We're gonna be covering everything in the months to come so please make sure you follow and subscribe to the Ringer NBA Draft Show and hit us with those five star ratings.

Welcome to the mismatch. I'm Chris Vernon and joining me see does every Friday from the ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor at K Kevin O'Bomer, Kevin O'Conflik, Kevin O'Concert, Kevin O'Cannabis, Kevin O'Climber, Kevin O'Camber, Kevin O'Candyland, Kevin O'Connor!

Who knows, how's your Friday morning going my friend, what's up?

Everything's great and I'm excited about tonight because today's episode we're gonna go through the good and the bad of the week and the good starts with the guy that I am going to see in person tonight as they play in Memphis,

Shake Gildres Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now this was wildly unexpected to me that this would be a game that I would end up circling because I wanted to see them in person especially after the home-green injury at the very beginning of the year or rather in the summer and knowing that he wasn't going to be available.

I've seen Gidee before, I've seen Gidee been great before, I've seen Gildres Alexander many times but this run that SGA is on is unlike almost anything we've seen from a guy that we consider to be very good, a almost all star.

And this seemingly superstar assent that he has recently been on when I was going through all of the teams, you know, I see every team at least once throughout the year and they would have been very, very low but they have moved exponentially higher simply on the back of one guy.

And I say that because as I mentioned recently this run that he is on in the last six games he has had 42, 6 and 7, 37, 4 and 8 assists, 37, 5 rebounds, 8 assists,

23 rebounds, 39, 4 rebounds, 37 rebounds, 5 assists, all the while none of those games that I just mentioned are under 50% from the field.

And he is now the third leading scorer in the NBA, tied with Joelle and B, trailing only Luca Doncic and step in Curry. What is happening here Kevin?

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