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Hour number two on a Friday in February.

It's me, Jason McIntyre in for Colin Cowherd. joined by Rachel Nichols. We are breaking down all the best stories in sports, and it is a hell of a great sports week. Got some NBA, some NFL. We got James Palmer coming up. Mr. Scoop City coming up here in about six minutes. Talk NFL.

Wonder if he'll be at the Combine. Man, I used to go. Rachel, did you ever go to the NFL Combine? No, I was always covering the NBA at that part of the season. Yeah, I love the NFL Combine. It's coming up. I would go hang out at that one bar and just be a fly on the wall and watch stuff go down. It was wild. The slippery noodle? Yeah, no, I think St. Elmo's maybe.

Well, that's not a bar.

That's not a bar. That's a steakhouse. Yeah, but they had a bar that was pretty good. Sure, yeah. And I'll never forget someone came up to me and like, I was like, oh, hey, how are you? He's like, yeah, I know you. You trashed my guy, Gino Smith. I was like, Damn. Okay. Sorry, bro. Because I was a Jets fan. All right.

We're going to do an interesting list here. So last night, Cade Cunningham goes off. 42 points at the garden. Unbelievable performance. And it actually came on the heels of him giving an interview to GQ magazine. And he said, I want to be on the Olympic team coming up. I think it's a lock that he's going to be on it, right? And then he said to the interviewer, Cade Cunningham, mild-mannered, quiet guy, I think I'm the best American player. Full stop. Okay. So Cade goes off last night at the garden And his coach, bickerstaff had this to say listen closely i mean he's a superstar and there's no doubt about it um you know it's hard for me to think of five guys in this league that do more on both ends uh that does more on both ends than he does He never says no, he never complains, you know, and he goes out and gets the job done, and it's impacted winning. And I think

that's what superstars do, right? Superstars aren't hollow numbers. Superstars are people that impact

winning at a level that he has. Like, he just does the right thing by his teammates over and

over again to help them excel and succeed also. And, you know, so if you got a superstar

player with talent, a superstar character, you know what I mean? Like he's the guy that goes

down in the Hall of Fame someday. Hall of Fame?

Can the guy win a playoff series first?

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