The NBA MVP Race is Better Than Ever, and this the BEST season for NBA Stars Playing At a High Level

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This is one of the best NBA seasons ever, and it's because the star power across the league is playing at the highest level imaginable. The league has never been deeper with stars than it is right now. For 20 minutes, Danny Leroux joins the show and we talk about all of the utterly elite performances we're seeing on a nightly basis from Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, Giannis, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Steph prior to his injury, LeBron, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Luka, Trae Young, Darius Garland, Ja Morant and all of the other amazing players who have continued to step up league wide. Then, we talk about the MVP race between Jokic, Embiid and Giannis, and finished with some talk about the weird Defensive Player of the Year race, which is littered with injuries from the best candidates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast. I'm your host Sam Vassini. We are presented by
0:10.3	The Athletic today on the show. Danny Leroux is in the building. It is 6 a.m. Melbourne time.
0:17.0	Thursday of the NCAA tournament in the United States, my body is breaking down as we talk.
0:24.5	I am very tired.
0:26.4	It is, I've been up since 3 o'clock in the morning.
0:29.0	I've had internet issues, but I am here.
0:30.9	I am ready, and I am excited to talk about Danny LaRue.
0:34.5	We are not talking college basketball, although, Danny, if you've watched any of the two games to start the day, have you?
0:40.8	Very little.
0:41.5	I watched the first half of the Michigan game, and then I watched about the first half of the Providence game, and then I was recording my own show.
0:49.5	Did you enjoy your first experience with thick, gaudy, Daviddy yes very much so what a what a king uh very much a
1:00.8	potential two-way player in the NBA at some point soon um but we're not going to talk about college
1:07.3	basketball here we are going to talk about the fact that I think in the NBA
1:11.8	right now, there are more stars playing at a high level than I have ever seen in previous times in
1:20.1	the NBA. And that is just something that is worth recognizing and discussing on some level,
1:25.3	because it's just so unbelievable and then we're
1:27.9	going to follow that up talking a bit about MVP and a bit about defensive player of the year
1:31.5	shorter show today more like 40 to 45 minutes because you know oh come on you don't want to do
1:37.0	two hours your body's not going to completely you're not your spine is not going to
1:41.7	eject itself just out of pure frustration it Your spine is going to rage quit.
1:46.6	But, yeah, my, it's funny.
1:49.1	One of my good friends in college, I lived with him for two years, Jeff.
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