And now the low welcome to the low post podcast on a Tuesday afternoon. We're about to welcome

in Tim McMahon to go through James Hardin, the rockets, a bunch of Western conference

stuff, some six or stuff. But before we get there, I wanted to start with a little discussion

on I think the biggest story in the NBA right now and that's the Brooklyn Netson beneath

that one of the coolest ongoing stories in the NBA and really a story that's in year

three now. And that's just how incredible and brilliant and majestic Kevin Durant is

and has been and continues to be on November 23rd. The Nets had just lost to the Sixers

in Philadelphia and the Ben Simmons return game. They were eight and 10. Kyrie was back.

Ben Simmons was starting to look Simmonsy again. And I set on this podcast in a monologue

like this. It's now or never for Brooklyn. I looked at their schedule, bunch of easy

mid-tier games coming up. The whole situation was teetering. Kyrie's suspension was a disaster.

The Durant trade request was only rescinded a few months back. The vultures were circling.

Vultures were absolutely circling. Durant, the Nets, even a couple of vultures looking at

Kyrie. And even internally, you know, some people have been steadfast like we just need

our team. We need to give Ben Simmons time. And by the way, I was on NBA today after the

opening game arguing with Kendrick Perkins saying that we need to all need to be a little

patient with Ben Simmons after all this time away from basketball and everyone wanted to

jump down his throat for how bad he looked in the opening game. And Ben Simmons still hasn't

made a free throw in like two or three weeks. I think there's still a lot to dissect

there. But it was it was teetering and it was teetering not just from the outside. I mean,

there were people in there who were saying, I don't know how much longer this has. I mean,

I don't know if this is it. This is year four. And this is where we are. The suspension

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