What up? It's The Ringer MBA show. I'm Howard Beck. I am a senior writer at The Ringer.

With me is Michael Pina. Also a senior writer at the Ringer. Pina, it's been three weeks since we got in front of these microphones and yammered about the NBA.

And still nothing has happened.

Like, not, not a thing.

Are you enjoying Eurobasket, Pina?

Are you going deep into, have you brought like an entire menu of second spectrum observations for Eurobasket?

Are we diving deep today into Eurobasket?

You know, you said three weeks.

It just, it feels like yesterday when we were hooking up, you know, talking about the best

duos.

To answer your question, no.

I am completely out on Eurobasket personally.

It's just not for me during this downtime. I love basketball. I love

Europe. But having that in August at this time of year, I just, I can't do it. I'm sorry.

No, no. No offense to Europe or to basketball or to euros or baskets or Eurobaskets.

I just not. I can't. I'm not.

So instead, what we are going to do here today, Pina and I are going to do the way too early

and possibly way too spicy picks for the 2026 awards. That's MVP on down. So we're going to

get into that in a second here.

But before we do, Pina, there was like some news this week, all made weirdly by NBA owners.

And I just thought we should touch on these real quick because why not?

Matt Ishbia, owner of the Phoenix Sons, who has presided over, let's just say, a strange and not altogether successful, but ambitious tenure so far, he saw that ESPN had ranked the Suns very low, prognosticated in their latest prognostications for the

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