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I'm Anthony Erwin.

I'm joined as always by Adam Madas.

Adam,

Adam, probably not the best sign that the NBA keeps releasing all their information late at night.

Nothing like the late night news dumps to get you through your evenings.

On the flip side, there's not that much information it's not like we're you're missing that much but yeah I don't I'm not looking at it from the standpoint of like what we're missing or what people might be missing I mean from the standpoint of like what the information is

the information it like that's why they're the fact that there isn't much to miss

that's why they're releasing it all late at night sure

uh... today's show we are going to go through all of our what ifs. We have three what ifs each one for this season one for the team that we cover and one for all time NBA history.

We are just gonna dive right in.

Let's go ahead and start with this season, Adam.

What is this season's what if for you?

For me, so I get to go first. Well, yeah, there was a couple that were like that I was going back and forth between,

but the one that I thought would be most interesting to discuss

was what if Zion Williamson had never got hurt?

What if he had a full healthy rookie NBA season? Now I don't think this would have

affected the season that much like I don't think like anything meaningfully different would happen, you know, in terms of like oh the championship odds are completely out of whack. But Zion was having a historic rookie season through 19 games. There's only 19 games but

23 points per game on shack efficiency was absurd and you have to think at least I

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