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Today's episode, the NBA GM survey comes out every year. Love to talk about it. Love to go through it. Love to read it. Love to be mad about it. And that's what I'm going to do today. I'm going to be mad about it. One GM, though, is high on the Mavericks. I have a theory that there's one GM that is very high on the Dallas Mavericks this season. And everybody else is just not. Cooper Flagg is also the most important addition in the league in the off season. I don't think that that can be like debated. And so we'll talk about that. Well, let's start here. The maps defense is being severely underrated. One of the

questions that came in this NBA GM survey, if you've never seen it before, it's the yearly

thing that John Schulman does on NBA.com. He surveys the entire league, all 30 teams. And whether

the GM does it or a representative of the GM does it, I can't imagine Nico Harrison sitting down and doing this whole thing and like asking, like reading some of these questions and going.

Explain yourself. Sorry.

Like, and going through and answering these.

And like some of these other GMs, I can't imagine.

But whether a representative is doing it or the GM themselves answers these questions.

They cannot answer about their own team.

So it's literally

impossible for a team to get 100% or a player to get 100%. You can't answer your own player,

your own team. One of the questions was, which team is the best defensive team in the NBA?

83% Oklahoma City Thunder. They were the number one team last year. Makes sense. All right. They're going to repeat. They didn't lose anybody. They didn't really gain anybody. Some of their guys got older and probably got better and all that. I guess. We'll see. They've got Chad Holmgren. We'll hopefully play a whole season this year. Again, we'll see. Minnesota and Orlando both got

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