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The 'American MVP' is dead in the NBA

We have an MVP problem with Americans. We don't win MVPs anymore. We have not won an MVP this decade since [2018]. We haven't won an MVP and I don't know where our next MVP's coming from.

Since 2018 (James Harden), the MVPs have been Giannis (twice), Jokic (twice), and Embiid (born in Cameroon). This is factually accurate for the current era.

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Mar 4, 2024
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The Big 10 Women's Basketball tournament will be better than the Men's tournament

The Big 10 tournament for the women's college basketball is gonna be better than the Big 10 men's tournament. I'll just say that right now.

While subjective, the 2024 Big 10 Women's tournament (won by Iowa) drew record ratings and significantly more national buzz than the men's tournament.
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Mar 4, 2024
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No one will ever hit 40,000 career points in the NBA again

The craziest thing about Lebron 40,000 points is I don't, I don't think anyone's gonna hit it. Like I don't, even though the scoring is crazy in the NBA right now, I was looking at it and Luca has 10,000 points in six years, but to say Luca can play to be 40 years old with his body, no offense to his body would be a jump.

This will take decades to resolve, but currently, no active player is on a realistic pace to match LeBron's longevity.
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Mar 4, 2024
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LeBron James is the second-best basketball player of all time

I also feel like we've done at least an okay job respecting the fact that he is an insane, insane basketball talent who is, you know, people will say he is the best of all time. I have him too. Which is, and I think the gap between two and three is huge.

GOAT rankings are inherently subjective.

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Spain is entering a period of absolute soccer dominance and will win the next Euro.

They won the Euro two years ago. They won the World Cup. They're probably gonna win the Euro in two years. They're just different generation dominating soccer.

Euro 2028 has not happened yet.
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Goals scored in the World Cup third-place game should not count toward the Golden Boot.

I also had one bone to pick. The third place game, which is hilarious that they still do this... The fact that those goals count for the Golden Boot is such bullshit. That's stupid. That should not count. Like that's not a real game.

This is a subjective opinion about tournament rules.
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LeBron James will announce his free agency decision tonight.

I'm fully expecting him to announce at 9:00 PM tonight. Yep. Like shit like that where it's like, I went to a movie on Thursday night. I was like, oh, LeBron's gonna fucking announce during the movie. He's, he's now fucking us... I think that's what's gonna happen. I think he's gonna decide tonight.

Depends on exactly when LeBron actually announced his decision following this episode.