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Collin Morikawa does not have a real chance to win the US Open

I'll give you a Collin Morikawa. I don't think he's gonna do it. He's been battling since the injury at the players has not been the same... I don't think he's a hundred percent right now. And if you're not a hundred percent around this place, it's just gonna eat your dinner. So I'd say Collin is the guy in terms of that maybe top 15 ranking that I don't think has a real chance of winning.

Pending the results of the US Open.

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Jalen Brunson is the current number one player in the NBA

I rank Jalen Brunson one. That's the whole point of winning a championship, is you get to spend an entire off season and saying your guy's number one. The whole point of winning a title is that then the next four months you get to just say, my guy, my best guy is the best guy in the whole league.

The ranking of current NBA players is subjective, though most analysts would still place Nikola Jokic or Giannis Antetokounmpo above Brunson.
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I would not trade Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown for Giannis Antetokounmpo

[Big Cat: Do you want Giannis, answer the question, yes or no?] No. We won a championship with Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. Why would we give that up?

Inherently subjective team-building opinion.
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The Knicks would not have won the NBA title without Tom Thibodeau

Listen, I know there's people who've been like, oh yeah, Tibs, like Biggest Loser. They don't win this without Tibs. I really believe that. Tibs inherited a godawful Knicks team and franchise and made them winners pretty quickly and made them competent. And then Mike Brown obviously took him over the top, but the guy before the guy I think still has some importance.

The impact of a previous coach's culture is inherently subjective.

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Scottie Scheffler will not win the US Open at Shinnecock Hills

I don't like Scottie this week at Shinnecock. I just, again, I think we've seen him more frustrated this year. I think it's getting to him a little bit and I think it's a golf course where if you're not driving it great, you're gonna get yourself in trouble... I don't think this is the US Open that Scottie wins.

Pending the results of the US Open at Shinnecock.
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The winning score at the US Open at Shinnecock will be over par

If those are the conditions, this is gonna be an over par US open. You're gonna see 3, 4, 5 over win come Sunday. And if the forecast holds up, that will be the case.

Pending the final scores of the US Open.
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Joaquin Niemann will win his first major championship at the US Open

I like Joaquin Niemann a lot this week with trajectory just hitting it under the wind. I think this could be his major championship that he actually bucks that.

Pending the results of the US Open.