Colin Cowherd

There was like a Tatum switch on MVP where I gave one first team and I gave the other one the fifth place vote for MVP.

He's been this good.

But as we know, the knock is you just don't want a small guard.

I mean, it's brought up all the time.

I don't think this proves that every NBA GM is going to be like, you know what we need to do this summer?

We got to get smaller point guard.

Okay.

He is this special.

um his dad didn't think as you said he'd be this good jalen didn't think he's been this good i talked to three coaches that have coached him nobody thought that he would be this good uh and we are on an incredible development run i would say you know if you want to stretch it out a decade yannis is like i

I don't know what to do with this video of him in these junior high school gyms before the draft.

And he ends up being at one point the best player in the world.

Jokic, you're watching his stuff going like, it's kind of funny.

He's fat and he's like an awesome passer.

But like, seriously, like this guy's going to be the best player in the world.

Kawhi Leonard, we're like, he's kind of an undersized power forward or he's the most dominant two-way player in the league at some point.

The thing is, is all those guys were huge.

We have a Jalen Brunson development story where he was a more well-known basketball player than those other guys.

There was more like actual production because of what he had done at Nova, but because he's so small, you're like, this can't possibly happen.

I think sometimes we lose sight of how

obsessed the best players are at getting better and that's why I kind of love this story for him like you think about some of these players kind of like this is the kind of guy we should all be rooting for to win a championship because he is so likable he seems like he's handled everything the right way he takes a massive discount to even allow this roster to happen so anyone suggesting today he's the best player in the world is losing their minds I don't think anybody's doing that but to go hey maybe he's in that five six range I think he's already been there a couple times before but once you once you win the ring like it's hard to even argue again