Danny Parkins

Victor Weminyama, Defensive Player of the Year.

Cooper Flagg, I'm surprised at how much this one is being debated.

Edgecombe, maybe in a different year, could get a rookie of the year vote.

Conn Knipple, in most years, could get a rookie of the year vote.

But Cooper Flagg, in basically every year, should get your first place rookie of the year vote.

First rookie to lead his team in points, rebounds, assists, and steals since Michael Jordan

and he's 19 years old.

Entered the league nine days older than LeBron James.

It's one of the great rookie seasons of my entire lifetime, which brings me to First Team All-NBA.

I would imagine four of these names will be unanimous unless someone made a mistake and submitted their ballot before Luka's exemption came in, which is always possible.

SGA, Jokic, Wemby, and Luka, I think, are all fairly obvious and fairly self-explanatory for first-team All-NBA.

I loved Rachel's explanation earlier of doing value for the MVP ballot, but the best player for first-team All-NBA, and splitting that with Cade and Jalen Brown.

I thought that's totally reasonable.

The reason I would give the slight edge to Cade over Jalen Brown...

I do think when you talk about MVP in all NBA, the winning matters.

And being the one seed for the Pistons when he is scoring and assisting and contributing to over 50 points per game and Cade's usage, and he's second in the league in assists,

He just is their offense.

They looked better than expected when Cade was out with the collapsed lung at the end of the year, but I would give the slight edge because I do think the supporting cast in Boston around Jalen Brown is a little better than the supporting cast around Cade Cunningham, but that is a very, very close debate.

Including a recent episode with Mark Lamont Hill waxing all about crack in the 80s.

To be clear, 84 was big to me, not just because of crack.