Derek Thompson

I mean, the ability to score with this efficiency and rebound and assist, it's very bizarre to have Bill Russell rebounding, Magic assisting, Michael Jordan level scoring in terms of the numbers and also, like, weirdly, like, Steph Curry-ish three-point percentages in a seven-foot frame. You have the best player in the world.

I mean, the ability to score with this efficiency and rebound and assist, it's very bizarre to have Bill Russell rebounding, Magic assisting, Michael Jordan level scoring in terms of the numbers and also, like, weirdly, like, Steph Curry-ish three-point percentages in a seven-foot frame. You have the best player in the world.

It did not touch, I know exactly the shot. It did not touch rim. I don't think it came within somehow six inches of any part of the rim. It was literally in the center of the basket. So my last question for you is this. You're the best player in the world. He's certainly toward the back half of his prime. You have to take advantage of this.

It did not touch, I know exactly the shot. It did not touch rim. I don't think it came within somehow six inches of any part of the rim. It was literally in the center of the basket. So my last question for you is this. You're the best player in the world. He's certainly toward the back half of his prime. You have to take advantage of this.

It did not touch, I know exactly the shot. It did not touch rim. I don't think it came within somehow six inches of any part of the rim. It was literally in the center of the basket. So my last question for you is this. You're the best player in the world. He's certainly toward the back half of his prime. You have to take advantage of this.

What's the one move you make?

What's the one move you make?

What's the one move you make?

Yeah, well, the one name you didn't mention is Porter Jr. And you guys are paying him a lot of money to score eight points in game six. Did he have eight? It was a quiet eight. Maybe it was eight. I think I looked at the box score at like 4 a.m. in the morning. But I think you're pretty much right. Look, I think you've got the most important piece, and you don't quite have enough –

Yeah, well, the one name you didn't mention is Porter Jr. And you guys are paying him a lot of money to score eight points in game six. Did he have eight? It was a quiet eight. Maybe it was eight. I think I looked at the box score at like 4 a.m. in the morning. But I think you're pretty much right. Look, I think you've got the most important piece, and you don't quite have enough –

Yeah, well, the one name you didn't mention is Porter Jr. And you guys are paying him a lot of money to score eight points in game six. Did he have eight? It was a quiet eight. Maybe it was eight. I think I looked at the box score at like 4 a.m. in the morning. But I think you're pretty much right. Look, I think you've got the most important piece, and you don't quite have enough –

creative scoring and assisting talent around him, which means he's got these usage rates of 33, 37%. I think as he moves into his 30s, you're going to want to bring that down. And I didn't think about someone like Trey Young, who I find incredibly annoying. But as you said, next to Jokic, who knows?

creative scoring and assisting talent around him, which means he's got these usage rates of 33, 37%. I think as he moves into his 30s, you're going to want to bring that down. And I didn't think about someone like Trey Young, who I find incredibly annoying. But as you said, next to Jokic, who knows?

creative scoring and assisting talent around him, which means he's got these usage rates of 33, 37%. I think as he moves into his 30s, you're going to want to bring that down. And I didn't think about someone like Trey Young, who I find incredibly annoying. But as you said, next to Jokic, who knows?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a complicated question. You know, something has happened in the last 50 years of liberalism that has marked a really clear shift in its character. If you go back 100 years to the beginning of the New Deal era, America was building like crazy. We were building roads. We were building bridges. We were building energy. We built and built and built.

It's a complicated question. You know, something has happened in the last 50 years of liberalism that has marked a really clear shift in its character. If you go back 100 years to the beginning of the New Deal era, America was building like crazy. We were building roads. We were building bridges. We were building energy. We built and built and built.

And sometime around the 1960s, 1970s, the character of liberalism changed and the politics of building gave way to a different kind of politics that we think of as the politics of blocking, essentially. You had the rise of environmental laws, which were very important in their age. The 1940s and 1950s were absolutely heinously disgusting. We needed a Clean Air and Water Act.