Howard Beck

Um,

Like, and has made the Blazers interesting and good and competitive and fun for the first time in a few years.

So, just worth noting.

But, and Harden I picked, again, this was another basketball reference, you know, game here, but...

Harden's one of four players averaging 25 with eight assists.

And the other guys are Jokic, Cade, and Luka.

And he's got, you know, one of the better efficiency marks there.

So, anyway.

The first two are very, very clear.

Tim Bontemps texted me the other day to ask for... I'm sure that poll must be out today.

Maybe it must be soon.

But Tim Bontemps hits me up for the MVP poll, and I'm always stressing, when do you need it by?

Give me some time.

He's like, don't think about it.

This is impressionistic.

So I've had to retrain myself to be quick and dirty on this thing.

But later we get in the season, the more important it feels like, especially because his poll ends up being...

source of a lot of conversation um it has proven to be fairly determinative and so i'm trying i'm trying hard to get this right but i was on the plane and so this is what i sent to him and i say that to say this is what i sent to him and i figured i'll just work off of that for our discussion yeah sga sga first yokich second um and that is mostly about the fact that uh shea has played 10 more games than yokich and his team has seven more wins than yokich's team

Ten more games is a lot of freaking games.

It's most valuable.