Howard Beck

Which is why it's even all the more important and impactful that Giannis has spent 13 seasons with a small market, cold weather team at a time when superstars do not go to these places.

And if they do go, because they get drafted there,

They're getting out the first chance they get most of the time, right?

He has been, you know, loyalty is overdone, but he's been more loyal the most.

And everything has limits.

And his limit is, you know, I'm 31 and I need to win more championships and it's not going to happen here, which is reasonable.

Wait, does this mean you're also like, if you had to build a team from scratch exercise, you're taking Jalen Johnson over Jalen Brown or Cade?

I mean, Jalen did win finals MVP when they won the championship and conference finals MVP.

So it's not like he hasn't had his moment to shine and to get recognition for his abilities to be kind of the lead guy.

And it was, you know, maybe by a couple percentage points within a couple of series, right?

But yeah, you're right.

I mean, it's always still been about like it's Tatum's team.

And then we also have this guy, Jalen Brown, who's this amazing co-star.

And like nobody wants to be the Robin to the Batman.

Right.

And that was always the tension behind the scenes anyway.

It was like, well, are these guys going to stay together?

And it wasn't because everybody's saying they don't get along or don't like each other.

It was more just like Jalen Brown thinks he can do more.

And he's just shown us to his credit.