Howard Beck

Not that they're guarding each other or really competing, but they are competing for MVP.

And this will be, you know, are ballots still being mulled at that point?

How much are we going to be potentially influenced by anything that happens down the stretch of the season?

Who knows in the last couple of weeks.

But Shea versus Jokic on April 10th, the two leaders for MVP, a discussion we will have shortly afterwards.

And it's their potentially final showdown until Western Conference finals.

Maybe they're also playing three times in the final two months.

They've only played once.

The Thunder won that one on February 1st, 121 to 111.

But there was no J-Dub in that game, no Aaron Gordon in that game, no Cam Johnson in that game.

And so I am intrigued by any time these two teams are facing off the rest of the way.

Does high risk, high reward get me extra points?

Like in the dunk contest, you kind of calibrate like, okay, that was a really ambitious dunk.

We should give a little bit more leeway on the scoring.

I love it.

And you know, by the way, Dylan Dylan Brooks, I think is like sitting tonight for a suspension on the tech too many texts.

I love the fact that Dylan Brooks has just become like featured player in Phoenix now, right?

Like the reason we all undersold them is

Hi, Matt Eshbia.

The reason we underestimated him this season, I think, in large part is because a lot of skepticism around Jalen Green and fit and Jalen Green in general.