Howard Beck

But at least give guys a fighting chance, right?

So I think that's where we all are, right?

You don't want to see... However you feel about the Warriors or anybody else, you just don't want to see Steph wasted.

You don't want to see a LeBron wasted.

You don't want to see KD wasted.

And yeah, this is just...

it's, it's a shitty situation all the way around.

And, and by the way, Jimmy Butler turning 37 in September, like he could come back early to mid next season, but he's going to be 37, even if he didn't have a torn ACL rehab.

And I don't, I don't, and I think that's the last year of his deal with the warriors too.

So, um, it just, you know, Jimmy's career is, is, is in a little bit of, of doubt there.

The warrior situation's in doubt.

Um,

If this is the way... If this is like the next kind of death blow to this era for the Warriors, it's just a really grisly one.

If anybody doubts it, by the way, real quick, because Steph was named one of the all-star starters last night, and I know that's going to be controversial for some people because they thought Anthony Edwards or somebody else should have made it instead.

Steph, still not for nothing, sixth in the Ringer 100 rankings.

And if you don't buy the Ringer 100 rankings, EPM, estimated plus minus, which according to all the analytics guys out there is the best publicly available all-in-one stat.

Steph right now is seventh in the NBA rankings.

in EPM at a plus 5.3.

Jimmy Butler, by the way, was 14th in the NBA in EPM at plus 4.3.

These are both still really, really impactful guys.