Justin Verrier

There have been 15 instances of that happening.

Seven of them, Rob, have come since 2000.

So this is actually a pretty regular thing that's been happening over our like really deep basketball watching lives.

Duncan Nash, LeBron LeBron LeBron twice.

That's fucking insane.

Steph, Giannis, Jokic, and it seems like Shay is on course for that to happen again.

Does anything jump out to you as to why that happens?

Is it just that maybe windows are a little bit more defined than ever before?

It does feel like it's his moment.

Although I will say the recent Jokic surge, like his march was absolutely blistering.

And obviously the Wemby performance against the Spurs the other day was like a real, like, what about, like, don't forget about me sort of moment.

And I'm curious what you guys think about this award as opposed to like the best player in the world sort of belt situation.

Because I don't know, like I would hear arguments for Jokic is still the best player in the world.

It just feels like the resume for Shea was this speaks to like the consistency argument.

Right.

Just overall, just a little bit more impeccable and better than what Jokic has put forth this actual season.

But I don't know.

I think of those separately.

But Rob, do you think of those as more of one thing?

Well, it does kind of transition nicely to the Jokic versus Wemby sort of debate here because I kind of went back and forth with them at two and three.