Logan Murdock

But they were missing their best player in Jason Tatum.

And so what they did, going from...

you know, believed to be fringe playoff team, play-in team or whatever, and then finish second in the East without their best player.

I think that probably bowled people over more than the Spurs making the leap, even though, yeah, to Dave McNullough's point, the belief was that the Spurs were a fringe playoff play-in team themselves before the season started.

I think the difference is that the Spurs have Victor Wembanyama, who was a top three candidate for MVP.

And the Celtics did not have Tatum.

And so to the extent that coaching is ringing the most out of your group, I think people thought what Missoula did was more impressive in that regard.

I went with Mitch Johnson for my own reasons.

We don't need to get into all that right now.

But I think that was the difference in the way that their cases were perceived.

You know, you know, like you've got the, um, with, with wifi these days and there's always parental controls and apps and everything.

Like you can shut it down for your kids or for the household.

Yeah.

Like maybe agents and PR people and other people around players.

If you know that your guy is a little prone to just spouting off at, at odd hours and doing whatever, like someone should have like the kill switch.

Someone should just be able to like, shut it down for their, for their, for their best interest.

Yeah.

How many does Kobe have?

Kobe and Shaq each only got one, and in part because they played all those years together.

Patrick Ewing never won one.