Nick Wright

Now it should be said at this moment in December of each of like the last five years, four years, it is felt inevitable that the defending champion was going to win again.

Like this time last year, it sure felt like Boston.

Yeah.

Okay.

See, Boston's going to do it.

And the year before it to me felt like, yes, Denver's going to repeat.

The only team that didn't feel like it was going to repeat was Golden State because that felt like kind of a last hurrah.

uh type of thing no question and then the year but the year before that milwaukee i thought they were going to repeat up until the moment uh middleton got her chris middleton got hurt yeah um so and none of those teams have even made the conference finals to defend their title uh what feels different about this okc team is two things one is it feels like they can sustain the injury no matter who it's to as long as it's not

Like anybody else.

Well, that would be the most.

Nothing would be more confusing to the NBA ranking stuff that you were talking about at the start.

I'm not hoping for this, obviously.

But if a week before the playoffs, Shea went out,

And it was done for the year and they won the title.

Like that would be sneaky, terrible, but for shit.

Yes, absolutely.

And so I just don't, I don't know.

So the, the like, Oh, it's long seasons guy can go down.

They seem immune to it.

And the fact that,