Ryan Rosillo

Woo!

I am in San Antonio, day two with no water in the hotel.

We're low on water here, Dan.

Yeah, it looks like that's frowned upon, and I don't think I want to do it.

Maybe day three, though.

Times will get desperate.

I'm just glad I didn't bring a girlfriend or something with me, because it would have been tough to be like, hey, we're going to go to the game, one of the finals, but you're not going to be able to bathe.

I've never thought of pulling the move of, like, I'm really interested in joining the gym.

I'm moving to the community.

You know, I picked up a job.

I was wondering, could I just get a day pass and then shower, do some abs, and go, this isn't for me.

He's already going to go into next year, I think, wearing the belt of best player in the world.

There's been title holders here for maybe a couple years.

As you were talking about it, I was thinking about it because that's different than maybe being the face of the NBA to being the accepted best player in the world because of just what he does defensively on top of everything else.

But how many big guys have been the face of the NBA?

But don't you think when we're talking about face, we're talking about a popularity thing more so than just the best single player?

And I think Shaq's popularity, to your point, is he transcended just being the most dominant big man or dominant player in the league at those times.

He was a star.

He was somebody kids were excited about.

The thing that you understand in covering sports for so long, this person that's not just an incredible performer, but also attracts all of this outside interest.