Sam Amick

He loved it because he agreed with it and he hated it because it shouldn't have to be said that defense is half of the game.

And that is where when I dug into the numbers and looked

you know, video and looking at the impact that Victor has had, I mean, I would sleep plenty well at night voting for him.

It's not even close.

Like he, you know, the impact he has is absolutely incredible.

No, I'm with you.

I think he's third right now, which is insane to say when you look at Joker's numbers.

So, by the way, it's a group of four that is.

It's one, one A, one B, one C to some degree.

But he's been incredible.

I agree.

It's not the Lakers hype.

It's not the Lakers spotlight.

If anything, you could argue it might be.

the opposite at times.

He kind of takes that L, no pun intended, just because of the lack of respect for the Lakers as title contenders, even with all the winning.

But he's been fantastic.

And then you mentioned the trade, Dave.

To have a backdrop...

this week where Mark Cuban decides to go on a podcast and apologies, I forget which platform he was on and talk about the trade again and to kind of out Jason Kidd in his discussion where he shares that Jason was an advocate for this trade, which we kind of knew, but it never been said out loud all the way.