Zach Lowe

Give me a, give me as a voter.

I'm not a voter anymore.

The flexibility to do what I want, at least with that, with third team.

But Pistons just let's start at the top of these.

Cause the Pistons just keep on winning without Cade Cunningham.

They play Minnesota tonight and the big winner of last night, the Celtics yet again,

put up 53 points in the first quarter against Miami and Jason Tatum, 25 points, 18 rebounds, 11 assists.

He's officially, if not all the way back and he's not, the efficiency still isn't there.

so much closer than anyone could have reasonably expected.

It's not just the rebounding, the shot making the threes coming along.

He's got a few blow by drives or finished through contact drives every game now that are like, Oh my God.

And the way the Celtics are playing and the way the Pistons are playing, both of those teams have to be very encouraged.

And then the Cavs and the Knicks, the other two teams that have been in this top four all season long,

Um, sort of just mystery boxes to me at this point.

And I want to get your take on them for a bit, but first of all, Tatum, uh, unbelievable performance all around, not unbelievable.

It's Jason Tatum, but like considering where we are, I think.

Celtics as favorites in the East is now kind of hard to dispute despite how well the Pistons are playing without cutting him.

And the other thing I think happened last night, Jalen Brown had a sensational game, just overpowering everybody that the heat put in front of him, getting to the rim at will, making the simple play, the simple kickoff pass when he should.

And I think that the combination of Cade officially missing all NBA and the way Jalen Brown is playing

I think he's going to get the fifth first-team All-NBA spot that's sort of been open behind Luka, SGA, Jokic, and Wemby.