Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's poppin'? Real Ones. My name is Logan Murdoch, a.k.a.
Chapter 2: Who are the midseason MVP contenders in the NBA?
Logie Bounet the 2, a.k.a. Lolo, a.k.a. all of the above. And I just want to introduce myself, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck into your lives. In this new journey that we have on Netflix, we're really, really excited to bring the the show that we have been doing for close to six years now.
We do this every Tuesday and Friday, and we try to bring a little levity to the NBA conversation with also experience and measured takes. Myself, I have been covering the league for about 10 years now. Howard, legend, has been covering for close to 30. Raj, a former player.
Chapter 3: What makes a player the League Pass Player of the Year?
We just bring all of that together. And we try to bring you guys a great show twice a week. So tap in with us today. We are bringing our mid-season awards into the fold. And we're going to give out some funny awards. And we have some breaking news with Anthony Davis, who is out for the remainder of the season. And somehow that has built up a trade market for him. It's pretty wild.
Anyway, all that and more on Real Ones on Netflix, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. Cliff, play the theme music. What's popping?
Chapter 4: Who is leading the Rookie of the Year race this season?
Real Ones. Logan Murdoch here. Howard Beck there. Raja Bell in the cut. It's a whole new era, y'all. Real Ones on Netflix. Man, it's crazy. Are you nervous, Raja?
Chapter 5: What defines the Crashout of the Year in the NBA?
How do you feel? Are you okay?
Are you okay? I think I'm okay. I will say nothing's really changed here except for the camera setup, which did have me very distracted for the last three episodes. So, I think I'm coming down off of the nerves of that. I should be fine today.
Howard, before we get into this midseason awards, are you okay?
Um, I'm a little rattled if I'm going to be honest, you know, uh, did not expect, uh, our respective, especially for you and I, Logan, we'd began our journalism careers in print, did not anticipate a world where, uh, these faces, this face would be in 4k on somebody's like six foot living rooms.
Chapter 6: Who should be considered for Coach of the Year?
So like, I'm just going to make a quick plea to our listeners and our viewers now, cause we love you. But, um, That 4K, if there's a way to crank that down to like 3K, 2K, 1K, half a K, I don't know. Less Ks, and watch me, by all means, watch us on Spotify, watch us on Netflix, but do it on your phone, just not the fucking six foot living room. This face ain't made for that.
I'm just, for all of our sakes, smaller screens, please.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of Anthony Davis's injury for the Mavericks?
Less resolution would be nice. Yeah, the more pixelation, the better. I mean, you know what I mean?
You want some grainy footage. Hey man, speak for them, bro. I'm right here. This is the face made for television, ladies and gentlemen. Um, let's get to the award. Let's get right to it. So, um, Raj is fresh off a plane. Howard is about to get on a plane. So I don't know how this episode is necessarily going to go, but for all the viewers out there, the new viewers, this is how we roll, man.
So this is, this is the first, um, category that we have set up. Um, for the mid-season awards. Maybe it should be the last one, but I think we're going to go. We're going to go first. I'm going to start with Howard here. Who is your mid-season MVP of the NBA?
We're starting with the heavy hardware right off the top. This is a really interesting one, right? Because Wemby missed a bunch of games. Jokic is currently out. At the moment, he's going to miss a lot more games to come, too. But we've got to judge him on the totality of the first half of the season.
I think there are eight guys you could consider on a five-man ballot, but we are just going MVP of the first half. We are not doing ballots or fake ballots or anything else. And I think it's Shea Gildas Alexander pretty clearly right now. You can't overthink this. He's been absolutely dominant, just as dominant as he was last season.
He's averaging 32 points, four and a half rebounds, six and a half assists. He's shooting almost 40% on threes and almost 60% on twos.
Super efficient. Yeah.
Super efficient, and he's played 38 games out of 40, so he's only missed two games, so he's played more than most of the other guys that you might want to consider, but, you know, Jokic, Doncic, others, Wemby. But also, like, even if the Thunder have, like, slipped a little lately, and they have...
They're still on pace for 68 wins, and that's despite missing Jalen Williams for 19 games, Chet for six, Dort for nine, Hartenstein's missed six, Caruso's missed a dozen games. Like, Shea is the constant. Shea is their engine. Shea is dominant. He plays both ends, and he's just done the most, I think, to substantiate his case over the first 40 games.
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