You know, you got on the night Santa hat Max has on that beautiful sweat and stuff like that, you know, making the people smile.

I didn't have anything like that.

So I thought and then I realized I got something that I know would make me small.

Oh, my God.

This works for May.

This works for May.

You know why, Max?

You Because every time Hey, listen.

Hey, listen, every time I put on this hat holiday every time, every time I put on this hat, it reminds me of the holiday season that's relevant to all of us, but not necessarily to those Dallas cowboy fans out there.

So that makes me feel good.

And then the Christmas spirit more so than anything right now.

And that's what.

Okay, now let me stay.

Let me stay with a cold and all that stuff.

Let me.

That's right.

That's right.

Let me stay in that state of Texas right now and tell you when it comes to a player more valuable than their team.

Even though LeBron is the greatest in the world, even though he's that champion.

The fact of the matter is, it's Luca.

Don check.

Why do I say that?

Max Kellerman?

It ain't just because of his game.

It's because he's in Dallas, as opposed to LA.

He don't have Anthony Davis.

He ain't in the second largest, uh, the second largest state in the United States of America.

Second largest market.

I'm sorry.

He ain't wearing the purple and gold.

He doesn't have 17 championships as a backdrop.

Okay?

He don't have all of that.

He's playing for the Dallas Mavericks.

And who are the Dallas Mavericks without Luka Dončić?

You got a injured

Poor Zynga's.

You got Dorian finished.

Smith, you've got Tim Hardaway.

Okay, you got Josh Richardson there now.

No disrespect to them because we know that they can play and they're gonna be in the playoffs.

Very formidable, guys.

Good dudes.

And I love me that Tim Hardaway Jr.

Because I love his daddy.

But let me tell you something right now, the bottom line is without Luca, we ain't paying attention to anything about the Dallas Mavericks, but Mark Cuban and he's on shark tank.

So the bottom line is Luca is more valuable because he's the one that singlehandedly has this entire franchise relevant.

That's why we gotta go with Luca in this particular situation with this particular question.

Well, a lot of times we say who is more valuable to their team, and we all know one guy is better and that's LeBron.

What we're really asking is who's on the lesser team, but I think it's more than that when you say who is more valuable to their team.

Luker LeBron.

I think LeBron is more valuable to his team.

And I'll tell you why.

Stephen A.

You're right that if you take Luca away from the Mavs like he gets them closer to a title right or to the playoffs or to winning a playoff series by himself, maybe you could argue because there's less around him, although in poor Zynga's gets back, that'll change, too.

But I think there's something bigger than that.

The question is who gets you to the championship to the promised Land.

If you put Luca on the Lakers and took LeBron off, I don't know that we'd all be saying yes, the Lakers are definitely gonna win the championship.

But if you put LeBron on the Mavs and gave him poor Zynga's.

Maybe they would be title favorites.

You know, this comes down to the LeBron.

It happens in the LeBron Jordan debate, too.

I think LeBron by himself gets a team closer to a title than Jordan by himself.

But if you give Jordan something and you give Lebron something, yeah, right.

But if you give them both stuff, Jordan will take you there every single time, Right?

That's who LeBron is in this NBA.

He's the Jordan of this NBA.

Whenever LeBron has a reasonable chance to win the title, he either does or gets very close, you know, like hey gave him.

He goes six games with DellaVedova as his second best player.

He beats the 73 You in Warriors team.

If you add Katie the Warriors, Nothing he could do or anyone could dio.

But LeBron gives you that premium over everyone else, including the Lakers.

That look at us just doesn't give you.

LeBron goes to the Mavs.

You think maybe they could win it This year?

Luca goes to the Lakers.

Suddenly, you're like a lot of teams in the West can compete.

That premium, not just being great, not just be doing more with less.

But when you have something, turning it into championships makes to me makes LeBron the most valuable to his team.

Well, I definitely hear where you're coming from, and I'm glad that you came to the party all being a bit too late when you recognize that LeBron is the best in the world and his extreme value.

But let's take into consideration the specificity of the question that we're addressing here.

Max Kellerman.

The fact that the matter is when we talk about looking, we ain't just talking about basketball when we talk about LeBron and we ain't just talking about basketball, Lucas an international icon right now, Luca ain't from the United States of America.

He is an international icon, which is why Mark Cuban just brought up his cachet with social media.

Because the bottom line is when you look at the Dallas Mavericks, this guy has got them on the map.

You realize how much money Luca is making for the Dallas Mass.

Franchise.

You probably I mean, listen, I don't care whether it's Luther Lithuania, Serbia.

I'm a rock.

I don't give a damn where it's from everybody across the world knows something or two about the Mavs jersey right now in the mass franchise, all because of Lucca.

So let's take that into consideration, along with him being 21 years of age along with him being white.

Let's bring that up to the brothers.

Got a lot of cash A and I'm talking about overall value.

I'm looking at him right now, and I'm saying this kid right here is something special and we can't ignore that.

Well, I just looked up Luca while you were talking on Twitter.

He has 1.1 million followers.

LeBron has 48.5 million e.

I don't think we wanna play e don't think way.

I don't think we wanna play the social media game with LeBron.

He's a beast.

But I'll say this is just not a knock against Luka Luca at 21 20 like it's ridiculous, the kind of stuff he's doing at his age.

He's almost on pace with LeBron, but LeBron, by the way, when I said how high is the best, it's not the first time I thought LeBron was no longer the best and I was mistaken.

It's happened three times.

Steph Curry, when he won the M v P and the team looked invincible.

I thought LeBron's better, but in this N BA staff is better because he could shoot.

E thought that with John E.

I thought that was CO I.

And no doubt.

And yep, And the remarkable thing about LeBron is whenever it looks like there's a contender to his throne and events conspired to make you think, Well, he's had it.

He's getting older.

This dude is on the come up.

He took it over.

He beat back those challenges.

Yannis and Co I.

It's the reason he's next to Jordan all time.

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