I believe in them.

I believe their title contenders love the fact that Doc Rivers is there.

Daryl Morey is gonna be on my MBA show SportsCenter with Stephen A tonight with me.

Okay, I beat Ben Simmons.

Tobias Harris is both Seth Curry is a curry.

He's officially a curry shooting damn near 60% from three point range.

This brother special right now.

But the bottom line is, Max, if you look at the level of competition they've been going against thus far, it's pretty suspect that has a lot to do with how they're 12 and six right now.

Having just come first, offer the worst team in basketball in Detroit.

Pay attention.

Yeah, right Whoa, whoa, right.

Pay attention.

They came off a blowout loss to the worst team in basketball.

When and be doesn't play.

When he does play, they beat those same teams and be does not choose the schedule.

And I want to get back to Dwight Howard for a second.

Dwight Howard was useful for the Lakers last year, but there are several ways you could talk about M v p, who's just been the best and beat has the best offensive numbers, and he's at the very least among the very best defenders in the game this year.

What kind of an impact does he have on the team?

His team is in first place in the conference.

Stephen A.

You're right about the schedule, but choose the schedule.

Just has to play.

Who's there?

What about your that's all.

I don't blame him, Dwight Howard and Ben Simmons, Dwight Howard and Ben Simmons.

It's hard for them to share the cord on offense because they both need the paint, because that's the only place that Dwight Howard could score.

And the same thing with Ben Simmons.

So while.

So, in fact, when you talk about value to your team as the Sixers are constructed, it's not just that.

And Beat, in an absolute sense, is putting up the best numbers or, in an eyeball, way, is dominating on offense and defense, unlike anyone else.

But the fact is to his team, they can't function without him.

They can't function.

It's not just Stephen A.

They're not quite as good.

They struggle in the close loss.

They get blown out by bad teams without him.

So in every way you could define M V P.

So far in this regular season, it's M B.

Max Kellerman Without LeBron James, the Los Angeles Lakers are the New Orleans Pelicans.

Maybe because they wouldn't have do holiday.

That's who the Lakers are without LeBron.

With LeBron, they're the reigning defending N NBA champions.

So using that argument to support and beat is damn this sack religious if this and be, uh and by virtue talking about against LeBron, that's that's That's no, no, no.

I'm just saying that sac religious to use that point of the argument is all I'm trying to say just that point.

You can't sit up there and talk about what the Sixes are without and be to make an argument of and B over LeBron for M V p in the regular season.

But ignore what the Lakers, all without LeBron LeBron, is obviously essential to his team.

If you take any M V p off of any team, their record would be very different.

What I am simply pointing out is the Sixers with them be like the numbers favor Embiid.

The eyeball test on defense favors Embiid, and now I'm talking about the fact that LeBron has played the whole schedule, which favors him in this conversation, except that with them be their number one in the conference.

So so the fact that he's missed games hasn't hurt them there.

But what happens when he does?

Stephen A.

It's not just simply that they're the New Orleans pelicans.

Without Embiid there, they're getting blown out by bad teams there.

Nothing they can't.

They can't even compete with bad teams without envy.

So far this year, years not over.

And I'm not talking about the play.

Also, who the best player in the game is so far this year and beats the M V P.

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