Big perks Still here with us, Max.

Did LeBron prove he is the M V P last night?

No, he proved he is the best player in the game.

You cannot take that away from him until it's proven in the finals by another great player, but M v P.

And by the way, I hate the M V P Award.

It shouldn't be a regular season award.

You know how I stand on that, Molly.

But if we're just talking the literal definition off the regular season, M v p, it's Joel Embiid, who's by the way, got his team in first place.

And he ain't playing with a D who recently beat the Nets and the Lakers and the Celtics twice.

Who is averaging?

Let me just let me just let me just throw out some stuff at you.

Perk, because here his last bunch of games okay, 42 10, 38 11 33 and 14 28 6 37 and 11 34 and 11 37 and 5 33.

He's putting up the kind of numbers that Shaq has always said he needs to put up consistently in order to really fulfill his potential and be the dominant big guy.

He's doing it now.

You wanna talk about?

Do I think Joel Embiid is better than LeBron?

No.

Do I think his team's gonna win the finals?

No.

Do I think LeBron is the best player in the game?

Yes.

Do I like the way the M V P set up?

No.

But if you're asking who so far is the regular season M V P.

It is very clear.

And that's Joe L M B.

Well, Max, I'm not about the hoop and holler with you right now because I'm a fan of Joe and B, and I think he is having the MVP season, those numbers that you told me that you just shout out there those air dominant numbers.

But if you talk, Miley asked the question and said last night that it proved that LeBron is the MVP.

My answer is yes.

Okay yet, and here's why.

Ah Wiseman told me.

It's not what you do.

It's how you do it, okay?

And when you look at the fashion that LeBron James is playing in the fact that he has on the game, it's a beautiful thing to see.

And you're 18 at the age of 36 years old.

Here you go.

Here, you got got a guy by the name of D.

Wade, who played with LeBron won championships with in Miami, saw a great LeBron James down there and said, This is the best LeBron James that I've ever seen.

And so when I watched the game and I'm watching the Lakers play, I'm watching LeBron James go from being a small forward to the score when he's playing alongside Dennis Schroder at the start of the game.

So when Dennis Schroder goes out the game, he goes back to being a point guard in the facilitator.

He's passing the ball on time on target.

You watching guys like Wesley Matthews and Caldwell Pope not have to reach how reach low the ball is in their shooting pocket?

You watching LeBron James dissect defense, read the defense better than he has ever done in his career?

Right, get to this spot.

Triple, jab, jab, step going left pulling up for his jumper were watching the best version.

And by the way, offensively, I just told you what he's doing.

Everything perfect On the offensive end, he's doing perfect on the defense event.

Guess what?

At 36 years old, he's a better defender than your boy could.

Why Leonard right now?

Because he's guarding people.

He's going people.

So when I look at it, he's not on Lee giving us the offensive package and making others around him better while doing it on the defensive end, we could argue, so he's the defensive player of the year, so I'm looking at it.

The whole body of work on watching with LeBron James is doing in his impact on the game.

And when we thought that he because of short NBA off season, it was gonna be low management and he's played every single damn game, even ones A D has missed even the back to back.

So what?

We thought he was gonna be rested.

No, he hasn't rested in the last two weeks.

By the way, he's right top 10 in minutes, so he's landed out there on the line every single night and he's coming up with wins.

He's got back to back triple doubles.

So right now, although Joe M.

B, you got big yoke is playing well.

It's a lot of guys that are playing exceptional basketball.

But when I look at the overall, my body of work and the impact on the game, not just that, because Brown is doing that also, but the total impact I got to give it to LeBron James, Man.

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