He led the Blazers to their sixth straight win.

This is your typical n b a game these days, by the way, 1 26 1 24.

Nobody blinks.

It used to be 1 26 1 24.

People were like, Whoa, Lillard, You wanna listen to this?

That line key even.

You can't do this even though I know you know, the Blazers and the Lakers have had some legendary games.

I'm saying that negative about Dan Lillard.

Listen to this.

43 16 dimes last night.

You missed the biggest that go for it.

He just had 31 the night before against O K.

C.

They stayed in O.

K.

C due to bad weather.

They traveled on the day of the game, and that's when he dropped that stat line that you just mentioned.

Unbelievable.

That's when he dropped that stat line.

He is, and this is what's happened.

He's doing this without C.

J.

McCollum.

So Stefan Curry's having a great year without Clay, and they're vying for that eighth spot, their seventh right now.

Currently, Portland Travelers are fourth in the West, fourth in the West Dame dollar dames name is in the N.

D.

P.

Conversation.

Yes, we can have Yokich.

Yes, we can have, indeed, LeBron James.

But his name is right there and he deserves a ton of praise, the best point guard in the league.

People don't pay attention to it because it's late night and they're playing late games and games, dropping big numbers.

And we're talking mostly about football.

But Dame Dollar is a special player and he's not in the big market.

This is what happens.

We're not LeBron James.

Or if you're not in New York, it's harder for us to talk about it.

Like the 70 Sixers.

They're having the best year right now in the Eastern Conference.

How many times have we mentioned the 70 Sixers?

Right?

Joel Embiid is top two in the M V P race right now.

How many times are we talking about Joel Embiid like we're not.

So these are all the things that is happening.

As you know, people are getting lost in all the other things happening in the midst of the world due to the pandemic and all the other sports were paying attention to, I would agree.

I think Yokich is another guy that doesn't play in the Pacific time zone.

He plays in the mountain time zone.

People aren't talking about him because the games air late.

Uh, Donovan Mitchell is another guy who's just having an unbelievable season, even though he's missed some time this year.

He's having a great season, and he's not being talked about as much.

Let's flip the script and talked about the last thing I would say this puts a lot more pressure.

Not that LeBron is worried about trying to win MVPs because but LeBron is trying to be the best.

What do you know?

God key, LeBron, Because now LeBron doesn't have a d.

So now how do you compare LeBron and what he will do with this team without a D to the likes that what Dame is doing in Portland without CJ or what stuff is doing in Golden State without play it, just look and end the wear and tear it that's gonna come on, LeBron James.

Now, how do you manage that?

If you're the management for the Lakers, um, you know, do you allow him to play more minutes and 35 minutes per night to keep your team in Upper Salon.

It's it's the thing that we have to pay attention to.

It's gonna be interesting to see, Just want to know.

So far, we want to know so far with a win against Minnesota.

Okay, so we'll take that.

So J just mentioned a key.

LeBron is four MVPs if he wins this year, and J does seem to think he's the front runner.

He said that on the show multiple times LeBron would be the oldest M v p in league history.

He's 36 years old at the moment.

The other day, I had mentioned we haven't had a guy in his thirties when the M V P, since Nash did it back in oh five oh six.

So he's got four.

He's trending towards the fifth.

As Jay said, he's gonna have to put the team on his back.

When they wanted to essentially say, Let's scale it back a little bit.

But the A D thing happened.

What are you going to dio?

How would you look at 1/5 m v p for LeBron, obviously knowing that it could be paired with another Lakers championship?

I mean, It's just the worth, that thing, right?

I understand people.

This this narrative, since he's come to L.

A.

There's been a minute's narrative about him.

All we got to scale back you gotta do is oh, too many minutes.

They haven't done that.

I mean, it just he just continues to keep going.

He's a machine.

And for whatever that is, that's what it is, whether a D s on the court or not, his minutes aren't going to change significantly.

If you arrest him an extra two or three minutes, is that really going to make a difference?

And a D is going to come back eventually, which will eventually help LeBron push even further toward that M v p into our winning a championship.

But until a D comes back, they can certainly hold serve.

They've shown you that they could do that.

And I think that they will when a d mistime ah, year ago, they still went on to win games.

So I'm not I'm not so worried about it because the time these missing isn't so significant.

This would be LeBron James Greatest M v p.

Of his career.

If you were to win the fifth one this year.

Let me tell you why.

Truncated season their season.

They only had 71 days off after winning an NBA championship in the bubble where LeBron was playing out of his mind.

Now I know Yanis one m v p.

Last year, but LeBron was right there last year and should have won M v p okay for how deep he took his team in.

Now fast forward to dependent.

Being on the road playing you lose your top two player, another top 10 player in the league in a D.

Now LeBron has to do it without a D and Zubin if they have to go through Brooklyn.

If that's with K D.

Kyrie and James Harden and they win a championship, this will be his greatest NBP.

Because you're saying the road traveled would just be amazing, partly without a D and then going through the greatest triumvirate scoring trio you think is out there in NBA history with no rest with barely any rest.

And then you have to take your game to another level to keep your team in a higher contention without a D.

Yes, what if they have to go through the sixties.

Does that change because the Sixes with a had to go on through Brooklyn?

Just know it wouldn't it wouldn't change it all.

I think I think it's a chance for this to be his greatest M v p of his career.

I mean, if the if the n b a could get Anthony Davis, LeBron James, James Harden, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, that would just be gigantic for a league that is just looking searching for something.

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