Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP Quest & Thunder's Rise

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00:00You and I have talked about this guy Shay Gilgis over the last couple of years and going

00:09into the season he was my choice to win the MVP and I know it's always Luca and it's

00:16always Joker and it's always Embiid and it's always you know somebody else but the way

00:23this guy has started and like last night the numbers he put up were just insane.

00:30I mean the guy, I think he had three blocks though, I mean the guy is just doing everything

00:35on a basketball court humanly possible to help the Thunder and I think he is sickening

00:41he's like over here now at his level and then what Chet's doing with him in concert with

00:47him together and the rest of those young bucks, they mean business.

00:54Pharrell not only do they mean business, they are giving people a business and if you just

01:00look at that fourth quarter in that game last night versus Atlanta, you got to remember

01:04folks Atlanta was winning the game, I do believe I won at the break at the 38-19, 38-18 I should

01:12say in the fourth quarter and SGA was all over, 4-7 from the floor, 1-2 from 3, 4-4

01:19from the line, 13 points, a plus 16, like it just meant when the game got busy, he got

01:25busy and the Oklahoma City team without Hartenstein, Pharrell I was with you, I thought that SGA

01:32was going to win the MVP, I just did my top 5, top 10 players in the betting of the room

01:38podcast I just recorded which will be out tomorrow, I have SGA as the fourth best player

01:42in the world, I have him over Luka, why?

01:46Because not only does he score and drop dimes and get rebounds, he also plays defense which

01:51you kind of have to play both sides of the ball and this Oklahoma City team, Pharrell,

01:56I think they are the real deal, I think they are the best team in the Western Conference

02:00and I think that team is going to the NBA Finals, I'll say it right now.

02:03I mean, barring injury, and last year I think they went to the playoffs and learned the

02:08hard way, right?

02:10They had to learn the hard way, some people say there's no such thing as you got to learn

02:14how to lose before you learn how to win, I think you have to pay the piper, I remember

02:19Jordan paid the piper, he had to go through it, all the greats had to go through it, even

02:24Magic Johnson, they all had to go through it and I think that they're kind of going

02:29through it.

02:33I think that they're kind of going through it and I think that they're kind of going

02:34through it.