00:00I have an investment in the Spurs to win the title and I would like to implore more people to
00:04invest in San Antonio, except I wonder if the Spurs kind of run to the same thing the Thunder did
00:09a couple of years ago, the Celtics did before they won a title. You know, young teams that are inexperienced,
00:14that are unproven, they kind of need to get to the dance, go a couple rounds first, learn some lessons
00:19before they come back and repeat. Or do you think San Antonio actually could go all the way?
00:26My gut says I agree with you in that regard where you kind of have to have your heart broken
00:31at some point in the playoffs. So just to learn from that experience. So it makes you hungry the next
00:35time out. We've seen it with the most recent champions, even the Nuggets. If you want to go back that
00:39far, like they had their heart broken before they got their, their hand raising their title championship run. And you
00:44mentioned the Celtics under had that happen to them as well. It's normally with the younger teams that we kind
00:50of expect them to like, all right, we'll get to the conference finals maybe. And then you get your heart
00:53broken.
00:53And then next year, all the expectations are there. You should get over the hump. Those teams didn't have Victor
00:58Wamanyama though, Adam, like this guy is a different beast. Like he is phenomenal. He's a top five player in
01:04the NBA right now. Pound for pound bar none. You could, you could, I could even put him, I could
01:08make an argument. I got, I could get him up to the top three.
01:10I do think that between him and Yannis Antetokounmpo, if you put them both on the table right now, I
01:15might take Victor Wamanyama over Yannis, who by the way, has been there, done that, won an MVP, won a
01:20defensive player there, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
01:22And Wembe hasn't done those things outside of the defensive player of the year. So I, I love Victor. Like,
01:27and I don't want to put a ceiling on him.
01:29So I'm a little bit hesitant to say that they can't get it done. Health is going to be the
01:33important thing for everybody going through the postseason.
01:36We know that that's what it comes down to every year. I will say that on the Thunder side, while
01:41they haven't had their stars totally for the entire, you know, regular season,
01:45they're still three, four games ahead of, you know, where the Spurs are. And that says a lot, you know,
01:50without, without SGA, without J-Dub, who has missed a large chunk of the year,
01:54Chet missed some time for them to be still good enough to keep winning and stacking these wins. It means
01:59something. And it's actually building confidence for those others.
02:02And that trade at the deadline, you know, where, where they were able to, to get the sharpshooter.
02:06I mean, his name is escaping me right now from Duke. Yeah. McCain, Jerry McCain.
02:13That's a big trade that I think kind of falls under the radar because he's another guy that could come
02:17off the bench,
02:18give you 20 and you don't expect them to do that on a nightly basis. He's in a perfect scenario
02:22to do that.
02:23So I do like the Thunder. I think if the Nuggets are healthiest, they make it all the way to
02:27the finals,
02:28but I would not count out the Spurs. It's going to be all dependent on one health and path to
02:32get to the finals as well.
02:33Who you play.
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