00:00Jason Tatum now has seven double doubles, a 32-point game, a Player of the Week award, and after last
00:08night, a triple double.
00:09So those are boxes he's checked his first month back.
00:13I mean, when you align them that way, that is crazy.
00:17In all seriousness, if you just project this out, if he played 65 games like he's played these 12, is
00:27he third-team All-NBA?
00:28Oh, yeah.
00:29Yeah.
00:30That's crazy.
00:31I did not expect that.
00:32Oh, I was going to say MVP.
00:33No, I had to give him the prize.
00:35Show's go.
00:36No, but I'm saying, because that's the other part of it is he's also improving.
00:41So this pace, if he started the year, depending on when the injury happened, he might have gone back.
00:47Because that was one thing that we did do.
00:49Not only did we look at timelines of recoveries.
00:51Very famously, we talked about DeJounte Murray coming back this year.
00:54But there were, like, Kevin Durant's the only guy, and Dominique Wilkins, that came back, like, at an All-NBA
01:01level.
01:02Actually, I don't even know if Dominique actually got All-NBA when we looked it up.
01:05Yeah, no, maybe he did one of the years.
01:06I think he did.
01:07But, like, a second team.
01:08Yes.
01:09And same with Durant.
01:10Durant was also peaked.
01:11He had been a first team previously.
01:11Yes.
01:12And Durant also peaked at second team.
01:14Which you're like, I'll take that.
01:15I'll take a top 10 player.
01:17But for it to be in season when we didn't even know when he was coming back, and we were
01:21all taking stabs in the dark on, like, what game he was going to play.
01:25And now we've seen him for a dozen games.
01:28And the guy's averaging 21 points a night.
01:30He's averaging 10 rebounds, 5 assists.
01:32He's playing more and more minutes.
01:34We've seen a couple of games where he's starting to shoot it a little bit better.
01:38Yeah, he's, like, already a top 15, top 20, top 15 player right now.
01:42Dominique came back 30-plus years ago.
01:44He came back and was fifth in the MVP and second team All-NBA.
01:48Then third team All-NBA.
01:50Okay.
01:50And then his career basically was over.
01:51So it ended real quick for him.
01:52He made a deal with the devil.
01:53He's like, let me back.
01:54And he never came back to being, he was runner-up in the MVP in 86.
01:58He was first-team All-NBA once.
02:00Oh, yeah, we saw him here.
02:01So.
02:02I remember going to the mall in New Hampshire trying to get his autograph.
02:04Line was out the door.
02:06He never got quite back to his peak, just like Durant never got quite back to his peak.
02:09But he came pretty close to it.
02:11No, I agree.
02:11Tatum basically looks like himself.
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