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Jaylen Duren's Third Team All-NBA selection, despite averaging 19 points and 10 rebounds in the regular season and 10 points in the postseason, makes him eligible for a five-year, $287.1 million supermax extension from Detroit. This highlights how All-NBA honors significantly impact a player's earning potential, far exceeding what other teams can offer.

Jaylen Duren made third team All-NBA selection, he's now eligible for the super max, which is 287.1 million extension. The max he could receive from another team is four years 177 million. So he can get an extra year and an extra 110 million from Detroit.

Victor Wembanyama missed a unanimous All-NBA First Team selection by one vote because a voter, Justin Termine, adhered to an outdated positional voting system. Termine argued he voted by position to 'protect the older generation and the history of the sport,' despite the NBA changing rules to allow voting for the five best players regardless of position. The hosts vehemently disagree, calling it illogical and a disservice to Wembanyama.

Justin Termine's explanation: 'This year he was the second best center and I vote by position... it is unfair historically to those that came before us... they just changed the rule recently because, you know, basically Embiid had been the second best player for a couple of years, but he had to keep making second teams because Joic was better.' Shannon Sharp's response: 'It's so illogical for him to say, "I'm trying to protect the sanctity of the game." No, you're not. All you did was ruin a moment for a kid.'

Jaylen Brown's public feud with Stephen A. Smith, where Brown directly challenged Smith's journalistic integrity and called his content 'clickbait,' exemplifies how athletes are using platforms like Twitch to bypass traditional media. This shift allows players to directly address criticism and shape public perception, a dynamic mainstream media is 'not used to just yet.'

Jaylen Brown: 'F*** Stephen A. Stephen B, Stephen C... You're not using your platform to do real journalism. Using your platform to use clickbait.' Host: 'Mainstream media has been able to control the perception on how we as fans or or or critics are are able to perceive athletes. And this is what I love about social media and Twitch... It cuts out the middleman and it gives players a voice now.'

The Lakers hired Rohan Ramadas, a former NASA rocket engineer and analytics expert, as assistant GM. While this highlights the NBA's increasing reliance on advanced analytics and AI-coded models for front office decisions, the hosts express skepticism, questioning its direct relevance to winning basketball games and noting the Pelicans' lack of recent success.

Pelican source told Dave McMinnon and Shams he's literally a rocket scientist and he used AI and coded models to help the New Orleans pel uh front office. Host: 'What does that have to do with What does it have to do with winning and playing basketball?'

After being swept 4-0, James Harden stated his team was 'genuinely' better 'series-wise,' despite the decisive loss. The hosts criticize this perspective, attributing it to an over-reliance on analytics that disregards crucial factors like game momentum and actual on-court performance, leading to a disconnect from reality.

James Harden: 'It was 4-0, but I don't think we had a chance as far as our best shot. Genuinely, I do feel like we are a better team series-wise. We didn't show it.' Host: 'So analytics analytics is is is is messing up basketball. Damn. Analytics is messing up sports because it doesn't take it it doesn't take into consideration momentum.'