So that was my main thing, was like, do we see this Boston starting lineup, is this gonna be what it is or are they gonna play around with it and, and fix this?

Yeah.

Um, my take was, I, I think the two most obvious things were Tatum didn't look good.

Jaylen Brown stockholders up big yesterday, for sure.

Uh, and he, he just, he, I, I don't think it was anything that is gonna be a problem going forward.

I think he was just missing shots that he usually makes.

A couple of layups didn't go down that, y- you know, you expect to go down, and I'm sure he expected them to go down, too.

Is there anything else that you like?

... minutes left to be here.

My third, and the market has actually faded me a little bit here.

Um, I like the Wizards over 35 wins.

Uh, I don't think that this is a bad team at all.

I actually think that this team might quietly be better than the Charlotte Hornets this season.

Actually, the Charlotte Hornets are a team that I'm a bit down on, and I think that's why I'm moving some of these other teams a little bit higher.

Seeing as their win total's at, I think, 38 and a half, 39 and a half.

Let's hear it.

Fair

... when's the last time he played a full season? I don't remember.

Like, the, the championship season maybe? 'Cause every year he's, everybody's like, "Oh, he's, he's a, a MVP candidate, you know, uh, gonna be a first team All NBA." I would love to fade all those numbers right now because I don't know if he's playing 60 games, you know? It, it just, the other thing with them is because they have Bam, I think they can stagger him a bit if he needs to be, if he's got something nagging or whatnot, right? Where you can be like, "Okay, we're playing, like, Brooklyn Nets tonight.

Giannis is out, Bam is in," and then vice versa on somebody like the Memphis Grizzlies, something of that nature, right? Um, I do agree with you on Minnesota, where I'm not as low on them.

Um, I think Lonzo or, um, LaMelo is going to make a, a difference for them on a night-to-night basis.

Uh, just being able to get them more scoring opportunities.

I think Rudy Gobert is gonna be unlocked with him a bit more.

Are they our Raptors of this year?

Uh, so I, so shout out to Ian.

Yeah.

Uh, I wish I had something super funny or embarrassing that I could add for him, but honestly I don't have anything.

Uh, he's just...

You're a legend, Ian, man, honestly.

And, uh, you've always been there for me, for sure, when I've needed a friend anytime.

I feel like you're a true brother.

Yeah.

Hmm.

A year and a half.

Okay, well, you know, you could think a reasonable response might be grief, but not a year and a half later.

You think time to move on, right? Anyway, so he sent him over to me, uh, to get a Dianetic counseling session.

And as he walked into my office, he had tears coming down his face.

Uh, he, he was, he was absolutely paralyzed and stuck at this moment in time when his wife died, and they had been together for 29 years, and she got diagnosed in August with cancer.

And he was burying her by November.

That's important

Uh, anything you wanna respond to or add on?

Uh, just that one of the things I'm proud of is consistency lately.

Um, I used to get down on myself if I had, like, a losing week or, like, three or four bad days in a row, and you sometimes just wanna take a day and collect yourself, make sure that you're doing everything right.

But, uh, recently I've been ignoring that, uh, I don't know, feeling, I guess.

And it's been one of the things I've been proud of, I guess, over the last, say, six weeks, let's say.

Just betting every day no matter what.

You're muted.

I think you're good, honestly.

You're going to get picked off in the types of liquidity that you're offering, and you need a lot of fine-tuning to do that successfully.

Yeah, this used to be a thing in poker.

It's a little different now because poker is kind of...

Certainly, heads up, it's the way of chess where it's just solved.

So you can just plug a bot into a solver.

Obviously, it would take a long time to actually completely code it out, but you can give it some general principles and it'll be pretty damn close to game theory optimal.

But it used to be... bots were programmed exploitively.

Do you still like the over if this is the situation?

Are you happy that Kawhi is back? What was your first reaction when you got Kawhi back? And what are your thoughts on this team and how it rounds out in the current landscape of the Eastern Conference?

i loved the trade when i first heard it uh and then i saw the pick package we gave up and i didn't like it quite as much just because he's 35 um obvious injury history but the place he did as well as he could with injuries was in Toronto.

I think that's a big part of why he's back.

I really think that he provides literally exactly what this team needs in a score, a guy who can get his own shot at any time still.

Probably, when healthy, a top five guy in the NBA even now at 35.

And i think if if we play our cards right throughout the season there might be a couple more moves to be made get a little more shooting um i think this is going to be a defensive monster throughout the course of this season and I expect like conference finals, maybe like that's kind of the goal I would imagine.

And then obviously see what happens from there, depending on who you're up against.

Really?

Give me your reaction.

Yeah, I'm right there with you.

I think he really, really helps them just get that ball movement going, right? They, they, all of a sudden they have a guy who can get you eight, nine assists a game.

And that's something they've been lacking.

They haven't had a real point guard for the last two seasons.

I know they tried to use Connelly last season.

He wasn't really the same man that he was even two years ago.

But then the question had to be asked, like, would Jalen Brown stay there because he's going to be extension eligible as well coming soon? So it's like, you know, was Jalen Brown going to re-up? Does he really want to go somewhere where he could be the 1A? If he's not going to be the 1A, would he just rather stay in Boston and mend those fences? Do you think this package was offered for Jalen Brown?

Yeah, for real.

I, I really...

I, I understand why the Heat did this.

Um, I don't understand how this is gonna work exactly.

Um, they're a bit hamstrung by the cap right now.

Not as much as you would think based on what has happened and who they have to bring back, but it's still gonna be tight.

It's gonna be tough.

... a, a key target I think.

I learned a lot of people learned it haphazardly from somebody else outside of their family unit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So in a sense, I didn't.

Okay.

So in a sense, like my mom taught me like the bare basics of how to maintain my permed hair.

But as it pertained to the natural, my mom was permed and my grandmother was permed.

Can you walk us through your path from studying law to becoming a holistic wellness practitioner? And was there a specific moment that shifted things for you? Yes.