Who Will Coach The Mavericks? One Week Until NBA Draft

Even before he did anything at Villanova, my friend was raving about how he was as a leader, as a player.

And I just like brushed it all off because you know how we are in college where we hype up our high school heroes.

And I thought it was one of those situations.

And then after that, he won two championships at Villanova, beat Kansas a couple times, which sucked.

but when we drafted him i was super hyped because i kind of knew like the type of person he was and never thought he was going to be that good obviously like i don't think anyone did i don't ever think rick brunson thought he was going to be that good um but when we drafted him i was hyped many moons ago what 2018 um thought it was a great pick never thought it was going to be like that obviously and then when we lost him sucks like you said we've it's been hashed out at this point um But I'm not surprised to see him win a championship, to be honest with you.

Maybe I'm a little surprised that he was the 1A with the defensive anchor like Cat.

And I didn't know if that team structure was going to work.

But at this point, he's been quieting the doubters at every level of basketball, high school, college, NBA.

And he's just a winner.

And some people are winners, and he's one of them.

Yeah, I mean, I was personally very surprised in 2018 when he was available in the second round and we picked him.

I mean, obviously, I wasn't super familiar with his game or who he was.

But when the Mavericks picked him and they were reading out his accomplishments, I mean, he was the Naismith Player of the Year, a two-time national champion.

I was like, how is this guy... available in the second round.

Like a player like him should have been picked in the first round.

And obviously I could have never imagined him to turn into the superstar that now people are saying is better than James Harden and Luca and all of that and comparing him to Kobe.

I'm not sure I'm going that far yet, but there's no doubt that he has become an NBA legend, especially in New York.

I was just in New York a couple of weekends ago and I was telling some friends over there, Jalen Brunson is as big as Kobe was in New York.

What Kobe was to LA, Jalen Brunson has kind of become for New York.

Am I wrong about that, Vinay?

No, I mean, New York sports is kind of like a different stage compared to everywhere else in the country.

Even in LA, I would put New York sports top number one in terms of the spotlight and all that.

They have Aaron Judge in the city.

They have other stars in that city, but he is the king of New York, which might be a bigger deal than whatever placement he's going to be on these all-time player lists.

You can't take that for granted, and he's deserved that.