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Graydon Prescott 0:17
Hey everybody, and welcome to another episode of sports prep live, sports prep live, where we unbox the bike and talk excellence in athletics.

Graydon Prescott 0:35
What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of sports prep live. I'm your host, Graydon Prescott, and today we have a lot about basketball, NCAA basketball and some changes being made there. WNBA free agency is hot, and we even got to talk about some NBA stuff. So that'll be a lot of fun. I got KB with me, per usual,

K.B. 0:57
LV today,

Graydon Prescott 0:58
and UNLV tonight going on there. And you know what? We'll start with UNLV. So UNLV is going to have a complete roster overhaul. Yes, headed into next year, correct? So let's quickly recap their 2025 2026 season, right? 18 and 17 overall record. They were eliminated in the second round of the national Invitational Tournament. Inconsistent year, they had some really big wins and some very heartbreaking new coach close, close losses. Yes, under the new coach, Josh Pastner, a former guest on the show, shout out to Coach Pastner, they have had seven players already enter the transfer portal. Oh, I know, right, four players graduating for a total of 11 of the 12 man roster. Right? Leaving only one returning player now would be tyrant Jones, of course, the biggest loss being Dre Gibbs Lawhorn. Sure Lawhorn. He's the Mountain West newcomer of the year, leading scorer of the team, huge backcourt member, and his departure is going to end up creating a major hole in this Rebel offense. So overall recap of the season. There you go. This is tough. It is gonna be. How would you grade their season just based off of last season? You have

K.B. 2:09
to allow for the fact that coach passenger came in and tried to pick up, you know, what was left over from, was it Kruger? Yeah, yes, from Coach Krueger, who is now, I believe, with the Illini on the staff of the fighting Illinois. So look, he didn't put this team together. He didn't have an opportunity, a full season to recruit. I remember seeing him on the AAU circuit just checking out talent last year. Had some of the events. Saw him down in Arizona, obviously here, lbbc, Las Vegas, border League, all that sorts of fun stuff. So he tried to hit the ground running, and the biggest thing was to try to hold on to the talent that he could hold on to after they made the coaching change. DJ Thomas left for LSU. That was a big loss, and Coach Pastner had to kind of pick up the pieces and basically begin where you stand. So I don't hold any of that against him, and I don't hold it against the team or the program. It was, it's a rough patch. Anytime there's a new coach that comes in and you're losing some talent, you try to, you have to try to bring in talent, and you have to try to maintain the talent that you do, you do have, even though you lost some, some really important pieces, I'm going to say overall, I give them a c plus, you know, again, this he hasn't had a full year to kind of work his magic. With respect to the team, I think it'll be a little bit different over the next couple of years. And even this year, I don't count against him, you know, to lose that many players, there may be some changes, which we'll talk about coming up in the NCAA. So even the the folks that he has entering the transport portal, the biggest of which you just referenced, Dre Gibbs law, who were formerly with the fighting a lion eye. I don't even hold that against him. Dre outperform, and I knew other schools were going to come call him. We talked about it a lot here on the show. Yeah, it's going to take a couple of years for Coach pastor's fingerprints to be on this team, but it is going to be a tough couple of years. Other than I think Tennessee women's may have lost every single player, yeah, on their roster, second most of any other than that. This, this is, this has been the most devastating loss to a program that I've heard about.

Graydon Prescott 4:16
Yeah, I agree. I don't think that I can really hold it against Coach Pastner. It's very rare that a coach comes into a roster with a new talent and immediately brings that roster to victories. I mean, even looking at like DAN HURLEY, when he got to UConn, that program was struggling. He's different, though. He's built different but no but he didn't turn them around in year one or even year two. DAN HURLEY. Took a few years to get UConn back true to winning basketball, but it was cool, and yeah, but still they they didn't even have a 500 right? It took a while, but it was quick, right? So you can't hold it against Coach Pastner for not having, you know, as much success as he probably would have hoped for in year one. However, I'm not going to be as generous with you. With my grade, simply because I felt like there were some games for the Rebels this year that were winnable. A C plus is generous, I think, I think a little and here's why I think that their record is fine for a year.

K.B. 5:13
They lost some games that they should have.

Graydon Prescott 5:14
That's why I'm not going to be as generous as a c plus. I wasn't. I was if they had an 18 and 17 record, and it felt like they got everything they could have. C range. I'm in the C, right? Yeah, okay. I'm not, I'm not giving them a D or anything. Sure. I felt, I feel, if they had an 18 and 17 record, and you felt like they fought and won every game that they could have, yes, you know that would be a b, b minus, if you're, if you're 18 and 17, and you maybe drop the ball one or here or there, but you know, you played like a team. That's, you know, 18 and 17 for the most part, right? That's a c plus season. But if you're 18 and 17 and you have multiple games where you lead by double digits and fail to convert, and have games where you're up by seven with 30 seconds left and you lose, okay, then I don't think you can get there. That's fair, yeah, so I'm gonna say c minus. I might even rethink the plus. So I'm gonna say c minus, simply because I think even though there were 18 and 17, it could have easily been 21

K.B. 6:15
and 14. I agree. I agree. And I think Coach Pastner would view that as being fair. I'm sure he felt like there were some games that they got away from, not away from them. Sure, you're right, and so I'm going to reevaluate, and gonna, I'm gonna take the plus off. I'll give it as just a C, but i You are absolutely right about some of those games that kind of fell apart towards the end of the game, that you felt like they may they should have had in the Yeah, yeah, absolutely

Graydon Prescott 6:41
did have and honestly, it might have been more than three times. It's like this, even though they were 18 and 17, I firmly believe they at least could have gone 21 and 14. And maybe there's an argument they could have won 2223 Sure, sure. And then, you know, it's a much different look for the postseason, like 2018 and 17 going into the NIT versus like 23

K.B. 7:01
and 12 coach passenger had to deal with early on, like a ton of injury. I will give him that. I remember there was a game where there were only seven players available in the game. That just does not happen. You know,

Graydon Prescott 7:15
at this level, he had some bad luck. Yes, yes. And new coach, new roster, kind of picking up from where a coach who really didn't do much with the program left off, right?

K.B. 7:24
But I think their best player, I think he has the based on what we saw, I think he has the framework, right, but the tutelage that he's going to bring into this program, yeah, the the emphasis that he puts on defense. You know, I think it was three and seven. This, this formulaic defensive scheme that he likes to use, yeah, seven

Graydon Prescott 7:43
stop or three stops in a row, seven times,

K.B. 7:44
yeah throughout the game, right? So he is, he is a defensive minded coach. I think they're going to be okay once the roster gets fixed, right? Once that settles into place, I think that they're going to be fine. Of course, he brought back Stacey augment knows the program well. One big here, you know, along with Larry Thompson and who else was on that team, Hunter, Larry Johnson. Hunter, Greg, Anthony, yeah, yeah. Like these guys were big time. So to have Stacey Augment, and I know you, you had an opportunity to Powell with him a little bit. Haven't had him on the program yet, but I know he's coming. I think that also helps center the program or anchor the program, so I think it's going to happen. It was just he was really dealt a difficult hand, and he made the best of it. So I think you're right. I think a C is probably a more appropriate grade, but I do think there's going to be a lot of upside.

Graydon Prescott 8:34
Yeah, absolutely, yeah. So I'm not saying that a c, a c minus, was the grade I gave. I'm not saying that's how I feel about him as a coach, sure, I am strictly evaluating the outcome what happened this season. Yeah, there you go. Um, so that's all, all we can really say about UNLV right now. But while we're on the stage, yeah, of while we're on the topic of NCAA and basketball specifically, sure, there has been a bill that is in the process of being passed, right where there are some changes

K.B. 9:04
coming, even that the NCAA is NCAA is asking for, right? Like they're gonna make some rule changes, yeah,

Graydon Prescott 9:11
so I'll just quickly go over those. You must begin by the age by or before the age of 19.

K.B. 9:17
Finally, yes,

Graydon Prescott 9:19
24 year olds coming in, is correct?

K.B. 9:21
I am all for this

Graydon Prescott 9:23
five years of eligibility that Clark, that clock starts ticking as soon as you step foot onto a campus. Which I agree with that too. More red shirt agree with that too. You can't, you can't take red shirt years anymore. You get one transfer without sanction, okay, in your five years of

K.B. 9:38
eligibility, so you can transfer, and then there's no cost to you for transfer. Yes, one to one time. Okay, one time. What happens if

Graydon Prescott 9:45
you try to transfer? Any additional transfers are an immediately costs are going to immediately cost you one year of eligibility. Okay? So if you are, this makes sense to me. So if you're a junior, yes, and you transfer your junior year, because no, you have your senior year, yeah, what

K.B. 9:59
you got? You have to say. Got a year?

Graydon Prescott 10:00
Yeah, so you're basically, you're gonna miss your entire junior year the next time you play basketball, will be as you correct when you're a senior. I agree with everything, everything. I really think that these are changes that needed to happen in the NCAA, because especially this season, things were starting to look a little ridiculous. Yes, you look at a team like, like Illinois, their roster was built mainly off of people who played pro basketball overseas. You look at a team like Baylor, who didn't have as successful a season, but they had a guy on their team who was drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft, yes, James Naji. You know, having men who played pro basketball, or 22 year olds as freshmen, or I saw a 27 year old who was a soft feeling ridiculous. It's even in football

K.B. 10:45
with Carson Beck, who's like 35 right?

Graydon Prescott 10:48
Football being, of course, a little a little different, because the NFL has rules where you can't enter the NFL. Yeah, you can't just

K.B. 10:55
come in after your freshman year, no matter how

Graydon Prescott 10:56
much you ball out, right? So you know, there are guys who get into college football, and they're pro ready as freshmen. Take Marvin Harrison Jr, for example. But still,

K.B. 11:05
you shouldn't be there when you're 26

Graydon Prescott 11:06
correct that? I mean, I agree with the writing clock. Stenson Bennett was drafted into the NFL when he was

K.B. 11:13
27 and so the you know, the rule change you're talking about, I don't think that is specific to basketball. I think that's an insane right?

Graydon Prescott 11:20
Covered all sweats. We all know that it was, it was geared towards basketball. Yeah, absolutely. And I think this season really exposed why these changes.

K.B. 11:30
You know, the crazy thing is, this started filtering over into college because it was so accepted in high school, and not only high school, right? You've got middle schoolers who should be in 10th grade. You know that are in seventh or eighth grade? Yeah? Because at some point along their journey, their parents felt, or they and their parents felt, I couldn't play true, right, that the kids that were in 10th grade, I couldn't hang with them, and so I want to be an eighth grader again and then again, again, or a seventh grader again and again, again. I think it primarily happens in eighth grade, right? Yeah, eighth grade or sixth grade, where there are double and triple hold backs, yeah. And this happens a lot here in Las Vegas. This happens a lot in Las Vegas, rampant, and it shocked the living ish out of me when I moved here, because I've and I've lived in a couple of different states, I've never seen anything like this. It's an epidemic here, across sports, but especially in basketball, and the coaches here turn a blind eye to it, and whether that's happening in football, whether it's happening in basketball, you know, I think part of that pushback that say a school like Bishop Gorman, your high school, is getting in the football arena is because now look, browner is a heck of a coach. Like this dude should be coaching college basketball, college football, like bar none. He has proven everything he needs to prove on the high school level. And I would really like to see you know as there is this, this turnover in college football, I'd really like to see someone like him get a call, because this guy knows what he's doing, but he Bishop Orman, has so many resources. And of course, you know, the, you know, there's kids there that same thing that are really over age for the grade that they're in, plus all of the resources that they had, that conversation that we had a couple of episodes ago where all of these schools here in Las Vegas pulled out of the conference because they just don't want to play Bishop, right? And this has a lot to do with that. And so, you know, when kids are 16 and 17 years old as a freshman,

Graydon Prescott 13:37
driving to school, sure, all

K.B. 13:39
that, yeah, coming to school as a freshman with a license just driving like, you're good, you've gone through the, yeah, you've got the 50 hours and the the the temporary

Graydon Prescott 13:49
license, you've you've studied to pass the the permit test. And then you went through 50 hours of of driving hours. And then you went through a 30 hour program to prove that you knew what you were doing, online, permit license for six months, and like, come on, like, it's utterly ridiculous seeing that. And that's where the problems in college

K.B. 14:09
stem from, and that's where it starts. And I think they need to do something similar in high school, because it is getting ridiculous there as well. You're graduating, and I think that's why the college said you need to be 19, yeah, coming into college, you need to be 19, and that does put some pressure on the high school at the high school level, but I think that, you know, a state needs to do something about that as well. Like, I just can't recall anything like that ever happening when I was coming up through high school. I know didn't exist.

Graydon Prescott 14:35
I know kids at my school right now who are sophomores, and if this bill passes, they will not be able to play college basketball, right? Because they will be 20 years old. Yes, heading into college Yes. And same, same guys who when they were in eighth grade. We're talking about, oh yeah, you know, we're one of the top eighth grade teams in the country. It's like, Dude, you should be playing 16 year old.

K.B. 14:57
Yes, Vegas elite. I'm keeping it a. Mean, Vegas Elite is a good program, and they didn't invent this. They didn't start this. But that, I mean, that's a true story. They had a team that went out there and, I guess, won some national championship and eighth grade, but there were very few people on the team that should have been in eighth grade, right, right? So one, one

Graydon Prescott 15:17
dude, and he's and he's over in Arizona now, tearing it up.

K.B. 15:20
Yes, Trey playing true. Yeah, Trey is tough. Trey McKinney, but he don't, but

Graydon Prescott 15:25
he's the one dude. Yeah, like everybody else is kind of

K.B. 15:28
coming in with mustaches and beards and goatees and like, Yo, we have to put a stop to this. And I know we can't spend the whole show on this, but this is, this is serious. And a lot of the guys that do that don't really end up going anywhere in the sport anyway, because you're using right? This, this phantom skill set that you have, or, you know, this, this, this phantom ability. And then when you do play guys that are generally your age, you get waxed by them, right? So, yeah, we, I know we need to move on, but that is a bone of contention. I'm glad to see the NCAA is making this rule. I hope it filters down to high school all across the country, because we just do not need to have 16 and 17 year olds coming into high school as freshmen trying to get a leg up on whatever

Graydon Prescott 16:11
sport they happen to be in. Absolutely, it's great. And Prescott right here on Sports prep live, and we've had the opportunity to discuss and recap the season that unlvs basketball team had, as well as changes coming to NCAA sports as a whole. Now the big topic for today is going to be the WNBA free agency. Yeah, and let's quickly go over the new CBA, because we spent two episodes talking about this CBA. The the super Max contract last year was $250,000 the minimum contract next year will be $300,000 which is incredible. The Super Max contract this year is 561% increase from it from what it was last year. It's $1.4 million the salary cap increased 470 they deserve it, 1.5 million to 7,000,001st ever million dollar contracts, of course, now are reality, and the first one ever being Kelsey Mitchell, who signed a $1.4 million one year super max to stay with the Indiana Fever. Thank goodness. She had the best season of her career. Top three in MVP voting, absolute sniper. She and Caitlin Clark are the best back court in the league, and I and

K.B. 17:22
you know something, you know, not for nothing, Kelsey Mitchell, and this isn't her fault, right? This isn't really kind of the league's fault, but this isn't obviously kelsey's She's still underpaid, yeah, she's still under, yeah, that's the max that they can

Graydon Prescott 17:35
do right now. Super Max, right?

K.B. 17:37
But like, she is,

Graydon Prescott 17:38
like that, yeah, she is. She absolutely is. And every, every woman who signed a contract over the past few days. Jackie young, yeah, they're all still underpaid, yes, but it's a step in the right direction. Correct, correct. So correct. There is that to be said. Now on the Las Vegas aces side, this is where it gets, great, at least for the city of Las Vegas. Jackie young, $1.19 million deal, not a super Max, but it is still technically a max contract. So she's sticking around the point guard Chelsea Gray, three years, $3 million

Graydon Prescott 18:11
out this year. Fantastic signing. It looks like, I mean, in the WNBA season, it looked like she was struggling a little bit with that

K.B. 18:20
rivaled, Yeah, whoa. She put

Graydon Prescott 18:23
it down. She did. So she's back in business. Yes, she's coming back for a few more years, looking five years younger. Yes, yeah, there you go. Asia Wilson is going to be expected to sign a super Max in the not too distant future to remain with the team. And this just in this was this morning, Jewel Lloyd signed a contract extension with the Las Vegas aces. She's sticking around. Okay? Um, so they've kept the entire court, sure, and if not, if, since this is already true after a

K.B. 18:50
championship, that's a

Graydon Prescott 18:53
good move. Yeah, nothing much more you needed to do. I mean, it's, it's an A plus off season if you bring Jackie Asia, Chelsea and Jewel back like that's all you needed to do. They're probably going to make, you know, another move here or there, but that's what you needed to do. And now, looking into next season, the Las Vegas aces have to be the absolute favorites to repeat and win their fourth championship in five years. And I'm looking forward to watching them continue their dynasty.

K.B. 19:23
I agree. I do think Indiana with

Graydon Prescott 19:26
I do, yeah, let's be clear, more Indiana and Minnesota will have something to say. Indiana, Minnesota will

K.B. 19:33
have something. Is going to be a

Graydon Prescott 19:34
problem, and Minnesota too, yeah, I'll have something forget about but, but I have absolute belief in Asia, Wilson and I agree the Las Vegas I mean, she's the greatest women's basketball player of all time. She was a champion in high school. She was a champion in college. She's a three time champion in the league, four time MVP.

K.B. 19:55
You know, what a sleeper team after a move Atlanta. Yes. Like no Alicia Gray, she's good. She's very good. Ryan Howard can who? She's very good. And I think if you know they got either the the former Chicago Sky player, Angel Reese, if angel is playing with more discipline, I think she's going to be playing with people that she now respects, because I do not believe she respected a lot of the talent that she had around her in Chicago, in Chicago right, other than one of the ladies that they got rid of, who was a dog and a pit bull as well, Kennedy, Kennedy, but I think, and there are, there's some rumblings out there that they may bring Kennedy onto this roster,

Graydon Prescott 20:35
and Atlanta would be problematic land. You're looking at a team Yes,

K.B. 20:39
whoa, yes. You got gray Ryan Howard and a disciplined Angel. Reese, you know, I think her Angel was focused on, yeah, I think she was focused on stats too much, I think. But I think in a system where she respects people, she's going to be the best version of

Graydon Prescott 20:54
herself, I agree with that. I think the

K.B. 20:56
rebounds get the put backs when you can, but also make sure that you're moving that ball, because now you have talent around

Graydon Prescott 21:03
you you really respect, yeah, absolutely, I completely agree. In Los Angeles, big move Neco gum is back in LA she's back home. She's She's older now, but she's still an extremely productive player. She gives you 18 and seven a game high basketball with

K.B. 21:21
her sister. Shout out to them.

Graydon Prescott 21:22
Yeah, sisters. So she joins Chelsea plum and Cameron brink, and now all of a sudden, LA's looking like a team. They can make noise, right? A Rico gumbo ale resigned below the super Max in Dallas, because obviously she is no longer the one for the Dallas wings. That title goes to Paige Becker's, and they have the number one pick in the draft as well, which is coming up in a couple of days here. So I can't wait to see. I need to find out

K.B. 21:46
more about this fist fight she got into. Like, I'm not sure she got arrested, yeah, so I need to find out what happened. So I'm not going to cast aspersions, because I don't know, right? Like, some dude could have been in there acting a fool, and she did what she had to do. Yeah? So I would like to hear a little bit more about it, but I do but I do know before this ever happened, She's not one to play with. Yeah, you can tell that court. She's not one to play with. No, absolutely somebody. Somebody caught one and found out.

Graydon Prescott 22:11
Yeah, we already, we already discussed the Atlanta Dream. But of course, Angel Reese acquired via the trade, Nas Hamilton is resigning. Alicia gray max plus super or super Max deal is pending the Connecticut Sun A they're moving out. They're headed to Right, right. They're gonna be heading to Houston. I think they're

K.B. 22:29
gonna become the comments again. Yeah, they are, yes.

Graydon Prescott 22:31
Is it good? Is it a good move? Well, it's the ownerships decision. Yeah. I mean, I don't have an opinion. I think the fans in Connecticut deserved their team. I think they were, it's it's not, but it's not Houston. It's not Houston. Yeah, that's

K.B. 22:45
a different animal. That fan base, yeah. So they are built for this, I'm not sure, in Connecticut. Like, look in stores, they're built for this, right? Like, they love their their Yukon Huskies. So I do believe they're built for it in stores, but outside of that, yeah, I don't know if they were going to ever get the attendance that they would like to get to support a women's basketball team. They will in Houston. They definitely will in Houston, yeah, yes, yes, indeed.

Graydon Prescott 23:12
And then, you know the key dates now, the WNBA draft is tonight. Preseason, we'll, we'll start in six days, U,

K.B. 23:21
C, l, a, runs the table at the draft.

Graydon Prescott 23:27
They're probably gonna have, yes, yeah, that's gonna

K.B. 23:31
that's gonna be fun. Man. UCLA, shout out to coach clothes.

Graydon Prescott 23:34
Man, did the Dave run it this year? That's gonna be fun to watch. So WNBA recap, everything has changed. The players now have a have an all time high amount of power. The Super Max deals are going to bring more balance to the league, but also incentivize, you know, the players to do what they need to do who I don't know who you're looking at. I don't know exactly who will win, but I'm, of course, it's gonna be a good season. I'm looking at our

K.B. 24:04
games again, it's gonna be a good season. I think

Graydon Prescott 24:07
52 Yeah, 52 games in season. It's gonna be great. I'm looking at the aces to go four and four and five, four and five years. Okay, of course, I can't, still, I can't, I can't be sure, but, you know, I got a lot of belief. And Coach Hammond and the whole crew, yeah,

K.B. 24:22
absolutely, absolutely, yeah. But there's parody

Graydon Prescott 24:24
out there. There is, and there's an amount of parody that we've really never seen. Yeah, in the W I agree. I agree. And last but not least, as we come close to wrapping up here, we'll, we'll do a little bit of NBA talk, because we kind of never get Tom canople is the favorite for rookie of the year in the NBA right now. And you know what? He's having a great season. He's averaging 19.5 rebounds, three assists. I hear a butt coming, but he's he's hit more threes than any rookie ever by a long shot. But Cooper flag exists Okay, and is averaging 33.9 rebounds and five assists over his last four or five games. Yeah. He's giving you 22, seven in a steal a night. He's the number one option on a Dallas team. I don't care that his team hasn't been that good. Rookie of the Year is not an award about suffering a lot over there to Dallas. Like, who cares that they're not? Cooper flag is performing like an all NBA level player as historically, yes, yes. Like, come on, I don't see any world where he's not unanimously the Rookie of the Year, let alone just the rookie.

K.B. 25:25
It is interesting that you say that I had a conversation the other day and with a person who was frustrated that concaten has an 80% chance at last reading.

Graydon Prescott 25:35
I mean, that's just absurd. Of went

K.B. 25:37
and that's that was his, his take an 80, 80% chance at last reading, to win the roadie award Rookie of the Year, R, o, t, y, and I told him, I felt like what was happening. You know, if you've ever watched Charlie Brown, where Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie every time he goes up to kick it, yeah? And, you know, every time she puts the football up, he thinks, Okay, this is going to be the time she's not going to pull the football. I kind of feel like that's what the media is doing with conquer, which is not cool. I believe there is no way in H, E, double hockey stick, that concanupple is going to win. And this dude can ball. This kid can ball, yeah, yeah, flame thrower. It's one out about him. Yeah. This is not about him. Speaking of which, how did Duke now

Graydon Prescott 26:16
win the national championship? That's another

K.B. 26:19
story for another day, right? That's another story for another day. But I just, I feel like the media is giving us a head fake here, like there's no way that Cooper flag is not going to win Rookie of the Yeah. I mean the numbers that he

Graydon Prescott 26:33
is going away. He deserves it

K.B. 26:35
going away, yes. And the numbers are not in in comparison or in contrast to what's happening in the league this year? Yeah, no, no. The numbers are in comparison and in contrast to historically great performance, not only a rookie, but a basketball

Graydon Prescott 26:51
I saw a stat the other day. There's been no game ever in the history of basketball where a 40 year old and a teenager both scored more than 30 points. That just happened. It was, of course, LeBron, LeBron and Cooper, right? Um, and, you know, two bookings. LeBron is my guy, right? I, you know, I personally think LeBron is a goat, and I think his longevity is absolutely not an argument. I saw him when LeBron, James had like, 30 points, 15 assists and nine rebounds, he played out of his mind. I saw him get completely outclassed by a 19 year old, right? Like, completely out. Cooper had like, 45 and a couple games before that. He had, like, a lot

K.B. 27:29
of times we hear generational talent, right? LeBron, James Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, like generational talent. Victor, women, yeah. Victor, absolutely, yeah. Cooper flag is right. There is multi generational talent, right? Like he's the stuff that he is doing hasn't been done in the league by a teenager, let alone a rookie. Yeah, really ever Right? Like it's unbelievable. So the press would lose the sports press would lose a ton of credibility and catch heat for days if concaniful wins rookie of the year again, having nothing to do with with cone, because he's a baller. Yeah, he is a Hooper. And if it weren't for a cooper flag, he'd be the rookie. He would be my vote, yeah, for rookie of the year hands down. But there is a cooper flag.

Graydon Prescott 28:14
Yeah. Thank you everybody for tuning into this episode of sports prep, live. It's been a banger. We got to talk about UNLV. We got to talk about the NCAA. We got to talk about WNBA free agency. A little about our aces and the NBA Rookie of the Year race. I'm great and Prescott. Everybody have a great week. We'll see you back next week right here on Sports prep live. Thank you for tuning in to this episode of sports prep live. I'm Graydon Prescott, and don't forget to catch all of our episodes on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to follow us on Instagram or Twitter at sports rep live. Thank you.

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