Why Brunson Is Top 50 All Time, a Finals Mega-Mailbag, and NBA Fake Trade Season With Joe House

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This has been the guy I've argued about with about historical basketball stuff the most over the past almost 40 years of my life. But we got to talk about Jalen Brunson, big picture. I have great mailbag questions. I'm trying to figure out what the hell happened over these last two and a half months and how the NBA shifted.
And House is going to be my mailbag slash pyramid sounding board. Because we got to figure out where Jalen Brunson goes in the pyramid. So I'm excited. It's all next. Can't wait. We're going to bring in Pearl Jam right after we take this break. Pearl Jam.
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It is Monday morning, nine o'clock Pacific time. My longtime buddy Joe House is here. We're gonna do a mailbag. We're gonna talk a lot of historical NBA pyramid stuff, which is the real reason you're here. We're gonna talk US Open near the end, because you have a lot of thoughts and picks. We are coming off an awesome sports weekend. The Knicks and probably win the NBA title in five games and spurn a bunch of narrative. Spurn, spur, spur, spur. No pun intended, spur a bunch of big narratives. That happened. There's been a lot of draft buzz. There's been a bunch of Yana stuff now. It feels like this Yana thing is in full gear. We had Darren Peterson basically saying he would only work out with your Washington Wizards and that's it. We're gonna talk about that. We had the Stanley Cup Finals. Carolina won El Chippo. El Chippo carrying the cup. We had this UFC White House event that everybody was pretty bummed out about and yet it had two of the most shocking fights in a row that I can ever remember in UFC where we had Pereira and Toporia both lost. Two of the best three fighters in the world. Pereira got his ass kicked and then Toporia looked like he was in a car accident by the end of the fight. That was great and then we had a bunch of World Cup. Are you betting World Cup? Are we in danger zone here post-NBA finals where you're just sprinkling stuff everywhere?