AI or CP3: Channing PICKS a Winner, Top 5 SNUBS Luka & Kobe’s Aura Lives On

This week's mailbag gets spicy fast: Channing goes deep on Portland's ownership situation, laying out the math (a reported $4.6 billion purchase price against talk of a $7 billion sale, with Seattle and Vegas expansion fees rumored at $8 to $10 billion) and predicting the Blazers either get a new arena or get sold. He also fires off his all time guard rankings (only Magic, MJ, and Kobe go over Steph Curry), picks Steve Nash over Russell Westbrook, and explains why he'd have chosen the Spurs or Suns if he could've played his whole career for one team.

From there it's a full rapid fire round: Luka's new team and its playoff odds, Kobe's "job's not finished" aura, Chris Paul vs. Allen Iverson, the current top five players in the league, the credit he never got as a sharpshooting big man in Phoenix's Seven Seconds or Less era, the new NBA lottery rules and whether tanking is really dead, and which former player he'd add to the Road Trippin' crew.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro: Fanatics Sportsbook Kickoff + Rapid Fire 04:23 Kobe's Aura and the Greatest Guards Ever 07:57 One Team, One Career: Spurs or Suns 13:48 Tanking, Peak Years and the Suns' Sharpshooting System 19:01 Portland's Owner, Worst Teammates and Closing

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