What a great chat with sports strategy obsessive Light Years co-host Saam Esfandiari. Warriors rookie Yaxel Lendeborg may have saved basketball in the Bay. In doing so, has he also altered NBA draft strategy? We discuss this and much more. Topics!
Why Yaxel Lendeborg has us more excited about the Warriors than we’ve been in years.
Did Golden State finally get smart—or stumble into its own Brock Purdy?
Are older rookies becoming the NBA’s great market inefficiency?
Would Sam really refuse to trade Yaxel for Nikola Jokić?
Does the defense of Justin Herbert accidentally make the case that quarterbacks are generally overrated and overpaid?
Why receivers might want a very different quarterback than the media does.
Is Ben Johnson unlocking Caleb Williams by asking him to do less?
Forty-minute games, fewer games, no replay: What would actually improve the NBA?
Can Luka’s style win a championship—or just keep producing spectacular numbers?
