Here are 5 NBA duos that we wish we could have seen play for longer. I hope you guys are all doing okay considering everything going on. Be sure to stay safe. Hopefully this video gives you something to watch whilst you're in quarantine. But most of all, I hope you're doing something productive and having a good day, getting your mind off everything that's going on. And hopefully this video brings you back in time. We're going to look at a few NBA duos in this video that we wish could have played for longer. These are teammates that we saw and expected them to win a championship. Some of them did. Some of them didn't. Either way, they were exciting, they were fun to watch and they were enjoyable. So if you guys could support me, I'd greatly appreciate if you guys could hit that like button and let's aim for 3000 likes for the next video. If you're new around here and you enjoy NBA content every single week, why not hit that subscribe button? It takes one second of your time and you get NBA content every single week. With that said, let's get on to the video. At number 5, Carmelo Anthony and Alan Iverson This duo only played together from 2006 until 2008, but it was really only one true season in the 2007-08 season that they played together. A very short stint together, whilst Alan Iverson was still a top player in the league, after being around 6 years removed from leading his team to the NBA finals in Philadelphia, and Carmelo Anthony was starting to find his rhythm in the league, as he was one of the elite scorers in the league. On paper, this duo seemed as though they'd be prolific on the offensive end, considering at the time of the trade, Alan Iverson was the NBA's number 2 leading scorer, and his new teammate, Carmelo Anthony, was the number 1 scorer, and boy, they were fun to watch, but at the end of the day, that's all it really was, an offensive highlight reel every single night. As a team, the Nuggets never truly clicked, even with the talented roster in Alan Iverson, Carmelo Anthony, JR Smith, Kenyon Martin, Marcus Canvey, they had an A off the bench, it was just that of an experiment, and ultimately it just didn't work out. The one knock on Alan Iverson was that he dominated the ball too much, he played almost at too fast of a speed if that was even possible, because in the system that they ran, he didn't fit the system at all, and the other knock was that he didn't get his teammates involved enough. The thing about Alan Iverson though is that we always said, if he just had one other superstar on that 76ers team that made the NBA finals, what could have been? He obviously had Decayme Mutambo, but that was towards the end of his career, and Iverson just like LeBron in 2007 was the one man star, he was the guy, he was the leader and the team was built around him, but at the end of the day he just didn't have enough help. That's why when he finally had Carmelo Anthony on his new team, fans were intrigued, people said if they could make this work, it could be a scary force in the league. A little bit like the Russell Westbrook and James Harden duo we saw enter the league this season. But soon enough people realised, as exciting as this duo was, it wasn't translating to wins. The Nuggets won 50 games in the first year with Iverson, and then they got swept by the Lakers in the first round. Once they traded Iverson for Chancey Billups in Detroit, it was a better fit for the Denver Nuggets. Winning really became something that seemed likely at that point. The Nuggets finally made the Western Conference finals, but as for the duo between Iverson and Mellow, had they stuck with Iverson and Carmelo Anthony had one more year to mature? They may have seen a change, but it was smart that the Denver Nuggets traded Iverson at the time they did because it clearly wasn't working out in the moment. The experiment between Alan Iverson and Denver just didn't work out, but I do wish they would have played just a little bit longer together, a lot can happen in the span of 2-3 years. But did this duo break up too soon? Probably not, but from a fans perspective it would have been fun to watch these two play for a longer amount of time. Number 4, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant I think we all knew that this one would be on the list. Obviously I could say this about any duo, I would love to see them play together for longer, but this one is the exception. Because obviously they nearly played together for around a decade, but even then it just wasn't enough time. One more year in my opinion that would have been the peak. But because they were so close to defeating the Warriors and then Durant left to join the Warriors, I wish they could have just played for one more season together. And we all know that the breakup destroyed any chance of the Oklahoma City Thunder winning a championship anytime soon. Without Kevin Durant it was just too tough in a stacked Western conference and obviously with Katie joining the Warriors, it made it basically impossible for Russell Westbrook to ever reach the NBA Finals. Had the Oklahoma City Thunder stayed together, Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant as a dynamic duo, it's hard to imagine that the Oklahoma City Thunder don't have a championship right now. They would have competed with the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals every year. And despite the Warriors being a great team, I think the Oklahoma City Thunder could have definitely taken a series over the last four seasons and definitely made an NBA Finals with a chance to win it all. I mean, you just look at what Russell Westbrook has done over the last few seasons, what Kevin Durant has done with his game and he's become an even better player if that was somehow possible. And look, Kevin Durant probably wouldn't have the two rings that he has right now. But he'd be an NBA champion with a team that he played his entire career for, which I think would carry more weight than two rings in Golden State. Look, I'm not saying that Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant are a championship duo for sure. No one knows this for certain. But it's something that seems so likely when they were so young. So to see them develop even more, plus being that close to beating the Golden State Warriors the year before Kevin Durant left him, with just a few more made shots in the Western Conference Finals that year, the Oklahoma City Thunder would have made the NBA Finals. Not to mention just how fun was this duo. I wish they'd stayed together for longer. I think we all do. Looking back, we may never see a duo quite like this. Arguably the most athletic point guard ever and a seven foot scorer who could shoot from anywhere on the court. It was just scary. Number three, Shaq and Penny Hardaway. It's crazy to think that the Orlando Magic received back-to-back picks. When they drafted Shaquille O'Neal, they knew he was going to dominate the league immediately. I think everybody knew that. But then being able to draft Chris Webber the next year, who then they would trade away to the Golden State Warriors for rights to Penny Hardaway, who Shaq insisted they draft, Shaq believed they would be a dynamic duo that would take over the league. And he was right. The belief was that Shaq and Penny would be the second coming of Magic Johnson and Karim Abdul-Jabbar. And the young duo in their first year together made the playoffs for the very first time. They finished as the fourth seed, only to lose in the first round to the fifth seed Indiana Pacers. But it was a promising first year together. But the season after, Shaq's third and Penny's second, Shaq had led the league in scoring that year and Penny Hardaway was touted the next Michael Jordan. In fact, Michael expressed to a lot of people that he had the utmost respect for my game. That was a quote by Penny Hardaway. Eventually the greatest of all time and the prodigy would meet on the biggest stage in the 1995 NBA playoffs. And that's when for the first and only time in his NBA career, Michael Jordan wore another player's sneakers. And they were Penny Hardaways. That's how much respect MJ had for the young and upcoming Penny Hardaway. Nevertheless, in just their second season, the Orlando Magic had beaten Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. MJ was coming out of retirement that season, but he was still playing very well. And it wasn't the Chicago Bulls that had nobody. This is Scotty Pippen, Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson. It was still a great team that the Orlando Magic were facing off against and it was in their second season. They made it to the NBA finals and they lost to a tough Houston Rockets squad. But once again, it was only their second season together with so much promise and so much potential. Many fans from around the league were scared of what was to come in the next and upcoming years. But as we all know, it was their third season together that was basically the beginning of the team's downfall. Shaq and Penny had a little bit of a rivalry going on between endorsement deals and being the leader of the team. And if you wanna learn more about that, I highly recommend watching the Orlando Magic 30 for 30 on ESPN, which explains everything. But it did cause a rift between the two players. The team did make the playoffs again, but got swept by an even better Chicago Bulls team this time and it was the end of it. The tension between Shaq and Penny, the tension between the Orlando Magic and Shaquille O'Neal and they didn't pay him what he wanted, which even though he did win three NBA championships with the Lakers, he says he does regret leaving the Orlando Magic and Penny Hardaway. You'll regret it, I'll never fully answer it. I regret it sometimes. Is this where I started? You should have stayed. Now we had a young Fabrician, we really do. It was a shame that we got two on the park. You know what I know now, I'll just stay. Even though Penny Hardaway played more injury riddled seasons than healthy seasons, it was somewhat of a surprise to hear Shaq say that. But looking back, this team was that good and we wished they could have played for longer. Number two, Hakeem Elajuwon and Clyde Drexler. To think that if this duo had just played together just a few seasons earlier, because Clyde Drexler was one of the best players in the 90s and had MJ not dominated the way that he did, Clyde Drexler probably would have been more respected in today's NBA. Because when you really think about it, in the 1990s, only three teams won NBA championships. Well, technically four, but that's if you count Detroit at the start of the era and San Antonio at the end of the era. But basically when MJ was winning championships, it was all MJ and it was the Houston Rockets. The Pistons at the start of the decade before Jordan really emerged, they'd won an NBA championship, but once Jordan emerged, it was all MJ and the Chicago Bulls. MJ retired and then it was the Rockets' turn who went back to back. Jordan came back and then it was the Bulls once again three straight times to end the era because he retired. Then the Spurs won the NBA championship at the end of the era, but for basically most of the 1990s and that entire decade, it was Michael Jordan the Chicago Bulls and Hakeem Elijah won and the Houston Rockets. So really the Bulls and Rockets dominated the 1990s. Those were the two teams of the 1990s that saw the most success. So if you can imagine only Hakeem Elijah won and Clyde Drexler joining forces earlier, you could have seen them play for longer, it's so interesting to think about. This duo is just one duo that I just wish we could have seen play for longer. To think that the Houston Rockets won a championship the year before Clyde Drexler got there and then when they got him the next year during the trade deadline, the Rockets weren't even that great of a team. They finished the regular season with a record of 47-35, which only placed the Rockets six seed out of the eight playoff teams in the Western Conference. But because of the trade, Drexler and Hakeem dominated the playoffs and helped propel the team to a second consecutive NBA championship in 1995, sweeping the Orlando Magic and in his third NBA finals appearance, Clyde Drexler averaged 21 and a half points, nine and a half rebounds and nearly seven assists per game. So once again, have the two players played earlier? Could they have beaten the Chicago Bulls at any point and broken the sweet six for six run that the Bulls had? Drexler was already a two-time NBA finals player before he won his championship and that was without a player like Hakeem Elijah won. So it was just a thought to really think about. And lastly, at number one, LeBron James and Kari Irving. To really think that this duo only played three seasons together is overall just sad. One championship in three years isn't bad at all, but when you think about it today and you look at the league right now as it currently stands, what really would have happened if Kari Irving stayed in Cleveland in 2017? They'd probably still be a duo in the NBA today and LeBron wouldn't be a Laker. Instead, he'd be playing in the Eastern Conference with Kari Irving on a Cleveland Cavaliers team making even more consecutive NBA finals. And when you really think about all the injuries that the Cleveland Cavaliers had in the NBA finals with Kari Irving and his knee, Kevin Love and his concussions, look, we can imagine and debate and argue what would have happened in 2015 in the NBA finals. Had Kari Irving and Kevin Love stayed healthy? It would have been so close, but that's obviously a what if scenario. So to think if Kari never left and LeBron James stayed together, they probably would have been in another finals last season. And they probably would have won another NBA finals considering that we saw what happened with DeMarcus' cousins, Kevin Durant and Clay Thompson all going down. Obviously, this is just a bunch of what is some hypotheticals that we will never truly know. But what we do know is that we wish we could have seen this duo play for longer. This was one of my favorite duos of all time. Such a fun duo to watch and incredibly skilled. Not to mention the clutchness of this duo was just insane. Kari could hit a shot at any moment. LeBron James could do it all. And it would have been so exciting to see today. LeBron James ending his career in Cleveland. It still may happen, but it would have been nicer with Kari Irving. With that said, let me know what you think about these duos. Obviously, this was not in any order, but these were the duos that I wish we could have seen play for longer. If you enjoy the video, I greatly appreciate it. If you guys could drop a like to show your support. 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Hello, you're watching Mapping Faultlines and today we're going back to the Ukraine war where a lot of developments have been taking place in the past few weeks, even in the past few days. For one, we have a referendum which is taking place in certain territories. Russia has called for a certain kind of mobilization. We'll be talking about all this as well as some updates from the battlefield and responses from western countries in this episode. We have with us Pravir Purkayastha. Pravir, so like I said, a lot of developments. But first of all, let's go to the referendum. A referendum is taking place in various regions in Ukraine. So, first of all, we do know that it's happening from September 23rd to 27th in four regions, the Donbas provinces as well as Zaporizhya and Khurson. So, could you maybe quickly take us through what Russia maybe seeks to achieve with this referendum and what's really at stake? Well, very simply put, Russia is now arguing that if the people want to join the Russian Union, they will allow that to happen provided more than 50% of people participating in the referendum or 50% of the population voting say yes. So, essentially the number of votes are going to count and it seems in the first three days of the referendum or referendums taking place in the four oblast provinces that we already have more than 50%. In fact, in Lugansk and Donetsk, already more than 70% votes seem to have been cast and the other two also more than 50% votes seem to have been cast. So, if you take that into account, the majority of the people are electing to be a part of Russia. That seems to be the way at least the votes are tending to go. Now, we can talk about the legitimacy of these referendums or referenda later but this is the voting situation on the ground. Crimea had already held a referendum much earlier and they had opted to join Russia. So, that has been the situation on the ground. Of course, there are a lot of other players of course, Ukraine being the key who said we don't recognize this is illegal and so on. But the question is really what do the people want? What does the Russian as a country, what is the step they are going to do? It's also interesting to note that though this was probably the sentiment in Donbass, Donetsk and as well as in Lugansk from 2014 onwards, at that time Russia did not accept that these two provinces should become a part of Russia. They had in fact had suggested the Minsk Accords which were reached that this should actually have autonomy within Ukraine. The problem of that has been that of course Ukraine never accepted that. Poroshenko later on said that this was only a tactic for us to prepare militarily with NATO support to enter and take over these two provinces. And that's Poroshenko's position, that's public as we know. The other part of it is that if you take the Russian perspective, they didn't want Ukraine which would be so pro-NATO. So for them the Russian minority in Ukraine who does not want to war with Russia, does not want to join NATO, is therefore something which is a counterbalance to western Ukraine which is far more pro-NATO. So for them this is not a political victory. In this sense, this allows Ukraine, if these four provinces join Russia, this allows Ukraine to go far more towards NATO and European Union at a time when the war will end and at some point the war has to end. So in that sense it is minimizing Russia's losses if you will, that they don't see an alternative particularly because Russian has now been virtually banned as a language within Ukraine. It can't be used in shops, offices and so on, it can't be taught in schools. Russian language television stations have been stopped, Russian language newspapers have been stopped. So given all of that, the identity of Russian language and Russian ethnicity itself is under attack in Ukraine. And given that, I think that Russia feels that it has really no alternative but to take this position. So this is basically what you're saying is in some senses an end to the idea of a multi-ethnic Ukraine which could have, you know, various perspectives could have, you know, viewpoints could have been balanced. So in some senses, but does it also mean for instance that this is pretty much closing the door on any kind of negotiated settlement also because this something for instance the Ukrainians have taken a huge amount of umbrage to a naturally. You know, no country is going to accept that part of it will go and join another country. But the point is this process has happened for instance Czechoslovakia where the two parts decided mutually to separate. It has also taken, there are multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic communities, countries in Europe which actually gives them a certain degree of identity. They can keep their linguistic and ethnic identities for instance even in Italy, there are parts of it. Switzerland is another multi-ethnic country where multiple languages. Belgium for that matter. Belgium for that matter. Belgium has again a large population which speaks different languages, identify themselves as different ethnicities as well. So all of these compromises do exist. And nation states have come about to have been able to overcome it. But this is the 2014 is really the watershed moment in which the Maidan, so called Maidan revolution takes place. And United States call the shots even against European Union. So given that it was that is the watershed moment where Poroshenko comes into power Yanukovych is forced to flee. And this is a coup. This is really the Maidan coup. There is no legal institution which sanctifies this change. And then of course the crackdown on those who are supposed to be identifying more with the Russians. And that leads in non-mass to the revolt that we saw. And finally the military engagement being ended. In fact with Russian intervention politically as well as German and France being the intermediaries who say yes the Minsk accord. There are two of them. Minsk one, Minsk two. Both of them promised autonomy for the Donbas region which never was forthcoming. So given that it is also very strange that Europe, European Union which says that we accept all of these things. Ethnic identities, linguistic identities to be protected haven't actually supported any of that in Ukraine. And of course there is a degree of hypocrisy in this because even when it comes to the Roma for instance. And there is a huge numbers of Roma in Europe. Their identities have never been really protected either. So this has been more politically how can you win the identities recognition. And ultimately if the other side doesn't want then it ends up by being a war which unfortunately is where we have been headed in Ukraine. Except of course you have Russia as the protector of the Russian ethnicity and linguistic ethnicity. If you look at the map of Ukraine for instance and if you take the elections which Yanukovych won. You will see of course he won in the West Ukraine also but if you take a previous election you will see that Russian ethnic or Russian linguistic speakers have voted differently in Eastern and Southern Ukraine than from Western Ukraine. So this revision really runs very deep politically as well. So in that sense is it better to part or stay. If you take the Russian view they really wanted the Russian speakers and linguistic identities to be in Ukraine to be a counterbalance. It's the failure of that which has led finally to what is this referendum. Absolutely. But also speaking of the war we also see that Russia has recently announced a mobilization. This comes after reports of according to the West at least major setbacks faced by Russian forces in Ukraine by the way. They were talking about it. It seemed like it was a matter of weeks before the Russian scramble that hasn't happened. But at the same time this mobilization does mark a fresh stage in some senses. So do we see this as Russia moving into a stage where it is terming this a full fledged war, willing to commit more troops. Does that look like it's going to happen? Well again the crystal ball isn't working so I'm not going to be able to predict particularly as whenever we do such predictions we tend to misread the situation. So if we look at it another way let's look first at what is the amount of loss that Russia has suffered. And if you look at the map again you will see it's barely 1% of the territory they had taken over since February. So in that sense it is militarily if you want to talk about it it's a very insignificant amount of land. The argument is Russia has been going forward at a very slow pace. Kilometers, 2 kilometers, 3 kilometers a day. And here if you see suddenly they have been drawn really 500 kilometers and therefore this amount of land falling to Ukraine in a very few days. The trip side of that of course is that also the reports again even by the western media organizations is that intelligence reports from satellites and other sources indicated that Russia who is holding this area with very thin presence of troops therefore it is ripe for a counter attack and that's why when they attack the Russian troops withdrew. The other side of other picture is that there are also a lot of losses Ukrainian troops took because they're advancing in relatively open territory which the Russians had could attack. I'm not getting into that because those are again military discussions we have not been having here because we are not military experts. If you look at the larger picture what you will see is that the Karkov area the Karkov Oblast has been not a very active sphere of activities for Russian military forces. They have concentrated on the Donbas and in southern Ukraine. That's been the more the focus that they have had and it does seem after initially attacking Karkov they really decided it wasn't worth taking. It's a very largely Russian speakers but it is also very it's a really urban area which means the losses in order to take it will be very high and this is the second largest city in Ukraine. So they don't seem to have that much of stake in Karkov as others might think they have and therefore they are willing to let that go. If this four oblasts or these four provinces plus Crimea joins Russia. What is going to happen in the war is very uncertain at the moment because if you look at the larger picture again of the NATO supports to Ukraine. That seems to now be in some kind of a shall we say in some kind of a I will say emerging crisis because can the West continue. Can the NATO continue to pump in that amount of arms and financial support to Ukraine. The reports and we have been talking about these reports from say month or two. Now these reports indicate that the amount of stocks that the Western countries have the NATO forces have is dwindling and their ability to replace it. In fact even restock for themselves is not that great. So given that how much can they continue to bleed their military stocks for helping Ukraine is an open question. If you remember there was Russia which is actually the services institutes of the Royal services of the United Kingdom. They had they somebody had written a long article giving the statistics which are also what economists had roughly also said that the stock of military supplies with the NATO countries itself is not sufficient. Not their ability to produce that many number of weapons as Ukraine the land war in Ukraine seems to demand. And that's partly because the NATO has been fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and they are not geared up for industrial scale war. Russia in turn from 2014 seems to have been preparing for such a possible showdown and they industrially terms they seem to be able to restock and resupply their troops. So given this how long can NATO continue is an issue because they seem to have banked their that they will be able to force Russia to its knees because of the financial sanctions. That not having worked that can they continue now to indefinitely support a war like this is the question. So it's not clear to be what is the end game going to be as you have said there is a 300,000 soldiers mobilization that is the that Russia is doing. And if they do this 300,000 soldiers what will they do with it is of course the question will they put it in Donbas and the two other oblasts and provinces and keep them there will they use it for further advances into Ukraine. Is it a war which is then going to be for the whole of Ukraine or at least up to the Nipah river. These are all open questions. We don't know. All we know is that Russia has decided that it needs to mobilize further that this special military operation they were doing which actually used only about 10 to 15 percent of their armed strength. They need to significantly enlarge that because from 150,000 to 300 another 300,000 is a huge increase. So it is going to be three times what they have already put in place. So if that happens then we don't really know because their objective was not land while if you take Ukraine Zelensky's objective was appearing to hold territory. Russian objective was more to destroy the Ukrainian army and that is if we take that as the objective then Russia at the moment is not worried about how much land they have occupied or not occupied. The question is what is NATO going to do because I don't think the Ukrainian government is any longer an independent player. They need even the NATO countries European Union and the United States to fund their daily budget. So given that it really depends on what NATO is wanting to do and at the moment we do not see a change of opinion in NATO. Germany the key player in European Union or France these are two major European Union players in NATO. They don't seem to be thinking about what is the likely outcome for themselves or their people. As we have seen the United Kingdom the other big player has been beating the wardrobe with about 80,000 troops which is really much much smaller than what Ukraine has put in the field. So given all of that it's very difficult to say what is the objective that the European Union or NATO countries have in this. Is it only to bleed Russia as long as they can and then they don't really care about what happens to Ukraine either. Or is it that they have an end game in plan in play which we have no nothing about and we will all be surprised suddenly by something or the other. The problem that we have the larger problem for the world apart from the economic crisis which this has caused is also both sides of nuclear weapons and that is something that we need to take into account. What happens to European Union and what happens if it suddenly becomes more of a nuclear confrontation. These are the two open questions we have. Thank you so much Rabir. So there we have it another sobering conclusion as we talk about what's happening in Ukraine, in Europe and the entire world. Europe also a major election taking place this week. It has taken place this week in Italy with the far right all said to come to power. We will be covering many of these issues in future episodes of Mapping Fault Lines until then keep watching us click.


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Are you applying to the University of Michigan's medical school? If you are or already applied this cycle, here is some intel on how to approach your secondaries. Thank you for joining me on my channel for the best personal statement coaching and secondaries. Make sure to subscribe and hit the bell so you don't miss a video. For the 2021 cycle, the University of Michigan secondaries are pretty kind of representative of a lot of schools, which is great. I do tell students though to pre-write their secondaries because they come at you fast and in waves. And if you're interested in templates and guides on how to do that, check out the link in the description below. Thank you for joining me. I am Dr. Josie with Write Your Acceptance. I'm a university writing faculty and I help coach students through the kind of writing process of their medical school and dental school admissions experience. So let's get started. Essay one. So here we go. Comment on how you hope to impact medicine in the future. If examples are needed, feel free to refer to our eight paths of excellence. Do not exceed 1500 characters with spaces. So here the feel free to consult our eight paths. For me is not a suggestion. You definitely want to consult them and kind of think through the language and framework that each path suggests. Inevitably your service work, volunteer work, clinical experience research is going to hit one of those eight for sure. But you definitely want to frame your story and anecdote and background and reflection within one of the pillars that they discuss. And so once you pick that you want to address a story and anecdote kind of show your kind of brief emblematic experience and then go into how this path is something that is kind of like a guiding compass for you medical career. So for example, if you choose global health, let's say you have two main kind of options I think through students can if you have a personal story. So you or your parents or immigrants, you have firsthand experience of kind of global health care and health care inequities, let's say internationally. So that may be interesting to start with and then kind of go into the work that you've been doing in your kind of preparation for medical school. Another one is no need to have a personal kind of stake in the immigrant story, but you've done a medical mission trip abroad in some way or even and I've seen this very successfully for a student, they were working at a local clinic and that local clinic had a partnership with a clinic in Ghana. And so helping them kind of raise money helping them source materials and resources and that's how they kind of talk about global health. So think about kind of your entry point to the pillar, the path that they talk about, SA2. At the University of Michigan Medical School, we are committed to building a superb educational community with students of diverse talents, experiences, opinions and backgrounds. What would you as an individual bring to our medical school community? Do not exceed 1500 characters, including spaces. This including spaces thing is very serious, right? Because some schools will then say not including spaces. So it's a big kind of flag to make sure that you are mindful of that's a tangent. Okay, so this is your typical diversity essay. And so don't only think through the lens of diversity of identity, right? It could be diversity of thought, inclusive attitudes, representational of kind of inviting diverse voices to the table, so to speak. I would offer here examples of you practicing within kind of a diverse setting in the sense of you don't have to be French to kind of be using a little bit of functional French, right? Or you don't have to be Hispanic to borrow kind of a translator and use some college kind of rusty Spanish and connect with a patient on their kind of cultural level of comfort. So that's interesting to kind of think about like you in a situation that is a kind of diverse experience or that you are actively participating in diverse space and connecting with someone at their kind of level of comfort. You can also approach this essay in a very different way and students have kind of written about hobbies or cultural traditions or just regular kind of secular traditions. And it's really about kind of highlighting the sense of collaboration and inclusion and so what you learned, how kind of it impacted you, what you kind of brought to the table and really kind of think about this sense of collaboration, camaraderie and comfort indifference. Essay three. If you previously applied to the University of Michigan, briefly summarize what is new or different from the last time you applied. Do not exceed 1500 characters including spaces. So this essay is pretty straightforward. They want to know if you are a re-applicant, what have you been doing for the last year, right? To kind of better prepare yourself for the rigors of medical school. What volunteer shadowing clinical hours have you continue to kind of gain, right? So you want to not hit kind of a number of shadowing hours or volunteer hours and then stop all of a sudden, right? Like you want to maintain continuity there. Also, did you do a post back? Have you been doing research? What have you been doing to really kind of strengthen your, I wouldn't say weak spots, but strengthen kind of the holistic candidacy of your application. So maybe you've published, maybe you have a, you did a poster presentation, you've attended conferences. So how have you been engaging with the field and continuing to strengthen your application?  Comment below. I'd love to help you out. Essay four. Describe your experience in the leadership position, the challenges that you present, that presented themselves in that position and what you did to contribute to the success of the team or project. Do not exceed 1500 characters. I've seen from nonprofits to grant proposals to student organizations and a lot of the kind of more successful secondaries, in my opinion, start with like a mini kind of story again and really show kind of you in a leadership position or you kind of showing the need or potential impact that you can make. If you start with that, you want to deliver on that impact by the end of the secondary, right? So you want to think about less important kind of where you're doing this kind of leadership, more important how you filled a need or how you kind of improved something, how you understand the nuances of leadership. So it's not just about kind of commanding people to do things and delegating it is knowing when to lead and knowing when to kind of inspire others to take charge, right? So those nuances of leadership I think sometimes reflecting on that especially towards the end is successful and then make sure that you kind of reflect on what you learned but also kind of how you improve that team or project. It's definitely part of the prompt and some students kind of shy away from tooting their own horn. Essay five. Last one. Tell us something you are passionate about and why do not exceed 1500 characters. So here you can use your kind of beyond academics essay. Sometimes this one tends to be recycled with if you haven't shared something about your candidacy or if there's something else you want to kind of tell the admissions committee, what would that be? I would definitely not put NA there. That would be for secondaries for another school but just to kind of give you an idea, this is the type of essay that I would recycle there. So you can go beyond the classroom, you can do a hobby, you know, they want to know you're a human being. You're not like this medical robot, right? But I also tell students to kind of before they commit to a topic for this essay, take a step back and think about their application to Michigan holistically. So have they represented research, service, community engagement, representative of the different pillars, right? The different paths. Have they hit those eight? And if there's one that seems lighter than another and they have an experience restored to tell, this is where you would put that. And so explain why something is a passion. I've also seen kind of personal hobbies, yoga, CrossFit, marathon running and how kind of that informs and shapes their discipline, their ambitions and their purpose. So really think about kind of how you want to use this essay but I would take a pause for a second and see what is kind of underrepresented in my application and can I use this moment to kind of balance that out. Thank you guys for joining me. If you liked this video, please give us a like and if you want more kind of content, strategic planning, guide and templates on some of the main kind of high yield secondaries, diversity, obstacle, why us, definitely look at the kind of link in the description below and that'll help you out. Any questions, leave those in the comments and I'll see you soon. Thank you.


Everybody forced here with being 22, 23 prison basketball hobby, four box number three or number three here. We got Aaron P with the Hornets, AJ, Magic, Andrew, Cavs, Anthony, Kings, Cheng Yao, Mavericks, Chen Kai, Spurs, Chris P, Sons, Chung H with the Warriors, Edward P Lakers, Eric W Thunder, Grant W with the Nets, Inkyu, Heat, Jeffrey H Pistons, sorry, Jeffrey H A Pistons, Jeffrey H U Clippers, Jeremy S. Nicks, Jesse S Celtics, Jonathan B with the 76ers, Josh H with the Grizzlies, Kai has the Pacers and Jazz, Lee Z Raptors, Paul with the Pelicans, Robert P Blazers, Ryan S Rockets, Tong with the Bucks, Trevor T Nuggets, Wang S Bulls, Wayming Wizards, Wen Shun, T Wolves, and Yong S Hawks. Good luck everybody. Let's go ahead and get started here. I've got 100 spots. William, that's the the STC. I forget the break title already. Jake will get the break title. You can probably find the link with Drop. You have to search it I think to find it. But so SG, we're breaking at SGC the day before Bowman release, early release, preview break, and SGC will be grading cards from that break as the break takes place. Red Prism, Obitop, and Nicks. Nicks already with the Colorado 2.99. There we go. Nicks already, that's some last spot love right there. Pulsar, Wilkins Hawks, Baldwin, and Mark Williams. There's a link to it. Yeah, there's a link to the description and everything. We'll be at SGC. We'll be there. Blue Ice Hardins for the 60ers to 125. There you go, 60ers. Keegan Murray, Luck of the Lottery Kings, Silver Deandre Hunter Hawks, David Roddy, Triple Cage Jumbo, Random Player Style, Ruby Wave Rookie, Jalen Doran Pistons, nice card. There we go. Fireworks Jaw, Hyper, Levine for the Bulls, Malakai Branham Spurs Rookie, Keegan Murray Kings Rookie, Prismatic the Rosin, Silver Trey, Man Thunder, Tyree Eason Rockets Rookie, we need some more gold. Hyper Matheran, there you go Pacers. Probably include this. I would say any of the names on the top of the list if there's like a Silver or a better, just include it. At least for like today. Laravia, we will not add another SGC break. We're only going to be there for one break. Silver Luck of the Lottery, Dyson Daniels Pelicans, it's the first time it's ever been done. Silver Manu Ginobli for the Spurs, right Rollins. Maybe we can do like a yearly thing, that'd be kind of cool. Yeah. I'm sure since it's the first time this has been done in like the industry, maybe we'll become a regular thing. Red, Agbaji Jazz to 299. There we go. Yeah, not yet, Zach. Austin Reeve, Sensational Signatures Lakers. Best player on the Lakers. There he is. Hyper Viscels Spurs. He goes, you know what LeBron, I got this. I got this LeBron. Oh, you guys are going to leave me in Boca. You guys, Silver, Fireworks, Julius, Randall, Nicks. Silver Rookie, Mather and Pacers. Yeah, Pacers with a Hyper and a Silver in the first box. Benedict, Mather and Quick Maths. Marjahn Bochamp, Jaden Hardy. Marjahn Bochamp. Yeah, football's been good about checklists. Ruby Wave, Lou Dorthunder. God, Hyper, Rudy Gobert, T-Wolves. Ty Ty, did the top transcendent checklist ever come out? I'm curious about that. I mean, we ripped through our 15 cases. Oh, Mojo, Mojo. Mojo, Dyson Daniels, Pelicans, 19 out of 25. Heck, yes. I'll avoid the awesome powers reference. I already made one today. I already made one. Congrats, Pelicans. Paul E, Dyson Daniels. We're going to mag this one. It's a very nice rookie card there. Heck, yeah. A lot of the lottery, Sohan, Silver Middleton, Bucks. Dude, I think I was right. The third break. Jabari Smith Jr. Grats to the Pelicans. Blue Prism, Rookie Tari, Eason now. What is going on here? That's awesome too. 146 of 199. Nicks, Bernard King and the Silver Signatures. There we go, Nicks. Nicks again. Nicks hit an auto and a numbered card in the first box. Last spot, right? Hyper Wall Clippers. Second to last something like that. Jaden Ivy, Pistons, Rookie Base. I'm swamping Jake over here, guys. Swamping him. That's what he says. He's got 75 cards, he's got a top load. Ruby Wave, Keeta Kings. You'll be able to hear the wind resistance. Silver, Zach Levine Bowls. I'm going to leave jet trails in here. I don't remember LeBron's base card yet. I think the images are fine though. Yeah, we'll have to pull some color. We've got to get past the base here. Purple Eyes, Rookie Magic, Caleb Houston. Rookie to 149. Thunder, Usmane Dang on the Rookie Signatures, Base Auto. Pulsar, Rookie Yovitch for the Heat. Johnny Davis, Rookie. Silver Prismatic, Luca Donchich Mavericks. Pipe Tatum, Silver Rookie Jalen Williams, Thunder. Dude, this is a good break. Kennedy Chandler, Peyton Watson. This is a good break. Let's keep that going though. We got two and a half boxes left. Or about that, about that. Hyper Wendell Carter Jr., Magic, Legend. Blake Wesley, Bryce McGowan's. Jason Samiovic. The Jover. Luck of the Lottery, Silver Pistons, Jalen Doran. Silver Kings, Chris Weber. Dyson Daniels, AJ Griffin. Blue Prism, Deandre Hunter for the Hawks. Numbered, 103 of 199. Hyper Rookie, Isaiah Mobley Cavaliers. Isaiah Mobley Base. Purple Prism, Luca Donchich. Mavericks, 26 of 99. Silver Clint Capella Hawks. Beast on the boards last night. Jalen and Dylan. Reg, Aaron Jackson Jr., Grizzlies, the 299. With a Nuggets Auto, Dan Issel. Base signatures. Pulsar, Magic, RJ Hampton. Grand Pat Ewing, Scotty Pippin Jr. Ruby Wave, Spencer January Mavericks. Prismatic, Kairi Silver, Cameron Thomas Nets. Jovich Duncan, Ruby Wave, Jwell and Beed Sixers. Hyper, 48 Knicks. Sohan Base, Wendell Moore Jr., Orange Wendell Carter Jr., Magic to 49. Here we go, Magic, 32 of 49, Wendell. Luck of the Lottery, Jabari Smith, Silver Kamingo Warriors. Christian Brown, Ruby Wave Rookie, Mobley Cavaliers. Hyper and Beed, 76ers. Palo Base and Coloco, which is not exion. Silver, Damian Lillard Blazers. Kelton Johnson, Walker Kessler. And Rodney. All right, what is up with the next breaks here? A lot of orders coming in. A lot of orders. 4-4-6-6. Still at 4 to go in the next one everybody. Nuggets, Clippers, Knicks and 76ers. 4 to go. Two boxes left in 4 box number 3 here. So when is this Rodgers and Jets thing going to happen? Like this is, it's taking a long time. Purple Reeves, Lakers, Color Match. Second year, 47-99. Carried them. Silverloo Williams Hawks. Rollins. We were all a witness to Ryan Reeves. Austin Reeves, or Ryan Reeves. It's a hockey player. Red Towns for the T-Wolves. There is no greatness in Ryan Reeves. 2-99, T-Wolves, Carl and the T-Towns. Austin Reeves has the greatness. Olenek Jazz, Sensational Signatures. Kelly Olenek. Hyper Rookie, Minot, T-Wolves. Jake probably has a Kelly Olenek jersey. Actually Sam probably does have a Kelly Olenek jersey. Whatever team he was on for the shortest amount of time, Sam has that jersey. Ruby Wave, Carmella, Anthony, Lakers. Probably an actual authentic jersey. Keegan Luck of the Lottery, Silver, Jalen Brunson, Knicks. Was he ever a hawk? Ryan Reeves is one of the hockey players of all time. That's true Von. He is one of the hockey players of all time. Hyper Barkley, Sixers. Agbaji, what would you say is the most obscure Ray's jersey you have? Probably Zanino. You have a Zanino jersey? Yeah. That's pretty cool though. Silver, widescreen, Tomorrant, Grizzlies. It could be a lot crazier. Silver, Ray Allen, Sonics. Going to the Thunder. Christie, Neymar, Liddell. Red, Genobly, Spurs. Number 299. Obi-Wan, Genobly there. There's a little brawn fearless. Pulsar, Rookie, Jabari, Smith Jr. Rockets. Williams, Blue Eyes, Foltz, Magic to 125. Cade, fireworks. Silver, Clay Thompson, Warriors. There's a Hardy and a Dalen Terry. I'm scared not to hold a fame. He's a Ray's all fame pitcher. He's probably the best up in the group. Rookie, Jake LaRavia, Grizzlies. Sohan, Luck of the Lottery, Hamidou Diallo, Hyper, Pistons. Bochamp, Rookie, Bucks. Besides, Wilson, Ramos. Prismatic, Donovan, Silver, Embiid, 76ers. Jabari, Smith, Jr. Base. Tide, Tide. Thank you, thank you. Come on, Prism, show us the heat. Blue, Jalen, Smith, Pacers, Sticks. It's 199. And Mavericks. Rookie's signatures. Jaden Hardy. Dallas Mavericks. Big congrats. Biggest auto of the day so far, I would say. For Chengyao. Congrats, Chengyao. He's got a nice sig too. Jay Hardy, baby. Pulsar, Ness, Smith, Pacers. Jaden, Ivy, Base. That's like if I were to have like a Sandy Leone. Shersie. Oh my god, Sandy Leone, got cold up yet. He's still playing? He's on the Rangers. What? Silver, Prismatic, Kauai Islander, Clippers. Silver, Rookie, Wendell Moore, Jr. for the T-Wolves. Tyrese Martin. Sandy Leone. Ruby Wave, Carl Anthony Towns for the T-Wolves. Only active Hall of Famer, that's correct. Section 10, referenced there. Hyper, John Wall, Clippers. Jerk, Carapace, Action. He's good, he's good. He definitely has the line between like entertainment and like actual like analysis, like down pat. It's funny though when he says some other red socks. Like he's actually mad. Right. Red Power, Jaden, Ivy. 62 of 75. Pistons, Rookie. Disgusting hit. Jeffrey H.A. with the Pistons. That is absolutely gorgeous. I'm telling you man, Red Power. Red Power, baby. That's the parallel that is sick. That's going in the mag. Silver, Christian Wood for the Mavericks. Palo Base. Magic. Yeah, I want to sign my initials on everything. I'm going to start doing that. Red Sabonis Kings. Number 299. And Chuma. Big Chum. Sensational Signatures, Magic. Big Chum. Hyper McDermott Spurs. Lofton. Kessler. Walker Kessler Ranger. What a card. What a card. What a break. Ruby Wave, Bradley Beale Wizards. Silver, Evan Mobley Cavaliers. Minot, Mullen. Mobley and Sir Curry Hyper Warriors. Chet. Jang. Usmane Jang. American Cruise Lines. Do they just go on like the Mississippi River? The heck is that all? That was weird. Silver, Fireworks. Evan Booker Sons. Silver, Tremor for the Third Pelicans. Walker, Evan Mobley. Sorry. Isaiah Mobley. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Ruby Wave, Brook Lopez Bucks. Hyper Dilo for the T-Wolves there. I look like he was playing for the T-Wolves last night, trying to help them out. You guys think the Lakers win a game in the playoffs? Silver, Luck of the Lottery, Mather and Pacers. Silver, Paul Pierce Celtics. Sohan and Wendell Moore. Red, Time Lord Celtics at 2.99. Hyper, Steph Curry Warriors. Got Pippin, Jalen Williams. Purple, Chris Mullen Warriors. Number 66 at 99. Silver, Lamello Hornets. That's true, either way. Well, to be fair, they'll have an advantage in the paint with the Grizzlies not having a big.  Ruby Wave, Iverson, Sixers, Hyper Durand Pistons. This is the good break here. McGowan's, Yovitch. Buck of the Lottery, Shade on Sharp. Silver, Harry Trent Jr. for the Raptors. Griffin and Wesley. Purple-eyes, Cody Martin Hornets. Number two, 149. And look at that. Silver, Sensational Signatures. A lot of S's here. Rookie Auto Benedict Matherin. Last pack, Heat for the Pacers. Kai, there we go. There you go, Kai. Quick Maths. Hyper, Dwight Powell Mavericks. Dyson Daniels, and that is going to do it. Let's do a recap here. What a break. Sweet hits there. So sweet. Is this sweet or is this sweet? No, sweet. Well, good signature or not.  Congrats to the Pacers. Happy for you, Kai. Thank you for grabbing spots today. Still at four in the next one, guys. We're still at four. Nuggets, Clippers, Knicks, and Sixers. Break to the hell. The haters are out today, man. Got Purple Luca to 99. Silver J-Dub, Silver Matherin, Hyper Matherin. Pulsar, Jabari Smith Jr., Hyper Durand. Ruby Wave Durand. Red, Agbaji to 299. Blue, Atari, Easton to 199. Purple, Ice, Caleb, Houston. Magic to 149. Autos of Dan Issel. Kelly, Olenek. Austin, Reeves. Chuma, O'Keeke. Usman, Eid, Yang. Silver, Bernard, King. Mojo, Dyson, Daniels, a 25. Pelicans. Big one there. Dude, Red Power Ivy. Red Power Ivy to 75. What a hit. Rocky Otto, Jaden Hardy for the Mavericks, bass signatures, and Silver Sensational signatures. Matherin, Pacers. That will do it. Thanks again, everybody, on to number four.