#175: Post deadline power rankings

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Who are the inner circle title contenders after the trade deadline? Are the Suns the new favorite in the West? We break down the primary and fringe title contenders in a wide open league, along with Kevin Durant's trade – how many players this good have been traded in the middle of a season before? With @codyhoudek. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	thinking basketball podcast my name is Ben welcome
0:11.1	back to the trade deadline episode Cody I mean it feels like just two or three
0:19.2	months ago we were talking about LeBron James breaking the scoring record. I was spending all my time watching
0:26.1	Alperin Shengun highlights and I don't remember anything before the trade deadline at this point because Kevin Durant now plays for the Phoenix sons the sons were able to acquire Kevin Durant by trading Brooklyn, I think one of their security guards, a bell boy, and a Snickers bar. I believe, I think they threw a player in the deal. I'm not sure. We'll talk about that. We have a lot to sort out and I think the only way we can do this today is at some point, maybe not right away, maybe in a few minutes minutes I need to resort and reorganize my power
1:05.5	rankings in my head I gotta figure out who's playing where how these teams fit what
1:10.2	happened in the west are the sun's the favorite what's going on with the sun's the favorite?
1:13.4	What's going on with the nuggets?
1:14.7	Did the raptors forget there was a trade deadline today?
1:18.0	How are you, how are you feeling?
1:19.2	How are you doing?
1:20.1	This last week, not even week, but like the last four days in NBA years has been like a decade.
1:26.2	Like, I mean, honestly, I had a whole segment. I had like an emotional response to LeBron breaking the record.
1:31.8	In that time, Kyrie gets traded. Kyrie plays a game with the Mavericks.
1:36.7	And then all these other things happen. I'm like, well, I guess we're not talking about
1:39.4	LeBron anymore. And I, it's all just, I was literally like students were in the corner in class talking about the trades and I'm like you need to keep me updated on things that are happening because I have no way to keep it.
1:51.0	It's I'm just I'm gonna be working through all this in real time
1:54.4	Ben and I can't wait to do that. I mean let's start let's start with the big one the
2:00.7	the one that should have sort of shook the landscape of the
2:04.7	NBA world. Kevin Durant goes to Phoenix and Cody I I can't tell because I've been busy doing other stuff and I'm trying to keep track of the
2:15.2	trade so I don't know what the temperature is but every time I check in I feel like people
2:19.6	are responding to this
2:25.0	it's a normal trade that shifted the balance of power
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