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Game Theory Podcast

2023 NBA Draft: Western Conference Draft Grades: What do we think of how all 15 teams handled it?

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7766 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Adam Spinella joins the show and we dive deep into the 2023 NBA Draft, and break down what every team in the Western conference did on draft night. We'll go in alphabetical order, discussing all 15 teams for a few minutes and spending a bit more time on the important ones. Dallas Mavericks Denver Nuggets Golden State Warriors Houston Rockets LA Clippers Los Angeles Lakers Memphis Grizzlies Minnesota Timberwolves New Orleans Pelicans Oklahoma City Thunder Phoenix Suns Portland Trail Blazers Sacramento Kings San Antonio Spurs Utah Jazz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.6

Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

0:38.5

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

0:39.7

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

0:42.4

Adam Spinella is in the building.

0:44.2

I'm hoping that unlike the Eastern Conference version of this,

0:47.7

the microphone is hot.

0:49.3

It indeed is.

0:50.6

Adam and I are going to be breaking down each draft by team in terms of sort of grading

0:58.7

how those teams did.

0:59.9

If you listen to the Eastern Conference version, you'll know that, you know, I guess we grade

1:06.2

the draft, but we talk about it a lot more from like a process perspective and about how do these things

1:12.0

fit together what is the direction of where they're going do we like just the general

1:18.1

strategies employed during the draft by each of these teams and we'll talk about picks right

1:23.9

and we're going to talk about players what we like about players what we have questions about with players everything like that we're not going to talk about anything at the top here we

1:32.0

talked about the gnaz reed deal at the top of the last episode the reason we're not going to

1:36.2

talk about anything at the top here is because i think it's going to take us a little bit longer

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