#367: Inner Circle contenders, “Clutch” in MVP, Film rivalries
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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A new inner circle team? Is another fading? We discuss what “clutch” performances should mean in the MVP race, Ajay Mitchell's value to the Thunder and more. Use code THINKING2026 for 10% off your next SeatGeek order. https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/THINKING2026
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking Basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another show. Cody, how you doing? |
| 0:11.7 | We've got a lot of great basketball to talk about, and that's what we're going to do today before we get to other stuff. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm currently on spring break right now, which means that my primary job is the caretaker of my child, |
| 0:21.8 | and it's a very nice change of pace. So I hope I have a different energy. I hope I have a spring |
| 0:26.3 | break energy. I hope I have a fun and bouncy and excited energy, because that's what I'm hoping |
| 0:31.2 | to bring to today's show. That was way too real of an answer. I was looking for something that |
| 0:37.2 | wasn't connected to reality, and you went right to like your actual real life and your family. Yeah, what were you going to say? You want to run it back? Let's run that back. Let's start it over. Yeah, Cody, how you doing? Fine. How about you? There is a lot of, there's a lot of basketball going on. |
| 0:56.0 | And I don't know what we'll be able to even get to today |
| 0:59.2 | because it just feels like a never-ending fire hose of stories |
| 1:04.4 | and developments taking place. |
| 1:06.5 | And the Los Angeles Lakers only play clutch games now. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm not sure if you know that. Every single game they have comes down to the wire. Look, Cody, I have a bit of a, let me, let me do a hot take to start the show. Okay? Let me do a hot take. I'm ready for it. So absolutely no one can aggregate those are the rules. No one can, no one can talk about this. No, just between you and you. This is just between you and me. No one is even going to care about this. Trust me. |
| 1:28.5 | The, the, No one can talk about this. No, just between you and you. This is just between you and me. |
| 1:30.1 | No one is even going to care about this. |
| 1:30.5 | Trust me. |
| 1:37.7 | The thing where people get excited in the MVP race about your clutch performances, |
| 1:40.4 | I don't really think that should be a thing. |
| 1:42.6 | I don't really think that should be a thing. |
| 1:44.6 | They did this in 2017 with Russell Westbrook. And if you want to try to make the merit, you know, the case based on the merit of his |
| 1:48.8 | full body of work, that's fine. But there was a lot of talk about like he had these game winners and |
| 1:54.0 | in the clutch. In the 74 minutes of clutch, he did this. And it's like, what about the other 2,500 |
| 2:00.4 | minutes? 74 minutes is an extremely small |
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