Blow It Out (or Up) NBA Season Preview With Kevin O'Connor (Ep. 146)

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4.4 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Chris Vernon and Kevin O'Connor bang out a far-reaching NBA regular season preview. Topics include: LaMarcus Aldridge's extension (4:00), McCollum missing the opener (14:00), the Houston Rockets experiment (17:00), the OKC superteam (24:00), the unpredictable T'Wolves (33:00), Nurkic's inspired play (43:00), the Pistons' improvement (49:00), IT's belief in Boston's regret (53:00), the Coach of the Year contenders (1:00:00), and the potential first coach fired this season (1:05:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Welcome to the Ringer Ambias show.
0:38.6	I'm Chris Verden and join him easy does every week from theringer.com is Kevin O'Connor,
0:43.8	AKA Kevin O'Bommer, AKA Kevin O'Connor.
0:47.8	Verna, Kevin Verna, NBA Weeks back, baby.
0:52.8	I'm excited.
0:53.8	The NBA season is upon us.
0:55.6	We're recording this on a Monday afternoon.
0:58.8	So if anything happens by the time you listen to it on Tuesday or whenever, keep that in
1:05.1	mind as to why we didn't talk about it.
1:06.7	But we are going to give all of our predictions for the upcoming season, including the eight
1:11.7	teams we think are going to be in the playoffs from either conference.
1:15.7	We'll talk about who we think are going to be the finals participants in both conferences
1:20.2	and then we'll give our our individual awards.
1:23.6	And hopefully by mid season, we both don't request for the audio of this to be deleted.
1:32.2	Predictions are a tenuous thing to say the least.
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