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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Justin and Rob start by discussing some of the notable rookie extension contracts that got signed today. Then they look back at their power rankings and discuss whether any news or injuries have changed their opinion of a team. To wrap, they run through some news and notes from the preseason before they give their award predictions and a finals pick. Intro: (0:00:11) Rookie Extensions: (2:08) Power Rankings Mulligans: (29:32) Preseason News and Notes: (43:58) Predictions: (49:24) Hosts: Justin Verrier and Rob MahoneyProducers: Ben Cruz, Isaiah Blakely, and Victoria Valencia The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to group chat.
0:12.3	I am Justin Verrier and sitting right next to me.
0:16.2	It's Rob Mahoney.
0:17.2	What's up, buddy?
0:18.2	Not a lot.
0:18.9	I am recently revived from the dead. Been battling
0:22.1	illness for what feels like months now. But I'm alive with the spirit of the NBA season. I simply
0:27.3	could not miss the start of all this. What's your cough for 36 right now? It's terrible. Or good?
0:33.1	I guess it depends on your frame of mind. Yeah. So we're recording this on the eve of the NBA season yet again. I think this is my 18th season covering the NBA. How does that make you feel? Old as shit. Yeah. But these bones are still getting up for it. I'm very excited for tomorrow. You know what made me feel old as shit? Someone for a social clip, I'm so sorry for not attributing, I can't remember who did this,
0:54.2	past Cooper flag, a pack of basketball cards from his birth year, opened it and had to see
1:00.3	how many players he recognized alarmingly few, and yet these are our guys.
1:04.7	It was like, the level of awareness among the youth of even like Hidu Turkleu is devastatingly
1:10.0	low.
1:10.5	Yeah, they did one of those social clips for one of the overseas games where they're like, oh, the last time we've been in this location, I forgot the location. It was like a LeBron team versus, I want to say the magic when Dwight were there, and the players could not get any of them. I think like, Yeager Demen was like,
1:27.6	oh,
1:27.8	I was one when this game happened.
1:29.7	I was like,
1:30.1	Jesus Christ,
1:30.8	time has passed us by.
1:31.8	So wait,
1:32.4	do you know what season this is for you? You haven't been tracking this, like, religiously? Like, I'm since 2008. Okay. It's about the same time. Yeah, about the same timeline. So I feel similarly in touch with my own mortality, similarly devastated by every passing year.
1:44.2	And yet enlivened.
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