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The Ringer NBA Show

Carmelo's New Home in Oklahoma City (Ep. 139)

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Ringer's Chris Vernon and Kevin O'Connor discuss Carmelo Anthony's trade to the Thunder (2:30), the history behind superteam success (10:00), the new-look Cavs (19:00), Chicago's complete overhaul (28:00), LeBron vs. Western Conference contenders (34:00), and potential changes to the current playoff format (44:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Varnett, joining me is he does every Tuesday

0:12.8

from the Ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor, a.k.a. Kevin O'Bomber, blow it up, a.k.a. Kevin O'Concert,

0:21.6

a.k.a. Dragon Ball O'Connor. What up? Kevin O'Connor.

0:28.6

Chris, what's going on? I don't have any nicknames for you today. What's going on, man?

0:32.0

For all of our listeners out there, there was after our last episode, last Tuesday, I was

0:37.8

inundated with the photos of Dragon Ball Z and your reference from Dragon Ball Z. And

0:44.3

in addition to that, I will say that I think the flattery continued with people that were

0:49.7

hitting us up that had listened to the podcast worldwide. Once we shouted out, it all started

0:55.2

with, I believe it was Galway, a Galway, Ireland. And then we would just mention that

1:00.1

in passing. And then now everybody that's hitting us up from all over the world in this

1:05.6

last week, we have gotten Sydney, Australia, we've gotten Luxembourg, we've gotten Switzerland,

1:12.0

we've gotten Chile, we've gotten Thailand, we've gotten Israel, we've gotten, let's see,

1:18.8

what else we got? Glasgow, Scotland, Poland, all over, I mean, tons of them. And I'm going

1:26.2

to leave some out New Zealand. I know, hit us up, but there was a bunch. So very appreciative

1:32.1

for those of you that are not United States in the United States proper that are listening

1:37.7

to us wherever you may be listening. That was, we just said that in passing because we

1:42.0

thought it was cool. There were some guys who were listening in Ireland and then the, you

1:46.4

know, like it's like every week, it's getting, now it's getting ridiculous. I really cannot

1:50.6

believe it. But it's crazy, man. Basketball is worldwide. Certainly cool. Love it. Okay.

1:58.4

So let's start with the big news, which is Hoodie Mello, Carmelo Anthony was at media

2:05.7

day yesterday. And he was at the Oklahoma City media day because he is now a member of

2:11.3

the Thunder. On Saturday, I was at a college football party where they had games on like a

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