Cavs Ready For Finals Contention? + Why NBA Players Love Soccer With Larry Nance Jr.

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Sports, Basketball

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps, Tim MacMahon and special guest Cleveland Cavaliers forward Larry Nance Jr. to talk about the Cavs’ upcoming season. The guys break down if Cleveland is ready to take a step forward when it comes to the playoffs before diving into Larry’s involvement as a minority owner with Leeds United and the greater soccer community growing in the NBA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.1	Hello, welcome the HOOC collective podcast.
0:38.7	We talk about the NBA, which we are doing moments after Leeds United beat Everton
0:46.1	1-0 in the Premier League opener for them, which I will explain to you in just a moment.
0:50.1	But first off, joining us, joining us from New Jersey is Tim Bonteps.
0:56.7	Hello, everybody.
0:57.8	Joining us from Dallas, Texas is Ban McMahon.
1:00.7	Howdy, partners.
1:02.3	And now our special guest, who is absolutely fired up, we are taping this, like literally
1:07.8	moments after Leads United, uh british soccer team just returning
1:14.0	to the premier league the top league in uh in england their opener was this day uh monday is
1:21.5	when we're is when we're doing this they played everton in the first game and yes our guest is friend of the Pod and Cleveland Cavaliers Center Forward, Larry
1:31.3	Nance Jr.
1:31.9	But he's also a minority owner of Leeds United, and he's just floating on air after watching
1:38.1	Leeds pull out a victory with a penalty late in regulation.
1:43.1	Larry, you've won some big games in your career, but you are, your watch was just alerted you that you were working out. Like you were just on your couch. No, I'm sitting on my couch and my Apple Watch was alerting me that my rings were close to closing, which means the work is almost complete, which is a, great for August, you know, August, you know, wherever we're at. So I got a good workout in just watching my team play. It was great. Yeah. So we had to wait for after this. But I was a little bit worried. Like, you know, obviously it was a big day no matter what. Leeds is back in the premiership. And, you know for you know we talk about the nba but you know
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