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Done With One-and-Dones, Plus Deandre Ayton's potential | Draft Class (Ep. 217)

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor and Jonathan Tjarks debate whether the NBA should change the one-and-done rule (2:40), evaluate the potential of Arizona big man Deandre Ayton (12:47), and receive grades for their analyses (30:12). Links Jonathan Tjarks on how the NBA could adapt soccer’s youth academy model Jonathan Tjarks on the concerns about Deandre Ayton’s defensive prowess Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On today's show, we're going to be talking about the one and done rule and Adam Silver's comment,

0:03.8

so what can happen with that? And then we're going to dive deep into Deandre Aitend,

0:07.7

top NBA draft prospect. But before we do that, we're going to tell you to check out the

0:11.4

Ringer podcast network, man. We got a lot of great pods out there. We got Titus and Tate

0:15.5

on one shining podcast, taking a college basketball view of the game.

0:19.5

Then our Monday, we have John Gonzalez, the host of Heat Check, brings in new guests every week

0:23.6

at Chase Serrano, Jason Cepciano, Julia Littman, everybody from the Ringer has been on that so far.

0:28.7

We got more to come. Then on Tuesday, you got me and Chris Vernon. And then this week on the

0:32.2

Ringer, it was LeBron MJ week. It's kind of a bi-week for the NBA, so we decided to take a look back

0:37.3

and a little bit of a look forward. So be sure to check that out on theringer.com. And now, draft class.

0:51.1

Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Kevin O'Connor and this is draft class,

0:55.7

calling in from Dallas, Texas as he does every Friday. It's fellow Ringer staff writer Jonathan

1:01.9

Chucks. What's up? Hey, man. Just got back after a fun all-star weekend in LA. I had a great time,

1:08.2

but I got to say the city a little overrated. Traffic is horrible. Everything's very expensive.

1:14.8

You know, I'm right. Oh, come on, dude. I just moved here. I'm loving it. It's a little chilly now,

1:18.9

but it's so beautiful, dude. The sun's out every day. I got three words for you. Cost of living.

1:26.6

What do you think about that, Isaac? Wow. That's a colossally bad take. Absolutely ridiculous.

1:33.0

Listen, Charks, you know, all my interactions with you before this moment right here was very

1:37.2

positive. And now I have a negative tint to your image. I mean, the truth is hard to handle. I

1:42.7

get it. I get it. Well, we might be able to change that today because Charks and I will be

1:46.2

discussing Adam Silver's comments on the NBA's one and done rule and what might happen with that.

1:50.6

And then we're going to dive deep into the future of Arizona, Big Man, the Andre Aiton. Yeah,

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