Embiid's return + "Who owns the Timberwolves?"
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Zach Harper, Jay King, and Josh Huestis discuss NBA talent in the NCAA Tournament, react to Joel Embiid's impending return, and project Victor Wembanyama's future. Then the guys react to the Minnesota Timberwolves ownership mess with a little game of, "Who owns the Timberwolves?".
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the BasketBuds edition of the Athletic NBA Show podcast here on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.3 | We're going to Zach Harper. |
| 0:11.9 | We got Josh Houston. |
| 0:12.6 | We got Jay King. |
| 0:13.7 | We got Schleck and Dufour producing. |
| 0:16.5 | We've got a show for you. |
| 0:17.9 | We are going to play the hottest game show that is sweeping the nation. |
| 0:22.1 | Who owns the wolves? |
| 0:23.8 | We will hit on Wimbun Yama's big game. |
| 0:28.0 | We got LeBron's big game. |
| 0:29.3 | We got Luca doing just ridiculous stuff. |
| 0:31.8 | Ending the Rocket Street. |
| 0:33.1 | Doyle and Beads back. |
| 0:33.9 | But first, I want to piss Jay off because I've noticed over the last two weekends, |
| 0:40.2 | and I know Jay's not going to be with me on this. And Josh, probably not either because you've got |
| 0:43.8 | this weird affinity for like, you played college basketball, so like you got to defend college |
| 0:48.6 | basketball. But this is the worst college basketball is ever been. Men's college basketball. |
| 0:52.1 | This is the worst men's college basketball is ever been. The worst product has ever been. The worst level of talent in |
| 0:57.4 | tournament has ever been in terms of NBA talent. And it's really, really hard to watch. Like, |
| 1:04.2 | I'm watching, I'm watching Yukon, right? Yukon, nobody can touch them. That's not a very good team. And yet they're so- Hold on, hold on, hold on. They're so- They're so- They're good compared to the rest of the field, but in terms of, like, actual NBA talent on the- They have a lot of you pick. They have a first rounder, and their whole team is loaded with And they play castle's good basketball. |
| 1:30.3 | I know like there's no way you you watch cling and play and think that he's like a definite NBA player |
| 1:36.5 | I don't know why but here my thing is why why can't you why can't you take it for what it is and quit thinking where are the NBA players rather than just be like this is college basketball because I care about the NBA because I care about the NBA and this is |
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