Welcome to another edition of the Ringer NBA show. Today we are joined by Chris

Manix of Yahoo's The Vertical, the Chris Manix show on NBC Sports Radio, CSN New England

NBA analyst, boxing podcast. I like how many jobs do you have man? Good grief.

I tried to stay take money from the least possible bitters. I mean anyone that will throw

cash in my direction, I will accept it from. So pretty much it's unlimited at this point.

All right. So last night we look around the league and I guess the biggest story that

came out of last night was probably Carl Anthony Towns having 47 and 18, which is a monster

night. And yet it comes in defeat not even when Carl Anthony Towns has 47 and 18, can

the Timberwolves beat the Knicks? Now, poor Zing has had a big night on the other side.

But what are we thinking about the plight of the Knicks and the T Wolves? Because that

was a game that seemed like a lot of NBA fans were paying attention to.

Yeah, I was watching that game last night just to, you know, for a couple of reasons.

First, Minnesota, their problems with closing out games have been well documented in the

first month or so of the season. They just, they're experiencing the parls of youth.

And even though tips to the great coach, there are certain things they just have to kind

of go through and learn on their own early on. And that's kind of what we're seeing right

now in the Knicks. Their problems on the road have been, you know, just as bad to some

degree. But, you know, I like what I saw on the continued to see from poor Zing is a

aggressiveness at the end of game that put back a dunk that he had to put the Knicks

ahead towards the end. I mean, this guy is rapidly developing into a star player. I mean,

he should be in the mix this year for an all star birth. And the way he's going, you

know, it might not be even consideration as much as a lot pretty soon.

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