Episode 33: Previewing The 2023 NBA Draft (Preview) + Mark's Trip To The US Open
Mostly Hoops with Mark Titus and Co.
Barstool Sports
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
With the basketball offseason now officially underway, it's time to take a look ahead, starting with previewing our official NBA Draft preview (which will happen next week). Mark takes a look at the top storylines going in to the draft and expresses some concerns he has with this draft class and the relationships between college and pro basketball in 2023. Also Mark had the opportunity to visit the Los Angeles Country Club ahead of this weekend's US Open. He shares his thoughts on the course, the experience, and this weekends Major. All this plus Mark and TJ talk College World Series picks, and Mark shares a heart warming story about going to watch his friends get picked in the NBA draft. Show note: we asked for questions on twitter and instagram yesterday, we will use those next week, please keep dropping any questions you have for Mark on social. We'll be back with a new episode Tuesday as we continue our offseason schedule of Tuesday/Thursday uploads. Follow the show on all socials @MarkTitusShow
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| 0:00.0 | Hey barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple podcasts, Spotify |
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| 0:08.3 | On today's episode of the Mark Titus show, the basketball off season is officially here, |
| 0:13.8 | sad times, middle of summer. |
| 0:16.9 | The draft is coming up, we can, we can touch on that a little bit, but it dawned on me |
| 0:20.4 | waking up this morning, now that the finals are over, the next meaningful basketball that |
| 0:24.7 | will be played will probably be the feeble World Cup in late August, which, uh, |
| 0:29.9 | a lot of people listening, a lot of people watching, you would say, that's not, that |
| 0:33.4 | does not count as a meaningful basketball. |
| 0:35.8 | Um, as a reminder, the United States, the last time we played in a basketball World Cup, |
| 0:41.1 | we sent NBA players, we finished seventh in 2019 and, uh, you know, I, I've been sounding |
| 0:47.4 | the alarm about this forever and, uh, you know, the, the, the, it's going to get worse |
| 0:51.7 | as Victor Wimbe and Yaman is the league, but we, we, we, it, coming off of NBA finals |
| 0:57.6 | where Nikolayokitch dominates everyone, uh, Yannis is also very, very good, even though, |
| 1:03.5 | you know, the bucks lost in the first round, uh, we, we live at a time when it's time to |
| 1:09.1 | get serious about United States basketball, and unfortunately, I feel like basketball fans |
| 1:12.2 | in this country are, are fair with other fans where when we are winning, they're, they |
| 1:17.1 | puff their chests out, we say, kiss our ass, rest of the world, we're better than you |
| 1:20.7 | at basketball. |
| 1:21.7 | When we lose, we all say that tournament didn't actually matter anyway, we don't care. |
| 1:25.4 | Um, so I don't know, maybe, maybe I'll try to talk to myself. |
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