First Quarter NBA Awards: MVP, DPOY, All-NBA, Rookie of Year, more; Plus, In Season Tournament Semis, Haliburton and Zion Questions

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, News, Basketball, Tv & Film, Sports News

4.6 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Schlecht joins Sam Vecenie and they pick who the NBA Award race winners would be through the first quarter of the season. They'll dive into MVP, All-NBA, Defensive Player of the Year, All-Defense, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, and more. Apologies on the audio for the first minute, had the wrong audio setting. It fixes literally right after the intro. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 3:38 Bucks, Bobby Portis confront coaching staff after IST loss 8:25 Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers are unstoppable 14:32 Zion Williamson's, what up there? 22:13 AWARDS 23:30 MVP, First Team All-NBA Jokic, Giannis and Embiid 33:20 Haliburton vs Shai for No. 3 or 4? 39:45 INSANE Haliburton stats 46:00 Second Team All NBA: Luka, Tatum, LeBron, KD, Steph, Fox 56:55 Third Team All-NBA Fox/Steph, Edwards, Maxey, Booker, PG, Trae 1:02:10 DPOY? Rudy Gobert vs Anthony Davis 1:09:15 All-Defense Suggs, Caruso, Mobley, Shai, Brooks, Herb, Jaren, Bam, more 1:17:55 Rookie of the Year? Chet vs Wemby plus Jaquez 1:25:45 All Rookie 1:31:50 Coach of the Year 1:34:23 Most Improved Player including Duncan Robinson thoughts 1:39:45 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.
0:08.2	I'm your host Sam Vassini.
0:09.2	Today, Andrew Schlecht is back on the show.
0:13.8	Nothing makes me happier than seeing Andrew Schleck back on the Game Theory podcast,
0:19.1	an unbelievable guest for an unbelievable time in the world
0:22.3	Andrew you are there live in person at the in season tournament in Las Vegas we're going to talk
0:30.0	about that at the top of the show and then we're going to dive into first quarter NBA awards
0:34.6	which is the real reason that I had you on the show to talk about those.
0:38.3	Andrew, what's going on, buddy?
0:41.5	A little bit of everything right now, Sam.
0:44.3	We're watching lots of hoops.
0:47.2	Get to watch Cooper Flagg tonight.
0:49.5	I get to join the Cooper Troopers as we discussed before we started recording. Cannot wait for that.
0:57.2	Man, it's a crazy, busy time of year. Getting ready for Christmas with kids, a little bit of everything, you know.
1:05.0	Yeah, man, it's great. So, like, I've kind of let people know on the vacation or on the podcast side like I'm going on vacation next week to Bali.
1:13.2	I've never done like we're not doing Christmas day away like we're coming back like two days before Christmas.
1:19.2	But I've never done like the Christmas, you know, get away thing.
1:23.7	So this is the closest I'll probably get.
1:25.7	So I'm excited about that.
1:28.0	You know, it's going to be great. I got to be honest, though. I was a little bummed out yesterday.
1:33.2	Steelers lost. And then, you know, yesterday I go and, you know, my wife, she's not asked for much.
1:40.9	But she really just wanted like a Coca-Cola yesterday in the beautiful
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