FULL SHOW: Wednesday, February 25th

The Valenti Show

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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Valenti and Rico got today's show started with their disgust in both the Thunder for benching most of their players tonight and the NBA for allowing this to happen regularly. They shifted this frustration towards the Lions in the second hour, where they had a conversation about what they feel is an overwhelmingly high amount of loyalty to their current players. The guys stuck with this topic before resetting everything at the top of the final hour.

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0:00.0	What I mean by that is F the NBA.
0:03.8	I cannot believe.
0:06.2	Okay.
0:07.0	Does this go with?
0:07.8	All right.
0:08.3	I just, this is, I get so angry.
0:11.3	There's no other league that does this to their customers.
0:14.8	None.
0:15.6	You want to say SGA's heard.
0:17.2	He's missed his ninth in a rough.
0:18.5	Fine.
0:19.2	But for Chet Holmgren or Caruso or Hartenstein, no other league does this. You wait all year for a little showdown in Motown.
0:29.9	Yeah. Okay. Injuries are going to happen. If this was a playoff series, I would need to see polygraph evidence that SGA wouldn't play tonight or that Jalen Williams wouldn't play tonight.
0:42.3	But see, in the NBA, it's all happy horse bleep.
0:45.4	So now we don't even get to enjoy.
0:49.2	And you know, I don't do referendums in the regular season.
0:52.9	I just wanted to watch what I watched the other night.
0:55.5	First Pistons, good basketball.
0:58.3	A playoff type feel.
1:00.4	Yeah.
1:00.5	Plain and simple.
1:01.3	It was like when Michigan and Duke played.
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