Hoops Tonight - Best #2 pairings w/ the top-5 NBA players: Wembanyama, Jokic, SGA, Doncic, and Giannis
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Jason does a fun exercise of figuring out who the best number two players are to pair with the current top five NBA players (in no particular order): Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs), Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets), Luka Doncic (Los Angeles Lakers), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC Thunder), and Giannis Antetokounmpo (Miami Heat).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:05.0 | The Volume. All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight here at the volume. |
| 0:30.7 | Happy Monday, everybody. |
| 0:31.7 | Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. |
| 0:33.4 | Just a quick episode today. |
| 0:35.1 | I am recording this on Wednesday, July 22nd, |
| 0:39.2 | but I'm flying home from Houston today after my brother's wedding. |
| 0:42.9 | And so I wanted to have something since it was a Monday for you guys to listen to. |
| 0:46.8 | So I had been asked in our mailbag at various points throughout the last several months |
| 0:52.9 | about the idea of number two's. Like who's the most |
| 0:55.3 | complimentary player that we can place along the stars in the NBA today, in the NBA with today's |
| 1:01.6 | superstar. So what I thought would be fun today is just to take the top five players in the league |
| 1:05.4 | and just to come up with what I think would be the best number two to partner with each of those five guys. Just a quick episode and then we'll get out of here. We'll get into the rest of the week when I get home. You guys know the drill before we started. Subscribe to the Hoops on YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. We have a goal to get to 150,000 subs. Just need about 8,000 more. So if you guys can help us a lot by scrolling down and hitting that subscribe button, if you're already subscribed, like this video, sign up for post notifications. |
| 1:29.8 | If you want to get mailbag questions into the mailbag, go into our full episodes on YouTube, |
| 1:33.1 | scroll down to the comments, put mailbag, colon, put your question that helps me sort through |
| 1:38.2 | when I'm looking through the comments. |
| 1:39.4 | We'll get to them on Fridays throughout the remainder of the summer. |
| 1:42.6 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 1:43.6 | Keep it very simple here. The five guys that I'm looking at that I consider to be top tier superstars, no particular order player rankings are coming later this summer. But Wembe, Nicole Yokic, Shegelis Alexander, Luca Donchich, Yonis, and Tanakumpo. And then to try to keep things interesting, I wanted the number two to be a player that |
| 2:01.9 | isn't on that list. Because there are obviously guys that I think would fit extremely well. |
| 2:06.5 | Like, I mean, I think Luca and Shea would be a wonderful basketball fit between like a playmaking |
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