Hoops Tonight - NBA Mailbag: Bam Adebayo & Heat trades, Steph Curry's Warriors career, Jalen Williams underrated?
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Jason answers mailbag questions about his NBA player rankings list on topics such as Cleveland Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley vs. Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden, potential trades for Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo, why New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns didn't crack the top 25, explaining the rank of Oklahoma City Thunder wing Jalen Williams, Jimmy Butler vs. Pascal Siakam, different versions in the career of Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry, and more.
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| 1:29.0 | Today is our next mailbag geared around player rankings. Again, remember, if you guys want to disagree or argue anything in the player rankings, a player too high, a player too low, player should be on the list, players shouldn't be on the list, anything you want to get into surrounding the player rankings. Make sure you drop the mailbag questions in our full episodes. Put mailbag, colon, write what you disagree with, write an elevator pitch, a quick, concise version of why you disagree. And we will get to them in our mailbags throughout the rest of this player ranking series. You guys know the joke before we can start it. Subscribe to the Hoops on our YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Follow me on Twitter and underscore Jason LT so you guys don't miss show announcements. |
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| 1:30.8 | First question. |
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