Hoops Tonight - Reaction to Brunson's Knicks surging, Austin Reaves leap for Lakers + NEW NBA Power Rankings
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Jason reacts to the New York Knicks beating the Toronto Raptors for their fourth straight win and explains how Jalen Brunson embracing their new offensive philosophy is working wonders. Then he discusses the leap Austin Reaves has made this season for the Los Angeles Lakers, how he complements Luka Doncic and LeBron James, and where he ranks among players so far this year. Then he gives his new NBA power rankings including the Knicks, Lakers, Thunder, Nuggets, Rockets, Celtics, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.3 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume. |
| 0:22.0 | Happy Monday, everybody. |
| 0:23.1 | Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. |
| 0:25.1 | Got a jam-pack show for you guys today. |
| 0:27.1 | The New York Knicks won their fourth consecutive game last night |
| 0:30.7 | with a wire-to-wire dominance of the Toronto Raptors. |
| 0:34.5 | I want to really zoom in on their three-point shooting this year, |
| 0:38.0 | as they've dramatically increased their three-point volume as a big product of the work that |
| 0:42.8 | Mike Brown has done revamping this offense. After that, we got to talk about Austin Reeves, |
| 0:48.7 | man. I went through an exercise thinking about how many players in the NBA have played better basketball |
| 0:55.5 | than Austin Reeves to start this season. And it's a very short list. So I want to talk a little |
| 0:59.9 | bit about Austin Reeves, his development, the trajectory he's been on, just how insanely good |
| 1:05.4 | he has been this season. And again, where he would rank in the NBA if you ended the season today. And then at the |
| 1:11.6 | tail end of the show, like we always do on Mondays, our weekly power rankings, some new |
| 1:18.0 | exciting teams that I want to hit in the bottom part of the top 10. That middle chunk of the |
| 1:23.8 | season or standings is really fascinating. This year's NBA standings, |
| 1:28.3 | uh, picture has looked very different than recent years. We've had a lot more bad teams, |
| 1:33.4 | like really bad teams at the bottom, but there's this very, very deep middle, a bunch of teams |
| 1:38.4 | right in that like 12 and 8 kind of range that are fighting. And so the bottom of our power |
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