Hoops Tonight - Reaction to LeBron vs. Brooks in Lakers-Suns, Joel Embiid BACK for 76ers? + NEW NBA Power Rankings
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Jason reacts to the Los Angeles Lakers getting a win over the Phoenix Suns that included yet another chapter in the odd beef between Dillon Brooks and LeBron James. He discusses Luka Doncic's slight dip in play since his return and how the defensive minded lineup was successful while Austin Reaves was out with an injury. Then he discusses Joel Embiid and Paul George looking better for the Philadelphia 76ers in a loss to the Atlanta Hawks, Victor Wembanyama's defensive masterclass for the San Antonio Spurs against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Cup semifinal on Saturday, and gives his new NBA power rankings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.3 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.7 | All right, welcome to Huit tonight here at The volume. Happy Monday, everybody. Hope all of you guys |
| 0:23.3 | had an incredible weekend. Have a jam-pack show for you guys today. We're hitting two games |
| 0:26.7 | from last night, Lakers' Sons, as well as Sixers' Hawks. I also want to share some stats from |
| 0:32.5 | what the aftermath of that Spurs Thunder game. I wanted to see some statistical markers that demonstrate some of the things that we talked about. And then as always on Mondays, our weekly power rankings. You guys know the joke before we get started. Subscribe to this channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Like this video. It helps us a lot if you scroll down and hit that like button. If you want to get questions into our mailbags, just scroll down and put them |
| 0:54.2 | in the YouTube comments underneath this video. We'll have another mailbag coming on Friday later |
| 0:59.6 | this week. All right, let's talk some basketball. So starting with Lakers' sons, this was a game |
| 1:04.5 | where Austin Reeves was out with the calf injury, and both LeBron and Luca were kind of a mess on offense. |
| 1:12.3 | And yet the Lakers were able to get a win because of what they did on the margins, |
| 1:16.6 | something they haven't done a whole lot of this season, a concept I want to dive into today. |
| 1:20.5 | Luca was off all night. |
| 1:22.1 | He's been slumping a little bit over his three games since returning from Slovenia for the |
| 1:26.5 | birth of his child. |
| 1:27.2 | He's shooting 37% from the field and 23% from three. |
| 1:31.7 | Obviously, well down from his averages to start the season. |
| 1:34.6 | He struggled with the three-point shot most of this season, but it's been especially bad as of late. |
| 1:39.8 | And he's been having a bit of a turnover issue. |
| 1:41.7 | He has 23 turnovers over his last four games. LeBron got off to a turnover issue. He has 23 turnovers over his last four games. |
| 1:45.6 | LeBron got off to a nightmare start. He had six turnovers in the first quarter. |
| 1:50.0 | Dylan Brooks, I actually thought, kind of woke him up. You could tell LeBron just as a competitor, |
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