Hoops Tonight - SGA vs. Luka debate, why Warriors are struggling, Victor Wembanyama vs. Nikola Jokic | NBA Mailbag
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Jason answers mailbag questions from fans on a range of topics including who is better -- Oklahoma City Thunder MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander or Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic. He also breaks down how he evaluates two way players like Victor Wembanyama (San Antonio Spurs) compared to offensive geniuses like Nikola Jokic (Denver Nuggets), who is to blame for the struggles of the Golden State Warriors (and why it's not Steph Curry), 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. |
| 0:20.1 | All right. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Hoops tonight here at the Volume Heavy Tuesday, everybody. |
| 0:23.2 | Hope all of you guys are having a great week so far. |
| 0:25.5 | Just a quick show for you guys today. |
| 0:26.7 | We have a weird week with the holiday for obvious reasons. |
| 0:29.9 | So we have no show on Wednesday and Thursday this week. |
| 0:32.4 | But I wanted to give you guys something for Tuesday. |
| 0:33.9 | So we're going to do a quick little mailbag based off of the mailbag questions that came from last week's mailbag. We have some follow-ups from our Shay Luca debate and some other questions from around the league. You guys know the Joe before we started, subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel. So you don't miss any more of our videos. Don't forget to like this video that helps us a lot. And then if you want to get questions into our mailbag, obviously no mailbag this Friday because we'll have our Christmas Day reactions. But a week from this Friday, we'll go back to our normal Friday mailbags. If you guys want to get a question in there, drop them in the YouTube comments underneath this video and underneath all of our full episodes between now and then. Right, mailbag with a colon, write your question. We'll get to our mailback questions on Fridays. |
| 1:12.1 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 1:16.0 | So our first question, again, our first two are going to be related to the Shea debate. And then there's another one kind of centered around Wembe's comments about the best |
| 1:21.4 | players in the world. First question, you're acting as if Shea winning with this OKC team |
| 1:27.1 | is equivalent to Luca winning with this Lakers team. |
| 1:32.7 | Shea is on the best team in the entire NBA and on pace for perhaps the greatest team ever. |
| 1:37.5 | It's not if Shea wins the title again and Luca doesn't, then Luca needs to look at himself |
| 1:42.1 | in the mirror. That's such a stupid take. |
| 1:49.4 | The Lakers need to get better first. These teams aren't on equal level. You can't make this an SGA versus Luca thing. This was always a gap year for the Lakers. Next season, let's see what |
| 1:54.7 | Luca and Austin do when their team is built more athletic around those two. |
| 2:00.7 | Okay, so this is something that I focus on in general when |
| 2:03.5 | I'm trying to talk about these sorts of things. Like we do our basketball player rankings every |
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