Hoops Tonight - West contender rankings, LeBron James vs. Donovan Mitchell, Steph Curry's longevity
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Jason answers mailbag questions from Hoops Tonight listeners on topics including if Kevin Durant is enough of a boost to lift Amen Thompson, Alperen Sengun, and the Houston Rockets over the top compared to Nikola Jokic's Denver Nuggets & Shai Gilgeous Alexander's Oklahoma City Thunder. Then he discusses how he compares Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell, how Bron and Steph Curry compare, as well as Stephen's impressive longevity for the Golden State Warriors.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, this is Matt Jones. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm Drew Franklin. |
| 0:07.4 | And this is NFL cover zero. |
| 0:10.0 | We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different. |
| 0:14.9 | Did you see the Colts pretzel? |
| 0:16.4 | That was my other big takeaway from that game. |
| 0:17.7 | What was that? |
| 0:18.7 | Oh my. |
| 0:20.0 | We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. |
| 0:23.7 | And twice a week, that is exactly what you're going to get. |
| 0:26.9 | So listen to NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin, |
| 0:30.0 | starting on August 28th on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:33.4 | or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | The Volume. |
| 0:52.9 | All right, welcome to Hoops tonight here at The Volume. Happy Friday, everybody. Hope all of you |
| 0:56.6 | guys had a great week. Got a jam pack show for you guys today. It's Mailbag today. Mailbag day, |
| 1:01.4 | and we got so many good questions from you guys. A lot of questions surrounding Kevin Durant and |
| 1:06.5 | the Houston Rockets, some of their big picture potential this year. I really want to do a deep dive |
| 1:11.8 | into KD and the Rockets today. After that, I got a couple of really interesting questions |
| 1:17.4 | surrounding Donovan Mitchell, including a question as to whether or not Donovan should be |
| 1:21.8 | ranked ahead of a guy like LeBron. So we're going to dig into that a little bit. There's some big |
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