Hour 2: Are the Rocket Officially out of Title Contention?

First Take

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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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First Take resumes with Big Perk's case for Jaylen Brown winning MVP. (0:00) Then, after blowing an eighteen point 4th quarter lead to the Knicks, should we stop taking the Rockets seriously as title contenders? (16:30) Next, WWE superstar Trick Williams talks Elimination Chamber! (27:50) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.9	Welcome back to First Take.
0:35.2	This is a live look at the roof of the building we are currently broadcasting from.
0:36.8	You can't see anything. Blizzard just wiping through the Northeast, yet somehow we are currently broadcasting from. You can't see anything.
0:39.8	Lizard just wiping through the Northeast,
0:41.4	yet somehow we are still here.
0:43.0	We are warm and we are inside a building about to talk about the NBA.
0:45.0	No.
0:45.8	Yes.
0:46.4	You know, I just, I just want to say, you know,
0:49.7	I'm very sorry that I'm not there with y'all.
0:54.1	You know, to with y'all.
0:59.6	You know, to leave y'all there like that, that was not my intent at all.
1:01.5	You know, I didn't know.
1:03.9	I really, really didn't pay attention to it.
1:06.7	I wouldn't have left you there alone like that, Shay.
1:08.4	I wouldn't have left you there like that, Benny. You know, I wouldn't have done that, you know.
1:11.4	I mean, I just want to apologize for not being there.
1:15.8	And I want you to know that my heart is with y'all.
1:18.6	sincerely is with you.
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