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How Many True Contenders Are There for an NBA Title This Season? | Numbers On The Board

Numbers on The Board

NBC Sports

Basketball, Nba On Nbc, Nba, Sports

4.8888 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 'Numbers On The Board' - Kenny, Pierre, Mike and Darrick debate on if there are how many true contenders for an NBA title this season after watching the first few weeks of the season. Plus - Pierre kicks off talking about who to watch this NCAA College Basketball season!

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0:00.0

Welcome back to numbers on the board.

0:10.6

Numbers on the board, yes.

0:13.2

We're here after a big slate of games.

0:16.1

We got near game winners, near game fumblers,

0:18.3

and a lot of things to talk about today.

0:20.1

How are we feeling today? Feeling pretty good. How are you doing? Can't complain. I think it's the first day in a minute where I woke up like, man. You got some energy? No, the opposite. Oh, for real? Man, I don't know if I slept on it. Maybe it's because the last minute, I'm sorry, the last 1.2 seconds that at Lakers game took 26 minutes. That's okay. Maybe that was the reason why. I thought she was about to say energy.

0:40.8

I feel like every episode. I'm sorry, the last 1.2 seconds at a Lakers game to 26 minutes.

0:54.5

That's okay. Maybe that was the reason why. I thought she was about to say energy. I feel like every episode, P is getting a little bit louder and louder because you're just getting used to the time. I'm on point, man. I am on point. This has locked me into my time management. In my night on them games, I ain't on 2K. I ain't doing nothing. Hit that hey.

0:55.7

And I go right to bed.

0:56.0

Yeah.

0:57.7

I'm a grown man, now I'm an adult.

0:54.5

Yeah. I, in my night on them games, I ain't on 2K, I ain't doing nothing. Hit that, hey.

0:56.0

And I go right to bed, yeah. I'm a grown man, now I'm an adult. Child to NBC for making me grow up. No, facts, though. Oh, we got dropped on, Mike. We do. I want to ask y'all, who are some of the players that are taking advantage of opportunity? There's a lot around the league, so I just want to know who have y'all been noticing most?

1:13.2

One name and one name only. that are taking advantage of opportunity. There's a lot around the league, so I just want to know who have y'all been noticing most?

1:13.2

One name and one name only.

1:16.0

I mentioned this yesterday because Pierre was talking about first-time all-stars, yad-a-d-d-yada.

1:20.3

It is hard for me to buy into my own team

1:23.6

because you set your expectations so high.

1:27.4

And a lot of the times at least in my

1:29.6

fandom whether they be from Derek Rose whether they be from whatever whatever your heart

1:34.8

gets broken so you have a 23 year old point guard that's nearly averaging the triple double

1:39.9

and shooting 50 40 82 from the line everybody on Twitter is telling you that you got the next NBA superstar. It's hard for me to just accept that. But guess what I'm doing today? You accepting it? I'm accepting it. Even when they were losing the game against the 76 a few nights ago, I made to tweet like, yeah, this is what happened when you gave up 100 open threes. The 76 to start off, 8 of 10 from 3. We're down by 23 points. And I'm like, yeah, this season ain't what I thought. Well, it's exactly what I thought it was going to be beforehand. It ain't this 5 and no 5 and 1 start. Then they come back. They win. Vucevic hits that Bitcoin to 3. and guess what I, I will not ask anything different to this team.

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