Is Ace Playing His Cards Right? Plus, Raja’s Richter Scale for Recent Trades.

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🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Logan Murdock and Raja Bell discuss the first round of the 2025 NBA draft and in particular the Ace Bailey story. Ace didn't work out for any teams before the draft and landed with the Utah Jazz at no. 5. Did Ace make the right decision by not working out for teams and still ending up as a top-five pick? Raja questions the mentality of some of the young athletes who make demands before proving anything. The guys quickly touch on V.J. Edgecombe going to the Sixers at 3, his post-draft interview, and the mentality he'll bring to Philly. Then they go to Raja’s Richter scale for the recent trades. How does he feel about the Boston-Portland trade involving Jrue Holiday and the Pelicans-Wizards trade involving CJ McCollum and Jordan Poole? Plus, Real One of the Week! (0:00): Welcome w/ Logan Murdock (1:12): State Farm Ad Break (1:37): Show Start (2:43): Thoughts on Ace Bailey (33:25): V.J. Edgecombe (37:52): Raja’s Richter Scale (44:56): Portland’s Next Moves (49:07): Real One of the Week Hosts: Logan Murdock and Raja Bell Audio Producer: Clifford Augustin Video Producer: Victoria Valencia Additional Production Support: Ben Cruz Hit the mailbag! [email protected] The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping? Real Ones Logan Burdock here.
0:01.9	I have a great show for you.
0:02.9	It's being a Raja today.
0:04.3	We go down Memory Lane.
0:05.5	We have one of those vintage old school Real Ones podcast where we just shoot the shit.
0:10.8	We talk about Ace Bailey.
0:12.7	And if he has too much dip on his ship, if you will.
0:16.9	And then we talk about how that manifests to the culture of the NBA. And then we play a little
0:22.6	game we like to call Raj's Richter scale. We talk about all of the trades that went down
0:30.6	over the last week and how much they really resonate from a league perspective. Right. And also,
0:35.3	we always talk about what's going on with the new apron era, quote unquote, and how that's kind of affecting deals. And we've had a
0:42.6	flurry of deals. You talk about the Christopps-Ferzingus trade to Atlanta. You talk about
0:46.8	the Drew Holiday trade that I'm still like about to Portland. We also talk about the Portland
0:52.6	side of that trade. But there's going to be a lot more of these trades going on as people get their books in order. I'm going to Portland. We also talk about the Portland side of that trade, but there's going to be a lot more
0:55.2	of these trades going on as people get their books in order as a lot of the contracts of grandfather
0:59.9	into this apron era. So it's going to be really fun and a lot of topsy-turvy things happening.
1:05.5	And we get into all of that. So great show for you. All the bleep.
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