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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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We discuss the overperforming Oklahoma City Thunder and whether they should still consider dealing their desirable players at the trade deadline (1:02), before breaking down the KD vs. Kendrick Perkins Twitter fight that was spurred by Russell Westbrook’s return to OKC (28:46). Finally, we gauge whether the younger Spurs have a chance to reset their season, and briefly re-rank the 2019 rookie class (46:00). Hosts: Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.5	Winging it with Vince Carter and Annie Finnberg is back in full swing for its second season.
0:09.2	Catch up on recent episodes with guests like Wycliffe Shawn who talks about growing up in Haiti,
0:13.6	hip-hop as a teacher, and performing with a goat,
0:16.5	and you can hear from tennis v. Nam Coco Gough on beating Venus Williams at 15 years old.
0:21.6	You can listen to Winging it on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.8	Welcome to the Ringer NBA show. I'm Chris Vernon. Joining me, he does every Friday from the Ringer.com,
0:49.7	is Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin Obamir, aka Kevin O'Connor, Kevin O'Conflict, Kevin O'Camer,
0:54.0	Kevin O'Camer, Kevin O'Candy Land, Kevon.
0:57.2	Vernon, what's good? We had drama last night on the NBA.
1:01.8	Oh my goodness, did we have drama? Let's start with the games and one will get to the off court drama.
1:08.5	There was a huge game last night between the 76ers and the Celtics. We knew that the 76ers
1:13.7	were going to be without Joel and Beat as they will be for the distant future. It seems with bad
1:21.6	news coming out on him yesterday, but a very good sixers win last night.
1:28.0	Uh, did you have any big takeaways from watching them without M.B., but still being able to knock off
1:35.6	Boston? Well, with with M.B. being out for however long it might be with the finger injury,
1:41.2	undergoing surgery for that. Philadelphia is going to have to figure out what they are defensively.
1:47.6	And in last night's game against Boston, I'm not exactly sure there's a whole lot to pull from
1:53.2	that because you want Philadelphia to have their defense centered around Joel and Beat because of
1:59.1	the offensive presence that he is. However, what we did see last night was intriguing though,
2:05.2	with the spacing that they have with Horford playing more at the five and what that provided for
2:10.8	the overall offense. It's interesting, but ultimately though, I, the sixers won that game because of
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