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🗓️ 3 April 2026

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Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones, and get right into the Lakers getting blown out by OKC and losing Luka to a hamstring injury during the game. What did the game say about where both teams currently stand in the West? Plus, the Magic keep free-falling in the standings, which has star forward Paolo Banchero unhappy. What's the next steps for the franchise? And Real One of the Week!(00:00) Intro (1:39) Fan Duel ad break (2:55) Lakers-Thunder Recap (8:51) MVP Race (18:41) Luka’s injury (27:58) Paolo and the struggling Magic (44:57) Amar'e Stoudemire headed to the Hall of Fame (55:48) Real One of the Week Hit the mailbag! realonesmailbag@gmail.comThe Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out rg-help.com to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details.Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard BeckProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping? Real ones.
0:07.5	Logan Murdoch here.
0:08.5	Howard Beck and Rajabelle in a few.
0:10.6	We get into a lot of discussion on OKC.
0:14.9	How dominant are they going to be?
0:16.3	Is Shay kind of just re-centered how we feel about the Western Conference and by extension
0:20.3	the championship race? by extension, the championship
0:21.8	race. I know that the Spurs have won 11 straight. And I know that Wimby's at the top of his game,
0:27.3	but SGA has got to be the MVP, right? We get into all of that. We get into Lucas, very poor-timed
0:34.9	hamstring injury that is probably just going to doom the Lakers. I really just don't see
0:39.9	how they can go on this season without Luca as their catalyst. They're not very deep team. They're
0:44.9	not a great defensive team. JJ Redick has been a great coach this season, but I just, I don't
0:49.5	know if he can overcome this even with LeBron James on his cross. Because LeBron James, 41 years old. It's going to be tough. Then we talk about the situation that is going on in Orlando. What does this mean for Paulo, Ben Carroll? We kind of already knows what it means for Jamal Mosley. So we get into all of that. Then we swap some stories about Amari Stademeyer in the Sun's days. Amar Stademeyer is going to the Hall of Fame.
1:11.9	And then we talk about LeBron's Memphis comments and what the NBA feels about Memphis.
1:18.6	And yeah, man, it's tough because I love Memphis.
1:21.5	Big fan of Memphis.
1:22.9	I'm going to live there for a little bit.
1:25.0	Sounds of the commercial appeals to all the people out there.
1:28.0	But we get in all that really, really fun show.
1:30.8	Runones, Melbaug at Gmail.com,
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1:33.2	run one's mailbag at gmail.com.
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