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The Ringer NBA Show

MVP Giannis, the Suns’ Implosion, and Lonzo’s Awakening (Ep. 148)

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Juliet Litman and John Gonzalez sit down to talk some NBA story lines, including Oklahoma City's precarious start to the season (1:05), Giannis MVP watch (5:15), Eric Bledsoe's illuminative tweet (11:48), and Lonzo Ball's first few NBA performances (19:14). Then they indulge in a few overreactions (29:44) and end with some games to look forward to (32:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Monday morning. This is the Ringer NBA show. I'm Juliet Littman. I'm John Gonzalez.

0:15.9

So this is new. New. It's our first Monday of the NBA season. Yeah. The two of us will be

0:21.3

doing a sort of like a headlines Monday morning podcast. We don't have a name yet.

0:25.6

We're working on it. We're workshopping it. It's it's basically us nerding out on what happened

0:29.8

over the weekend. We'll go through a whole bunch of topics, but it's kind of like table

0:33.2

setting for the week. It's sort of like this is what happens. This is this is where we are

0:37.5

on Monday. This is the games that we're excited about and kind of what you need to know right

0:41.9

now. All the things that we were talking about, all the things we want to talk about. And

0:46.3

we want to keep it tight. We decided we were going to do like it's going to be a tight 30 minutes.

0:50.0

We're going to have a clock element too. Absolutely. 30 minutes at what? Hopefully. Hopefully.

0:55.2

Something wild happens. Maybe we'll go over. We'll ask for more time. Over time. Yeah.

0:59.3

Over time. There could be an overtime segment. This is the no overtime podcast. Yes.

1:02.8

Um, let's get into it. We had a lot of our own down all set. And then things got a little

1:08.3

crazy last night because the thunder or one and two. They lost the buzzer to Andrew Wiggins'

1:13.6

Minnesota. Timberwolves give Andrew Wiggins more money. Give him more money. I was

1:18.4

a skeptical of the Andrew Wiggins max deal, but he looks good. He has looked good. I like him

1:24.5

quite a bit. I think he's he's been much more lined. Uh, I want to hear you defend your

1:29.2

OKC thunder because you have said quite a few times, uh, just in our private conversations.

1:34.1

How much you like them? You were excited about them. Yeah. Julia two losses in a row. They

1:37.8

went down hard against the jazz and then Andrew Wiggins, uh, upsets them. What's

1:42.4

say you? I just want to say, I don't know about that Carl Town screen at the beginning of that

1:46.9

play. Okay. Just just going to throw that out there. You want a little help from that.

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