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Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

NBA Future Power Rankings Reaction

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to our latest NBA Future Power Rankings analyzing which teams have the brightest futures ahead of them. The guys break down why the Clippers moved up so much despite all of the headlines, how the Luka trade shifted the fortunes in Dallas & LA, how injuries impacted Boston and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.5

Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.

0:37.8

We talk about the NBA, which we are doing on Wednesday afternoon, joining me from New York City before he's headed overseas for a weekend of fun.

0:48.2

Cool. With a three-month-old is Tim Bonteps.

0:51.7

Four and a half for the Cinderbach.

0:53.4

Oh, four and a half. Well, he only looks like he's about 14 months old. That is true. Hello, everybody. Joining us from Los Angeles, California, LAPC. He's doing NBA today out there this week is Ban McMahon. Howdy, partners. I like how this newborn baby's got a stronger passport game than I do.

1:12.3

This is impressive.

1:16.5

He's putting my back in McBan territory, too, at the rate things are going.

1:17.8

I'm not kidding you.

1:23.0

Like, I'm not so sure you should be carrying it as much as you do, especially on an overseas flight.

1:23.9

But, hey, you do you.

1:25.2

He's the boss.

1:26.1

All right.

1:31.6

So one of my favorite offseason of stories came out this week, the future power rankings, which is a look at the next three years in the NBA.

1:35.0

And seeing as we have one of the three panelists who put it together, let's have Tim Bontemps explain how he puts us, how he, what he looks at to put this together.

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