NBA Midseason Awards! | Real Ones

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Logan, Howard, and Raja pick their midseason award winners as we approach the midway point of the NBA season. Find out who the guys picked for MVP and Crashout of the Year so far. Plus, Anthony Davis will undergo hand surgery and is expected to miss several months. Will the Mavericks still be able to split from Davis before the deadline? (0:00:00) Intro (3:35) Midseason MVP(13:49) League Pass Player of the Year(24:52) Rookie of the Year(32:50) Crashout of the Year(42:09) Coach of the Year (48:38) Breaking news: Anthony Davis to undergo surgery Check out Logan Murdock’s new feature on Chet Holmgren:https://www.theringer.com/2026/01/13/nba/chet-holmgren-profile-oklahoma-city-thunder Hit the mailbag! realonesmailbag@gmail.com Hosts: Logan Murdock, Howard Beck, and Raja BellProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz, Conor Nevins, John Richter and Chris Wohlers The 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping?
0:07.0	Real ones.
0:07.8	My name is Logan Murdoch, aka Logie Boone at the 2,
0:11.4	AKA Lolo, aka All of the Above.
0:14.4	And I just want to introduce myself,
0:17.4	Roger Bell, and Howard Beck, into your lives.
0:21.4	In this new journey that we have on Netflix, we're really, really excited to bring the
0:26.6	Ringer NBA show here and really, really excited to bring rural ones, the show that we have
0:31.8	been doing for close to six years now.
0:34.3	We do this every Tuesday and Friday, and we try to bring a little levity to the NBA
0:38.9	conversation with also experience and measured takes. Myself, I have been covering the league for
0:47.0	about 10 years now. Howard Legend has been covering for close to 30. Raj, former player,
0:52.9	we just bring all of that together, and we try to bring you guys a great show
0:56.1	twice a week. So tap in with us today.
0:58.3	We are bringing our mid-season awards
1:00.3	into the fold and we're going to give out some funny
1:03.1	awards and we have some breaking news with
1:05.8	Anthony Davis, who is out for the remainder
1:09.1	of the season and somehow that is built up a trade market for him.
1:13.4	It's pretty wild.
1:14.6	Anyway, all that and more on real ones,
1:17.7	on Netflix, Spotify,
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