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The Kevin Sheehan Show

NBA on NBC was amazing! Does the DMV still care about the Wizards?

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Audacy

News, Sports

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

10.22.25, Kevin Sheehan opens up the show talking about the NBA on NBC comeback on opening night of the season and where the Washington Wizards rank among D.C. sports in popularity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'll tell you what, man, the NBC open to last night's Oklahoma City Houston game.

0:06.6

First of all, of course, that is the famous 1990s NBC opened NBA basketball.

0:13.0

For those of you who don't know, the NBA opened up last night.

0:16.7

I should have started with that.

0:18.3

The defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder opened up with a double overtime win over Houston.

0:26.0

Kevin Durant at the end of the first overtime pulled a Chris Weber, but they didn't call it.

0:32.6

He called the timeout that they didn't have with one second left in a tied game at the end of the first

0:39.4

overtime, and they did not call the tech. They claimed they didn't see it. It was Chris

0:47.9

Weber, number two. Kevin Durant in his first game, he plays in Houston now, for those that are

0:53.1

wondering, called a timeout

0:55.4

they didn't have.

0:55.9

The game should have ended right there, assuming that the Thunder would have knocked

0:58.8

down the free throw.

0:59.9

Who knows?

1:00.9

Maybe they would not have.

1:01.8

Shea Gilgis Alexander, SGA, knocked down a pair of free throws late for a 125-124 double

1:07.9

overtime win over the Rockets.

1:10.5

In the late game, the Warriors, led by Jimmy Butler

1:13.3

and Steph Curry beat the Lakers without LeBron last night in the opener, 119. It was a double

1:19.8

header on NBC. NBC's got the NBA back, so they took a weeknight, a Tuesday night in October, and took their

1:30.1

primetime programming, whatever it is, I don't watch whatever is on Tuesday nights on NBC,

1:36.7

off the air to run not only a double header that started at 730, Eastern Eastern, a one-hour pregame show. But I got to tell you,

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