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Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

NBA’s International Future & Western Conference Tiers

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to discuss the future of the NBA's international business before breaking down the Western Conference into tiers of title favorites, contenders, playoff teams and lottery teams. Plus, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations James Jones joins the show to discuss the responsibilities that we don’t see in his role. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4

Hello, welcome to the HoOOC Collective podcast.

0:38.1

We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Thursday evening, joining us from New York City,

0:44.3

before he heads off to Philadelphia on Friday for what apparently could be Joelle

0:48.2

Embedd's preseason debut, which is pretty good.

0:52.6

This Tim Bontemps.

0:54.2

Hello, everybody.

0:55.4

Yeah, hopefully we'll see the big fella and Vijay Edgecombe and Quentin Grimes and all the non-Paul

1:00.6

George Sixers playing on Friday.

1:02.3

What a thing that would be.

1:03.8

Yet, you're not, I mean, how sure are you he's going to play?

1:07.8

Like, it could be, I don't know.

1:10.2

I long ago stopped putting anything i know not

1:13.6

anything in philadelphia but there's hopefully hopefully they all play tomorrow there's the

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