NBA Tip Off: The West Looks Chaotic & the Sixers Have a Chance

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The NBA season starts tonight, and much has happened since the end of the NBA Finals. The Eastern Conference has loaded up on top, with the Knicks and the 76ers making big moves over the summer to compete with the reigning champion Celtics. Over in the Western Conference there is as competitive a race to the playoffs as ever, where almost every team has a chance to make it to the postseason. Today Tim Bontemps joins the show to survey which off-season moves are most likely to pay off, why the stakes for the champs in Boston are bigger than you think, and why generational change is coming across the league. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Bon Temps does the NBA have any weird rules like the NFL for comeback player of the year because it seems like Lonzo ball right now has got the hearts of everybody.
0:09.5	It was cool to just see that dude back on the court able to play ball after all those injuries.
0:15.0	There's not exactly a comeback player of the year award like the one in the NFL, Clinton,
0:20.0	but it was really cool to see Wanszo playing in that game on Wednesday against the wolves.
0:25.6	Here he is for three.
0:29.6	There you go. Welcome back on Zoban.
0:35.0	Honestly, watching it, he looked like a 50 year old dude playing in a rec league game where he just knows how to play and is just schooling everybody because he knows how to play.
0:44.6	Like he wasn't moving very fast.
0:46.7	It looked like he was sort of thinking about every step he was taken.
0:50.2	But yet, he's hitting open spot of threes.
0:52.6	He's making perfect cuts to the basket for wide open layups.
0:55.2	He's making defensive plays, stealing the ball.
0:57.2	There's Lonzo diving and he saves the ball behind his back
1:00.9	as he was into the ball's bench.
1:03.6	He's a basketball survive.
1:05.2	He plays a lot like Jason Kidd did.
1:07.3	He's constantly moving the ball around, spraying it ahead,
1:10.0	making heady defensive plays.
1:12.1	He's always been one of my favorite players to watch because of that.
1:15.6	And it was super cool to see him at court.
1:18.8	Looking at a guy who's coming back from experimental surgery,
1:21.7	replacing cartilage in his knee, hadn't played in two and a half years,
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