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🗓️ 20 August 2019

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De’Aaron Fox joins the long list of Team USA dropouts for the upcoming FIBA World Cup, so how does the current team stack up against other countries’ squads (0:45)? Plus: The 2019-20 rookie class cast some surprising votes for superlatives among their peers (22:11). Hosts: Chris Vernon, Kevin O’Connor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:03.4	NFL Preseason is in full swing and the Ringer NFL Show is now airing four shows each week,
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0:14.0	On the site, Robert Mays, Kevin Clark and Danny Kelly offer up their insight on the 2019
0:18.6	season as we inch closer to kick off.
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0:30.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show.
0:45.9	I'm Chris Vernon and joining me is he does every Tuesday from the Ringer.com is Kevin O'Connor,
0:50.0	AKA Kevin O'Connor, AKA Kevin O'Connor, AKA Kevin O'Conflict, Kevin O'Connor,
0:54.9	AKA Kevin O'Connor.
1:00.9	Well, we have had Team USA going on recently and that has been the majority of
1:11.6	the NBA news that has come out over the course of the past week since we have last spoken
1:16.3	Team USA is going on to the World Cup.
1:20.1	I guess the are going to held Australia first and they are going to play a couple more
1:24.4	exhibition games.
1:26.0	But last week saw more reports of them getting beat by the select team, which is filled with
1:32.2	a bunch of young players and then getting beat by a collection of G league standouts.
1:38.6	And so everybody was a little bit nervous, but then they played an exhibition against
1:41.7	Spain and handled Spain and Spain had Marcus all Spain had Sergio Lowell Spain had Ricky
1:48.1	Rubio the hernan Gomez kids.
1:50.6	I mean, there was there was guys on that Spain team for sure.
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