Plant Your Flag
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Basket Buds
Zach Harper, Jay King and Josh Huestis discuss awards predictions and then play a new game called "Plant Your Flag"
Celtics or Bucks
Team with a better offensive rating? Kings or Nuggets
Team with a better defensive rating? Cavs or Celtics?
Nuggets or the Field to make the finals from the West
Who finishes with more wins? Thunder or Pacers
6 players scored 30 points per game last season, Embiid, Luka, Lillard, SGA, Giannis and Tatum. Pick 4 that are a lock to do it again.
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| 0:26.3 | Learn more at vertexinck.com. Welcome to the Basket Bud's edition of the Athletic NBA Show podcast here on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm your host Zach Harper. |
| 0:53.0 | We've got Jay King. We've got Josh Houston. We've got Dave DeFour and Andrew Schleck producing. And oh my God, we've got one more night until eight months of basketball. Eight months of NBA basketball. Just slapping you in the face every night. Got plans? Not anymore. |
| 1:11.9 | You got Wemby v. |
| 1:12.9 | The Hornets tonight. |
| 1:13.9 | That's what we're going to do. |
| 1:15.3 | So this is the last day of freedom before the NBA season starts. |
| 1:20.0 | But what a season is going to be. |
| 1:21.7 | We are going to give you our predictions. |
| 1:23.3 | We are going to play a new game that Jay will love because it's all about arguing called plant the flag. |
| 1:30.5 | But first, gentlemen, we are going to get into this awards predictions. |
| 1:37.2 | We'll start off hot with MVP. |
| 1:39.8 | Jay, who do you think wins MVP this season? |
| 1:43.6 | It's going to be Nikola Yokic. |
| 1:48.4 | Wow. |
| 1:49.3 | I'm not going out on a limb. |
| 1:51.0 | Bold. |
| 1:51.8 | There's no need to get bold. |
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