Prime Cuts - NBA Teams HAVE To Tank, NBA Players Are TOO Good Now, Crazy Sports Gambling Stories
The Colin Cowherd Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Colin’s top takes of the week.
First, he’s joined by Danny Parkins, host of “First Thing’s First” on FS1.
They begin with tanking in the NBA and Colin argues that he’s pro-tanking because it’s the only way to turn your franchise around since it’s so difficult to trade star players in the NBA (2:30). They agree that NBA players have gotten so good at shooting 3’s, it’s led to a less visually appealing product for the fans that makes the regular season tough to watch (10:45) and they debate potential fixes (23:30).
Then, joined by Art Manteris, a veteran bookmaker, to discuss sports gambling. They dive into some of the wildest sports gambling stories ever told — from massive celebrity bets to shocking moments involving Mike Tyson and others (30:00).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The volume. |
| 0:10.4 | Well, John Middilcoff's a busy guy. |
| 0:18.4 | And we, John Middilkoff deserves an occasional cocktail sitting by the pool because living in Arizona, he doesn't get any of those. |
| 0:28.7 | So Danny Parkins, our guy is joining us. So one of the topics of the week has been the tanking and the NBA. So I think sometimes you have to |
| 0:41.6 | take a telescope and flip it. I am pro tanking because here's what we both would agree on |
| 0:48.2 | what's happening in America. There's a lot more options. There's a lot of streaming services. |
| 0:54.6 | There's a lot to watch TikToks and platforms. |
| 0:57.9 | We're a distracted nation. |
| 1:00.2 | And so what I'm about to say, everybody knows over the last 10 years, events do really well. |
| 1:06.6 | Baseball found this out when they started doing, you know, baseball games in a cornfield, |
| 1:10.8 | baseball games in Europe, home run, der know, baseball games in a cornfield, |
| 1:15.3 | baseball games in Europe, home run derby, World Series actually do really well. |
| 1:17.7 | It's that minutia. |
| 1:21.2 | It's the regular season that hockey, NBA, and baseball can struggle. |
| 1:30.4 | That's why I believe dynasties, I believe the opposite of what Adam Silver does. Football doesn't matter. College and pro football don't matter. It's once a week. World Cup doesn't matter every four years. Olympics don't matter. |
| 1:35.2 | But in Monday through Friday sports, long regular season, now the David Stern approach works better |
| 1:41.3 | because a distracted nation isn't tuning in parity. |
| 1:46.3 | They're not going to tune in parity. |
| 1:48.9 | So that's my first take. |
| 1:50.7 | My second take is what makes the NFL great is Mike Vrable and the Patriots can spend |
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