Rising Teams in the East, Setting Teams in the West (Ep. 177)

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.4 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The Ringer’s Chris Vernon and Kevin O’Connor react to Victor Oladipo’s transformation into a star (4:15), debate why the Oklahoma City Thunder superteam hasn't worked (17:54), and analyze the Toronto Raptors’ surprising success (29:09). Then, they gauge whether the dominant Rockets will contend with the Warriors (43:34), speculate around LeBron’s future (51:22), and consider which Western Conference teams will rise to playoff contention (56:20). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.4	Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. I'm Chris Vernon, joining me is he does every Tuesday from
1:04.8	theRinger.com is Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin Obama, aka Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Connor, aka Kevin O'Connor,
1:12.8	aka Kevin O'Backtrack, Kevin O'Connor, you know, Vernon, I look forward to that every Tuesday morning.
1:20.0	I decided to funny. It's good. It's good. How are you doing this morning? How's things? I'm doing well.
1:24.6	Let's get that out of the way because I goofed about the Backtrack Day last week on our Ringer NBA show.
1:30.5	You were fired up about Tom Tibidou. Now, maybe listen, you were on the West Coast, probably didn't
1:35.7	get a lot of sleep, not at home, right? Sleeping in a hotel for a week, and then you wake up and
1:41.4	you're surly and you're mad about Jimmy Butler playing 40 minutes on a Back-to-Back, and you say,
1:46.8	you know what? Blow it up, get rid of Tom Tibidou. And then the Ringer puts out a tweet quoting you,
1:57.1	saying I would fire Tom Tibidou tomorrow. And immediately I see you respond to the tweet and you're
2:03.3	like, well, actually, I said that in haste. And to, hey, to your credit, you got some love for
2:10.7	taking it back for saying, hey, that was an in the moment. And so in this age of the hot take,
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