Rookie rankings with Sam Vecenie + Raptors rising
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni, and Sam Vecenie talk about this year's rookie class, Sam's rankings, and Cooper Flagg as a point guard. Then, Eric Koreen joins the show to breakdown the Raptors big win over the Cavaliers, Scottie Barnes start to the year, and how the bench has been boosted.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni, Sam Vecenie, and Eric Koreen
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio/Video Producer: Grayson Moody
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Dave Dufour here with Sam Vassini, special guest, and Esparahenny. |
| 0:13.5 | We're going to talk rookies. |
| 0:14.8 | Concaniphol has been blowing up. |
| 0:16.3 | And then we're going to go to Eric Corrine after the Raptors so that he and S can talk about |
| 0:20.7 | how good the Raptors are. |
| 0:23.8 | Good morning, everybody. Good morning, guys. Sam Vassini in the house. |
| 0:28.5 | Morning. How's it going, man? Welcome to the Daily. I'm just glad to be here on a Raptors episode because the Raptors were my dear sweet team coming into this year. You did predict it, Sam. You did. Yeah. They were the team I felt the most confident going over their win, loss total. Like I felt great about them coming in. And they figured it out. There were some bumps early on, but I've enjoyed watching them figure it out over the course of the last week and a half. We are recording this before the Raptors Cavs game. So it'd be funny if they've just got obliterated. It's going to be great. Yeah. Well, hey, the caps. Caps did okay against the heat, even though they were short-handed. So we'll see how that game turns out. Sam, nobody knows these rookies as well as you do, man. |
| 1:12.8 | And this rookie class feels special. |
| 1:16.7 | The guys, I mean, Dylan Harper for the Spurs has just looked so good up until he was injured. |
| 1:22.5 | I think Cooper Flagg has shown a lot of flashes that show you why he was the number one pick. |
| 1:27.0 | I mean, even Ace Bailey is doing stuff now that you're like, wow, these guys are very talented. |
| 1:32.7 | Who have you enjoyed watching the most? |
| 1:35.1 | Like, whether it's because you were so right about them, you just nailed it, you knew they were going to look like this in the NBA, |
| 1:40.7 | or maybe somebody has changed your mind, like like to the point where you were just oh |
| 1:45.0 | I was hilariously wrong but who have you gotten the most joy out of watching of these |
| 1:50.1 | rookies so far yeah like I don't really derive like enjoyment out of being right or wrong on this |
| 1:55.6 | stuff like it just is a fact of life kind of the guy that I've enjoyed watching the most probably shouldn't come to |
| 2:05.0 | surprise. |
| 2:05.3 | Like, it is Derrick Queen. |
| 2:06.9 | I just love watching Derek Queen play basketball. |
| 2:09.5 | I've always loved watching Derek Queen play basketball. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 8 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Athletic, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Athletic and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.