Set 1: The NBA is Back (w/ Shams Charania)
Stugotz and Company
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Just like that. Make no mistake about it. The NBA is back. So is Brandon Graham to the Eagles. How about that? The B in Brandon Graham stands for back. ESPN NBA Insider Shams Charania joins the show to preview the NBA season.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, that Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex. |
| 0:05.9 | The Rex was not chasing the Jeep. |
| 0:08.2 | Murray, Murray, you there? |
| 0:09.9 | You love sandwiches, huh? |
| 0:11.2 | Let's go to 80. |
| 0:13.4 | Bo. |
| 0:13.8 | His name is Bo. |
| 0:15.9 | Wow. |
| 0:16.7 | That's prime time, baby. |
| 0:17.8 | I had to crush him, Betty Rubble. |
| 0:19.4 | I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black. |
| 0:26.0 | He caught them the game last night, although they won the game. |
| 0:29.4 | You're listening to Stugats and Company. |
| 0:32.8 | The NBA season is tipping off tonight. |
| 0:35.1 | Israel Gutierrez is very excited. |
| 0:37.0 | He's the only one who cares about the NBA in October. I mean, usually people don't start caring about this thing until Christmas Day, basically, or we're really after the football suit. When do people really start caring about the NBA? By the way, Chris Long will join us in hour, too. We'll get to the football games. We're going to do some NBA here. Shams is going to join us later this hour. The NBA does tip off tonight. There is a double header. When do most people get excited about the NBA? Is it right after Christmas, Christmas Day, after Christmas, after the football season? For me, it's when the playoffs start. I was going to say, it's certainly now when you're like, don't worry, audience, we'll get to football in a second, but we got to do some NBA first. Yeah, no, I think for folks like you, it's definitely April, mid-April. I think what happens is you check in on Christmas. You get a sort of taste of, hey, what's going on here? Oh, LeBron and Luke are doing this. |
| 1:29.3 | All right, let's watch one game. Wow, what a game on Christmas. And then you check out again until after the NFL playoffs. Now, the NBA is not going to want to hear this. So hopefully they're not subscribed yet. But that's basically what happens. For me, I i'm pretty excited but maybe you should have started |
| 1:46.4 | with the question of just how excited i am because it's on a scale of one to ten it's it's like a four |
| 1:51.4 | right well why a four because you're a legendary NBA reporter uh the NBA is your favorite sport |
| 1:57.6 | you have covered the NBA forever why is it just a four on opening night? |
| 2:01.9 | Is it because football is going on in college? There's so much going on in the world of sports. |
| 2:07.2 | Is that the reason? Or it's just, you know, four teams playing. No one's got to win. No one's |
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