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The Ringer NBA Show

Shai Shines in Thunder's Thriller Win. Plus, Jayson Tatum’s Return. | Real Ones

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Mf’n Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones, and they dive right into the Thunder’s 129-126 victory over the Nuggets on Monday night. Did reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander all but guarantee himself a second MVP with his performance in this victory? How close is the MVP race with other guys like Nikola Jokic, Victor Wembanyama, and Jaylen Brown lurking? Jayson Tatum returned to the Celtics lineup over the weekend following his recovery from a torn Achilles. What does his return mean for the Celtics’ championship aspirations? Plus, the mailbag! (0:00) Intro (2:22) OKC tops Denver 129-126 in thriller (4:18) MVP race: Shai or Jokic? (29:00) Fan Duel ad break (30:14)Jayson Tatum returns (46:39) Mailbag Hit the mailbag! realonesmailbag@gmail.com Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck Producers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford Augustin Production Supervision: Ben Cruz, Conor Nevins, and John Richter The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out rg-help.com to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's popping?

0:11.7

Real ones.

0:12.7

Logan Murdoch here, Roger Bell there, Howard Beck there.

0:16.6

Cliff on the board is Victoria on the video. I've been told by Victoria that I can't be looking in and out of frame.

0:25.8

And I agree with her because I've been looking over the last couple of episodes.

0:29.7

And I'm like over here out of frame, over here out of frame.

0:32.1

So I'm just going to try to do my best here as we talk about Shea's MVP case.

0:36.8

You watched it? You watched the episodes? I only watch them on Netflix because I'm trying to juice our numbers. I'm a one man numbers user. Okay, okay. I thought, like, thought maybe you were using it to like, you know, replay and go over some film about your, I do that too. No, actually, do you really? I do. Because I want to hear what people, because like it's one thing to, you know, listen to you guys in real time. But at that, when I'm during the pod, I'm actually like, what's the next question going to be? How am I going to set up this person, point guard, point guard, you know, passing here. When am I going to take my one or two shots a game? and during the pod listening back over it,

1:13.6

I, you know, dang, I could have set up Rob better. I could have set up Howard better, you know,

1:18.1

just doing what I got to do. Howard, how, do you rewatch Howard? Like, hell no. Okay, I don't feel

1:26.2

bad. Okay. I mean, feel bad. Okay, good.

1:27.9

Good.

1:37.9

I respect Logan's dedication to the craft, film study, you know, look for little, you know, things here and there, kind of tighten it up, you know, refine your game, all that.

1:38.5

That's great.

1:40.0

I'm not rewatching myself.

1:41.3

I'm not re-listing to myself.

1:45.0

A buddy of mine hit me the other day with like, oh, man, that was a really cool conversation you guys had on Friday.

1:45.9

I'm like, wait, what do we say?

1:47.5

And he starts describing it in his text.

1:49.0

And I'm like, I'm sorry.

1:50.6

I don't even remember that.

1:51.6

Like, I forget the second we turn the recorder off, I'm off to the next thing and I have,

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