Sorting Through the Chaos in this Young NBA Season

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The NBA season is officially in full swing and for many it’s a start that no one could have predicted. Who would have thought that even a few weeks into the season the Milwaukee Bucks would be fighting to stay out of the NBA cellar? Or that the Cleveland Cavaliers would be putting up numbers that King James couldn’t even muster during his reign? And let’s not forget the Golden State Warriors, who are going back to their old championship playbook and now find themselves sitting near the top of an elite Western Conference. But the drama by the Bay doesn’t end there, because tonight the Warriors welcome home Splash Brother Klay Thompson, who is making his first appearance in a Mavs uniform. Brian Windhorst joins us to sort out everything we’ve seen so far and gives a sneak peek at what might be coming next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Brian Winhorst, while the NBA season technically started on October 22, when the Knicks played the Celtics and the Celtics got, of course, those 2024 rings, what has to happen for you to feel like, all right, the season is here?
0:17.3	The first superstar trade rumor. So with the Anas de Tenaacumpo, you know, quivers in the force last week, we could now
0:26.4	usher in the 2024-25 NBA season.
0:29.7	So it's not the first controversy.
0:32.0	It's not the first time that you get a delayed flight alert on your phone.
0:37.3	No, unfortunately, those happen on the preseason now.
0:40.5	It's still early, but has this season lived up to, I guess, your expectations of what you
0:47.1	think it was going to be heading into 2024?
0:50.2	Not at all.
0:55.0	The teams at the top of each conference are really, in some ways, a pretty big surprise.
1:01.2	I had no feel that the Golden State Warriors were going to be as good as they are.
1:05.8	Steph doubled again.
1:06.7	It's Kyle Anderson, the decision maker.
1:08.8	Buddy healed an open three.
1:10.9	Welcome to the Warriors World right now.
1:14.2	It was hard to get a feel and get an idea of whether the Phoenix Suns were the fifth best team in the West or the ninth best team in the West.
1:23.0	They started this week, number one.
1:26.3	There's some teams that we figured on being serious contenders in the east that are scraping along the bottom.
1:32.3	And one of the most pleasant surprises so far this season has been a team that starts this week undefeated, the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1:39.4	And the Nets are going to run out of time.
1:41.8	And what a fitting ending to the ball game.
1:45.6	Mowgli with a dagger block.
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