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🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Logan Murdock and Howard Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones. They jump right into the San Antonio Spurs defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semifinals and advancing to the Western Conference Finals. Could the Oklahoma City Thunder–Spurs matchup be just the beginning of an epic rivalry? Did the Cleveland Cavaliers completely fumble the bag by falling to the Detroit Pistons in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals, with Game 7 now headed back to Detroit? Steve Kerr is returning to the Golden State Warriors. Do they have any chance to contend during the remainder of his tenure as head coach? Plus, more on the Philadelphia 76ers and Bob Myers leading the search for their new President of Basketball Operations. Intro - (00:00) FanDuel Ad Read - (01:10) Spurs-Wolves - (01:57) What’s next for the Timberwolves? - (08:00) Spurs-Thunder WCF matchup preview - (12:01) Cavaliers-Pistons headed to Game 7 - (29:30) Amazon Prime Ad Read - (39:55) Bob Myers and the Sixers search - (56:22) Real One of the Week - (1:04:55) Hit the mailbag: realonesmailbag@gmail.com Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, Howard Beck Producers: Victoria Valencia, Clifford Augustin, and Jeff Shearin Production Supervision: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Additional Production Support: John Richter and Chris Wohlers The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines Order and it will come. Like today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's popping.
0:06.5	Ruins.
0:07.0	Logan Murdoch here.
0:08.2	Howard Beck in a bit.
0:09.5	We start off talking about the Spurs advancing to the Western Conference Finals
0:14.1	and the big matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder coming up next week.
0:19.0	And then we talk about what's going on with the Timberwolves. Where do they go from here, right? I mean, they kind of hit a ceiling. Everything that they have, you know, traded for, Julius Randall, he didn't play well in this game. What is his future? Do we have too much responsibility on Ant? How do they build around ant?
0:38.0	How do the Timberwolves do that?
0:39.7	And then we get into a discussion about Steve Kerr.
0:42.7	What is that going to be like?
0:44.0	What does that going to mean for Golden State?
0:45.9	What does that mean going to mean for the Bay Area large?
0:47.7	Are the words actually going to make changes?
0:50.0	I don't know.
0:51.0	And then we talk about the Sixers.
0:53.6	And our best buddy old pal Cliff just gets his grievances off.
0:59.3	And we just try to cope with him with the Sixers in the wake of the firing of Daryl.
1:05.9	Really, really fun show.
1:07.1	Real ones after dark.
1:08.2	Up next.
1:09.0	Cliff played a theme music.
1:12.4	The Ringer NBA show is brought to you by Fanduel. It's been a wild playoff run, but it's not over yet. And Fanduil wants to bring you
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