The Battle for LA

The Crossover NBA Show

SI NBA

Sports, Basketball

4.3 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Joining SI's Chris Mannix this week is Howard Beck, senior writer at Bleacher Report. Mannix and Beck talk about the Wizards decision to elevate Tommy Sheppard--and what Sheppard needs to do to differentiate his regime from Ernie Grunfelds. Plus who had the better offseason--Lakers or Clippers? And if Houston is a better team now than the one that ended last season.

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0:19.3	This is the crossover NBA podcast. You have a problem with it. Build a team that can beat them. Hosted by the one in only. Oh, thank God. Thank God. Chris Mannix. All right, welcome back to another episode of the crossover NBA podcast. On this episode, I will be joined in studio by Howard Beck, senior NBA writer over at Bleacher
0:38.7	Report, and we've got a lot of NBA news to get into. You have the Wizards, they have elevated
0:43.9	Tommy Shepard to general manager. Tommy have been operating effectively as a head of basketball
0:48.1	operations. Washington made it official this week. We're going to talk about the two LA teams,
0:53.2	the Lakers and the Clippers, their off seasons, who had the better one. The Lakers may have gotten the best player out of it all, but the Clippers, they look like a real championship contender. We'll talk about all things L.A. basketball on this episode as well. A little bit later on, we'll dive into the rockets and the moves they made. How does Russell Westbrook and James Harden work together?
1:12.6	How do those two guys coexist in Mike Dantone's system? All that more with Howard Beck.
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