The Championship Race in the West Is Wide Open. Plus: Dennis Schröder Signs to the Celtics and Wos’s Summer League Thoughts. | Group Chat

The Ringer NBA Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.2 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Justin and Rob hear Big Wos’s thoughts about summer league from Las Vegas, including Cade Cunningham’s impressive performance, Detroit and Houston’s young cores, Jalen Green’s ceiling, and much more (0:30). Then they talk about what the Celtics could do this season after signing Dennis Schröder to a one-year contract (24:05) and the top contenders in what looks to be a fairly wide-open Western Conference (37:40). Hosts: Justin Verrier, Rob Mahoney, and Wosny Lambre Associate Producer: Sasha Ashall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Ringer's Charles Holmes and Co-host Grace Spelman present the most notorious new podcast in the industry.
0:05.6	The Ringer Music Show. Every Tuesday, they'll bring you the latest news, the hottest takes,
0:10.0	and the deepest reporting about the wild world of music and the chaotic industry that creates it.
0:14.7	Check out the Ringer Music Show exclusively on Spotify.
0:32.5	Hello and welcome to Group Chat. I am Justin Barrier joining me for this mid-summer edition,
0:38.2	as always, Rob Mahoney. And big wise, was in Lambray, checking in from Las Vegas. Why is how you feeling right now?
0:50.2	All things considered, I'm actually pretty good. But I will say it's pretty dope to be here to
0:58.0	lock in with a bunch of people who I literally haven't seen since March of 2020.
1:03.6	It feels like we are quote unquote, get back to normal because there's a bunch of people when you know
1:10.8	the NBA is kind of a community. And so there's a lot of people who are your friends or your people
1:18.0	who I haven't seen in forever. And because some of the functions as NBA Summer Camp,
1:25.8	it's nice that I'm getting to see a bunch of people having fun. Yeah, sitting closed drinking.
1:37.0	For some people in Closed Strip Clubs, not me because I'm a good guy. I don't do strip clubs.
1:44.0	But those are the friends you're actually talking about.
1:46.3	Right. The stripers, yes. Those are the friends that I actually miss. No, but yes, it's always
1:56.0	dope to be down here, man, because it's literally a powwow of the entire league in and around
2:03.8	the right from agents to team management to coaches to players to media to literally the whole
2:11.2	league is here. Everybody's here. So it's nice to catch up with folks. Does it feel normal?
2:18.8	Like does it feel like a regular? Yeah, basically, it's normal. Thomas and Mac and most places have
2:25.6	a mass policy because of the people who refuse to give their to give that to the community.
2:32.6	And you know, the numbers and blah, blah, blah, but me as a vaccinated person, I'm cool with
2:43.7	the protocols and I'm cool masking up, but I also realized I'm not worried about getting sick and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.