THE HERD - Hour 3 – Too many draft mistakes made by the Lakers? Is Caleb Downs a fit for the Giants?
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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NBA analyst Jason Timpf talks to Colin about the evolution of the NBA Draft with growth from international talent and how the G League has changed the dynamics, and discussing all the draft misses committed by the Lakers. John Harbaugh talks about the Giants possibly taking Caleb Downs in the NFL Draft, and Colin discusses some of his own draft crushes early into the process. The Eagles are emerging as a top team to land Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby.
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| 0:28.7 | Well, Jason Tim's been a former college basketball player, has been with me at the volume for years and years and covered the NBA for a long time, podcaster, real thinking man's version of |
| 0:38.8 | basketball. And I feel like today we're celebrating not only FS1, but the volume. I got |
| 0:43.3 | Middlecomf doing my updates. I got Jason Tim joining us live, and he is joining us live. So, |
| 0:48.4 | Jason, I've been on something, and for a couple years, where pre-NIL, and I told Adam Silver this when he was on the show, |
| 0:57.3 | I said, you guys kind of demonized college basketball. |
| 0:59.7 | Not only is it good for the kids in terms of marketing, I got to watch Zion at Duke or Cooper Flagg. |
| 1:05.2 | Kids want to buy their shoes. |
| 1:06.6 | They watch them. |
| 1:07.5 | And nobody's watching the G League. |
| 1:09.2 | I said, but I think the coaching's better in college |
| 1:11.7 | basketball. It's harder. And this past draft, top 11 guys were all college guys that had not been |
| 1:19.5 | the case for a long time. And by the way, this past draft appears to have a great one because of |
| 1:25.8 | these guys, it's a really good draft you have some |
| 1:28.9 | information when basketball pre nil sort of veered into hey let's get the guys paid let's go |
| 1:35.0 | g league well what did you uncover going back 10 to 12 drafts when the g league was where a lot of young |
| 1:42.9 | guys were going out of high school. |
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