The Most Important Questions Going Into the Back Half of the Season | Real Ones

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🗓️ 17 February 2026

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Logan and Howard are joined by The Ringer’s own Tyler Parker to share and debate their biggest player and team concerns as we round the corner into the second half of the NBA season.(0:00:00) Intro (1:45) How effective will Jayson Tatum be in his return? (13:25) Which second-tier playoff team is set to play spoiler? (23:52) James Harden will ___ with the Cleveland Cavs (31:35) The Charlotte Hornets will win ___ playoff games (37:16) Which trade deadline move will have the biggest impact on the end of the season? (42:17) Who is the most disappointing team of the season? (47:44) What should the Vegas expansion team be called? (51:31) Quick-hittersHosts: Logan Murdock and Howard BeckGuest: Tyler ParkerProducers: Logan Murdock, Conor Nevins, Victoria Valencia, and Ben CruzVideo Producers: Victoria Valencia and Sarah ReddyAudio Producer: Chris SuttonGraphics and Show Art: John RichterProduction Supervision: Ben Cruz and Conor NevinsAdditional Production Support: John Richter, T. Cruz, Donald LoBianco, Nick Kosut, and Hannah Leikin The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping?
0:06.3	Logan Murdoch here for Real Ones Live for Spotify studios here in Los Angeles.
0:11.5	I'm going to be with Tyler Parker and Howard Beck.
0:14.3	In a few, we get into the biggest questions of the back half of the season.
0:19.6	Get you ready for that.
0:21.6	And then we're back to our normal's cadence.
0:23.7	I believe on Friday.
0:24.5	Roger Bell will be back.
0:26.0	Really, really fun conversation.
0:28.1	I won't spoil it for you.
0:29.4	I think you guys should get into it.
0:30.6	But really, really fun and really great week here in Los Angeles.
0:34.9	Get ready for the episode.
0:37.1	Victoria! Played the theme music.
0:43.4	What's popping? Real ones. I know it looks great over where we are live from Spotify Studios here in Los Angeles.
0:50.5	My name is Logan Murdoch. I am joined by my esteemed panel, Tyler Parker and Howard
0:55.9	motherfucking Beck. We are here to preview the backstretch of the season. Ask some real,
1:01.8	real, real, real important questions for the next few weeks of the season. Probably make some
1:06.6	predictions. You guys ready to do this? Well, still. Hell yes. That doesn't seem that enthusiastic back. Hell yeah. Fucking right. How about you? Are you ready to go? Hell yeah. Okay. I'm not happy with that line rate at all. Jesus Christ. I got too into it. Let me take it back. Yeah, man, I'm so excited. Let's do it. Okay. All right. That was enthusiastic. I think it's like you came in with like a much more mellower Logan energy and like we just,
1:30.9	we went and all went into like smooth jazz mode here. All right. What's popping? This is real ones. Okay. Is everybody ready to go? There we. Yeah. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. All right, let's start with the first question.
1:41.8	I think that is really going to be one of the bigger storylines over the next few weeks.
1:45.7	Jason Tatum and his pending return from a torn Achilles that he
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