The NBA Therapy Session and the Rorschach Test (Ep. 166)

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🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Ringer’s Chris Vernon and John Gonzalez react to the phenomenon that is the Boston Celtics’ ongoing winning streak (0:31), reinstate the Cleveland Cavaliers as a true contender (6:15), diagnose the problem with the free-falling Clippers (9:40), speculate on the future of the Utah Jazz without Rudy Gobert (16:28), and praise the surprisingly good Portland Trail Blazers (24:09). Then, they adjudicate which middling teams will rise above the fray (29:53). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. I'm Chris Verde, joining me on this Tuesday is NOT!
0:16.0	Kevin Obama aka Kevin O'Connor. He is on assignment.
0:20.8	John Gonzales from theRinger.com filling in. John, how you doing?
0:24.7	What up, Bernal Husthinks.
0:26.1	Thanks for coming on today.
0:28.0	All right, so last night, the events of last evening, I went to the Grizzlies Blazers game,
0:33.2	got home last night and I'm sifting through everything that took place.
0:36.9	And by far, the overwhelming topic to me was Denny Ange saying, maybe the world is flat.
0:46.0	That was the funniest thing I could not, but that is, to me, it's a sneaky, great moment of the season,
0:56.0	which is the general manager president of the Boston Celtics after they win 16 in a row,
1:01.4	and we're taken to overtime by the Dallas Mavericks, tweets out that maybe the world is flat in honor
1:08.0	of his star player, Kyrie Irving, who has 47 points, staves off a loss, and now the Celtics
1:14.2	have 16 in a row. What'd you think?
1:16.0	I don't know if the world is flat, but it definitely belongs to Kyrie and the Celtics right now.
1:19.7	We can't stop talking about these guys. I know that a lot of people outside of Boston would
1:23.9	prefer it, but listen, they keep winning this way. And we talked about their schedule coming up on
1:28.4	the Monday heat check pod with Julia Edletman, shots to Julia at.
1:31.9	Bruno, this could go on for a little bit. And you mentioned Kyrie. I saw this on Twitter this morning,
1:37.3	courtesy of basketball reference. Kyrie is the first Celtics since Larry Bird to have 45 or more
1:42.9	points and five or more assists in a win. That's a long time. He put up an amazing line.
1:49.2	They were down 13, Verna, and they came back to win it in overtime.
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