Thunder, Bulls, Lakers, Hawks win Play-In Openers! Mavs Tank! NBA Prospects Stay in School!

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Adam Spinella joins the show! We dive into the Play-In Games that we've seen thus far, including Oklahoma City's win, the Lakers win, and much more. Then, we talk a bit about the Mavericks and their decision to tank at the end of the regular season. Was it the right thing to do? Finally, we chat about NBA Draft Prospects who have decided to return to school for the 2023-24 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.5	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:35.8	I'm your Osam Vassini.
0:36.8	We are presented by The Athletic.
0:39.1	Today on the show, Adam Spinell is in the building. Spins and I are going to break down a few different topics.
0:44.5	We're going to talk about the four NBA play-in games that we've seen from the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat, the Oklahoma City Thunder, New Orleans Pelicans, the Los Angeles Lakers,
0:55.6	and Minnesota Timberwolves, as well as the Chicago Bulls and Toronto Raptors.
1:01.8	Then we are going to dive into the Dallas Mavericks and their decision to tank the last few
1:07.5	games of the NBA season. It seems like the league is taking a look into this.
1:12.1	Adam and I kind of want to look at a few different angles on it and decide whether or not it was
1:16.5	the right call, wrong call, number of different factors I think worth considering here.
1:20.8	Finally, we're instead of talking about NBA draft prospects in 2023, given that we're going
1:27.3	to do that
1:28.1	quite a bit here moving forward on this show,
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