Tiers for the 10 Tanking Teams | Real Ones

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

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Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones to discuss the teams that are tanking and assign a tier to each team. There’s a tier of joy, a tier of hope, and a tier of sorrow. Find out where the guys slotted each of the 10 tanking teams. Plus, a loaded mailbag. Which teams can make a surprise run in the playoffs? (1:28) Tier of joy(10:53) Tier of hope(28:25) Fan Duel Ad break (29:36) Tommy Hilfiger ad break (30:11) Tier of sorrow(46:15) Mailbag Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard BeckProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Explore more at https://tommy.com Hit the mailbag! ⁠realonesmailbag@gmail.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out ⁠rg-help.com⁠ to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. 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.
0:09.3	Roger Bell and Howard Beck and a few.
0:11.6	Today we are going to bring some optimism to the basketball world
0:14.9	or at least try to with our optimist guide for the teams that are not going to be making the playoffs this year. Who's going to be good? Who do we think is going to be good for the next few years? Who's going to be trash for the next few years? What optimism do we have for all of your teams? Then we get to your mailback questions and answer those. Those are a lot of fun. Are the Knicks contenders? Are we giving them enough respect? Who knows? Um, all that and more.
0:41.3	Real ones up next. Cliff played the theme music.
0:48.7	It's popping. Real ones. Logan Murdoch here. Howard motherfucking Beck there, Roger Bell there, Cliff on the
0:55.4	boards, Valencia, I go on the video. We are going to do an optimist guide to the 10 most
1:02.4	terrible teams in the league. Basically the teams that are out of the playoff hunt for good
1:08.2	this season, we're optimistic people.
1:12.1	Let's put some optimism in the air during these trying times.
1:15.9	We have three tiers, the tier of joy, the tier of hope, and the tier of sorrow.
1:22.3	Each of us have compiled a list.
1:25.2	And we're going to go from there.
1:26.8	Okay, we're going to start from the
1:27.9	tier of joy, which is we actually feel good about these teams despite their records.
1:33.2	I'm going to go first. I put Utah, Indiana, and I put Brooklyn. Whoa. Yeah, Brooklyn in there.
1:46.4	And I don't know, Howard kind of put this together.
1:49.4	So we're going to just go around.
1:51.2	That's my tier.
1:52.6	And Howard, what's your tier?
1:54.3	And then we're going to go to Rogers tier on the tier.
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