Tom Haberstroh on Knicks beating Spurs in NBA Cup final, NBA's injury issue, Warriors failing Steph Curry? | 12.17

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Tom Haberstroh of Yahoo Sports joins Bomani Jones. First, they react to the New York Knicks' victory over the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Cup Final and discuss why the in-season tournament has been a success for the league. Later, they break down the NBA's injury epidemic amongst its star players and how it can be fixed. Finally, they discuss if the Golden State Warriors are letting down Steph Curry and if LeBron James & the Lakers are poised for turmoil as the season progresses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.6	My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.
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0:50.9	It is that time of week where we have a guest join us coming to us live from Charlotte, North Carolina. Check him out on his substack, Tom, the finder, Tom Habistro, what's going on? It's good to be here, Bumani. You hear for NBA Cup action? Dude, I have to say, and we're going to talk. We got the NBA Cup. We got a lot of NBA stuff that we're going to get to, including some really interesting stuff about injuries.
1:12.9	Wow, that sounded dark.
1:14.3	But anyway, the NBA Cup just finished.
1:17.5	The Knicks raised that banner, boys, raised that banner.
1:20.9	The Knicks got the win over the Spurs.
1:24.3	We'll talk about Victor Win by Yama in particular a little bit, you know, in just a couple.
1:28.6	But first, I don't know where you are on this.
1:31.7	I was a skeptic of this end-season tournament when it came around.
1:36.8	It felt to me to be an example of Adam Silver, listening to podcasts, and Bill Simmons cooked something up.
1:42.2	And he was like, yeah, hey, you know, why not?
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