Top Five Best NBA Duos and Trae Young’s Frustration

The Ringer NBA Show

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Howard Beck and Michael Pina assess the NBA landscape and give their current top five duos across the league. Who’s the top duo, and who gets an honorable mention? They also reminisce on the top duos of all time. Plus, did De’Aaron Fox's extension make things that much harder for the Hawks and Trae Young to find an agreement in the future? 0:08 Intro 1:58 Trae Young's frustration 6:00 Top Five Best NBA Duos 1:04:43 Honorable mentions Hosts: Howard Beck and Michael Pina Audio Producer: Clifford Augustin Video Producer: Victoria Valencia Additional Production Support: Ben Cruz Social: Keith Fujimoto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What up?
0:08.4	It's The Ringer NBA show.
0:10.1	Howard Beck, senior writer at the Ringer.
0:12.9	With me is Michael Pina.
0:14.3	Also a senior writer at the Ringer.
0:16.8	Pina, there's absolutely nothing happening in the NBA.
0:23.0	Am I allowed to say that at the beginning of an NBA podcast?
0:26.8	It's true, Howard. It's true.
0:29.3	We're in the dog days of August.
0:34.3	There are contract extensions coming out left and right, Luca, Deer & Fox.
0:41.3	We've got like warmed over Janus stuff, speculation, something. Nothing that's like particularly newsworthy or burning a hole in our pockets. So, you proposed and I accepted the
0:47.6	idea that in this like nice, uh, quiet space of the summer, we'll, we'll, we'll just have some fun.
0:53.9	We'll do our best duos, favorite duos.
0:57.6	I don't know if we really specified exactly.
0:59.3	We're doing duos.
1:01.2	Duos of some sort.
1:02.6	I think, I think I proposed top duos.
1:06.4	Top duos.
1:07.1	Top duos.
1:07.8	That's a good way to brand it.
1:09.3	That's pretty open to interpretation.
1:10.6	Yeah. So the listeners know, we did not do the pod before the pod. Peter and I did go out to dinner last night here in Brooklyn, had a fine dinner. Lovely. And Carol Gardens. But we did not do the pod before the pod. So I don't know where you're going. You don't know where I'm going.
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