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🗓️ 1 November 2025

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Logan Murdock and Howard Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones and jump right into the way-too-early MVP race for this season so far. Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs are off to a 5-0 start for the first time ever in franchise history. If the Spurs end the season atop of the West, is Wemby a lock for MVP? Who are the other candidates Logan and Howard are keeping an eye on this season? With Austin Reaves playing at an extreme, dark-horse MVP level, what does the future hold for him in a contract season? Plus, the GOAT has spoken in an exclusive interview with Mike Tirico on NBC about load management, but is he correct in his assessment with today’s players utilizing load management more? (0:00:00) Intro (1:42) Wemby and the Spurs contending in the West (14:14) Are Giannis and the Bucks threats in the East? (24:38) FanDuel ad break (26:22) Can Tyrese Maxey keep up his MVP pace when Joel Embiid is fully healthy and Paul George returns? (34:44) Is Nikola Jokic still the best player in the NBA? (40:08) Will Austin Reaves be a Laker next season? (57:10) Michael Jordan’s comments on load management (1:16:55) Real One of the Week Hit the mailbag! [email protected] 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. Hosts: Logan Murdock and Howard BeckProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping?
0:00.8	Real Ones.
0:01.3	Logan Murdoch here for a Real One's Halloween edition with myself and Howard Beck,
0:07.0	with Cliff also helping out.
0:08.4	This was a really fun episode, man.
0:09.9	We talked about way too early MVP race.
0:12.8	Talked about Janice.
0:14.0	Talked about Wimby.
0:15.4	Is he the best player in the league right now?
0:17.5	I think so.
0:19.0	I'll tell you why.
0:20.0	We talked about Nicola Yolkitt's Tyrese-Mexie MVP talk. You know,
0:23.4	that was a Cliff edition. And then we talked about load management and Austin Reeves, particularly
0:30.1	the Austin Reeves conversation got into a lot of things with LeBron and the Lakers future,
0:35.0	but the load management conversation with MJ gave us a Howard
0:40.1	Beck rant, which we always love. Great show for you guys today. Can't wait for you guys to lock
0:45.5	in. Make sure you guys tap in with Real Onesmailbag at gmail.com. Real onesmail bag at
0:50.0	gmail.com. Real onesmail bag at gmail.com because we would be answering your questions on
0:53.6	Tuesday. I think that's it. Cliff. Play the theme music.
1:02.1	It's popping. Real ones. Logan Murdoch here. Our brother fucking back there. Cliff, C.C.
1:08.8	Big C.C. in the cut. We're talking very early MVP discussions. We're talking Austin Reeves and we're talking Michael Jordan Lode management. And we have a ruin of the week today. But let's start with the obvious. Cliffy Boo, not the two or the three is here. Happy Halloween, my brother. What are we are we doing today how we starting this off
1:28.2	it's good man I'm feeling great blessed to be here with you back shout out to Beck back man
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