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Numbers on The Board

NBC Sports

Basketball, Nba On Nbc, Nba, Sports

4.8 • 888 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Numbers on the Board.
0:10.0	Numbers on the board.
0:12.0	Feels weird, new schedule.
0:14.0	Dropping on a Thursday?
0:16.0	It don't matter.
0:17.0	We got basketball back.
0:18.0	We got a lot of basketball to get into how we're feeling today, boys.
0:22.6	Feeling good, man. Feeling good. How you feeling? Can I complain, man. Had to wake up early for this one, but it feels good. Just because basketball is back, I'll wake up at 4 a.m. if I need to, to talk about it. I'm really excited. I have my coffee, so I'm good to go. Mike with the coffee feels weird.
0:36.1	Usually it's just D-Milly with the coffee.
0:37.9	Yeah, I didn't even I use a coffee guy.
0:39.1	I don't bring it to the studio.
0:40.4	He'd be on set with it. So I'm good to go. Mike with the coffee feels weird. Usually it's just D-Milly with the coffee. Yeah, I didn't even use the coffee guy.
0:39.3	I don't bring it to the studio.
0:40.3	He'd be on set with it. I'm usually like, drink it in the morning and I'm good to go. They got a purpose. Yeah. Okay. You said he performative with it. Ah. Aesthetics. It's all about aesthetics.
0:52.3	All right.
0:52.6	Let's just get right into the episode.
0:54.0	We got dropped the mic.
0:54.7	We do.
0:55.5	Just straight to the point.
0:56.7	So much going on.
0:57.5	I just want to know your biggest takeaways from last night. My biggest one. The absolute biggest one. This is no news to majority of NBA fans, but it's one specific guy on this show. Talk about it. That was down on Vic the Wimbunyama for some reason Hold on. Hold on. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. Ain't no, no, no, backtrack it. I just don't want words put in my mouth. Okay. You want other things. We did a ranking top centers in ball. We did. Most of us had a met two behind only Nicoli. Yocutts, you have yet to play so far. Somebody had to have met four. I did. So here's the issue. I didn't know Joelle and B. would play like that. And also, I thought he was fully healthy. He did not look healthy. He only played 20 minutes last night. He was crazy.
1:44.7	You're the only person I didn't know he was healthy. I don't know. I think the whole time we were talking about we don't know what the six is going to be. The entire off season, it was me saying what update have we gotten on Joe and B. But then I saw him playing scriptures and I was like, oh, so there's a chance that he actually is decent. The one game?
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