West Preview: Contenders, Breakout Players, and Overrated Teams
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Western Conference Preview with Sam Amick, Fred Katz and Anthony Slater
- Most underrated team
- Most overrated team
- How many West teams are contenders? ( AD BREAK )
- Best rookie in the West
- West breakout player
- Team most likely to make the playoffs that didn’t last season ( AD BREAK )
- Team most likely to miss the playoffs that made it last season
- Which team will have the best record in the conference?
- Which team will have the worst record in the conference?
- Pick to win the West
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:02.7 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.4 | Tamper with you. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:14.3 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:17.6 | With Sam Panning. |
| 0:19.1 | To be able to bring people together. |
| 0:24.5 | Portedly at the center of an NBA investigation into tampering accusations. |
| 0:28.4 | And the message to... |
| 0:29.4 | Decutative in the league is not talking about players on other teams. |
| 0:32.2 | What did I do? |
| 0:32.7 | The charges filed. |
| 0:33.9 | Impermissible contact. |
| 0:35.0 | Right or wrong? |
| 0:36.1 | Tampering charges are really difficult to prove. |
| 0:38.1 | You know me. |
| 0:38.6 | I talk. |
| 0:40.1 | It's not awkward to even talk about. I can't even mention Deans anymore. Ask me what I like to play with Cameron to Graham. Try all your one with the tampering. They're always ahead of the woods. Is that what I'm just talking? I didn't tamper. I'm just telling you what happened. I didn't tell you what happened. |
| 0:35.3 | I'm just telling you what happened. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm just telling you what happened. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello. with the guys. I didn't tell me what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. |
| 0:57.6 | Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA show network. |
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