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The Ringer NBA Show

Who Won the 2021 NBA Draft? | The Answer

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4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Late Thursday night, Chris is joined by J. Kyle Mann and Wos to recap the 2021 NBA Draft. They discuss the Draft's biggest surprises (0:57), Golden State picking Jonathan Kuminga (4:00), and Orlando's draft (11:08). Then, they get into the the Russell Westbrook trade (27:19) before breaking down some of the obvious picks of the draft (32:26). Host: Chris Ryan Guests: J. Kyle Mann and Wosny Lambre Producer: Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.9

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0:11.2

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0:24.4

All right, so tonight it's the R&B show with the answer I'm here with,

0:27.8

Kwaz and Kyle. We're here to answer the question who won the NBA draft. It's a little bit late for me.

0:33.0

It's my first draft on the East Coast in probably 10 years. So it's interesting to be up at 11 o'clock

0:40.0

watching the Sixers take Jade and Springer and not quite feeling the jua diviva. I usually feel

0:45.0

but it was a fun night either way. Kyle, I'm going to start with you because you are the you are

0:51.6

that expert. We're going to get into winners. We're going to get into losers. We're going to talk

0:55.5

about the rest trade. What was the first time you were surprised in this draft?

1:01.6

Well, just looking here at the top, the first, I mean, the first obvious big surprise, I think,

1:06.4

to everybody. Everybody kind of expected correctly or incorrectly that Toronto was going to go with

1:12.0

Jalen Green. I mean, Scotty Barnes, Scotty Barnes is a really good player. I think what people were

1:18.7

kind of looking at was maybe just kind of doing doing the fit thing and not considering the plan that

1:25.3

Toronto might have and thinking that Orlando and the thing that we were thinking the whole time was

1:30.8

like Orlando, the sucks for Orlando based on their needs because the best players available

1:35.6

just really clashed with with their rebuild like the Kaminga's, the Johnny, the bar or the Scotty Barnes.

1:41.5

So yeah, that surprised me, but he's a good player. It just kind of implies that maybe there's more to

1:49.3

come. Yeah, well, that was the thing for especially in that lottery and even into like 16, 17,

1:56.4

you got to feeling like some of these picks were setting up moves to come in the next week or so.

2:02.0

Yeah. And you know, somebody like Toronto taking Scotty Barnes, where it's like,

2:09.2

that was nobody's idea of the most talented guy still left on the board, but it's kind of hard

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