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NBA Trade Deadline Primer: What names and teams do you need to know as trade season tips off? Breaking down all of the teams and trade candidates; PLUS Draymond Green Hits Nurkic Dec 14, 2023

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Bryce Simon joins Sam Vecenie to preview the NBA Trade Deadline. The unofficial start of NBA trade season is typically December 15, as a significant portion of the league becomes eligible to be moved after signing as free agents in the summer. What players can you expect to move? Who is potentially on the block? Will the Raptors blow it up with OG Anunoby and Pascal Siakam moving? Will the Bulls blow it up with Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan moving? Can the Warriors make a move? Can the 76ers make their in-season swing? We'll talk about all that and more as we preview teams first, then players that could be available. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 4:20 Draymond Green smacks Jusuf Nurkic. What are you doing man? 10:58 Cam Whitmore Watch! 13:31 Trade Deadline Primer Intro 13:59 Atlantic Division -- Celtics, Knicks, Nets, Raptors, 76ers 25:50 Central Division -- Bulls, Pacers, Cavaliers, Bucks, Pistons 33:35 Southeast Division -- Heat, Hornets, Magic, Wizards, Hawks 40:50 Northwest Division -- Nuggets, Wolves, Thunder, Jazz, Blazers 50:20 Pacific Division -- Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Suns, Warriors 1:13:50 Southwest Division -- Mavericks, Pelicans, Rockets, Spurs, Grizzlies 1:21:44 Best Fits for LaVine, Siakam, Anunoby, Caruso, Bogdanovic, Tate, DeRozan, Hayward, Tyus, others Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2024 NBA Draft: Answering your questions on Prospects like Isaiah Collier, Reed Sheppard, Kyle Filipowski, and more on Trade Targets Dec 11, 2023

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Hey! Sam Vecenie is going live to answer YOUR QUESTIONS about the 2024 NBA Draft! Send off some questions ahead of time, and I'll answer as many as I can live on the show! Already, we'll be talking about guys like Isaiah Collier, Kyle Filipowski, Reed Sheppard, Donovan Clingan, and more! CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:20 Isaiah Collier and Bronny James, G, USC 8:00 Kentucky, Aaron Bradshaw, Reed Sheppard 24:10 UConn, Donovan Clingan, Tristen Newton 32:32 Nikola Topic, G, Mega 40:24 Ryan Dunn, F, Virginia (plus some Pacers stuff) 46:00 Raptors stuff, plus should teams try to convey draft picks in 2024? 51:49 Biggest faller top-15 54:03 Evaluating Upperclassmen, who can find success? 58:47 Garwey Dual, G, Providence 1:00:08 Robbie Avila, Indiana State 1:01:37 Oklahoma City Thunder Trade Stuff 1:03:54 Jarin Stevenson, F, Alabama 1:05:23 Malik Mack, G, Harvard! 1:08:23 Otega Oweh, W, Oklahoma 1:10:03 Aday Mara and what makes Sengun, Jokic, Sabonis special 1:11:26 Andrej Stojakovic, Jaylon Tyson, Hansen Yang, Ajay Mitchell 1:16:45 Ignite 1:18:38 Bub Carrington, G, Pittsburgh 1:21:43 Tyler Smith, F, Ignite 1:23:13 Kyle Filipowski, C, Duke 1:29:51 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First Quarter NBA Awards: MVP, DPOY, All-NBA, Rookie of Year, more; Plus, In Season Tournament Semis, Haliburton and Zion Questions Dec 09, 2023

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Andrew Schlecht joins Sam Vecenie and they pick who the NBA Award race winners would be through the first quarter of the season. They'll dive into MVP, All-NBA, Defensive Player of the Year, All-Defense, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, and more. Apologies on the audio for the first minute, had the wrong audio setting. It fixes literally right after the intro. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 3:38 Bucks, Bobby Portis confront coaching staff after IST loss 8:25 Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers are unstoppable 14:32 Zion Williamson's, what up there? 22:13 AWARDS 23:30 MVP, First Team All-NBA Jokic, Giannis and Embiid 33:20 Haliburton vs Shai for No. 3 or 4? 39:45 INSANE Haliburton stats 46:00 Second Team All NBA: Luka, Tatum, LeBron, KD, Steph, Fox 56:55 Third Team All-NBA Fox/Steph, Edwards, Maxey, Booker, PG, Trae 1:02:10 DPOY? Rudy Gobert vs Anthony Davis 1:09:15 All-Defense Suggs, Caruso, Mobley, Shai, Brooks, Herb, Jaren, Bam, more 1:17:55 Rookie of the Year? Chet vs Wemby plus Jaquez 1:25:45 All Rookie 1:31:50 Coach of the Year 1:34:23 Most Improved Player including Duncan Robinson thoughts 1:39:45 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Pacers in 2023-24, their In Season Tournament win over Boston, and the NBA's MOST IMPORTANT X-FACTORS over the next two months of the season Dec 05, 2023

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Bryce Simon is here to join Sam to break down a group of players that will be incredibly important to their team's title race moving forward. We'll talk about players on the Lakers, the Pelicans, the Pacers, the Warriors, the Rockets and the Bucks, and explain how those teams have looked recently and why those players are so important to each team's hopes moving forward. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 5:10 Indiana Pacers, their defense, the In Season Tournament, and where they go from here 26:00 Andrew Wiggins and the Warriors 37:00 The Lakers and Austin Reaves 44:28 Jalen Green and the Houston Rockets 55:03 Trey Murphy and the New Orleans Pelicans 1:04:10 Khris Middleton and the Milwaukee Bucks 1:11:30 Others, including Jaime Jaquez, Dereck Lively, Bojan Bogdanovic and Terance Mann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NBA News and Updates! LaMelo out; What's up with the Warriors? Kings rolling; Pistons blow up? Also, Mavericks/Pacers sales, In-Season Tournament! Dec 01, 2023

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Mark Schindler joins the show today, and we're here to dive into a few news-y and notes-y items across the NBA. The In-Season Tournament has been a huge success. Why? Second, LaMelo Ball will miss some significant time with an ankle injury. Third, what's going on with the Warriors? Why have they been so messy? Fourth, Sacramento is rolling again with De'Aaron Fox back. Where does it go from here? And finally, the Pistons. Oh, Detroit. Do you blow this whole thing up? CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 4:12 Mark Cuban sells majority stake in Mavericks, Steven Rales buys part of Indiana Pacers 11:35 In-Season Tournament is great! Plus, In-Season Tournament picks! 21:30 LaMelo Ball injured; what happens with Hornets? 34:17 Golden State Warriors are kind of a mess? 53:00 Sacramento Kings are good again! 1:10:20 Detroit Pistons need to blow something up 1:33:50 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2024 NBA Draft: Early College Basketball Breakouts and potential first round picks with C.J. Moore Nov 30, 2023

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C.J. Moore from over at The Athletic joins us, and we're here to break down early college basketball season breakouts that may be morphing into first round picks. We'll break down at least Reed Sheppard from Kentucky, Dalton Knecht from Tennessee, Kobe Johnson from USC, Ryan Dunn from Virginia, Tyler Kolek and Oso Ighodaro from Marquette, and more. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:09 Reed Sheppard, G, Kentucky 14:04 Robert Dillingham, G, Kentucky 18:25 Oso Ighodaro, C, Marquette 27:45 Tyler Kolek, G, Marquette 32:32 Kam Jones, G, Marquette, and a crazy Kolek clip 39:33 Ryan Dunn, W, Virginia 47:54 Kobe Johnson, W, USC 53:25 Kevin McCullar, W, Kansas 58:30 Dalton Knecht, W, Tennessee 1:06:23 Jamir Watkins, W, Florida State 1:10:25 Alex Karaban, W, Connecticut 1:13:40 Harrison Ingram, W, North Carolina 1:16:46 Braden Smith, G, Purdue 1:21:05 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Sophomores you NEED TO KNOW In the NBA Through One Month of the 2023-24 Season Nov 27, 2023

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Bryce Simon is here and we're breaking down the sophomores in the NBA. We'll dive deep into Paolo Banchero, Jalen Williams, Shaedon Sharpe, Jeremy Sochan, Jaden Ivey, Jabari Smith Jr., Jalen Duren, Christian Braun, Keegan Murray, Mark Williams, Dyson Daniels. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 7:25 Paolo Banchero and the Orlando Magic Breakout! 26:50 Jalen Williams 36:38 Jabari Smith Jr. 45:45 Keegan Murray 52:30 Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren 1:03:26 Shaedon Sharpe 1:07:40 Dyson Daniels 1:15:30 Jeremy Sochan 1:27:20 Mark Williams 1:30:56 Walker Kessler 1:36:25 Christian Braun 1:43:35 Other Sophomores 1:49:00 STOP RAISING YOUR BASKETBALL COURTS 1:50:06 Bub Carrington takes at Pittsburgh Q and A 1:54:25 Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 11 Rookies you NEED TO KNOW In the NBA Through One Month of the 2023-24 Season Nov 20, 2023

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Bryce Simon is here to join Sam Vecenie and break down the 11 rookies you need to know across the NBA one month through the 2023-24 season. From the to picks to the surprises and the breakouts, we'll talk about Chet Holmgren, Victor Wembanyama, Scoot Henderson, Brandon Miller, Ausar Thompson all the way through Toumani Camara and Cason Wallace. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:38 Chet Holmgren and Cason Wallace @okc + OKC 23:42 Victor Wembanyama 35:25 Brandon Miller 45:44 Ausar Thompson + Pistons 56:03 Scoot Henderson and Toumani Camara 1:06:23 Dereck Lively II 1:10:47 Jordan Hawkins 1:15: 26 Jaime Jaquez Jr. 1:18:38 Bilal Coulibaly 1:23:35 Other Rookies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2024 NBA Mock Draft! Version 1.0, Top-30 Players in the Class Two Weeks in College Basketball Season Nov 18, 2023

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Bryce Simon joins Sam Vecenie and they deep dive into the 2024 NBA Draft prospects! We go back and forth, making picks and giving our top-30 players in the class. Names like Alex Sarr, Isaiah Collier, Ja'Kobe Walter, Nikola Topic and many others will get picked and discussed, and we'll dive into what we like about their tape, and dislike about it so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zach LaVine Trade? Chicago Bulls Roster Shake-up? Diving into fake trades; Also: Champions Classic NBA Draft Deep Dive Nov 16, 2023

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Ricky O'Donnell from SB Nation joins the show to break down the two things he knows best: the Chicago Bulls, and the NBA Draft. The long-time Bulls fan and Game Theory Bulls Correspondent explains the Zach LaVine trade rumors, and breaks down what seems to be an impending Bulls blow up. Then, he was also at Champions Classic last night, so we break down what he saw as Duke beat Michigan State and Kansas beat Kentucky. What NBA Draft prospect do we need to know? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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