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Howard Beck

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
765 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

I'm not saying do it just for the sake of getting anybody.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

But if you can get good players to put around Steph and, for the present, Draymond Still,

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

If you can do that by spending some of your draft capital and or some of those young players, do it.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Do it.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Do whatever you got to do to make the last years of Steph Curry's career viable and relevant.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Do not relegate him to annual play in games and or first round and out.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

Give him a fighting chance.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

That's your obligation.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

They made two finals and won a championship with him, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

With an aging Duncan and an aging Parker and Ginobili, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

So, like, they kind of did it.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

But as is usually the case, they kind of fell into it, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

At the moment that they traded George Hill for the draft rights to Kawhi Leonard, the 15th pick in the draft, they didn't know Kawhi was going to become what he became.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

So you can't plan for this stuff.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

A lot of it's just fucking happenstance.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

No, I was just going to say, listen, we're all fans of the game, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

We don't care about, we don't have an emotional investment in the wins and losses of individual teams or anything else.

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

But I think everybody who loves this game, who loves the NBA, you want to see the all-time greats be able to, one, age gracefully and then have their teams be competitive around them, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

At a minimum, right?

The Ringer NBA Show
Jimmy Butler Suffers a Torn ACL. Plus, Real Ones All-Star Reserves | Real Ones

No one's winning championships in this league usually at age 37, 38, 40, 41 in LeBron's case.