No Dunks
NBA Weekend Winners & Losers | Clutch Knicks Play, Flawed Lakers, Souvenir Cups
23 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: Who were the NBA weekend winners?
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Chapter 2: How did the New York Knicks perform in their recent games?
Hello. There he is. Here we are. Hello to everybody joining us live on YouTube. Hit the like button, subscribe, podcast listeners, five-star ratings and reviews. A little housekeeping before we get into NBA weekend winners and losers. This trio right here is back on the call for tomorrow night's Raptors 905 College Park Skyhawks game.
If you're in the Atlanta area, come on down to the Gateway Center. Game is at 7 p.m. Eastern. We're back calling this one. If you don't live here, you can catch it on NBA League, NBAGLeague, excuse me, dot com, or Peachtree Sports Network. If you're a little closer to home there. Nice Peachtree Sports Network plug. Yeah, so we've done this a couple years running now, and we're going to be back.
I've been on Peachtree Sports Network before. Sometimes you just got to use your third-party VPN and jump on in there. I've been there. I've been there. I want to know if you're going to be able to remain unbiased on the call tomorrow night. Oh, 905ers? That's right. Wow, big game. Big rivalry. Raptors are having a better year than the Skyhawks, unfortunately. Rough year for Skyhawks.
We'll bring some energy to the club.
A lot of new guys compared to last year when we did. I'm excited to see Ray J. Dennis in person. Yeah. Ray J. He's on fire. He grew up like 20 minutes from where I grew up. Oh, that's cool. I'm going to be pulling for him pretty hard.
Okay.
A lot of people are saying he's the new Daquan Plowden. No one's saying that. But he's saying it tomorrow on the broadcast. We have been saying Ray J's name. Yes, we have.
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Chapter 3: What impact did Payton Pritchard have against the Lakers?
Not because of Ray J Dennis, really, but because we're talking about Brandy. Anyway, I think we should create some sort of rivalry, Skeets. I don't know who you want to cheer for if you're a 905-er. I'm an unbiased commentator. That's no fun. No, I'm just cheering for a great game. I'm like Jacob Tobey, man. I just want a great game. That's exactly right. Are you going to be Sean Elliott?
You're pulling for a blowout? Blowouts, please. Okay, so that's the first piece of news. Second piece of news, we had two more wedgies over the weekend. Both happened Friday night, and that got us to the magical number of 50 wedgies on the season. We start here with PJ Hall blocking slash fouling Dennis Schroeder's layup attempt there. So that's number 49.
And then number 50 was a little later in the night, and it was three-time MVP Nikola Jokic on the putback attempt there. He jammed it in there with Time Lord also battling for the board. So that's number 50. That's an important number when it comes to wedgies. That's sort of the goal we're at least always looking for, the minimum wedgie goal.
This is our 12th season of attempting to track every wedgie. Marks the fifth time we've hit at least 50 wedgies. So the all-time record is 63 wedgies. That happened a couple years ago. So we still need 14 more to set the all-time record, but nice to see us get to 50 already. Not even March. Now wedgies are on the uptick. Yeah. Because we have been tracking it for 12 years.
We haven't been attempting skeets. We're tracking them. Come on, man. That's literally all we do. I guarantee we've missed wedgies. That's why I say attempt. Guaranteed. I highly doubt it. Oh, I guarantee it.
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Chapter 4: What challenges are the Los Angeles Lakers currently facing?
Over 12 seasons, how many wedgies do you think? We've had times where we've come in and like two days later, someone's like, you've missed a wedgie. We're like, oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, listen, that Dennis Schroeder one the other day, that blocked by PJ. Hell, nobody saw that. I mean, that was a quick one. Anyways, it's been on the increase either way. 12 years. It's inflation. 50 times.
We've hit 50 now five times over the 12 years. Over the first six years, it was just one. Over the last six years, four times. So it's on the increase. Yeah.
Yeah.
It's great. Summer Project. Watch every minute of every game. The only way to figure it out. Just to see it. Did we miss any? Yeah. Comb through it. Cross-reference. Look, I really wish the play-by-play, we are in the play-by-play era, I wish they noted or did a better job of noting said wedgies. Because the old hack used to be just like, go look for jump ball situations, right?
And that'll get you a lot of them, but not like that Dennis Schroeder one. It's a foul. It wasn't really a wedgie. Well, it is a wedgie.
Yeah, I hear what you're saying.
Come on, man. I hear what you're saying. You got to watch it. That's the thing. You got to have people watching.
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Chapter 5: How did the Oklahoma City Thunder succeed without their star players?
Otherwise, there's no way you can find that out. yeah luckily everybody's got a voice on social media so that has helped hey see you wedgie say wedgie is what we uh so let us know if you see one uh don't don't don't assume somebody else's i don't like when people do that don't be shy don't be shy just say hey wedgie around this time you don't You've got to be exact with the time.
Just say like, you know, this quarter or near the start, near the end, whatever. We can't watch every game, but we try. Let's get into NBA weekend winners. We'll do a couple rounds of winners, eventually losers. TK, get us started. Where do you want to go? I got the New York Knickerbockers, a.k.a. the New York Knicks, a.k.a. the New York Dicks, as Charles Barkley called them. Whoops!
They handled the Bulls on Sunday. Big deal. Everybody beats the Bulls. Nine straight losses for Chicago. But I'm giving the Knicks a winner for Saturday night. Their comeback against the Rockets. We're down by 18 right at the start of the fourth quarter. Then New York completely flipped the script by doing three things. Number one, knocking down threes as soon as they went down.
By 18, Landry Schammett hit one from the quarter. It was one of four threes in three minutes as soon as the Rockets took their biggest lead of the game. Schammett hit a couple. Towns hit one. Alvarado hit one from the corner as well. After 11 turnovers through the third quarter, the Knicks just started getting a ton of quality shots at Looked like a completely different offense.
A lot of that, I thought, was Jose Alvarado getting in the lane and finding kickouts. The ball would swing around, and they got a lot of really good looks. So that changed up. I thought that was nice for New York. Also, top-notch defense all around, I thought, from New York during the comeback. Carl Anthony Towns made things really tough on Alper and Chengun. Bumpin'.
slapping, just knocking the ball out of his hands. Tough shots all around for Shangoon. Jose Alvarado got two steals, both of which turned into pretty tough layups on the other end. Jalen Brunson did his part, drawing charges.
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Chapter 6: What makes Victor Wembanyama a standout player this weekend?
I don't know if either of them were a charge, but he got the whistle because the atmosphere was raucous. And then OG Ananobi kind of put the clamps on Kevin Durant, I thought. Rockets offense, a little clunky. A little your turn, my turn, and also they just had some shots go in and out after shooting pretty well through three quarters.
Most importantly, the Knicks stars came through in the fourth quarter. Towns went for seven points in the fourth. A lot of tough takes from him. He had a big-time dunk on Jabari Smith, and then Jalen Brunson was his usual mini-master there.
eight points in the quarter had that layup but the other three or the other six points were on mid-range jumpers this was like the idealized version of the knicks in the fourth quarter everybody playing their part the stars being stars and a good enough defense that they made things tough on the rockets and the offense just looked great i thought in that fourth quarter super loud and then the knicks were very wise uh knicks fans og goes to the line with like five seconds left huge shots
after some crazy let's go Knicks chants as they were rallying there. So big time comeback win for New York. Then, like I said, they took care of the Bulls yesterday pretty easily. Held them to 99 points. Nobody on that team can score. Nonetheless, great win for the Knicks on Saturday and did their business on Sunday. Yeah, they did their business in the fourth quarter against those Rockets.
Watching the first three quarters after their bad loss to the Pistons on Thursday, I start to think, oh gosh, this is scary times. And then they turned it up. You know, there's the ESPN report that Carl Anthony Towns got into his teammates' faces to get them going in the fourth quarter. And Durant was sitting on the bench for those first five minutes and Shang-Goon was clanking.
I mean, those are... I think literally a couple air balls, and he complained for a foul on that one. And then as soon as Durant got back on the floor for the last seven minutes, yeah, he just couldn't hit. It was miss, miss, miss, then a make, and then the turnover, turnover, turnover, including the charges that you're saying there, Trey.
Four turnovers in the quarter for Durant in just seven minutes for him. So, yeah, the... The worrisome about the clunky offense, as you said, about the Rockets is when is it point guard time for this team? When is Fred Van Vliet coming back? I think that's a worry for this team going forward.
Although, you know, one of the things that Kevin Durant said in his Twitter burner was, I can't trust Jabari Smith. Hey, man, that guy was splashing in this game. 21, four threes. So maybe that's a positive. I'm looking for all the positives for this Rockets team because they got there. They're up 18 on the road against a squad that needed a win after losing to the Pistons on Thursday.
Brunson knew that they needed a win or should get this win when they came back. The defense obviously got them back into the game, but, man, that guy was hitting every big shot down the stretch, like Captain Clutch for a reason. Just awesome to see. Smallest guy out there. Well, not really now with Alvarado in the mix, but you know what I mean.
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Chapter 7: What were the main reasons for Joel Embiid's injuries?
When it comes to superstars, the smallest guy. But they did play three guards. That was pretty interesting. It was Alvarado and Brunson and then Schammett. is basically a guard. He's taller, but he's a skinny guy. He's been really important for the Knicks. When he plays well, it feels like it gives him a little bit of extra juice shooting out there.
But to be able to get away playing those three guards against a Rockets team that's gigantic, that doesn't make any sense to me. Ime Udoka afterwards was like, it's been the same thing the entire time I've been here. We just dribble out, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble, and the offense slows down. You're the coach, man. Call a play. But that's, I mean, that's Ime Udoka offense.
Like, that's what it was when he was with the Celtics as well. And it was the same complaint. Oh, we just dribble it out. Literally do something then. All he does is call defense. Yeah, and then call out his teammates. Or his players, I should say. Yeah, and that's maybe why it works for, like, a short window.
A guy like that to come in and sort of whip everybody into shape here and, like, play a little harder and play with a little more aggressiveness. And then... maybe that tires on teams and it was a blessing in disguise that he had to leave the Celtics because of weird situations. There's a lot of people have pointed out. Yeah, maybe so.
But with regards to the Rockets, like they were getting their best shots in the fourth quarter when Reed Shepard was finding guys with like diagonal passes to the corner was getting some wide open looks. He's a natural ball mover and he's the only guy who's a real natural ball mover.
on that team because like omen thompson he's a decent enough playmaker but he's not really a point guard even though they've tried to fake it they do it with shangoon as well but he just dribbles 20 times and then settles for a shot and durant it's been the same clutch thing with kevin durant for the entirety of his career he makes really tough shots he also misses shots and if he's not involved in the offense he just stands there remember when we used to complain about westbrook taking too many shots for the thunder that was 15 years ago and nothing has changed so uh
I don't know. I don't think the Rockets are going to do it this year. They obviously don't think so either because they didn't make any moves at the deadline when they obviously could have. So just a weird second half of the season, I think, for this team. I would assume Fred is their move. Fred VanVleet has to come back, but it has to be soon. He got hurt in preseason.
I don't think he's going to play this year. And he's not going to be Van Vliet this year if he does. And even last year when he was one of their main clutch guys, it was, can you bail us out with a deep three?
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Chapter 8: What unique souvenirs did the Minnesota Timberwolves introduce?
It's not like he was getting into the lane and creating for others. It was the same old Udoka-style offense. Dribble it out and hit a miracle shot if you can. Yeah, we will see if he comes back. I would have to expect that they have an expectation, but it is worrisome. There's no doubt.
He started the podcast, but it's some inside information here that he wasn't going to go and continue the podcast if he came back. That's not guaranteed. So either is him coming back. But it felt like he thought about, okay, the day that I come back, I may not be podcasting. So maybe he's coming back. Who knows? But that is the guy.
That is definitely the guy for me because it ain't the guys you mentioned. Aaron Holiday is not solving anything. He's too teeny tiny. He's on that roster, but he's way too small. So it's Fred. How many ad sales has that podcast committed to already? What's the inventory they need to hit? These are the things we should be digging into. That will tell us everything.
I think it's great with player podcasts because it's a real DGAF. They don't care.
No.
I didn't even know he was still doing the podcast.
Yeah, he is.
What was it? Point got? No, what was it called? I forget. Anyway, this one. Fred said. Just Fred said? No. It should be. Right said, Fred. Is it something bet on yourself related or no? I legit don't remember. Even though I have seen clips. Sounds familiar. All right, Nick's big winner of the weekend. Where are you going?
I'm going with the Boston Celtics because they are cooking at the right time. And their head coach, Joe Mazzulla, is... contemplating is evaluating is saying, how do we make this a championship caliber team while on ramping Jason Tatum? When he comes back, here's the solution. Payne Pritchard, you go back to the bench. He started this entire season. It's not truly 48 games. Last seven.
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