Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What insights does Tim Legler provide about the NBA playoffs?
It was an anonymous survey of current NBA players. Okay. Who is the most overrated player in the NBA? Rudy Gobert. No.
Chapter 3: How are the Knicks performing in the playoffs?
Alperin Sagoon. Oh, the Rockets. And the Rockets big man, who averages 20 and 9. I know, but there's different 20s and 29s where you go, he's averaging 20 and 9, but it means something. There's a lot of guys who are averaging some points and rebounds and assists where you go, yeah, but they're not all equal.
Chapter 4: What changes helped the Knicks unlock their offense?
Yeah, Paul.
This is the award you don't want to win. This is the we think you're a fraud award despite your stats. All right, Sagoon, number one. Rudy Gobert finished second. Trey Young finished third. Carl Anthony Towns, he changed the game, but he's still overrated.
Best shooting big man of all time. This is one that I was surprised by. Fifth place, Paulo Banqueiro of the Magic.
Chapter 5: What is the impact of home court advantage in the NBA?
I don't think he's overrated. Wow. I don't know if he's rated. John Morant finished seventh. Yeah. Man, that seems like a long time ago John Morant was something on the floor. Yes, Dylan. If you're going purely when he actually is on the floor, though, John Morant's pretty special. There's obviously been some extracurricular activities that have happened. Yeah, I keep waiting for his next team.
Chapter 6: How do the Knicks compare to other teams in the playoffs?
Yeah, Paul. We also have the athletics list of most underrated player based off a 2026 poll. Who would like to guess? Clearly, it can't be a big name, but he's very good. Amen Thompson. No, but I like to guess. He did not make the top ten. All right. Marvin? The guy from Portland, your boy, Danny Evita?
Chapter 7: What are the most underrated players in the NBA according to recent polls?
He finished on, like, 12th. Okay. Most underrated. Had a great year this year. He's even underrated on this. He got out of the Wizards and then goes to Portland and then all of a sudden becomes an All-Star. That was your boy. Oh, I know. That was your boy. I remember. I fell in love. I was like, I'm watching video, man. This guy can play.
And then all of a sudden he goes to the Wizards and, you know, I'd get reminded by Marvin. Hey, how's your guy Denny doing? I go, not very well. Okay, so most underrated. He plays for a team that's perpetually struggling, but they make the playoffs, but they disappoint. Their fan base gets critiqued sometimes. Yes, Marvin. Jalen Johnson? Jalen Johnson, the Atlanta Hawks, is correct. Bloop, bloop.
Based off that hint. Did he even start at Duke? Was he at Duke? He was at Duke. But I don't know if he started. See, that's the thing with today's NBA. These guys don't come in as stars because you're not there long enough for them to become stars. But he is a really talented player. So good. Really. But you've got to tune in to watch the Hawks, and you're not going to do that.
But he's a really talented player. Two ways, they like to say. Yeah, Paul. 23-10, and eight assists. I know. He's a really good player. But, as we've said before, if you do that for a team like the Wizards or Hawks, does it count? No. Okay. So he is number one underrated. The other two guys both play for the same team.
Peyton Pritchard. No, but he's fifth.
Oh, yeah.
There's two more Celtics on the list. Derek White and Jalen Brown finished second and third in the most underrated poll. Wow.
I don't know if Derek White's going to be there next year. The postseason didn't go... quite as scripted. Yes, Dylan. Jalen Brown is surprising because he was third in the MVP list this year. So it's not like he's just kind of some guy flying under the radar. I mean, he's on the Celtics. He was their guy this year. Yeah, but he could be underrated because he's been in the shadow of Jason Tatum.
Fair. And then people finally were looking at him and saying, he's equal. And then looking at him this year and saying he surpassed Jason Tatum. Now, of course, Tatum was injured. But as far as MVP candidate, I was trumpeting his season because I was like, they went from this is a gap year to we got a chance to go to the NBA Finals. And they should have blown a 3-1 lead.
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Chapter 8: How do the recent NFL draft picks affect team power rankings?
The fines in pro sports are kind of funny in general. Like, we're a guy who's making $55 million, and you're like, that's going to be a $25,000 fine. You're like, that is a rounding error. Yes, Todd. If you make it $100,000 and then Adam Silver and the powers that be could say you get 50 of it back if you have physical evidence that shows there was an agenda.
Any way you can possibly prove that that was said to you and then you get half of it back. Yeah. Alex in Utah. Hi, Alex. What's on your mind today?
Good morning, gentlemen. On the topic of riders, one of the craziest riders I ever heard of was Van Halen. They had in their rider a bowl full of M&Ms, take out all the green ones. And the reason that they did that is they had a really complicated set design, and if something was set up improperly, someone could get hurt.
And so they wanted to make sure that people were reading their instructions. So if they go to their green room, See the M&Ms and their green M&Ms. They know that they didn't read the instructions. But anyway, the main reason I wanted to call was I am just in awe of LeBron right now. I mean, he's 41 years old and is leading the offense.
I really appreciate you guys not turning this into a Jordan versus LeBron because it's just history that we're watching, and I want to enjoy it. Final thing, I don't know if you guys saw, but Pablo Torre won a Pulitzer for his story on the Clippers.
And I'd completely forgotten about that, and I think Steve Ballmer was hoping I would forget about it too, but I think this is now going to be back in the light, and I imagine that the NBA is going to now have to take action because now the story has been legitimized by the Pulitzer.
Yeah, I was surprised, and I reached out to Pablo and congratulated him, and he responded by saying, you know, thank you, this is surreal. The concern I have here is... We don't know if the story is true. Pablo did a deep dive on Kawhi Leonard, this company that was sponsoring the Clippers. They gave him a job that he really didn't have to do anything, but he made a lot of money.
Did they circumvent the salary cap? Okay, now that sounds great, but you have to prove that it's true. But that's why I was surprised with the Pulitzer Prize being awarded to him on something that I don't think has been confirmed by the NBA or Steve Ballmer, Kawhi. We have information. But I don't know. I was kind of surprised at that, that we don't have that on lockdown. Yes, Paul?
According to a story this morning from ESPN, the investigation by the NBA is ongoing. Now, the NBA hired an outside firm to do the investigation. It started in September and it's not wrapped up yet. Yes, Todd.
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