Hoops Tonight - Ranking All 30 NBA Teams: Spurs, Thunder, Knicks, 76ers TOP CONTENDERS + who else has a title shot
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All right, welcome to Hoops Tonight here at the Volume. Happy Wednesday, everybody. Hope all of you guys are having an incredible week, as promised, now that LeBron James is signed with the Philadelphia 76ers. And I'm back home in the comforts of my studio. We had a successful trip to Houston to get my brother and his new wife, Emily, married. That was the last one of my siblings to get married. I had my sister get married earlier this year. I have two brothers and a sister. They are now all officially locked up. It was a nice, fun trip. Excited to be back, though, in the comfort of our studio. We have a general idea of what the NBA landscape looks like. So what I'd like to do today, we're going to do our contender rankings.
I'm definitely going to give you guys my top 10 contenders. But then, you know, I was on my plane today. I'm recording this on Monday. And I was like, you know what? Let's just put every single team in the NBA in tiers. So we're going to hit all 30 teams today. I'm not actually going to hit the bottom teams. We're going to list them. But I have all 30 teams split into seven teams. different tiers. And so from there, we'll kind of work our way up from the bottom. And then at the top, you guys will see the, the, I have 12 teams that I consider legitimate shots, excuse me, 13 teams that I think have a legitimate shot to win the championship.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–9:49
2
Why is LeBron James signing with the 76ers the trigger for these contender rankings?
9:49–19:06
3
Which six NBA teams does the host expect to be outright bad this season?
19:06–22:10
4
Which seven teams could be dangerous on any given night but lack sustained success?
22:10–31:33
5
Which teams are very good yet unlikely to win a title this year and why (Utah, Charlotte, Atlanta, Houston)?
31:33–51:30
Speakers
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