Craig talks about the NBA Draft andf potential landing spots for the first 10 picks

Craig talks about the NBA Draft andf potential landing spots for the first 10 picks

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The also to let you know. Coming up about fifteen
minutes for now, will visit with Greg Tepper, the editor
in chief of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, talking about
the brand new twenty twenty five edition that has Sark
on the cover and what to expect from the publication.
It'll be out soon and on the shelves before long,
and we'll be giving away copies again once we get
those in, so that's still to come this hour I

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mentioned about the NBA had some draft notes last hour
about some of the commonalities through some of the mock
process and the pre draft camps. It also helps to
know what teams are going to what teams are projected
to look like next year. And I think it's important
to make that distinction because who knows. Did any of

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us know for sure Oklahoma City who's going to win
the thing? When it started? They were certainly one of
the favorites, but they hadn't done it yet. Did anybody
know that Indian Animal is going to make a run
all the way and all the way to a final
seventh game of the NBA Finals. I don't know about that.
So with that in mind, out of that old saying,
about it's important to know where you've been to you

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so that you can know where you're going in the
always laugh about this. These three words that are separated
by two hyphens. Way too early, the way too early
power rankings are out for NBA team Sinceria and I
understand the assignment. I understand the assignment. The assignment is

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whenever an NFL season or an NBA season, or a
Major League Baseball season, or an NHL season, or a
college football season or a college basketball season or a
college baseball season, you get the idea. When those are completed.
The first thing that one or more people of a
given news outlet or website or whatever fan site, whatever,

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the first responsibility that they are charged with is coming
out with a way too early set the next year,
partly because it's kind of fresh in our minds because
the seasons just completed, and partly because of two other things.
One the question internal question can they repeat whoever is
just wanted? And how far are they ahead of everybody else?

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And what else could happen? So they all do them,
the athletic does at ESPN, dot Com does it, CBS
does it? They all do. I've read several different outlets
and sites every day first thing in the morning. It's
spent a lot of time with a cup of coffee
and a lot of reading. And ESPN did a way

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too early power rankings, which I think is kind of
important to note that before you even start talking about
who is going to draft whom. So the power rankings
are as follows. Oklahoma City is still number one, and
their their comment Tim McMahon, who I've known a long

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time and wrote for the Dallas Morning News. So we
might need two get used to watching the thunder play.
In June, Oklahoma City won the championship with the corps
that consists of ascending talent MVP Sha Gildess, Alexander just
entering his prime at age twenty six, all NBA sidekick
Jalen Williams age twenty four, and likely future All Star

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ch At Holmgren twenty three, still scratching the surface of
their potential, and they have an awful lot of young
guys for depth as well. So they've got them number one,
They've got Minnesota number two. They were eliminated in the
Western Conference finals, Denver third, Cleveland fourth, Houston number five.
Now with Kevin Durant added to the Rockets roster, and

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while they gave up Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks, and draft picks,
including number ten pick and Lamar's draft whids. By the way,
it was hilarious hearing Matt Thomas, the voice of the Rockets,
on with us yesterday. So what did he can do
for your on draft night? He said, there's going to
be a big draft party, one down at the Toyota
Center and one at some sports bar where they are,
and he said, and they don't have a number one pick.

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So but that little exercise and futility where someone actually
makes a pick for the Houston Rockets at number ten
and a guy puts on a hat and you know
he's never going to play for that team. Go back
and google Kobe Bryant putting on the Charlotte Hornets cap
back in the day. That happened because of the NBA's
goofy thing, because their actual working business year model starts

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on July sixth, even though trades are done, so Houston's
number five, Indiana six, the Knicks are seven called your
Golden State Wars number eight, up two spots from their
previous rank. So they go into the offseason wondering how
far they could have gone if Steph Curry's hamstring remained healthy.

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With that in mind, the Warriors may want to add
around Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green. They need more size,
more two way wings who can shoot, and more depth.
So there's number eight, Lakers, number nine, Clippers, number ten,
Diston's eleven, Celtics all the way down to twelve, Magic thirteen,
the Mavericks at fourteen, as they say the Mavericks' long

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term concerns on the court and financial in the wake
of the Lukadan Chits deal mitigated by their amazing lottery
luck to land Cooper Flag the number one pick Memphis fifteen.
Then the have Milwaukee sixteen, the Spurs at seventeen, and
their comment on the Spurs, it says Greg Popovich calls
himself hefe the boss. The pop is no longer the coach.

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As Mitch Johnson heads into his first off season at
the Helm, with Victor wembin Yama entering his third season,
Stefan Castle coming off being voted Rookie of the Year
in the Trade deadline edition of The Aaron Fox. The
Spurs enter a pivotal off season with expectations in twenty
twenty five twenty six to advance to the postseason for
the first time since twenty eighteen twenty nineteen. Forgot it

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had been seven years. Sitting with the number two pick
in the upcoming draft, the Spurs are expected to add
talent such as prospect Dylan Harper to an already talented
young group Miami Heat eighteen, Atlanta nineteen, Sacramento twenty and
then it's Philadelphia twenty one, Portland twenty two, the Bulls
twenty three, Phoenix twenty four after dealing Kevin Durant, New

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Orleans twenty five, Toronto twenty six, Brooklyn twenty seven, Charlotte
twenty eight, Utah twenty nine, in Washington at thirty. So
that's where they're looked at as being right now before
you even get into the draft tomorrow night, and as
we mentioned later on, will actually run through the latest
mock draft that shows what these particular outlets, and we'll

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go through more than one, but just to let you
know what they're looking at in terms of happening tomorrow
night for the NBA Draft. Up next, we talked football
in the State of Texas high school, college and the
magazine Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine with its editor in
chief that's Greg Tepper and it's next on thirteen under

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