NBA SEASON IS BACK!!! And the crew is... mostly back. Harp phones in from the casino floor at Harrah's Cherokee Valley River in Murphy, North Carolina, Robert Horry is squeezing us in before a flight, and Rob Jenners is just glad real basketball tips off tonight.
We start with the Lakers waiving Dalton Knecht. Robert isn't surprised, shares what his old college coach told him about Knecht's scoring, and names a couple of teams that should go get him (Denver, you need a shooter). Then it's ring night at the Garden. Robert knows the other side of that one. His first year in San Antonio, he had to sit there and watch the Spurs get rings for beating his Lakers. He also tells the story of the 1995 Rockets ring that came out looking cheap.
From there it's Steph's ankle scare, the Porzingis illness, Draymond showing up heavy, and Ben Simmons tearing his Achilles right when he looked like himself again. We also get into the NBA's memo cracking down on certain prop bets, and why the leagues' sudden moral compass is hard to take seriously when the sponsors are sportsbooks and beer companies.
In the WNBA Finals, the Atlanta Dream finally won a Finals game and Angel Reese put up some history. We talk about the viral clip of her walking off when she didn't get the ball, and Robert explains what he'd tell her and what Shaq used to do instead.
Harp had to bail once the afternoon show took over his table, so Robert and Rob lock in their East and West playoff picks without him. His are coming next week. Robert has the Wizards in the playoffs (with an asterisk), Rob has the Celtics second in the East, and we'll be holding all of it over each other until April.
We close with the college football weekend where five of the top seven teams lost, picks for Miami-Pitt, Indiana-Michigan, Tennessee-South Carolina, Texas A&M-Alabama and Ole Miss-Texas, Big Shot of the Week for Brooklyn Green, and a game called Number One With a Bullet: how many No. 1 overall picks did Robert play with?
00:00 Intro: The Crew's Back-ish
02:48 NBA Opening Night & the Lakers Waive Dalton Knecht
07:41 Opening Night Schedule & Knicks Ring Night
08:38 Sitting Through Someone Else's Ring Night
11:07 Will the Sixers Spoil the Knicks' Party?
12:22 Wednesday's Slate & the Clippers
13:51 Steph's Ankle & the Porzingis Illness
17:17 Draymond's Weight & Off-Season Conditioning
21:40 Ben Simmons' Season-Ending Achilles
23:34 The NBA's Betting Crackdown Memo
27:24 WNBA Finals: The Dream Get Their First Win
28:14 Angel Reese's Viral Walk-Off
33:54 Eastern Conference Predictions
39:21 Western Conference Predictions
45:13 College Football's Chaos Weekend
46:52 College Football Picks
53:51 Big Shot of the Week: Brooklyn Green
55:57 Game: Number One With a Bullet
1:03:03 Does Going No. 1 Even Matter?
1:05:11 Wrap-Up