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00:00It did. Bontae, you know, I'm kind of a sucker for power rankings and tiers and things of that nature when it comes to sports.
00:10I don't know if you saw this, but the Athletic dropped a new power rankings in the NBA.
00:18Now, it's premature. It's early. It's two weeks in.
00:22Go ahead and say it. The Warriors are going on a deep playoff run.
00:24I didn't say that. That's not the power.
00:27We're saying out loud, Chesky and I, that we both believe the team can make a deep run in the playoffs.
00:33Absolutely.
00:35Law Murray put out a new...
00:37Oh, Law Murray. Law Murray covers the L.A. Clippers.
00:40Good friend of mine. Met him at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in 2014 in Boston.
00:46So he's credible.
00:47In Boston. Oh, he's more than credible. Law Murray's the man.
00:50Exactly. I thought so, too.
00:52After reading this article, do you want Tier 3, Tier 2, or Tier 1?
00:57Just get them out the way. You know I don't care about power rankings.
00:59The T3, Tier 3 bubble going down to up.
01:03Grizzlies 15, Nets 14, Miami Heat 13, 12 is the Knicks.
01:09The Lakers are 11. Those are the bubble teams in the bubble.
01:13Then you go to, in a good place, Tier 2.
01:17I was like, well, maybe this is where the Warriors will be.
01:19Rockets 10, Kings 9, Denver 8, Wolves 7, Mavs 6.
01:28And then I go, well, are the Warriors going to make this list?
01:32Top tier, number one contenders.
01:35Phoenix Suns, number five.
01:38Golden State Warriors, number four.
01:45Boston, Cleveland, OKC.
01:48We're in the top tier one contenders, boys.
01:50Two weeks in.
01:53What? What?
01:55Spadoni, you want to take this one?
01:56What's wrong?
01:57You want to take this one, Spadoni?
01:59I'm not allowed to be excited about my team?
02:01No, no, no.
02:02I'm not allowed to think that they can't be a top tier one contender
02:05for more than a couple weeks?
02:07You can believe what you want to believe.
02:08You can feel how you want to feel.
02:11You don't even know who Law Murray is.
02:13And you saw a random article in The Athletic about power rankings.
02:17This is the Warriors are fourth.
02:20I see a headline, I click, and I read.
02:23Spadoni.
02:27As the resident homer when it comes to Warrior coverage.
02:31No, no, you're the resident warrior.
02:33You're the resident warrior.
02:34That's it.
02:35Warrior.
02:35Yeah, that makes me very uncomfortable.
02:40Why'd you look at me like that, Spadoni?
02:42What are you doing to come on?
02:43Give it to me, Spadoni.
02:44Because I said the exact same thing when he read me this.
02:46He's like, yeah, I asked.
02:48First of all, I asked who wrote this.
02:49He's like, Law Murray.
02:50I was like, who is that?
02:52I literally said that.
02:53He's like, he's like, I don't know.
02:54I don't know.
02:55He doesn't even know whether or not he's credible.
02:58I was like, you think of Jamal Murray from the Denver Nuggets as you're
03:01thinking about, not Law Murray.
03:02Well, I think it's I think it's more impressive that I know who Law
03:05Murray is and not the power rankings itself.
03:07100%.
03:07And I know the background and everything.
03:09And you know, Law Murray, he goes to games.
03:11Law Murray walks around.
03:13He always has a, it's not a wave cap.
03:15Okay, but he does something to cover the front of his head.
03:18He's always walking around.
03:19Law Murray.
03:19He's a hooper, man.
03:20I'm looking at his profile pic right now on Twitter.
03:23He might have the coolest like profile pic I've ever seen with this
03:26white sunglasses and a floral suit.
03:29So there you go.
03:30It's been covered in clippers for a long time.
03:31All I'm saying, all I'm saying is that, you know, sometimes in sports,
03:36you get surprised and I'm not saying that we're there yet with the
03:40Warriors in terms of a full season of surprises.
03:44I'm not even talking playoffs, but like I'm having fun.
03:47Can I just get in the inner tube and see where this river takes me?
03:52Yeah, absolutely.
03:53Because the current is going toward top one tier contenders.
03:58I mean, we're two weeks in.
03:59We're going to have a big gauntlet.
04:00I am so excited.
04:01Hold on.
04:02This feels like one of the biggest regular season games for the Warriors
04:06in a long, long time.
04:07We're going to get into it.
04:08I got it.
04:09No, no, no, no, no, no.
04:10I got it.
04:10I got it.
04:11So excited.
04:11No, no, no, no.
04:12I'm looking at the calendar here.
04:13No, I'm sorry.
04:13I can't get enough Warrior stuff.
04:15Well, I did this Warriors now with Dalton yesterday.
04:17We're streaming yesterday at NBC and I was like, man, this game.
04:20I can't wait for it.
04:21I want to read all the data.
04:22We'll look all the highlights and everything like that.
04:24But I just want to go through the calendar here.
04:27So before the season, uh-huh, you vowed and made everybody promise
04:33even though I didn't I didn't vow with you, but that hey, we're not
04:36talking about a deep playoff run.
04:39Within the first 10 games of the season, but I didn't know.
04:41No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you are getting
04:47closer to say I am to say I am to say it, but I don't want to say
04:53this.
04:53We're not there yet.
04:54I'm on the doorstep on day.
04:57Boston, Cleveland.
04:59Okay.
04:59See now J LeBron is going to be out tonight with the left hip flexor
05:03straight.
05:03Uh-huh.
05:03Miss this would be a third straight this game, but this is what you're
05:07dealing with the box with the Boston Celtics.
05:10They're the defending champions, right?
05:12They all we all know that they ran through the Eastern Conference
05:15and beat the Mavs in five games.
05:17Last year.
05:17They were one of the most dominant teams in league history.
05:20Check this out.
05:21They never lost more than two games in a row last year.
05:23That's crazy.
05:25It did that only four times all season.
05:29The Celtics finished the regular season, the most efficient team
05:31offensively in NBA history, and they were the second most efficient
05:34team defensively in the league, allowing 110.6 points per game per
05:39100 possessions.
05:40They're scoring 122 per 100 possessions and according to nba.com.
05:44They were served 15 players who do logged 93% of their regular season
05:48minutes from last year, the highest rate for a defending champion in
05:52the last 10 years.
05:54And this is one of the rare times early this season at a Western
05:56Conference team will play to Boston only for Boston's first 31 games
06:00to start the season are coming against the West.
06:02They're going to be East Heavy, East Heavy, East Heavy.
06:04So here we go.
06:06Here we go.
06:07Boston.
06:07They were the league's number one team when it came to three-point
06:09attempts.
06:11And they are the number one team right now when it comes to three-point
06:14attempts.
06:14They attempt 55% of their field goals from the three-point line.
06:18So what is the game plan tonight?
06:19You got to think that Chris DeMarco, Jerry Stackhouse, Steve Curry
06:23Company, run the Celtics off the three-point line.
06:27Don't let them get up three-point attempts.
06:30That's a little basics got to report right there as we dive deeper
06:32into this.
06:33Well, there's so many angles to this like, you know, the Warriors
06:36beat a version of this Boston Celtics team just a couple of years
06:40ago in the championship, which feels like a lifetime ago.
06:44The Warriors have changed a lot since then.
06:46Boston's changed a lot since then.
06:49Those guys are in their prime, you know, some of the Warriors are
06:53maybe just slightly on the down click.
06:56Some guys are, you know, trying to reclaim their careers and whatnot.
07:01This is a great litmus test for the Warriors.
07:04And obviously you got Cleveland after that.
07:07You got OKC after that.
07:08Like this three-game stretch is as close to a playoff stretch.
07:12Like I looked at the schedule.
07:14This might be the toughest three-game stretch of the season, but I'll
07:18listen to you if you've got another one that you wanted to identify.
07:20Well, no, it's a five-game stretch for me.
07:22It's a five-game stretch.
07:24It's Boston, Cleveland, OKC on the road.
07:29Yeah, and then you get Dallas and then you get Memphis and Dallas is
07:33going to be a factor in the Western Conference.
07:34So Luke and Kyrie, Luke is still not in shape yet.
07:37You can just tell he's working himself back into shape.
07:40He uses the first couple months to get into shape.
07:43So he's missing a lot of shots that he normally hits just watching
07:46the Dallas Mavericks.
07:47But and then you get Memphis with John Moran who were trying to
07:50reclaim their, you know, their stake in the Western Conference.
07:53So this five-game stretch, I'm looking at maybe one of the toughest
07:55five-game stretches, but we'll see later down the line how things
07:59play out, but for the meantime for this team, look, they beat in
08:03Portland, they beat Utah, they beat Washington, they beat the
08:07Pelicans twice.
08:08And of course they beat the Rockets.
08:10These are true barometer games.
08:12We're going to see just how good or just where the Warriors are at
08:16tonight, Friday and Sunday.
08:18That excites me because I don't know how good they are.
08:21I don't know whether they're tier 1 or tier 2 or tier 3 team.
08:24I don't know that.
08:25I think it's a little premature to be doing power rankings in the
08:28NBA at least wait a month.
08:29I mean, geez Louise, we need content that bad, but but I'll take
08:33it and they're doing what they need to do.
08:35You control who how you play not who you play you control how you
08:39play and who you play right now.
08:41The form is good with the go to say Warriors.
08:44Here's kind of my setting on the whole thing be.
08:47I don't know how good they are, but boy, it feels really good to
08:50have hope and optimism, right?
08:52And I think that that's that's kind of like the number one thing
08:55that I've felt watching this team through against seven games.
08:58I'm not here to say that it's the you know, it's the end all be
09:02all but like it just feels different and I'm hopeful that they
09:07put together a competitive good game and I want to see some back
09:11and forth between the Celtics and the Warriors because I think
09:14there's a little bit of bitterness toward Boston fans and Draymond
09:19Boston fans and staff Boston fans and Steve Kerr.
09:24So I think this is a great opportunity and this is a team Boston
09:28that we all know is not just elite.
09:31They're deep.
09:32They're still hungry.
09:33They're in their primes.
09:35I don't know.
09:36This is going to be fun.
09:37I'm just I'm so pumped for the Warriors man.
09:39I can't get enough of it.
09:40I wonder who out there is with me.
09:42Like I'm not saying we're the we're the best.
09:44I'm not saying I don't even think do I think we're the fourth best
09:46team in the league?
09:47Probably not like I'm being real.
09:48Like probably not but you know what like the fact we're even
09:52discussing that and that people are writing about it who are
09:55credible who knows Bonte like that to me matters that matters
10:00who's with me.
10:02That's the funniest thing.
10:03No, I'm driving the trolley.
10:06No, you know, let's go.
10:07I got the cable car drive to trolley because all right.
10:10Well, no, no, no, no, no, no, you get in the backseat.
10:13You buckle up because Lord knows if we go through a little bit
10:16of turbulence.
10:18Our pets heads are falling off.
10:21No, no, no, we're not going to do that.
10:23Worry.
10:26Hey, it's for Donnie man.
10:29Look, I'm fired up for this game.
10:30Excuse me for being excited about the Warriors.
10:33So sue me.
10:34No, it's just a franchise.
10:35Greatest player of all time.
10:37Doc, excuse me.
10:40Who's the greatest fit ever?
10:42We only got Draymond Green having a career in Renaissance.
10:45Like I don't know other than that though, you know, vibes
10:49are at an all-time high.
10:51Maybe the best bench player not named lively in the league
10:54right now.
10:55Like there are some problems with some of these contenders.
10:58You reference Dallas.
10:59Yeah, that she's still water.
11:00Well, Dallas is having problems with their starting five right
11:02now.
11:03And so like like they're they're basically a minus nine with
11:07that group.
11:07All right, don't don't sorry.
11:08All right, the plus minus.
11:09See, no, I'm just in the average of minus nine.
11:11Like it's not good.
11:12That's pretty lame.
11:14Problems like some of the teams that are really really good
11:17are also figuring it out right now.
11:19And I'm not saying that they're not going to be there at the
11:21end.
11:21I'm just saying like just keep stacking chips, baby.
11:27I can't get over.
11:29I can't get over the law.
11:32But he goes.
11:33I don't even know who law Murray is.
11:35Shasta goes.
11:35Yeah, I don't either.
11:36I don't even don't let us.
11:37It's all power raking.
11:39Don't let us be lost.
11:40My gosh, let us beat Boston and you watch the strut.
11:44I got coming in tomorrow.
11:47Well, no, Jalen Brown definitely helps, right?
11:50Third straight game.
11:51He's going to miss with a left foot flexor.
11:53Straight warrior fans.
11:54Don't know anything about injuries.
11:55You know what though?
11:55I mean, give me cry me a river.
11:57You know what though?
11:58I'm not mad at it because Draymond will still be talking
12:01that talk back in 2022.
12:02The NBA Finals.
12:05I love how excited you are.
12:08I am excited.
12:09I've been excited.
12:10I've been excited.
12:11I've been excited.
12:12It's just trading camp.
12:13I'm glad you're with me now.
12:16I'm glad you ride with me now.
12:18The Wolves made a trade and I don't think they're better,
12:21you know, I'm Denver and I'm looking at their bench and
12:24they've got some issues.
12:25I still think they're going to these are teams that are still
12:27going to be there when it's all said and done.
12:28Denver's not going to be there when it's all said and done
12:30because I don't know if you were paid to chit-chat last
12:32night.
12:32Eric Gordon is going to be out for a while.
12:34I didn't see that.
12:35No, I missed that.
12:36Oh, yeah, you missed it.
12:37Seven four-year-olds and a younger running around getting
12:41pizza all over my house.
12:42Aaron Gordon in Eric Gordon, Eric Gordon, Eric Gordon.
12:45Where's it at?
12:46Where's it at?
12:46He's got a cash trade and he's going to be out.
12:50He's going to be out for quite some time as my internet is
12:52a little walk after just signing a mega deal.
12:54Yeah, he's had a tough.
12:56He's had a tough season because tough offseason be all
12:59unfortunately lost his brother Drew Gordon who's by the way
13:02from San Jose as well, but Eric Gordon is going to be out
13:06for how long is he going to be out?
13:08I want to say four to six.
13:09I want to say four to six.
13:11He's out multiple weeks with the cash trade shop.
13:14Sharadi have reported that yesterday cash trade, you know
13:17how that is, especially in basketball.
13:18It's going to be out a few weeks.
13:20That lingered with GP2 for quite some time.
13:23Yes, exactly.
13:24So Denver, I don't worry about Denver.
13:26I think Denver is going to slip tremendously into Western
13:28Conference.
13:29The Western Conference right now is Oklahoma City.
13:31You're writing off.
13:32Wait, I'm trying to keep up.
13:33You're writing off Denver.
13:34Yeah, right off Denver.
13:35Right off Denver.
13:36Okay.
13:37Okay, see Phoenix are right there at the top.
13:39Okay, you believe in Phoenix thus far?
13:43Thus far, they've got some good wins.
13:46They got a rookie that's shooting like crazy.
13:48They got some good wins.
13:49Tyus Jones would be good for them off the bench.
13:51Had a big win against the Lakers.
13:52Yeah, big win against the Lakers.
13:54So they're playing well.
13:55They beat Dallas.
13:56They beat Dallas.
13:57Okay.
13:58So this is Bonte's power rankings.
14:00No, I'm not power ranking anything.
14:02Don't quote me on this.
14:02No, no, no, I don't do power rankings.
14:04I don't do power rankings.
14:05I'm just saying, teams in the Western Conference is what I'm looking at.
14:07Okay, Western Conference teams.
14:09Minnesota.
14:10Don't get caught up in the power rankings, man.
14:12It's two weeks into the season.
14:13Okay.
14:15You got Phoenix.
14:16So who else, Bonte, are you having in your bubble?
14:18That's about it right now in the West.
14:21But you know what though?
14:21I don't know.
14:22Because teams are injured.
14:24Teams got guys getting in and out of the lineup.
14:25Like Sacramento, for example.
14:27Do I believe in the Kings?
14:28Not really, but they've got to work through DeRozan issues.
14:32How to fit in DeRozan with the starting five.
14:34How does it affect De'Ara Fox late in games?
14:36Memphis.
14:37They got Marcus Smart and John Morett.
14:40Where's Desmond Bain at?
14:41Where's Jerry Jackson Jr. at?
14:43Where's Zach Eaddy at?
14:44I mean, the jaw highlights are amazing.
14:46Minnesota.
14:47You mentioned a trade with Minnesota.
14:49They're trying to work Julius Randle in.
14:51Dante DiVincenzo, a new role.
14:53Nas Reed coming off the bench.
14:55Where's Rudy Gobert at?
14:56Mike Colley Jr.'s getting older.
14:58So are these young guards on that team, Dillinger and Shannon Jr.
15:02from Illinois, are they going to impact the season?
15:04Towards the tail end of the season.
15:05I don't know, but it's so early as every team is sorting out.
15:10And let's be real.
15:12I'm a homer when it comes to the Warriors.
15:13I am.
15:13I believe all the time.
15:15Wait, wait, what?
15:16I'm a homer when it comes to the Warriors all the time.
15:17No way.
15:18Yeah, all the time, all the time.
15:20However, however, I'm going to sit here and recognize the fact
15:24that they haven't really beat anybody yet.
15:27I agree.
15:27They haven't beat anybody yet.
15:28That's why you don't want to let us beat Boston.
15:30Well, no, that's why I'm eager to see these next three games.
15:33Now you can talk that talk and you want to do it.
15:36If they beat Boston, deep playoff runs coming, huh?
15:38Maybe.
15:38Yeah, it's coming.
15:39I might suspend my own rule.
15:41Well, look at this.
15:42Look at this.
15:43The Rockets yesterday.
15:45They beat the Knicks.
15:46Hey.
15:46Or Monday night.
15:47They beat the Knicks.
15:48Fonte, Rockets are 10 on this list.
15:50Power rankings.
15:51So that might end up being a good win by the end of the week.
15:55I mean, they're a team that's quote-unquote in tier two in a good place.
16:00Now, this is a big game because I've actually thought about the pregame outfit.
16:03More than I need to think about it.
16:05What do you what do you wear?
16:06I don't know.
16:06Six five.
16:06I was asking me Comcast business.
16:08Excellent.
16:08Is it a trace shoes or sneakers today?
16:10I think it's trash shoes.
16:11Well, I haven't wore sneakers yet all season.

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