This week on the Atlantic Files podcast, we begin our yearly division previews! This time, for the 2022-23 NBA season, we start with the Northwest division. We also talk about the proposal for an in-season tournament, the 2022 Hall of Fame inductees that includes Manu Ginobili and Tim Hardaway Sr., Danny Ainge's comments about the Utah Jazz, and our weekly "Whatchu Got" segment!

In case you've just started tuning into the Atlantic Files, every year leading up to the start of a new season, we preview a division each week until we get to the best division of them all. Yes, that division is still the Atlantic.

This week, we kick things off with the Northwest division. Minnesota, Denver, Portland, Oklahoma City, and Utah all are included in this division for those who may not know off the top of their head.

We give our thoughts on the final standings of the division, which players and teams might be surprisingly good, and the others that will probably be terrible. It's probably not too hard to guess the ones that won't make the playoffs. Could this even be the worst division in the NBA?

There's been talk of an in-season tournament that was proposed by the NBA. Could this really help the ratings for the NBA or would it just be another gimmick that no one will care about because it's not the playoffs nor a real NBA Championship?

Manu Ginobili and the other 2022 Class of the Basketball Hall of Fame were inducted! The list had a bunch of great names that brought up some great memories. Congratulations to all of those that are now in the Hall!

Finally, we finished things off by talking about Danny Ainge's comments on the Utah Jazz when he first got there and our weekly "Whatchu Got" segment. We brought up a Denver Nuggets discussion between current and past teams, as well as gave our thoughts on the new NBA 2K23 that came out.

Timecodes:

00:00:00 Intro

00:04:27 NBA in-season tournament proposal

00:27:31 Hall of Fame class of 2022 was inducted

00:37:49 2022-23 NBA Northwest division preview

00:51:33 Danny Ainge's comments about the Utah Jazz

00:58:19 Thoughts on NBA 2K23 so far

01:01:17 Current Denver Nuggets vs Carmelo Anthony Denver Nuggets

01:08:05 Outro