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November 04, 2024 NBA Panic Meter! Nuggets, Bucks, Magic, Sixers & more! | GAME THEORY PODCAST
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie is joined by Bryce Simon to go through several different teams off to rough starts to the season & grade them all on a scale from 1-10 on the NBA Panic Meter!
CHAPTERS:
04:17 Discussing the Joel Embiid/Marcus Hayes incident on Saturday night
32:58 NBA Panic Meter - Philadelphia 76ers
44:07 NBA Panic Meter - Milwaukee Bucks
57:21 NBA Panic Meter - Orlando Magic
1:05:33 NBA Panic Meter - Indiana Pacers
1:14:31 NBA Panic Meter - Denver Nuggets
1:29:17 TRIVIA TIME w/ GMAC! 10 Players averaging at least 15 rebounds & 10 rebounds this season
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
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1 hr 51 min
November 01, 2024 Early Season NBA Breakout Players and Improvements? | Game Theory Podcast w/ Sam Vecenie
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie & Bryce Simon have a conversation about some of the NBA's earliest most-improved players.
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
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1 hr 19 min
October 28, 2024 NBA Opening Week Overreactions - Lakers, Celtics, Nuggets, Warriors & more! | GAME THEORY PODCAST
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie & Bryce Simon to talk through the opening week of the NBA season with the only way we know how: by overreacting to what we've seen from the Lakers, Celtics, Nuggets and Thunder among others.
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
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1 hr 24 min
October 25, 2024 NBA Rookie Extension Grades with Keith Smith of The NBA Front Office Show
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie is joined by Keith Smith of the @NBAFrontOffice Show to discuss the NBA contract extensions that were reported earlier this week & give their grades for each one from the team perspective.
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
CHAPTERS:
2:30 How do you watch NBA games?
7:30 Big picture look at Rookie Extension Window from Keith
18:15 Houston Rockets extend Alperen Sengun and Jalen Green
43:25 Orlando Magic extend Jalen Suggs
50:45 Atlanta Hawks extend Jalen Johnson
55:15 The real money pressure on NBA players to extend now
1:06:18 New Orleans Pelicans extend Trey Murphy III
1:11:42 Corey Kispert extends with Washington Wizards
1:15:12 Moses Moody and Jaden Hardy extensions, rookie scale guys that haven't extended
1:22:00 Aaron Gordon and Denver Nuggets come to agreement
1:25:45 Minnesota Timberwolves extend Rudy Gobert
1:35:45 BOSTON KEITH TALKS ABOUT THE CELTICS
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1 hr 33 min
October 21, 2024 NBA Breakout Players for the 2024-25 Season! | Game Theory Podcast w/ Sam Vecenie
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie & Bryce Simon to talk about players they're looking at this season who could break out as important, impact players or even NBA stars in the 2024-25 season.
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
CHAPTERS:
7:40 Christian Braun (and Julian Strawther)
22:41 Jalen Williams
35:05 Jaden Ivey
43:55 Amen Thompson
51:50 Deuce McBride
57:05 Nikola Jovic
1:03:00 Rapid Fire on Brandin Podziemski, Jordan Miller, Dyson Daniels, Ayo Dosunmu, Tre Mann, Andrew Nembhard, Lonzo Ball, and others
1:24:17 GMAC joins for Trivia 11 players who have 14k points and 6k rebounds. name them!
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1 hr 45 min
October 19, 2024 2025 NBA Draft Preseason Scouting w/ Keandre Ashley of Hoop Intellect
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie is here to break down 2025 NBA Draft prospects, including Cooper Flagg, Ace Bailey, Dylan Harper, V.J. Edgecombe and Nolan Traore among others with @HoopIntellect 's own Keandre Ashley.
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
CHAPTERS:
2:50 How do you rate the 2025 NBA Draft compared to other NBA Draft classes?
7:05 Can any other prospect break into the top-five of the 2025 NBA Draft?
910:00 Ben Saraf and Noa Essengue takeaways versus Portland
20:45 Cooper Flagg Preseason Eval
38:00 Rating Cooper Flagg compared to other elite prospects
40:15 Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper
1:11:20 V.J. Edgecombe
1:23:50 Nolan Traore (and some Kasparas Jakucionis)
1:31:35 Tony Bennett retires
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1 hr 32 min
October 14, 2024 PREDICTIONS for the 2024-25 NBA Season! | GAME THEORY
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie & Bryce Simon make their predictions for the 2024-25 NBA Season!
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
CHAPTERS:
9:55 Luka Doncic wins MVP
17:55 The Thunder will win 65 games
27:31 The Suns finish top 4 in the West
39:15 The Pistons will NOT finish bottom 3 in the NBA
44:36 Tyrese Maxey makes ALL-NBA
49:26 The Pelicans will NOT finish top 8 in the West
1:01:11 The Cavaliers will trade 1 of their core 4
1:06:07 OKC vs BOS in the Finals & goes 7
1:21:35 TRIVIA
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1 hr 34 min
October 11, 2024 Most Important Players In The NBA This Season w/ Fred Katz of The Athletic
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie is joined by his colleague at The Athletic Fred Katz to discuss who they think are the most important players in the NBA this season.
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
CHAPTERS:
7:00 - Bradley Beal
20:08 - Ja Morant
33:25 - Cooper Flagg
44:25 - Victor Wembanyama
59:09 - Chet Holmgren & Evan Mobley
1:11:24 - Khris Middleton
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1 hr 14 min
October 07, 2024 2025 NBA Mock Draft - Preseason Edition! | Game Theory Podcast w/ Sam Vecenie
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie & Bryce Simon do their first 2025 NBA Mock Draft of the season! Come join us and break down a loaded draft class with Cooper Flagg, Ace Bailey, Dylan Harper, V.J. Edgecombe, and many more!
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
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2 hr 19 min
October 04, 2024 Debating the KAT trade to the Knicks and the best NBA players w/ Jason Timpf of Hoops Tonight
In this edition of the Game Theory Podcast, Sam Vecenie is joined by Jason Timpf, where we're going to talk through his best players in the NBA list that he recently released. How does he go about ranking his top players? And who does he think is set for enormous seasons?
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- Sam Vecenie, a Senior NBA Writer at The Athletic, talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie has you covered in this show.
3:00 Karl-Anthony Towns trade; Why Sam and Jason disagree a bit!
33:00 Jason's Player Rankings; How does Jason go about ranking players? What is his criteria?
45:27 Jayson Tatum vs. Anthony Edwards and Tatum's ranking
57:15 Victor Wembanyama
1:03:10 Tyrese Maxey, most important player in the league?
1:13:00 Big group of guards and how to parse through the league's best
1:17:00 The Players who could break out and make people ranking players look stupid
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1 hr 18 min

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Sam Vecenie talks all about basketball. From the NBA, to the NBA Draft, to college hoops and even some high school, Vecenie is has you covered in this show. And some thoughts on movies, too.