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The NBA season is officially underway! 

Welcome to who won the podcast for busy NBA fans who don’t have time to watch every game but still want to know who won without all the hot takes and click bait. 

There were two games on opening night. We’ll start in Denver where it was ring night and the Lakers were in town and Denver was favored by 5 - which they covered comfortably with a 12 point 119-107 victory. 

The Lakers got off to a slow start in this one, which isn’t ideal when you’re taking on the defending champs. 

Jokic led the way doing Jokic things turning in a 29 point triple double with 13 rebounds and 11 assists. He only had 2 turnovers and hit on 3 of his 5 3 point attempts.

Alongside the Joker, Jamal Murray had 21 points to go with 6 assists and also hit 3 of his 5 3s and Kantavious Caldwell Pope added 20 with 3 steals on the other end. 

All the starters in this game scored in double figures. 

For the Lakers, Lebron James had an efficient night with 21 points 8 rebounds and 5 assists on 10-16 shooting and no turnovers. The trouble came in the non-Lebron minutes. The team was +7 with Lebron on the floor and lost the game by 12. 

The Nuggets next game will be Friday against the Ja-less Memphis Grizzlies. 

The Lakers will be in action again on Thursday hosting the new look Suns.

In our second game of the night, we got a ton of new faces in new colors in the CP3 revenge-ish game?? As Phoenix took on Golden State. This was nearly a pickle em with the warriors favored by a point at home. 

With all the offensive firepower in this game, I imagine you’d have made a killing if you put money on the first bucket of the game to come from Jusif Nurkic. 

Now imagine you but in music Nurkic to score the first AND last buckets!!! What would those odds have been?? 

Well that’s what happened. But in between those buckets Devin Booker was the start of the show leading the suns to a 108-104 victory the road. 

Book ended the game with 32 points 8 assists and 6 boards. He hit 3 of 8 on 3 pointers. He also had 6 of his teams 19 turnovers- which kept Golden State in this one. 

His costar Kevin Durant didn’t shoot it very well going 7-22 and ending the game with 18 points. But he did secure 11 rebounds. Josh Okogie went 7-9 on the way to his 17 and Nurkic ended with 14 and 14 rebounds. 

On the other side golden state just didn’t shoot it very well under 36% as a team and 23% from 3. 

Steph Curry led the way with 27 going 8-20 and hit 4 of his 14 3s. Chris Paul managed 14 and 9 assists in his debut, missing all 6 of his 3 point attempts. 

Up next the Suns play the Lakers on Thursday as mentioned. 

And the Warriors head to Sacramento to play the Kings on Friday. 

Opening day for the NBA is upon us! We’ll do a quick preview of tonight’s games and I’ll let you know a little more about what you can expect from this podcast. 

First of all Welcome to who won. The podcast for the busy NBA fan who can’t watch all the games but still wants to know who won without all the hot takes and click bait. 

The NBA season begins tonight with two games on the docket. Both are national tv games on TNT. 

At 7:30 eastern the Lakers will be in Denver for ring night. The nuggets took the Lakers out in the western conference finals last year in the most competitive sweep in history we’ve been told. 

As of Recording this Vegas has the nuggets favored by 5 at home.

We’ll see if the Nuggets take care of business. 

In the second tip of opening night at 10pm eastern it’s a battle of new look rosters.

Chris Paul will make his regular season debut against his former team the Phoenix Suns who have basically a whole new team around Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. After bringing in Bradley Beal and signing a million minimum guys they also traded Deandre Ayton to Portland. Although we may need to wait a bit longer to really see what it looks like as Bradley Beal may not play in the opener. 

But we know who’s on the Warriors. They’re basically the same squad we’ve seen for what seems like an eternity at this point outside of one giant oddball with Chris Paul in a warriors jersey! 

Will he bring competency in the non-Curry minutes this year? Or will he be a deadline trade piece? Only time will tell but we can be confident that question will linger past tonight’s debut. 

Vegas basically has this one as a pick ‘Em with golden state favored by only 1 at home.