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Overcooked reactions from NBA opening night

By Keith Parish

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Opening night (that is, Tuesday’s soft opening, not the full-blown Wednesday smorgasborg) made a smashing impression. Kawhi Leonard, Dame Lillard and Lebron all submitted MVP-level performances in pushing their teams to victory. And Fastbreak Breakfast ate it all up, finally sated after real basketball’s long hibernation.

So with a nod to the first slate of games, Fastbreak Breakfast S3 Ep. 3 “Overcooked Reactions” previews the embryonic NBA season by forecasting the award winners. Did this year’s eventual Most Valuable Player go ahead and play on Tuesday? Are we already revising our Coach of the Year predictions? Who will get the opportunity to win Most Improved? With Ben Simmons injured, who will amass the most stats to be Rookie of the Year? Is the Defensive Player of the Year the easiest to forecast? And why must we talk about Sixth Man of the Year?

TIME STAMPS:

  • 2:00 Breakfast talk
  • 3:45 Best barbeque in Nashville
  • 6:30 “Breakfast in Bed Apologies”  Is there anything we got wrong in any previous episodes that we need to atone for? Perhaps were there misleading facts in our gambling episodes that might have convinced people to trust us more than they should?
  • 11:17 “Steak ‘n’ Eggs Best Thing”  What’s the best thing you saw in the last week? Joel Embiid, Karl-Anthony Towns, or something else?
  • 15:18 “Cream of Wheat Worst of Week”  Picking out what bothered us most. HINT: it’s League Pass.
  • 21:18 Predicting the MVP award
  • 26:12 Rookie of the Year
  • 30:15 Coach of the Year
  • 34:45 Sixth Man of the Year
  • 38:00 Most Improved Player
  • 42:45 Defensive Player of the Year

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