“Who needs a Chef when you’ve got a Cook?” and other tales from the NBA

Settle in for a piping fresh new episode of Fastbreak Breakfast where we attack the pressing issues of the NBA, such as wondering aloud “Would LeBron James slowly poison his coach?” and “Is Steph Curry a system player?”

In addition to allowing ourselves these flights of fancy, we examine the narrowing playoff race in the Western Conference, relive Chuck’s (@themightychuck) excursion as a chaperone for the Memphis Grizzlies bus trip, and address the following topics:

• Does referee Marc Davis have a vendetta again the Raptors? Or were the ejections that marred the end of Toronto/Oklahoma City warranted?
• What is going on with the public Twitter spat between the refs (@OfficialNBARefs) and the league officiating office (@nbaofficial)?
• How have the Clippers hung around this season despite not having any of the big-name players they acquired in trades and free agency available to them?
• Despite tanking, will the Hawks and Knicks still hit their [very modest] preseason Over/Under win projections?
• How do we evaluate a player on a hopelessly bad team (say, for example, Taurean Prince) who starts pumping out gigantic stat lines at the end of the year?
• Have our views on whether or not Memphis should try and trade Mike Conley and Marc Gasol changed since the beginning of the season?
• Speaking of the Grizzlies, did you know they are 14-10 when Ben McLemore doesn’t play? That’s a 48 win pace!

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Original music provided by Codaphonic and New Man

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