Ranking the NBA's Most Watchable Non-Contenders | GOOD TAKE

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**Wes Goldberg** (0:30)
All right, welcome to Good Take. Wes Goldberg here with Mike Shearer, the author of Basketball Poetry. We've got some takes cooking up about the best League Pass teams and the secret to acquiring depth in the NBA. And then we're talking about the Trail Blazers for Summer Three Way. But first, Mike, the results of last week's Good Take, you claimed that Wemby's new contract should be considered a form of cap circumvention. I said the LeBron's 2020 bubble title is actually underrated and people voted on the YouTube community's page and I won 67% of the vote, Mike, a landslide, I would say. And that means I go first for the and one. That's two in a row for me.

**Mike Shearer** (1:07)
Yeah, you never know what invoking LeBron is going to do for you, right? Like if it's a day where the haters are feeling particularly angry, you're going to get crushed. And if it's a day where all the LeBron fans and stans are out there, then you're just going to sort of victory. And I think you just got lucky. I'm going to call it like it is. I think you just got lucky.

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Okay, Mike, you're up first.

**Mike Shearer** (1:59)
Yeah. So, you know, we're here in the downtime, but rosters are mostly set. And I frankly, I don't know about you, but all this like movement around the league has got me really excited for the next season. So I wanted to talk a little bit about the best League Pass teams, non-contender division. Cause like, yeah, we're all excited to see what the next year of Wimby looks like. We're all excited to see if the Knicks can run it back. And like, I'd even include teams like, you know, I'm a contender maximalist. We've had eight different champions in eight years. I don't know that there's such a thing as like a super tight inner circle contenders these days. So like I'm, we're all going to be excited to see Philly or whatever, but I wanted to look, take a step back and be like, what about some of these other teams that are just going to be super fun to watch? So I guess we can, we can alternate if you want, but the first team, the one I think I'm like most excited to watch out of the night.

**Wes Goldberg** (2:45)
Do we want to go five to one or one to five?

**Mike Shearer** (2:47)
Oh, okay. We could go, we could go backwards. We can build up. I'm fine with that plan.

**Wes Goldberg** (2:51)
Let's build up. Let's go five to one.

**Mike Shearer** (2:52)
So my number five then is the Indiana Pacers.
And I think this is a team that could rise here as the season goes on because Tyrese Haliburton will be coming back from injury. He's kind of a notoriously slow starter anyway, partially because of health and partially because it just seems to take him some time to find his groove every year. But people, I don't want to say people have forgotten because I don't think people have really forgotten how fun that Pacers team work is. But we're so far removed that I think it's going to be like a slap in the face to see these Pacers sprinting up and down the court, playing full court defense, Haliburton's passing, making magic. They've got some familiar faces from their magical run a couple years ago, Siakam's still there, Nisman's still there.