The Deep 3 Podcast - We Let Our Chat Rank The 10 Best Teams In The NBA | TD3 Clips

Episode Date: November 19, 2025

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I want you guys, you guys be in the chat, to rank the top 10 teams in the NBA. We are going to do a series of polls in which I ask you guys who is the best team of these four teams that I present you guys. And we're going to see the chat's cumulative ranking for the top 10 teams in the league as of today. What four teams do you guys want to start with? What should we give them as like the obvious top four next to OKC? So we have the Thunder. We have the nuggets. I don't see how smart they are when it comes to talking about the pistons because they're up there as well.

Okay, so we'll do the top two seats. Can you guys check for me? Who's the top two Cs in both? I think the nuggets are up there and then New York Knicks. So, chat, the poll has just started. I wonder you guys in fifth number one. I wonder, I wonder, I know. We'll go ahead and write it in.

We'll see what New York Knicks. New York Knicks. I'm going to go ahead and write OKC an assumption that's what Chad does. We'll see. Guys, put the Knicks one. I don't know, man. Chat, let's put the Knicks one. Let's have some fun.

If I was chat, okay, I think after one. I would have voted the Knicks. Me person, I'm going to get, I'm going with the, with the hawks. What does he talk about? I don't push that propaganda even more. Okay, obviously they're going with OKC, number one. That currently has 70% of votes. That makes sense.

70% of people, though, went with the Denver Nuggets for number one overall. Oh, bug. Okay, C. See, if Camp Johnson was playing well, then I would be like, okay, sure. Like, you can, you can, like, somehow convince me in that world. And I wouldn't look at you like you're an idiot. 17 is too tough Who should we add to the mix now after this

Do we add Houston It's either you add the rockets or the cabs We will add Houston to the mix now So time for number two Chat oh my god, God damn What have I done? I look up I see a wall

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He's moving his hands Like as fast as he can He's getting faster day by day He's gonna break the goddamn sound barrier I'm gonna show you right now What? Okay poll number two was out Currently 67% are voting

For the Denver Nuggets Okay So they are as clear Of a number two to chat As OkC was at number one For are you showing him the video Oh this is the old guy I thought he was gonna show me

from 12 year old he's not old he's like 28 or something he's watching him go oh my god yo his hands look mad small and his face is what the fuck can you imagine how many calories he's brain doing that I need to try that shit man

okay so we got 68% now we got out of 6-7 territory 68% of you guys are going with Denver as number two okay smart smart And the next best team in the poll was 14% Rockets. Okay. Okay.

So now I think this is where we could possibly get into some disagreements because for me personally, I don't know if the Rockets deserve that just yet. Yeah. So in my mind, I'm thinking about like right now who's who's like the best team. So now we'll go Houston, Detroit, Cleveland and New York Knicks as the next four up on this order. Do you want to put the Lakers? Yeah, the Lakers. Yeah, the Lakers deserve to be honest. They have one more win than.

Let's try to split. We'll split the conferences back and forth every time for now. And I think we'll go Lakers in next time. All right. Let's see. Just to give Cleveland's. We got three Easter Conference right now. Oh, do we?

Cleveland. Oh, okay. My bad. Oops. Did that wrong. Either way, they're not going to pick either of those teams of next. Lakers get out of next. Chad's going, immediately going towards Houston, as expected.

Actually, we can go once so people can see the chat. Ooh. 43% Houston right now in the early goings. Yes. Again, this is, that makes sense. You know what's interesting. Nobody is buying the Detroit High High High School. yet. Detroit has been getting slaughtered in every single one of these polls.

Well, actually, wait, wait, wait, wait. They're second in this poll. It's between Houston and Detroit. We got a relatively close split. 42% of you guys are saying Houston, 35% of you are saying Detroit. Oh, man, I think we might be, we might be being a little bit disrespectful, but I can understand because it's Kevin Durant at the end of the day. Yeah. Also, at what point, at what point do you guys believe in, in Detroit? Like, what would they have to do to prove to you that they are the best team in the Eastern Conference? Either get J. Nivey back and have that fit work with Cade or make a trade. I just, there's no world in which I'm going to pick them to come out of the conference

so they don't have a secondary ball handler next to Cade. Yo, that sense that he just said, Detroit being the best team of the Eastern Conference, I would have never thought I don't hear that in a million years. Yeah, after what we saw last year in the playoffs, and to be fair, I'm sure Cade and Derry and everybody else are going to improve off of that after the lashings they got in the playoffs out of just the aggressive coverages that Cade got beat by,

I do want to see something other than natural development. I want to see another ball handler. Yeah. Okay, so I can understand if they go Houston. 300 votes in, Houston has 43% Detroit 35. So with that being said, Houston is the number three team and your guys' collective power rankings.

Do we feel good about adding the Lakers now? Yeah, the Lakers should be here. Even with their fake net rating and everything. Yeah, you have Luke at the end of the day. It's playing well. LeBron is eventually going to come back to this week. So, Chad, you guys can decide if you want to, well, how much assumption you want to make

for the LeBron James of it all? How much you want to assume he makes a team better? But now we have Lakers, Detroit, Knicks, and Cleveland. As are four teams. I'm very curious to see when they go with this. When are you guys

going to start picking these East teams, man? When are they going to get a chance? This is where real discourse begins. Someone said Lakers over Wolves. I know. The wolves have their own questions.

I understand why you say that. Maybe the wolves can be the next ad. Should the will be next? Yeah, I think they should. I mean, if they pick the we got to get one of these three East and Conference teams on the board.

Hey, man, let's people decide what they decide. They don't think we can. I guess so. But they're going to because right now early lead, 48% Detroit. Wait, right. There's starting narratives. They said, Chad, don't vote Nix.

All right, now, listen. Now we're being dishonest. Now we're lying to ourselves, and I don't appreciate that. Someone said Hawks over Nix. I like, I like how you thinking, man. Thus far, we have 46% Detroit. 32% L.A. It's always two dumb bitches saying.

Yes. Exactly. Well, chat, you hear that they're calling you dumb. What are we talking about when I? We're disrespecting our audience. If they say that the Hawks are hurt, yes. No, no, come on. 45% currently going towards Detroit.

We're going to wait until we get 300 votes. We're at 276 right now. Lakers are at 31%. You know what's funny? You just swayed the vote to the Knicks. They're now up to 16%. They took away 3% from the Lakers. Does it matter?

You're still in hell. You're still third place in this vote. You're still nowhere close. But with that being said, we have reached 295 votes. Detroit has 45%. Detroit, welcome to the number four overall spot on the chat power rankings. And you know what? You got to respect it.

Chat thinks Detroit's a top force team in the NBA. Four is pretty goddamn high. All right. So are we going Wolves or Spurs? Spurs are higher in the rankings. I guess we just go off

the standings for now and I guess we'll go Spurs. Sure. They're not picking the calves for anything. The cows are getting no votes. We have the cats prematurely apparently.

I mean, I don't blame them. We haven't seen the calves fully clicking at the highest strength at all just yet. But we had the spurs. Listen, Victor Wimony Yamma's been amazing. We got Darren Fox in the door now.

Dylan Harper will come back. Their defense is real as long as Wembe is on the court. Now obviously he's missing two weeks. But he will be back the court relatively soon we'll add the spurs in the running for fifth place okay the wolves will come next I as I suspect we'll see one of these big markets come whether it be the lakers

or be the nix my guess my prediction I think I'm probably being the lakers yeah I think I think that's probably where they're going to yeah they're probably going to either leave the nix to like nine or just not put them on there they said the calves aren't healthy enough yet which is fair we haven't seen the calves firing on all cylinders yet after garland came back for what was a one game and they got hurt again yeah or two games whatever it was so I agree with them. That's fair. At a certain point, though, we're going to have to give the Cavs some benefit of the doubt after they were, what is it, 64 win team last year? Is that what they finished with? 64. Yeah, outlandish. They brought back all the important parts. We're going

to get them benefit out at some point, but I understand it not being yet. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. Okay, chat, I think they're hitting the right direction so far. Right now, 250 votes in. Lakers are winning by a pretty goddamn wide margin. They're making, they're beating the hell out of the Knicks. Yeah. Okay. This would be my top five right now as you speak to. You see this cat? Nobody believes me. Cats are you port to I mean Jalen's her right now Okay fair

Oh Jaylon is her right now And OG's her That's probably was influential in the chat To some degree But it's also the Lakers are gonna LeBron back And you know they don't care about it The Lakers are number five Okay this top five

Okay C Denver Houston Detroit Lakers Feels like the top like the legitimate top five So far they've been cooking Nothing to outlandish yet Okay C Lakers versus Detroit If you're gonna get the Lakers Enough credit to be five That's because you're really projecting

The Lebron thing I think if you're gonna project that you should probably protect them over Detroit, right? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. Detroit looks... They do. Of course.

Yeah. It's no crazy. I think, obviously it's tough because it's like it's Kade by himself as a creator versus Luca LeBron and Reeves. Exactly. So you probably... Jalen Duren. That's third star.

You're right, but come on. We're just facing too much. Just star power alone to close them over Detroit. We're adding Minnesota into the mix now. Spurs, Minnie, Knicks, Cleveland. What are we going to get next? Next. My predictions are going to go Minnesota.

If I were them, I think I might go Minnesota. Yeah, it's hard because obviously the Spurs are better record-wise, but just one game. Yeah. But Wendy's out right now. Yeah. I don't know how much the chat's going to put that into the equation. Yeah. Minnesota has the track record, you know, two straight conference finals is something, but they also have the glaring flaw in Mike Connolly being old as dirt and having no point guard to replace him.

But also, they've been dominating all these terrible teams, so their offensive rating is like top five. they're 8 and 0 against sub 500 teams and 0 and 5 against over 500 teams I'm seeing a little bit of caps yeah in here ooh oh right now

San Antonio Spurs have 37% of the votes this is the most dude this is the most even vote we've had yet 37% spurs 35% Nix I hope y'all go 36 35

we gotta let this one go this one is we gotta let this one go guys we gotta get as many votes as we can for this one because I can't end this one early now with 36% spurs 34% Nix Minnesota and Cleveland are eating some votes

They're saying that they're taking the vote Just to troll Chat everybody who voted for Minnesota or Cleveland I want you guys to change your vote To one of New York Knicks or Spurs We gotta get the true position here Between these two teams Seven game series right now

Imagine Wemby's healthy and Dylan Harper's healthy too Who's winning the series Between the Knicks and the Spurs If your vote is on Minnesota or Cleveland You're wasting your vote right now You're voting for the third party in the election Go ahead and put your vote to Texas and New York Who's winning that seven games

years between the two teams. I said that and now the Spurs are really building a lead. Obviously, I'm going to go with this. I have no idea because the match that they had where Brunson had like 60 something. Oh, that was last year, you're right. You're right. Yeah. Christmas?

No. Oh, that's it. So was that last year or two years ago? Winby 50 on Christmas last year. I think it was last year when Brunson put him 60. Oh, the vote. It's a chasm now. We got 40% to the Spurs, 33% to the Knicks.

We call that the final count. The Spurs, you worth the number 60%. team in the NBA. Nix, I'm sorry, you're falling out of the top six. Which, you know, for the team that was the preseason, odds on favorite, to win the Asian conference. This is not a great

place to be. It's not going great for you guys right now. This is where I think Atlanta finally enters a conversation. It feels right. Does it feel right? No, most definitely it is. We have all the top like four seeds in there already pretty much. Are we going with the Warriors or with the Hawks?

Hots are three seed right now. Hawks are 9 and 5, Warriors. Warriors are 96. We're going with the Warriors. Come on now. What the hell? Do you guys see this? Listen, you can get over the suns.

You're hard. You said the set of every team you said you said the sons. The vote for number seven is the next. Timberwolves. That's the next team. Calf and Warriors. Chat, where are we going with this one? You know, Steph Curry is into the picture.

He had two straight 45 point games over the Spurs who are number six right now, beat them twice in a row. Then they beat the Pelicans in which he had nine points. four rebounds five episodes. Not very good numbers. I'm talking about that. But, you know, the Knicks narrowly lost number six.

I can only imagine that they get number seven. I don't know. Steph Curry comes into the conversation. I can see people going with the Warriors. Thus far, we're getting a resounding Knicks victory. Through 250 votes. 53% Nix.

This is the biggest margin yet. Wow. But I will say, Golden State is getting more votes than the Cavs in Minnesota. Damn, we really don't give a damn about the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers.

The Cavs might not make this top 10. shit man and to be fair we're doing early season we add them to the mix to get the respect but in terms of what we've seen this far i understand the the hesitancy to forget about them yeah that being said they are still the three seats uh chat you should relax at some points i can understand they probably have the sight and thought process of if y'all let the phoenix sons get into this top 10 we got it got the next get number seven it was an utter blowout that was that was filthy it wasn't even close 52% was the final count you finally ought to put the hawks in here now. Okay, sure. We'll put the goddamn hawks.

They shut up about it. They got to be here. Minnesota, Cleveland, Golden State, and Atlanta is your new four. Are they going to go with Curry? Probably. I think I would go with either the words and the calves here. I mean, my bad, go the words are the T-Woles. Yeah, yeah. Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota's still here. They've been late. Cows been around forever. They're really being embarrassed, but the Timberwell has also been around for a while. I'll go, I'll go Minnesota at eight. no no hawks raptors now raptors are getting

the conversation soon we could listen I kind of feel I feel better about the raptors than do the hawks just because dude you're crazy I mean one's eight and five

one's nine and five I'm certainly not crazy come on now you're out of your mind you're fucking nuts you've lost it you're kind of stupid as fuck come on now

no I mean the hawks have an identity that they're full team I know this is who they are I mean the raptor that is the hawks thing's kind of fluky they're gonna get trade back they're gonna be a different team whether it'd be better or worse

Fluky Yeah, I mean They're just not They're not playing with trade It's not who they are Do we have a close one right now 35% Cleveland 34% golden state

Wow This is a nail biteer That's crazy Once again imagine you guys Who vote for these third party Independent candidates In Minnesota and ATL Put your vote somewhere

Where it matters Let me see the Cleveland versus Golden State finish Bolt at 35% Okay Okay Who's in edges out Probably Steph Curry

I would imagine we're probably edging curry but Cleveland is going to be closer behind You can't wait for that Can we change our votes I'm pretty sure you can't your votes Can't you?

I don't know Yeah you should be able Yeah you can you can't They're saying that they can't Oh you can't A wasted vote is a wasted vote Sorry guys You got to be deliberate

You voted for the green party My bad With that being said We're up to 36% Golden State Damn To 34% Cleveland with 350 votes Everybody please vote The Lights can go

he clearly still has it. Y'all there's 1,200 view in her right now. We got 900 passive voters that are not coming out to the ballot boxes to represent their counties. What do we have to do? Do we have something in TikTok?

Stay in line. Don't worry about it. I'm right here. I'm voting too. But they say they can't change your votes. That's unfortunate. With that being said, we have to 37% Golden State

over 32% Cleveland. The vote has been finalized. Golden State, you are the number 18. 18. Do I have to go get Meg Doste to be at the rally please what will move you people what mobilizes y'all okay the hawks were last in that vote actually they weren't into yet so Minnesota I read I read a comment that someone said that

but I thought they're they're serious so we got Minnesota we got Cleveland we have who was on it before Golden State Atlanta oh Atlanta's already it okay they were last my bad and then we'll add the Toronto Raptors okay just over since yeah I'm not I'm not forgetting anybody did I want to put the bucks in there? Yeah. No, Toronto Raptors are 8 and 5. Yeah. I'm not forgetting anybody.

Am I? No, we're not. The Sixers are 7 and 5. Oh, no, Minnie. I'm forgetting Minnie. Mini hasn't been picked yet. I forget about that. Oh, but they're on there.

Okay. Damn, I've been disrespectful. Too much. Mini, Cleveland, Atlanta, Toronto is your new four. You have two spots left, guys. Also, we put Toronto there at 8 and 5. Milwaukee's 8 and 6. Okay.

Well, we'll add to the last one. We'll see if they want to get put. You guys have two spots left. So, dig carefully with your vote. if you're going to be voting for some bullshit third party right now there's only two spots left so you're really going to be sacrificing an important vote

y'all listen if everybody in here votes if we get a thousand votes more will dance right now says who I think I'll have to donate the dance me I'll dance for free what you guys are in there colluding in the chat

you guys are jerrymandering my predictions I think they might go Cleveland or Minnesota I'm probably leaning towards Minnesota and thus far through 300 votes Cleveland is winning by God damn Lansley. Yeah, it's about time. Cleveland has 54%. We're going to go ahead and end this one early.

Close a voting polls. Move on to number 10. Stop the count. Stop the count. Finally, respects to Cleveland. I've been clamoring for it. Cleveland makes number nine. Okay.

And now Minnesota, now is your time. You would think. I can, okay, so the last spot, they're not respecting the Atlanta Hawks at all. Their spot isn't serious jeopardy. Let's think about teams that are below. That's crazy. The bucks, the sixers.

Okay, we'll put the bucks. We'll put Milwaukee. We don't got to put Toronto back. Toronto and Atlanta are getting no fucking votes. Miami. Miami should be on here. They are an interesting team. Ew.

And then do you want to put Philadelphia? People are seeing the Blazers. Boston. Do you guys really want to put Boston? We're not putting Boston. They're seven and seven. Jazz, Noah's Toronto.

We can't put the blazers on here. They're six and there. Come on. We'll keep Toronto on here. The Blazers are a game under 500. They have six wins. We'll keep Toronto. So the last one is Minnesota.

Milwaukee, Miami, and Toronto. We had to boots the Hawks just to see if maybe you guys gave some blood to the heat. It's Minnesota and the play-ins. The playing teams. Yeah. I think we know how this is going to end.

But we need to get some new life to some mission conference teams because Atlanta was giving absolutely nothing. Okay. And we got early returns. 62% Minnesota. Stop the count. It's over.

I'm calling it early. Mathematically, I'm sorry. It's impossible. Unless 600 of you guys vote, I'm pretty sure. last team here. It's going to be Minnesota. Wow. So we got OKC at 1, Denver 2, Houston

3, Detroit at 4, the Lakers at 5, Spurs at 6, 7 the Knicks, 8 Warriors, and the 9 Cleveland, 10, the T-Woles. You know what? It's not the worst thing in the world? I don't think I love

the Pistons there. I don't hate it. I feel like you have to respect Detroit a little bit. We're two weeks from our power rankings episode. I haven't thought about this at all. If we did it today, I think maybe it would do something similar.

This isn't crazy. Cleveland at 9 is too low, though. You guys need to stop thinking about the lights being too bright for Jared Allen. That's too low. They are still a 3C, despite being unhealthy. We've got to get them the same benefit that we're getting the Lakers for getting their starback.

Losing Darius Garland is huge. No, man. For chat, this isn't bad. The light's always too bright. Yeah, perpetually. So since Cleveland is bad. Yeah, they're not great, but they're better than nine. They're not their best version of themselves yet,

but nine yeah yeah but like i'm looking at that and i'm like you're right there's that's understandable maybe maybe eight like i don't know i'm not even taking cleveland over the warriors can't do it over the next of this first maybe nine's fair you know maybe that i mean that's the line for me i think