NBA One Guy (the East!), a Man City Punishment Primer, and Tom Cruise's Bomb

Bill Simmons opens the episode by asking J. Kyle Mann which rookie he's most excited to see in the upcoming NBA season. Mann picks Boozer as the "boring answer" but notes he had him number one at the end of the college season and that he's already "trimmed his body down" and was "doing winning Camboozer type of things" in preseason. But the conversation quickly pivots to Caleb Wilson, whom Mann describes as having had "the ceiling removed" for where his career could go, playing for a Bulls team with "a lot of runway for him to experiment and be messy because they're not in a hurry to be good."

One Guy Per Eastern Conference Team

Simmons and Mann go through every Eastern Conference team, picking one player each who fascinates them. For Chicago, Simmons picks both Caleb Wilson and Buzelis together, noting that training camp reports suggest they've already bonded and that "when the organization is like, 'oh shit, we have a guy'... it feels like that's happened already." For Atlanta, Simmons picks Lou Dort as a "contract year" player who gives them "physicality and something that they didn't have" and who will have "a huge chip on his shoulder" after Oklahoma City traded him.