NBA Today, Conference Tournaments Begin, and NFL QBs With New Team | The Ringer Gambling Show

March 12, 2026·38 min·3 clips

Max Crosby's trade was canceled, and the Ravens signed division rival Trey Hendrickson instead.

House is at Sawgrass. Tate starts with Raheem, nods to the absent golf regular, and gets the show moving through NFL talk before basketball takes over. March Madness is close, the NBA is in full swing, and Raheem treats the whole stretch like a gambler's buffet. Then the scoring-record argument takes over. Anyone who saw Kobe's 81 in real time knows why that number still feels loud. Wilt sits behind the whole conversation. Tate thinks the next jump can happen, but 100 probably needs overtime and the kind of late-game handling that makes people complain before the box score even cools off. Bam's big night gets a real defense. Raheem says people who came in at 70 mostly saw the messy ending, while the first quarter had the actual work hiding right there. The free throws matter. Forty-three trips to the line go into evidence, but they do not become the whole case, because the hosts keep pulling apart the brilliant game from the weird way it finished. The recent names make the idea feel less impossible. Luka's 73, Mitchell's 71, and Booker's 70 all say the ceiling is not as sealed as it used to feel. Raheem's pick is Wimby. He has the three-point range, the foul-drawing path, and the frame that makes an 80-plus night feel believable. Luka is still alive in the conversation too. The problem is that Luka also feeds everyone else, so he would need to come out hot and stay more selfish than usual. That is the fun part. They are talking basketball history, but the math is pure gambling-show math: who gets hot, who lives at the line, who refuses to stop shooting, and what number finally cracks?

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A brisk gambling show that moves from NFL chatter into an NBA scoring-record debate.

The Ringer Gambling Show starts with NFL talk, then drifts into March Madness and the NBA without losing much pace. Tate Frazier and Raheem Palmer keep it moving, and the best stretch comes when the conversation shifts from one roster move to the bigger question of who could…

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You get NFL chatter up top, then a real argument about who can chase 83.

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