Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Howard Beck and Raja Bell are back with another edition of Real Ones to review all the action from the Christmas Day games. The Lakers were blown out by the Rockets at home on Christmas Day 119-96. Is there a LeBron problem that might come to a breaking point before the season ends? The Thunder have lost four of their last six games with three of them being at the hand of the Spurs. Have the Spurs surpassed the Thunder in the West's hierarchy? Howard and Raja then discuss the rest of the action from Christmas Day, including Nikola Jokic’s 56-point outburst and Cooper Flagg’s development.

(0:00:00) Intro
(2:40) Raja’s playing days on Christmas
(7:28) FanDuel ad break
(8:43) Lakers’ disappointing Christmas game
(28:34) Amazon Prime ad break
(29:08) Thunder-Spurs rivalry
(43:35) Mavs-Warriors
(55:16) Cavs-Knicks
(58:07) Wolves-Nuggets
(1:00:26) Real One of the Week

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