5 Questions for the NBA Finals
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Sam Amick, Fred Katz and Anthony Slater discuss 5 questions heading into the NBA Finals
1. Key matchup
2. Which role player needs to step up for Boston to win? Same with GSW?
3. Stat to watch
4. Which defense is more dominant (with health being considered too)?
5. LEGACY: Yeah, we're doing it. If Steph/Klay/Draymond win it, what does that mean? Ditto for the Tatum/Brown/Smart trio that would put Boston ahead of the Lakers with an 18th trophy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.7 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:12.6 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:15.8 | Sam and Amy. |
| 0:19.0 | To be able to bring people together |
| 0:21.1 | reportedly at the center of an NBA investigation |
| 0:25.1 | into tampering accusations |
| 0:26.6 | and the message to the executive in the league |
| 0:28.5 | is not talking about players on other teams |
| 0:30.4 | what did I do? |
| 0:31.0 | The charges filed impermissible contact |
| 0:33.3 | right or wrong |
| 0:34.0 | tampering charges are really difficult to prove |
| 0:36.4 | you know me I talk |
| 0:37.4 | It's awkward to even talk about I can't even mention deans anymore Right or wrong. Tampering charges are really difficult to prove. You know me? I talk. |
| 1:01.2 | It's awkward to even talk about. Can't he mention Deans anymore? Ask me what I like to play with Cameron to rain. Try all your one with the ones. Is that where I decide? Hey, man, we don't have to have tamper with the guys. I didn't tamper. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm Sam Amick, NBA National Writer at The Athletic. |
| 1:08.7 | Here as always with Fred Katz out east, Anthony Slater, out west. |
| 1:13.9 | Gentlemen, we got NBA finals time. NBA finals time, man, it's an exciting time of year we got Boston we got Golden State we watched that game last night and that's |
| 1:19.0 | been well chronicles I think at this point on this podcast network how that went down so we're |
| 1:24.1 | not going to hit the rewind button too much in terms of how the Celtics survived we want to spin it forward but uh immediate quick thoughts before we get into we're |
| 1:32.2 | going to do five questions break this thing down from every single angle and and see how you guys |
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