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Are the Spurs the Biggest Winner of a Chaotic First Round? | Group Chat

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Justin, Rob, and J. Kyle Mann open by recapping the Spurs' winning weekend in Portland. Then they break down the rest of this weekend’s playoffs matchups, including Jokic’s meltdown, the trust level of Eastern Conference teams, and the Pistons meeting their match in Orlando. (0:00) Intro (3:51) Fan Duel ad break (4:28) - Spurs-Blazers (28:09) Injuries Mounting in the Playoffs (30:55) - Is the door open for the Spurs to improbably win it all? (35:28) - Men’s Wearhouse ad break (36:10)- Jokic’s confrontation with Jaden McDaniels (42:16)- Is Jokic the greatest player of all time? (50:24) - Wolves’s playoff performance (54:52) - Cavs-Raptors (57:33) - Messiness in the East Hosts: Justin Verrier, Rob Mahoney, and J. Kyle Mann Producers: Victoria Valencia and Stefan Anderson Production Supervision: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Additional Production Support: John Richter and Chris Wohlers The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. When you need your fit to deliver, we’ve got you. Shop Men's Wearhouse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Verrier and joining me the two biggest

0:20.5

underwear thieves

0:21.5

west of the Mississippi

0:22.8

Rob Mahoney, J. Kyle, man.

0:26.1

Guys, where's Nicola Yokic's boxers?

0:30.0

Who did it?

0:31.1

You weren't supposed to bring this up.

0:32.4

I thought we had a cone of silence

0:33.9

around this particular issue.

0:35.0

Did we not?

0:36.8

I mean, well, the good thing is you

0:38.9

ended up finding them. If you read the leads of the athletic story, it really was like a moment

0:44.5

of panic and in which he like accused apparently someone of actually thiefing his his boxers,

0:51.7

which kind, who's to say? Didn't get that detail. But yeah, he just ended up finding them. So crisis averted. Crises averted. Shout to Jason Quick of the athletic and really sports writers everywhere because as soon as you hear that Nicola Yokic has lost his underwear. It's like, how do I make this elite? How do I tie this into the on-court embarrassment that has been the

1:11.4

Nuggets versus the wolves? And he threaded the needle, I got to say. Yeah, was this an over-eager

1:16.9

like laundry person, but also you're in the situation for where you're Yokic, where you can't

1:22.2

entirely rule it out because, you know, people, people be crazy about these NBA stars.

1:27.1

You know, it's like,

1:27.7

what do they want to, what, what level of memorabilia is too low for somebody who's

1:33.3

interested in Nicola Yokic, you know? So it'd be easy to accuse him of being paranoid and crazy,

1:39.4

but you can't totally rule it out when you're a former MVP, right? I don't know. So you're saying there might literally be jock sniffers out there? No, I'm just saying, you know, if, well, yeah, we've all, we've all been on the internet, you know, we've all learned that even on Twitter these days, one errant click can can take you down a main street that you don't want to be a part of. So I don't know if I've been on on that internet.

2:01.9

Our algorithms are very different, Kyle.

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