Around the NBA with Tim Bontemps

Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA

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4.6 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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5R29- Tim Bontemps, NBA writer for the Washington Post, joins Ethan and Chris for this edition of the pod. We cover a variety of storylines from around the Association in this episode. (0:55) How Steph Curry’s Injury affects the NBA Playoffs, (10:00) The legitimacy of Houston’s 2018 title chances, (18:40) Cleveland’s status as favorite to win the east, (27:00) How Ethan and Tim vote for MVP, (30:45) Who are the biggest threats of the non-favorites in the NBA playoffs, (36:00) LeBron James is back in Miami tonight as we record. We look back on his move back to Cleveland 4 years later, and whether he made the right decision.

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0:54.4	everything secure. Welcome in to yet another edition of the Five Reasons podcast. My name
1:04.7	is Chris Whittingham, joined as always by Ethan Skullnick. And check out our episode from
1:09.2	yesterday from Eric Reed, the television voice of the Miami Heat,
1:13.0	telling some heat stories from way back in the day during the franchise's origins.
1:17.6	And of course, you can go back through all of our episodes on iTunes or on Google Play.
1:22.3	Today, we are joined by Tim Bontemps, who covers the NBA for the Washington Post, and he's kind enough to join
1:28.7	us here on the podcast. Tim, thanks for doing it, and we wanted to cover sort of a variety of
1:34.1	things around the NBA, but we have to start with the big news from over the weekend, the Golden
1:39.7	State Warriors. We find you today in San Francisco, and obviously the big talking point is Steph Curry,
1:46.2	his injury and Steve Curry revealing that he'll likely miss the first round of the playoffs.
1:51.2	This whole season has been kind of a weird one from Golden State's point of view because
1:55.1	they kind of really only get up for the playoffs. And it's kind of been a malaise over the, over the season of the Golden State
2:01.6	Warriors. I say this, of course, despite the fact they have one of the league's best
2:04.8	records and they're still near the top of the league. But what is this season and now the
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