Brian Windhorst Sizes up the Two Beasts in the NBA’s East

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The NBA’s Eastern Conference looks very, very different than it did just a few weeks ago. The Milwaukee Bucks rocked the basketball universe by shipping off Jrue Holiday to Portland in exchange for Damian Lillard, who everyone assumed would eventually end up on the Miami Heat. Holiday, meanwhile, found his way to Boston after the Celtics had already added Kristaps Porzingis. The result is two Eastern Conference powers who seem to be on a collision course. But is the NBA ever really that simple? And Philadelphia is still hoping to crash the party, though they’ll have to solve their James Harden problem first. Can they actually contend without him? Brian Windhorst returns for day two of our NBA season preview, and this time he tells us everything we need to know about the East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to take you back way back to a few weeks ago, the dog days of summer.
0:16.2	Back then, we thought we knew how the NBA's eastern conference was going to look.
0:21.9	Dame Lillard was going to get traded to the heat, boosting the conference champs back
0:26.9	to the finals.
0:28.5	The Celtics were going to re-tool with Kristast Porzinga's.
0:33.4	And the Milwaukee Bucks were going to run it back with the new coach and much of the
0:38.7	same roster they won the championship with two years ago.
0:43.3	Maybe that happened in some other part of the multiverse, but here, here the NBA follows
0:49.0	its own script.
0:51.0	Dame Lillard wound up in Milwaukee who essentially sent Drew Holiday to Boston.
0:57.0	And now, we have two mega powers in the east, on a collision course to see who's heading
1:02.8	to the finals in a few months.
1:05.4	A Bucks Celtics playoff showdown seems inevitable, but is it that simple?
1:15.8	Today, Brian Winhorse is here for part two of our NBA preview, where we break down this
1:22.3	new eastern conference rivalry and explore whether or not Philadelphia can realistically
1:28.6	overcome the drama that is James Harden and make their own run at the crime.
1:35.8	I'm David Dennis Jr. It's Wednesday, October 25th.
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