Can the Lakers’ Season Be Saved? Storylines from the NBA’s Home Stretch

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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As the NBA regular season winds down, there’s plenty of drama unfolding across the league. In Los Angeles, LeBron and the Lakers’ experiment continues to implode, hampered by injuries and a porous defense. Is there enough time for the team to bounce back and sneak into the postseason? And in the Eastern Conference, where Kyrie Irving is now free to play in Brooklyn’s home games: could the Nets be the most dangerous last-team-in in NBA postseason history? Brian Windhorst helps us parse through these questions and more, as we inch closer to the NBA playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:09.8	Such we can't fit over the damp hop and put a W on the boards while we need it.
0:17.0	But our guys spirit is really pure and they're fighting a good fight.
0:22.0	We just keep falling short.
0:23.6	I'm sucks telling these guys every game.
0:31.5	Probably a good effort.
0:34.8	That's the voice of Laker's coach Frank Vogel, who currently finds himself feeling like
0:39.1	both Cicifus and Stuart Smolley, offering his players these daily affirmations about how
0:45.3	they're good enough and smart enough and also still totally unable to get that playoff
0:51.4	with Boulder over that damn hill.
0:54.6	So today, with the NCAA tournament officially behind us and only a handful of games left
1:00.0	in the NBA's regular season, we ask Brian Windhorse to be our playoff myth buster, separating
1:06.0	frauds from contenders in the East and West.
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