Celtics Advance To Finals, Why Mavs Are Up 3-0 & Remembering The Transcendent Bill Walton

No Dunks

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Comedy, Basketball, Sports

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On Tue.'s No Dunks, the guys pay their respects to basketball legend Bill Walton (1952-2024) before discussing the Celtics rallying again to close out the Pacers for the 4-0 sweep, Jaylen Brown winning the East Finals MVP, and whether Porzingis will be ready to make an impact in the NBA Finals. That, plus takeaways from the Mavs dominant 3-0 series lead over the Wolves, Dereck Lively II's scary neck injury, Air Bud, and more. -- 🌹 Bill Walton, one of basketball's most eccentric characters, dies at 71: https://bit.ly/3UWPhb6 👕 Buy new No Dunks merch: https://www.nodunks.com 👀 Join our Playback room: https://www.playback.tv/nodunks 📈 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NoDunksInc ❄️ Cold open: Modis Memes: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLnpL8v5/ -- Today's episode of brought to you by: • Mack Weldon: Go to http://www.MackWeldon.com and get 20% off your first order with promo code NODUNKS

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0:00.0	Good morning,
0:11.5	and welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network,
0:15.8	A Fine Network.
0:16.6	It's Tuesday, May 28, 2004.
0:19.7	I'm Jay E. Skeets here in the Classic Factory, and alongside me, as always, Tass Melis. Podcast listeners, this is for you. Next to him, it's the bearded one. Matapsha Hot Boy, Trey Kirby. Hey, oh, hey, yo. And last but not least, making the magic happen. Super producer, JD. Hello. There he is, and here we are. On today's pod, we're going to discuss the Celtics,
0:38.9	sweeping the Pacers, heading back to the NBA finals. We'll break down why the Mavericks
0:43.8	are up 3-0 on the Wolves and whether they close it out tonight, and tweet of the night
0:49.1	is for the dogs. But we start with some sad news, and that is basketball legend Bill Walton,
0:56.8	who led the UCLA Bruins to two national titles before winning two championships during his
1:01.7	NBA career, has died at the age of 71 after a prolonged battle with cancer. Walton passed on
1:07.9	Monday while surrounded by loved ones.
1:13.2	Like I said, this guy was a champ at every level.
1:16.2	He was the number one pick in the 74 draft.
1:21.5	He was the MVP in the 77-78 season, two-time All-Star, one sixth man of the year,
1:24.3	in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993.
1:28.6	And he was still so much bigger than basketball.
1:32.6	He was larger than life, this guy, and it's been, you know, obviously unfortunate news and our condolences to his family and friends and fans, but the tributes that have poured in
1:37.7	for, again, this legend.
1:40.2	You're getting all the tributes from the basketball world and all of the tributes
1:43.9	from the Grateful Dead world.
1:45.4	Ah, man, I was sad yesterday.
1:47.1	It sounds dumb.
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