East Preview: Contenders, Playoff Locks, Play-in teams and the Cellar Dwellers

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Basketball Buds, Zach Harper, Tray Edwards, Dave DuFour, Mo Dakhil, Rich Hofmann and Jay King (from a wedding in Massachusetts) gather to preview the Eastern Conference. Who's in, who's out? Who might make it, who might miss the cut. Commence, The Order: ORLANDO Magic, INDIANAPOLIS Pacers, TORONTO Raptors, NEW YORK Knicks, DETROIT Pistons, ATLANTA Hawks, CHARLOTTE Hornets, CLEVELAND Cavaliers, BOSTON Celtics (with the Kid), CHICAGO Bulls, PHILADELPHIA 76ers, MIAMI Heat and the MILWAUKEE Bucks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Athletic MBA Show, one day through Friday, on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:10.0	This is the basketball Buds.
0:20.0	Welcome to the basketball Buds edition of the Athletic MBA Show Podcast on the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:35.0	I'm Zach Harper. We got a full squad, but a different squad today.
0:40.0	Because James Edwards III is traveling.
0:43.0	J. King is at a wedding, allegedly the 13th wedding he's been to in the last month.
0:49.0	Is he a priest? I don't know. I don't know what's going on with him. I don't know if he's marrying these people.
0:54.0	I don't know if he's like giving them away, but he's at too many weddings.
0:57.0	But we are going to try to check in with a hopefully drunk J. King at some point during the either the ceremony or the reception.
1:04.0	But we are previewing the Eastern Conference for the upcoming 21-22 season.
1:11.0	Western Conference preview will be done on Tuesday by the tampering edition of the Athletic MBA Show Podcast.
1:16.0	So we got me, Zach Harper, we got Mohdakiel, we got Rich Hoppen, we got Trevon Edwards.
1:21.0	We got Dave DeFour, Jade Hoy is producing.
1:24.0	And we're going to do this with a favorite of our friend Seth Bartner.
1:29.0	We're going to do tears, gentlemen.
1:32.0	Tears of all the, not crying tears, just ranking tears.
1:37.0	Thanks, Seth. Actually loves it when you say that they're rankings.
1:40.0	Well, they are rankings because tears do get ranked.
1:42.0	So that's the thing that I don't understand about Seth's hesitancy to say that they are rankings.
1:47.0	I mean, he has his player rankings that he busts into tears.
1:50.0	And these are rankings as well, just for the teams.
1:52.0	And so that's right.
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