Ep. 79: The Durant Ripple Effect With Tim Bontemps

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🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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The Ringer's Chris Vernon is joined by The Washington Post's Tim Bontemps to discuss witnessing Kevin Durant's injury firsthand (5:00), the importance of the 1-seed in the West (8:00), Matt Barnes's role on the Warriors (18:00), LeBron's loss in Boston (23:00), contenders in the East (28:00), and Joel Embiid's injury-riddled career (33:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by our college basketball podcast, TEDUP!
0:05.5	As March Madness quickly approaches, make sure you catch Mark Titus and Tate Frazier
0:09.8	on the Ringer University podcast.
0:12.2	You can subscribe to Ringer University by going to iTunes.com slash the Ringer, or wherever
0:18.7	you get podcast.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Ringer NBA show I'm Chris Vernon and joining me today is the National
0:35.5	NBA writer for the Washington Post years Tim Bond-Temps.
0:38.7	Bond-Temps!
0:39.7	Hello!
0:40.7	Hey man, thanks for coming on.
0:43.3	Alright, so you're in the arena the other night when Durant goes down against the wizards.
0:48.8	Your immediate reaction when you see Petulia go into him and then it ends with Durant
0:54.1	hobbling to the locker room.
0:56.7	Honestly, I didn't see it at first.
0:58.4	I was trying to figure out what happened.
0:59.8	I saw kind of the aftermath of him, you know, kind of grab it at his knee.
1:03.7	And it's ironic, the way the seating is set up at the Verizon Center in Washington,
1:09.6	and I was sitting with the people right about the warriors.
1:12.3	So as I was by the warriors bench and you're seated right above the tunnel when the guys
1:18.6	come out on the court.
1:19.6	So we got a clear look at Kevin.
1:22.3	He'd walk right under us as he walked out.
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