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The Lowe Post

Giannis' Injury, Knicks-Celtics, Playoff Seeding Possibilities, and the MVP Race

The Lowe Post

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4.77.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Zach asks injury expert Jeff Stotts about the extent of Giannis Antentokounmpo's injury and his potential recovery timetable. Then The Athletic's Mo Dakhil joins to discuss Knicks-Celtics, playoff seeding, and the MVP race. What will Giannis' recovery look like? (1:27) Dakhil (17:20) Does anything concern you about the Celtics? (21:03) Knicks are a joy to watch (24:26) Jrue Holiday extension (32:01) Bucks make a starting lineup change (36:34) Nuggets move into pole position in the West (45:12) MVP race is not over (51:45) West seeding possibilities (1:01:18) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now the Low Post.

0:03.0

Welcome to The Low Post podcast.

0:06.6

It's Thursday afternoon and it's never good news when we have Jeff Stots from

0:12.0

in street clothes and smart injury analytics on the

0:15.2

pod. My go-to source for whenever someone falls in a game, whenever something bad

0:21.4

happens in a game, I go to him he's got the database

0:24.6

he's got the knowledge he's got the athletic training background and obviously we're

0:28.6

on here talking two days after Janus attentive Kumpo in a Milwaukee blowout win over the Celtics, a win that the bucks really needed, crumpled to the floor,

0:37.5

non-contact injury was kind of jogging and just fell and sat and grabbed his left calf and walked off under his own power.

0:45.0

You know, needless to say on a human level, I think we were all a little scared,

0:50.0

free on a

0:53.0

a basketball level, it's not a stretch to say that this is a seismic event

0:58.0

that could swing the entire NBA championship picture as uneven as the bucks have been.

1:02.0

I still think at full health and who knows

1:04.6

if we'll ever get the bucks at full health. They are still the team, maybe the only team

1:09.3

positioned to challenge Boston in a seven-game series. I would pick Boston. I pick Boston and win the

1:14.0

title all season. I think Boston's better, but you simply cannot discount a team with

1:18.8

Yannus as an MVP candidate averaging 30 and 11 at the head of it. And look, well let's just start here.

1:26.8

Jeff Stots, what in the world is a solius and why have I not heard this word in my life

1:31.9

until two days ago and am I even saying it right?

1:35.2

You nailed it man. It sounds great. So the thing with the soleest injury specifically is you probably have seen it or covered this kind of

1:43.7

injury it's just been called a calf strain because the calf is a muscle complex and

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