Goodbye to Boylen, Vlade, Gentry & hello to NBA playoffs
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Ben Golliver and Michael Pina open by recapping a busy weekend on and off the court. Jim Boylen is out in Chicago, Vlade Divac is out in Sacramento, and Alvin Gentry is out in New Orleans. Will Boylen ever get a second chance? Did Luka Doncic cost Vlade his job? What will the Pelicans look for in their next coach? From there, Ben and Michael recap Portland's play-in win by discussing Ja Morant's upside and Damian Lillard's growing legacy. They close by selecting their most likely first-round upsets, with Michael making a pick that is sure to enrage Lakers fans everywhere.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, OpenForeglow. This has been Galver with the Washington Post. I am joined on the |
| 0:05.4 | other line by Michael the Pada Pena of the internet and also GQ where the coverage has been |
| 0:11.1 | phenomenal. Michael, we are talking on a Monday morning. I am proud to announce that within a |
| 0:16.8 | couple hours, the 2020 NBA playoffs are set to tip off. There's going to be four games every day |
| 0:23.2 | for basically the next week. It's more basketball than any human being could reasonably consume. |
| 0:29.3 | So if you're listening to this on Tuesday, just realize we're very excited about the Philadelphia |
| 0:34.8 | 76ers 35 point blowout win over the Boston Celtics just as excited as you are. It just took |
| 0:40.5 | place a couple hours after we've taped. Michael, I'm not so worried about that scheduling because a lot |
| 0:46.1 | of stuff happened over the weekend. There was a lot of high profile firings and as well as the |
| 0:52.1 | Western conference play in game, you know, they love to fire people, Michael, on Friday afternoon. |
| 0:57.3 | They try to do that news done, but you're not slipping past us here at the open floor. We are all |
| 1:02.6 | over it. We are ready to break down your major personnel moves that you are hoping we would just |
| 1:08.1 | forget about guys. We're all over it. Let's start. Arguably the biggest one or at least the one |
| 1:14.1 | that got the most attention, the Chicago Bulls finally fired coach Jim Boylin after two troubled |
| 1:21.8 | losing seasons near mutinies, you know, punch clocks in the practice facility. There was a lot of |
| 1:27.6 | twists and turns with his tenure there in Chicago. Michael, I'm curious. Was this the first time |
| 1:34.4 | that one of the non bubble teams succeeded in kind of penetrating the bubble and overshadowing |
| 1:40.0 | the bubble there, even if it was only for about six hours? I feel like Boylin got a lot of attention |
| 1:46.2 | on social media. Yeah, this one, I mean, I don't think it was a surprise to anybody. I think the |
| 1:52.9 | biggest factor of why it was so notable is just that like it took so long for it to happen. So maybe |
| 2:00.4 | people were starting to lean towards the possibility that Boylin would keep his job there in Chicago, |
| 2:07.3 | but like the writing has felt like it's been on the wall for a long, long, long time. |
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