Hoops Tonight - 5 NBA Reactions: Tatum makes Celtics CONTENDERS, Lakers need more Reaves less LeBron, Rockets ISSUES
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Jason reacts to a fun weekend of NBA games and gives five big takeaways including how Jayson Tatum makes the Boston Celtics title contenders immediately; the Los Angeles Lakers need Austin Reaves to be their second option after Luka Doncic, not LeBron James; how the Cleveland Cavaliers and James Harden have a Celtics problem; the Houston Rockets’ issue with Alperen Sengun's defense; and how Cade Cunningham's Detroit Pistons have slipped.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.3 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.9 | All right. |
| 0:20.5 | All right. All right. All of you guys had an incredible weekend. We have a quick show today. I'm just going to go over five big takeaways from a jam-pack weekend of NBA basketball. You guys know the Joe before we get started. Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don't miss any more of our videos. Make sure you like this video and sign up for post notifications. |
| 0:38.8 | That helps us a lot. |
| 0:53.6 | And last one at least, if you guys want to get mailbag questions into our mailbag for Friday, drop them in the comments under either full episodes on YouTube and we'll get to them in our weekly mailbags throughout the rest of the season. All right, let's talk some basketball. First big takeaway from the weekend. |
| 0:54.6 | Jason Tatum is going to make Boston so much better against the best teams in the league. |
| 1:01.8 | First of all, it was great just to see Jason Tatum back out on the court. |
| 1:06.0 | Starting with Friday, I watched both of his games from this past weekend. |
| 1:09.6 | It's just a truly remarkable feat. I did read |
| 1:12.8 | that there's been a lot of great advancements in Achilles surgery over the course of the last |
| 1:17.2 | few years. And it's not terribly uncommon for guys to come back relatively quickly, but still, |
| 1:22.9 | less than 10 months after a devastating injury like that for him to make it back the way that he did. |
| 1:27.3 | I just thought was a testament to just the type of guy that Jason Tatum is, that he wasn't |
| 1:32.7 | going to be derailed by something like this. But I was talking about this concept like Boston |
| 1:38.3 | against the best teams with Colin Coward last week. Boston has had a remarkable season. |
| 1:43.6 | They've had incredible metrics. |
| 1:44.9 | They're the second best net rating team in the league behind Oklahoma City. |
| 1:49.2 | They are the fourth best record in the league. |
| 1:52.6 | But they've had some losses this year against the better teams in the league that |
| 1:56.0 | haven't looked good. |
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