Hoops Tonight - GAME 1 REACTIONS: Spurs-Blazers, Celtics-76ers, Thunder-Suns, Pistons-Magic | NBA Playoffs
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Jason reacts LIVE after Sunday's Game 1s in the first round of the NBA playoffs. He breaks down the matchups between Victor Wembanyama's San Antonio Spurs and Deni Avdija's Portland Trail Blazers, Jaylen Brown & Jayson Tatum's Boston Celtics and Tyrese Maxey's Philadelphia 76ers, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's OKC Thunder and Devin Booker's Phoenix Suns, Cade Cunningham's Detroit Pistons and Paolo Banchero's Orlando Magic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | The Volume. |
| 0:19.9 | All right, welcome to Hops Tonight here at The Volume. |
| 0:22.1 | Happy Sunday, everybody. |
| 0:23.1 | Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. |
| 0:24.9 | Well, the first weekend of NBA Playoff Hoops is in the books. |
| 0:28.6 | We've seen every one of the teams play. |
| 0:31.0 | We're going to be covering all four of today's Sunday games. |
| 0:34.6 | You guys know the Joe before we can start. |
| 0:35.8 | Subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel. We're on our road to 150,000 subs. It would mean the world to me. You guys would take a second to scroll down and hit that subscribe button. If you're already subscribed, if you could like this video, if you could sign up for post notifications, that helps us a lot. And last minute at least, you guys want to get mailbag questions and drop them in the full |
| 0:54.4 | episodes and we'll get to them in mailbags throughout the rest of the season. |
| 0:57.1 | All right, let's talk some basketball. |
| 0:59.0 | So starting with Spurs Blazers. |
| 1:01.1 | So every year before the postseason, myself and basically everybody else who does this for a living |
| 1:06.8 | starts to make predictions. |
| 1:08.8 | We take a look at whatever happened in the regular season, |
| 1:12.1 | and we try to guess what will happen. But then we watch the games, and we see the dynamic |
| 1:17.5 | actually in practice. And sometimes I'll have a prediction before a series, and I'll go, |
| 1:23.7 | yeah, I thought that would be a problem, and it turns out it's a big problem. |
| 1:33.2 | We're going to see a dynamic like that that we're going to talk about in the Magic Piston series in the next segment. |
| 1:38.7 | Other times, I go into a series thinking a team can present a potential problem, |
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