Hoops Tonight - NBA regular season reaction: Spurs DISASTER, Thunder ready for title run, can LeBron carry Lakers?
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jason reacts to the end of the NBA regular season and the playoff bracket being set. He discusses how the San Antonio Spurs hurt their title chances by benching Victor Wembanyama in their regular season finale against Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets, why Shai Gilgeous-Alexander deserves MVP, how good the OKC Thunder roster is (in response to Bill Simmons), the Eastern Conference playoffs setting up in a fun way for Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics, whether LeBron James will carry the Los Angeles Lakers against Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, and more.
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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. |
| 0:20.5 | Welcome to Hoops tonight here at the Volume Heavy Monday, everybody. |
| 0:23.2 | Hope all of you guys had an incredible weekend. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, we have a good chunk of our playoff field set. |
| 0:29.6 | We have our top six seeds in both conferences set. |
| 0:32.2 | We have four playoff series set, obviously waiting on some play in results. |
| 0:36.8 | But as is always the case on Monday, |
| 0:39.4 | I want to start with 10 big takeaways from this basketball weekend. We have a jam-packed week |
| 0:45.4 | for the show. We have Nick Wright coming on the show tomorrow. We have Brian Winhorst coming on the show |
| 0:50.9 | later this week. We have eight series previews we're going to get to before we get to Saturday. But today, I just want to kind of go big picture and talk about my initial thoughts as we head into the postseason. You guys know the joke 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. That helps us a lot. |
| 1:11.2 | And last but not least, you guys want to get mailbags, |
| 1:13.0 | mailbag questions into future mailbags, drop them in our full episodes on YouTube. And we'll get to them throughout the rest of the postseason. All right, let's talk some basketball. So my number one big takeaway from this basketball weekend, the spurs might have just cost themselves the title |
| 1:27.5 | by doing one of the stupidest things |
| 1:30.2 | I have ever seen an NBA team do. |
| 1:33.7 | Very rarely do you see things line up in a way to where a single regular season game |
| 1:41.7 | is as straightforward and important as last night's Denver |
| 1:46.6 | San Antonio game. You regular listeners of the show will remember that over the last few weeks, |
| 1:52.5 | we have had some important regular season games. I talked about the second Lakers Rockets game |
| 1:59.7 | as being something that was super important to the three seed. |
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