Hour 2: Heat of the Moment

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🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode, Stephen A. Smith. Kendrick Perkins, and JJ Redick recap Game 1 of the NBA Finals and discuss what Miami needs to do in order to even the series this weekend. Plus, the guys give their biggest takeaways from Adam Silver saying the NBA's ruling on Ja Morant will come after the NBA Finals. JJ presents us with an updated A-List of the top-5 hardest players to guard in the NBA. Perk and JJ are always going at it on our show, but will they put their differences aside to jump out of a plane together? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Niko Yogi's got a triple double and it's NBA final debut.
0:03.3	Jamal Murray scored 26 points and the Nuggets had little trouble with the cold shooting
0:07.0	heat on the way to a 104-93 win in game 1 on Thursday night.
0:10.2	Yogi's finished with 27 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds for the Nuggets who waited 47
0:14.9	years to make the finals and trailed for all of 34 seconds and eventually led by his
0:20.1	many as 24.
0:21.1	The heat attempted just two free throws, the fewest in playoff game.
0:24.7	In NBA history, the flip side was the heat's lack of free throws.
0:29.0	The Nuggets committed only eight personal fouls that's four fewer than any other team
0:33.2	and finals history.
0:35.2	Here's Bam, post game.
0:36.2	Bam, I promise I'm not trying to get you fined with two foul shots, 20.
0:43.6	It's quite a discrepancy but it doesn't seem like you guys are complaining about the
0:47.2	officiating.
0:48.2	If I do say something, will you take the fire?
0:50.2	I'll push you up.
0:53.2	We can't even get into that.
0:55.3	We can't let them dictate the game.
1:01.5	I just feel like we took a lot of jump shots and we missed a lot of them instead of getting
1:07.2	to the basket.
1:08.2	All right, Jay, what must the heat do to even this series?
1:13.2	Well, I just want to be clear on this free throw discrepancy.
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