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First Take

Hour 2: High on the Huskies?

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Hour 2! The crew is discussing both the men's and women's Final Four, will UConn reign supreme in both? Meanwhile, Pirates top prospect Konnor Griffin making his debut today, is it too soon? Hear what Stephen A has to say. Then we talk about who in the NBA can ACTUALLY win a championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome back to first taking a battle of the top three teams in the west.

0:35.0

The Lakers got blown out last night at the hands of the thunder by a final score of 139 to 96.

0:41.2

To make matters worse, Luca Donchish left the game with a hamstring injury in the middle of the third quarter, did not return as the Lakers suffered their seventh worst defeat in the team's history.

0:51.5

Yesterday on NBA today, Perk gave us his top five title contenders in the NBA, and they

0:57.0

went as follows.

0:58.0

Number one, we know this, the Spurs.

1:00.0

He thinks, well, I wanted to say cut down the nets, but win the chip.

1:03.0

OK, C is at two, Celtics at three, Nuggets at four, and then the Lakers at number five.

1:10.0

But how many teams can actually win the Larry O'Brien trophy in the NBA right now?

1:15.8

Stephen A, you saw Perks list.

1:18.1

How many teams do you think are actual title contenders?

1:21.3

I'm going to say seven, possibly eight.

1:25.4

And the reason I say that is because he didn't have the T-Wolves on the list. Okay? It's possible. What, man, what if he explodes? I mean, we can't just summarily dismiss that. He didn't have my Knicks on the list. Not that they deserve to be based on how they've looked lately. They only be in sub-500 teams, but damn it, they still are nicks. They were in these conference finals last year, the same talent that's on the squad this year.

1:47.2

I'm not going to summarily dismiss my nicks.

1:49.9

And I can't, even though I'm not pleased with how they guard, Cleveland can put up buckets

1:57.1

on anybody at any given moment.

2:00.2

So I would add those three teams into the mix because once again, it's not just

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