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First Take

Hour 2: Skip Ranks His Top 10 NBA Players of All Time!

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

First Take resumes with Skip's egregious, blasphemous, abominable Top 10 list. Check out how many guys he has over LeBron! (0:00) Then, Seth Rollins ROASTS Skip for all of his atrocious LeBron takes! (15:00) Next, Defend Your Take! Stephen A. and Skip look back on some of their craziest takes of all time! (22:00) Finally, we're going back to Skip's Top Ten! Stephen A. can't get over LeBron being ranked nine. Skip won't budge. The bubble championship was "Mickey Mouse." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:04.4

Mom!

0:05.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:07.8

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:13.6

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.1

Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.4

So its phones down, forks up.

0:25.5

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:31.4

The NBA conference semis continue Saturday night on ABC.

0:35.2

Game three is the Thunder TIG on the Lakers with tip off at 8.30 Eastern.

0:39.4

Coverage begins with NBA tip off at 8, catch it on ABC, and as always the game also available on the ESPN app.

0:46.2

Speaking of those Lakers, they fell to the Thunder last night, 125-107 in game two, falling behind two games to none in this series.

0:53.6

Austin Reeves bounced back with a 31-point performance,

0:56.8

while LeBron, coming off a 27-point performance in game one, followed it up with 23.

1:01.8

But Oklahoma City's depth and firepower just proved to be too much to overcome.

1:05.4

The Thunder got 48 points from their bench alone and had six-player score and double figures

1:10.4

in a dominant

1:11.5

all-around performance. After the game, Skip Bayliss, who is sitting to my left, went on

1:16.8

Twitter, X, whatever it is, and he posted this tweet. And Skip, I can't even read it. It's so

1:21.6

ridiculous. Go ahead. So ridiculous. Ridiculous. So right. It's so truthful. LeBron played exceptionally well tonight.

1:30.2

Longevity Goat.

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