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First Take

Hour 2: Who's the NBA Title Favorites?

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Stephen A. Smith, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, and Monica McNutt debate if the Minnesota Timberwolves are the favorites to win it all. Mad Dog answers fan questions live using #AskFirstTake. It's Wednesday so you know Mad Dog has been waiting to tell us what he's mad about this week. The crew debates which postseason performance has been the most impressive so far: Jalen Brunson or Anthony Edwards? Lastly, the crew shares their live reaction to Austin Rivers' comments on whether NBA players could play in the NFL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, let's break this down Monica. Major moves for the W.

0:04.4

Who plans to commit, the WBA plans to commit 50 million over the next two years

0:08.8

to provide full-time charter flight service for its team during the season.

0:13.0

The League's Commissioner announced this Tuesday in a move that addresses years of

0:17.0

player safety concerns.

0:18.6

Let's be honest, plus delays, layovers, all the other nonsense that they should never have been dealing with

0:26.1

Monica it is about time. Molly I'm gonna take a cue from you as you thanked the

0:32.1

audience yeah first take I'm going to thank the

0:35.1

fan base both new and old that have been true to this in terms of supporting women

0:39.9

sports. The demand is undeniable. I'm sure Kathy Inglebert and team saw the outrage around

0:46.0

the conversation as more fans are finding out about salaries and about the things that

0:49.6

W. M. A players don't have that you think would be a given for professional

0:53.4

athletes. They will be have the opportunity to opt out of the CBA this year and

0:57.1

continue to renegotiate so that they can have better quality and support. But this to

1:00.7

me is a signal of what Cheryl Reeves said after a fan streamed a Chicago Sky

1:05.7

pre-season game and it went crazy. The league has to kept up in business as usual is no longer going to work because of the demand and the star

1:14.3

power of this new wave of athletes. So this is to me a big signal to this and a positive

1:19.8

fantastic thing. No disagreement there, but I've got two people that I'm going to highlight most to give credit to.

1:31.0

Three people.

1:32.0

One is the fan that videoed that Chicago

1:35.8

Sky Game. The other, who was the young lady that took video when during COVID when the men had this weight room available to them and they had

1:48.0

yeah Stephen A yep.

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