HR 1: Can the Lakers Take a Two Game Lead?
Mason & Ireland
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4.5 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:30.1 | Ah! |
| 0:31.5 | I totally missed everything. |
| 0:34.7 | I was hearing weird noises. I didn't know where they were coming from. |
| 0:38.4 | What is going on? Oh, good afternoon, by the way. Good afternoon. What is up? Yeah, we were doing before the growl. We don't wear headphones for that. No headphones. Hey. But, big night. We're back. We're on the radio. Big night. Big night. Game to Mason and Emily do not believe. |
| 0:56.8 | Brian and I are believers. We think that even with Kevin Durant, no problem, right, B.C.? That's right. Come on. Too well, lead. So let's talk about, first of all, the Kevin Durant of it. You said that Michael believes that he's going to, by the way, Michael and Pepe both going to be here today. So we'll lead up to game two. He just believes you're going to say. Yeah. Michael thinks Michael has a flaw. Okay. He thinks people care about playing as much as they did when he played. Okay. And we both know that's not. That is not the same. Kevin Durant is injured. Like he can't imagine that Kevin Durant would miss two playoff games in a row. So he comes to the conclusion that 100% Durant is playing. What he doesn't understand is there's no more Kobe Bryant. No, no. But, I mean, in Kevin Durant's case, I know what you're going to say. I'm Kevin Durant's case, all these doctors have said it's pain tolerance. It is about pain tolerance. And I was talking to somebody about it yet. Kobe would play through it. Right. If it's pain tolerance, Kobe could deal with pain. I don't know if Kevin Durant's going to do that or not. I also think you're just assuming somebody else's pain level because none of us are in Kevin Durant's body. And so maybe he really can't play. Like, I don't know. I don't like people throwing around that they think that they're faking that they're that they had that much pain. Okay. But if it is just pain tolerance, as opposed to... That he can't hurt himself any further. |
| 2:18.3 | Can't hurt himself any further. |
| 2:19.2 | Don't we have Dr. Clapper coming on today? |
| 2:21.1 | Yeah. |
| 2:21.2 | You can ask. much pain. Okay. But if it is just pain tolerance as opposed to... That he can't hurt himself any further. |
| 2:18.3 | Can't hurt himself any further. Don't we have Dr. Clapper coming on today? You can ask him about this. Yeah. I mean, if it's just pain tolerance, deal with the pain, there are guys that will deal with pain and there are guys who are less likely to deal with it. But I also think that doesn't make them any less of a great player. I didn't say he wasn't a great player. |
| 2:35.0 | I didn't say he wasn't a great player. |
| 2:35.0 | I didn't say he wasn't a great player. |
| 2:36.4 | But it would be strange to see Kevin Durant miss back-to-back playoff games. |
| 2:42.4 | With an injury that can't hurt him any further. |
| 2:45.2 | Right. |
| 2:45.5 | Especially this late in his career. |
| 2:47.7 | How many more times is Kevin Durant going to be in the playoffs? |
| 2:51.5 | How many more opportunities? |
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