Kevin O’Connor Joins Toucher and Hardy | The Email Bit | The Stack - 6/4 (Hour 4)
Toucher & Hardy
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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(00:00) Kevin O'Connor joins the show to talk about the new NBA format. Is OKC the new Celtics? What can the Celtics do this offseason to win their 19th championship?
(19:14) Welcome to what’s often called the show’s standout segment—The Email Bit! Feel free to email any show member by clicking the link below. Next up, we’ll unpack the stories we didn’t get to with The Stack!
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | Toucher and Hardy |
| 0:08.8 | Such an entire thing |
| 0:09.9 | Exploed |
| 0:10.6 | 985, the Sportshouse |
| 0:12.6 | Today, big market, a small market |
| 0:14.6 | has been over, social media will carry it |
| 0:17.1 | the way the guys play will carry it |
| 0:19.8 | Shea versus Tyrese is a good matchup. We've got two young teams, running teams. Teams, there's two 11 threes. So everybody wants it to be here in New York and L.A. Well, apparently those teams ain't good enough for it to be there. So, you know, this is the way the cookie crumbles. It's the way it's always been. So small market, big market. |
| 0:39.5 | We want to see the best teams there and the best players. |
| 0:43.3 | Very insightful from Shaquille O'Neal. |
| 0:45.5 | All right. |
| 0:46.4 | We are Tudcher and Hardy. |
| 0:49.8 | And Kevin O'Connor has written a piece for the Yahoo Sports, who he covers the NBA for 2025 NBA Finals. |
| 0:58.6 | Thunder and Pacers are the modern blueprint of what winning looks like. |
| 1:02.6 | We've been talking about this because it does affect the Celtics as they have to navigate this new CBA and deal you know, deal with the injury to Tatum. |
| 1:12.0 | Kevin, hello, sir. |
| 1:13.2 | Thank you for joining us on short notice. I appreciate you guys. How, man? How are you doing this morning? We're good, but we had all read your article, and we went to Johnny Boy, who doesn't do much, to be honest. We went to him and we said, and he said, all text Kevin. |
| 1:27.4 | And we said, oh, Jesus Christ I'll text Kevin, and we said, |
| 1:27.9 | oh, Jesus Christ, let's hang on to this with two hands. This doesn't happen every day, so he |
| 1:33.1 | got you. Thank you. And thank you, I appreciate it. All right, so kind of explain the theory, |
| 1:38.4 | as you look at these two NBA finals teams, the way that are put together, the way they play, |
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