LaMelo Fine Not Enough? + FULL Playoff Preview & NBA’s Year Awards Ruling

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Basketball, Sports

3.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to LaMelo Ball’s fine for his incident with Bam Adebayo and discuss if he should have been suspended. Then, we tackle the NBA’s ruling to allow Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham to be eligible for end of season awards. Finally, we do a full preview of every playoff series in the Eastern and Western Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.0	Hello welcome the hoop collective podcast we talk about NBA, which we are doing on Thursday afternoon.
0:39.9	Joining us from New York City, just back from Philadelphia,
0:42.7	when he saw the 76ers, Knock the Orlando Magic to the eight-seat game,
0:47.7	is Tim Bottops.
0:49.5	Hello, everybody.
0:50.9	Good vibes in Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday. There were good vibes in
0:57.2	Xfinity Mobile Arena and I have a comment about it, but I'll wait until we introduce our
1:03.4	co-host here. Well, that's joining us from Los Angeles, California, where he did not
1:09.7	attend what could have been the last great moment of Steph Curry's career is Ben McMahon.
1:15.8	Howdy, partners.
1:17.0	I could give a band sleep update, but, you know, I don't want to.
1:21.2	By the way, I wouldn't have gone either, just for the record.
1:23.3	It's all right.
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1:26.1	It's good.
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