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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

LeBron & Lakers beat Rockets, WNBA's "Too Online" issue, Giants trade Dexter Lawrence | 04.20

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Wave

Music, Sports, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Back from a week of vacation, Bomani Jones reacts to the opening weekend of the NBA playoffs, including LeBron James leading the Lakers over the Kevin Durantless Rockets, Nikola Jokic & the Denver Nuggets taking down Anthony Edwards & the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Knicks fiesty game 1 win over the Atlanta Hawks & much more. Later, he breaks down the discourse around the Dallas Wings drafting Azzi Fudd number 1 overall and whether questions about her relationship with Paige Bueckers are fair. Finally, he discusses the Giants trading Dexter Lawrence to the Bengals, the new Rock and Roll Hall of fame class and listens to a few listener voicemails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wave

0:02.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.

0:13.0

My name is Beaumani Jones.

0:15.0

Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

0:17.0

Thanks for watching us on YouTube.

0:18.0

Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We gave y'all episodes, but I was on the road last week. I saw y'all kind of went a little crazy on the topic that I get to in just a moment. But first, I'm going to be perfectly honest

0:38.1

with you. I decided I wanted to take a little time, so I went and took a little time,

0:43.4

but I specifically set it up so that I would be back here on the morning of April the 18th,

0:51.0

because the playoffs were going to start. And Ryan, I believe this is our first NBA

0:56.4

playoffs that we have done together. Oh, we were, we did a little bit last year. We were just

1:01.1

all, uh, pacer. This is the first, uh, start of the playoffs. That's right. The first start.

1:05.6

Okay. I'm bad. I am bad at remembering when exactly, um, we got this whole thing started.

1:10.8

For sure.

1:11.3

The beginning of the playoffs, hey, man, this is, people who follow me and have done my shows

1:16.8

for a while, they understand this.

1:18.0

Some people don't like to hear me when it gets to the point of complaining.

1:20.7

This is my absolute favorite time of the sporting calendar.

1:24.1

We have great basketball just about every single night, and it kicks my ass.

1:29.8

It is, it is a tough one when you get into them late nights, and them late nights start stacking

1:34.9

up, and they start stacking up, and they start stacking up, and people are like,

1:38.6

oh, you complaining about getting paid to watch basketball. Nope, I'm complaining about staying up late.

1:43.4

1040 tips on NBC.

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