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Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA

Marc Stein on NBA Playoffs, Riley, Wade/Dirk

Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA

Five Reasons Sports Network

Sports, Basketball

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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5R188- Ethan and Chris are joined by Marc Stein, Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA reporter for The New York Times, to discuss everything going on in the NBA. We cover what's going in the playoffs through the prism of free agency, some of the details of the Jimmy Butler trade saga with Miami, Kevin Durant's pending decision, and much more.

Plus, Stein and Wittyngham commiserate over Man City's devastating exit from the UEFA Champions League yesterday.

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1:02.2

Welcome in to another edition of the Five Reason's podcast. My name is Chris Whittingham,

1:05.8

joined as always by Ethan Skolnik. You can find everything that we're doing in the Five Reason Sports Network

1:10.7

in our new website, Five Reason Sports.com. You can check out all of our podcasts, all of our written

1:16.1

content, and how you can contribute to anything it is that we are doing here in the Five Reason Sports Network.

1:21.9

But today, we want to talk some NBA. We're joined by Mark Stein, NBA Insider for the New York Times. He's kind of takes some time

1:28.6

during this very busy NBA playoff period. Mark, how you doing, sir? Guys, I'm good. All good.

1:33.9

We kind of want to sort of obviously go through these playoffs and what's been going on so far in

1:37.9

round one, but a little bit through the prism of, I think, what a lot of people view this stuff through, which is what's going to happen in future. Sometimes it's not always about the basketball. It's about what happens after that.

1:47.2

I want to start first. The team that I find most interesting right now is the Los Angeles

1:50.3

Clippers, obviously having pulled off, that remarkable comeback coming back from 31 points down.

1:55.1

I actually just watched it because I fell asleep that night and I hadn't had the chance to watch the full-length highlight

2:02.3

of it. But in terms of the clippers and what they are in terms of a building organization

2:06.2

that kind of knows what they're doing now, how attractive are they to potential future free agents

2:12.1

and specifically to Kauai Leonard? Well, look, I mean, the chatter has been so steady about the clippers being in the

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