NBA Finals Preview | Hot Take Safe Zone
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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Zach Harper, Jay King, and Josh Huestis discuss the NBA Finals matchup between the Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics. Can the Celtics finish the job? Will Luka win Finals MVP? What is the hottest Finals take?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the BasketBuds edition of the Athletic NBA Show podcast here on The Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Zach Harper. That's Josh Houston. That's Jay King. And oh my God, we've got an NBA finals. |
| 0:14.4 | Subscribe to the balance. Subscribe to The Athletic. Theathletic.com slash the balance. Theathletic. |
| 0:19.0 | Get the best coverage of the NBA finals on the internet. |
| 0:22.6 | Gentlemen, we have the Celtics. |
| 0:24.0 | We have the Mavericks. |
| 0:25.8 | We have just narratives out the ass right now. |
| 0:31.9 | More narratives you can shake a stick at. |
| 0:35.0 | One of my favorite things I've found in writing the bounce last night, |
| 0:38.8 | it's just a fun little factoid. |
| 0:42.7 | Al Horford was drafted June 28, 2007. |
| 0:48.8 | Why does that date meaningful? |
| 0:51.6 | Because on June 29th, 2007, the first iPhone was available for purchase. |
| 0:56.7 | That is how long Al Horford has been doing this. |
| 0:59.3 | Literally drafted a day before the iPhone. |
| 1:02.6 | Yes, a day before the iPhone. |
| 1:04.7 | Put that in the bounce. |
| 1:05.7 | I was, oh my God, I couldn't have been happier finding that out. |
| 1:08.5 | Because I was thinking I was like, oh, he was in 2007. Oh, that it's about the time the iPhone dude I wonder if it was like close at literally a day |
| 1:14.7 | so great you could have Al Horford getting his first ring Tatum and brown getting their first |
| 1:20.2 | rings Luca getting his first ring Kyrie getting his second and doing it against the |
| 1:26.1 | Celtics franchise the Celtics fan base that hates him so much. |
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