NPDS - Clippers give Thunder another gift! Is the Kawhi investigation over? Let's show some love to the Pittsburgh Pirates! (Episode 1440 Hour 1)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Next week will go Monday through Thursday! Mark your calendars! Today’s word of the day is ‘unintended’ as in unintended consequences as in the Golden State Warriors as in the Los Angeles Clippers. The biggest winners of the night didn’t even play! It’s the Oklahoma City Thunder, who get a lottery pick from the Clippers! Oh no! The Warriors move on and the Clippers title aspirations are over. (13:10) LaMelo Ball is not getting suspended. He got fined. That’s it. Should he have been suspended? (24:25) The Detroit Tigers have joined the ranks of rookie extensions. Kevin McGonigle gets $150 million! Interesting! (32:43) Review: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. (35:15) The Pittsburgh Pirates are hot! Where are the doubters now!? (43;40) Is LIV Golf over? Is it ending? Is Saudi Arabia pulling its funding? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Unintended. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Thursday, April 16th,
0:44.6	2026. There are some unintended consequences of last night's game between the Golden State
0:52.2	Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers,
0:54.3	and I'm here for it. So as you start your day, thinking about what could be better for the Oklahoma
1:01.8	City Thunder than the Los Angeles Clippers losing at home in a must-win game last night
1:09.0	against the formerly dynastic Golden State Warriors.
1:13.8	What could be better for Pablo Torre than watching the Clippers season go down in flames
1:20.6	as Kawhi Leonard ends another failed season as the purchased mercenary by Steve Balmer.
1:30.3	What could be better than picturing the best team in basketball,
1:36.3	the reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder,
1:40.3	as they wait to see who will their first round opponent be in the playoffs.
1:47.0	And they watched the game last night, and at the end of the game, they look at each other and smile.
1:53.6	Not because the Clippers got eliminated, though maybe, but because of the trades that the Oklahoma City Thunder were able to make
2:02.8	with the aforementioned desperate clippers.
2:07.5	When the Clippers didn't make the playoffs last night, the Thunder got their pick,
2:13.4	their lottery pick.
2:15.2	It's a lottery pick, which means when the lottery happens on your TV,
2:22.0	sometime in the next month or so, and you see a representative of the thunder on the panel with
2:29.3	Jamie Gertz, you will say to yourself, my oh my, this is weird. Do we have a system in the NBA for stall and to get rid of tanking?
2:40.5	Are we now giving lottery picks to the best teams in the game?
2:45.4	No, we're not.
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