Ownership Update Changes Future Of Celtics & Lakers? + Heat’s Gameplan

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Sports, Basketball

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to talk about new details on the Celtics’ sale after approval that could impact the future in Boston as well as what may happen for the Lakers in the approval process before talking the Blazers’ sale. Then, the guys talk what approach the Heat are taking going forward as a franchise and Trae Young’s future in Atlanta. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Monday morning,
0:41.7	joining us from the Jersey Shore, where the summer of Bontemps continues, is Tim Bontemps.
0:47.9	Hello, everybody. Joining us from Dallas, Texas is Bann McMahon. Howdy, partners, Monday morning in the dead of August.
0:57.1	We talked about the NBA.
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1:09.7	Since we last recorded, we had a couple of developments in the ownership situations in the NBA.
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