Play-In Tournament (Conceptual) Breakdown
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Nerder, Dave, Seth and Mo wax on the play-in tournament. The guys all love it but can it make more sense? What can the NBA change? Can any team pull off an upset? Do people believe in the Warriors? The Paper Tiger Suns? Mo is very confident about the Lakers. Dave is worried about the injuries. Also the Wizards, is anyone at all scared of the Wizards?
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| 0:00.0 | What an easy way to stay up to date with the latest news and trends in the NBA? |
| 0:06.6 | Listen to the NBA Daily Ding podcast Monday through Friday. |
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| 0:18.9 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:21.8 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:23.9 | Coming up on today's show, we talk about the play-in, which is the NBA's best idea |
| 0:28.1 | since banning hand-checking. |
| 0:33.1 | This is Nerdish, you wrote, with your host Dave Dufour. |
| 0:36.7 | With Moe Dekiel. |
| 0:37.9 | Are you ready to be entertained? |
| 0:39.7 | And Seth Part Now. |
| 0:45.6 | Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:48.4 | It's Friday. |
| 0:49.0 | It's Nerdrishy wrote. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm Dave. |
| 0:51.5 | Mo and Seth are here. |
| 0:52.4 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:53.1 | You sounded very defeated as you said that, though. Didn't it be a little bit? You know what? It's victory. I'm just, it's victory. I'm still Dave. We've made it. I'm still Dave. Nothing has changed. This is, guys, this is the last regular season show of the season. We made it. We made it. We made it. |
| 1:12.3 | We got new CDC guidelines coming out. |
| 1:15.1 | I can smell summer. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm twerking all summer long, folks. |
| 1:21.1 | I'm sorry, what? |
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