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Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

Potential Playoff Noisemakers, Lakers Heating Up

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Basketball, Sports

3.94K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Dave McMenamin and Nick Friedell to talk if the Suns are a title favorite given how well KD is playing, if the Lakers could be set up for a playoff run, Anthony Davis playing his best ball in LA, why the Knicks could make some noise in the playoffs, which player is perfect for Tom Thibodeau in New York and what could be the best series of the opening round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Whoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA which we're doing on Tuesday afternoon joining us from Orlando, Florida.

0:13.0

We will be going to Cavs Magic in a couple hours tonight. It's Nick Fredell.

0:19.0

Be it's always good to be with you, but especially from home. It's 90 degrees out at the beginning of April on 11 life right now.

0:29.0

Back in your old stomping grounds, you kind of claim several home cities, but Orlando is where you grew up.

0:37.0

The going to the O'Reena for Shaquille O'Neal.

0:41.0

I mean, there there should be pictures of me and my horse grand goggles from way back in time. You know, that was that was the shack and betting magic.

0:50.0

We're my team. That's how I learned about the game and going in there to AMway center isn't exactly the same, but there's still the memories to come flood him back.

1:01.0

This is a special podcast is a special Syracuse podcast because Nick went to Syracuse, our producer Jackson went to Syracuse and joining us from Salt Lake City, where he's going to the Lakers Jazz game in a couple hours is one of Syracuse's finest, Dave McMahon.

1:19.0

Hello. Hello.

1:24.0

Brian, Brian Hill still at AMway center. You can see him.

1:28.0

I do every time every time I give you some juice. It's so awesome. I mean, truly to walk around and there's Nikki Anderson and Boatlaw.

1:37.0

They're the community ambassadors to to see that old group is to know anybody went in those those old games and be you were in there and Dave you were in there.

1:50.0

I mean that the old Orlando arena later TD Waterhouse Center. It was rocking in there. It was loud as hell. No fake crappy noise from the scoreboard.

2:05.0

It was it was fun.

2:08.0

Why started going there was called the Waterhouse. That was what it was called when I was going there.

2:14.0

Nike mayor may not have re-released the air penny twos and there may or may not have been a spring sale on Nike.com and I may or may not have taken advantage of that spring sale to add a pair of the air penny twos and patent leather to my expansive shoe collection.

2:32.0

I can't confirm nor deny this occurring within the last seven to 10 days but.

2:40.0

Oh my God. That's amazing. I don't remember what the air pennies look like. I remember the commercials with the puppet.

2:49.0

I remember the commercials with Tyra banks.

2:55.0

All right, we talk about the NBA. We're going to start with now. Okay, look, we had an advantage on Sunday. There were no NBA games on Monday, but now the NBA is back and forth. So look, we don't know what's going to happen in the like 12 NBA games that have tonight, including the game that Dave is at.

3:14.0

That has a lot of consequence. So we are a little bit behind, but this is the best we can do. So we acknowledge that we are not on the potent. And so it is what it is. There's a ton of important NBA games tonight.

3:27.0

One of the things one of the teams I want to talk about as a team that is I think going to win tonight hosting the spurs.

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