Prime Cuts - Lakers Are Limited, Bears Draft Strategy, Kyler’s 2nd Act? Celtics Impress
The Colin Cowherd Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
First, he’s joined by Jason Timpf, host of “Hoops Tonight”.
They begin by evaluating Luka Doncic’s first year as a Laker and debate whether his volatility and lack of effort on defense makes him a poor emotional leader for the team (2:00). Jason argues Luka really ISN’T the leader of the team, but his high ceiling, lower floor style of play makes for more unpredictable results on a night-to-night basis. Colin dives into the massive stylistic differences between regular season & playoff basketball and they agree that the Lakers are really only built for the regular season (11:30).
They pivot to the Celtic’s “shoot 3’s and play your ass off defensively” strategy and debate how viable they’ll be in the playoffs and what to expect from the return of Jayson Tatum (17:30).
Then, he’s joined by John Middlekauff, host of “3 and Out”.
They start with the NFL Draft Combine & discuss the behind the scenes wheeling & dealing nature of the coaches and executives at the combine, and John’s experience speaking with legendary Seahawks GM John Schneider and what the defending champs will do with Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker (26:00).
They debate whether there’s a market for Kyler Murray to have a second act and what teams may be interested (31:15), and what positions the Bears will look to solidify in the draft (34:00).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.5 | The volume. |
| 0:10.5 | All right, Jason, Timp and I, all things basketball for about the next 30, 35 minutes. |
| 0:20.7 | And I was thinking about this today. |
| 0:23.4 | So basketball has a very unique place in our sports consumption. We wear a lot of people |
| 0:34.9 | wear their favorite basketball player because of shoes and |
| 0:38.3 | apparel. |
| 0:38.6 | We don't wear our favorite hockey player unless you buy a stick or something. |
| 0:42.5 | We don't wear our favorite baseball player, our favorite football player. |
| 0:45.7 | We're not around wearing cleats to work, or at least shouldn't be. |
| 0:49.0 | But in basketball, it's different. |
| 0:50.4 | There's a loyalty to your favorite basketball player because it's part of your |
| 0:55.0 | being. And because of that, I think people are, it's just hard to let go if you're a Nick fan. |
| 1:03.4 | With all his flaws, it's hard to let go of Carmelo. He's your guy. It's not about like a baseball |
| 1:09.1 | card. It's like, I got his shoes, you know, I've got his |
| 1:12.9 | apparel. And so I've always thought, like, basketball fans are more loyal to their stars. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm not talking teams. Fans are all loyal to their teams. They're more loyal to their stars. |
| 1:25.6 | And I do wonder, because as much as you love the NBA, |
| 1:29.3 | when somebody's on your team, you see all the warts and the flaws that you don't see on the |
| 1:34.1 | highlights or YouTube or when they play your team. And now we're a year into Luca. And he's got |
| 1:42.2 | more technicals than he does defensive stops. I think he's at 13. I think he's at 13. |
| 1:47.5 | And I was saying this today on the show on FS1 is that of the 22 Laker losses, 19 are blowouts. |
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