Raptors Series Preview with Esfandiar Baraheni
The Chase Down: A Cleveland Cavaliers Pod
Cleveland Cavaliers
4.7 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Esfandiar Baraheni from The Athletic and Raptors Republic join Justin and Carter to preview the upcoming series against the Toronto Raptors. Discussing the most important aspects of the series when determining the length and outcome of the matchup.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Chastown podcast. Part of the Caves Media Family. I'm your host, Justin Rowan. The Chase |
| 0:20.0 | Down is presented by Fubbo, the official streaming partner of the Cavs Media Family. I'm your host, Justin Rowan. The Chasedown is presented by Fubo, |
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| 0:26.1 | including Fan Dual Sports Network without cable. There's no cost and no commitment. Try for free at |
| 0:30.6 | FubotTV.com slash Cavs. The playoffs are here and so are our series previews. I could not be |
| 0:36.9 | more excited. I have been diving into so |
| 0:39.5 | much playoff content lately, consuming a bunch of Raptors podcast, getting that enemy perspective, |
| 0:46.3 | getting the national perspective and all of that. You gotta get angry. And I'm getting perspective |
| 0:52.5 | from my co-host, Carter Rodriguez, who's budding in. Carter, how you doing, buddy? Oh, doing great. I felt like, I felt like that, uh, that famous gif of, uh, Dreymon Green, like, egging on, Katie, like, while you were, like, quote, tweeting these Raptors pods with their slander, getting yourself worked into a lather. That's the Justin Rowan I know and love in its playoff time, baby. |
| 1:14.8 | Hey, listen, I knew hello and welcome would have some really good jokes that I would take far too |
| 1:19.5 | personally. |
| 1:20.0 | I love those guys. |
| 1:20.9 | They do tremendous work. |
| 1:22.6 | But speaking of tremendous work and perspectives that I love to get. We have our buddy returning to the podcast, |
| 1:29.5 | friend of the podcast, S. Barrahenney from the NBA Daily and importantly for this |
| 1:35.1 | purposes, Raptors Republic S. How are you doing, buddy? Man, I am doing so well, especially after |
| 1:41.1 | the intro music. Man, incredible stuff. The trumpets, they just get you going. |
| 1:47.7 | I also found out today, by the way, that the playoff slogan for you guys is let them know. |
| 1:54.0 | Let them effing no. Let them effing no. Some improvements could be made to that regardless, |
| 2:00.7 | nonetheless. Oh, wow. Yeah, I'm starting out hot. I'm starting out hot. On our YouTube channel, no less. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. When we lost in the playoffs last year, it was to the yes sirs, Indiana Pacers. Wasn't the greatest. You know, people had feedback about that. It worked out well for them. I think, you know, the, the, the let them know, I'm always here for it. |
| 2:22.3 | And always here for having you on this here podcast. We are doing a home and home with the folks at Raptors Republic. |
| 2:30.5 | We will be on the pull-up tray podcast as well after this one. So make sure you guys |
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