Real or Fake: Playoff Edition! | Real Ones

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Logan Murdock and Howard Beck are back with the 2026 playoff edition of Real or Fake! They go through each team that’s made it through to the playoffs and figure out who the real contenders are and which teams have a slight chance to no chance. (0:00) Intro (1:04) Fan Duel ad break (02:12) Real or Fake: Detroit Pistons (10:06) Real or Fake: San Antonio Spurs (16:20) Real or Fake: Cleveland Cavaliers (20:39) Real or Fake: Toronto Raptors (23:17) Real or Fake: Houston Rockets (34:01) Real or Fake: New York Knicks (36:29) Amazon Prime ad break (37:59) Real or Fake: Boston Celtics (44:35) Real or Fake: Atlanta Hawks (47:04) Real or Fake: Oklahoma City Thunder (53:36) Real or Fake: Denver Nuggets (56:32) Real or Fake: Minnesota Timberwolves (59:46) Real or Fake: Los Angeles Lakers (01:03:21) Real One of the Week: Warriors (01:12:07) Real One of the Week: Chris Paul Hosts: Logan Murdock and Howard Beck Producers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford Augustin Additional video support: Jamie Yukich Production: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Hit the mailbag! realonesmailbag@gmail.com The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out rg-help.com to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Order and it will come. Like today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's popping? Real Ones. Logan Murdoch here. Howard Beck and of you, it is time for our annual postseason edition of real or fake, where we talk about the top six teams in either conference. And we just ask the question, are they real or are they fake y'all know what
0:21.9	the deal is we've been doing this for years and then we get into a little bit of talk on the warriors
0:27.1	clippers game i felt that was just too big of a moment in the NBA to pass up so we get into that
0:31.8	and then we're getting getting y'all ready for the playoffs man we're really excited we're going to
0:36.1	start tuesday um with me Howard and r. Make sure you get your questions. at real onesmailback.gat.g.com. Real onesmailback at gmail.com. Really, really excited. Y'all know how we do. We're not playing around. We're ready to give y'all the best content, best podcast in the NBA, best podcast of basketball.
0:55.0	We're not playing.
0:56.0	Real ones up next.
0:58.3	The Ringer NBA show is brought to you by Fanduel.
1:01.2	The NBA postseason is here, and Fanduel knows...
1:03.6	There's no one like you, and there never will be.
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1:09.9	There are many legends, but there was only one.
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1:55.6	It's Bobbin.
1:56.7	Real ones.
1:57.2	Logan Murdoch here, Howard Motherbuckin' Deck there.
2:00.0	Time for our annual edition of Playoff, Real or Fake.
2:05.8	Really excited about this.
2:07.7	We're going to talk a little bit about the Warriors Clippers because that was just such a,
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