Rock Bottom For Tanking? + Major Playoff Seeding Drama In Final Weekend & A Special Guest

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Basketball, Sports

3.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Vince Goodwill and Anthony Slater to react to tanking issues creating headlines for the NBA before diving into some of the most interesting seeding battles over the final days of the regular season. The guys break down if some teams should be avoiding certain matchups and the impact of some injuries on the playoff picture. Finally, Sacramento Kings center Maxime Raynaud joins the show to discuss his rookie season including his bond with Russell Westbrook, his experiences growing up with Victor Wembanyama and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.7	Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective Podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Thursday afternoon.
0:41.5	Joining me from New York City is Vince Goodwill.
0:45.2	What up, though, Wendy?
0:46.9	You're up and down the coast this week, if I'm not mistaken.
0:52.0	Mr. New York now.
0:53.6	Joining us from Sacramento, California.
0:56.1	We're going to talk about Sacramento today, Mr. Anthony Slater.
1:00.1	Leading the show.
1:01.4	Is this first time of the season?
1:03.2	It's going to dominate the show because later on in the podcast,
1:06.4	we've got a guest, Sacramento King's rookie Maxime Rayneau. And, you know, I don't have guests very often. I mean, you gentlemen, of course, but I don't have player guests very often. I do it a few times a year. It gets offered to me fair amount. Not that, you know, I'm not getting offered, you know, you know, LeBron and, and Shea, you know, just to be clear. But, you know, I like talking. I like the people that we talked about the NBA with. But I have an interest. I think people should know more about Maxime. And also, I like French guys. What do you want me to say? And he's the brightest spot in their season. Might be true. It certainly wasn't the brightest spot earlier this week. I ended up spending multiple phone calls, and I know you did too Slater, on Wednesday, talking about a
1:50.8	king's foul that I can't believe I talked about. And I actually, I do not want to necessarily
1:55.2	go over the chapter and verse of this because it received heavy coverage, this foul that
2:00.2	Doug Christie called.
2:01.9	I just want to say that I think we have reached rock bottom.
2:05.5	I hope it is rock bottom, but we have reached rock bottom of this tanking era of the NBA
2:10.7	because the Kings went under an NBA investigation this week for tanking.
2:16.7	The amount of tanking on a daily basis in the NBA is beyond laughable.
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