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🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The Rockets fell to the Lakers in game three of the first round due to some late game blunders that had Logan Murdock, Raja Bell and Howard Beck puzzled. Why has the theme for the Rockets all season been the inability to close out games? Did they miss out on an opportunity to acquire a guard at the deadline to help with these issues? The Celtics defeated the Sixers in a close one in Philly to take the series lead 2-1. Is Jayson Tatum fully back? Has Rudy Gobert gotten the better end of his matchup against Nikola Jokic? What’s wrong with the Knicks offense down the stretch of games? Plus, Real One of the Week! (00:00) Intro (1:09) Fan Duel ad break (1:59) Lakers-Rockets (23:00) Celtics-Sixers (34:17) Amazon Prime ad break (34:49) Nuggets-Wolves (44:55) Hawks-Knicks (55:51) Real One of the Week Hosts: Logan Murdock, Howard Beck, and Raja Bell Producers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford Augustin Additional Production Support: 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	was popping real ones logan murdock here out here in the trenches and these playoff
0:09.5	streets i'll be in the netflix uh scenery next week but um got howard beck and raja bell on
0:16.7	next where we are going to discuss everything that happened on Friday night in the NBA world.
0:23.1	The Rockets are down 03. The Lakers are going to go to the second round with just LeBron and no
0:28.3	Luca and no Austin Reeves. How does that happen? What does that mean for the Rockets going forward?
0:33.4	What does that mean for Kevin Durand? What does that mean for the.A. Udoka? What does that mean for the young guys?
0:38.0	All of that.
0:38.8	We talk a little Celtics. Jason Tatum, even if he's balling. Does that mean that Roger's still hating? Going to figure that out. And then is Roger still hating on Rudy Gobert? And what is Yokch's legacy? Are we being too hard on Yokch? are we being hard enough on Yokic?
0:53.7	Then we talk a little Knicks.
0:55.5	Sorry, Ben.
0:56.6	And then we talk a little pistons. And then we get into some real one of the weeks. Then we talk about the Blazers, new ownership a little bit. And not looking great. I think that's it. Cliff, play the theme music. The Ringer NBA show is brought to you by Fandul.
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