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The Lead

Starting Five: The WNBA’s Secret Superstar

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3.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Plus: Heat Culture shines bright in the Mile High City. And a golfing phenom does something we haven’t seen in over 70 years.

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.

0:21.0

In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

0:31.0

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer. It's terrific conversation, reminiscent, sweat appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

0:42.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad-free on Amazon Music, all by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

1:12.0

That show has its own feed with new episodes publishing there every Monday through Friday and we'll keep airing episodes here on the leads feed on Mondays just to introduce more people to that show.

1:23.0

So go check it out and subscribe if you like it. All right, here's today's episode.

1:28.0

The heat pull off another fourth quarter come back to even up the NBA finals against the nuggets.

1:41.0

Las Vegas aces keep on rolling to remain the only on beaten team in the WNBA.

1:46.0

And after battling cancer, White Sox reliever Liam Hendrix picks up a big win on a very significant day. From Wondry, I'm Sarah Kizal.

1:56.0

And I'm John Gonzalez. It's Monday, June 5th and this is starting five five sport stories to start your day.

2:05.0

All right, we begin today's episode with the NBA finals where the Miami Heat beat the nuggets in Game 2 in Denver on Sunday, 111, 108.

2:15.0

And now that series is even at one game a piece, John.

2:19.0

That's a massive win for the heat, Sarah. That's the first time the nuggets have lost at home during these playoffs.

2:24.0

And once again, to do it, Miami came from behind in the fourth quarter to get the W something they've done time and time again in this post season.

2:33.0

The heat were down eight going into the fourth. That's when Jimmy Butler stepped up. He finished with 21 points, nine rebounds and for a sess and he had some big shots in the fourth including this 18 foot jumper with just over two minutes left in the game to give the heat an eight point.

2:48.0

Cushion Jimmy Butler's jump shot. It's good. Big buckets from Jimmy buckets here in the fourth.

2:56.0

Get the switch they want with your mom, Mario and Butler, get them in pick and roll action at Jimmy Butler in rhythm knocking down the midway.

3:02.0

Big buckets from Jimmy Butler and aside from Jimmy getting buckets, the heat got a team high 23 points from Gabe, Vincent, and they shot just a hair under 50% from three as a team.

3:14.0

You know, Sarah, we sometimes like to joke about heat culture, but this game was a great example of what that means they had to move Kevin love into the starting lineup after he hadn't played at all in the previous three games.

3:26.0

Max Trues hit four threes on Sunday after going 0 for nine from distance in game one and Sarah, they got 10 points from Duncan Robinson, and I'm exclaiming that like sort of taking his name in vain in the fourth quarter, but it's true.

3:40.0

I can't believe he did it. This whole post season for Miami has been basically a magic act. It's amazing. Yeah, as for the nuggets, what can you do?

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