Straight Fire - Spurs are For Real, T'Wolves are Toast & the Truth About Drafting NFL Quarterbacks
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4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Jason discusses the Houston Rockets saving their season by blowing out the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5, why injuries to Anthony Edwards and Donte DiVincenzo mean that the Minnesota Timberwolves season is effectively over despite being up 3-1 over the Denver Nuggets, and how the return of Victor Wembanyama has propelled the San Antonio Spurs back to the top of the Western Conference in his mind. Plus, J-Mac explains how the 2026 NFL Draft proves that evaluating quarterbacks a year in advance is mostly a fool's errand, which teams should be viewed as the biggest winners of the NFL Draft,
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.4 | This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. |
| 0:14.8 | What is up? |
| 0:16.1 | Street Fire. |
| 0:16.9 | It's me, Jason McIntyre straight. |
| 0:20.2 | Boyer. |
| 0:21.7 | For Monday, April the 27th, final week in the month of April. |
| 0:27.0 | May is right on the horizon. |
| 0:29.1 | May means college graduation, Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer. |
| 0:34.3 | But for now, April still means heavy NBA playoffs. And oh, by the way, the NFL draft |
| 0:40.5 | wrapped up over the weekend Saturday, the final day. Remember what it used to be? They would |
| 0:45.3 | extend it. I'm pretty sure it used to involve Sundays. At any rate, today or later today, |
| 0:52.1 | you will see a lot of 2007 mock drafts. |
| 0:55.9 | You know I love those. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm not going to get into it now because there's just too much to tackle. |
| 0:59.4 | I'll do NFL draft stuff after I tackle the NBA, only because the NBA was phenomenal. |
| 1:04.5 | We'll start with the Lakers who got blasted in Houston. |
| 1:07.7 | I totally didn't see that. |
| 1:09.5 | But then again, I didn't see the game three result happening either. Kevin Duran is injured, did not play in game three. I mean, didn't play in game four. It sounds like he's done for the rest of the series. And listen, this is a weird series. That's the only way to characterize Lakers Rockets. Lakers steal game one. |
| 1:28.3 | No KD. |
| 1:29.9 | KD comes back for game two. |
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