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The Bucks Squeeze Out a Win in Game 4 Despite Devin Booker’s Best Efforts. Plus: Kawhi Leonard’s Knee Surgery and Ben Simmons Trade Rumors. | Group Chat

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Coming to you live on Greenroom right after Game 4 of the NBA Finals or whenever you like on Spotify (or wherever you get your podcasts), Justin, Rob, and Wos talk about the Bucks beating the Suns to tie the series (0:30). Then they get into the offseason drama of the day, namely Kawhi Leonard’s ACL surgery (39:35) and potential Ben Simmons trade scenarios (49:00) Hosts: Justin Verrier, Rob Mahoney, and Wosny Lambre Associate Producer: Sasha Ashal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.9

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0:11.2

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0:31.4

Hello and welcome to Group Chat. I am Justin Varier, joining me. Big Wies, Rob Mahoney,

0:37.2

gentlemen, we have a series in the NBA finals. Can you believe it? I can. How many fouls do I get on

0:43.6

this spot? Do you think? Depends on who's roughing. If you're a Devon Booker, you get as many as you

0:48.8

want here. Let me start here because I feel like this game was a culmination of everything we've

0:55.3

been talking about these two teams for what? A week or two now. We've been saying so much about

1:00.8

the suns. This is their moment. There's just this up and coming team. Young guys just coming into

1:07.6

their own blossoming into super stars of tomorrow before our eyes. And all the while we've been saying

1:13.3

the blocks need to muck this up. They need to be physical. They need to be the team that makes

1:17.6

things hard for the suns. And I feel like we got that this game in particular, just the crucial

1:24.2

moments of that fourth quarter, starting with the Janus block, which holy shit, that was incredible.

1:30.7

Then it goes down the other way. Then it goes down the other way. Drew Holiday one-handed rebound

1:35.9

while holding off Chris Paul down on the blocks. And then Janus, I guess he kind of forced Chris

1:41.6

Paul to turn it over more like seemed like Paul just kind of stumbled and then goes the other way

1:46.2

and Milton finishes off. My God, just like everything you'd want from the books, just coming together

1:50.9

at the perfect moment. Rob is Mr. Milwaukee as the Karimabduo Mahoney. What do you think

1:57.4

to care? No, I think you're spot on. This was like the ultimate win ugly game for them. And no one

2:03.6

exemplified that more than Drew who had a pretty horrific offensive game. I mean, kind of an inexplicable

2:09.2

one in the sense that I just had no idea what he was doing with the ball a lot of the time. Sure.

2:13.3

But he came up with so many of the like 50 50 rebounds, obviously awesome defensive play,

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