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The Ringer NBA Show

The Bucks Stop Here, What's Next for Billy Donovan, and Playoff Rondo Manifests | Group Chat

The Ringer NBA Show

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4.29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Justin, Jonathan, and Rob are joined by Ethan Strauss of The Athletic to discuss what the Bucks can do to move forward from a disappointing loss in the second round and the role of star players in shaping the landscape of the league (1:53), plus how the Heat pulled off the upset and what could be the key to their next matchup (hint: it rhymes with ham) (32:03). Then the Group Chat crew takes a look at what Billy Donovan's departure from the Thunder means for the team's future (41:00) and what the sudden appearance of Playoff Rondo means for the championship-hungry Lakers (51:10). Hosts: Justin Verrier, Rob Mahoney, and Jonathan Tjarks Guest: Ethan Strauss Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now to Group Chat.

1:10.0

Hello and welcome to Group Chat. The Ringers Weekly NBA Group discussion where we talk about

1:14.1

everything from playoff rondo to mutual parting of ways. I'm Justin Varyer. It is 9.30am Pacific

1:21.2

time and we're going to try to get through this podcast without any technical difficulties. Sorry

1:25.4

for the last few. Those were pretty much all my fault. But joining me today, Jonathan Charkes.

1:30.9

What's up guys? Rob Mahoney. Hello. And our special guest, our first acclaimed author on this podcast,

1:39.7

from the athletic Ethan Sherwood Strauts. What is up my friend? I come to you from the literary world.

1:47.9

You are wearing glasses, which I equate to being intelligent. So it's close it up. Close enough.

1:53.8

Okay, so we're going to talk about a lot of things here. We're going to get to the Lakers and

1:58.8

the Rockets game three. We're going to talk about Billy Donovan. But first, we need to talk about

2:04.0

Yannis because apparently this is a pretty big deal. Last night, the bucks were officially ejected

2:11.0

from the NBA playoffs. They lost 104 to 94 to Miami. Zach Kram has been tracking some of the

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