The Clippers, the Lakers, and the Rest of the West Playoff Picture

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I'm joined by Jovan Buha from The Athletic, and we chat about the NBA now that we've hit the proverbial "Second Half." We start on the Brooklyn Nets with news of Kyrie Irving being out for the year. How does this affect the rest of their season? But more importantly, how does this affect their future planning with Kevin Durant coming back soon? Will they make some tough decisions this summer? Then, we move on and break down the Western Conference. We focus for about 35 minutes on the Los Angeles teams, how they match up with one another, what their strengths are, and most importantly what their biggest weaknesses are heading into the playoffs? Also, what do we think of the recent additions of Markieff Morris and Reggie Jackson? Then we chat about the rest of the West. Which of Utah, Denver or Houston are we worried about most (sorry Denver, who we didn't talk enough about)? Which of Oklahoma City or Dallas is the team you want to play the least? Which team gets the No. 8 seed? Also, shout out to sponsors Keeps and Bet Online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.
0:12.5	I'm yours.
0:13.3	We're presented by CLNS Media today on the show.
0:15.7	Yovam Bua is here from The Athletic.
0:18.0	You know, over there, it's so great to have another fantastic writer based
0:24.2	in Los Angeles. He's like a foot taller than I am, so I kind of hold that against him a little
0:29.6	bit as someone who goes up dinner with him, you know, a few times a year. But nonetheless,
0:35.0	he's a fine human being, I guess. Yovan, how you doing?
0:39.3	I'm doing well, man.
0:40.1	How are you?
0:40.7	I'm all right.
0:41.4	I mean, it feels like you've had a busy week this week.
0:44.4	You already had Shannon Sharp just talking about how, oh, he's a beat writer.
0:48.7	He has to say positive things about the team.
0:51.5	Otherwise, he won't get people to talk. And, you know, when I think of you, I think of someone who is just positive about the clippers and did not
0:58.8	write some massive story in January about how the clippers are kind of still trying to figure
1:06.5	things out after their moves this summer. That's definitely you, right? Yeah. No, I definitely view
1:12.2	myself as a shill who is never critical of the team or of Doc Rivers' rotation decisions.
1:19.8	Yeah, so that's me. I'm Mr. Nice Guy who writes only positive stuff to get people to talk to me.
1:27.3	Yeah, I mean, any time that Yovon's around, I just assume that he is just positive and not
1:35.0	out here trying to stir some shit up within the Clippers locker room.
1:39.3	That's clearly it.
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