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🗓️ 21 April 2025
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This week is our long-awaited 2025 NBA preview with hoops savant Arya Shirazi. Even in difficult times, the NBA playoffs remind us of what’s good. Check out our preview.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. |
0:09.2 | I'm Dave Ziron, brought to you by The Nation magazine, of course. |
0:13.3 | Look, if you know me, you know two things. |
0:17.1 | One, I like my politics with my sports. |
0:20.9 | I like sports as a platform to speak out about the injustices in the world. |
0:25.9 | But you also know if there's any time of the year I try to give my brain a break from the politics. |
0:33.2 | Certainly not easy these days. |
0:35.6 | But the NBA playoff season is my favorite time in the sports |
0:41.8 | calendar 40 days 40 nights and unlike the regular season every player in these |
0:50.6 | playoffs they feel the stakes they play hard and they know that they could be a breakout star in the playoffs. |
1:01.3 | There are very few players who wouldn't benefit from being a breakout star in these playoffs. |
1:07.2 | Frankly, you can count them on one hand. |
1:10.1 | But everybody else, other than your LeBron's and your |
1:13.5 | yokic's, people who've already proven it on the biggest stage, Steph Curry, to me, I think, |
1:19.5 | honestly, that's where the list ends. Anybody can really be a kind of a breakout. Chasing Tatum, |
1:27.0 | put him there to Jalen Brown. |
1:29.2 | But the breakout star aspect is so exciting about these playoffs. |
1:34.3 | Everybody's got a shot to be looked at differently because of these playoffs. |
1:39.8 | And so I want to talk about each game, but first I want to warm up with a couple of questions. |
1:45.2 | So you might ask, who am I asking these questions of? |
1:48.5 | Who else? |
1:49.8 | The basketball savants. |
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