The NBA’s Wild Wednesday: Kawhi, CP3 And Coaching Dominoes Fall
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🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
NBA fans woke up to some stunning news on Wednesday, when it was announced that Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul, who has been absolutely electric during this year's NBA Playoffs, has been put on the league's Covid protocol and is out indefinitely. And from there, more and more big news stories just kept breaking. The Athletic's Sam Amick joins us to make sense of the day that the NBA was turned upside down, and offers his insights on Kawhi Leonard's knee problem, LeBron James's casting blame on the league for player injuries, two more head coaching positions opening up, if we'll see the first woman hired as a head coach, and more.
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| 0:46.0 | On Wednesday night, there were two pretty big upsets in the NBA. |
| 0:56.0 | And this is going to be an Atlanta victory in Game 5. What a combat! |
| 1:03.0 | And that's it. The Clippers grabbed the upper hand in the series. A huge road win over Utah. |
| 1:11.0 | But before that on the court action even began, basketball fans were taken on quite a ride. |
| 1:16.0 | As the athletic first reported Chris Paul has entered the NBA's health and safety protocols. |
| 1:22.0 | The enormous breaking news, Kawaii Leonard will miss at least tonight's Game 5 |
| 1:27.0 | for the Clippers against Utah with a knee that he heard late in Game 4. |
| 1:31.0 | Let's move on to another huge breaking news story. We've got two coaching changes. |
| 1:36.0 | Superstars were ruled out of games. Coaches were like go by their team. And the NBA's biggest star |
| 1:41.0 | threw a bit of a grenade at the lead. Today the athletic Sam Amick joins us to break down |
| 1:46.0 | one of the wilder days in recent memory. And what we can expect down the home stretch of the NBA playoffs. |
| 1:52.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. It's Thursday, June 17th. And this is the lead. |
| 1:59.0 | Well Sam, I have to say this has been one of those days where being on the West Coast feels like a bit of a punishment for journalists |
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