The Rockets' Reboot, the Lakers' Turmoil, and Repositioning Basketball As International Soccer | Group Chat

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4.4 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We sit down ahead of the NBA Finals to go through some of the news that has broken between the end of the Eastern Conference Finals and now. First, do the Rockets need to hit the reset button on their core if they want to win the title (2:45)? Then, the deluge of Lakers turmoil seems to be never ending, but will it ultimately trickle off if they go star-hunting this offseason (22:00)? Finally, we share our observations on NBA free agency and rumblings about a midseason tournament that have us thinking about the ways that basketball is starting to mirror soccer (37:40). Hosts: Justin Verrier and Chris Ryan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Liz Kelly.
0:04.1	Fresh off of Talk The Thrones, the Ringer is introducing a new live Twitter after show
0:08.1	covering season two of HBO's Big Little Lies.
0:11.6	Immediately after each episode, the Ringer's Amanda Dobbins and ESPN's Mina Kimes will
0:16.0	be going live to give their initial reactions to breakdown everything we saw in the episode.
0:20.9	And to kick us off, there'll be a special season two preview airing on Friday, June 7th
0:24.9	at 12 p.m. Pacific.
0:26.6	So join Amanda and Mina for Big Little Live every Sunday on Twitter.
0:30.4	Basketball is very good.
0:38.8	Kevin Mooney is a max player.
0:42.0	The Lakers should hire Ernie Grunfeld.
0:44.4	Why should sign with the Warriors?
0:49.4	Basketball is very good.
0:50.9	Hello and welcome to the Ringer NBA show.
0:53.1	I am Justin Varia.
0:55.0	We got a great show for you tonight from the hit movie BookSmart.
0:59.0	Chris Ryan is here.
1:00.9	It's funny you should bring up movies because I was just thinking I'm wearing people
1:04.9	may see this in the breakouts, but they can't see it now.
1:06.6	I'm wearing a basketball is very good t-shirt right now.
1:09.3	Great, Merge.
1:10.3	The shirt I was wearing kind of washed me out a little bit.
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