The shocking Dallas Mavericks x Luka Doncic trade expose, early NBA playoff gossip, Jalen Hurts is married, and a Cavinder twin is engaged

The Sports Gossip Show

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4.8 • 738 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The gals are playing hurt today, but the show must go on, and it’s as good as ever. Things kick off with a few news items about the Boston Marathon, Paige Buecker’s Day in Minnesota, and how Duke star Cooper Flagg declared for the draft.

Then, some relationship updates: the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark went to the NBA playoffs with her boyfriend, the Fever’s Lexie Hull is engaged to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Will Matthiessen, and UMiami basketball star Haley Cavinder and Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson got engaged. Madeline notices footwear and rates how compressed the flowers are, and Charlotte notices the captions, and they both go on a tangent about Vera Bradley and American Girl Dolls. Plus: Eagles’ quarterback Jalen Hurts got engaged and was very chic about it. And Dodgers’ star Shohei Ohtani and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka, had a baby.

Then, a hard pivot: Anthony Edwards got fined $50,000 for taunting the fans at the Minnesota Timberwolves-Lakers playoff game over the weekend (Timberwolves won). And the gals go right into some gossip about the NBA Playoffs! Clippers’ star Kawhi Leonard had amazing comeback game, Ben Stiller made a Severance hype video for the Knicks, and Knicks star OG Anunoby plays well when Anne Hathaway or Suni Lee are at the game…but Suni went on Monday and they lost. Plus, Celtics’ coach Joe Mazzulla is intense, and Houston Rockets guard Jalen Green sent a message to the public before going dark on social media for the 2025 NBA Playoffs.

And, finally, a deep dive into the disastrous season that the Dallas Mavericks just completed. After making the shocking decision to trade former-Mavs star Luka Doncic to the Lakers in the middle of the night, general manager Nico Harrison is back on his heels in weird press conferences. An explosive report from ESPN’s Tim MacMahon sheds some light on what seems to be a very, very dysfunctional environment down in Texas, and the gals once again remind you that your employer is not your friend!

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0:00.0	Testing one, two, three.
0:01.1	One, two, three.
0:02.1	What's your sweatshirt?
0:03.2	Green Templeton College, Oxford.
0:05.3	Shout out.
0:21.0	Wow. Got to get school merch when you get that master's degree. Look at you. It's like you're in the crown. Oh, yeah. Controversial. I've been talking about the Royals. Talked about them last week. You did? Yeah, when we said that Rory McElroy was like Princess Diana.
0:21.7	Yeah, you're right.
0:22.6	I forgot about that.
0:24.3	All right. All right.
0:24.3	Let's see. about them last week. You did? Yeah, when we said that Rory McElroy was like Princess Diana.
0:21.2	Yeah, you're right.
0:21.9	I forgot about that.
0:23.8	All right.
0:24.2	Let's see.
0:24.6	Let's see.
0:24.6	Let's see how this sounded.
0:41.6	Hi, Charlotte.
0:42.4	Ben-Lin.
0:43.1	Bonjour.
0:47.4	I don't know how to follow that up.
0:49.5	I thought of that one as I was falling asleep last night.
0:51.3	I was like, am I going to do a fun?
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