The Sports Reporters - Episode 260 - NBA Weekend Whip Around. NCAA Tourney Season. Coronavirus Affecting Sports

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

LeBron and the Lakers make a huge statement by beating the Bucks and the Clippers over the weekend. Is LeBron more motivated than ever to win a title this year? Where are the Clippers and Bucks' chances of winning a title this year? Are Chris Paul and the Thunder the West sleeper? And what the heck happened in Brooklyn with Kenny Atkinson? Do we need marquee programs to dominate in the NCAA Tournament or will the unacclaimed schools fuel viewership? Whose the favorite this year? And tennis cancels the Indian Wells event... Where is this all going with the coronavirus and sports?

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0:00.0	award winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left
0:07.7	unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike
0:14.4	lupica mitch album and bob ryan i'm mich album of the detroit free press i am bob ryan of the boston
0:20.1	globe and esPN i'm mike lupica the new york. I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:21.6	I'm Mike Lupica, the New York Daily News, and MLB.com.
0:24.6	Welcome to the Monday morning edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.
0:29.4	And guys, you know, for all of the gloom and doom about television ratings with the NBA at the start of the year,
0:37.3	we got something,
0:38.6	apart from the Christmas Day games yesterday, that is so rare in the long NBA season,
0:44.6	we got appointment TV. And it really began for the Lakers when Janus and them came to town
0:51.2	before we found out Janus was heard. But yesterday, yesterday was an event.
0:56.5	It was Lakers, Clippers, Staples Center.
1:00.5	Clippers had already beaten the Lakers twice this year.
1:03.2	But this time, it felt like the sides were really even,
1:08.7	even though the Lakers have put some distance between themselves
1:11.2	and the clippers and it really, I think, could end up with the best record.
1:15.2	But what a fun afternoon of basketball yesterday in Los Angeles.
1:21.5	Our producer Tyler Brewer is giddy when he feels like the whole sports world has come
1:27.2	to L.A.
1:28.1	But it was a great statement game.
1:31.0	That doesn't mean a whole lot.
1:32.9	I don't think the clippers are going to catch the Lakers.
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