The Sports Reporters - Episode 306 - Discussing the Opening Round of the NBA Playoffs

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Who's the favorite heading into the NBA playoffs? Will the defense pick up? The intriguing match-ups to keep an eye on. Who will lose out the most with no fans in the stands? And how will the atmosphere impact the games when home court advantage is such an important of the playoffs? Plus, some college football conferences continues to discuss plans to hold a season in the fall... Are these decisions becoming political? Can schools guarantee that athletes won't go out and party?

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.7	I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and Yad Daily News.
0:20.4	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:22.8	And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN,
0:25.4	and we heartily welcome you on this Monday to the edition of bi-weekly edition of Sports
0:31.4	Reporters. We're with you every Monday and Thursday.
0:33.7	If I misuses of bi-weekly things, you know, people do that all the time.
0:36.9	I don't know. We're here twice a week, not every other week.
0:39.4	Okay.
0:39.6	All right.
0:39.8	Now, gentlemen, it's basketball, gentlemen, basketball starting at 1.30 p.m. Eastern.
0:46.1	1.30 p.m. Eastern, they will toss the ball up and we will get the playoffs started finally. finally and I don't know about you guys but I'm interested and and I won't know if I's
0:55.6	excited's the word but aroused interested uh curious and I there's a number of intriguing
1:01.1	matchups in this first round the NBA playoffs begin today on the 17th of August
1:09.8	yeah they begin four months after they normally on the 17th of August.
1:15.6	They begin four months after they normally would have begun, but they have been,
1:17.4	you know what,
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