The Sports Reporters - Episode 384 - The Lights Get Brighter in the NBA Playoffs! Remembering the Great Joe Valerio

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The NBA playoffs are set but not set, set! Some intriguing play-in games highlighted by the Lakers and the Warriors... Despite being a low seed, are the Lakers the favorites? How will Utah and Phoenix fair after tremendous regular seasons? And what about the East? Do all roads lead through Brooklyn? Plus, remembering the great Sports Reporters producer, Joe Valerio.

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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.
0:16.5	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:18.7	I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:21.6	I am Mike Lupica, MLB.com and the New York Daily News.
0:24.8	And welcome to a really fun Monday morning edition of the SportsPorters podcast because we have,
0:32.3	well, as Bill Gohmann said, the playoffs are set.
0:35.5	They're just not set set because we don't know what's going to happen in the
0:39.1	playoff games and playing games.
0:41.2	So guys, whatever they thought they were doing with the play-in system and whatever they
0:48.0	thought was going to happen this year, they will have the most watched game of this season this week when LeBron and
0:57.6	Steph Curry face off against each other to see who gets the seventh slot in the Western
1:03.9	Conference.
1:04.5	Except that it starts at 10 Eastern.
1:06.3	Yeah.
1:07.1	That's, you know, which is wonderful if you live west of the Rockies.
1:10.0	But anyway, it is the game we wanted.
1:12.2	It is the game that any generic fan, any good fan, any neutral, anybody with a little soul and a passion for the game,
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