The Sports Reporters - Episode 398 - NBA Finals Preview. MLB Midway Point Analysis. Federer's Remarkable Run

The Sports Reporters

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4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Robert Wuhl is in for Mitch and Bob and he and Mike Lupica have a full show for you! The NBA Finals are set to tip-off between two teams that don't have much Finals experience. Does this series between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Phoenix Suns have the makings of a classic? Will Giannis take the court at all? Can CP3 finally win a championship? Who do you like for the MVP of the series? There are some interesting MLB divisional races shaping up as the sport heads into the All-Star break. It's amazing how fast MLB cleaned up the sticky stuff. And the Trevor Bauer situation continues to get uglier by the day. What will ultimately happen? Plus, some Wimbledon thoughts. Is Roger Federer the Muhammad Ali of tennis?

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0:00.0	This is the sports reporters.
0:04.5	Hi, this is Robert Woff from the podcast Ipso facto.
0:08.4	This is Mike Lupig at MLB.com, the New York Daily News.
0:11.8	Welcome to the Monday edition of the Sports Porter podcast on Tuesday.
0:16.7	Mitch is in Haiti.
0:18.1	Bob is in Maine.
0:19.3	But guess what?
0:20.1	You're fine.
0:21.4	You're fine. You're fine.
0:24.2	You can actually unfasten your seatbelts.
0:28.9	It will be smooth sailing from here to where wool is in Los Angeles.
0:30.8	And we got a lot to get to.
0:36.3	And we start with the – we could start with hockey, but the series continues because there's nothing better than overtime in the NHL.
0:39.4	No.
0:39.6	But we start with the NBA, and we have game one of an NBA finals, Robert, that I don't think anybody anticipated at the start of the year.
0:51.0	Not in a, no. I mean, how could you anticipate this? You know what I want more than anything else for this?
0:57.4	I'm hoping more than anything else for at least, at least six-game series.
1:03.3	Yeah.
1:03.4	Because as much as I like these teams, and I do like these teams, for most fans, this is not a sexy matchup. So if it only goes like four games, five games,
1:15.3	it's going to become, with the exception of the winning team, it's going to become immediately
1:19.2	forgettable. But if this goes six and God, God, hear me, seven games, then a narrative really
1:26.4	starts to build and build and build and it can become
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