The Warriors’ Win, Durant vs. LeBron, and Playoffs Recap (Ep. 125)

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🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The Ringer's Chris Vernon and Kevin O'Connor discuss the Cavaliers falling short of beating the Warriors (1:20), Kevin Durant’s and LeBron James’s legacies (11:21), what superteams mean for NBA fandom (21:30), how teams could compete against the Warriors (41:48), and the biggest what-ifs of the playoffs (49:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's show is brought to you by the NBA Awards on TNT live from New York on
0:04.3	Monday night June 26th. The NBA Awards show begins at 9 p.m. Eastern and will be
0:09.1	hosted by Drake. The awards are officially changing this year. In the past NBA
0:13.8	awards were announced sporadically once the season ended but for the first time
0:17.2	this year the awards will be presented in person to players and recipients in a
0:20.8	brand new NBA award show live on TNT. The NBA on TNT studio crew of EJ Kenny
0:27.6	Chuck and Shaq will have a large presence on the show as well. Awards include
0:31.4	Kia NBA MVP, Coach of the Year, Rookie of the Year, most improved player,
0:35.4	defensive player of the year and much more. There's also going to be new awards and
0:39.8	the fans are going to have a chance to vote on best style game winner of the year,
0:43.6	Dunk of the Year and Assist of the Year. Remember don't miss out on the NBA
0:48.0	awards on TNT live from New York June 26th at 9 p.m. Eastern.
0:57.6	Welcome to the Ringer NBA show I'm Chris Vernon joining me as he does almost
1:08.7	every Tuesday Kevin O'Connor aka Kevin O'Bomber from the ringer.com. You know what
1:15.7	you know what last night means Kevin. We're going to blow up we're blowing up the
1:24.8	cams today. Five games. That was it was a dominating series for the Warriors.
1:32.2	They're going to have to regroup in Cleveland. Hey man, I mean they're going to have to make
1:37.3	some changes. They're not going to have to blow it up. No, they're not going to have to do
1:40.6	that, but there's going to have to be some changes that they're going to have to make.
1:43.5	And that's what I wrote about today on the Ringer.com. Okay, let me let me first say,
1:48.9	but first order of business if I am the owner of the Cavaliers Dan Gilbert is I want to
1:55.3	hire an assistant coach that is capable of waking up Tyron Loo during the course of the
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