Vinnie Goodwill on Embiid's & 76ers last stand, Knicks' title chances, NBA lottery reform | 04.29

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bomani and Vinny Goodwill unpack an NBA postseason that makes no sense in the best way. Bomani Jones is joined by ESPN’s Vinnie Goodwill to talk through why this Knicks team has no excuse not to make the NBA Finals, the delicate balance between Jalen Brunson’s usage and unlocking Karl-Anthony Towns, and whether Boston’s ceiling is lower than people want to admit with this version of Jason Tatum coming off the Achilles injury. From there, they dive into Victor Wembanyama’s terrifying playoff debut, why the Spurs already look ahead of schedule, and how Oklahoma City vs. San Antonio feels like a looming Western Conference war. They also hit LeBron, KD, and the aging superstar class who can still hit the “high notes” for one night even if they can’t live there anymore. Later, Bomani and Vinnie break down Adam Silver’s new anti‑tanking lottery rules, what it means for franchises like Detroit and Orlando, and why conditioning young stars to lose might be the most underrated failure of “The Process” era in Philly. Plus, what the league should actually be embarrassed by, and why Steve Ballmer’s Kawhi situation is way more complicated than internet outrage allows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wave.
0:02.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a Wave Original.
0:13.0	My name is Beaumani Jones.
0:15.0	Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.
0:17.0	Thanks for watching us on YouTube.
0:18.0	Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is the time of week where we have a guest to join us. Coming to us live from ESPN. You may have seen. He'll be on all the ESPN shows. Now, boy, that boy, Vinny Goodwill will Vince Goodwill be on TV. You know what I'm saying?
0:38.0	Vinny Goodwill over here hanging out with us.
0:41.0	Yeah, the rebrand, as Malika Andrews calls it.
0:45.8	I'm like, it's not a rebrand.
0:48.4	The graphic will forever say the birth name and whatever y'all call me is going to be what
0:53.1	y'all call me.
0:54.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:54.5	You write now more. It depends on where you are names right now. The anybody, because I think I
1:00.9	told you about my brother. My brother's name is Patrice, Patrice Lamumba. He is Lamumba, if you
1:05.9	know him from growing up. If you know him from adult life, he is Patrice.
1:11.7	But there's this very interesting in-between period when he was in college and he was
1:16.6	Patrick.
1:18.1	Oh.
1:18.8	And so when people call up, like back when people used to call it a whole phone for Christmas,
1:23.9	we could tell if they were calling for my brother, we had a very good handle on where they were
1:28.8	from life based on whatever the name was that got called. You right now, like, it's all over
1:35.3	the place. Well, if you call me Vince, like, that's the tale. The tale is if you call me Vince,
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