What Have We Learned About the 2025 NBA Playoffs?

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

UNINTERRUPTED | Wondery

Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Conference Finals are in full swing and we are starting to learn a lot from these 2025 NBA Playoff trends. In this episode of Mind the Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash, the guys dive into these trends such as, the importance of role players like Alex Caruso and Aaron Nesmith. They also talk through the crazy 20+ point swings we’ve been seeing in these playoffs and the success of the underdogs. LeBron also discusses the physicality of these playoffs and shares his thoughts about Anthony Edwards shoving him in the chest. Finally, LeBron recalls Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals and what got his so angry that he knew they were going to win that game. Shoutout Ray Allen!

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0:00.0	All right, mind the game episode, who knows.
0:03.0	Yeah.
0:04.0	Who knows when?
0:05.0	By the way, that's a good thing.
0:06.0	Right?
0:07.0	We don't know, just shoot us.
0:08.0	We just go.
0:09.0	We just go.
0:10.0	That's a good thing.
0:11.0	I think we're all good.
0:12.0	Everybody all set?
0:13.0	Sounds good.
0:14.0	Okay.
0:15.0	Please interrupt me if anything comes up.
0:16.0	You said all phones on you not to stir.
0:18.0	Except me and Steve's. Yeah, right. Me and Steve's. I was going to buzz up.
0:21.6	That's me buzzing the hold.
0:22.6	Welcome back to mind. Welcome back to Mind the Game, brought to you by Uninterrupted and Wondry.
0:42.4	In this episode, we're going to talk about the playoffs and what trends we're noticing.
0:46.3	So three big ones that jumped out were the physicality and refereeing, the pick-on game,
0:51.6	and also zone defenses, junk defenses, how teams are trying to slow others down and give them a second look.
0:57.9	We also weighed into the history of momentum and some playoff experiences between both LeBron and I,
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