Who are the NBA Playoff Breakout Candidates?| Morning Shoot Around
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Schlecht, Dave DuFour, and Es Baraheni discuss 10 questions about the NBA Post Season
1. Which team from the Play In pool will win the most Playoff games?
2. Which 4/5 or 6/3 series do you feel most confident about?
3. Which role player will have the best playoff?
4. Which team will have the biggest changes if they don't get out of round 1?
5. Which star will we change our opinions of most throughout the Playoffs
Host: Andrew Schlecht
With: Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the morning shoot-around here on the Athletic NBA Daily. |
| 0:12.8 | We're live on YouTube. |
| 0:17.0 | First comment, by the way, Killing-Gomez, I guess Dave is proud of the Blazers prioritizing winning over a draft pick. |
| 0:24.7 | Yes. |
| 0:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm glad that they won the game. |
| 0:29.5 | And it was a great game. |
| 0:30.9 | I actually had a friend text me afterwards because they listened to the show. |
| 0:35.0 | And they were like, look, as much as you guys think that they should tank for this thing |
| 0:39.4 | it's actually to their benefit to lose this pick because if they don't they would lose the i believe |
| 0:45.7 | the swap rights for their 2028 pick which is the box pick so they actually it would benefit them more |
| 0:53.7 | to lose this. |
| 0:54.5 | Especially if they want to trade for Janus. |
| 0:56.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:57.1 | New owner, you know? |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Wants to make a splashy move. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.8 | Buck's pick is worth a lot. |
| 1:02.6 | Listen, guys, commitment to the bit. |
| 1:04.7 | All right. |
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