Wolves Win in Ant’s Return. Plus, Knicks Blow Out the Sixers | Real Ones

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, and Howard Beck are back with another edition of Real Ones and review the Game 1 action from the Wolves-Spurs and Sixers-Knicks. Despite Victor Wembanyama’s historic night, the Spurs lost game one on their home floor. Have we been sleeping on the Wolves? The Knicks crushed the Sixers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semis, but is there a bright side for the Sixers? Plus, the guys discuss Jaylen Brown’s comments on his Twitch stream about officiating in the first round of the playoffs against the Sixers. (00:00) Welcome Back Real Ones (00:50) FanDuel Presenting Sponsor Ad Read (1:56) Ant Man returns. Timberwolves def. Spurs 104-102 in Game 1 (15:50) The Knicks blowout the 76ers, 137-98, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semis (26:25) Jomi’s Pack Watch! (25:44) Men’s Wearhouse Ad Read (30:02) Cavaliers-Pistons Preview (36:16) Jaylen Brown’s Comments on Twitch (51:45) Mailbag Check out these new articles written by our hosts: Howard Beck: https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/04/nba/nba-playoffs-2026-boston-celtics-denver-nuggets-games-parity-history Logan Murdock: https://www.theringer.com/2026/05/05/nba/oklahoma-city-thunder-villains-shai-gilgeous-alexander Hit the mailbag: realonesmailbag@gmail.com Hosts: Logan Murdock, Raja Bell, Howard Beck Producers: Victoria Valencia, Clifford Augustin, and Jeff Shearin Production Supervision: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Additional Production Support: John Richter and Chris Wohlers Please visit https://fanduel.com/playwithaplan to learn more about the resources and helplines" When you need your fit to deliver, we’ve got you. Shop Men's Wearhouse Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
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0:29.4	What's popping?
0:34.4	Real ones.
0:34.9	Logan Murdoch here.
0:35.5	Howard Beck and Raja Bell.
0:37.2	In a second, we react to all of the fun games of Monday night. We talk about the Spurs. Are they in trouble? We talk about the Knicks and the Sixers. Are the Sixers in trouble? Does Cliff and Ben Stiller have beef? Do they have beef right now? Is it going to be okay? Is Cliff going to like get a movie roll? We'll see what happens, man. We'll see what happens. Then we talk a little bit about Twitch stream. Stay off of Twitch. Stay off of Twitch. And then we get into your mailback questions. Really, really fun episode. You know how we do. It's playoffs. It's vibes. It's all of the above. Real ones up next. Cliff, Victoria. Play the theme music. The Ringer NBA show is brought to you by Fandul. It's been a wild playoff run, but it's not over yet. And Fandul wants to bring you closer to the court to make more of all the action to come. Fandul is the best place to bet teams, players, and Fandul wants to bring you closer to the court to make more of all the action to come.
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