YOUR NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE PREVIEW
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are joined by savant Arya Shirazi. We talk about the upcoming NBA season, specifically the Eastern Conference. How much of the needle moved with the Karl Anthony Towns addition in New York? Are the Boston Celtics the prohibitive favorites in the East? Is this the year that the Philadelphia 76ers finally break through? You won’t want to miss this one.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast brought to you by the Nation magazine. |
| 0:15.9 | You've asked for it. |
| 0:17.5 | You've demanded it. |
| 0:19.1 | And so we, the oldest continually published magazine in the history |
| 0:24.5 | of the United States, will give it to you. An NBA preview with a savant, Ariya Shirazi. |
| 0:32.6 | How are you, Ari? |
| 0:33.6 | Very good, my friend. How are you? Doing great, man. Start of the NBA season to me is like, |
| 0:39.5 | is like Christmas, which I don't really celebrate, the Super Bowl, which has a lot of problems. |
| 0:46.1 | And Marty Gra, which has a lot of people throwing up on your feet all mixed together. |
| 0:53.3 | Well, I do celebrate Christmas, and I can say that anticipation for the start |
| 0:58.5 | of an NBA season is much better. Not even close, really. I do celebrate Christmas by marriage. |
| 1:06.5 | At least they've taken down the photos of my wife with previous boyfriends. |
| 1:13.4 | A little more welcome in the house. |
| 1:13.8 | Okay. |
| 1:19.1 | Let me lay the ground rules because, you know, with me, Ari, there are always ground rules. |
| 1:24.4 | And I'm also, I'm not, I'm saying this less for you than for our listeners who might be less familiar. The NBA has 30 teams, 15 in each conference. Six of those 15 make the |
| 1:34.8 | playoffs, and the next four make the play in a single game tournament for the privilege of getting |
| 1:43.4 | into the playoffs. Two of those four teams will get |
| 1:48.3 | into the playoffs and then the top eight will be in the playoffs and so to make that play in i love the |
| 1:54.7 | play in certain friends of ours do not love the play in um i know you love thein. I love it because of the drama of who gets in. |
| 2:03.3 | Because when an up-and-coming team makes the play-in, it's really cool. |
| 2:07.2 | It's like, wow, they're going in the right path. |
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