LaMelo Fine Not Enough? + FULL Playoff Preview & NBA’s Year Awards Ruling
4/17/20261 hr 14 min
Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to react to LaMelo Ball’s fine for his incident with Bam Adebayo and discuss if he should have been suspended. Then, we tackle the NBA’s ruling to allow Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham to be eligible for end of season awards. Finally, we do a full preview of every playoff series in the Eastern and Western Conference.
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First 90 secondsBrian Windhorst· Host0:00
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Tim MacMahon· Host1:01
Hello, everybody.
Brian Windhorst· Host1:03
Good vibes in, uh, Xfinity Mobile Arena on, uh, Wednesday.
Tim MacMahon· Host1:08
There were good vibes in Xfinity Mobile Arena, and, uh, I have a, I have a comment about it, but I'll wait till we introduce our co-host here.
Brian Windhorst· Host1:17
Well, that's, uh... Joining us from Los Angeles, California, where he did not attend what could've been the last great moment of Steph Curry's career, is Ben McMahon.
Tim MacMahon· Host1:27
Howdy, partners. Uh,