Stretch Four

We're back with a post-mortem on the Sixers' season after a horrendous loss to the Boston Celtics. What does another second-round playoff exit mean? What does anything mean? Where do we go from here? All that and no more this episode.

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The Sixers and Celtics are heading to game seven and the collective NBA media has lost their minds about it. We take a nuanced thoughtful approach to what it all means before diving into the question: who is the second-best white rapper of all-time? (Keenan's prediction that it would be the "year of the white rapper" is really looking like a good one. Good? Is it good?)

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The Sixers beat the Celtics in game one of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals without Joel Embiid (officially the MVP) and we are officially done with moral victories. We talk a lot of Sixers before getting into some of the other NBA Playoff matchups. Then, what starts as a rant against the latest Jack Harlow album moves into a discussion about art, using your voice, and knowing when you don't have anything to say (yes, we know, ironic for a podcast.)

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We recap the second week of the NBA Playoffs and talk about where we were right (and where we were wrong). The Bucks were upset by the Heat and Giannis said that there are no failures in sports: is that true? The Sixers haven't played in a hundred years. The NCAA Transfer Portal is creating super teams and ring-chasing in college sports. And Black Thought has a new album. All this and more this week on the podcast.

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We recap the first week of the NBA Playoffs and talk about surprises, what we wish we could take back from our predictions, and what we still feel totally fine about predicting. Then we take a look at The Athletic's Anonymous NBA Player Poll to compare where the pros' feelings align (and don't align) with our own opinions on the League.

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We run through our picks for each of the match-ups for the first round of the NBA playoffs, make our picks for NBA Awards, and give our list of reasons that disqualify candidates for contention from each of the major regular season awards.

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We're the last people in the world to finally chime in on the Women's NCAA Finals "You Can't See Me" controversy. But you know we like talking about the big-picture meanings behind the discourse, so we're sliding in just where we like to be.

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Michael Jordan is selling his ownership stake in the Charlotte Hornets. Could this mean a return to the league for the Hall-of-Famer? We're kidding, but we wonder what kind of numbers the 60-year-old could put up today. We also pick who we would want on our side for a  two-on-two matchup against MJ in a showdown for $1 million. Then, we talk Trader Joe's for a bit before honoring the late, great Bobby Caldwell by naming some of our favorite artists whose looks don't exactly match their sound (if you catch our drift.)

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Not all rings are created equal. We spend a few minutes talking PA High School hoops history before diving into our definitive rankings of each NBA title from 2011-2022 in terms of how important it was to the legacies of the major impact players on the championship squads. 

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Ja Morant might be in trouble, Dame Lillard thinks the grass is green enough just where he is, and Michael B. Jordan is corny. But what's wrong with being corny?

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