The Hoop Collective: LaMelo Fine Not Enough? + FULL Playoff Preview & NBA’s Year Awards Ruling

About this episode

The episode discusses LaMelo Ball's fine, the NBA's ruling on end of season awards eligibility, and previews the upcoming playoff series.

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Brian Windhorst

Guests: Tim Bontemps, Tim MacMahon

Topics covered

• LaMelo Ball
• NBA Playoffs
• end of season awards
• Luka Doncic
• Cade Cunningham
• suspension debate
• Bam Adebayo incident

Keywords

• LaMelo Ball
• NBA Playoffs
• suspension
• end of season awards
• Luka Doncic
• Cade Cunningham
• Bam Adebayo

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Organizations: NBA

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