Craziest First Round Ever? + Suns & Blazers Season Obituaries + Silver's New Draft Lottery Rules

About this episode

The episode discusses the surprising outcomes of the NBA playoffs' first round, the seasons of the Suns and Blazers, and new draft lottery rules proposed by Adam Silver.

This episode was recorded before last night's games. Patreon episode reacting to those games and more coming later this week. We talked Sixers upsetting the Celtics in Boston (again), the first round having more surprises than ever, the Pistons and Nuggets chances of coming back down 3-1 in their series due to some injuries and every competitive first round series. Then we discussed the season's of the first two teams who were eliminated in the playoffs (Suns and Blazers) and talked about where they go from here. Plus new ideas from Adam Silver that everyone hates! Enjoy. Get weekly bonus content, discord access and more here: https://www.patreon.com/c/YouKnowBall Buy our merch here! https://youknowball.dashery.com/ All other YKB content can be found here: https://linktr.ee/youknowball Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/youknowballpod Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Topics covered

• NBA playoffs
• first round surprises
• team season obituaries
• Suns
• Blazers
• draft lottery rules

Keywords

• NBA
• playoffs
• Suns
• Blazers
• draft lottery
• Adam Silver
• Celtics
• Pistons
• Nuggets
• first round

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sixers, Celtics, Pistons, Nuggets, Suns, Blazers

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