Josh Giddey hits a prayer of a half court shot to send the Lakers packing. Zena Keita and Law Murray break down the night of basketball including the Bulls win against the Lakers, the Cavs squeaking by the Spurs, OKC’s avalanche on the Grizzlies and more. Then Zena is joined by Eric Koreen to discuss his article on the NBA in March and if there is anything the league can do to fix tanking.Host: Zena KeitaWith: Law Murray and Eric KoreenExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moodyhttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nba/FILL OUT OUR SURVEY PLEASEThe athletic.com/athletic/survey25 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What happened in the game between the Bulls and the Lakers?
Indiana should have been able to secure a win. They didn't get the stop they needed at the buzzer. For Washington, they won a game, and it was like, nah, so many wins. We have to reestablish. Y'all don't get more losses by losing by 50, just so y'all know, Washington. It only counts as one loss.
It doesn't get split up. It doesn't get split up. Now we at the NBA Daily, we know that all the games aren't created equal. And tonight or last night had a lot of great games, but we've seen a lot of bad games in March. We've seen a lot of players resting. We've seen a lot of no calls on out of bounds plays. We've seen a lot of weird things happening in the month of March.
And after this break, we're going to break down why that is. Don't go anywhere.
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All right, joining me now, I have Eric Koreen, writer at The Athletic, after he wrote a story with a headline that definitely stood out, March Badness. This month shows the worst of the NBA, but would the league ever change that? It was a wonderful read, Eric, and I'm so happy that we're here with you to break it all down because...
Lots of folks have thoughts on March being the worst of NBA action. And some folks think you could say that about a ton of months throughout the year. But I want to get your thoughts first and foremost. When did you first notice that March was a particularly bad month in NBA action?
It's been a few years now. I couldn't give you like an exact season or an exact date, but I think like sort of in the
in the you know online nba consciousness vaguely there has been this acknowledgement that really the worst of of what the league has to offer can be uh seen in march whether it's the teams who you know we're never going to be good in the first place the teams who through a series of unfortunate events have accepted that they're never going to be good and will you know
lightly or heavily rest some some stars and then the teams are doing great but that are like well what's the point of playing these guys every night we're not gonna win if you know star a b or c isn't available so yeah and even if you're fighting for seating in some cases especially with the more experienced teams you have to weigh it and be like
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