Play-In, Playoffs and more Playoffs (with a Side of WNBA).

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05/24/21 • 63 min

The basics start the pod with a shout out to their fallen Play-In teams, the Pacers and Hornets (2:22). Grace kicks off the week's news with WNBA highlights (5:34) before Bella recaps the NBA Play-In tournament results (11:27). They then run through the first two days of playoff basketball (20:50). As is tradition, the basics compare NBA playoff brackets (30:24) and go on to finish the show with the final whistle (55:40).

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NBA Playoff Predictions, WNBA Highlights, J. Cole Pro Basketball Debut, and More

The Basics of Basketball kick things off with the standard LeMelo praise followed by the basics new-found WNBA and Euroleague fandom (0:56). Grace then runs through the Eurolegue playoff seedings (4:40), WNBA opening week highlights (5:51), NBL and NZNBL league updates (10:31) and J. Cole's pro basketball debut (15:00). Bella notes the top NBA news (19:08) before discussing the play-in and LaBron's comments on the tournament (23:07). The basics round out the news by chatting about the NBA regular season awards predicted winners (31:42). To celebrate the best time of the year, NBA playoff season, the basics run through what they are most excited about and their postseason predictions in this weeks starting five segment (39:05). They finish up with the final whistle, chatting about what brought them joy the past week (59:34).

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NBA Playoffs Recap, With a Side of WNBA Beef

The Basics start the pod discussing Bucks v Nets game 5, their NBA brackets and Jayson Tatum's 50 point game (1:22). Grace kicks off the WNBA round-up running through the current standings (5:57), before discussing the record-breaking Mystics v Sparks game (7:38) and finishes up by explaining the leagues week of "beef" (8:46). They touch on the poor spectator behaviour in the first round of the playoffs (17:35) before moving on to discuss the conference semifinals matchups (21:48). To recap the past weeks of playoff action and to give a shout out to their favourite players, the basics list their M.V.P.s of the playoffs so far for this weeks starting five segment (38:05). They finish the pod with what brought them joy this week in the final whistle (1:00:37).