LeBron James tips in a game winner to beat the Pacers in the game of the night. Es Baraheni and Alex Hoops discuss the night of NBA basketball including the Lakers beating the Pacers, Jokic’s return, and more. Then the guys discuss the rookie class including who has been the best rookie this season, who deserves more ROY buzz, and which player will be the best in 5 seasons?Host: Es BaraheniWith: Alex HoopsExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson Moodyhttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/nba/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the Athletic NBA Daily. Coming up, LeBron James has a very eventful day that ends in a game winner against the Pacers. Nikola Jokic returns to the court and my guy Alex Hoops is here to talk about the Rookie of the Year race. Good morning, everyone. Good morning, Alex. What's going on, my guy?
If you guys don't know, by the way, Alex Hoops on YouTube, over 100K subscribers. My guy breaks down basketball. Very, very fun guy to talk basketball with, Alex. Lakers Pacers is the main story here from last night. It was an awesome game. Very eventful day for LeBron James doing interviews, mind the game, potentially back, and now the game winner.
And Stephen A. Smith boxing match, apparently. Yes, apparently.
Celebrity boxing matches in the works, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wanted to get your opinion on this Lakers team, but just generally the end of the game for them, too, because it was... all over the place. This game in general was very back and forth. Lakers had a 17-point lead. Pacers ended up with an 11-point lead at some point. It was back and forth, and it was a really fun game.
But what was your thoughts on the finish?
It was funny in the fourth quarter because it seemed like The Pacers, you could tell the Pacers really wanted to win. Miles Turner was clamping up. His defense was fantastic. On offense, they were just really clicking at the right time. Everything was going right. Then the Lakers, it was like,
they put their foot on the gas and they went really hard for like two or three minutes in the fourth quarter. And then at one point it was like, they kind of just stopped playing defense and the Pacers got like, like six straight points at the rim, just like early offense driving past the front line. And then there was nobody in the paint. And I was like,
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