00:00Let's flip it over to the NBA.
00:01Round number one.
00:02Yesterday, we saw the Rockets.
00:04I'm surprised.
00:05I am.
00:05115-96 victory over the Lakers.
00:07I thought they were dead to rights.
00:08But talk to me about this.
00:10Like, Kevin Durant, is it just like he needs to play on the best super team of all time
00:15to be locked in or engaged?
00:17Or is it just me going, I don't know, he's older, he's still injured at this point.
00:20It just feels like the Kevin Durant-Houston marriage just never got off the ground or
00:25even had a honeymoon.
00:26And now it's like, yeah, I'm going to be out for three more weeks, which means one more
00:29game the Lakers win.
00:30He can have two to three months off for all anybody cares.
00:33So I think Kevin Durant picked up a, it's very bizarre, but I think he picked up two
00:41different injuries since the postseason started.
00:44If I'm kind of following the timeline here with KD, where he had a knee injury that cost
00:52him game one, he came back for game two, and then an ankle injury that's cost him each
00:59of the last two games.
01:00Now, I am not surprised at what happened in game four because the Lakers are a depleted
01:07basketball team.
01:09LeBron had to play 46 minutes to grab that overtime win.
01:14They're on the road.
01:16Like, they never should have really shown up here and looked great in this game.
01:20It would have been the ultimate embarrassment, I thought, for the Rockets if they allowed LA
01:25to close the sweep.
01:27The big thing now for the Lakers is they expect to get Austin Reeves back for game number five.
01:32So there really should be no game six in this series.
01:36The Lakers, it looks like, for the first time, will actually close as favorites in this series.
01:42Kind of crazy because he didn't miss that many games during the season either, Kev.
01:47You know what I mean?
01:47Durant was actually, that's the amazing part.
01:50It's all of a sudden you get to the postseason, and now he's got injury after injury.
01:55It's just, it's bonkers there.
01:57But take me ahead now to this Denver game in Minnesota.
02:02How do you overcome losing not one but two guys that really solidify the rotations on that?
02:09I don't know what we're going to get from Minnesota.
02:11Any idea?
02:12No, it's so tough because you can sometimes get, like, the one-game step up when a team
02:18is, you know, dealing with injuries.
02:20But I would at least argue they got it in the game, number four victory against Minnesota,
02:28where, I mean, or against Denver, excuse me.
02:32The halftime line was seven and a half in favor of Denver.
02:37They were up by four.
02:38They were laying seven and a half.
02:40So you can't really overstate just how embarrassing that effort was.
02:46Denver, and it's been interesting to see how some of these teams are losing, where the losses,
02:51it's not just like, ah, they can't cover a number.
02:53They feel embarrassing.
02:54They feel pathetic.
02:55And it makes it hard to back a group like that.
02:58I will say for Nikola Jokic, who is obviously running through one of his worst, if not his
03:04single worst postseason series of all time, there were moments last year in Oklahoma City
03:10where, efficiency-wise, he brought absolutely nothing to the table and bounced back.
03:16This is one of these things to me, at some point, Nikola Jokic is going to have to find
03:22his touch and fly through numbers.
03:25But the issue to that is, the books seem to know it.
03:30Like, Jokic, in a game that's supposed to be a blowout, has a 30 and a half points prop.
03:34So it becomes a little bit difficult to try to get to the window on some of these numbers.
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