But in recent years, we've seen a few players and teams declined to make visits. SIMON: University of Georgia Bulldogs, national champion football team, declined to visit the White House. But the Miami Heat were in the Western - I'm sorry - Eastern Conference finals last year, and they're here again - very, very scary team. Them and sort of just ran into a buzzsaw. But what it's done to the regular season - I'm sorry - what it's done to the postseason is now you've got some really low seeds playing for championships when they really weren't that good during the regular season. Buy a ticket, and your - the best players aren't playing that night. And now suddenly.īRYANT: That's called load management, when, you know - or it's called consumer fraud, when you go.īRYANT. And they started using the regular season as a way just to - as a weigh station to get healthy for the postseason. So these teams were never as bad as they looked during the season. And then you have the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. So you've got an 8 seed, Miami, taking out the Knicks, so they're in the Eastern Conference finals having - required a play-in game to get there. This load management and giving guys rest and not quite knowing who these rosters really are and - has really changed the complexion of the of the postseason. What do you see in these playoffs?īRYANT: Well, I see a lot of teams playing possum with the regular season. Miami beat the Knicks last night, 96 to 92. But this Laker team completely retooled, made trades at the deadline, and suddenly they are four wins away from the NBA finals, believe it or not. They were terrible on the road this season and yet won two games against Sacramento in the first round. And they did not look like a championship team this year, but it just looked that maybe they had found a way.
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They had won 19 straight series against Western Conference opponents. Going to be champions when somebody beats them four times, and finally, for the first time in a very long time, that we've seen them be taken out in the postseason without reaching the finals. I'll believe that the Golden State Warriors aren't.īRYANT.
You and I have had this conversation for many, many years now, almost a decade, where the end result was the same. What did you think?īRYANT: I said goodbye to the champions. Lakers coach Darvin Ham said his fingerprints are all over this game. SIMON: The Lakers - I don't have to tell you - defeated the defending champion Golden State - hey, we're no longer in Oakland - Warriors, last night - 122 to 101.
HOWARD BRYANT: Good morning, Scott Simon. Howard, thanks so much for being with us. Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media joins us. SIMON: The LA Lakers prevail, and the Georgia Bulldogs say no thanks to a White House visit. And now to the dulcet theme music of BJ Leiderman.
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