{"id":604072,"date":"2026-04-14T19:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:43:10","slug":"nba-playoff-preview-part-one-wnba-draft-free-agency-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604072\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoff preview, part one + WNBA draft & free agency recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a jam-packed episode of The Dunker Spot coming your way!<\/p>\n

First, Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones preview the playoff series we know about: Nuggets-Timberwolves and Lakers-Rockets in the West, Cavaliers-Raptors and Knicks-Hawks in the East. They discuss their biggest schematic, matchup, and lineup questions ahead of each series.<\/p>\n

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From there, the guys shift to the WNBA and react to a wild week(end) of movement. They start with the WNBA draft and discuss the biggest selections, with thoughts on the top-five and more. They continue their WNBA discussion by analyzing some of the biggest free agency swings of the cycle so far.<\/p>\n

If you ever have NBA or WNBA questions, email us at dunkerspot@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n

1:40 — Nuggets-Wolves<\/p>\n

19:22 — Lakers-Rockets<\/p>\n

34:54 — Cavs-Raptors<\/p>\n

51:04 — Knicks-Hawks<\/p>\n

01:04:30 — WNBA draft discussion<\/p>\n

\"DENVER<\/p>\n

DENVER , CO – MARCH 1: Anthony Edwards (5) of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Nikola Jokic (15) of the Denver Nuggets stand on the court during the third quarter at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado on Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz\/The Denver Post)<\/p>\n

(AAron Ontiveroz)<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udda5\ufe0f Watch this full episode<\/a> on the Yahoo Sports NBA YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n

Check out all episodes of The Dunker Spot<\/a> and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https:\/\/apple.co\/3zEuTQj<\/a> or at yahoosports.tv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have a jam-packed episode of The Dunker Spot coming your way! First, Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[36999,49,48,2898,14102,459,112319,5725,82,112318,630,38381,4718],"class_list":{"0":"post-604072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nekias-duncan","15":"tag-nikola-jokic","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-steve-jones","18":"tag-wnba","19":"tag-wnba-draft","20":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}