{"id":626484,"date":"2026-04-24T22:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T22:39:12","slug":"nba-playoff-round-one-reactions-wnba-preseason-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626484\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoff round one reactions + WNBA preseason preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

First, Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones continue dissecting first-round playoff action! They share their biggest takeaways from the Game 2s & 3s we’ve gotten, then go back to the Panic Meter for the teams that suffered tough (injury) losses.<\/p>\n

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From there, the guys shift to the WNBA to talk through the upcoming slate of preseason action.<\/p>\n

We’ll get fresh looks at 10 of the W’s 15 teams this weekend — Fever<\/a>, Liberty, Sparks, Sky, Mercury, Lynx, Mystics, Storm, Valkyries, and the Aces. Nekias and Steve share what they’re excited about — and what they’ll be monitoring — concerning each of those teams.<\/p>\n

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

2:12 — Nuggets-Timberwolves<\/p>\n

15:48 — Knicks-Hawks<\/p>\n

32:25– Cavs-Raptors<\/p>\n

38:38 –Panic meter: Lakers-Rockets<\/p>\n

47:46 — Panic meter: Spurs-Blazers<\/p>\n

53:22 — Panic meter: Celtics-Sixers<\/p>\n

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58:58 — Panic meter: Pistons-Magic<\/p>\n

01:05:11– Panic meter: Thunder-Suns<\/p>\n

01:09:33– WNBA Preseason Preview<\/p>\n

\"AnthonyAnthony Edwards #5 of the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> celebrates his three-point basket against the Denver Nuggets<\/a> in the second quarter of Game Three of the First Round of the 2026 NBA Western Conference Playoffs at Target Center on April 23, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/a>. (Photo by David Berding\/Getty Images) (Photo by David Berding\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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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":"Subscribe to The Dunker SpotWe have a jam-packed episode of The Dunker Spot coming your way! First, Nekias…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,2898,6003,2598,14102,459,112319,234858,82,112318,630,67111,4718],"class_list":["post-626484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-fever","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-nba","tag-nekias-duncan","tag-preseason-action","tag-sports","tag-steve-jones","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-preseason","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626484","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=626484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}