{"id":21782,"date":"2019-06-09T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=21782"},"modified":"2019-06-17T23:26:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T03:26:31","slug":"the-last-word-podcast-episode-11-featuring-james-l-edwards-iii-of-the-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2019\/06\/09\/the-last-word-podcast-episode-11-featuring-james-l-edwards-iii-of-the-athletic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Word NBA Podcast &#8211; Episode 11 (Featuring James L Edwards III of The Athletic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on The Last Word NBA Podcast, Jordan, Stacey, Ben, and Youssef discuss various topics in the basketball world, as <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/detroit-pistons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> beat writer James L Edwards III from <a href=\"http:\/\/theathletic.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a> joins in!<\/p>\n<h2>James L Edwards III joins The Last Word NBA Podcast<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Last Word - NBA Finals and the Detroit Pistons ft. James L Edwards III of The Athletic by CrownHoops Podcast\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/crownhoops\/embed\/episodes\/The-Last-Word---NBA-Finals-and-the-Detroit-Pistons-ft--James-L-Edwards-III-of-The-Athletic-e49pe0#?secret=FLqJR0DABd\" data-secret=\"FLqJR0DABd\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/the-last-word-nba-podcast\/episodes\/The-Last-Word---NBA-Finals-and-the-Detroit-Pistons-ft--James-L-Edwards-III-of-The-Athletic-e49pe0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here if the audio player isn&#8217;t loading!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, Jordan, Stacey, and James talk about the future of the Detroit Pistons, and possibilities of what will happen in this year&#8217;s NBA Draft and free agency.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Pistons talk, Ben hops on and gives us his hot takes of the week!<\/p>\n<p>The guys then discuss the NBA Finals as the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> hold a 3-1 series lead against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/nba-teams\/golden-state-warriors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden State Warriors<\/a>. How have the Raptors earned this lead? Can they finish off Golden State and end the Warriors dynasty? Will <strong>Kevin Durant<\/strong> return for Game 5 in Toronto? How will that affect the series? Would winning a championship change the equation and could\u00a0<strong>Kawhi Leonard<\/strong> stay in Toronto? We examine all that and more.<\/p>\n<p>In the theme of the NBA Finals, Ben then gives us his Player of the Week &#8211; it should be no surprise!<\/p>\n<p>To end the episode, the guys have some fun and make their own All-NBA Bust Team!<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to James for coming on the podcast! Make sure to follow him on twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JLEdwardsIII\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JLEdwardsIII<\/a> and check out his awesome content over at <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/author\/james-l-edwards-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Athletic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on twitter @LastWordPod and thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<p>Check out more articles done by our team at <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Last Word on Pro Basketball<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on The Last Word NBA Podcast, Jordan, Stacey, Ben, and Youssef discuss various topics in the basketball world, as Detroit Pistons beat writer James L Edwards III from The Athletic joins in! James L Edwards III joins The Last Word NBA Podcast Click here if the audio player isn&#8217;t loading!\u00a0 First, Jordan, Stacey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":20120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1608,5,10,25,62,556,14],"tags":[340,407,1914],"class_list":["post-21782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-basketball","category-celtics","category-pistons","category-warriors","category-nba","category-nba-draft","category-raptors","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-nba-finals","tag-podcast"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}