{"id":7821,"date":"2017-06-23T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnba.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2017-06-23T01:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T05:00:22","slug":"coast-2coast-podcast-nba-draft-instant-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2017\/06\/23\/coast-2coast-podcast-nba-draft-instant-reaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #31: NBA Draft Instant Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin, along with two guests, Friend Sam and Friend Shawn, give their instant reactions to an exciting first round of the 2017 NBA Draft. The trio begin their talk breaking down the shocking <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butleji01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jimmy Butler<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/2017\/06\/22\/chicago-bulls-trade-jimmy-butler-minnesota-timberwolves\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deal<\/a>. Is Minnesota a legit contender? Is this the start of a Chicago Bulls rebuild? Then, they\u00a0transition to an extensive analysis of the top 10 draft picks, including top picks <strong>Markelle Fultz<\/strong> and <strong>Lonzo Ball<\/strong>. The rest of the top 10 was pretty straight forward except a substantial slide for <strong>Malik Monk<\/strong>, the Kentucky star went 11th to the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>After dissecting how <strong>Frank Ntikilina<\/strong> fits in a big market and a few <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksph01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phil Jackson<\/a><\/strong> napping jokes, each give one winner and one loser for draft night, but not before some coyote howls interrupt them. Being the homer he is, Friend Sam is not hesitant to share his love for new San Antonio Spur, <strong>Derrick White<\/strong>. They also discuss the trades which allowed the Boston Celtics to be a competitive team in the East as well as draft <strong>Jayson Tatum<\/strong> at 3rd overall. Finally, the guys finish with a small discussion of the <strong>OG Anunoby<\/strong>, perhaps the most interesting name in the draft.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Coast 2 Coast Podcast Episode #31: NBA Draft Instant Reaction<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/nq22d-6c3463?from=yiiadmin\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Austin Cracraft and Dante Guarneri discuss everything from the wide world of the NBA, whether it be the latest update from a Banana Boat or a legend being thrown out of the Garden.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Follow the show on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Coast2CoastPod\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Coast2CoastPod<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Austin is a Staff Writer and Podcast Host\/Producer at\u00a0Last Word On Sports. He is currently attending the\u00a0University of Oregon\u00a0and enjoys watching, talking about, and playing sports. He is a shameless Colorado Buffaloes\u00a0and\u00a0Oregon Ducks\u00a0fan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friend Shawn and Friend Sam are both students at the University of Colorado as well as avid sports fans.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Main Photo<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 396px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/629245198\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 150.000000% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/629245198?et=Ni3s0Qe6TCZvWUqOSKyH2Q&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=SVCed96L5y3pOiNkGE3hMEH0HMpykcuWcCA-4pCuy4I=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"396\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 31 discusses the NBA Draft instant reaction, highlighting the Jimmy Butler trade, the Celtics, and Derrick White to the Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":7828,"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":[36,2,62,556],"tags":[591,964,896,1090,798,98,895,1082],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-featured","category-nba","category-nba-draft","tag-2017-nba-draft","tag-austin-cracraft","tag-basketball-podcast","tag-derrick-white","tag-jayson-tatum","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-podcast","tag-og-anunoby"],"modified_by":"Harrison Marcus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}