June 12: Kevin Durant undergoes successful surgery to repair Achilles
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It's Game 7 between the Blues and Bruins so Bob McCown and John Shannon call up Hockey Central's Jeff Marek and ask who he thinks will raise Lord Stanley's Cup at the end of the night (8:26). Brooks Koepka has won back-to-back US Open Championships - can he it three in row? Bob and John are joined by Sportsnet's Golf Analyst Ian Leggatt to preview the tournament (27:58). NBA TV analyst and former coach of the year, "The Czar" Mike Fratello joins Bob and Richard Deitsch and discusses coaching in the age of social media, how you are criticized so quickly, and Nick Nurse's decision making in Game Five (45:21). At the bottom of the hour, ESPN's NBA Draft Analyst Fran Fraschilla shares his first impressions of Kawhi Leonard having coached him at a development camp before his NBA days (1:14:10). Dan Shulman gets swept up in Raptors-mania and speaks about the impact he sees this playoff run having on the fans in Toronto and across Canada (1:32:01). Warriors' President of Basketball Operations Bob Myers described Kevin Durant as "misunderstood". Marcus Thompson of The Athletic literally wrote the book on "KD" and discusses both the man and the player with Durant having a long rehab process ahead for his grueling ruptured Achilles (2:02:33).
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