Welcome to The Sporting Tribune Podcast Network and a new episode of The Sporting Tribune Today, our every-weekday show on sports in Southern California, Las Vegas and Hawaii. Hosted by Arash Markazi, Grant Mona, and Anwar Stetson, today\u2019s show tackles a pair of big storylines affecting L.A. teams \u2014 from the Clippers\u2019 surprising surge to major NFL shifts and postseason heartbreak.<\/p>\n
Segment One \u2014 Clippers Winning 16 of 19 After 6\u201321 Start<\/p>\n
The panel opens with a deep dive into the\u00a0Clippers\u2019 remarkable turnaround. After beginning the season\u00a06\u201321, Los Angeles has now won\u00a016 of its last 19 games\u00a0to climb back to\u00a022\u201324, making it one of the more unlikely midseason surges in recent NBA history.<\/p>\n
Arash, Grant, and Anwar discuss:<\/p>\n
What\u2019s changed \u2014 from\u00a0Kawhi Leonard\u2019s scoring leadership\u00a0to role players stepping up<\/p>\n
Whether this surge can continue and how it impacts the Clippers\u2019 positioning in the playoff picture<\/p>\n
The historic nature of the turnaround \u2014 teams rarely rebound so dramatically after such a disastrous start.<\/p>\n
Segment Two \u2014 Chargers Hire Mike McDaniel & Rams Devastating Loss<\/p>\n
Then the conversation shifts to football with contrasting news for Southern California fans:<\/p>\n
Chargers hire Mike McDaniel:The Chargers have officially\u00a0named Mike McDaniel as their new offensive coordinator, bringing in a top-tier offensive mind to help reboot a unit that struggled late in 2025. McDaniel\u2019s hiring is seen as a major upgrade for Justin Herbert and the Chargers\u2019 playcalling going forward.<\/p>\n
Rams NFC Championship heartbreak:The mood turns more somber as the panel reacts to the Rams\u2019 tough loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game, a 31\u201327 defeat that ended L.A.\u2019s season and denied the team a Super Bowl trip. The hosts discuss how the Rams fought back late but were undone by critical errors, and what this result means for the franchise moving forward.<\/p>\n
The podcast can be heard every day on Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeart Radio, TuneIn and wherever you get your podcast and every weekday on the radio on KIRN 670 AM and 95.5 FMHD3 in Southern California, 98.5 The Bet in Las Vegas and the Hawaii Sports Radio Network 95.1 FM and 760 AM in Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Sporting Tribune Podcast Network and a new episode of The Sporting Tribune Today, our every-weekday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,3569],"class_list":["post-567070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba","tag-podcasts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115974773595074320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}