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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Host\u00a0Grant Mona\u00a0brings you a high-energy Wednesday edition of\u00a0The Sporting Tribune Today, capturing the pulse of Los Angeles sports after a night of massive statement wins. From a gritty fourth-quarter surge at Crypto.com Arena to a defensive masterclass at Pauley Pavilion, we\u2019ve got all the locker room reactions.<\/p>\n
Segment One: Lakers Slam the Door on New Orleans\u00a0The\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u00a0found themselves in a \u201crock fight\u201d against the Pelicans, trailing by three heading into the fourth. Grant breaks down how a 17\u20137 run in the final six minutes secured the 110\u2013101 victory. We hear from head coach\u00a0JJ Redick\u00a0on the team\u2019s \u201cbalanced\u201d defensive identity and star\u00a0Luka Don\u010di\u0107, who led the way with 27 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists. Plus, hear from the Lakers\u2019 supporting cast on how they held New Orleans to just 14 points in the closing stretch to keep their climb up the Western Conference standings alive.<\/p>\n
Segment Two: Mick Cronin\u2019s Bruins Dominate the Top 10 In what Grant calls \u201cthe best they\u2019ve played all year,\u201d the UCLA Bruins dismantled No. 9 Nebraska 72\u201352 in their home finale. We bring you the postgame presser from a rejuvenated Mick Cronin, who praises his team for shifting from their \u201cworst defensive effort\u201d to their \u201cbest.\u201d Freshmen standouts Trent Perry (20 points) and Eric Freeny share their thoughts on the intensity required to shut down a top-10 opponent and how this win officially cements their status as a dangerous out heading into the Big Ten Tournament.<\/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":641960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,3569],"class_list":["post-641959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-basketball","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-nba","tag-podcasts"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116179159461667307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641959","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=641959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}