Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones kept working through first-round playoff action, breaking down the biggest lessons from the Game 2s and Game 3s they had seen before turning back to the Panic Meter for teams hit by painful injury losses.
Their latest episode then moved from the NBA playoffs to the WNBA preseason, with fresh looks at 10 of the league’s 15 teams set for that weekend: the Fever, Liberty, Sparks, Sky, Mercury, Lynx, Mystics, Storm, Valkyries and the Aces. Duncan and Jones said they were excited to keep tabs on each of them.
The episode sat squarely in the middle of the first-round playoff grind, where every possession can change a series and every injury can tilt the picture for what comes next. That made the Panic Meter segment feel especially relevant, because the teams taking damage were not just losing a game — they were losing the margin for error that defines this stage of the postseason.
The shift to the WNBA preseason gave the show a different rhythm but the same kind of scouting focus. The preview stretch was separated from the NBA playoff discussion, yet it carried its own urgency because those 10 teams were scheduled to be seen over the weekend, giving listeners a first real chance to start sorting what looked promising and what still needed work.
Listeners with NBA or WNBA questions were invited to email dunkerspot@yahoo.com. The full episode was available to watch on the Yahoo Sports NBA YouTube channel, and episodes of The Dunker Spot and the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family were available at or at yahoosports.tv.