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Our old friend and Yahoo!/Substack NBA writer Tom Haberstoh is here for some analytical diving. Great talk in my humble opinion. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Tom and I made Tim MacMahon famous and he owes us big time
* Is a Thunder-Pacers Finals good for the NBA?
* Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the new Tim Duncan
* Does SGA not have a signature move? Which stars have what signature moves?
* If you take away the steroid peak, is current Aaron Judge better than Barry Bonds?
* Is Tyrese Haliburton not a superstar?
* Are NBA coaches less valuable than ever?
* How many draft picks would you trade for your team to acquire Sam Presti?
* It’s time for NBA coaches to wear suits again!
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Our man Glass is here to discuss an oddly contentious week in sports media. Prominent names are fighting, so we decided to give our takes on what the hell is happening. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Is Bill Simmons right that ESPN will fuck up Inside the NBA?
* Ryen Russillo draws ire of Mina Kimes over a harmless joke
* Towel snapping maleness of Inside
* Bill Simmons vs. Pablo Torre (A B.S. report with Pablo was released right after we recorded, so perhaps not history’s most contentious feud)
* LeBron James vs. Brian Windhorst
* How successful is LeBron’s Mind the Game podcast?
* Is there are a big audience for basketball strategy in a podcast?
* “NBA ratings don’t matter,” say people who seem to love when they’re up
* The “High Floor, Low Ceiling” theory of NBA viewership
* How big is the impact of small markets on viewership?
* Is Pride Month now Pride Day in sports?
* Why do sports teams tweet more about Pride than other corporations?
* Elon Musk going at Trump’s bill on Twitter/X
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I’ve heard buzz about a memoir by Ed Latimore, who’s a former professional boxer and current professional writer. Ed’s developed a following for his life advice and his upcoming book is titled, Hard Lessons From the Hurt Business.
I loved getting to know Ed on quite a free range assortment of topics. These topics include but aren’t limited to...
* Having kids is the choice that later doesn’t feel like a choice
* There’s a town in Canada that’s inundated with polar bears
* What lessons you learn from getting knocked out on live television
* Ed worries that anyone who’d attack him would likely have a gun
* I sort of choked when opening up my live YouTube show
* Why are we so afraid of public shame?
* The story you can tell yourself to get over a breakup
* Losing weight requires a “why” and mine is embarrassing
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Here’s my Substack live video with Mike Pesca!
Btw, Mike and Bomani Jones will be joining me for my inaugural launch of Random Offense on YouTube, Friday 4pm ET (1 pm PST). Here’s a link for that. Join up.
Idea of Random Offense is it’s a bit like the old Callin show I used to do, with listener involvement, only more visual. You guys can call in, ask questions, submit article ideas for the Substack. See you Friday.
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Matt is back! Nearly two hours of tech and media conversation, in which Matt reveals that he endorses Jon Voight’s plan to take Hollywood back to the 1970s. Also, we discuss how sports television is now aggressively eating scripted Hollywood.
Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* We were bullied into doing this episode by my only female subscriber
* Woke Matt doesn’t think HBO’s The Pitt is woke
* Did I accidentally trick a writer into thinking I’m a robot?
* Max goes back to HBO Max
* Old people are still running the show
* “The creator economy is a scam”
* Sports asserted their dominance at Upfronts
* Are Group Chats going public?
* Woke Matt defends universities
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House of Glass alert! Topics include but aren’t limited…
* Nike not optimizing shareholder value
* NBA lottery history suspicious but probably not rigged
* Is Cooper Flagg a top tier prospect historically? Would you trade him for Giannis?
* Why nobody cares about Anthony Edwards’ off court issues
* Sad Bill Belichick situation
* Does Bill Belichick really still have sex?
* Meadowlark Media crossroads
* Why the other media moguls have issues with Dan Le Batard
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You people emailed me, wanting Spike Eskin’s commentary on JJ Redick’s playoff flameout. This tweet was but a taste…
We discuss Spike’s anti Redick theory and so much. more. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* “Farting in church” basketball takes like wanting more from Popovich’s coaching tree
* Is it fair to suggest that Redick’s choking as a player can carry over into coaching?
* Why everyone loves James Harden as choking archetype
* What Redick misses about coaching
* Why NFL film watching is “astrology for dudes”
* A good sports pundit is right a lot. A great sports pundit is constantly wrong and it never matters
* Does Spike feel betrayed by Dasha Nekrasova hiding her imminent marriage?
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Mike of The Gist is here, which means the conversation flows so easily. We start with Giannis Antetokounmpo going viral again in defeat, and then hit a range of sports current events. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Why the public likes Giannis’ defeat monologues
* Is Antetokounmpo at all at fault for the Milwaukee disaster?
* NBA playoff ratings have juice
* What’s up with all TV ratings these days? Are they real or fake?
* Aaron Rodgers is insufferable in totality but not in bite sizes
* Why NBA superstars try to change too many things around them
* How to deal with celebrities
* How many NBA players earn more than Adam Silver?
* Todd McShay > Mel Kiper
* Mike defends Mel Kiper
* My ONE big rule of drafting NBA and NFL players
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Rogue Bogues podcasters (and former NBA professionals) Andrew Bogut and Mike Procopio are here for the playoffs! We start with the elevated physicality of Warriors-Rockets and whether Amen Thompson is at fault for Jimmy Butler’s injury. From there, we’re looking back on situations as wide ranging as when Draymond Green kicked Steven Adams in the nuts in 2016, all the way to whether the Warriors tried to trade Steph Curry for our humble podcast guest (not Procoprio) in 2012.
Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Who’s at fault for Jimmy Butler getting injured?
* Did Ime Udoka make a mistake by using his move of putting Alperen Şengün on Moses Moody two weeks before the season ended?
* Does Bogut think that Draymond Green really tried to kick Steven Adams in the balls back in the 2016 WCF?
* What’s up with Steve Kerr scolding the Houston crowd for chanting “Fuck Draymond”?
* Was Evan Mobley the right choice for DPOY?
* We are not fans of how Jonathan Kuminga’s been playing
* Our theories on why the Mavericks did their disastrous Luka Dončić trade
* Would Pro take a bunch of money to do the Luka trade if ownership demanded
* How Andrew feels about Mavericks president Rick Welts bringing up his name when trying to justify the infamous trade
* Andrew swears that the Milwaukee Bucks had the option of taking Steph Curry instead of Monta Ellis in that 2012 trade
* Will Andrew ever coach an NBA team?
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One of my favorite conversations with Wos, if I do say so myself. Very NBA forward, if that’s your thing.
Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Why Jordan Brand’s “Bad Luka” ads work
* Laker Luka’s potential to become the face of the league
* Why is Laker Luka such a hotter cultural commodity than Dallas Luka
* Why I don’t believe in the Lakers
* Steph Curry as Houston Boogie Man
* Rudy Gobert as constant scapegoat
* The controversy over the Braves TV guy getting a girl’s phone number
* Kay Adams is skilled at professionally flirting and that’s OK
* Shannon Sharpe might have a new sex tape?
* The sorts of women NBA players “date”
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I never get to talk one-on-one with Light Years co-host and overall Warriors provocateur Andy Liu, but today is my lucky day. In this episode we cover why, exactly, Andy quit the sports writer path for whatever he became. We also discuss how I got fired from Yelp. Oh, and the Warriors made the playoffs finally.
Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Why did Andy quit formal sports media?
* What did I learn about life from working at Yelp?
* Why Steve Kerr gets the big things right
* How does Andy feel about Kerr antagonist Jim Park?
* The heroism of doing a job you hate
* Is there a lot of entitlement in the media union movement?
* Is the sports media wrong about Warriors vs. Rockets?
* Why is the Jonathan Kuminga idea popular with national media?
* Who do we want the 49ers to draft?
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An ideal time to podcast with fellow indie media man Andrew Sharp, King of the Generalists. In addition to podcasting about the NBA, Andrew also co-hosts podcasts on technology and China. Obviously, there were topics to discuss. Subjects include but aren’t limited to…
* Are America and China at war?
* The precarious nature of what we need from Taiwan
* “America is the biggest customer and the customer is always right”
* Are we actually friends-friends with Canada?
* Luka Dončić whines too much and we don’t feel bad that he got mistakenly ejected
* Does Luka have a fetish for arguing against correct calls?
* The Dallas Mavericks’ tone deaf effort to welcome Luka back
* Do Andrew and I believe in the Warriors?
* I do a mea culpa about Ime Udoka
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Congratulations to Freddie, who’s a new father. Having just come up for air, he’s got takes on the state of our possibly melting down world, NBA corner 3 elimination, and the Jackie Robinson DEI imbroglio. For those who don’t want financial crisis/tariff talk, we begin with it and it ends at around the 25 minute mark. Enjoy!
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* Mainstream NBA media tone vs. YouTube tone
* The Event Level NBA takes are so much harsher than public takes
* Agents can threaten everyone in your media org
* Players Justin has pissed off
* Why is it Old NBA heads vs. Current Players?
* How do we feel about Kirk Goldsberry’s plan to ban corner 3s?
* Why is Justin voting Nikola Jokic for MVP?
* Justin recounts the time Jerry West eviscerated JJ Redick over “plumbers and firemen”
* Why do Justin and I complain about the great LeBron James?
* Nike origins of “More than an athlete”
* The point of LeBron James as a “voice” that regular NBA media won’t say
* Why the Warriors could be a tricky future matchup for the world beating Thunder
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Many great topics today with our favorite sports media reporter! Items include but aren’t limited to…
* LeBron’s massive hour-plus sit down with Pat McAfee
* Is LeBron uniquely annoying among all time greats?
* LeBron’s straw man arguments
* Why is McAfee egging LeBron on to take shots at Stephen A. Smith and Brian Windhorst?
* The GOAT debate as needless dumping on the past
* The NBA has an anti-nostalgia problem
* Last week’s Jackie Robinson DEI flap and whether I was unfair to Mina Kimes
* The WNBA’s big issue with negotiating a new deal
* We discuss whether there’s an ideological component to why Hannah Hidalgo hasn’t gotten much spotlight
* The Trump administration didn’t handle their Signal snafu well
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Jay Caspian Kang writes about a little bit of everything and so, in our conversations, we discuss a little bit of everything. Today’s main topic is whether the Analytics Movement is past due in sports. Related, per new data-based analysis of Democratic Party woes, is politics about to get a visit from the analytics movement? Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Are Michael Jordan’s shoes actually objectively good looking?
* Why did bloggers adopt analytics as a cause?
* Was the analytics era about the truth, or about asserting dominance over jocks?
* Did fans like the era of NBA strategy blogging?
* Why Fantasy Sports sells a fantasy of what it’s like to be a GM
* The folly of thinking data analysis can reveal how to run a political party
* Ezra Klein stepping into the void to take charge of the Democratic Party
* Does Gavin Newsom have a shot at the presidency or is it just the right that’s warming to him?
* Is 80 percent of politics just who runs Twitter?
* Are the millennial NBA stars like America’s boomers (in holding back progress through longevity)
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Liz co-hosts the Just Asking Questions podcast, which earnestly investigates the day’s most pressing political and cultural issues. She’s also, in no particular order, a Catholic, mom, surfer and natalism evangelist.
I really enjoy Wolfe’s approach to conversations and public intellectual life so this pod is a long time coming. Topics include but aren’t limited to…
* Why you should have kids
* Whether it’s bad that Berkeley is so old now
* Somehow, we also get into the topic of whether we should explore why we’re disgusted by certain forms of deviancy
* How Liz and I feel about living next to Watch List neighbors
* My son embarrassed me at Warriors practice by being exactly like me
* Aella, the rationalist prostitute
* That time Kyrie Irving and other NBA players were being compelled to take the vax
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Hoops Tonight host Jason Timpf is back talking NBA nitty gritty + headier topics that we tend to get into. A great conversation as always, this time including but not limited to…
* Why Jason knew the Jimmy Butler trade would work for the Warriors
* The “blood and bones” perspective on basketball vs. analytics
* The “why” function of Youtube
* How players fit With and Without
* Does Jason believe in the Thunder?
* Why Jason doesn’t believe in the Bucks
* The underrated MAIN problem with the NBA product right now
* Why we’re doing MVP wrong these days
* Why NBA players are so jealous
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Joe, who covers sports business, did a great deep dive on why ESPN’s big bet on ESPN BET has gone awry. What does this say about the current state of sports gambling? Have we reached peak sports gambling? Also, was ESPN’s Around the Horn cancellation more about surrounding structure, or inability to match modern sports fan culture?
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