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No Dunks

1-on-1 | Fred Katz on Kobe, Wizards, Westbrook

No Dunks

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports, Basketball

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's lead Wizards writer Fred Katz joins the show to discuss Kobe's passing, the weird mood surrounding Sunday's Wizards-Hawks game, Bradley Beal's All-Star case, John Wall's injury update, Scott Brook's popularity in Japan, Dāvis Bertāns crazy range, covering Westbrook and Steven Adams back in OKC, Fred's real name (!) and so much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to No Dunks.

0:09.9

I'm Tasmelis here with the fellas,

0:12.2

Skeets, Trey, Lee, and J.D.

0:14.2

And we are very excited to have in studio,

0:18.3

Washington Wizards Beat Writer for the Athletic

0:20.2

and host of Wizards After Dark,

0:22.9

a Wizards postgame podcast.

0:24.2

He used to cover the Thunder.

0:25.4

He loves a good pun.

0:27.5

Fred Katz is in the building.

0:29.7

Fred, thanks so much for joining us.

0:31.0

Yeah.

0:31.4

It's amazing to be with the guys who do the pun gun.

0:34.0

That's just an incredible experience for me.

0:37.1

We will get to that later. First, we got to start with the sad news, the most important

0:44.1

news that rocked the NBA on Sunday. And you were down at the Hawks and the Wizards touching

0:50.9

stuff happening all over the place with the violation the violation, the 24-second violation,

0:55.4

the 8-second violation to start the game, Tray Young, wearing the number 8 for those two violations

0:59.7

and then sharing stories post-game. Just give us the feeling of what it was like to be in that building.

1:06.3

It was so weird because, like, and I was talking about this with people last night,

1:14.4

you, when you go through tragedy, you kind of want to turn to things as distractions,

1:20.0

whatever those distractions might be in your life.

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