#16: Neil Paine on the Battle for Basketball's Soul

Thinking Basketball

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4.8 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Neil Paine of 538 stops by to discuss James Harden's controversial play style, the 3-point revolution, the emergence of the 76ers & some insight into just how influential analytics have become behind the scenes. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball

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0:00.0	Thinking Basketball Podcast, podcast, my name is Ben. Today, a very special guest Neil Payne from 538.com, stops by.
0:16.3	Neil runs the sports podcast over at 538.
0:19.8	He's also a writer there, writes about basketball and many other sports.
0:24.2	He's previously been at sports reference
0:27.6	where he ran the basketball blog back in the day.
0:30.0	He's done work for the New York Times,
0:31.6	ESPN Insider, just kind of a legend in these circles.
0:35.6	So I'm super happy to have him on.
0:37.2	It was a long time overdue.
0:39.2	And today's conversation, we will get to Ben Simmons and Jimmy Butler and some of the stuff going on with the 76ers right now
0:45.7	We also touch on some insights he had on his time from the Hawks, but the meat of the conversation is really around this idea of the battle for the soul of
0:55.5	basketball, the three-point revolution, the role the officials have, the rockets, James Harden,
1:01.5	extreme styles, and something to do with the airspace of buildings.
1:05.9	So without further ado, here's my chat with Neil Payne of 538.
1:10.6	Neil Payne, thanks so much for joining me.
1:12.5	Very glad to have you.
1:13.7	Thanks for having me on, Ben.
1:14.9	It's been a long time coming.
1:17.2	It has, yeah.
1:18.1	This is a long time, first time.
1:20.2	Long time, first time.
1:21.2	Yeah.
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