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Nothing Personal with David Samson

2023 NBA Draft! It's time for the Wembanyama takeover! Are Overtime Elite and G League Ignite the real deal alternatives? Rob Manfred and Astros cheating and Oakland issues! (Episode 842)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Thank you to everyone who listens and shares NPDS! What a great honor to be a Pick of the Month! Thank you! Today’s word of the day is ‘il arrive’ as in he’s coming as in NBA Draft night is here as in Victor Wembanyama is here. The 7’4 unicorn from France is here to take over the NBA. The Spurs will get him. Is Pop ready? How will they handle him? (10:30) Who is making the pick for the Charlotte Hornets? It will not be Michael Jordan! And this is a huge decision! What about alternates to college basketball? It’s happening! (18:00) Rob Manfred did a sit-down interview with TIME magazine and covered myriad topics. Astros scandal. Oakland issues. (31:10) Review: White Men Can’t Jump. (35:00) Major League Baseball is being sued by former scouts who allege the league kept a blacklist of “non-hirable scouts” based on age. (43:40) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

That is French word of the day. Yes, we're doing it. Ila rive means he's coming tonight is

0:24.9

the night at the Barclays Center where Victor Wemba Yama will become the first pick of the NBA

0:31.2

draft 19 years old 7 foot 4 you've heard all about him. For those of you who've never heard of him,

0:35.6

just picture a combination of Magic Johnson, Steph Curry, Kareem Abdul Jbar, just not shakiloneal.

0:45.4

But the first three it's pretty good. He's 19 and he is going to be the greatest player to ever

0:53.3

play in the NBA and his career starts tonight. Somebody I was on a

1:01.5

levitary yesterday. I'll be on again today live at 9 a.m. But yesterday he said that someone

1:06.8

bet $60,000 to win 300 that he'll be the first pick. Now that's good if you have the money. If you

1:13.7

have the $60,000 in your account, you can lay it and then win 300. What's the use? Why not do 600,000

1:19.7

try to win 3000. There is no scenario under which oh there is a scenario. If on the way to Barclays

1:25.4

Center, he commits some sort of crime and gets arrested or put in jail or somehow a tragedy happens.

1:35.0

It can't be worth it to do that. The San Antonio Spurs people are saying that their trajectory will

1:41.9

change tonight. They're used to this. When the NBA lottery happened, we told you that he would be

1:48.9

the first pick and that he would go to the San Antonio Spurs and they would win the lottery.

1:52.7

And the reason we knew that is the NBA has too much writing on Victor. He's got the entire next

2:01.5

generation on his shoulders. He can't be a bust. He's got the personality. He's English is

2:10.5

terrific. He's got the international appeal. He has the gregarious personality. Everything about

2:20.1

him says this is where we go next. And that is the job of the NBA and of all the leagues is to go

2:27.3

from face to face, go to go to keep the debate going, to keep the interest going. There is a benefit

2:34.0

for sure of an international player who does speak English being your face of the industry.

2:40.6

Of the league. The pressure on this 19 year old is hard to imagine.

2:47.2

But when you look at the things he says and the way he comports himself, it says though he's been

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