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#49 Dave DuFour on MVPs & Dr. Maia Majumder on COVID-19 numbers

Thinking Basketball

Thinking Basketball

Sports

4.9897 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Dave DuFour on things and the NBA MVP. We compare 2020 LeBron James to another historical MVP winner. Dr. Maia Majumder also stops by (52:00) to provide insight into modeling COVID-19 and why we should exercise caution when it comes to public numbers or models...and avoid social gatherings. Follow them at @DaveDuFourNBA and @MaiaMajumder. Support at patreon.com/thinkingbasketball and access the post show pie cast with Dave. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-basketball/support

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0:00.0

All right, you want to, uh, yeah.

0:02.8

You want to just hop in?

0:04.4

Yeah, let's go.

0:05.7

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:07.5

That doesn't matter. Thinky basketball podcast, my name is Ben here with Dave Dufor.

0:22.0

Dave thanks for talking to me on a recorded conversation where we have no idea what we're going to speak about.

0:28.0

I mean, I wouldn't have it any other way.

0:31.0

I've asked Dave to join me. We've been talking about doing an episode during this stretch

0:37.1

anyway before the season was suspended and later on in the episode as you may have seen

0:41.9

in the show notes,

0:42.5

we're going to have some discussion on coronavirus

0:46.2

with a researcher who handles that.

0:48.5

But I thought I'd start by talking to old reliable.

0:52.2

Dave, you know, the people requested you did they over to well I don't know

0:55.8

if yesterday they requested you but they said when is Dave when is do four coming back now

1:00.0

that's funny because I remember distinctly you telling me that my first appearance was quite controversial.

1:06.8

Well they liked it. Some people liked it. Some people did not like it.

1:09.6

Yeah. But I think the people that didn't like it, if'm correct me if I'm wrong thought I was hot taky

1:16.5

But I'd challenge those people to go back and listen to hot hot takes that were very very luke. I think you have a reputation as a so funny it's it's

1:26.6

the it's the delivery of the information not the actual information so so do you think you're more of like a microwave guy or like a like a slow simmer

1:38.7

versus a red hot fire? I'm not boring. Well that's true right and so I come across like one of the

1:48.2

entertaining guys but you know there's a lot of work that goes. Do you think you're

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