Alex Rodriguez and the Timberwolves, Bizarre Ejections, Chris Paul's Suns, MVP Talk
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🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this week's Basketball Buds, Zach Harper, BIG Wos, Jay King and Tray Edwards talk about the sale of the Minnesota Timberwolves to Alex Rodriguez and billionaire Marc Lore for $1.5 Billion dollars. Then the strange feud between Kyrie Irving and Dennis Schroder Saturday nights as the Lakers crushed the Nets. Finally the shocking Suns and Chris Paul's MVP case and the culture reset. Also some breaking news during the show, Warriors' James Wiseman out indefinitely with a torn meniscus. MVP talk.
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| 0:23.6 | Who's their best young talent? |
| 0:26.0 | Nick Claxton? |
| 0:27.2 | We got Kevin Knox, bitch. |
| 0:29.4 | Brough. |
| 0:31.6 | New York strip steak? |
| 0:33.1 | Ooh. |
| 0:33.9 | This is the basketball buds. |
| 0:35.8 | Braze beef short ribs? Day. With Zach Harper and your favorite athletic writers. Hey, mad at me, bro. I'm gone. Boose. It's big. Boose. Boose is it. Both of it. Welcome to the Basket Buds edition of the Athletic NBA show podcast on the Athletic Podcasts Network. I'm Zach Harper. Tramont Edwards is here. Jay King is here. Wosney Lambray is here. Make sure you subscribe to the Athletic. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast, review, rate, five stars. Leave any kind of comment you want, but just throw five stars in there and it makes it look good, no matter what. Coming up on today's show, we might have new owners in Minnesota. |
| 1:15.9 | We got some objections and a very interesting conversation that Jay and I will not participate |
| 1:21.1 | in. |
| 1:21.9 | We've got some sunny times in Phoenix with Chris Paul, and then we got a little bit of an MVP conversation to have. |
| 1:29.4 | So guys, let's start off with A-Rod. |
| 1:35.1 | Alex Rodriguez is going to be in negotiations, exclusive negotiations, pretty soon. |
| 1:41.1 | Thanks to John Krasinski and Shams Trani of the Athletic for |
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