Answering the Burning Questions of the Offseason w/ Sam Amick
The Crossover NBA Show
SI NBA
4.6 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We’ve reached the dog days of summer -- but there’s still plenty to debate! The Athletic’s Sam Amick joins Howard Beck to discuss the Draymond-KD interview, the revived Best Player in the NBA debate and six burning questions, such as: Which star will be traded next? What team is poised for a Suns-like breakthrough? And who do we think will finish in the top four of each conference?
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| 0:45.4 | What up? It's the crossover pod. I'm Howard Beck, Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated. We have reached the dog days of the NBA summer. |
| 0:54.0 | It's official. Go look at your calendar. It says |
| 0:55.7 | it. All capital letters, dog days. All the big names have been signed. Summer League is over. |
| 1:00.8 | Congrats to your 2021 Summer League champs, the Sacramento Kings. Half the league is on vacation, |
| 1:06.0 | and we're now down to debating silly things like video game rankings. Also on vacation, my co-host, Chris Mannix, but there's still plenty to discuss. |
| 1:14.8 | So for that, I recruited my good friend Sam Amick of The Athletic. |
| 1:18.5 | We will talk about his recent sit-down with Monty Williams, really great piece. |
| 1:22.6 | We'll dive into the Dremont-Kady interview that got all the headlines a couple days ago. |
| 1:26.7 | And I've got |
| 1:27.5 | six burning questions of the offseason for Sam and I to answer, putting ourselves on the |
| 1:33.2 | spot a little bit. Before we get to that, a reminder, please subscribe, rate and review the |
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