Apologies to Melo, Injuries to Isaac and Jaren Jackson Jr, Ending Suits for NBA Coaches
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🗓️ 6 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Point of Contention: A Debate Show with Ethan Strauss and Marcus Thompson, moderated by Zach Harper.
- Isaac and Jaren Jackson Jr suffer big knee injuries. Is the bubble working?
- Should the bubble put an end to coaches in suits?
- Why isn't the NBA releasing the testing results of non-players?
- Houston needs to apologize to Carmelo Anthony
- The WNBA players wearing shirts against Loeffler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:02.1 | Monday through Friday. |
| 0:03.0 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.0 | Thursday. |
| 0:10.3 | Point of contention with Ethan Sherwood Strauss and Marcus Thompson, hosted by Zach Harper. |
| 0:15.9 | Welcome to POC point of contention. |
| 0:19.1 | Right here on the Athletic Podcast Network, part of the athletic NBA show. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host, Zach Harper, we have Marcus Thompson, we have Ethan Strauss. |
| 0:25.9 | Jane Hoy is not producing this week. |
| 0:27.3 | We've got Teneke's mothers to produce them for us. |
| 0:30.6 | In this corner, though, for the five subjects with five minutes each, we have the esteemed author, the Bay Area legend. |
| 0:38.3 | Marcus Thompson. |
| 0:39.2 | Marcus, when will the Oakland Athletics start paying you to attend games? |
| 0:44.9 | I'm a professional, ethical, highly integrity-filled reporter who will not accept anything |
| 0:52.6 | less than $5 million to ensure to ensure walk off grand |
| 0:57.6 | slams in my presence like you're two for two this is crazy yo like to walk off grand slams like |
| 1:06.1 | geez i don't even play the lottery but maybe i should should. Yeah, we got to win the lottery. |
| 1:11.7 | It was a cool moment last night. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, it was a cool moment. |
| 1:14.7 | And in that corner, Ethan, Sherwood, Strauss, he's the host of the House of Strauss podcast. |
| 1:19.8 | He's the author of the book The Victory Machine. |
| 1:21.8 | Ethan, did you know that not only there is a kindergarten cop two movie that stars Dolf Lundgren and Bill |
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