Arcade Fire's Win Butler on the NBA, With Kevin O'Connor (Ep. 140)

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🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Ringer's Kevin O'Connor is joined by Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler to discuss the influence of Hakeem Olajuwon (1:30), the state of the Rockets (4:00), the beauty of the Spurs (8:00), beating Matt Bonner in a 3-point contest (11:00), the Pelicans' potential (12:30), the rise of Canadian basketball (18:30), and the idea of "sticking to sports" (24:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ring Around B.A. Show.
0:15.2	Today I'm your host Kevin O'Connor.
0:16.6	September 15th and I'm in Boston at the Garden.
0:19.2	A couple hours arcade fire will be playing a rock show, which I am super stoked for.
0:24.0	But first I'm sitting here in one of the dressing rooms.
0:26.6	If a front man from arcade fire, win Butler, who you may better know as the MVP of the 2016
0:32.6	Celebrity All-Star Game, we're going to be talking about basketball today.
0:35.8	Win.
0:36.8	Thanks for joining me today, man.
0:37.8	I'm great.
0:38.8	Nice to be here.
0:40.4	So you grew up in Houston?
0:42.3	Yeah.
0:43.3	Born in California, I believe, right?
0:44.3	I was born in Northern California and moved to Houston at five.
0:48.6	So I grew up in Houston, kind of the height of the Alishuan years in Houston.
0:55.9	So that was my complete basketball education.
1:03.9	And I was, I signed up for YMCA basketball on 5th grade.
1:08.9	And I just randomly assigned you a team.
1:13.0	And my coach was like, man, it's really intense.
1:15.4	And I kind of learned much later, like a few years ago, I didn't even put it together,
1:19.2	but he'd played at Princeton.
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