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🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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This week we speak to basketball savant Arya Shirazi about what could have happened if the Detroit Pistons had drafted Carmelo Anthony instead of Darko Milicic in 2003. It would have been a profound basketball butterfly effect. I also speak about the USWNT getting bounced from the World Cup.
Zirin, Why the Right Wanted the USWNT to Lose
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/reactionary-defeatism-uswnt-world-cup-rapinoe/
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1:06.8 | Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast, brought to you by The Nation magazine. I'm Dave Ziron. |
1:11.4 | This week I do have choice words about how the U.S. got bounced from the World Cup, |
1:15.6 | but we're going to start in these dog digs of summer by talking NBA draft, |
1:20.7 | one of my favorite topics, particularly the 2003 NBA draft. |
1:25.5 | That draft is regarded as perhaps the best in NBA history, along with |
1:30.7 | 1984 and 1996. 1984 was the draft of Jordan, Elijah, on, Barclay, Stockton. That's just |
1:39.7 | amazing if you think about that for a second. 1996 was Kobe, Iverson, Ray Allen, and Steve Nash for First Ballad Hall of Famers. |
1:50.0 | In 2003, you had of course LeBron, D. Wade, Chris Bosch, and the great Carmelo Anthony. |
1:57.0 | Now, all these drafts contain what ifs. |
2:00.0 | What if Portland instead of Chicago had selected Jordan is the most famous example of that. |
2:05.9 | But there are a few what-ifs that have generated more discussion than the order of the first three picks in the 2003 draft. |
2:14.2 | One, you add, of course, LeBron to Cleveland. |
2:17.3 | Two, a 17-year-old named Darko Milichichich to Detroit. |
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