Beal Or No Beal, LaMelo Ballin' + LeBron Trollin
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of Point of Contention Marcus Thompson and Ethan Strauss debate. Hosted by Zach Harper.
Take 1: Beal to the Warriors?
Take 2: Lakers having too much fun?
Take 3: LeMelo better than we thought
Take 4: Warriors sizzlin' sort of
Take 5: James Harden talk or TV talk?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. One day through Friday. On the Athletic Podcast Network. I do have a take. Point of contention. Katie, you can be a head coach. I can be a head coach. Welcome to point of contention. Five subjects. Five minutes. Five points of contention. Come up on on the show we're trying to move superstars |
| 0:21.9 | lebron james is trolling lamella ball is balling and the warriors or maybe the warriors again i'm |
| 0:27.3 | zach harper the host of p o c jade hoist producing in this corner the bay area legend author of two |
| 0:33.6 | best selling books about the warriors marcus thom, Marcus, if you were on the Lamb, |
| 0:39.0 | would you attend a virtual birthday party on Zoom? |
| 0:43.1 | If I was on the Lamb, yes, I would do so. |
| 0:47.1 | But here's what I would do. |
| 0:48.3 | I would use my daughter in the screen, so no one would know I was there. |
| 0:54.0 | So it'd be like, hey, here's, hi, hi, right? |
| 0:57.3 | And meanwhile, I've been lurking in the cuts and joined the party. |
| 1:00.7 | That's how I would do it. |
| 1:01.9 | You wouldn't see my face. |
| 1:04.1 | I think I'm going wig and fake mustache. |
| 1:07.9 | I think that's what I would do. |
| 1:09.0 | And in this corner, Bay Area Suburban Legend, |
| 1:13.2 | authored the Victory Machine. |
| 1:14.4 | Ethan Strauss, Ethan, did the Timberwolves make a mistake by picking Anthony Edwards? |
| 1:21.6 | It's early. It's early. |
| 1:23.5 | I'd also say... |
| 1:24.7 | Pick aside, you coward. |
| 1:26.6 | Well, let's go back to the first thing, |
| 1:29.3 | which is NBA players lead crazy lives |
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