Billy King On His Sixers, Nets Tenures and The Current NBA Landscape

The Rights To Ricky Sanchez: The Sixers (76ers) Podcast

Spike Eskin

Basketball, Sports

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Billy King traded for Ricky Sanchez. Also, Billy King was the Sixers general manager from 1998 until 2007, and then the Nets GM from 2010 until 2016, and a lot happened in those years. Drafting Andre Iguodala, trading Allen Iverson, the famous Celtics trade when he was with the Nets, as well as trading for Deron Williams. We talked to Billy about his time as GM of both teams, the current NBA climate, and Elton Brand’s hiring as Sixers GM, and their chances for an NBA title.

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0:00.0	The Wright Sturiki Sanchez podcast brought to you by Corn Blown Corn Blown, the official law firm of the process the colony metery the official gluten free
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0:18.9	We've been teasing a former sixers employee former sixer general manager former net general manager Duke alumnus.
0:27.9	And also a guy who never lost his job because he set up shadow Twitter accounts to leak private information about his players and slag his best player that's right never did that Billy King will be on the pod today this is exciting.
0:42.4	Yes.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:44.6	Before we get going to quick things first clear the shelters is today and that's all over the place every shelter which means they're trying to create room for new animals in every shelter and they wave all the adoption fees.
0:57.1	So no adoption fees today of our friends at Providence Animal Center are open until 5 30 no adoption fees if you're not going to adopt a pet.
1:05.8	It's a good time to make a donation to the Providence Animal Center because they lose out on all these adoption fees they had I think 122 adoptions unclear the shelters last year.
1:15.2	So that's when you figure like 250 300 bucks.
1:18.9	A an adoption that's a lot of money it's 30 grand in this out on so make a donation or go adopt and also tomorrow night at the ship bottom brewery in Beach Haven in Long Beach Island.
1:29.5	The Paul Green Rocket Academy band full Woodstock set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock they were supposed to play the Woodstock 50 festival.
1:37.8	It got canceled because the thing to do I guess in this day and age is to set up a festival concert and then not be able to do it.
1:45.6	At least nobody showed up at this one and we're left on an island but Paul Green Rocket Academy band ship bottom brewery in Beach Haven in Long Beach Island 815 on Sunday night that is August 18th so you can go see them play a full Woodstock set without any further ado here is Amos and the chef.
2:16.5	say.
2:23.1	we will write joke.
2:25.3	We will write even with, whenした.
2:28.2	We will write we will write, we will write.
2:32.2	So say tonight, say the night, we will write.
2:39.7	Even with bro can we.
2:41.9	Right, we were right.
2:43.1	We will write.
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