Blame Oscar, Expansion, East-West Surprises, Sac Dad Fight
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this week's Point of Contention Ethan Strauss and Marcus Thompson debate. Hosted by Zach Harper.
Take 1: Steph's Legacy debate.
Take 2: NBA Expansion now?
Take 3: Eastern Conference Surprises
Take 4: Western Conference
Take 5: Bagley vs Fox Dad Fight
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:03.3 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.4 | I do have a take. |
| 0:09.8 | Point of contention. |
| 0:11.7 | Katie, you can be a head coach. |
| 0:12.9 | I can be a head coach. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to point of contention. |
| 0:16.5 | Five subjects, five minutes, five points of contention. |
| 0:19.5 | Come up on the show. |
| 0:20.6 | We've got Steph going crazy. |
| 0:22.8 | We got expansion. |
| 0:24.2 | We got dads fighting. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm Zach Harper, the host of P.O.C. |
| 0:28.7 | Jade Hoy producing in this corner, the Bay Area legend. |
| 0:31.8 | The author of two bestselling books about the Warriors. |
| 0:34.8 | It's Marcus Thompson. |
| 0:35.8 | Marcus, how are those Nike MT2s you received for |
| 0:39.9 | Christmas? Yo, I already wore them to the bank. Got two compliments. They were like, |
| 0:45.7 | yo, nice shoes. My daughter is great, right? Wait a second. People still go to the bank? |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah. What? What did you go to the bank for? What's you go to the bank for? Yeah, when you're getting those Marcus Thompson checks, you can't just, all right. You can't just direct deposit that. Simply a direct deposit, man. Sometimes you need some cash. Okay. Sometimes you got, you got things around. You got things to do, you know? You got to move some things around. |
| 1:12.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:12.8 | Speaking of moving things around in this corner, the Bay Area Suburban legend, author of the |
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