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Takeline

Canada vs. Covid, Celebrity Boxing, Tiger Woods + Richard Jefferson

Takeline

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on Takeline, NBA champion and analyst Richard Jefferson joins to talk about the Lakers, Ben Simmons, and changing the athlete content game. Plus, Jason and Renee discuss the Deron Williams / Frank Gore celebrity boxing match, Canada’s new law that will keep unvaccinated athletes from entering the country, and Jason calls his mother to talk about Tiger Woods’ return to golf. Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0

as much as your sport should be number one, your platform should be number two,

0:06.0

and your education should be number three. And I only say this, not that education is important,

0:13.0

but I don't know what I wanted to do at 22. I didn't know. My job is to get the education,

0:19.0

but if I know for a fact that if I have 100,000 followers on any platform, that might serve me

0:25.2

better when I'm 42, then my degree in X.

0:43.3

All right, Jason. So the roles in pro sports COVID protocols continue to evolve.

0:49.4

According to Woj of ESPN, who obtained a memo from the NBA, stating that NBA players who are not

0:55.1

vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer be allowed to play in Toronto as of January 15th.

1:02.1

Now, we should mention that this is unlikely to have a huge effect on the NBA now that 97% of

1:07.2

the league is vaccinated. But what do we think of this growing trend of legal president and

1:12.8

cities in countries around COVID and whether it could create competitive edges in the future or not?

1:19.6

Well, I think it depends on who remains in that 3% on vaccinated. Obviously, if the

1:24.7

Raptors are playing the nets in a crucial playoff matchup, that would benefit them. But I think

1:31.1

more broadly, it's just hard to get my mind around it, but it's just the reality that this is

1:37.2

just going to, this is our life now. This is like what the world is now. It's so insane to think

1:43.8

about because when we've been talking, you watch TV and shows that you watch have not even begun

1:52.5

to grapple with the fact that this pandemic has happened. It's just basically an escape. But we

1:57.6

live in a world in which stuff like this is going to be the reality from now on. You mentioned it,

2:05.5

Canada's Minister of Public Health, Marco Mendocino announced the ban on vaccinated professional

2:10.5

amateur athletes in November. These kind of rules on the local, state, federal, and international

2:18.5

level are going to be with us for a while. And it's just, man, I honestly, when I think about how

2:24.8

much our lives have changed in the last few years and the things that we have to deal with now,

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