Celtics Assistant Coach and Philly Guy Jerome Allen on Penn, Sixers vs. Celtics and Life

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

Spike Eskin

Basketball, Sports

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This is a good one. Jerome Allen grew up in North Philly, went to the Episcopal Academy, starred at Penn, played over a decade in the NBA and Europe, and later became head coach at Penn and is now an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics. Allen's new book When The Alphabet Comes talks about his life, and self examination after being charged in the Varsity Blues college admission scandal. We had an awesome talk with Jerome about Brad Stevens, Simmons and Embiid, Nick Foles, God Shammgod stealing his move and his book.

Get Jerome's book at whenthealphabetcomes.com or any online retailer.

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0:00.0	The rights to Ricky Sanchez podcast is presented by Draft King Sportsbook.
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0:17.4	On the show today, we welcome boy, a guy from Philly, one of our own, but comes from enemy
0:25.2	territory. Celtic's assistant coach Jerome Allen joins us.
0:30.1	Jerome has a new book called When the Alphabet Comes.
0:32.7	A Jerome, of course, went to was a just all Ivy League player at Penn, coached Penn.
0:40.8	I spent a year in high school.
0:43.7	He was a senior.
0:44.5	I was a freshman at Episcopal with Jerome.
0:46.7	And we talked to him about everything, right?
0:48.5	Talk to him about Brad Stevens.
0:50.5	Talk to him about him pleading guilty to wire fraud when he was at Penn.
0:56.2	And there's like a, he does it really artfully in the book that we didn't quite get through
1:01.2	all of it.
1:02.2	Yeah.
1:03.2	Because the book is, it's very good.
1:05.0	But it's a really impressive story and a well told story.
1:09.1	Yeah.
1:10.1	And the interview is great.
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