This is the Dane Moore MBA podcast, brought to you by Blue Wire Podcasts, recording this on Monday afternoon with Chris Hine, The Star Tribune, Timberwolves,

Beat writer. Chris wrote an excellent piece on Anthony Edwards and his background coming from

Atlanta. Chris, you traveled to Atlanta over the All-Star Break to put together a reporting on

this story. There's a ton of details

that are new to all of us with Ant and these people that kind of shaped him in Atlanta. So I first

and foremost recommend everybody going to read this piece. I think it's probably the longest

article you've ever written for the Star Tribune.

I think it is.

Yeah, I wrote one that was longer at the Chicago Tribune, maybe one or two others,

but this is the longest piece I've written for the Star Tribune in my four years here, yes.

The first thing is I'm reading through that, there's like five different families that you talked to who were instrumental in Ant's life and all these other mentors and people that came through his life.

And so how I think about it is you had to talk to a ton of people here and go to Atlanta.

It's called.

What was the name of the area?

Oakland City.

And I didn't go to there specifically.

I rented a car and I was just driving around Atlanta for about four days.

Just over the off-door break.

Texting all these people

i i really wanted to to talk to these people in person because those are the best conversations

right and when you're doing a story like this i didn't want to just do it over the phone with them

i wanted to meet them in person and there were people that I spoke to that weren't quoted in the piece.

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