Covering Kobe Bryant (with Howard Beck and Tim Kawakami)

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Episode 86 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features a conversation with Howard Beck of Bleacher Report and Tim Kawakami of The Athletic. Both writers covered Kobe Bryant extensively during Bryant’s career. In this podcast, Beck and Kawakami discuss Bryant as an interview subject; the level of access he gave reporters; how long they covered him; how reporters should address the sexual assault case in Eagle, Colo; their most memorable interaction with Bryant; whether Bryant was calculating with reporters;what Beck would ask Bryant if he had 15 more minutes with him and more. Beck hosts his own podcast, "The Full 48.” Kawakami also hosts his own podcast, “The TK Show.” You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	ladies and gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen
0:35.7	hey everybody this is richard deitch and welcome to the Sports Media podcast.
0:39.8	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:41.8	Two guests this week, very generous of them to give me time on what is a very, very busy day for them.
0:49.1	Howard Beck is a senior writer for Bleacher Report, a longtime prominent NBA voice.
0:56.0	You have read his work in the New York Times, Bleacher Report, and listen to him on his very popular podcast, The Full 48.
1:04.8	Highly recommend the Fred Van Bleed episode, which is out now.
1:08.7	Tim Kawakami is my colleague at the athletic. He also has his own excellent
1:13.4	podcast of the TK Show. Tim Kawakami, if you were in the Bay Area, one of the most prominent
1:21.4	voices in multiple sports in that part of the world. They have both been generous enough to
1:26.2	come on this podcast today
1:28.1	to talk about their years covering Kobe Bryant, which both of them did for many years in California.
1:35.6	And I welcome Howard Beck and Tim Kawakami to the sports media podcast. Thank you for coming on today,
1:40.8	guys. I appreciate it. Good to be on. My pleasure. All right, Howard,
1:44.7	we will start with you because you're somewhere in Brooklyn while Tim is in Miami, so both of us
1:49.9	are screwed with our weather here. So I'll start with you. Howard, how long did you cover
1:55.8	Kobe Bryant for? And now let's sort of give the listeners a sense of where I assume it's the LA Daily News but maybe
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