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The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show

Dame Lillard Dropping 71 Points, The Knicks Thriving With Jalen Brunson & Hawks Hiring Quin Snyder With NBA Writer & Author Shaun Powell

The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show

Chase Thomas

Vols, Basketball, Baseball, Sports, Football, Tennessee

5.0548 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by NBA.com's Shaun Powell to talk about his book 'Souled Out', writing Allen Iverson's biography, Ali's impact on sports, Damian Lillard's 71-point game, what Lillard means to the Portland community, if the All-Star game can be fixed, the Knicks picking Jalen Brunson over Donovan Mitchell and it working, the looming Zion Williamson question, Quin Snyder to the Hawks, Trae Young and much more.

Host: Chase Thomas

Guest: Shaun Powell

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0:00.0

Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it.

0:09.7

All right. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast where I'm still,

0:15.2

the aforementioned Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, down there in my home area, Atlanta, Georgia, one of my

0:24.3

favorite NBA writers, one of my favorite authors, because Sean Powell, I read your book,

0:29.4

read sold out this past month, got it in, and very much loved it, and excited to kind of

0:36.3

ask you a couple questions about that

0:38.1

revisiting it because it's been what a decade now since you wrote that book

0:42.8

in about 15 years now yeah no that's not that long let's see I'm losing track

0:51.8

right around there though but a dozen but dozen. About a dozen. Yeah.

0:54.8

Does it feel like it?

0:57.5

It took a, it felt like it took a dozen years to ride it even though it was more like six months.

1:03.5

Uh-huh.

1:04.2

And the reason why is because riding is very tedious, time-consuming.

1:11.6

And, you know, when you write for your regular 9 to 5 and then you take on a writing project, I mean, there's a reason why I haven't written another one since. Not that I have anything against writing books.

1:26.6

It's just that

1:28.0

I can't write a book and do this. I think once I maybe stop doing this, then I'll go back to

1:36.6

writing books. What do you think the next book would be on if you had to do another one? What do

1:42.6

the next interest no I approached I

1:44.4

approached Alan Iverson and his people about doing his autobiography I think that

1:49.3

that would be a bestseller but I don't know where he stands with that right now

1:54.7

there could be maybe another autobiography that I could probably see being written besides his,

2:04.7

although his would be fantastic, if he was honest with it in the book.

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