David West: "The NBA was Already a Bubble" + Thoughts on the Knicks Hiring Tom Thibodeau
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🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Sam Amick is joined by former NBA Forward David West to discuss his work with Athlete's Voices (6:00), his old Warriors days and what almost broke up the team (46:20), the NBA Bubble, the NBA's problem with diversity, and why he has a problem with the Knicks hiring Tom Thibodeau (53:45)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.2 | Coming up on today's show, we have two-time champion, two-time All-Star 15-year NBA veteran, David West, one of my favorite guys to talk to. |
| 0:17.2 | We talk about athletes' voices, a program where he's partnering with Harvard and |
| 0:21.1 | Steve Kerr, the Warriors coach and many other elite athletes to help athletes be educated and |
| 0:26.1 | empowered when it comes to athlete activism. We also talk about his old Warriors days and the |
| 0:31.6 | meningitis scare in March of 2018 that I wrote about a while back and that he has never opened up |
| 0:37.4 | quite to this degree |
| 0:38.4 | about. |
| 0:39.2 | And the idea that it did almost rip the warriors apart, that it was a very stressful time for |
| 0:43.4 | them. |
| 0:43.7 | David talks about that. |
| 0:45.3 | He also dives into the NBA's problem with diversity and the idea that he thinks the |
| 0:50.3 | coaching staff's front offices need to see more improvement when it comes to diversity. |
| 0:55.3 | Specifically, and he's been vocal on Twitter about this, his disapproval of the next hiring of Tom Tibido. |
| 1:01.0 | And why? |
| 1:01.7 | Coming up on the show. |
| 1:06.4 | Tamper with you. |
| 1:07.9 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 1:09.3 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day |
| 1:12.5 | Sam Sam to people together reportedly at the center of an NBA investigation into tampering accusation |
| 1:23.3 | and the message to executive in the league is not talking about players on other team. What did I do? |
| 1:27.5 | The charge is filed. |
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