Dirk Nowitzki and the Pyramid (With Marc Stein) | Book of Basketball 2.0

Book of Basketball 2.0

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Chapter 5: How did the 2011 playoffs change Dirk’s destiny as a top-35 player? Would he have been even better in the current 3-point-happy era than the previous one? Is he the most popular Dallas athlete ever? And could Dirk crack the Pantheon in Bill’s 100-player Hall of Fame Pyramid? These questions and more are broken down in our fourth “Pyramid Podcast” with Marc Stein of ‘The New York Times.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Episode 10 of the Book of Basketball 2.0 podcast is brought to you by State Farm.
0:05.3	You never know what's going to happen during the NBA season or in life, thankfully,
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0:14.8	Life throws your way as we're about to cover in the Sturkenwitzki pod.
0:18.1	He almost ended up a Boston Celtic.
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0:58.8	the one you're listening to right now. This is chapter five.
1:02.7	Durkenwitzki when I wrote my book in 2009 and then the paper back in 2010,
1:09.1	I had a very specifically formed opinion on this man and then over the course of this decade.
1:15.5	That opinion changed. We're going to talk about that and a lot of other stuff with my old ESPN
1:20.2	colleague now the New York Times Mark Stein. My name is Bill Simmons. This is the book of basketball 2.0.
1:51.0	You know, that's a book of basketball.
1:56.0	On my podcast back in 2011, Charles Barkley mentioned something he called the shit list.
2:02.6	You know what that is, Mark Stein? I do not.
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