Do Over: If the Wolves had taken Steph Curry in the '09 Draft
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🗓️ 8 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Zach Harper and Marcus Thompson run through all the ripple effects of the Wolves passing on Steph Curry in the '09 Draft, and how the team's futures would have been different if the Wolves had taken Curry.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the back-to-back podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Zach Harper. |
| 0:08.7 | Normally you hear me on, well, back-to-back podcast on the BasketBuds Edition, and you hear |
| 0:11.9 | me on Hoops and Howes and Game Notes, other podcasts on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:16.1 | Today, we did an interview with Marcus Thompson of the Athletic about the do-over series we have on the athletic in which we talked about the Minnesota Timberwolves passing not once but twice on some guy named Steph Curry who ended up being pretty good. |
| 0:32.2 | Marcus and I had that conversation on the Hoops and Howells podcast, which you subscribe to if you want to listen to all of your Timberwolves Agony that you can possibly get, and, you know, the occasional good stuff, |
| 0:40.9 | but that interview is happening right now on this podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to the Hoops and Howes Podcast on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:48.5 | This is your Minnesota Timberwolves Podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | I'm Zach Harper. |
| 0:51.6 | Mike Smeltz is producing, and we're joined by the esteemed, the critically acclaimed, the author of Golden. And you wrote a Katie book as well, Marcus Thompson, right? What's the name of the Katie book? I can never remember the name. I remember Golden, but I can never remember the name of the Katie book. And you were tripped me up. I was going to rack my brain, but literally right in front of me is Ethan's book, The Victory Machine, with that picture Kevin Durant on there. I was like, I'm going to screw this up. I know it. Oh, man. First off, Katie is not the kid I don't love. You know what I'm saying? Like, I love both of my children equally. Sure. So, of course I know the name of my second child. |
| 1:30.7 | K. I love both of my children equally. Sure. So, of course, I know the name of my second child. |
| 1:34.9 | K.D. Kevin Durant's relentless pursuit to be the greatest. Oh, relentless pursuit. That's what it is. Yeah. |
| 1:37.2 | I wasn't responsible for naming my second child. |
| 1:40.1 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:40.8 | But, you know, hey, sometimes you got to take the name you know from the family or whatever sure |
| 1:46.2 | of course um how are how are those books doing in the wake of ethens uh just really |
| 1:52.6 | irresponsible reporting in his book i mean can i'm i'm just going to level with you 1,000 |
| 2:00.1 | percent yeah i'm one of them dudes like i write the book i do the I mean, I'm just going to level with you 1,000%? Yeah. |
| 2:01.7 | I'm one of them dudes. |
| 2:02.8 | Like, I write the book. |
| 2:04.3 | I do the necessary appearances in promo. |
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