Draymond & Durant tell all, Pacquiao's Future + Tamyra Mensah-Stock

Takeline

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Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week on Takeline, Tamyra Mensah-Stock talks (26:43) about being the first black woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling, and shows off her karaoke skills. Jason and Renee discuss the sit down interview between Kevin Durant and Draymond Green (01:00) and how it will impact NBA team/media relationships Plus, research fellow Risa Isard joins to present (44:46) her findings on how the media promotes white WNBA players more than black WNBA players. Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips, original crooked sports content and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline.

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0:00.0	If anybody has seen Manny Pacquiao shoot a jump shot, that's where, that's where he lost me.
0:05.9	Manny Pacquiao lost me. I think it was around the Floyd Mayweather fight, I believe,
0:10.8	where he casually went to a basketball court and guys, I'm gonna just give this out,
0:16.0	this PSA out to all guys out there. You want to casually shoot around and your jump shot looks
0:23.2	wild. Don't do it. I would just say don't do it today for everybody because that's the only
0:29.4	thing I think of every time I hear Manny Pacquiao's name, I think of him on that court shooting
0:34.8	those shots and I'm scarred from it. So he's one of the best. There's no question, you know,
0:40.8	but leave the basketballs alone. That's all I'm gonna say. As you retire, go into golf, do
0:45.6	what all the other athletes do. You got to leave the basketball alone, I'm sorry.
1:00.3	Last week, a sit-down interview between Dremon Green and Kevin Durant, the sports media and NBA
1:06.4	media space by storm as they detailed the events after the two had an argument back in 2018
1:15.4	during a regular season game against the Clippers. What's notable here is that Dremon and Katie
1:20.8	essentially lightly pushed Coach Steve Kerr, GM Bob Myers under the bus for how that was handled.
1:29.8	Katie is quoted as saying, quote, it wasn't the argument. It was the way that everybody Steve Kerr
1:34.2	acted like it didn't happen. Bob Myers tried to just discipline you, Dremon Green,
1:39.2	and think that that would put a mask over everything. There's no doubt that
1:44.0	Steve and Bob Myers are going to be asked about this when the season starts. So the question is here,
1:49.6	as players continue to take their message directly to fans throughout what's like the players
1:56.2	Tribune and any number of podcasts and streams. How do teams deal with this as it comes up as criticism
2:05.0	towards teams begins to get aired by players in forums that teams are just gonna be ambushed by.
2:12.8	Yeah, well, first of all, you got to be about your business nowadays, you know, in a sense of like,
2:18.4	you know, there's the athlete side of it, but there's the business side of it. And so,
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