Ep. 32: Covering Superteams and Positive CBA Talks With Tim Bontemps
The Ringer NBA Show
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🗓️ 11 October 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ringer NBA Show. |
| 0:11.4 | A very special guest today. |
| 0:12.9 | Tim Bond temps as a national NBA columnist for the Washington Post Timmy. |
| 0:18.5 | What's up, Bruno? |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, man. |
| 0:21.5 | So let's start with you and the life of an NBA reporter. |
| 0:25.1 | What a change. |
| 0:26.1 | The, uh, I guess, uh, outhouse to the pen house. |
| 0:28.5 | You were for the New York Post. |
| 0:30.8 | You're primarily covering the Brooklyn net, who most people expect to be the worst team |
| 0:35.8 | in the world. |
| 0:36.9 | Then you get this gig with the Washington Post, but you don't move away from New York. |
| 0:42.0 | And now I understand that you have moved to San Francisco. |
| 0:47.2 | This is that is all correct though. |
| 0:49.0 | Though I was covering the net. |
| 0:51.8 | I covered the nets the first three years they were in Brooklyn. |
| 0:54.5 | So I got all the interesting years and then I switched jobs. |
| 0:59.1 | So I got, I got out of there at the right time. |
| 1:01.6 | And then, uh, yeah, this, this year, obviously with Kevin Durant going to the Warriors. |
| 1:08.4 | You know, if you, if you cover the NBA and you can be around the Warriors, um, but you |
| 1:12.4 | know, that's, that's the thing to do. |
| 1:14.0 | So I talked to my boss this summer and decided to move out here for the season. |
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