Episode 87: NBA Awards/Offseason preview, Danny calls out flopping, World Cup update
Kanell & Bell
CBS Sports
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Danny Kanell starts off strong with his latest riff on the sport of soccer (while also admitting he is invested in and watching the World Cup). He then breaks down the NBA Awards including whether MVP should include the postseason, before discussing the biggest names in the NBA's upcoming free agency period. Danny and Hana Ostapchuk then react to Julian Edelman's suspension appeal, Randall Cobb's mysterious injury, Rhys Hoskins chirping back at fans and Nikola Jokic's max deal. CBS Sports soccer writer Roger Gonzalez joins Danny to chat about World Cup storylines including who is favored to win, Argentina's struggles and Mexico's hope. Finally, Topics! Hosted by: @dannykanell Co-hosted by: @HanaOstapchuk Guest: @RGonzalezCBS Produced by: @E_DeBerardinis
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Off the Venge with Danny Canell. |
| 0:04.0 | And Raja Bell. |
| 0:08.8 | Bell has a big ring of 22 to Roger. |
| 0:13.0 | Saw the future of football right before your eye. |
| 0:16.1 | Just yell it out, man. |
| 0:16.9 | He can't go to me. |
| 0:19.4 | What's going on? |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome to Off the Bench with Danny Cannell and Rajah Bell. My guy, Raja, |
| 0:23.4 | is out today. He's on vacation. I'll be out tomorrow. So we will be back on Monday, July 2nd. |
| 0:30.2 | We'll have our whole NBA free agency offseason primer today. We're going to get you up to date |
| 0:34.9 | on all that. The NBA awards were last night. And we're going to get some other stuff, too. We have Roger Gonzalez. |
| 0:40.7 | It's going to get us caught up in World Cup, which I've been watching a ton of. |
| 0:43.8 | And we're going to get Hand on Debo involved with a little move the needle and some picks and props. |
| 0:47.9 | The standings might be under protest so far early because my man Debo is trying to steal some wins on me, I think. |
| 0:56.8 | So we'll have to dig into that deep, too. |
| 0:58.4 | Before we get to the NBA off-season stuff, I got to get something off my chest because the World Cup is all everybody's watching right now, right? |
| 1:07.2 | So it's the king of all sports right now. |
| 1:09.8 | It has taken the world by storm. It's the |
| 1:11.7 | world sport. It's every four years. So me, being a sports fan, I'm trying to get into it, right? And I find |
| 1:18.0 | myself in this position every four years where I like to, you know, try to get into it, try to find out. |
| 1:23.0 | Now, full disclosure, going into the World Cup, I can name you three soccer players. |
| 1:28.0 | I can name you Messi, Ronaldo, and Namar, and that's it. |
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