Evan Turner on New Media and James Harden
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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Mike Vorkunov is joined by Evan Turner to discuss his podcasting career with Point Forward and Beyond the Big 10, how he was covered when he was in the NBA, how there needs to be more journalistic integrity, how Evan views the James Harden situation, if Evan would have stayed in college if NIL existed when he was in college, and more.
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| 0:26.3 | Learn more at vertexinck.com. Hey, everybody, welcome to a special summertime episode of the athletic NBA show. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm Mike Warkinoff here with a special guest today. |
| 0:51.6 | You may know him as a co-host of the Point Forward podcast. You may know him |
| 0:56.5 | as co-founder of Beyond the Big Ten podcasts. You may know him from his time in the NBA or at Ohio State. |
| 1:04.9 | I'm just going to call you Evan Turner. Just keep it real short. Two words. Evan, how are you doing? |
| 1:09.8 | What's going on? And I'm doing well. I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Bless to be here. How about you talk? |
| 1:14.5 | You know, summertime, just trying to get away a little bit. |
| 1:18.0 | Hopefully this is some vacation listening for the listeners out there. |
| 1:21.9 | That'd be huge right now. I can't wait to hit vacation myself. |
| 1:26.4 | Hit vacation, it seems like every summer I miss out on working out and getting my summer body. So I'm saving it for labor that, you know. I've never had a summer body. So this is just like, I'm just, you know, every year for me. Yeah. It's overrated for sure. Yeah. And now at the age I'm out,, I'm washed. It's over free. I'm never getting abs. Come on. Let's get out of here. I can only get like a four back. The bottom two is like we're all the beer and burgers hot. Four pack. I'll settle for a single. What are we doing? Uh, Evan, man, I want to have you on for a number of reasons. |
| 2:02.8 | Look, it's, you know, mid, late August, but for some reason, like, there's always something going on, whether it's college sports. |
| 2:08.7 | The NBA, it's always on fire for some reason. |
| 2:11.0 | Someone's requesting a trade or whatever. |
| 2:13.1 | And also, I want to talk to you about, you know, the Beyond the Big Ten podcast that you guys have going on. |
| 2:19.5 | This is year two coming up. |
| 2:21.7 | And so we'll get to all that. |
| 2:23.3 | But since college football season's coming up, since college football realignment, for some reason, continues to keep going. |
| 2:31.2 | And now the Big Ten has added like 15 new schools since the last time I look. |
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