Executive director of the NBPA Michele Roberts
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🗓️ 6 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Sam Amick is joined by executive director of the NBPA Michele Roberts to discuss the NBA bubble, CBA negotiations, if they would do another bubble, when and how next season will proceed, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:01.8 | Monday through Friday. |
| 0:02.7 | On the athletic podcast, Network. |
| 0:08.3 | Tamper with you. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:14.8 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:18.1 | Sam, Pam. |
| 0:23.3 | To peel the queens bring people together. |
| 0:28.9 | Portedly at the center of an NBA investigation into tampering accusation. And the message to... |
| 0:30.0 | Decut it in the league. |
| 0:30.9 | Stop talking about players on other teams. |
| 0:32.8 | What did I do? |
| 0:33.2 | The charges filed. |
| 0:34.4 | Impromishable contact. |
| 0:35.6 | Right or wrong? |
| 0:36.6 | Tampering charges are really difficult to prove. You know me? I talk. It's kind of awkward to even talk about. Can't he mention deans anymore? I'm like to play with Cameron. Try all your one with Cameron. They're always ahead of the world. Is that right your side? Everybody, we don't know. I'm tamper with the guys. I didn't tell you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show. I'm Sam Amick here, as always. Here in the bubble on the later stages, I am here with National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Michelle Roberts. Michelle, how are you? |
| 1:11.8 | I'm well, Sam. Thanks for asking. How are you? I'm hanging in. I feel like there was a great |
| 1:17.2 | organic kind of way that this conversation came together. I've been in touch with Ellie, you know, |
| 1:22.9 | head of PR from the union for a while, trying to see if you and I could connect. And then last night, |
| 1:27.9 | halftime of game three of the finals, I run into you at the old coffee stand in the arena, |
| 1:34.6 | just to paint the picture for the listeners, it's probably about 300 feet or so from the |
| 1:39.5 | arena where the games happen. Everybody kind of treks up there at halftime and before the game to get coffee, |
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