Hang Up and Listen - After the NBA Strike
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Josh Levin, and special guest Vinson Cunningham of the New Yorker discuss the aftermath of last week’s NBA strike. They also talk about the life and legacy of Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. Finally, the Athletic’s Lindsay Jones joins to assess the latest reporting on the toxic culture of the Washington football team.
NBA strike (01:40): Why did the players decide to come back? What did they gain?
John Thompson (21:51): How he changed college basketball.
Washington Football Team (41:38): What will it take for the NFL to have a #MeToo reckoning?
Afterball (01:04:30): Joel on Cliff Robinson and the 1990-1991 Portland Trail Blazers.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.1 | Hide your children. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. |
| 0:13.1 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 31st, 2020. |
| 0:17.1 | On this week's show, we're going to discuss the fallout from the NBA's Wildcat Strike last week in pro basketball and the entire sports world. |
| 0:25.3 | We'll also talk about the death of John Thompson, the legendary Georgetown basketball coach, who turned that program into an unapologetically black powerhouse. |
| 0:34.5 | And finally, the athletics Lindsay Jones will be here to assess what should be done |
| 0:38.6 | about the Washington football team after yet another report about the franchise's culture of |
| 0:43.1 | sexual harassment with this one implicating owner Dan Snyder. I'm the author of the Queen, |
| 0:48.5 | the host of Slow Burn Season 4. I'm here in Washington, D.C. Stefan Fatsis is off this week, |
| 0:53.8 | but joining me, as always, from beautiful Palo Alto. Slate staff writer, the host of Slow Burn 3. Mr. Joel Anderson, what's up, Joel? Beautiful and smoky, Palo Alto, by the way. How are you doing with the smoke? Well, I mean, we have to close our windows most days, and it's dangerous to go outside and do physical activity. But other |
| 1:11.7 | than that, it's fine. Well, thank you for telling us the truth and not sugar coding it. |
| 1:17.6 | Everything's great. All right. Beautiful. Filling in this week, one of our favorite guests, |
| 1:22.5 | New Yorker staff writer, theater critic, Vincent Cunningham. Thanks for being here, Vincent. |
| 1:27.2 | Hey. How's the air quality for you? |
| 1:29.5 | Slightly better, less than wildfire grade, but, you know, I'm doing all right. I went on a jog |
| 1:34.2 | today that did not hurt me. Oh, well, see, I mean, that's paradise as far as I'm concerned. |
| 1:40.9 | As recently as five days ago, it seemed as that the NBA was done for 2020. |
| 1:45.7 | The Milwaukee Bucks left the court minutes before game five of their first round playoff |
| 1:49.5 | series against the Orlando Magic, triggering a league-wide strike. |
| 1:53.4 | In the 24 hours after the Bucks' walk off, the NBA in much of the sports world came to a stop. |
| 1:59.0 | In reports emerged that the Lakers and the Clippers, |
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