Hang Up and Listen - I Guarded LeBron
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🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Vinson Cunningham are joined by Defector’s Maitreyi Anantharaman to discuss the WNBA playoffs. Dion Wright also joins to explain what it was like to guard LeBron James. Finally, they talk about Isiah Thomas’ “No Crime Day,” the subject of the first episode of Slate’s One Year: 1986 podcast.
WNBA (2:48): Can Sue Bird lead the Seattle Storm to a fifth title?
Dion Wright (23:39): How it felt to go viral for going up against one of the greatest of all time.
No Crime Day (42:20): A conversation about basketball and athlete activism in the 1980s.
Afterball (1:05:56): Stefan on the agony and ecstasy of watching Pete Carril’s Princeton teams.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.1 | Hide your children. |
| 0:04.6 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:18.9 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, |
| 0:21.3 | and this is Hang Up and Listen for the Week of August 22, 2022. |
| 0:25.8 | On this week's show, Defectors May 3, |
| 0:27.7 | and on Farrahman, we'll join us to talk about the dramas and the outrageous |
| 0:31.6 | of the opening round of the WNBA playoffs. |
| 0:34.3 | We'll also be joined by Deon Wright. |
| 0:36.5 | He'll tell us what it was like to guard LeBron James |
| 0:39.5 | in Los Angeles' Pro-Am Drew League. |
| 0:42.4 | And we'll talk about Isaiah Thomas' No Crime Day, |
| 0:45.8 | the event documented in the first episode |
| 0:48.1 | of Slate's History Podcast, one year, 1986. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm in Washington, D.C., I'm the author of The Queen, |
| 0:54.2 | and the host of the podcast, One Year, |
| 0:56.9 | the 1986 log-rolling audio insert here. |
| 1:01.4 | Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis. |
| 1:03.5 | He's the author of The Book's Word Freak, |
| 1:05.3 | a few seconds of panic, wild and outside. |
| 1:08.3 | Stefan, I'm sorry that we're not doing three segments, |
| 1:12.9 | one each on Word Freak, a few seconds of panic |
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