Hang Up and Listen - John Hollinger
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin interviews the Athletic’s John Hollinger about his career inside and outside the NBA. Topics discussed include the rise of Luka Doncic, how Hollinger came up with player efficiency rating, his tenure with the Memphis Grizzlies, and trading Marc Gasol.
Luka Doncic (02:15): How the 20-year-old became a star and how he could keep getting better.
PER (07:55): The birth of the NBA’s most popular all-in-one statistic.
Grizzlies (24:15): The highs and lows of the 2013 and 2015 playoffs.
Marc Gasol (44:17): The ins and outs of trading one of the Grizzlies’ franchise players.
Afterball (51:25): Josh on the inventor of the Nerf football.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello, I am Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:13.5 | This is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 25th, 2019. |
| 0:19.2 | Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, including my friend Stefan Fatsis, who was out |
| 0:24.0 | this week. In his absence, I'm going to ditch the usual hang-up format. I'm going to treat you all |
| 0:29.4 | to a long conversation with John Hollinger. John left the basketball nerd media to become a |
| 0:36.3 | high-ranking executive with the Memphis Grizzlies. He has now returned to the basketball nerd media to become a high-ranking executive with the Memphis Grizzlies. |
| 0:39.7 | He has now returned to the basketball nerd media where he is subjected to chit-chat by the |
| 0:44.9 | likes of me. He writes for The Athletic. He podcasts. We'll get to him in a second. But before we get to |
| 0:49.9 | that, I wanted to let you know about our live show in Washington, D.C. next week. It is at the Hamilton |
| 0:55.4 | Live. It's an amazing venue downtown in D.C. if you've never been, you must go. We're going to be |
| 1:01.7 | joined by some of our favorite journalists, folks you've heard on this program before. Gene Demby, |
| 1:07.8 | Lindsey Gibbs, Dave McKenna, go to slate.com slash live for tickets and information. |
| 1:13.3 | We would love to see you there. |
| 1:14.9 | It is December the 3rd, Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. at the Hamilton, slate.com slash live. |
| 1:24.2 | My guest today is a senior NBA columnist for The Athletic. |
| 1:28.2 | He also does a weekly podcast with Nate Duncan. |
| 1:31.1 | It is called The Hollinger and Duncan NBA Show. |
| 1:34.7 | Until earlier this year, he was a senior executive with the Memphis Grizzlies, |
| 1:38.5 | and before that, he was one of the first and most prominent basketball sabermetricians, |
| 1:43.6 | launching the website Ali Upe, |
| 1:45.2 | writing the annual Pro Basketball Prospectus books, and then joining up with sI.com and then |
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