Hang Up and Listen - NBA Players Go on Strike
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🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin get together for a special podcast on NBA players’ decision to boycott playoff games after the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They discuss how the strike spread throughout the sports world, whether the NBA season will be cancelled, and how the pandemic might have factored into this unprecedented protest.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:14.9 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine Slate's national editor, and I'm recording this at two minutes before midnight. |
| 0:22.3 | It's about to be Thursday, |
| 0:28.8 | August the 27th. This is a special edition of Hang Up and Listen with me in D.C. |
| 0:34.1 | Stephen Fatsis. Hey, Stefan. Hey, Josh. And from Palo Alto, Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel. |
| 0:56.0 | Good evening. So we're doing this tonight, the special edition, because it feels like a night that we're going to be talking about for a very long time. And we wanted to very quickly kind of tell you guys what we're thinking and what we kind of feel is the important stuff that we wanted to memorialize about this night that's unprecedented in our lifetimes, I think, as far as, you know, sports league potentially shutting down, multiple sports |
| 1:02.1 | leagues potentially shutting down after the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
| 1:08.7 | We understand that by the time you guys listen to this, what we're describing as far as the facts on the ground might be out of date. |
| 1:17.1 | But what we're looking at right now is that there was a players meeting in the NBA. |
| 1:24.8 | There was no resolution, but there's discussion about ending the playoffs, |
| 1:30.2 | ending the season. And it seems like it's possibly going to get resolved on Thursday when there's |
| 1:37.1 | going to be another meeting for players and also a board of governor's meeting for the NBA owners. |
| 1:44.1 | So, Joel, why don't you start us off? Is there |
| 1:46.8 | anything that I left out? Obviously, there are the WNBA called off games, baseball called off games. |
| 1:53.2 | This is happening throughout the entire sports world, but just kind of what are you thinking? |
| 1:58.6 | What do you think is the place where we should be starting |
| 2:01.3 | this conversation off well there's just so many directions to take it and I don't want to be one of |
| 2:05.9 | those I love this league guys because I think it's really easy to oversell the NBA's bona fives when |
| 2:13.5 | it comes to social activism or whatever but I do think it says something that the WNBA and the NBA, which had the blackest |
| 2:22.2 | labor forces and professional sports, have been so much further ahead on these issues than |
| 2:29.7 | the rest of our country's institutions, and pretty much almost everything in 2020. |
| 2:36.0 | And that's from its handling of the coronavirus, |
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