Hang Up and Listen - Ranking the Best Dunks Ever
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by the New Yorker’s Louisa Thomas to talk about the Australian Open. They also discuss the NBA’s new G League player development model. Finally, they assess Anthony Edwards’ huge dunk and name their favorite dunks of all time.
Australian Open (04:06): How Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic won and what the future holds for Serena Williams.
G League Ignite (24:50): Jalen Green’s path to the pros could change the NBA and college basketball.
Dunks (44:50): Will Anthony Edwards’ slam stand the test of time? Which dunks will we never forget?
Afterball (01:02:32): Josh on posterization, the word and the concept.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Slate Podcast listeners. |
| 0:03.0 | Help us make a better Slate by answering our survey. |
| 0:06.8 | It'll only take a few minutes, and you can find it at slate.com slash survey. |
| 0:12.7 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:27.0 | Music including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week |
| 0:31.2 | of February 22nd, 2021. On this week's show, the New Yorkers Louisa Thomas will join us to discuss tennis's |
| 0:38.9 | Australian Open with its quarantines and the fans and then the no fans and then the fans again |
| 0:44.2 | and big wins for Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic. We'll also discuss how the NBA's G League is |
| 0:50.8 | changing the pro and college basketball development model and will scrutinize |
| 0:56.0 | Timberwolves rookie Anthony Edwards's huge dunk and name our favorite dunks of all time. I'm in Washington, |
| 1:03.0 | D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke. Also in D.C., |
| 1:08.1 | Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, |
| 1:11.9 | Stefan. Hello, Josh. And with us from Palo Alto, Slate, staff writer, host of Slowburn, |
| 1:18.1 | season three and six. Joel Anderson. Hello, Joel. Good morning, y'all. Joel, I wanted to ask |
| 1:24.5 | you, you wrote a piece over the weekend about some of the volunteer work you were doing in Texas where you're from. |
| 1:33.6 | And just, well, A, people should read the piece, which was great. |
| 1:40.3 | But B, if you had any thoughts on what's been going on down there or any advice for people |
| 1:47.7 | who are interested in helping out? |
| 1:51.0 | Well, yeah, thanks. |
| 1:52.3 | I mean, obviously what happened in Texas is terrible. |
| 1:55.6 | I go into that a little bit in the piece. |
| 1:57.7 | You know, it's really discouraging to see people be let down by their government |
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