Hang Up and Listen - The Kaepernick of the Hardwood Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf to discuss his return to basketball in the BigIG3, his protest of the national anthem, and how Tourette's Syndrome affected his career. Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts also comes on the show to discuss being openly gay in the NBA and how the franchise is grappling with its status as the league’s supervillain. Finally, Slate’s Henry Grabar explains what makes Miami’s new, David Beckham–-backed stadium deal so great and why Las Vegas’ plans for a new NFL stadium will hurt the city and its taxpayers.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 3rd, 2017. |
| 0:14.9 | On this week's show, we'll talk to Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf, the oldest player in the Big Three-on-three basketball league, about why he keeps playing |
| 0:22.9 | and about his protest of the national anthem, which began two decades before Colin Kaepernick |
| 0:27.7 | took a knee and continues to this day. We'll also speak with Golden State Warriors President |
| 0:33.0 | Rick Welts about his tenure with the team and how his life has changed since his decision to come out |
| 0:38.4 | in 2011. And finally, Slate's staff writer Henry Grabar will join us for a conversation about the |
| 0:44.3 | best and the worst stadium deals in the United States. Joining me in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:51.2 | is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic |
| 0:55.3 | and Wild and Outside, which we'll get to later. Hey, Stefan. |
| 0:58.7 | Hey, Josh. |
| 0:59.8 | So we're recording this podcast in the interest of transparency in advance. We didn't feel like |
| 1:07.7 | working on July 3rd, but we felt deeply in our hearts that we wanted to provide you with entertainment for the Independence Day week. |
| 1:18.5 | So here we are. |
| 1:19.8 | That's not true. |
| 1:20.5 | We wanted to work on July 3rd, but it's a slayed holiday so nobody could record the thing. |
| 1:26.8 | Fair point. |
| 1:28.6 | We were dying to work on July. |
| 1:30.0 | We would have worked on July 4th. |
| 1:32.5 | All right. |
| 1:33.0 | Prove it. |
| 1:34.3 | Can't. |
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