Hang Up and Listen - The Kyrie Irving Problem
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis are joined by NPR’s Gene Demby to discuss the trade of talented, problematic superstar Kyrie Irving from the Brooklyn Nets to the Dallas Mavericks, and to preview the Super Bowl match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs. Also, Sabreena Merchant of the Athletic helps explain what an unprecedented free-agent frenzy means for the WNBA.
Kyrie Irving (5:05): The perpetually disgruntled superstar is on the move again.
Super Bowl (28:54): After more than half a century, two Black quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts, are finally starting in the Super Bowl.
WNBA (48:39): Free-agent moves by superstars Candace Parker and Breanna Stewart signal an era of super-teams.
Afterball (1:07:46): Stefan on Philadelphia’s outdated self-image as an underdog town.
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| 0:29.7 | Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, Amagus. If you are listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th. |
| 0:45.0 | My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests, |
| 0:50.0 | including Cheryline Eiffel, and a sitting state Supreme Court justice. |
| 0:54.5 | All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution, |
| 1:00.9 | has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law. It's been |
| 1:05.7 | doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the |
| 1:10.4 | rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the |
| 1:14.0 | obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly |
| 1:19.3 | consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear. |
| 1:26.6 | But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th |
| 1:31.8 | to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation. |
| 1:36.2 | Go to slate.com slash Amicus live for tickets. The following podcast includes explicit language, but we assume that's what you came for. Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsis, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast. |
| 2:06.3 | Hang up and listen for the week of February 6, 2003. |
| 2:10.8 | On this week's show, Gene Dembe of NPR's Code Switch podcast joins us to talk about the |
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