Hang Up and Listen - The NBA’s COVID Christmas
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🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Joel Anderson are joined by ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz to talk about Christmas Day in the NBA. Washington Post health reporter Dan Diamond also joins to discuss the past, present, and future of COVID in sports. Finally, Josh, Joel, and Stefan Fatsis interview Mitchell S. Jackson about his award-winning story on Ahmaud Arbery and running while Black.
NBA (3:37): How did the Warriors and Suns leap to the top of the West? And how are teams dealing with all the positive tests?
COVID (25:51): What should leagues be doing, and what will they do in 2022?
Arbery (45:59): A discussion about the Pulitzer-winning story “Twelve Minutes and a Life.”
Afterball (1:06:04): Josh on the Washington Post’s coverage of Daniel Snyder.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 27, 2021. |
| 0:23.9 | On this week's show, ESPN's Kevin Arniewicz will be here to talk about the NBA's Christmas Day Showcase, |
| 0:29.7 | which featured one good game and a bunch of stars in The Protocols. |
| 0:34.4 | And about those protocols, the Washington Post's Dan Diamond will join us to talk about where we've been, where we are, and where we're going with COVID in sports. |
| 0:43.4 | Finally, we'll speak with Mitchell S. Jackson, who won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Magazine Award for his story 12 Minutes and a Life on Ahmaud Arbery and running while black. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast |
| 0:58.2 | One Year, Season 2 on 1995, in your feeds right now. |
| 1:03.7 | Our man, Stefan Fatsis, is off this week, though you will hear him in our third segment |
| 1:08.7 | because of a podcasting trick I like to call recording stuff in advance. |
| 1:14.0 | Here with me, not just through the magic of time shifting, live from Palo Alto. |
| 1:19.9 | Joel Anderson, host of Season 6 of Slow Burn on the L.A. Riot's final episode drops this week. |
| 1:26.8 | How are you doing, Joel? |
| 1:29.4 | Good. I can't wait for that to be over and that I can just turn full time into, you know, just give my all to hang up and listen |
| 1:34.7 | after slow burn is over. So you've, I thought you were giving your all. This is, this is shocking |
| 1:40.2 | information to me, but, I mean, you know, it's kind of like, you know, an NBA veteran and, you know, a February |
| 1:46.4 | game. |
| 1:47.1 | You know, you do just enough. |
| 1:49.9 | You're just enough to get the W. |
| 1:52.4 | Hopefully listeners to Slow Burn will not be saying, thank God this is over when the series |
| 1:58.5 | finishes. |
| 1:59.1 | But I can empathize with where you're coming from. |
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