Hang Up and Listen - The NBA’s Growing Gambling Affair
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh discuss the federal indictments of NBA players and coaches for gambling incidents and how the ubiquity of online betting plays a role.. Then the panel is joined by the host of the Ringer’s F1 podcast, Megan Schuster, to discuss the excitement and drama heading into the final stretch of the Formula 1 season. Finally, they finish with a mid-season NFL check-in.
On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel discusses the San Francisco Giants hiring a college baseball coach as their new manager, a first in MLB.
Gambling and the NBA (2:47): Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier have been indicted
F1 (21:56): Can Verstappen eke out another championship?
NFL (38:14): Could Daniel Jones really be an MVP
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| 1:03.0 | It is Monday, October 27th, 2025. |
| 1:30.2 | Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen. The sports podcast here at Slate. Back with you yet again this week. I'm Alex Kersner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the college football podcast Split Zone duo. What a show we have in store for you this week. We'll talk about the wide-ranging gambling indictments that the Justice Department rained down last week, |
| 1:33.1 | including against several figures in the NBA. |
| 1:41.1 | We'll have Megan Schuster, host of The Ringer F-1 Show, on the program to talk about one of the wilder comeback attempts in the history of motorsport. That's Max Verstappen, fitting for a fifth world championship in a row |
| 1:45.4 | long after that seemed totally impossible. We'll also assess the NFL at just about the halfway |
| 1:50.9 | point of the regular season, the year of the washed-up quarterback revival. Many are calling it, |
| 1:56.3 | in addition to the year of parody. As usual, joining me this week for all of it is Lindsay Gibbs, |
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