Hang Up and Listen - The Telling Not Showing Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, NPR’s Gene Demby, and the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunninham discuss the big moves and non-moves at the NBA trade deadline. They also talk about Steven Soderbergh’s new NBA lockout movie High Flying Bird and the nascent Alliance of American Football.
NBA trades (1:25): Anthony Davis isn’t going to the Lakers (yet) and Markelle Fultz is leaving Philly. How does that shift the league’s balance of power on the court and between players and management?
High Flying Bird (22:05): A rare movie about sports and business with a pro-labor point of view, and that thinks seriously about race.
AAF (39:56): Did this new spring football league learn from the XFL’s mistakes or is it doomed to repeat them?
Afterball(51:45): Josh on the best comparison for Zion Williamson.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.1 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of February 11th, 2019. |
| 0:20.5 | On this week's show, we'll talk about all the moves and non-moves at the NBA trade deadline |
| 0:25.1 | as the Pelicans kept Anthony Davis and the Sixers moved on from number one pick Markell Fultz. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll also discuss the new movie High Flying Bird, a slice of life from Steven Soderberg about an agent's |
| 0:39.6 | wheelings and dealings during an NBA lockout. And finally, we'll assess the opening |
| 0:45.2 | weekend of the Alliance of American Football, the latest entity to try to make spring football |
| 0:51.3 | a thing. Stefan Fatsis is off this week. |
| 0:54.7 | Sitting in for him is the great Gene Demby of NPR's Code Switch and of Philadelphia |
| 0:59.3 | sports fandom. |
| 1:00.7 | You were too of con, but thank you, man. |
| 1:02.7 | Great to have you here. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm excited to hear your thoughts on the process. |
| 1:06.9 | Oh, man. |
| 1:07.4 | It's finally over. |
| 1:08.0 | The ending of said process. |
| 1:10.7 | Also with us from our studio in Brooklyn is Vincent Cunningham, the New Yorker. |
| 1:15.9 | Also great. |
| 1:17.4 | More in New York than Jane and I. |
| 1:20.1 | But what's on, man? |
| 1:22.6 | Nothing much. I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:27.8 | The big news at the NBA trade deadline was that the Lakers' attempt to pry Anthony Davis loose from the New Orleans Pelicans came to absolutely nothing with the Pelicans reportedly turning down the Lakers' offer of essentially everyone on their whole team, who is not LeBron James, plus a couple of |
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