Hang Up and Listen - The WNBA Takes Flight
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by the Washington Post’s Ben Golilver to talk about the NBA’s conference semifinals. Jackie Powell of the Next also joins to preview all the big storylines leading into the most-anticipated WNBA season ever. Finally, one of the WNBA’s top draft picks in 2023, Maddy Siegrist, explains what the 2024 rookie class can expect in their first year as pros.
NBA playoffs (3:29): The Nuggets aren’t dead yet and the Knicks are held together with duct tape.
WNBA (21:25): Caitlin Clark’s debut, the Aces going for three in a row, and the rollout of charter flights.
Siegrist (39:49): The second-year player for the Dallas Wings on adjusting to the WNBA.
Afterball (56:22): Joel on the seeming demise of the Arena Football League.
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| 0:42.4 | The following podcast contains naughty language. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 13, 2024. |
| 1:05.8 | On this week's show, the Washington Post Ben Galiver will join us to talk about the |
| 1:09.2 | NBA's conference semi-finals, where the Knicks being held together with some kind of tape and the |
| 1:15.0 | nuggets are not quite dead yet. Then Jackie Powell of the next will be here to |
| 1:19.7 | help us preview all the big storylines and the most anticipated Wnba season ever? |
| 1:24.9 | And finally, one of the Wnba's top draft picks in 2023, Maddie Seagrist, will explain |
| 1:30.6 | what the 2024 Ricky class, including Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, can't expect |
| 1:35.6 | in their first year as pros. |
| 1:37.8 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of the book The Queen and the host of an upcoming |
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