Hang Up and Listen - Why Isn’t Becky Hammon an NBA Head Coach?
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the College Football Playoff and bowl game opt-outs. ESPN’s Mechelle Voepel also joins for a conversation about Becky Hammon, who chose to leave the NBA to become the head coach of the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces. Finally, they talk about the life and legacy of John Madden.
College football (3:33): What are the sport’s real issues and what problems are imaginary?
Hammon (25:15): Why didn’t she get a shot to run an NBA team? Is going to the WNBA the right move?
Madden (48:11): How should the coach and announcer be remembered?
Afterball (1:10:38): Joel on Marcus Williamson and what college football takes from Black athletes.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language, including the words, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 4th, 2022. |
| 0:26.7 | On this week's show, we're going to discuss blowout, playoff semifinals, bowl game opt-outs, |
| 0:32.3 | and the other real and imagined ills befalling college football. |
| 0:36.7 | ESPN's Michelle Vopal will join us for a conversation |
| 0:39.1 | about Becky Hammond, who gave up on her dream of becoming an NBA head coach, at least temporarily, |
| 0:44.5 | to lead the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces. And finally, we'll talk about John Madden, the coach, |
| 0:50.2 | an announcer and cultural icon, who died last week at the age of 85. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. |
| 1:04.0 | Also in Washington, D.C., where there's snow on the ground and love in our hearts. |
| 1:10.0 | Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, and Wild and Outside. |
| 1:10.8 | Hello, Stefan. Hey hey josh did you shovel |
| 1:12.4 | yesterday did shovel monday monday was the snow you did shovel yeah hate the snow still hate the snow |
| 1:18.7 | not not not charmed by it in the least was there a lot of snow and uh long island back in the day |
| 1:25.9 | long island i don't know i didn't grow up on long island i grew up in westchester was there a lot of snow in Long Island back in the day? Long Island. I don't know. I didn't grow up on Long Island. I grew up from Westchester. |
| 1:30.7 | Was there a lot snow in Westchester back in the day? |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, there was. Yeah, sure. We had some good sledding, the Pelham Country Club golf course. |
| 1:40.0 | Did it ever snow in Houston? |
| 1:42.6 | Joel? |
| 1:43.3 | I think it snowed possibly twice in the 18 years I lived there as a kid. |
| 1:51.0 | So I remember at least one of those days really vividly. |
| 1:54.8 | I mean, by the time, you know, it was 9 o'clock and it had already melted, but it did stick for a little bit. |
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