Hanif Abdurraqib On LeBron James In High School, Why NBA Nicknames Are Bad, How He Loves Awful Teams

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Sports, Basketball, Comedy

5 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Hanif Abdurraqib joins No Dunks to discuss if he’s heard from LeBron James since releasing ‘There’s Always This Year’, attending a LeBron high school game, that there are no good NBA nicknames anymore, how he became a Minnesota Timberwolves fan, his thoughts on Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert, why he loves bad NBA teams, a memorable trash talk moment at a Toronto Raptors game, and what to make of Scoot Henderson. 📕Pick up There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension: https://amzn.to/3XPXGQh 📈 Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: YouTube.com/nodunksinc 🏝️ No Buffs x Survivor 47 Ep. 1 recap: https://bit.ly/47F9AQj 👕 Fix up, look sharp in No Dunks merch: https://breakingt.com/collections/no-dunks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:10.3	and my co-host fellow athletics senior writer Chris Fanini
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0:25.1	Thursday this fall. You can find us wherever you listen to your
0:28.0	podcast. Welcome to No Dunks here on the Athletic Podcast Network and we are a few lucky guys today.
0:44.0	I don't know how it happened.
0:45.0	It took some persistence, but we have got an incredible guest coming up first.
0:49.0	Let me intro, the few lucky guys we got here.
0:51.0	The man in the middle, it's Trey Kirby.
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0:54.0	AO! And the man always making the magic happen.
0:57.0	It's Superproducer, J.D.
0:59.0	Hello.
1:00.0	And now, I've introduced myself.
1:02.0	I'm Tasmellis.ells but now the more important part
1:04.8	Hanif Abdulakib is with us he is an author he's a poet he has a lot of things he's an
1:10.0	essayist he is a true basketball enthusiast and he's busy celebrating. There's always
1:17.6	this year an incredible book so we have to thank him for taking the time to join us and
1:22.2	if just want to thank you straight up, first and foremost, for coming on.
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