Harden and the Rockets, Westbrook and the Wizards, and the best guards in the East
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🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Sam Amick is joined by Kelly Iko and Fred Katz to discuss the James Harden saga with the Rockets, will he be on the team? Where could he be traded? Then they shift over to the Wizards and if Russell Westbrook can make an impact on the Eastern conference as their lead guard.
Producer Andrew Schlecht then joins for listener questions to wrap up the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:01.8 | One day through Friday. |
| 0:02.7 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.4 | Tamper with you. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:14.3 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:17.6 | With Sam Sam. |
| 0:19.2 | To be able to bring people together. What it do, baby? Reportedly at the center of an NBA investigation. Into tampering accusations. And the message to... Decut it in the league. Stop talking about players on other teams. What did I do? The charge is filed. Impermissible contact. Right or wrong? Tampering charges are really difficult to prove. |
| 0:38.2 | You know me. |
| 0:38.6 | I talk. |
| 0:40.3 | Karen Ockert even talks about. Can't he mention Deans anymore? Ask me what I like to play with Cameron to grant. Trial you're one with the room. They're always ahead of the world. Is that right? It's not right. I'm not going to have tamper with the guys. I didn't tell you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello. And with the guys. I didn't tell me, I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. |
| 0:57.5 | Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the athletic NBA show network. |
| 1:03.2 | I am Sam Amick, National NBA writer here as always. |
| 1:07.2 | We have no video on this pod, but I'm rocking the Santa Claus hat just to get in the |
| 1:11.8 | holiday mood. We have out on the East Coast, Fred Katz, Washington Wizards beat writer. And as |
| 1:18.8 | Fred said off air, as I was talking about how excited I was to talk Wizards basketball. Fred, |
| 1:24.4 | you're not used to hearing this. How nice is this new reality with Russell Westbrook, brother? It's unbelievable. I'm covering an interesting team. I got my Hanukkah Bush right behind me. I'm good to go. I'm good to talk some wizards. You know, it's amazing. I think about the wizards more than any human being in the world who doesn't work for the wizard. So it's great to have an outlet to |
| 1:44.9 | express those thoughts. I love it. And happy Hanukkah, my friend. Now in the central part of the |
| 1:50.6 | country, we got Kelly Eco, Houston Rockets beat writer extraordinaire. Kelly, your team's been |
| 1:55.9 | interesting for a while. But this thing has normally been interesting because it's, can they unseat the dynasty |
| 2:02.4 | warriors? You know, what's Darrow Morey going to do next? What about Mike T. Anthony and his creative |
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