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The Athletic NBA Daily

Hot Hand, Bubble Noise and Biden vs Trump with Nate Silver

The Athletic NBA Daily

The Athletic

Nba, Sports, Nba News, News, Basketball, Sports News, Nba Draft, Comedy

4.12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Hoops Adjacent, FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver drops by to talk about the "Hot Hand," reflecting on Jeremy Lin and "Linsanity." Also what to make of great performances in the Bubble, is it real? Then, insight into polling for the the 2020 Election and comparisons to 2016.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

0:09.0

And welcome to another edition of the Hoops adjacent episode of the Athletic NBA show.

0:16.0

That is a lot to get out.

0:17.0

David Aldrich here in DC, Waz, Lambray in LA.

0:20.0

What is up, sir?

0:22.1

Nothing much, David. I'm good. I'm cooling, man.

0:25.1

I can finally breathe the air without smoking it.

0:28.6

And so I'm thankful for that for sure.

0:31.7

That's fantastic. That's fantastic.

0:33.2

So we're taping us on Tuesday.

0:35.8

We'll have Nate Silver on in a few minutes from 538.com, The Man, the Myth, the Advanced Numbers Legend.

0:43.1

But let's talk for a few minutes before Nate joins us on the Lakers Nuggets series in particular

0:51.8

and how Anthony Davis just kind of has shifted the paradigm with one

0:58.2

shot.

0:59.9

It's been very funny to me, was to watch all the reaction.

1:03.0

People kill him Plumlee for not switching out on them.

1:05.9

And then you see the other angle where Jeremy Grant is basically saying,

1:11.0

hey, yo, don't leave LeBron.

1:12.7

You know?

1:13.4

Right.

1:14.6

You know, so that's been funny.

1:16.1

But watching AD, I mean, hit that shot and just kind of really reminding people,

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