Hot Take: The Los Angeles Sparks hire Derek Fisher as their head coach

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Erica Ayala joins Lindsay Gibbs to discuss the Sparks' controversial decision to hire Derek Fisher as head coach. They talk about the not-so-thorough search, the limited opportunities for women in coaching, double standards, and the revelation that Fisher heads up the division of a predatory lending agency that preys on broke athletes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:54.1	Hello, bring it all down.
0:54.8	Flamethrowers, Lindsay Gibbs here.
0:57.5	So here's what happened.
0:59.6	Last week, as I promised all of you on Twitter,
1:03.3	my burn was dedicated to the hiring of Derek Fisher by the Los Angeles Sparks.
1:09.7	However, my audio ended up being dysfunctional for the
1:15.7	second half of recording last week's episode, which is why, as you might have noticed, I disappeared
1:21.4	from the final edit of that episode in the second half. But it all worked out perfectly
1:26.8	because joining me today is the wonderful
1:30.9	Eric Ayella, who is a familiar name to all of you, a flamethrower herself. And we are just going to have
1:38.1	a little hot take discussion about the Los Angeles Sparks decision to hire Derek Fisher,
1:42.9	the process behind it and some of the problems
1:45.7	there, and some recent revelations that have come out about a shady business practice, per se,
1:52.1	that Derek is involved in. So first of all, hi, Erica. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining you.
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