How We'd Run the Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers
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🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Nerder She Wrote's Dave DuFour, Mo Dakhil and Seth Partnow are joined first by The Athletic's Atlanta Hawks reporter Chris Kirschner to discuss what went wrong with the Hawks this season, how ATL is building its team around Trae Young and whether that's a smart decision.
Then at 27:30 The Athletic's Cleveland Cavaliers reporter Kelsey Russo joins to dive into the Cavs: do Sexton and Garland fit, Kevin Love's trade value and what to expect next season from the Cavs.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's show, we talk to Chris Kirshner about the Hawks, and we talk to Kelsey |
| 0:11.8 | Russo about the calves. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the back-to-back pod on the athletic podcast network. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Nerders, she wrote, with your host dave dufor with |
| 0:22.2 | moe de keel and zest part now are you ready to be entertained |
| 0:26.0 | hello and welcome to this week's episode of the nerder she wrote podcast on the back-to-back |
| 0:37.0 | podcast on the athletic podcast network i think I got all those things in there. It's me, Dave DeFour. I got Mo. I got Seth. What's up, guys? What's up, Dave? I don't know. I'm flying through it because I feel like this is going to be a really big show. Joining us this week to start off the show, Chris Kershner, our beat writer for the Atlanta |
| 0:57.2 | Hawks. |
| 0:57.7 | Chris, you had some big news in Atlanta. |
| 0:59.9 | Trey Young signed with Clutch. |
| 1:01.7 | How does everybody feel about that? |
| 1:03.2 | Well, I think when Hawks fans saw that news, there was some concern just because now that |
| 1:09.3 | J.R. Smith is officially with the Lakers, |
| 1:11.4 | 33% of that roster are clutch clients. So I think they just automatically assume that |
| 1:18.0 | when Trey's contract expires, that he will join Los Angeles and play with LeBron. So I think |
| 1:25.4 | there was definitely some concern on that end. But, you know, after |
| 1:28.0 | talking with Trey's father, Ray, I learned that, you know, it had nothing to do with LeBron. They didn't |
| 1:35.1 | consult LeBron before moving from Octagon to Clutch. This mainly had to do with Omar Wilkes, |
| 1:42.0 | who's now the head of basketball clutch moving from Octagon |
| 1:45.1 | to clutch. Now that that move now allows Rich Paul to be CEO and kind of oversee everything. |
| 1:52.8 | So I think for for Trey and the Hawks, I think it's a good partnership just because, like Ray was saying, |
| 2:01.4 | Rich Paul hasn't had any reason to come to Atlanta and sit court side. And Cam Reddish, |
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