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Edge of Sports

“If I knew the answers I’d run for President.”

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

News, Sports News, Sports, History, Politics

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week we speak to NBA veteran Wilson Chandler about how he is maintaining amid the pandemic as well as his experience playing on basketball’s biggest stage, his stint in China, and the rhetoric of Donald Trump.

We also have some ‘Choice Words’ about the Coronavirus and athletes. In addition, we have ‘Just Stand Up’ and ‘Just Sit Down’ awards to Jeremy Lin for calling out Trump for racist rhetoric and the IOC for dragging their feet on doing the right thing and cancelling the 2020 Olympic games. All that and more on this week’s Edge of Sports!

Wilson Chandler
Twitter: @wilsonchandler

Zirin, Liverpool’s Jürgen Klopp Shines Amid the Coronavirus Crisis



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0:00.0

I know you've talked a couple of times about this government that we have.

0:04.9

If you were president, what would you do, man?

0:08.7

What do you think we need to do to this country to put it on the right track in the right direction?

0:14.2

Man, that's a tough question to answer because I think, you know, if I knew the answers, I definitely would have been running for president.

0:24.3

So I'm like that.

0:36.6

Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.

0:38.7

I'm Dave Ziron.

0:39.9

This week we speak to Brooklyn Nets forward Wilson Chandler.

0:43.5

I'm very excited about that, Benton Harbor's own.

0:46.9

Also, I've got some choice words about Liverpool manager Yergen Klopp and him shining amid the coronavirus.

0:53.8

I've also got Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down Awards and more.

0:56.7

But first, Wilson Chandler.

1:01.3

Well, first, I mean, first I wanted to ask you just, how are you doing?

1:04.6

Because, I mean, I was reading some articles that you had drama with your building manager.

1:09.0

Questions about whether you'd return to Michigan or stay in Brooklyn.

1:13.1

What's going on?

1:14.9

I'm in, bro, I'm still in the building.

1:16.4

It's all good.

1:17.5

It wasn't the actual people who work in the building.

1:20.6

We got a great relationship.

1:22.4

We all cool.

1:23.1

We talk to them every day.

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