Inflategate: Unmasking the Scorekeeper Who Faked NBA History

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Do you trust the sanctity of data and proof of objectivity? What if we told you that a guru at the forefront of the analytics revolution... had cooked the books of the NBA, to boost stars of the Jordan era? Correspondent Tom Haberstroh confronts a statistician with an invisible hand — and reveals that the pumping-up of our historical record is more widespread today than even nerds like Pablo had accounted for. The human element, after all, can always grease the wheels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	These are the emotions I was going through was, wait a minute.
0:10.0	It's all a lie.
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0:56.1	Cortez I want to talk to you about the biggest story in the NBA right now.
1:04.0	The Miami Heat and what Jimmy Butler did to the New Orleans pelicans this weekend.
1:08.4	Do not try and choke Jimmy Butler.
1:10.1	It's not going to go well for you.
1:11.4	That is not what today's episode is about.
1:12.5	That looked far less intimidating than I thought. Yeah, you have a bandaid on your pointer finger.
1:17.0	It's like limply jestry could be. Yes. The story that is the biggest one in basketball right now is a continuation from the story that was the biggest one in basketball last season
1:28.4	Which is that all of this shit all the scoring all of these points are it all feels like an all-star game we need to fix
1:35.6	every game feels like an all-star game there's it's like a layup line everyone is just getting to the
1:39.6	basket no one is playing defense anymore. Well, except Miami Heat.
1:44.0	In the all-star game, 200 points were scored by one team
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