Interview: Mirin Fader, Journalist and Author of "Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP"

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this episode Jessica Luther interviews journalist Mirin Fader about her new book, Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP, which comes out August 10. They talk about Mirin’s basketball skills, how she got into writing about sports, and, of course, about NBA champion and two-time MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Submit your Blue Wire Hustle application here: http://bwhustle.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to burn it all down, and I'm excited you out, and I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:10.4	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need. I'm Jessica Luther, and this week I'm excited to be talking to Mirren Fader, a feature writer at The Ringer, whose work I've long admired. She's the author of a new book,
0:22.6	Janis, the Improbable Rise of an MBA MVP. But as I like to do, I'm going to let her introduce herself.
0:30.3	My name is Mirren, and I am a features writer, and I just really like telling stories of athletes who you think you know
0:39.6	and I like bringing the human side to sports.
0:42.2	Not just a feature writer.
0:44.2	You're now an author.
0:46.7	Maybe I'm in denial.
0:48.6	Yes.
0:49.0	You're going to have to add that to your bio, Mirren.
0:51.0	Yeah.
0:51.7	Apparently that's what's going on right now. I never thought it would
0:55.7	actually happen. It is very cool. Yeah, it's very cool. I do want to start, I want to back up in your
1:02.6	life. Did you play sports growing up? Yes. What was your relationship to sports as you were getting
1:08.6	as a child and into adulthood? Yeah. So I loved basketball.
1:13.3	I started playing when I was 10 years old and I absolutely just fell in love with it the second I
1:18.2	started. I was not good, but I was obsessed with it. And that was the era of Yukon's dominance with
1:25.5	Tarasi and Sue Bird. And I wanted to be just like them. I like slicked my
1:30.4	hair back so I could look like Tarazi with the bun. So you and Janice have the same lover Tarasi.
1:36.4	The pictures going around that he had put the jersey, drew the jersey for Tarassi on the wall.
1:41.6	I know. I love that. Tarazi was one of the first jerseys I have. It's like
1:45.0	this bright, like, um, not pink, but you know the, the mercury color that they had. And I wanted to
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