It's Time for a Conversation

The Steam Room

Turner Sports

Basketball, Sports

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this special episode of The Steam Room, we turn it over to the Inside guys, who returned to TNT for the first time since March. Ernie, Charles, Kenny, & Shaq share their feelings about racial injustice, policing, and the reaction to Drew Brees’ comments about kneeling during the anthem. Commissioner Adam Silver joins to discuss the return of the 2019-20 season, how the league is planning to take COVID-19 precautions, and what the NBA can do to help fight racism. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and retired NBA player Stephen Jackson join the conversation to address the murder of George Floyd, understanding white privilege, and how to work towards ending systemic racism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And with that familiar theme song, it's once again time for the Steam Room.
0:10.1	Podcast featuring Charles Barclay and yours truly Ernie Johnson.
0:15.7	We're going to do things a little differently this week because Thursday June 4th
0:22.0	inside the NBA returned to the air with me and Charles and Kenny and
0:28.1	Shaq, and we had a chance to talk about where the NBA might be headed now that there are ideas about how the
0:36.4	season can proceed and conversation on where society's headed.
0:47.0	And so we decided that this week, rather than just do the traditional
0:51.0	Steamroom podcast the way we have been. We would just take what happened on
0:57.8	Thursday night on inside the NBA. All the conversations being held in that hour and play that back for you.
1:08.0	Hope that's okay.
1:10.0	These are different times and so today it demanded a different times.
1:13.0	And so today it demanded a different approach.
1:16.0	Hope you enjoy it. This is Ernie Johnson coming to you from Brasleton, Georgia, about 45 minutes north of the city of Atlanta.
1:31.0	We do have some NBA news to talk about tonight in the next hour. It appears the
1:37.1	league has a pathway to resume play. We'll get into that with Adam Silver, the
1:41.3	Commissioner. But we are living at a time now where what we need to
1:46.1	speak about conversations that are difficult but are necessary because on this day on this Thursday George Floyd's memorial was
1:57.8	held today in Minneapolis this plague of racism which comes at the same time as this pandemic
2:08.4	demands our attention and we will do that over the next 60 minutes.
2:14.0	Charles Barclay, Shaquille O'Neill,
2:17.0	Kenny Smith.
2:18.0	We have not been together on TNT since play was suspended by the NBA. I miss seeing you guys. It's good
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