J.A. Adande on entering the Hall of Fame and Fran Fraschilla on JJ Redick

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

We crack open the Oddball vault to share two interviews we taped during the summer. The first is a discussion with sportswriter and commentator J.A. Adande about being honored this Sunday at the NBA Hall of Fame Ceremony for winning the 2024 Curt Gowdy Print Media Award Recipient. Our second interview is with coach Fran Fraschilla about his advice for JJ Redick as he prepares for his first season as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Oddball.
0:10.6	I'm Charlotte Wilder.
0:11.8	A mean couldn't be here today, but that's okay because we have an interview that he did with long-time sports writer and commentator J.A. Adande at Summer League.
0:20.4	J.A. is going to be honored at this year's NBA Hall of Fame ceremony for winning the 2024
0:25.0	Kurt Gowdy Print Media Award. Check it out.
0:29.4	I'm joined by, I get to say this man, for the first time. The Hall of Fame.
0:33.8	That sounds nice.
0:34.6	Jay A. Adande. Jay. Okay. So how did you find out that you were going to get the Kirk Gowdy Award?
0:42.3	I found out that I was in the running for it.
0:46.3	I got an email from the person I've been in contact with at the Hall of Fame who asked me for my
0:52.3	phone number in case the CEO of the Hall of Fame wanted to call
0:56.1	with some good news. So like, I thought it was leaning, but it didn't mean for sure, right? And then
1:01.3	I didn't get a phone call. Right. And so I flew down to Florida for, I had a vacation plan for
1:07.0	a whole stuff weekend, and I landed. And then my phone blowing up because it's all over social media that I got the
1:11.6	Kirk Gowdy Award.
1:12.3	And I'm like, man, they didn't call.
1:13.2	And I looked and he had called, but it was a really busy day.
1:16.1	And it had gone straight to voicemail.
1:17.8	I was teaching when he called.
1:19.7	And I had my phone off.
1:21.6	And it was on my voicemail.
1:23.5	Oh, wow. So you, I'm assuming you still have that voicemail. I say it. Kind of the good thing about not receiving the call is I'll always have that voicemail.
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