John Hollinger

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin interviews the Athletic’s John Hollinger about his career inside and outside the NBA. Topics discussed include the rise of Luka Doncic, how Hollinger came up with player efficiency rating, his tenure with the Memphis Grizzlies, and trading Marc Gasol. Luka Doncic (02:15): How the 20-year-old became a star and how he could keep getting better. PER (07:55): The birth of the NBA’s most popular all-in-one statistic. Grizzlies (24:15): The highs and lows of the 2013 and 2015 playoffs. Marc Gasol (44:17): The ins and outs of trading one of the Grizzlies’ franchise players. Afterball (51:25): Josh on the inventor of the Nerf football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello, I am Josh Levine,
0:10.5	slates national editor and the author of The Queen.
0:13.5	This is Slates Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen
0:15.8	for the week of November 25, 2019.
0:19.2	Happy Thanksgiving to one and all,
0:21.8	including my friend Stephen Fatsus who was out this week.
0:25.0	In his absence, I'm going to ditch the usual hang-up format and to treat you all to a long conversation
0:30.8	with John Hollinger.
0:32.4	John left the basketball nerd media to become a
0:36.1	high-ranking executive with the Memphis Grizzlies. He has now returned to the
0:40.9	basketball nerd media where he is subjected to chit chat by the
0:44.8	likes of me he writes for the athletic he podcasts we'll get to him in a second but
0:49.3	before we get to that wanted to let you know about our live show in Washington, D.C. next week.
0:54.0	It is at the Hamilton Live.
0:56.0	It's an amazing venue downtown in D.C. if you've never been, you must go.
1:01.0	We are going to be joined by some of our favorite journalists, folks you've heard
1:05.2	on this program before, Gene Dembie, Lindsey Gibbs, Dave McKenna, go to slate.com
1:10.5	slash live for tickets and information.
1:13.3	We would love to see you there.
1:14.9	It is December the third Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.
1:19.2	at the Hamilton slate.
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