Kevin Durant Chooses His Own Adventure

Edge of Sports

Dave Zirin / The Nation

Sports, History, News, Politics, Sports News

4.8 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Sports World is buzzing about NBA star's Kevin Durant's move from Oklahoma City to the Golden State Warriors. We break it down - the basketball and the political sides of this deal - with NBA.com's own Sekou Smith. Then, in front of a live audience, I do a talk about the political lessons of the Mizzou football strike against racism. Finally, the Just Stand Up award to Olympic swimmer Anthony Ervin.Sekou Smith: http://twitter.com/SekouSmithNBA/Hang Time blog: http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/tag/sekou-smith/Hang Time podcast: http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/category/podcast/Socialism 2016 conference: http://wearemany.org/Anthony Ervin: http://twitter.com/anthonyervin/Anthony Ervin’s book, “Chasing Water: Elegy of an Olympian” http://akashicbooks.com/catalog/chasing-water/—http://edgeofsportspodcast.com | http://twitter.com/edgeofsports | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: edgeofsports@slate.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	I got to say their names.
0:03.4	Before we get started, just please note we recorded this week's show before news about Philando
0:09.0	Castile, Alton Sterling, and Dallas will be addressing it all next week.
0:13.9	For now, maybe we could take our minds off it for a hot minute.
0:39.4	Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. We got a hell of a show this week. I am going to speak to Seiku Smith about all the lunacy in NBA free agent land. If you don't know who Seeku Smith is, he's a longtime columnist for NBA.com co-host of the hangtime podcast and a former columnist with the Atlanta Journal Constitution and an insider's insider and he's dope as hell. So you're
0:44.6	going to want to hear that conversation. And then later in the show, you're going to hear a talk I did
0:50.3	about Ferguson to football, which is about the Missouri football players and their strike last
0:56.9	year, the political implications of it and what it says about the NCAA. It's a talk that I just gave
1:01.9	in front of several hundred people at the conference called Socialism 2016 in Chicago.
1:08.0	And then I got a just stand up award for a swimmer who has a story that you will absolutely not believe.
1:13.9	He made the Olympics and it's actually the only reason I'm smiling about Rio 2016.
1:18.6	Where do you hear about this guy and just stand up?
1:20.7	But before we get to say Coup, before we get to anything else, I got to give you my take about Kevin Durant going to the Warriors.
1:29.3	Who are the world?
1:31.7	I want all the world.
1:34.5	Send the word.
1:39.4	Being a sports fan is so irrational.
1:47.2	And this has underlined this for me so much.
1:49.7	It is inherently irrational to be a sports fan.
1:53.3	Think about it.
1:54.2	We're rooting for laundry.
1:55.9	We're rooting for these organizations that suck billions of dollars out of the public till.
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