La Brega: Basketball Warriors

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🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Despite being a U.S. colony, Puerto Rico competes in sports as its own country on the world stage. Since the 70s, Puerto Rico’s national basketball team has been a pride of the island, taking home trophy after trophy. But in the 2004 at the Athens Olympics, the team was up against the odds, with an opening game against a U.S. Dream Team stacked with players like Lebron James and Allen Iverson. Futuro Media’s Julio Ricardo Varela tells the story of a basketball game that Puerto Ricans will never forget, and why he thinks now, more than ever, is a crucial moment to remember it.

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0:00.0	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I am Penileira Mides.
0:03.0	And on this new series, we're going to get to know the most powerful Mexican government
0:08.6	official ever to face trial in the US for his alleged ties to the infamous drug lord, El
0:15.4	Chappo.
0:16.4	But this is not your regular narco story.
0:19.3	It's like true crime, myths, telenovela.
0:22.6	This is our new series, USA versus García Luna.
0:27.1	Find it whatever you get your podcasts and at futuroinvestigates.org.
0:34.1	Dear listener, this month we're bringing you episodes of La Brega.
0:45.4	It's a special seven-part mini series presented by Futuro Studios and WNYC Studios about
0:51.9	the Puerto Rican experience.
0:53.9	Today's episode, Basketball Warriors, our very own Julio Ricardo Varela tells the story
1:00.6	of a basketball game that Puerto Ricans will never forget.
1:05.1	And if you'd like to hear any of the episodes in Spanish, visit the La Brega feed wherever
1:11.4	you listen to podcasts.
1:13.2	And now I'm going to hand things off to WNYC's Alana Casa Nova Burgess, but definitely stay
1:18.2	tuned after the episode for a conversation with me, Alana and Julio Ricardo Varela.
1:24.1	Enjoy.
1:26.8	In the summer of 1979, journalist Julio Ricardo Varela was 10 years old and he was spending
1:32.4	the summer with his dad in Rio Biederaz in San Juan.
1:36.0	And it was the same year that the 1979 Pan American games were happening and were being
1:42.5	hosted in Puerto Rico.
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