Lakers Lock, Giannis Speaks, Trust the Process?, FA Winners + Losers, Play In / Play out?
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🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Point of Contention: Marcus Thompson and James Edwards III debate. Hosted by Zach Harper.
Take 1: Money Money Money Money! lakers a lock?
Take 2: Why hasn’t Giannis signed?
Take 3: Trust the Process! Or Not?
Take 4: FA Winners and Losers
Take 5: Play in or play out?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:03.3 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.4 | I do have a take. |
| 0:09.7 | Point of contention. |
| 0:11.7 | Katie, you can be a head coach. |
| 0:12.9 | I can be a head coach. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to point of contention. |
| 0:16.4 | Five subjects, five minutes, five points of contention coming up on the show. |
| 0:20.7 | We've got money spending spending we got Janus pending |
| 0:24.0 | We've got process maybe processing losing steam here winners and losers and the play in tournament |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to point of contention I'm Zach Harper. I'm the host of this podcast of the Athletic NBA show here on Thursdays. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Jade Hoyt producing. A reminder, check out the restricted area, a new video NBA show on the athletics YouTube page with myself and Wazzy Lambray every single week. Subscribe. Smash that subscribe button. Like it, pass it on to your friends, pass it on to your enemies, pass it on to complete strangers you do not know. Just get the link, type an at, type a letter, and the first four people that come up on Twitter, it doesn't matter if you know them or not, just send it to them. That's how you do it. Yeah, that's how you like me out. That's how you spread the old gospel, as they say. |
| 1:14.1 | In this corner for this week, the Bay Area legend, a two-time bestselling author, Marcus. |
| 1:21.5 | Thompson, Marcus, what are you most thankful for as we celebrate Thanksgiving on this Thursday? |
| 1:29.1 | I'm thankful. I don't have to act like I celebrate Thanksgiving. Like, you know what I'm saying? Thankful. Thankfulness is a lifestyle. |
| 1:37.2 | Thankfulness is something you do perennially. It is how you live. It is how you appreciate what you have. |
| 1:43.9 | It is how you value the people is how you appreciate what you have. |
| 1:48.7 | It is how you value the people in your life, the successes you've had, the struggles. |
| 1:50.3 | It's not a holiday. |
| 1:51.8 | It is a mindset. |
| 2:00.0 | So I reject the entire premise that we use the demise of indigenous people as a reason to act like we love our families when we don't. |
| 2:02.9 | I will say this, Marcus. I am only thankful one day of the year that's thanksgiving i am only romantic one day of the year that's |
| 2:07.3 | valentine's day and i'm only patriotic one day of the year that's the fourth of july and every other |
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