LeBron James Won and the NBA Bubble Worked

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Louisa Thomas discuss the end of the NBA’s bubble season, quarterback Alex Smith’s return from a gruesome 2018 leg injury, and the French Open victories of Rafael Nadal and Iga Swiatek. NBA finals (02:42): LeBron James won his fourth NBA title, this one with the Los Angeles Lakers. NFL (20:29): Is Alex Smith’s return to the NFL an inspiring comeback or a moral dilemma? French Open (37:32): Rafael Nadal won his 20th major and Iga Swiatek won her very first tournament. Afterballs (52:44): Louisa on the mysterious life of tennis great Alice Marble and Stefan on when athlete deaths start to hit home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F, Satsus, and this is Slate's a sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of October 13th, 2020.
0:22.0	On this week's show we'll talk about
0:24.3	Kostas Antetacumpo, Thelan Horton Tucker, and the other members of the
0:28.7	Los Angeles Lakers who got some help from LeBron James and Anthony Davis and won the 2020 NBA
0:35.0	bubble finals four games to two over the surprising Miami heat.
0:39.0	We'll also discuss Dak Prescott, Alex Smith, and the moral dilemma of watching NFL players suffer gruesome
0:46.1	on-field injuries and then returning from those injuries.
0:50.6	And finally, we'll assess the French Open, where Raphael Nidal of Spain won his
0:55.0	ridiculous 13th French title and 20th major and teenager Iga Schviantec of Poland won her first professional tournament.
1:06.2	I'm the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of Panic.
1:09.0	I'm in Washington, D.C. joining me from Palo Alto, California is Slate Staff Writer and Slowburn season 3 host Joel Anderson.
1:17.0	What's up Joel?
1:18.0	Good man, how you doing?
1:20.0	Doing all right.
1:21.0	I had my first Carville ice cream cake this weekend by the way.
1:24.4	Did you have Fudgy the whale? Is that a kind of a Carville ice cream cake?
1:27.8	Yeah, Fudgy the whale and I think Fudgy the whale was the one if you flip it upside down.
1:31.2	It was Santa Claus at the holidays.
1:33.8	They used the same mold.
1:34.9	You know what?
1:35.6	I was too busy cutting into it
1:36.9	to know exactly what the shape was.
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