Lillard long for the Blazers? + The Race for the NBA Play In
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🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Sam Amick, Fred Katz, and Anthony Slater are joined by the Athletic's own Jason Quick to discuss the Blazers and the struggle they've been through this season. Can Terry Stotts survive another season? Will they finally look to trade CJ McCollum? Will Damian Lillard want to stick around?
They also discuss the race for the Play In Tournament in the East and West including the hot play of the Warriors and Wizards, the Hornets, Mavs, Heat, Grizzlies and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:02.7 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.4 | Tamper with you. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:14.3 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:17.6 | Sam Sam. |
| 0:19.1 | To be able to pray people together. Portedly at the center of an NBA investigation. Into tampering accusations. And the message to... Decut it in the league. It's not talking about players on other teams. What did I do? The charges filed. Impermissible contact. Right or wrong? Tampering charges are really difficult to prove. You know me? I talk. It's kind of awkward to even talk about. Can't he mention Deans anymore? Ask me what I like to play with Cameron to grant? Try all your one with the room. They're always ahead of the woods. Is that right your sign? Everybody went on and I have tamper with the guys. I didn't tap. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. I'm just telling you what happened. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the Athletic NBA show network. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm Sam Amick, NBA, National Writer, National Writer, at the Athletic. |
| 1:06.7 | Here, as always, out west, Anthony Slater, out east. |
| 1:09.9 | Fred Katz, also out west, friend of the show, |
| 1:13.4 | fantastic Blazers beat writer, legend, Jason Quick. My guy, what's up, sir? How are you? |
| 1:18.8 | I'm hanging in there, Sam. Aren't we all, Jay? Aren't we all? Like, that's the mantra of this |
| 1:25.7 | era hanging in there. So inspiring. inspiring yeah light at the end of the |
| 1:29.6 | tunnel though i'm uh i've become fully vaccinated at the end of this week so i'm looking forward to |
| 1:35.2 | that yeah producer andrew schlicht can we get some applause produced into this this part of the show |
| 1:40.6 | that's amazing yeah i had my uh my second shot on Wednesday, came through |
| 1:46.4 | it okay, a little bit of aches, a little bit of fatigue, but all in all, feeling like the |
| 1:52.7 | superpowers are kicking in. Did you, did you have an okay experience? I did. I was just a little |
| 1:58.1 | fatigued. You know, it was funny. I was getting my shot and my phone |
| 2:03.1 | pinged and it was when Lamarcus Aldridge retired. And so I will always associate getting my |
| 2:11.2 | second shot with Lamarcus retiring. Well, and not surprisingly, as always, even with that context, |
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