Lisa Borders pulled a power play on Adam Silver

Takeline

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week on Takeline, Jason and Renee discuss the quick rise and even quicker fall of the European Super League, ESPN’s announcement that it will broadcast a Marvel themed NBA game, and they breakdown the top 5 teams in the NBA Eastern Conference. Plus, they are joined by former president of the WNBA Lisa Borders to talk about her career and the responsibility of sports leagues when it comes to social justice. Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! Check out Lisa Borders podcast “Enlightened” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enlightened/id1553861681 To support Jonathan Tjarks please visit https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jonathantjarks For a closed-captioned version of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	Adam is such a cool dude, you know, that's a bad boy.
0:03.3	I tell you, that's a, he's the best commissioner.
0:06.4	He's my friend, but he's a bad boy.
0:12.5	The Teclan bump is real, folks.
0:16.4	Two-distant strangers and Teclan guest Trayvon free wins the Oscar for best short.
0:23.1	Super League meets Kryptonite.
0:25.6	This is the European Super League falls apart in the span of 48 hours Marvel Cinematic Universe.
0:30.8	Meet the NBA, Disney, where we've elements from an original MCU story into an NBA telecast,
0:36.2	and we supporters the former president of the WNBA joins us.
0:40.5	It's Teclan right now.
0:42.8	I'm Jason Katsepsion.
0:44.2	I'm Renee Montgomery. Let's go!
0:46.7	So, Renee, last week we covered the European Super League,
0:59.9	the news of which broke over the weekend and became just a world-dominating story
1:06.0	as the biggest club soccer teams in Europe planned to break away from their domestically,
1:13.1	from the champions even formed their own competitor essentially to the Champions League and a closed
1:18.0	system with no relegation invite only. Well, that lasted about two days.
1:26.6	The immense backlash to this from pundits, from ex-players, from current players, from the coaches
1:34.8	of the teams, from the fans led to a chipping away of these teams as a various,
1:43.7	started with mainly the EPL team, started to pull out, and now what we have is a dead
1:49.7	Super League. It's done. It's done, so it was that fast ray. So, it started with fans protesting outside
2:03.0	of some of the arenas, Chelsea fans were out protesting outside the stadium so that the players,
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