Luka Doncic Is A Superstar

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson and Stefan Fatsis discuss Luka Doncic’s spectacular performance for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA playoffs. They are joined by David Ubben of the Athletic to talk about the return of high-school football across the country. And Josh interviews Ethan Strauss of the Athletic about declining television ratings in the NBA. Luka Doncic (01:51): The 21-year-old Slovenian is already one of the best players in the NBA. High-school football (18:35): While colleges debate what to do, high schools are plowing ahead with football. NBA ratings (32:35): Are declining TV ratings a sign of big trouble for the NBA? Afterballs (51:41) Joel Anderson on rape allegations against football player Derrius Giuce. Stefan Fatsis on former NBA benchwarmer and youth-sports advocate Bob Bigelow, who died last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Fats and this is Slate's sports podcast hang up and listen for the week of August 24th
0:14.8	2020. On this week's show we'll talk about Lucadonchitch's incredible buzzer-beating
0:21.2	step-back three to lift the Dallas Mavericks over the LA
0:25.4	clippers on Sunday bang bang and his emergence as a bubble and
0:30.5	NBA superstar David Abbin of the Athletic will come on to bubble and be a superstar.
0:32.6	David Abin of the Athletic will come on to discuss the start of the football season,
0:37.2	the high school football season that is,
0:39.4	which commenced last week in states around the country, COVID be damned.
0:45.0	And finally, Ethan Strauss also of the athletic
0:47.8	will be here to assess the continued drop in
0:50.3	NBA television ratings and whether that matters.
0:54.0	I'm the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic
0:57.8	and also wild and outside.
0:59.3	I'm in Washington, D.C. joining me from Palo Alto, California is Slate Staff Rider and Slow Burns season
1:05.8	three host Joel Anderson.
1:07.8	What's up, Joel?
1:08.8	What's up, Stephan, you know, I guess this is a show that lives up to the billing.
1:13.4	What is it, two's company, three is a crowd?
1:16.0	Just you and me right now, man.
1:17.1	It is just the two of us.
1:18.4	Yeah, shout out Bill Withers.
1:19.5	We can make it if we try.
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