Luka’s A Laker

Hang Up and Listen

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4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh look at the trade heard round the world that sent Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers. The panel also discusses the sexual misconduct allegations against Ravens’ kicker Justin Tucker, as well as the sports betting scandal in the NBA that now involves Terry Rozier. In the Afterball, Lindsay breaks down the NFL Pro Bowl games played this past weekend. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the hosts dive into the Utah Hockey Club’s top-secret renaming saga. Luka to L.A.(3:18) The confounding trade of the basketball superstar Justin Tucker (26:29): The troubling reports of sexual misconduct by the Baltimore kicker Gambling in the NBA (44:31): The investigation into NBA player Terry Rozier’s alleged gambling collusion Afterballs (1:00:50): Lindsay on the NFL Pro Bowl (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Want more Hang Up and Listen? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page, or visit slate.com/hangupplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.6	Back with you again, I'm Alex Kirchner.
0:51.4	I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the college football podcast Split Zone Duo. It's that funny week on the American sports calendar,
0:59.3	that buy week for the NFL right before the Super Bowl. We will have some heavier topics on
1:03.7	the show this week, some lighter topics on the show this week. We will start with an enormous
1:07.2	earth-shattering trade in the NBA that we are all, I think, still trying to wrap our
1:11.2	head around, a long list of allegations of sexual misconduct against a popular NFL kicker,
1:16.6	nine of them as we record, and then the expansion of a story about gambling in the NBA,
1:22.0	which we all learned about last year, but thought might have died out. It turns out that it
1:25.6	hasn't quite. As usual, joining me this
1:28.2	week is Lindsay Gibbs, the publisher of PowerPlays, a newsletter that covers the biggest stories
1:32.8	of the moment in women's sports. Lindsay, how are you? Well, I'm doing better than Drake after the
1:38.2	Grammys last night, but I also have some exciting new discoveries about our jinksing potential,
1:46.1	which of course we discussed last week while we were talking about what a terrible season that the 76ers were having. And we said,
1:51.8	well, last time we talked about the calves and what a great season they were having, they turned
1:56.5	into a 500 team for a couple of weeks. But interesting thing, once we mentioned the jinks on our Monday
2:04.3	episode during the Philly segment, the Cavs went back to being world beaters. Similarly,
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