MINI POD! NBA Finals: Knicks steal Game 1 against Spurs! Adam Silver meets the media! Rob Manfred finally speaks!

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Baseball, Business

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Yes, we had to do a show today. Wrapping up my time in Germany, but had a few minutes to spare! The Knicks took Game 1 of the NBA Finals over the Spurs. Jalen Brunson was the hero of New York again. What a clutch performance. Wemby did not have a great game. Was it nerves? (10:30) Adam Silver spoke before Game 1. He had some big stories to speak on: Aspiration and the Clippers, expansion, NBA Europe. (21:20) Rob Manfred met with the media on Wednesday. Everything he says is important right now. Let’s breakdown all the topics he chose to hit on from CBT to a strike to the Dodgers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:04.0	The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.
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1:31.7	It's not every day that you have game one of the NBA finals.
1:35.2	You've got Commissioner Adam Silver talking about something,
1:38.5	including what caused a Pulitzer Prize winning series to be born.
1:48.0	And third, the Commissioner of Baseball speaking, because owners' meetings are going on.
1:50.0	Let's get right to it.
1:52.0	Let's start with the fact that at 2.30 a.m. last night,
1:57.0	I am fumbling around,
1:59.0	trying to figure out how to stream the NBA finals in Germany.
2:03.9	I'm reading. I'm trying to translate. I'm taking pictures, putting it into AI, seeing what has to
2:12.2	be clicked. I have to subscribe to Sky Sport. I don't know what's going on. And then I see in English letters, Amazon Prime.
2:22.3	Fair enough. I try Amazon Prime. Nothing. Then I go to just an internet browser and try Amazon Prime, not through my own, and there it was.
2:35.6	I had the NBA Finals streaming in this very room at 2.30 in the morning.
2:43.3	I'm saying it took a minute. It actually took me 22 minutes, but I digress.
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