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Nothing Personal with David Samson

More trouble for the Las Vegas Raiders; Toxic workplaces in the NBA: first Phoenix, now Portland (11/9)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘resources’ as in the Las Vegas Raiders are a walking Human Resources violation as in the Raiders resources are not in a great place right now. We know about Jon Gruden getting fired over his emails. We know about Henry Ruggs III being released for his road accident that killed a young woman. Now the Raiders have Damon Anette who was released after a video of him making death threats with a machine gun. Disaster. (13:10) The Portland Trailblazers acknowledged that the NBA would be conducting an investigation into president of basketball ops Neil Olshey for misconduct. This is the 2nd investigation that is being conducted in the NBA for workplace misconduct. What is going on? (22:55) So You Wanna Talk To Samson!? Someone asked me about players publicly asking to stay with a team when they become a free agent. They wanted to know if this were a positive move. (35:15) Review: Who Killed Garrett Philips. (44:15) NPPOD.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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resources nothing personal word of the day November 9th 2021 is resources I'm

0:28.4

talking about not any sort of solid goods that you buy I need some resources

0:35.0

people resources we're gonna have to put a lot of resources on this human

0:39.0

resources that's a department you don't want to be a part of but every sports

0:43.3

team every company has them I'm talking about resources that are used by

0:48.0

front offices in quotes that are completely inane meant for nothing personal

0:54.2

damon a net is a was a player for the raiders the raiders have really had a

0:59.5

tough go haven't they John Groot and gone it released rugs who's gonna end

1:05.4

up going to prison for driving 156 miles an hour while drunk in Las Vegas gone

1:12.2

not a great time for the front office and then the phone call comes in that

1:17.6

they have another player who did something his name is Damon and net

1:20.8

damon a net was a pick in the 2020 draft and he posted a video this is I got to

1:32.4

take a small detour here when we see our players for the first time they come

1:40.1

into spring training and in the old days and that again you know I just

1:46.8

like that expression but before social media you don't really spend a lot of

1:51.0

time interacting with the players in the offseason the trainer talks to the

1:54.7

players by phone their players were fat and we want to make sure they're not

1:58.5

getting too much weight we'll actually send a trainer to where the player is to

2:03.4

do a visual a site check on the player if we have an injured player will bring

2:08.2

him to Jupiter and have them work out in Jupiter so we can watch a lot of the

2:12.6

players like to be around Jupiter during the winter because it's nice weather

2:16.6

who wouldn't want to be in Jupiter Florida during the winter so we would have

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