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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On this week's episode of WHAT'S BURNIN, Rachel Nichols is joined by Stephen Jackson to get you ready for the looming NBA trade deadline. They debate which teams should go for it all and which teams should blow it up. Plus, they talk about NBA refs and the missed call on Lebron and discuss the criteria for being an All-Star. Also, Rachel sits down with acclaimed Director Joslyn Rose Lyons to discuss her new documentary, STAND, which details the life of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to what's burning. I'm Rachel Nichols here with Mr. Steven Jackson. That would be NBA champion extraordinaire |
0:06.7 | Stek you're making waves on Instagram. You're doing everything this week. Would you you put out? |
0:12.0 | You said Lebron wasn't a top five player currently on the IM athlete podcast you posted an IG post |
0:17.6 | You said that what Jordan's your number one all-time Kobe's number two Lebron's number three. Yeah, what's going on? |
0:24.4 | Yeah, he's definitely my third and I'm I'm not speaking from |
0:27.8 | I have to tell people this I'm not speaking from a fan perspective. I'm thinking from a player's perspective |
0:32.4 | You know, I've been around players and I've been around those like words in those games and I played it |
0:37.3 | His most of those guys and I've seen different things from actually being out there on the course |
0:42.4 | There's no disrespect |
0:43.4 | But I think if being in the top three all time, I think they're still saying a lot about somebody |
0:48.3 | That absolutely and he's not done yet, too |
0:50.5 | So we got to wait to see what happens there. I want to talk more about current stuff though |
0:54.5 | Trade deadline friends Thursday February 9th a little more than a week away |
0:59.3 | It feels like it's one of the more open years in recent history in terms of especially the West like anyone could win |
1:06.7 | Anyone could lose. There's this whole clot of teams that are sort of separated by only five games between third and |
1:13.1 | 13th place |
1:14.2 | So it's kind of hard to tell which teams are gonna go in which direction |
1:18.6 | Which means I want to play a little game with you my friend |
1:21.6 | It is called blow it up or stay the course |
1:25.3 | Should these teams sell at the deadline or keep their core pieces and we'd go through a few teams |
1:30.2 | I got to start with Phoenix because this is a team that was in the Western Conference finals just two years ago |
1:34.9 | They dropped down to a second round exit last year this year stack their number nine in the West one game under 500 |
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