NBA deep dive with Kevin O'Connor

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Sportswriter Kevin O'Connor went from publishing NBA draft guides on his own to covering basketball for The Ringer. In this episode, he and Andrew discuss the future of Andrew's favorite teams, the New York Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets.

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0:00.0	I once shot Hoops with Steve Nash in Battery Park City.
0:03.6	He was just down there with his family,
0:05.6	and I was just a dude playing pickup
0:08.6	who was my friends.
0:09.9	And I got there early,
0:11.5	and this guy walked by in a hoodie
0:13.0	with his kids and like these twin stroller.
0:16.2	And I looked up and I was like,
0:18.0	I think my exact thought was like,
0:19.5	that dude in a hoodie is fucking Steve Nash
0:22.6	is what I said to myself.
0:25.0	And then so this is an absolutely true story.
0:27.0	Was this while he was still playing in the NBA?
0:29.2	Or?
0:30.0	Yeah, he was literally the NBA's reigning MVP at this point.
0:32.3	I was like, it was like the MVP of the league.
0:35.2	What?
0:36.5	Yeah, no joke.
0:37.8	So I'm playing pickup with friends at Battery Park City
0:42.4	and I get there before my friends.
0:44.7	So I'm just there shooting the basketball alone.
0:47.8	And then Steve Nash, reigning NBA MVP,
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