NBA Finals + Caitlin Clark Talk With Candace Buckner
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
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Hoops Adjacent
David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson are joined by Washington Post's Candace Buckner to preview the Finals and what each team needs to do to win. They also discuss the circus that is the beginning of Caitlin Clark's WNBA debut, and why there seems to be such an uproar around her start in the league. Tune in to hear who is taking which team to win the Larry O'Brian this summer!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're back with another Hoops Adjacent. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the finals edition of Hoops adjacent on the athletic NBA show |
| 0:21.6 | David aldridge in the ritzie hotel here on the wharf in dc before they kicked me out |
| 0:25.7 | marcus in the bay and kandis buckner from the washington post who couldn't be bothered |
| 0:31.1 | at home like marcus she lives like 35 seconds from here she can't be bothered to come down. No, no, even better. Even better to show just how big time Candice Buckner is. How adjacent I am to who. It wasn't like she made a calculated choice to be like, you know what? I'm not going to do this today after. She was like, you know what? It's not even on my radar, |
| 0:55.0 | wizards. You know what I'm not even like one of the things I could be doing today seeing Brian Keefeb |
| 0:59.9 | introduces a new head coach. She was like, nah. It was nice walking around the Anacostia Park. |
| 1:05.9 | I will say that, D.A. Beautiful day. Beautiful day, a little humid, but still a very nice day in D.C., absolutely, absolutely. |
| 1:14.2 | Are you going to Boston? When are you going to Boston? You're not going to Boston? I am not, no. |
| 1:20.0 | How are you not going to Boston? I thought our other columnists, I shouldn't even say our other |
| 1:24.9 | columnists, I thought our venerated columnist Jerry Brewer was going. That was my mindset. So I've been telling everybody, no, no, you'll see Jerry. I don't know if we'll have a columnist there besides Ben Goliver. Yeah, we are just, we're totally just NBA. What's that? What's that? What's that? Damn. Are you going? Of course. Yeah. I'm just doing the East games probably. Although I think the series is going six at least. So I may go to game six in Dallas if there's a game six. You know, over here at the athletic, we, we aren't as big time. so we got to work, man. |
| 2:02.0 | You know what I'm saying? |
| 2:03.1 | Are you going, Marcus? |
| 2:05.5 | I'm going to the Dallas games. |
| 2:07.6 | See how we do it? |
| 2:08.4 | I do it at Boston. |
| 2:11.3 | He does the Dallas because you have to have one Negro columnist that everybody. |
| 2:14.4 | One Negro present. It's a rule. |
| 2:15.3 | It's a rule here. |
| 2:16.2 | It's a rule. |
| 2:21.3 | Just take roll. Just take roll late. That's all. You know what I'm saying? Trotter might show up for a game and then we can tap out. You know, you never know how it goes. |
| 2:25.3 | So all good here though. But Candace wanted to talk to you about so much stuff, so much stuff. There's so much going on right now. |
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