NBA opening week chaos; First-time All-Star watch
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4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Golliver and Michael Pina pick up the pieces after a chaotic opening week by trying to spot trends. Are the Nets on track for the Finals or set to come back to earth? Are the Warriors dead on arrival or poised for a bounce back? How does Kevin Durant's decision to leave the Warriors look 18 months later? Is Ja Morant making the leap in front of our eyes? From there, Ben and Michael shift to examining which players have the best shot to earn their first All-Star selections in 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | When my daughter ran off to hop trains, I was terrified I'd never see her again, so I followed her into the train yard. |
| 0:10.0 | This is what it sounds like inside the box-top. |
| 0:13.0 | And into the city of the rails, there I found a surprising world, so brutal and beautiful that it changed me. |
| 0:20.0 | But the rails do that to everyone. |
| 0:23.0 | There is another world out there, and if you want to play with the devil, you're gonna find them there in the rail yard. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Denon Morton, come with me to find out what waits for us and the city of the rails. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen to City of the Rails, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:38.0 | Or, cityoftherails.com. |
| 0:41.0 | What's up? This is Ryan Hollins, 10-year NBA vet and current analyst for the Houston Rockets. |
| 0:46.0 | And I've got a new podcast called NBA Rookie Life, giving you weekly news, analysis, and an inside look into the 2022 draft class. |
| 0:54.0 | This rookie class is really so fun. Each week, I'll be breaking down the best rookie performances, |
| 1:00.0 | as well as getting behind the scene stories and welcome to the league moments that make NBA Rookie Life so crazy. |
| 1:07.0 | Listen to NBA Rookie Life with Ryan Hollins on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:15.0 | In 1968, five black girls, repicked up by police after running away from a reform school in Mount Meg's, Alabama. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm writer and reporter, Josie Defi Rice. And in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse that thousands of black children suffered at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children. |
| 1:34.0 | And how those five girls changed everything. |
| 1:38.0 | Listen to Unreformed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:45.0 | What's up, OpenFloric Globe. This has been Galver with the Washington Post. I'm joined on the other line by Michael Dupod, Peena, soon to be. |
| 1:55.0 | Bull time over at Sports Illustrated Michael. How was your holiday weekend? What did you make of the Christmas day spectacular? |
| 2:02.0 | And are you like me? Does it just kind of still feel like it's the preseason right now? I can't get a handle on any team. |
| 2:08.0 | It seems like anytime I get excited about someone, whether it's like the Brooklyn ads or the Los Angeles Clippers, they turn around and drop some crazy game. |
| 2:15.0 | Every time I'm ready to completely write a team off, they turn around and pull a big upset like the New York mix over the Milwaukee box. |
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