NBA Trade Deadline Scuttlebutt with Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Jake Fischer discusses what he’s learned about the NBA Trade Deadline landscape in recent days. Which key players are likely to be available, what’s the mindset of teams like the Sixers, Kings, Pels, and Pacers, which contenders are looking to upgrade, and more. We also discuss how tanking evolved over the last decade, and why Sam Presti isn’t getting the same scrutiny as Sam Hinkie did. Buy Jake’s book Built to Lose here. Subscribe to our new weekly mailing list for free bonus content and all the info you need to keep up with the latest from Nate and Danny! With Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) and Danny Leroux (@DannyLeroux).

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0:00.0	All right, welcome on to a first time guest, but some of that I've known for a while here
0:05.8	we were just reminiscing before we started that we were last in touch personally at the
0:11.4	two lane sports law conference back in the Halcyon days of late February 2020.
0:18.3	But since that things have happened, Jake Fisher has been doing a lot of writing for
0:21.6	Bleacher Report.
0:22.6	It had one of the more prescient for agent columns that I can ever remember actually pretty
0:27.1	much nailed half of the signings and really you know I must have just taken foresight because
0:31.9	nobody would ever agree ahead of time, but you nailed half the free agent signings on
0:36.2	you know July 29th or whatever it was of 2021.
0:40.7	Also the author of Built to Lose, how the NBA is taking era, change the league forever.
0:45.6	How you doing man?
0:46.6	I'm doing well.
0:47.6	Thank you so much for that kind introduction.
0:49.1	I appreciate it.
0:50.1	How are you doing?
0:51.1	Yeah, I'm doing well too and I'm excited to talk about the trade deadline with you especially
0:56.4	because your reporting has been so awesome and I expect that you'll spoil all of your columns
1:00.6	here with us.
1:02.6	I honestly, I have a column coming out on Thursday and when we like, we booked this a week
1:08.2	or two ago and everyone was and I was like, oh, that's going to be tough, but we'll make
1:11.6	it work.
1:12.6	We'll provide some good for my boxes and it'll all work out.
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