New Orleans Pelicans VP Swin Cash on breaking barriers and building culture
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🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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David Aldridge and Wos Lambre from Hoops Adjacent are joined by Swin Cash for an honest conversation on bucking expectations on her way to becoming Vice President of Basketball Operations for the New Orleans Pelicans, what it has been like breaking ground as a woman basketball executive and what Zion Williamson and the Pelicans focus is in the Orlando Bubble.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show, Monday through Friday. |
| 0:02.8 | On the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.7 | And welcome to another edition of Hoops Adjacent. |
| 0:13.5 | I am David Aldridge, rejoined by my man, Was Lambray, after a week off, Was, it wasn't the same without your boy last week. |
| 0:19.3 | We got through it, but wasn't the same. Oh,'s that's too too kind of you to say and obviously i you know professionally i feel like what we're doing is is fun and and informative and i think we're doing a good job at what we're asked to do here in this space but personally i know that I just love talking to you, talking to |
| 0:38.5 | Jade. Obviously, we got Mike on today, but I just love being able to catch up, download. |
| 0:44.4 | It's just something. It becomes a ritual, right? Part of our routine in this job and in our |
| 0:50.1 | lives. So obviously I missed last week, but I'm happy to be back you know |
| 0:54.8 | recipe to my brother Michael Brooks the fight continues um he had a beautiful |
| 0:59.7 | service out in Western Mass I don't know if you've ever been to Western Mass around |
| 1:03.6 | Amherst David but it's very serene and very green and rural and you know the service |
| 1:09.7 | was out in this outdoor space open air rolling hills it was just |
| 1:14.7 | beautiful mike was a buddhist so it was like a a buddhist service and i'd never been to anything |
| 1:20.6 | buddhist related and i felt very moved and touched by the entire experience so i'm just happy i was |
| 1:25.9 | able to do that give my brother a proper send-off. And, you know, like I said, we move on. The work continues. You know, he's in our hearts always. But, you know, I'm happy to be back. Happy the NBA is back. It's, man, you know, two things. Well, the first thing that I noticed, DA, is that the intensity of these games are at an incredibly high level. Um, |
| 1:27.6 | more so... You know, two things. Well, the first thing that I noticed, D.A, is that the intensity of these games are at an incredibly high level. |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.7 | I've been surprised. |
| 1:49.7 | A higher level than would be expected. |
| 1:51.6 | Remember, the NBA ended in March, and we know March games are bullshit. |
| 1:55.5 | Like, these games, these games are at such a high level. |
| 2:01.6 | I was just so struck by that, pleasantly surprised by that. |
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