NPDS - Celtics take Game 1! Adam Silver talks Caitlin Clark, TNT, and media rights! Juan Soto hurt? I've HAD IT with social media! (Episode 1068)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘Game 1’ as in NBA Finals as in the Boston Celtics as in the Dallas Mavericks as in blowout city. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and Kristaps Porzingis were just too much for Luka and company. (7:10) Adam Silver met with the media yesterday for the first time before the NBA Finals to be questioned on myriad of topics: Caitlin Clark, NBA TV rights, TNT, and more! Here’s what he said. (17:20) Let’s talk about the MLB London Series. Mets vs Phillies. Everyone wants to play overseas. Why? (25:30) What’s wrong with Juan Soto’s forearm? How bad is it? Is this the end for the Yankees? (34:02) Review: American Nightmare. (37:10) We are at a scary place with social media. Fake news. Misinformation. A.I. posts. How do we know what’s real or not? (43:00) NPPOD. (47:00) The Timberwovles sale is still happening. Or is it still happening? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:03.0	go.
0:04.0	go. Game 1.
0:15.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.0	I had five choices today.
0:21.0	We have plenty to talk about, and I just have to start. The
0:24.8	NBA final started. Adam Silver spoke to the media, can't wait to talk to you
0:29.6	about that. The Yankees have an injury problem, so does MLB.
0:33.5	Baseball's in London, quite exciting,
0:37.0	and all of it pales in comparison
0:39.5	to what happened to me in a conversation with Koki yesterday.
0:44.1	And I'm excited, it's Friday,
0:45.9	and in the next 49 minutes, we'll get to it all.
0:48.3	Let's start with the NBA game.
0:50.8	Finally, there was a game.
0:52.2	Quite exciting to watch Stephen A Smith walk in with security strutting in to get a total of 30 seconds of halftime attention.
1:01.5	The real story should have been on the court. Love what they did
1:06.7	with Bill Walton. I'm watching the game and all I keep thinking as I'm watching Boston Dallas in addition to what our pick was which was
1:15.5	something six and a half over Mavericks which hit. I was thinking when you play a seven game series when you lose game one and you're on the road
1:27.8	you're good that players do not take that loss, not even one minute into the shower.
1:39.2	The winning team takes that win as though, okay, that's normal, and then they've moved on to the two days off.
1:51.1	What we have to do in media, I'm not going to do it, but what others will have to do is say, well, what does this tell you about the series?
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