NPDS - Joel Embiid, Nikola Jokic, and the 65-game MVP requirement; ANOTHER update on the Athletics (Episode 979)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘tweak’ as in tweaked an ankle as in tweaked a knee as in tweaking some rules. What am I talking about? Joel Embiid is playing like an MVP. THE MVP. But he tweaked a knee and because of that he may not be eligible to win a postseason award. Why? Because of the new 65-game limit. Nikola Jokic is the favorite. Luka Doncic is having a great season too. (12:10) NPPOD. (13:33) Kadarius Toney went off on the Chiefs. Andy Reid responded. It could end in a mess. (26:00) Review: The Greatest Night of Pop. (31:15) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Someone asked me about Ken Rosenthal’s article on the Athletics and Las Vegas. (41:40) Jackie Robinson statue was stolen from a park in Kansas. Why? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you go.
0:04.0	go. Oh. Tweak! That's the Nothing Personal Word of the day for Tuesday, January 30th,
0:21.0	2004, and it's a double entendre Tuesday.
0:26.6	When we tell you that a player has tweaked his knee
0:31.1	or tweaked his shoulder,
0:33.0	or you go to somebody in your wreck league
0:35.0	and say, oh, I can't play, I tweaked my ankle.
0:38.0	It's really code word for,
0:40.0	yeah, I just can't play. Either I can't play because I'm hurt, I can't play.
0:43.4	Either I can't play because I'm hurt,
0:44.8	I can't play because I don't want to hurt,
0:46.6	I don't want to play.
0:48.3	Tweaking is not a medical term.
0:51.6	I never heard our team doctor ever say to me, call me up at the end of a game, hey I just saw your guy. Yeah, he tweaked his knee. What? What does that mean? How many days does that mean? It's not really how doctors talk.
1:04.2	They sprained it, broke it, tore it, strained it.
1:09.7	Tor it, strained it.
1:11.5	Did I say strain more than once.
1:13.0	Tweak is what you do when you want to change something a little bit.
1:16.0	I want to tweak a rule.
1:18.0	It means I want to keep the general rule in place,
1:21.0	but I just want to do a teeny tiny tweak. It's like it won't even you
1:25.0	won't even notice. This has been in my head since Adam Silver first
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