ODDBALL - Best Personality in the NBA is... ft. Jeff Pearlman

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The NBA may have given James Harden 100,000 reasons to complain but Oddball is here for it! Plus, writer Jeff Pearlman returns to talk about the incredible stories behind this season of HBO's "Winning Time" and what the Lakers future would be like without the Buss Family. And if it's Wednesday, there's one thing you can count on... Word Count! Amin & Charlotte dish on who their favorite players are in the league and try to explain why there's so much love for Paul George now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.
0:11.6	My background is an abacus.
0:13.0	An abacus?
0:13.9	Oh, oh, oh, oh, my God.
0:16.5	That's when you thought I couldn't surprise you anymore.
0:18.9	I pull this out of my ass.
0:21.5	Okay.
0:22.1	Welcome to Oddball. I'm a middle-hassen. That's the Oddball Charlotte Wilder.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:34.9	A little bit later, we're going to conclude our conversation with Jeff Proman.
0:38.5	He was the author of Showtime, which is the book that winning time, the HBO series, is based on
0:44.4	part one, of course, aired yesterday. You can catch that on YouTube.
0:47.5	Also, it's Wednesday, so Charlotte, what do we do on Wednesdays?
0:51.2	Word count Wednesday.
0:53.5	You're supposed to hold up your fist, Charlotte, showing us in defiance the 10 fingers that will
0:59.2	represent each word you have available for you in the game of word count. But first,
1:04.3	Hardin has been fined $100,000 by the league basically for confirming his trade requests.
1:12.0	And we know that that is pretty much poo-pooed and frowned upon by the league now in the new
1:17.5	collective bargaining agreement on basketball lumenati, which is an excellent podcast that I do
1:21.6	with Tom Habestrow and Anthony Mays. We met pantomime in this whole courtroom drama where I
1:26.5	represented James Hardin as a Southern lawyer. I almost got it until they hit me with the thing.
1:32.5	Of course, he talked to the authorities. He talked to the league and confirmed to them that the
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