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ODDBALL - Sphere & Loathing in Las Vegas

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What makes NBA Summer League so special? Is it the first look at the rookies? The non-stop, up-close action? The trade drama breaking out in the tunnels and bars around Vegas? Nah, it's the fans entering... Charlotte's Corner. Oh, and The Sphere. Also, Amin & Charlotte introduce "Bet the Show" into the Oddball universe... what does that mean? Don't worry, they don't know either! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

your listening to Giraffe King's network.

0:18.5

Welcome to oddball. Terrible name. Good show though. My name is Amino Hassan. That's Charlotte Wilder.

0:26.1

You can hear it in my voice. The Vegas is getting to me. Even though I can travel and traverse

0:31.5

through the multiverse forward and backward in time, I'm still here. Charlotte, you're still here too.

0:36.4

I'm still here. I can't believe it. It's truly incredible. My voice sounds a little bit better. I

0:40.8

think I went through the valley of Vegas and then you get a second wind and then you climb the

0:45.9

mountain of Vegas again. I'm like halfway up or maybe you're recording this on our first day in

0:50.9

Vegas. I'm recording on the last day and we're actually from two different times communicating with

0:55.1

one of them. Oh my god. There's a wormhole. Did you burp? Yes, I did. Good. Okay. Well, that was

1:02.0

supposed to happen before we started recording. Yeah. Summer leagues have been way more

1:10.0

mind-blowing than I thought it would be. So this is your first summer league. This is really your first

1:14.5

time in the NBA life, right? Not as a fan, not as a journalist who kind of moonlights, but

1:22.0

in and part of the NBA structure. You're not alone. Victor Webinyama also, this is his first time

1:28.5

in the NBA structure. He's gone through it all really. He had a horrible game and had everyone say

1:36.5

you're a bus and you're never be good. He had a great game and he had everyone say, oh my god,

1:40.0

you can be the greatest player of all time. He got load managed and shut down for the rest of

1:43.9

summer league. Even then, it's a bit in a TMZ incident with Britney Spears outside of catch over

1:50.6

Arielle. The guy has lived an entire NBA lifetime in the spent like four or five days. He has. Do

1:56.2

you think that that's by design? Like do you think that was just to like have him go through all of it

2:00.3

so that you get out of your sins pop in like mastermind again? I wouldn't be I wouldn't be shocked

2:05.4

if he had set that up. Britney's on the take. Yeah. Britney just a plant. This is all a state

2:11.2

social media event. Ladies and gentlemen, but Charlotte, like I said, it's your first time in

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