Play-In Games, Simmons vs. Gobert, & Vaccines in the League

Pull Up with CJ McCollum

CJ McCollum & Cadence13

Basketball, Sports

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sports were quiet on Monday after another unarmed black man was killed at the hands of police in Minnesota. How should the league and players move forward? Mark Cuban voted to expand the play-in format for the playoffs, now he’s backing off. Are the play-in games sustainable? The NFL is starting to mandate vaccines for some employees, could the NBA follow suit? Ben Simmons fires off a shot at Rudy Gobert for the DPOY, we’ve seen an influx of players expanding their businesses into team ownership, and Gary Trent Jr. has been hoopin’. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think it's important we use our voices like Jalen Brown did, you know, after our game
0:05.0	against the Celtics he refused to take questions on basketball and specifically wanted
0:08.3	to point attention towards some of the injustices we're facing as a society.
0:12.6	I think it's important we continue to speak on things that we feel are affecting us.
0:17.7	We speak on things that we feel are important to us and things we feel should be changed.
0:23.1	I think this is tough mandating vaccination for people not giving them a choice is a slippery
0:28.4	slope but the fact that they're allowing there to be religious reasons or medical reasons
0:32.6	while you don't have to be vaccinated is a step in the right direction.
0:36.2	Other sports will probably take this route.
0:39.4	I can personally tell you that having played in a playing game I don't want to do it again.
0:43.6	It was a lot of work.
0:44.6	It took a lot of energy and with the stress of this season, the stress of COVID having
0:50.2	to compete for a top seven seed to secure this seven seed only to have the defending
0:55.0	again seems like a lie.
1:03.8	Welcome to the 110th episode of Pull Up That's Right 110 episodes.
1:09.0	As we record this today, it's Wednesday April 14th.
1:12.0	We will release it tomorrow, Thursday April 15th.
1:16.4	On this date, April 15th 1965, Eastern Conference Finals game seven, maybe the most famous
1:23.4	still in NBA history.
1:25.0	The Celtics were up one against Wilk Chamberlain and the Sixers.
1:28.3	Five seconds left in the game and I still remember it like it was yesterday although I wasn't
1:32.3	here for this.
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