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Player Evaluations and the Elam Ending with John Hollinger, Dan Feldman, and Dr. Nick Elam

The Athletic NBA Daily

The Athletic

Comedy, Unknown, Sports, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Nerder She Wrote's Dave DuFour, Mo Dakhil and Seth Partnow deliver one of the nerdiest basketball episodes of all-time. First up: Dave and Seth are joined in Chicago by The Athletic's John Hollinger and NBC Sports' Dan Feldman to talk about the inner workings of player evaluations, draft combine secrets and more. Then at (50:00) Dr. Nick Elam joins Dave, Seth and Mo to talk about eponymously named Elam Ending that was featured during the NBA All-Star game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Coming up on Nurd or She wrote, we sit down at All-Star weekend with John Hollinger and Dan Feldman and talk about inside the

0:06.7

NBA front office and how decisions are made.

0:09.2

And then after that we have Dr. Nick Elam, inventor of the Elem ending to discuss different things that he's been working on and his thought process behind the Elem ending.

0:20.0

Welcome to the back-to- back pod on the athletic podcast network. This is

0:26.8

Nurders she wrote with your host Dave Dufor with Mo Dekeel and says

0:30.5

partner. Are you ready to be entertained?

0:33.0

No!

0:35.0

Hello!

0:38.0

Hello and welcome to a special all-star edition of the Nurders She Wrote podcast on the

0:45.0

back-to-back podcast on the Athletic Podcast network. I'm your host Dave

0:49.7

D'For and Mo Dekeel is not in town.

0:52.0

Seth I feel bad. Should we call him? No. And Mo de Kiel is not in town. Seth?

0:53.0

I feel bad.

0:54.0

Should we call him?

0:55.0

No. Okay.

0:56.0

No. I don't feel bad enough to like break out Skype or put him on speakerphone.

1:00.0

What's the weather like in LA?

1:01.0

No, I don't feel bad at all.

1:02.0

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like 12 degrees here and I you know he sent us the weather report for LA in his stead we've got the athletics own John Hollinger and from NBC Sports Mr Dan Feldman. It takes two of us to replace them I think no no that's it that's not accurate that that's we pride ourselves on accuracy on this program and that is absolutely not accurate.

1:24.0

So we had dinner last night and had a great conversation

1:27.0

and we're just going to recreate the entire thing here.

1:29.0

No, that's not happening.

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