Point of Contention: Rockets-Thunder G7, NBA Finals BIG Board, Jimmy Buckets, Giannis, New Coaches

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In this week's contentious Point of Contention Ethan Strauss, Marcus Thompson debate big issues in the NBA. Moderated by Zach Harper. Take 1: Everybody Loves Chris: Do people enjoy basketball or like seeing James Harden lose? Take 2: NBA Finals BIG Board: Are the favorites favored anymore? Take 3: Jimmy Buckets Blossoming in Miami: Did the 76ers trade the wrong guy? Take 4: The Bubble Effect: How real is what we are watching? Take 5: Who is the right Coach for the 76ers? Spurs? Nets? Produced by Jade Hoye Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show Monday through Friday.
0:03.0	On the Athletic Podcast Network.
0:05.0	I do have a take.
0:09.0	Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. It's Thursday that means it's time for
0:16.6	Point of Contention, five subjects five minutes, five points of contention.
0:21.5	I'm Zach Harper. I'm joined by Marcus Thompson. I'm joined by Ethan Strauss
0:25.2	coming up on the show. Chris Paul? It's everywhere. People like him now. The big board?
0:31.8	Who's the favorite in the NBA playoffs now? Jimmy
0:34.8	Buckets is the star of everything after their game won victory of Milwaukee Bucks,
0:40.1	but we don't know how real any of this is and of course we're picking new coaches for new teams in this corner though the esteemed author Bay Area legend
0:49.5	Marcus Thompson Marcus how old were you when you found out Georgetown was not a black college?
0:55.3	It was when I went to an actual black college, so 18.
0:58.9	I was looking at...
1:02.1	Hey, hey, you're at a hbc, oh really oh I want to go to Georgia where's
1:06.9	Georgetown hb c u hb c u a like dude that's not a hb cb c u that's like this really
1:10.6	white rich private school I I was like, what?
1:13.0	No, come on, I had the starter jacket.
1:15.4	So yeah, it was for the longest time,
1:17.6	I thought Georgetown was just a basketball school.
1:20.0	Did not know.
1:21.3	I definitely didn't know. It was like this prestigious Jesuit University. I had no idea.
1:27.9	I didn't know what a Hoyle was. It's clearly a dog dude.
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