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4.5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What if the Len Bias story hosted by Jordan Ritterconn is the ringer's latest narrative podcast? |
| 0:05.6 | Episodes 1 and 2 launch on June 9th and you can find new episodes every Wednesday |
| 0:09.8 | on the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed. Here's a quick trailer. |
| 0:14.8 | You've heard his name, Len Bias, 1980s phenom, second pick in the NBA draft, |
| 0:22.2 | and then cocaine, tragedy, one of the most shocking deaths in sports history. |
| 0:28.2 | 35 years later, Bias' legacy is still making an impact. From Spotify and the ringer podcast |
| 0:35.8 | network, this is What If, the Len Bias story. I'm Jordan Ritterconn. |
| 0:46.7 | I need sports to have to clear the room. Stand up and walk now! |
| 0:51.8 | Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am nettedor at theritter.com and |
| 0:57.1 | joining me on the other line. It's Kate Winslet! God. I mean, I happily step down. I |
| 1:06.2 | happily give up my position here on this podcast. We're in a long form agreement right now. |
| 1:11.1 | We're just working out the kinks with Kate Winslet for her to replace Andy. So this is Andy's last show. |
| 1:16.3 | I mean, by the way, what an honor. I feel like she will have a more successful tenure than the |
| 1:22.1 | dude replacing Mike Shoshefsky. You know what I mean? John Shire. You're really up for |
| 1:27.0 | replacing a legend. You're so good. Ted Lions. How do congratulations? Thank you. |
| 1:32.5 | We should because look, we are generally either above or way below self-promotion, but we should |
| 1:38.4 | say that Kate Winslet was on our pot again. Yeah, this week we were here watching industries. |
| 1:42.8 | We had, so obviously Sunday night, we went live with our Brad Ingalls B interview that went up |
| 1:47.2 | after the Maravise Town finale and also included our thoughts on the Maravise Town finale. And then |
| 1:51.9 | Tuesday, I guess we had an interview with Kate Winslet where she talked beautifully and |
| 1:57.2 | like just so it was just so moving in her description of like the relationship to the character |
| 2:01.6 | and her work on the show. So that was awesome. So that's Tuesday. We also... It's the type of |
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