PTFO - Kyrie, Trump and the Billionaire: Why There's an Actual War Hiding Courtside at the NBA Finals

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🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The superstar once condemned as the most notorious anti-Semite in American sports is playing nice, even though he now works for the most influential pro-Israel donor in American politics, who happens to have Donald Trump in her pocket. Which is exactly why the NBA doesn't want you to know more about Miriam Adelson. New York magazine's Elizabeth Weil introduces the sports world to the king-making, history-altering extremist queen of courtside. Further reading: Miriam Adelson's Unfinished Business (Elizabeth Weil) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torrey finds out. I am Pablo Torrey and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:06.0	If you are giving that much money, you have that much power and you shape policy.
0:13.0	Right after this ad.
0:15.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Okay, so today's episode is about how the biggest and most shocking story of the
0:37.5	NBA finals is not the Celtics going up to oh or Chris Daps for his
0:42.1	Ingest his return or Drew Holiday being really great at defense or any of that stuff.
0:46.2	It's something that isn't happening. The story I want to tell you about is something that
0:51.5	nobody else seems to even really be talking about,
0:54.8	which is crazy.
0:57.8	Because you may recall that when the Brooklyn Nets traded Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks in February of last year.
1:04.7	He was more or less the biggest PR headache in the entire NBA, if not all, as sports.
1:10.7	He was infamously trafficking in insane and bigoted conspiracy theories.
1:14.7	He tweeted out a link to a flagrantly anti-Semitic film on Amazon that featured, among many other things,
1:20.7	a fake quote from Hitler.
1:24.0	Kyrie refused to apologize, he got suspended,
1:27.0	he eventually posed an apology on Instagram,
1:29.5	and then, of course, deleted that apology not that long after.
1:35.0	But I want to be as fair as possible to Kyrie here in that brief summary,
1:39.0	because I do believe he has a sincerely held position about world affairs and it's pretty
1:44.9	simple it's that his conscience could not possibly allow basketball to be his
1:50.7	number one priority.
1:58.0	It's something that Kyrie explained himself at a post-game presser back in May of 2021
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