Ramona Shelburne Decodes NBA Media Day

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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NBA Media Day is the unofficial start to the NBA season, and in a lot of ways it’s like the first day of school. You’ve got your new kids, like Damian Lillard, popping up with their new teams. And your returning stalwarts, like Giannis Antentokounmpo, holding court in front of reporters. Meanwhile, the media, serving as the teachers in this tortured metaphor, are quizzing everyone about their summer reading, trying to get a take on the season to come. And oftentimes, the answers we get are anything but straightforward. So we turned to our friend and NBA Insider Ramona Shelburne, to help us read between the lines and decode the most intriguing comments we heard on Media Day. Did the Celtics actually land on the winning side of the Bucks’ Damian Lillard trade? What is James Harden’s next move in Philly? Is this LeBron James’ last ride? And what on earth is going on with emo-Jimmy Butler? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ramona Shelburne, can you please explain to me what the deal is with the heat Jimmy Butler
0:06.5	in these media day hairdos?
0:08.8	That was actually one of the things I was looking forward to because he did this last year
0:12.5	when he wore the dreads, like the really long dreads.
0:21.5	The reason why Jimmy does this is because he is very smart, okay?
0:24.9	Because the media day is also picture day in the NBA.
0:28.2	What is the picture that your team, the broadcast partners, everybody who puts your face
0:34.7	on TV, like when you have a quote that's attributed to all year, that's the photo that
0:39.2	we're going to run all year, so I was like, what kind of hairstyles did we get to have
0:44.4	this year?
0:45.4	Is he going to do that again?
0:46.4	And I think he topped it.
0:50.2	So can you describe what his look was this year?
0:52.4	I mean, I thought it was well done.
0:54.6	It was, I think it probably used a flat iron, right?
0:58.8	To get that.
0:59.8	Yeah, I would say so.
1:00.8	Yeah, to get that.
1:01.8	And it was like light and fluffy and it's guess it did he have some bangs?
1:06.2	I think those were bangs.
1:08.0	Jimmy, last year you came out with the braids, man.
1:11.4	What's this?
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