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Remembering March 11, 2020

SVPod

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Sports

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

March 11, 2020 is the day the sports world stopped. On that night, Scott Van Pelt hosted SportsCenter as the world changed and joining him on this episode are the people who were a part of that night. Adrian Wojnarowski, Royce Young and Malika Andrews all joined SVP that night to report on what was going on in the NBA. Behind the scene was Marco Alfandary (producer) and Joe Iuliano (director) as they helped guide SVP through that historical night. Those five people along with SVP take a look back at a night they will never forget Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

SV pod is presented by Draft King's America's top rated daily fantasy app.

0:07.2

Welcome, it's SV pod. The entire episode this week is a look back at March 11, 2020,

0:16.5

with the three people who were the main guests that night on the show that wasn't even supposed to

0:22.8

be a show. Adrian Worgionowski, Roy Schwung, who was in the building at OKC, Malika Andrews,

0:28.8

who provided such wonderful perspective that night, and then in the bubble when the NBA season

0:33.5

started again. Also, take you behind the curtain, as they say, our producer Marco Alfandari,

0:38.4

our director Joe Juliano, to give you some context about, in many ways, the most memorable night

0:44.6

of my career, the night that everything in not just sports, but everything in the United States

0:50.5

changed. March 11, 2020. And action. Pleasure to be joined now by the people who,

0:57.8

in every way kept me afloat that night, as we were trying to figure out what in the world

1:03.8

was going on. We have Adrian Worgionowski, who broke the news. We have Roy Schwung, who was the

1:10.4

quite literal boots on the ground in the Chesapeake Energy Arena, as the Thunder and the Jazz did

1:15.8

not play. We have Malika Andrews, who was in real time kind of getting the feedback of the pulse

1:21.1

of players around the league as they were reacting. We have my ace, my right hand man, Marco

1:26.3

Alfandari, our producer on the Midnight Sports Center. And Joe Juliano, our director, as talented

1:30.9

a director as there is in our business. And the sense of this, guys that I want is just what we

1:36.1

remember about the night, as we figured it out as we went. Marco, I want to start with you,

1:40.9

just to kind of give people that's lit that are listening. An idea of what our evening was,

1:45.2

because you and I kind of collaborate our entire group does on doing sports in our Midnight

1:50.0

every night. But that night, you weren't producing that show. We were doing our Wednesday nightbit,

1:54.9

which is the double header. And our job that night was supposed to be what?

2:00.0

Scott Maverick's Nuggets was game one of our double header. So as you said, it was business

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