Rick Barry: The Disagreeable Superstar (With Malcolm Gladwell and Tony Kornheiser)

Book of Basketball 2.0

The Ringer

Sports

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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In the fifth episode of Season 3, Bill Simmons, Malcolm Gladwell, and Tony Kornheiser explain why Rick Barry was one of the 35 greatest players ever, as well as one of the most influential stars of the league’s first 40 years. However, his prickly personality and a few unfortunate mistakes somehow overshadowed much of his basketball legacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kevin O'Connor.
0:04.8	I'm Chris Vernon.
0:05.8	And where are the mismatch?
0:07.4	And we have a huge announcement today.
0:09.8	This is about to be our fifth NBA season together,
0:12.3	but this year is going to be a little bit different.
0:14.6	Way different.
0:15.5	First of all, Spotify gave us millions and millions of dollars.
0:19.0	Wait, they paid you a million dollars?
0:21.0	Well, as they are giving us our own podcast feed.
0:24.0	If you want to keep on listening to the mismatch with me and Kevin,
0:27.0	follow the mismatch on Spotify
0:28.5	or subscribe wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.0	Let's enjoy another amazing season of the NBA together.
0:34.5	Thank you, everybody.
0:39.0	All right, we're doing this slightly differently
0:40.5	for the Rick Berry Book of Basketball podcast.
0:43.0	I'm going to read what I wrote about him in my book in 2009.
0:49.8	He was somebody that I was completely fascinated by when I was doing my three years
0:53.5	of research for everything.
0:55.0	And the stuff I wrote about him in my book
0:59.0	was probably, I would say, 10% too harsh.
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