Welcome to the first Nate Duncanless episode of the Dunk Don basketball podcast. I am Daniel Rue your frequent co-host and

Interim host host Nate is on his honeymoon and so I am taking over the show for two weeks

Which will mostly be team preview episodes?

I'm really gonna enjoy that this one. I'm really proud of with Jabari Young on the spurs and Chris Harrington on the Grizzlies

But first I want to talk a little bit about something that I know very well and that's the athletic the athletic is a really powerful idea

That I've been blown away by the execution not only as a contributor, but also as a consumer of it and they've tried to be really distinct and that distinct element is not just the

Ad-free elements of the site which is just amazing the fact that it's so clean the app is unbelievable

But also that they give space to voices and give a lot of creative freedom to voices so that you can get stories that are hard to put anywhere else

But they fit beautifully in the athletic one of my favorite recent pieces from Ethan Sherwood Strauss about

Advanced scouts in the NBA and it is a field that I think a lot of people who love basketball don't necessarily know about and even if they know the name

They don't know what that entail is day to day and the athletic provided a great

Avenue for Ethan to tell that story and there's so many amazing writers all around really whatever

Sporting thing in North America you're interested in they have great coverage of it or they will in the very near future

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I've been a part of it since almost the launch I actually consulted before and I could not be more proud to associate with them on the

Dunk Don podcast, but now we'll really get started with Jabari young Jabari covers the San Antonio Spurs for the San Antonio Express news and

A really great conversation about where this team is where they're going and how they fit in the Western Conference in this year that will define a lot of

What this team is now? I mean with the key players so far away

I mean some of that it's physical distance and then now sadly enough with Manu and Tim Duncan retired

So we talk about a lot of different things and then of course after that stay tuned for Chris Harrington talking in depth about the Grizzlies

Thanks so much for coming on

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