Suns Deep Dive with Eddie Johnson
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this week's edition of Hoops Adjacent, David Aldridge bids adieu to Wos Lambre as he heads over to The Ringer, and welcomes in Marcus Thompson as his new co-host. The two get to talking about the Warriors title chances in the future and if Brad Beal will be in the Bay next season. Then, this week's guest the great Eddie Johnson drops by to talk about the dangerous Suns as they speed their way into the playoffs. Chris Paul the ultimate leader mentoring Devin Booker's evolving greatness and playoff hopes. Mikal Bridges and the gentle giant Deandre Ayton. Also Eddie reflects back to his days playing for Phoenix and Cotton Fitzsimmons and the money that guys earn today, in a good way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:06.0 | God damn! |
| 0:07.0 | And it is another edition of Hoops Adjacent on the Athletic NBA show, but it's a different edition of Hoops Adjacon on the Athletic NBA show, David Aldrich, here in D.C. |
| 0:17.2 | And as many of you probably know by now, my man, Was Lambray, has changed positions. |
| 0:23.5 | He is on his way to the ringer, and we wish was all the best in his new gig. |
| 0:28.7 | He has been unbelievably great for me and for the show, and I will miss him terribly. |
| 0:36.6 | He taught me a lot. |
| 0:38.2 | I learned a lot from him. |
| 0:40.1 | He is a unique voice. |
| 0:42.2 | He is a great talent. |
| 0:43.8 | He is a five-tool player. |
| 0:45.3 | Five dudes! |
| 0:46.4 | And he will be doing great things over at the ringer. |
| 0:48.7 | We wish him nothing but the best and love and respect for all that he's done. |
| 0:53.5 | And there's only one guy that I wanted to think about in terms of, |
| 0:58.4 | well, who can step in and co-pilot this thing with me going forward? |
| 1:04.2 | There was only one guy. |
| 1:05.9 | And that's my man, Marcus Thompson, who was the new co-host of Hoops of Jason. |
| 1:09.9 | I had some music. |
| 1:27.7 | I play it for you, Marcus. Thank you. And welcome. Long as his Oakland music. There you go. I got five on it. Some of two short freaky tales. There you go. No, no, we can't be playing freaky tales. It's a family show. Wait, it's a podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | I thought we could do that. |
| 1:29.8 | I don't know. |
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