TDS Time Machine | NBA Basketball
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts
4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Celebrate the NBA Finals with a look back at some of The Daily Show’s NBA coverage. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert debate NBA draft age requirements. Jon gets carried away in an interview with Shaq, and examines Lebron James’ professional debut. Trevor interviews 4x NBA champion Draymond Green, and digs into two NBA controversies in China, with help from Ronny Chieng.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:10.9 | High school senior becomes top pick in NBA draft. |
| 0:16.5 | Now the hard part. |
| 0:18.1 | Breaking the news to Oxford University's undergraduate department |
| 0:20.8 | of medieval French literature. |
| 0:22.0 | They'll miss him. |
| 0:24.6 | The NBA held its annual prom last night at Madison Square Garden with this year's theme, |
| 0:30.6 | Giant Teenagers! |
| 0:32.6 | Three of the top four draft picks came straight out of high school, including number one pick Kwame Brown. |
| 0:39.3 | As always, the moments leading up to the number one selection were fraught with tension and excitement. |
| 0:46.3 | With the first pick in the 2001 NBA draft, the Washington Wizard select Kwame Brown |
| 0:55.6 | from Lynn Academy |
| 0:57.7 | Brunswick, Georgia. |
| 1:00.9 | Yes. |
| 1:02.6 | I was |
| 1:03.1 | I was very |
| 1:09.2 | upset |
| 1:09.7 | that I didn't get picked. |
| 1:14.5 | Quame Brown, the top draft pick, is a 6'11 high school senior from Georgia's Glenn Academy. |
| 1:19.9 | He was welcomed to the league by tiny Jewish NBA Commissioner David Stern. |
| 1:25.5 | Perhaps I can give you a hint of what their conversation was like. |
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