The 2019 Stories That Changed Sports: Basketball
The Lead
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🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Over the holidays The Lead is featuring episodes from its first year about how sports changed in 2019 or signaled a major trend that’s shaking up a particular league or sport.
Paul George and Anthony Davis did something this off-season that rattled the NBA to its very core — they forced their teams to trade them, despite the fact that they were still under contract. The Athletic's Sam Amick joins us to explain how NBA superstars have become so powerful that they can dictate their own trades and line up their future teammates, and what this means for the future of the league.
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| 0:00.0 | During the holidays, we're looking back at some of our favorite episodes and specifically, |
| 0:10.9 | what changed in sports in 2019? |
| 0:13.8 | In the NBA, it was one of the wildest off-season ever, with the two blockbuster trades involving |
| 0:19.7 | Anthony Davis and Paul George. |
| 0:22.3 | Those trades really shook up the league and gave NBA owners a serious scare, because |
| 0:27.3 | Anthony Davis and Paul George were two franchise players who were under contract and essentially |
| 0:33.3 | forced their way out of town. |
| 0:35.6 | Heading into the NBA season, we wanted to know, how did NBA players become so powerful |
| 0:41.4 | and is this actually a good thing for the league? |
| 0:44.3 | The Athletics Sam Amick joined us to talk about this back on October 22nd, the day the |
| 0:48.9 | NBA season tipped off. |
| 0:51.4 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Andres Kelto. |
| 0:53.9 | And I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 0:55.4 | This is The Lead. |
| 0:56.4 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:01.4 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you know the first, the first. |
| 1:05.4 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this down. |
| 1:08.4 | You can't pay, I've seen anything like that. |
| 1:10.4 | That's not good news. |
| 1:11.4 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in your home. |
| 1:15.7 | It stays with you. |
| 1:17.7 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to The Lead Add Free on Amazon Music. |
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