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The Right Time with Bomani Jones

The Chet Code, Book Club Finale with David Remnick

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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Music, Sports, News

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bomani Jones shares his thoughts on his trip to Las Vegas to watch the NBA Summer League, getting a look at Chet Holmgren, the scene in Vegas, dangly earrings making a comeback for men and the WNBA All-Star Game’s tiny MVP trophy. Plus, author of #TheRightTimeBookClub selection “King of the World” David Remnick joins to discuss why he decided to write a book about Muhammad Ali, not making a plaster saint of Ali, feeling bad for Floyd Patterson, Frank Sinatra taking pictures to get into a fight and writing a definitive text. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:37.0

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time.

0:42.0

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0:46.0

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0:52.0

Coming up on this episode of the right time, we are going to wrap up the right time book club David Remnick, the author of King of the World will join us. But first.

1:01.0

Alright, so this weekend I decided to take a trip to Las Vegas for NBA summer league with my man Mike Smith.

1:16.0

We did that a couple years ago before the world shut down. We thought it was cool. So we came back and we did it again. Now.

1:23.0

Big part of why I wanted to go to summer league was I wanted to see my man shed hungry as I explained to you before skinny boys need heroes.

1:32.0

And I hope that he can turn out to be the hero. And as you know, I enjoy seeing these young Caucasians who get themselves radicalized and chat showed up at the draft with a chain with some dice on.

1:44.0

Okay, I wanted to go see this now everybody has a legitimate concern about shit. It's basically the same concern whether or not he is too skinny to play NBA basketball.

1:56.0

And it gave people a lot of pause when in one of the earlier summer league games before they got to Vegas. He was getting moved around by Kenneth lofton junior who is not Kenny lofton the baseball player son, which I absolutely had to look up.

2:09.0

Because honestly, I ain't going to lie. I couldn't figure out how did genetics were going to work such that boy could be Kenny lofton son. So I was relieved to find out that that was not actually the case right didn't think on the punnest squares weren't going to be at enough for me.

2:21.0

But anyway, yeah, man, the dudes really, really skinny.

2:27.0

And now I'm a little bit worried. Here's why here's why. Okay, one I say this all the time you got one of these skinny guys and you're like, oh, we'll put some weight on them and I'm like, hey, take it from Beaumont Jones just putting some weight on isn't really as easy as people make it sound like it is right.

2:43.0

And they know different than some of them big dudes. You'd be like, oh, he'll just lose some weight now. And when they don't lose weight, it don't mean they trying. It just ain't necessarily that easy for. Okay.

2:53.0

What got me about seeing Chet in person and I talked to somebody I think it was on Thursday was either Thursday or Friday. I was at the arena and I talked to somebody and they were like, hey, when you see him, he's going to be bigger than you think he is right like you're going to see how long is all are you going to see how big his hands are you going to see how

3:10.0

like subtly built he is you're going to realize that he's maybe bigger than advertised. And I was in the tunnel before they came out and I watched the Thunder team come out there and actually know that was not the way it went for me. He was not bigger than I thought he was. It was about what I thought he was except this is the part that I find worse. I'm now look, I ain't no personal trainer. I ain't no physiologist. I ain't no scientist. I ain't no doctor. I ain't none of those things right. I ain't no strength coach any of it. But

3:39.0

a difference I absolutely noticed between him and Kevin Durant for example was this Kevin Durant was much broader across the shoulders. Right. Like when I think about some of these super skinny guys that we've been like, hey, let's see how this goes and then they ultimately put the weight on. In fact, I'll use this as an example though he's not a big man.

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