The Field vs LA, Beyond Last Dance and Giannis Extension with JA Adande
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this week's Hoops Adjacent, J.A. Adande drops by to talk with David Aldridge and Wos about how good the field is this year, after the Lakers. Then JA's podcast Beyond the Last Dance, thoughts on that, and finally Giannis Antetokounmpo signs a 5-year supermax with the Bucks. But does it mean he's staying long-term?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.4 | Welcome back. It's another episode of Hoops Adjacent on the NBA at the Athletic NBA show, |
| 0:14.4 | David Aldrich here in D.C. Was fresh from his workout where he bench pressed about 4.50, |
| 0:20.5 | 475. I can't keep track. Was, what's up, man? I'm good, man. It's no weights out here as the gyms are still closing. I've happened to one of those people that made a home gym. So I'm just going on hikes in the morning, D.A. There you go. I'm doing that as soon as we're done. I actually saw a dead dog on my height. |
| 0:40.3 | What? A little dead dog. I was like, damn, it's tough. |
| 0:45.0 | But, you know, all dogs go to heaven. So he'll be straight. |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah, damn, man. That's a downer to start the show with. |
| 0:55.6 | We'll try to bring it back up with our guest this week. |
| 1:00.7 | Our guest, the director of sports journalism at Northwestern University. |
| 1:04.8 | One of the few wildcats I can actually stand was because they're pretentious, most of them. |
| 1:09.9 | But JA is a good dude. J. j a dandne what's up man |
| 1:12.6 | hey don't let us beat ohio state in the big 10 championship you're trying to talk about |
| 1:17.8 | inseparable you might want us to stay out social media if we beat oh i swear to god y'all are the most |
| 1:25.3 | insufferable collection of alumni ever i hate hate Northwestern. I didn't even go. My wife got her Ph.D. from Northwestern. And I hate Northwestern. That's how much I hate Northwestern. I thought you was going to say you didn't even go to the graduation ceremony. No, I went. I went. She's my wife. I had to go. |
| 1:46.1 | I had to go. |
| 1:49.1 | Hey, are you going? |
| 1:50.7 | It's in, it's an Indiana. |
| 1:52.3 | It's in Indianapolis, right? |
| 1:53.3 | So are you going? |
| 1:58.1 | No, I don't know what I think it's pretty much family. |
| 1:59.5 | Is it fan-free? At least at the home games. |
| 2:03.2 | Oh, okay. |
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