The Frozen Envelope

Basketball Illuminati

Count The Dings

Comedy, Sports, Basketball

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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With the NBA Draft Lottery upon us, the Illuminarmy generals talk to award-winning journalist Patrick Hruby about the 1985 Draft Lottery conspiracy theory, his fascinating hunt for truth and why his commissioned report got spiked at ESPN in 2012. Hruby, this week's Truthteller, reveals for the first time how his magazine feature ironically became a talking point for former commissioner David Stern during the 2012 NBA Finals. Plus, Amin reacts to the Winning Time season finale before we unveil the game within the game within the Boston-Milwaukee series. Lastly, Tom Did His Own Research about the tidal wave of offensive fouls. Read Patrick's article The Truth Is Out There Subscribe to Basketball Illuminati! On Apple or Spotify Email us: basketballilluminati@gmail.com Twitter: @bballilluminati Instagram: @basketballilluminati Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.
0:10.9	Winning time finale is done.
0:13.6	First season is done.
0:14.8	Amin, your thoughts.
0:17.4	Yeah, man, I watched every episode of Winning Time and after all 10 episodes,
0:22.4	I can honestly say that apologies are in order for sure.
0:26.4	To Jerry West, right?
0:27.3	Yeah.
0:27.8	No, no, no.
0:28.8	Jerry West, Magic Johnson cream,
0:30.5	out of the bar, every old time me fart that wrote this series off.
0:35.8	I said it was inaccurate and they complained about inaccuracies.
0:39.2	All of you need to make a massive apology to Adam McKay
0:43.5	and to the people by winning time because it was so overwhelmingly accurate.
0:49.1	Where are there things they embellished?
0:51.1	Yes.
0:51.7	Where are there things that were not in the right order in the timeline?
0:56.1	Sure, but I would say upwards of like 90% of this was pretty accurate
1:01.4	down to the stuff that I learned like Spencer Haywood actually did
1:07.0	try to contract a hitman to kill Paul Westhead.
1:10.4	And unless you think that Amin, those are just rumors of conspiracy theories
1:15.0	you hear or whatever, I found an article in People magazine
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