The Golden State Calf Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson to discuss the Raptors’ rise and the possible end of the Warriors’ dynasty. Louisa Thomas of the New Yorker also joins to talk about the French Open. Finally, Thompson returns for a conversation about analytics and race. NBA Finals (2:38): Can Kevin Durant save the Warriors’ season? Are the Raptors just the better team? French Open (16:03): How Ashleigh Barty won her first grand slam and Rafael Nadal took his 12th title at Roland Garros. Analytics and race (32:19): Are advanced stats making the league’s front offices whiter? Afterballs (50:32): Josh on Mariano Puerta’s contaminated water glass and Stefan on Ada Hegerberg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus and this is Slate's
0:11.0	Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of June 10th, 2019.
0:15.9	Marcus Thompson of the Athletic will be here to break down the breakdown of the Golden State Warriors
0:21.6	as they face elimination in the NBA finals at the large hands of
0:25.1	Kauai Leonard and some other dudes from Canada.
0:28.5	Louisa Thomas of the New Yorker will join us to discuss Raphael Madal's 12th French Open title and Ashley Bardy's first.
0:36.3	And finally, we'll rejoin Marcus to have a conversation about race, analytics, and hiring in the NBA.
0:44.6	Josh Levine is the national editor of Slate magazine
0:47.4	and the author of The Queen, The Forgotten Life
0:50.0	behind an American Myth.
0:51.8	Josh is in Chicago, where he had a book-filled weekend. Hey Josh.
0:57.0	Hey, I'm sure all of you guys saw me on C-SPAN 2. I'm trying not to let it get...
1:02.0	Wait, wait, wait, it was C-SPAN 2?
1:03.8	I was watching C-SPAN 1.
1:06.3	Yeah, so we got moved to C-SPAN 2 because, you know, whatever was on T-SPAN one ran over probably like a really hot
1:18.4	legislative debate just couldn't move it. Yeah that's understandable I hope it didn't affect the ratings too much.
1:24.0	Book TV, baby.
1:25.0	Book TV. On Monday, though, long feature about the book and you on the front page of the
1:29.3	art section of the Chicago Tribune, let me quote, Levine is long and thin, Christopher Burrelli writes,
1:35.9	with an oval face and a pensive manner.
1:38.5	With his sky blue button-down shirt and black-framed eyeglasses, he gives off an aura of NASA Mission Control
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