The Last Bromance: How Wrestling Corrupted the NBA Finals
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Did Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone blow the 1998 NBA Finals by promoting their pro-wrestling match... on the court?! Should there be an asterisk?! Is it time for Michael Jordan to relinquish the throne?! Correspondent Neil Punsalan enters a sports marketing wormhole to present Pablo with a box full of evidence, grill eyewitnesses, and put to rest — once and for all — if The Mailman always rings twice.
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| 0:32.2 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.3 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:38.8 | We can do a double team, triple team, but the NWO is the new team of the future. |
| 0:45.7 | Sweet. |
| 0:49.8 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:57.7 | We've had many strange people on this show. |
| 0:59.5 | We've had an 86-year-old grandpa. |
| 1:01.8 | Recently, we had a NASA scientist, |
| 1:03.3 | we had a former federal prosecutor, a U.S. senator, Action Bronson, |
| 1:07.7 | and well beyond, and for legal reasons, I can't even say so much how beyond we tend to go. |
| 1:15.4 | This, though, might be a new raising of the bar for what we're about to unveil here for people. |
| 1:22.9 | I'm really excited to make my case. |
| 1:24.7 | Thank you for doing this, Neil Puns-Selon. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm an honor to have you on the show. I'm super excited. I came in with the idea of if I could just get one of the people that listen to your show, one of your devoted fan base, if I could get just one person to believe me, and I'm now at the point, I'm so excited. There's an electricity coursing through my body. I now firmly believe by the end of this, the NBA is going to put a hit on me. I think they're coming after me. Okay. So to explain why it is that I'm not even going to push back on that right now, we've got to explain that this is a story fundamentally about two things that you love. And one of those things I don't know a lot about as much as I'm |
| 2:00.9 | surrounded by it all the time now. And that thing is pro wrestling. This is a metaphor for a lot |
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