The LeBron to the Golden State Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley to discuss LeBron to the Lakers, Sports Illustrated’s Luis Miguel Echegaray talks about the World Cup, and the Political Gabfest’s Emily Bazelon assesses the controversy over Luke Heimlich. LeBron (1:16): How will the NBA’s balance of power shift now that the league’s best player is on the West Coast? What does LeBron’s departure mean for Cleveland? And will the Lakers be able to compete with the Warriors? World Cup (27:26): How disappointed should Mexico be after yet another Round of 16 departure? Also, does Russia have a chance to win it all? Luke Heimlich (44:43): The Oregon State baseball star went undrafted after it came out that he’d pled guilty to a sex crime as a juvenile. Should he get a chance to play in the major leagues? Afterballs(1:11:58): Stefan on Pele in America and Josh on a new perspective for the penalty shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.4	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:35.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:40.0	Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the
0:44.9	week of July 2nd 2018 on this week show LeBron.
0:50.3	Lakers, Lebran. Lakers, Lebran.
0:54.0	Our colleague Ben Mathis, Lily, will join us and we will Lebran together.
0:59.0	Sports Illustrated's Louise Miguel Echagari will be here to talk about Brazil's win over Mexico and other World Cup matters.
1:07.6	And Emily Bazalon of Slate's political Gabfest will be here to discuss the case of Luke Heimlich, the Oregon State Baseball star, who
1:15.4	has gone undrafted by Major League teams after it came out that he'd pled guilty to a sex crime as a juvenile.
1:22.0	Joining me in Slights Washington DC studio this week is Stephan Fatis,
1:26.0	author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.
1:29.0	Hello, Stephan.
1:30.0	Hey Josh.
1:31.0	It's made your itinerary easier. You don't have to worry about watching Iceland
1:35.5	and the World Cup it must have eased your mind it has a little bit and if like
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