The Man Behind the Beam + Contender Watch
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In part 1, Sam Amick, Fred Katz and Anthony Slater discuss the contenders and how they are playing, and how the Wizards have played so far this season.
In part 2 Mo Brazelton, Senior Director of Entertainment for the Sacramento Kings, joins to discuss the Beam and how it came to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:02.5 | Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.8 | From the Golden Gate to the New York Bay. |
| 0:11.4 | What I have access to is a bit different than the public. |
| 0:15.3 | We're with you. Welcome to tampering. |
| 0:16.9 | We're this beautiful game of basketball that we all love and talk about every single day. |
| 0:20.2 | Sam Pan. Anthony Slater and Fred Katz. To build with ways. People together. You're made it to confidentiality. Affordedly at the center of an NBA investigation into tampering. I have a message to... Decutative in the league. It's not talking about players on other teams. What did I do? The charges filed impermissible contact. |
| 0:37.6 | What's right or wrong? |
| 0:38.7 | Tampering charges are really difficult to prove. You know me. I talk. It's kind of awkward to even talk about. Can't he mention deans anymore? Ask me what I like to play with Cameron to ring? Try all your one with Camper. They're always ahead of the rules. Is that where I decide? Yeah, baby. Here's your host, I'm not going to have a damper with the guy. |
| 0:35.4 | I didn't tell you what happened. |
| 0:38.5 | Here's your host, Sam, Amy. Is that wrong your side? I'm in on the hot. I didn't tamper. I'll just tell you what happened. |
| 0:56.5 | Here's your host, Sam Amick. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello and welcome to the tampering podcast, part of the AthleticN-B-N-B-A-show network. |
| 1:06.7 | I'm Sam Amick, National Writer, on the NBA at the Athletic, here, as always with my guys, Fred Katz |
| 1:12.2 | out east, Anthony Slater, out west. Slater, I'm going to throw it to you first, brother, because |
| 1:16.8 | we got like a hardcore travel episode today. You're chilling in the Denver airport in route |
| 1:23.6 | to Milwaukee. We kind of found a little slot of time during the layover where you can |
| 1:29.7 | come at us, you know, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. How are you feeling, man? You look |
| 1:33.5 | amazing. I feel like that was sarcastic. I'm good. I mean, Denver to me is like the connect. |
| 1:41.9 | It's like the connection airport, right? I assume you guys have connected plenty in Denver over the years. |
| 1:46.2 | Maybe I'm saying that as having covered the thunder, you know. |
| 1:49.8 | So I know Fred's probably been in this airport plenty as a connection airport. |
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