The NBA Players Aren’t Friends Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss to discuss Draymond Green’s beef with Kevin Durant. Oliver Roeder of FiveThirtyEight also joins to talk about the World Chess Championship and the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson talks about income inequality in youth sports. Draymond vs. KD (2:40): Will interpersonal strife tear the Golden State Warriors apart, or is this just a small bump on the road to another championship? Chess (22:46): Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana have played eight games, all eight of which have ended in draws. Are we having fun yet?? Youth sports (41:40): Kids from wealthy families are playing sports at increasing rates, while participation is dropping for kids from lower-income families. What’s the solution? Afterballs (1:03:50): Stefan talks to Brin-Jonathan Butler about his book The Grandmaster and Josh on a strange college basketball upset. 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, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:11.0	Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of November
0:14.5	19, 2018.
0:18.2	On this week's show, the Athletics Ethan Sherwood Strauss will be here to assess whether the conflict between
0:24.0	Dremond Green and Kevin Durant will be the thing that breaks up the Golden State
0:28.4	Warriors dynasty. Oliver Rader of 538 will also join us to talk about the showdown between Magnus Carlson and
0:35.8	Fabiano Caruana at the World Chess Championship.
0:39.6	And finally, the Atlantic's Derek Thompson, we'll be here to discuss how youth sports in America
0:45.1	has become the province of the wealthy with kids from lower income families getting
0:50.1	left behind.
0:52.1	Joining me in our Washington DC studio is
0:54.4	Stephan Fatsus, author of the book's Word Freak
0:57.2	and a few seconds of panic.
0:59.1	Hello, Stephen.
1:00.0	Hello Josh.
1:02.3	Alex Smith 33 years after Joe Thizman,
1:07.4	with Joe Thizman in the stands,
1:10.6	breaks his Tibia and Fibula in the Washington game against the Houston Texans.
1:15.0	That was gross.
1:16.0	33 years to the day to the weekend.
1:19.0	Yeah.
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