The New York Knicks Are a Thing Again Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham to discuss the rise of the New York Knicks and the start of the NBA playoffs. The Athletic’s Chantel Jennings also joins to talk about the start of the WNBA season. Finally, Joe Drape of the New York Times assesses the case against racehorse trainer Bob Baffert. NBA (3:42): Does the Knicks’ return to non-terribleness matter? And what are the big storylines going into the playoffs? WNBA (24:42): The return of Sabrina Ionescu and other big news from the league’s opening weekend. Horse racing (42:58): Is the sport turning on Bob Baffert after yet another doping scandal? Afterball (58:39): Joel on Sam Houston State’s football championship. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Podcast production by Margaret Kelley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Hi, I'm Joel Anderson, slate staff writer, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 17th, 2021.
0:46.0	On this week's show, we're going to talk about the Knicks managing to be relevant and good
0:49.9	for the first time and a long time, the start of the WMB season and the very dark drug-fueled cloud following
0:56.8	controversial trainer Bob Bafford and Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit.
1:01.0	Stephan is out this week and the next but but we're going to make up forward by having guests
1:05.2	for every single segment this week, delivering on Josh's promise to keep our audience off balance.
1:10.8	I'm in Palo Alto, California, and I'm the host of Slow Burn season 3 in the upcoming
1:16.0	Slow Burn season 6 on the 1992 LA riots.
1:19.8	In DC, we're going from west to east this time. It's Josh Levine. He's the author of the Queen and the
1:26.2	host of Sloburn season four on David Duke. Josh, good morning.
1:30.8	Nice to be here with you, Joel.
1:32.5	And I'm glad that the West Coast gets to go first for once in life.
1:38.2	It's just nice for you to have a moment in the sun.
1:40.9	We normally don't mind following the East Coast. This time zone has
1:44.4	actually been very good for me except on days when I have to record this
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