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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin, Wosny Lambre, and Ethan Sherwood Strauss discuss the NBA playoffs. They also talk about Meek Mill’s release from prison and his relationship with the 76ers, and they ponder quarterback Josh Allen’s old, racial-slur-laden tweets. NBA playoffs (2:20): Josh, Wos, and Ethan assess the state of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the NBA’s most polarizing player, Russell Westbrook. They also examine LeBron James’ latest triumph and check in on the state of the Golden State Warriors. Meek Mill (22:35): Upon his release from prison, the Philadelphia rapper headed straight to the Sixers’ game against the Miami Heat. How did Mill forge such a tight connection with the team, and how did he become a cause célèbre for criminal justice reformers? Josh Allen (37:23): The Wyoming quarterback’s tweets were publicized the night before the NFL draft. Should we care about Allen’s social media misadventures, and how should we think about athletes’ old tweets more broadly? Afterballs (56:00): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast, amicus. If you're listening to this
0:06.7	show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington,
0:11.6	D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.
0:15.0	My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,
0:20.0	including Cheryline Eiffel and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.
0:24.4	All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,
0:30.8	has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.
0:35.2	It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling
0:40.5	back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.
0:56.4	But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th
1:01.6	to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to
1:06.5	slate.com slash Amicus live for tickets.
1:12.4	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of April 30th, 2018.
1:33.0	On this week's show, we'll talk about LeBron James's heroics
1:36.4	in leading the Cleveland Cavaliers
1:38.1	out of the first round of the NBA playoffs.
1:41.1	We'll also talk about the future of Russell Westbrook, Paul George Carmelo Anthony
1:45.0	in the Oklahoma City Thunder, and other news from the NBA. We'll also discuss how the
1:50.2	City of Philadelphia, the 76ers, and New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft have embraced
1:55.9	the rapper Meek Mill, who is released from prison in time to watch the sixers series
2:00.4	clinching win last week.
2:02.7	And finally, we'll kick around Josh Allen's old not super great tweets, which resurfaced
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