The Raptors Direction
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Jared Weiss is joined by Eric Koreen to discuss the Raptors choosing Darko Rajakovic, and the direction of the franchise.
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| 0:31.2 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:39.4 | Ding ding! |
| 0:40.6 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:43.5 | I like that idea. |
| 0:45.3 | Good morning and welcome to the Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:49.8 | I am Jared Weiss. |
| 0:51.1 | I am joined by the Athletics Toronto Raptors writer Eric Corrine and of, Andrew Schultz is producing. And Eric, we are here today in a writer's series to talk about your story on Darko. And I'm going to let you say the last name because I keep fumbling. Darko Ryakovic. It's a great song. If I am mispronouncing it, I apologize to Darko, and really all of Serbia. |
| 1:13.1 | Like, yeah, I'm just going to, maybe all of the Balkans. |
| 1:15.8 | I'll just issue a blanket apology now. |
| 1:19.0 | You guys are better at basketball than I am, and my pronunciation lexicon. |
| 1:25.7 | I think I've got this one, but in case I don't, apologies. Okay, so Dr. Oryakovich, |
| 1:32.2 | he is replacing Nick Nurse, and he comes from a pretty good basketball lineage. And it starts |
| 1:39.4 | all the way back in Belgrade. So can you kind of just walk us through his background and why you |
| 1:44.0 | wanted to |
| 1:44.4 | capture the way you did? Um, so like why I wrote about him is pretty simple. Like I think going back |
| 1:51.4 | to 2008 when I first started covering the Raptors, it's like, oh, interesting new person is now |
| 1:56.3 | part of organization. Better be, like I should probably profile this person. |
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