The Secret Is Now Rented (Prologue) | Book of Basketball 2.0

Book of Basketball 2.0

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Prologue: Bill Simmons remembers the day when he learned “The Secret” of basketball from Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, then built his New York Times no. 1 bestselling book around the premise in 2009. Only one problem: 10 years later, we’re in the middle of the player empowerment era and “The Secret” might not matter anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Episode one of Book of Basketball 2.0 is brought to you by State Farm.
0:04.5	Just like basketball, the game of life is unpredictable.
0:07.4	Some players end up in the Hall of Fame pyramid.
0:09.4	Some of them don't, but many times we never expect who made it.
0:13.5	Talk to a State Farm agent and get a teammate who can help you navigate the
0:17.3	unexpected.
0:19.2	You know what I never expected working on a sequel to my 704 page book of
0:24.6	basketball 10 years later.
0:25.8	You know what else I never expected that the sequel would be a podcast and not
0:29.8	book again, life unpredictable.
0:32.2	Talk to a State Farm agent today about combining your home and auto insurance
0:37.1	and get a teammate who can help you navigate the unexpected.
0:42.0	We're also brought to you by one of the last good websites, the ringer.com,
0:46.6	as well as the ringer podcast network, which is where you can find the Bill
0:50.0	Simmons podcast, the rewatchables binge mode, Ryan Rassillo, David Chang, nearly
0:55.5	30 terrific ringer podcasts, including our newest one.
1:00.2	This one, my name is Bill Simmons.
1:03.0	Here we go.
1:25.7	It's a book of basketball.
1:29.4	It's a book of basketball.
1:33.2	Before the book of basketball and Grantland and the ringer and 3030 in the BS
1:37.0	podcast and everything else over the last 12 years, I only wrote sports columns for
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