The Sports Reporters - Episode 388 - Awful Fan Incidents Continue. NBA Health Narrative. Osaka Withdraw Irony

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A string of nonsensical fan interactions in the NBA playoffs has taken away from some of the great games being played. How can the league stop it? Why do fans seem so angry at players? And does the media and team marketing feed into it a little? In actual game action... Who poses the greatest threat to the Nets in the East? Can the Lakers battle through injuries? And speaking of health... Has that become the primary narrative in the NBA playoffs? Naomi Osaka officially withdraws from the French Open. The guys discuss the irony in her decision to leave the tennis tournament.

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.4	I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.
0:19.5	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press. And I mitch album of the detroit free press and i am bob
0:22.5	ryan of the boston globe in espn and we welcome you to a uh tuesday morning edition of the sports
0:27.7	reporters we skipped the day it was this national holiday you may have heard about yesterday
0:31.8	uh we ordinarily were with you on monday and thursday but this time we're with you on tuesday and
0:36.2	gentlemen uh long ago a very famous entertainer of the 20th century, Jimmy Durante had a phrase that he
0:44.7	used to use called, Everybody wants to get into the act. And sadly, too many American sports
0:51.6	fans seem to want to get into the act.
1:02.1	The NBA playoffs have been marked by a rising number of disturbing fan incidents, including a really bad one in Boston the other night when a fan threw a water bottle that was not
1:08.4	empty apparently at Kyrie Irving.
1:11.1	He has been arrested and will be charged.
1:12.8	He's facing the judge this very morning on Tuesday morning.
1:16.3	And then a really curious one last night, capped off the whole weekend, a whole run of this
1:22.4	in which a fan in Washington, D.C., tried to make it to the court only to be met by a wonderful tackle by a security guard.
1:31.6	Guys, I mean, we all know.
1:34.7	We agree that this is crazy.
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