What does the future of the NBA look like?
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Zena Keita and Es Baraheni are joined by Mike Vorkunov of the Athletic to discuss why the NBA is not heading toward expansion, the NBA Europe progress, players getting paid in college and how it could impact the NBA Draft, and the NBA’s CBA and how its working for the players and owners.
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Host: Zena Keita
With: Mike Vorkunov and Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:27.5 | Listen to the audiobook of Supremacy Now. |
| 0:43.7 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for July 29th, 2020. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm back with my guy, S. Berra Henny, and we're talking money in the NBA. |
| 0:53.1 | And that's why we had to bring in Mike Vorkenov to break it all down. |
| 1:01.8 | Before we get into that, listeners, we need to hear from you. |
| 1:02.6 | Blow us up. |
| 1:07.3 | Okay, we got a link in the description to give us your feedback on the show. |
| 1:11.3 | We have had so much fun putting this together for you, getting together talking about hoops, giving you guys a shootarounds, all the above. And we want to know what you like, what you |
| 1:16.3 | didn't like, what you didn't like, what you want to change for next year, what you want to |
| 1:19.6 | add for next year. So definitely check out that link. Give us all the feedback and we appreciate |
| 1:24.5 | your support. Hearts. Okay, let's get into it. |
| 1:28.5 | Mike S, we got to talk a little bit about the NBA |
| 1:32.6 | because, of course, it's quiet season. |
| 1:34.9 | It's the off season, and that means business is happening. |
| 1:38.2 | Okay, things are going. |
| 1:40.0 | That means Luca Don't just having photo shoots, |
| 1:42.2 | but that's not the point. |
| 1:43.5 | That's not why we're here. |
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