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Hang Up and Listen

What Is NBA Top Shot?

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by FanGraphs’ Meg Rowley to talk about Seattle Mariners president Kevin Mather’s resignation and Fernando Tatis Jr.’s new contract. Alex Kirshner also joins to discuss NBA Top Shot. Finally, they interview Nick Greene about his book How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius. Baseball (2:18): What Mather’s comments reveal about the Mariners and MLB, and what Tatis’ deal says about the Padres and major-league economics. NBA Top Shot (23:38): A collecting craze + an internet-fueled bubble = investment mania How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius (43:24): What game designers, economists, and ballet choreographers can teach us about the sport. Afterballs (61:24): Stefan on Jack Inglis and Josh on a Luka Doncic rookie card. Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Asha Saluja. You can email us at hangup@slate.com. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast

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podcast includes explicit language not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q.

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Hi, this is Dahlia Lythwick, host of Slates Legal Podcast,

0:14.5

if you're listening to this show,

0:16.3

you might be interested in Amicus's live show

0:19.4

that we're hosting in Washington, D.C.

0:21.9

On Tuesday, May the 14th. My colleague Mark Joseph Stern and I will be

0:26.4

talking to some amazing guests, including Cheryl and Aifel and a sitting state Supreme Court

0:32.1

justice. All about how originalism and a has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshape the law.

0:44.2

It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the

0:49.2

rolling back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the obliteration of the term careers to its end, the court's originalists are on a tear. But there's something

1:06.2

you can do about it, and we hope you'll join us in D.C. on May 14th to explore the possible

1:12.1

pathways out of the current situation, go to slate.com

1:16.7

slash Amagus Live for tickets. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, slates National Editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 1st, 2021.

1:34.8

On this week show, Meg Rowley of fan grabs will join us to talk baseball, including the

1:39.4

resignation of Seattle Mariners President Kevin Mather, whose comments about foreign players, among other things,

1:45.9

revealed a lot about the thought process of a Major League Baseball Executive.

1:50.9

Alex Kirsner will also be here to assess NBA Top Shot, a new investment vehicle for people who love

1:56.8

collectibles and GameStop style internet bubbles.

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And finally, Nick Green will be here to tell us what he learned from game designers, economists, ballet choreographers, and theoretical astrophysicists.

2:10.0

As he reported out his book, How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius.

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I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Sloburne,

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