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Channels with Peter Kafka

Why the Coronavirus canceled the NBA, with ESPN’s Brian Windhorst

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In a conversation taped hours before the NBA suspended its season, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst and Recode’s Peter Kafka discuss how the Coronavirus could affect the NBA, and why the league could cancel games — including its playoffs this spring - entirely. Windhorst also discusses the NBA’s TV problems, its dust-up with China last fall, and how LeBron James kickstarted his career. Featuring: Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN), ESPN Reporter Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.

1:13.6

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

1:18.6

This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might

1:28.0

someday do your laundry and wash your dishes. All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you

1:33.4

get podcasts.

1:37.5

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I am still recording this as we speak at Fox Media

1:43.6

headquarters in New York City,

1:45.2

although this may be the last one we do here for a while. More on that in a minute.

1:56.2

My guest today is Brian Windhorst from ESPN. Welcome, Brian. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. I'm glad you are here. We tried to make this work for a while. one in.

1:57.7

The last one in the door,

1:58.5

Katie bar the door.

2:00.3

It turns out to be very timely to have an NBA expert

2:01.4

to talk because the NBA is front and center today with coronavirus.

2:07.0

I have to figure out how to make this coronavirus interview anyway because that's what we need to talk about because it's the news.

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