With Kenny 'The Jet' Smith
The Athletic NBA Daily
The Athletic
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🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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On this week's Hoops Adjacent, TNT's Kenny Smith drops by to talk with David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson about Inside, his new book, Rod Strickland, Bill Russell, HBCU's and much more. Plus Steph and LeBron's friendship and listener questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.0 | And it is another edition of Hoops Adjacent on the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:15.6 | I am David Aldridge in D.C. |
| 0:18.5 | pinch hitting today, the best pinch hitter in the business, the Mani Mota. |
| 0:21.9 | See y'all too young. |
| 0:22.7 | You remember Manny Mota. |
| 0:24.2 | Marcus Thompson joins us, man, all the way from the Bay. |
| 0:27.0 | What's up, sir? |
| 0:27.6 | Man, who is the pinch hitter from my era? |
| 0:29.7 | That's a tough one. |
| 0:30.9 | Who's a great pinch hitter? |
| 0:32.2 | I don't know Manny Mota. |
| 0:33.7 | Come on. |
| 0:34.2 | Can we get somebody from the... You don't know Mani Mota, Vic Davileo. You don't remember any of these names, right? No, no, that's just a little pre-Marcus Thompson. I'm more of the... I don't even know who a pinch hitter is. Jeez, it's terrible. They don't even use pinch-hitters like that anymore. Guys don't stay on one squad for years like Manny Motor was with the Dodgers. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm going with Scott Hatterberg, who pinch hit and hit the game-winning home run. Oh, for Moneyball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. At the A's 120 in a row. There you go. I was at that game. Were you at that game? I was at that game. You weren't at that game. Yep, I was covering it. Were you really? |
| 0:50.7 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:51.6 | How about that from Moneyball? |
| 0:52.9 | That was a great scene. |
| 0:54.2 | I love that scene. |
| 0:55.5 | Yeah, it was incredible. |
| 0:57.0 | It was as crazy as it made it seen in the movie? It was way crazier live. It was insane. It was, it was surreal. I don't know, I don't know what the hey day of age baseball was like. I was just a kid listening to it on the radio. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah. |
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