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Is your NBA hot or not
You know how these work, right? HOT: MIAMI D Pretty good. NOT: LAKER D Pretty bad. Hots and nots, you gots it. HOT: THE NATION’S CAPITOL Things are moving in D.C., papers are passing and hands are raising and those busy-bee-rights in the 117th Congress aren’
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When Jo Night goes nowhere
When Jo Night goes nowhere0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: learning to love the Eastern Conference finalists, what’s ahead for yer Bulls, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!) If you tuned into the last play of the game on Thursday, what you saw was typical. Talented Bulls,
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James Harden misses that touch
James Harden misses that touch0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: 2000-01 NBA League Pass, Monday’s games, soothing rain, occasional guitar.) Whingeing over “points of emphasis” in the NBA’s first weeks is an annual tradition. One year the emphasis was on upsetting Rasheed Wallace and it went
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NBA counts to 75, inaccurately
NBA counts to 75, inaccurately0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: why no previews, Daryl Morey posts through it, Lakers do it their way, Kelly looks at old tapes, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe!) After a voting tie, the NBA settled on 76 players in its top 75
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Three things 2021-22 can't worry about
Three things 2021-22 can't worry about0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: coaches in track suits, Kyrie’s new friends, Sarver trash, Rocktober, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe in time for the division programs!) There are more three-pointers now, and there are only going
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Pau in Chicago
In 2001, after lengthy consternation (Don + Walt bribed Rolling Stone founder/perv Jann Wenner with a large 3M digital recording machine, $10,000, and “a crate of homemade honey mustard”), Steely Dan were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same good company as Queen. Fun
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Sixers can't just be normal
Sixers can't just be normal0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: Brooklyn and the best of Kyrie, Pau Gasol retires, Kelly brags about being flown to Orlando.) If you’re a Sixers fan, fine. Continue gnawing on your elbow. The rest of us? I think we’re supposed
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Kyrie goes Clapton
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Nine teams passed on Paul Pierce
Boston acquired Paul Pierce with the tenth selection in 1998’s NBA draft and it was inexplicable then just as now. Nine different teams thought they’d selected the top overall prospect and only Dallas’ gamble was correct. The draft wasn’t a cautionary tale, nobody was in on a
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Useless rabbits
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Funny Norm Macdonald
Funny Norm Macdonald0:00/2001× (Never Too Much podcast: what it was like to be a big ol’ fan of Norm MacDonald in 1996, why Tuesday was the only good day Twitter ever had, click ‘Listen in podcast app’ to subscribe.) You got the feeling that Norm MacDonald’s favorite