In this episode, Addy, Britt, and Jesse are joined by Tiny Deaths musician and NBA writer for The Guardian Claire de Lune, whose latest piece on Nikola Jokić, Giannis Antetokounmpo, and the new, balanced superstar — is not why she’s a guest, because we didn’t know that she was working on it.
No, the reason Claire is here this time is to talk about Kevin Durant tweets, which she has analyzed as representing signs of the zodiac.
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Great news: after we recorded, KD dropped another classic.
Here’s the song, “Us” that was playing at the start of the show…
Also on this episode…
It’s exhausting being annoyed at Ferrari and annoying being exhausted by Ferrari, and yet it was an objectively good result?
The NBA offseason starts with a bang, and it should be longer, like, until Christmas.
Shoutout to Flagrant Magazine, where Claire previously wrote about Durant’s tweets.
Sports is really for theater kids, don’t tell anyone.
Please give us an NBA RedZone channel.
The Knicks winning 60 games, that super routine thing that happens all the time.
Does the phrase “excessively emotionally invested for three-to-four hours and it will make or break my weekend” bring anything to mind for you?
If you know what Tim Alberta tweeted to elicit this response from Kevin Durant, please let us know in the Discord.
Last, but not least, the results of our game this week, as we selected the schools that, if the stars aligned just right, and they brought all their best drinkers to Omaha, might someday challenge the record set this week by LSU at Rocco’s in Omaha — 26,965 Jell-O shots and counting as of this writing. We each selected two schools to challenge the 2017 Warriors of drinking from Louisiana.
Claire: Miami, Wisconsin
Addy: Arizona State, Columbia
Britt: Minnesota, Iowa
Jesse: Dartmouth, Navy
Between the time “the NBA offseason starts with a bang” was written above, and the time this sentence was written, Chris Paul got traded to Golden State. We can’t wait to have Claire back on the show for the next episode of NBA Drama.
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