Today on BRING IT IN, TrueHoop’s Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with science writer, author of “Good To Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery,” and athlete Christie Aschwanden. She recently wrote an excellent story the safety of re-opening sports. Christie writes for Elemental, co-hosts Emerging Form—a podcast about the creative process. She is the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and a contributor at the New York Times, Washington Post, and Slate.

She talked about what makes basketball dangerous during the pandemic, the chance of the NBA’s reopening becoming a superspreader event, doping, sex, and more.

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