Harry and Patrick are back talking Ant’s IRL aura, talking hoops on r/redscarepodcast, Kith, The Iraq War, and Harry’s theory of a Bing Bong Hero’s Journey. Then Harry rank the four possible finals matchups across a slew of different metrics and talk about how the Weak Link Basketball theory has gone global.

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Owen Phillips’s Weak Link Theory Piece

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Defector’s Maitreyi Anantharaman joins the pod to talk about the upcoming WNBA season, the mix of macro trends and micro trends in W coverage, shorting the fever, friendly rookies, and new WNBA offenses. Also Harry gives a quick recap of the RTRS draft party.

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Harry and Patrick are joined by the legendary Henry Abbott of TrueHoop! We discuss Henry’s new book about the crazy science of injury prevention. The conversation goes in all kinds of places: doping, new words for stuff, Santa Barbara, Thiel money, Kyle Korver banging his knees together, deceleration, and MUCH MORE. Go buy Ballistic. Its a great read.

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P3: https://www.p3t.md/

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Harry and Patrick are back discussing fanbases getting mad, quantum uncertainty, Steven A Smith, Harry’s Wembanama Hate Read, Ausar Thompson being too good at defense that it’s bad, and much more.

Editor's Note: Harry mixed up Big Justice and AJ at one point.

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We go LONG with Liz Franczak of TrueAnon.

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Its a playoff mega pod NBR style. We called up some folks who are fans of teams in the playoffs and asked them about their favorite team. Here’s our stack

Tom Ley - Nuggets

Eamon Whalen - Wolves

Isaac Chotiner - Rockets

Kylie Cheung - James Harden

Kofie Yeboah - Pistons

Sam Sheehan - Celtics —

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We are joined by Noah Kulwin, aka Kevin O Kulwin joins the pod to talk what’s going on with Ja, Noah getting Knicks pilled, Bradley Beal’s No Tarrif clause, Blowback as the 2015 warriors, and MUCH More

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We are joined by Owen Phillips, writer of the excellent F5 newsletter and former member of the New York Knicks analytics team. We talk new NBA offenses, 15 years of Celtics cheating, an NBA analytics slack channel, where all the smart posters went, weak link sports vs strong link sports, who Zach Lowe’s first 5 guests are gonna be and MUCH MORE.

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ock sportello is BACK. We talk Zach Lowe, chalk as a recession indicator, the You Know Ball nola takeover, ESPN vs ESPN on ESPN, Drew Timme aura farming in fort greene, Haynes Briefs, squatters ’ rights, and Grimes as a metaphor for the Sacramento Kings.

Links

The great Owen Phillips piece about the Blazers

Patrick’s piece on the ESPN drama

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Harry and Patrick are back talking Harry’s time covering March Madness, exciting basketball innovations, how big and strong big guys are, and the Boston Celtics getting bought by a Dartmouth soccer player

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