Nothing But Respect

We are joined by Maya Goldberg-Safir, writer, journalist, podcaster, and creator of the excellent WNBA-focused substack Rough Notes. We get a little meta at the top and talk about Maya's journey into WNBA media, then she bravely explains the Stud Buds to us. We also get into Maya's awesome reporting on the WBL and the Bay Area's First Women's Pro Basketball Team, and who should really be sitting courtside at Valks games.

Editor Notes: We had a sli iiiight audio issue, and you may hear 3 or 4 instances of a light echo when we're talking over each other

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Maya's Substack Rough Notes

Maya's recent piece about a google doc called LESBIANS

A great Pod Maya did about The Pioneers

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The Defector Era of Nothing But Respect is officially here! To welcome in this new era we talk to Defector writers Maitreyi Anantharaman and David Roth about what's made the Dream so good this year, how league depth has made it a good time to be a WNBA expansion team (for now) and a little bit about green d*lido gate. We also discuss Michael Porter Jr's incredible string of media appearances, and whether Wemby is actually real.

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This is a special bonus episode. Harry talks to SanFranPreps.com creator Jeremy Balan about the very special website he founded to cover high school sports in the early 2010s.

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BIG NEWS!!!! Nothing But Respect is officially part of Defector Media!! Wooohoo!! We’re both really excited about this. So what does all this mean? The biggest thing is Defector’s own Maitreyi Anantharaman is now our official correspondent for all things WNBA, but she really already was….. Also, i guess we’re a Mets podcast now?

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Patrick and Harry talk a bit about Bill Ackman’s tennis game, if summer league has juice, and Patricks coverage of the Tour De France. We also go into the mailbag and discuss rare YouTube videos, if football can be intellectual, and who we’d want to fight Mark Zuckerberg. If you want us to read one of your questions give us a review on apple pods or shoot us an email! Lastly…we’ve got a big annoucnement coming Wednesday!!

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We are joined by Defector’s own Maitreyi Anantharaman for an early/mid-season WNBA check-in! We try to figure out who’s the 3rd best team in the league, talk about the Fever’s interesting start, and Maitreyi expands on her theory that bigs dominate the league. Plus, Patrick eats crow on the Valks, reveals he’s in multiple WNBA team-specific group chats, and Harry presents some AI findings.

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We are joined by TrillBroDude and NBABabySecret of You Know Ball podcast to talk all things NBA SLOP. We talk about the origins of slop, jesters’ privilege, the kangs as Americas team, Warriors’ greatness as a ZIRP phenomenon, Millennial hopecore in free agency, the newsroom but for shams, the addelsons, and some of the most interesting moves in free agency.

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All things You Know Ball

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harry and patrick talk nba finals, Haliburton’s really sad injury, winners and losers of the Finals and Sam Presti’s abundance team building. Then Harry argues that the KD trade announcement at Fantics Fest was staged.

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We are joined by director Mike Nicoll to talk about his new documentary THE SPOILS: Selling the Future of American Basketball. We talk AAU, Shoe Company Deep States, the strange contradictions around wanting young athletes to get paid, the spirit of ball, and even DEBATE a little bit about whether or not bitcoin could be a possible solution to some of these tricky problems.

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Available on Amazon Prime here: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/The-Spoils-Selling-the-Future-of-American-Basketball/0SUHC8PIUQC9WIC152NHLPS8CS

Note: For YouTube, the film is dropping in 4 parts, on this schedule:

Part 1: Friday, June 13th (out now!)

Part 2: Friday, June 20th

Part 3: Friday, June 27th

Part 4: Friday, July 4th

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Senior writer for Yahoo and OG basketblogger Dan Devine joins the show from Indianapolis to give us a finals scene report. We talk OKC’s Depth, the Pacers dark magic/shotmaking, playing with Shai vs playing with Steph. Dan also talks about what gamer basketblogging looks like in 2025, and Patrick gets sad about how Haliburton used to be a king. Finally, Harry and Patrick talk about the Valks’ exciting start.

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Dan’s Game 2 Piece:

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