Hello, friends. It’s Thursday which means a brand new episode of the Dime Podcast with myself and Martin Rickman (please feel free to smash those subscribe buttons and leave us some nice reviews). This week it’s all about the return of the NBA regular season. We were joined by two great guests this week in former NBA star and current NBA TV analyst Greg Anthony and national NBA writer for the Washington Post Tim Bontemps.
We start with Anthony and his memories of fights at practice during his time with the Knicks in the early 90s, spurred on by the Bobby Portis-Nikola Mirotic incident in Chicago on Tuesday. Anthony also told some great Charles Oakley stories, explained what it’s like to try and play on in a game after a tough injury like Gordon Hayward’s, and professed his love of lemon pepper wings.
Bontemps joined us live from the road as he left Cleveland following the Cavs-Celtics opener and told us what it was like in the arena after Hayward went down, where the Celtics go from here, and also a discussion about the Warriors and Rockets as well as who steps into Boston’s place in the East.
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Here’s the full rundown of topics we discussed this week:
- Bobby Portis and Nikola Mirotic’s practice fight
- What it was like in practice with the early 90s Knicks
- The many reasons you don’t mess with Charles Oakley
- High stakes NBA card games
- Trying to play in a game after a gruesome injury
- Anthony’s upcoming Players Only broadcast of Bulls-Cavs on NBA TV
- His favorite storylines of this season
- His love of lemon pepper wings
- Tim Bontemps joins us to talk about what it was like in The Q for Gordon Hayward’s injury
- Where the Celtics go from here
- The Cavs’ many issues outside of LeBron James
- Why the Wade-Rose backcourt won’t work
- The Rockets being the second best team in the NBA
- Why the Warriors are fine
- The Wizards now being the top challenger to Cleveland in the East
And much more!
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