25: Hoops History (w/Leigh Ellis!)
Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld
Headgum
4.9 • 907 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Basketball historian and NBA analyst Leigh Ellis is on the line recapping his long, amazing journey from a young hoops head in Melbourne, Australia, to television host on NBATV's "The Starters."
We also discuss if anybody can take down the Warriors, and where he would like to see Zion play next year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a HeadGum Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Buckets, my guest today, is the self-proclaimed sixth man of |
| 0:09.6 | NBA TV's The Starters and quite possibly the most prominent Australian analyst in |
| 0:14.6 | NBA history please welcome to the show Lee Ellis. |
| 0:18.4 | You're getting bucket buckets. |
| 0:21.5 | Lee how are you doing? Goodee, thanks for having me. |
| 0:24.0 | Of course, this is, I think the first time I've booked a guest from Twitter. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, I can't remember who it was. |
| 0:30.0 | Someone just sent a tweet out and said, you know, to get me on the show and I thought yeah good I know you've had |
| 0:36.4 | I know you've had skeets on there in the past and you know and he said it was a lot of fun so it's great to be a part of it. |
| 0:42.0 | That's how nice of a guy you are |
| 0:43.4 | somebody just needs to tweet out you and you're like yeah I'll dedicate an hour of my |
| 0:46.7 | life to just being on his podcast sure. Yeah why not I've got you know I've got worse things I could be doing right now, so it gets me out of cleaning the house. |
| 0:56.0 | Let me give this guy credit because I feel like this is his time to shine as well. |
| 1:00.0 | And giving people credit on Twitter is sort of what you're known for. |
| 1:03.8 | So this guy is, |
| 1:04.8 | Squarehead H.K. |
| 1:07.0 | Is he part of your tweet of the week army? |
| 1:12.4 | He might be now, yeah. I might have to elevate him in the army to senior sergeant, I think. |
| 1:17.0 | All right, I usually start with a warm-up just to get our brains going on basketball. |
| 1:22.0 | I know this is all you think about all the time |
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