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The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

It’s Been Very Frustrating to See Them Succeed (with Rohan Nadkarni)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

Defector Media

Sports, Society & Culture

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sport Illustrated’s Rohan Nadkarni joins Drew and Roth to cover everything you need to know ahead of the NBA Playoffs: title favorites, the MVP race, and why the play-in tournament is necessary. Plus, Guy of the Week and the Funbag! Visit Defector.com.

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0:00.0

We're back! We're back! It's distraction! I'm drool! That's rough! I'm rough!

0:06.3

Hey man, how's it going? Good, how you doing? You feeling good?

0:09.4

Yeah man, I'm feeling pretty solid all told. I was in Pittsburgh last weekend and it restored me.

0:15.1

Get the fuck away! The sound's like pandering, but it's true because I live within

0:20.7

drive-distance of Pittsburgh and I've never been. I'd like to go. It seems like it

0:24.3

seems nice. Yeah, it's pretty nice. I was there for my cousin's

0:27.9

Bob Mitzvah, shout out to Maya, you crush it. It was, I don't, it's a strange city.

0:33.5

I didn't really get that much of a sense of it. I was hoping to get up with

0:36.9

Casey Taylor or Buddy who's written for the site a bunch of times. I wasn't able to

0:41.0

do that. Mostly was in cousin mode, but it was solid. It's a strange city in the

0:45.5

sense that a lot of it is built on hill sides and you have to drive through

0:48.2

mountains to get places a lot. Like it seems like they really wanted to have a

0:51.5

city there and you know what, you got to give them credit. They pulled it off.

0:54.8

It's absolutely where it is. Hey, speaking of 13-year-olds, let's get to this

0:58.7

week's guess. It's sports illustrated. It's own. Rohan, not Karni, our great good old

1:04.6

friend. How you doing, Rohan? So a couple things. First of all, very excited to be

1:09.2

back on the podcast. I was, I was waiting for my invite to come back on the show,

1:13.7

but I didn't want to be that guy that's like, hey, like when you having me back on

1:17.4

the pod, last time I did this, no joke. Multiple people hit me up and they were

1:22.6

like, you got to do David Roth's podcast. And I was like, yeah, yeah. Also, I

1:29.8

would like to say I had one of the worst nights of my life in Pittsburgh. What

1:33.6

happened? And I go back. Okay, tell it. So it's 2015, okay? And I'm, I just

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