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Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld

The Eighth Seed (w/Tas Melas!)

Buckets with Amir Blumenfeld

Headgum

Basketball, Nba, Pro Basketball, Amir Blumenfeld, Comedy, Sports

4.9907 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Co-Host of No Dunks, Handles, AND The Bounce is on the Skype-o-phone to discuss Raptors, Lakers, and the battle for eighth place. Then we get down and dirty and talk composting. Of course.

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:04.0

Welcome to Buckets.

0:07.0

It's that time of year again, cold and flu season.

0:10.0

Unlike the NBA regular season,

0:12.0

this one isn't suffering from a crippling ratings hit.

0:15.2

If you're not currently sick, odds are you were at one point in the last few months,

0:19.4

or will be soon enough.

0:21.2

Worry not, even professional basketballers are not immune.

0:25.0

Like a kindergarten class filled with seven footers, diseases spread like wildfire

0:29.8

amongst teams that share locker rooms, airplanes, and physical therapists. Littered throughout

0:34.8

the landscape of winter box scores is the same note, DMP illness, and I don't blame

0:40.7

them. When I'm sick I don't even have the strength to watch basketball, let alone play.

0:45.0

But when it comes to cold and flu season, these NBA players rarely get the former and often get the latter.

0:52.0

Flues! What's the difference between a cold and a

0:54.9

flu? Is it as simple as the flu has a fever? According to a Google search I just

1:00.0

did, yes. Both suck but one just sounds a lot worse. Nobody wants to admit they missed a game because of a cold. That sounds mild. Flues can kill people. Colds are just, you know, the sniffles. Some people hide behind the three-word semantic gymnastic flu-like symptoms,

1:16.3

which I think is just a cold.

1:18.5

Runny nose, sore throat, headache,

1:20.7

those are indeed the flu-like symptoms of a cold. I bring this up because recently,

1:27.0

LeBron missed a game due to a cold, officially too. He didn't say he had the flu. He didn't even

1:32.0

say he had flu-like symptoms. He said,

1:34.4

point blank, I have a cold. And then he watched the entire game from the bench.

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