The Sports Reporters - Episode 279 - Power Of the Player. NBA All-Time Top Players Ranked

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

With MLB owners approving a re start plan for the game will players sign on? Why does it feel like the conversation has switched from safety to economics? Why players need a voice when discussing playing games again. Same for College football... Will the student athletes have a say in playing if there are no "students" on campus taking classes? And the guys have fun debating the top NBA players of all-time as ESPN puts out some rankings... Surprises, slights and who's too high/too low on the list?

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists.
0:02.8	New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.7	I'm Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.
0:20.6	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:22.9	And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN,
0:25.0	and we heartily welcome you to the Thursday morning edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.
0:29.8	We have been together for a long, long time, and various guises,
0:33.1	and we are with you each Monday and Thursday.
0:35.9	Gentlemen, to borrow a phrase from a revered member of our profession who many years ago
0:42.8	was sitting in the press box listening to the chattering of a young bunch of writers that he
0:47.4	labeled the chipmunks, he cleared his throat, and Mr. Jimmy Cannon said, baseball, gentlemen,
0:52.9	baseball.
0:53.9	Well, we are awaiting baseball guys, but we were approaching sort of a zero hour in the approach to any proposed 2020 season as the once again labor strife in anticipation.
1:08.1	I mean, this is like a preemptive strike.
1:10.4	They're rattling their sabres on the union about
1:12.8	money and guys, I think I speak for a trillion baseball fans. We don't want to hear about your
1:20.5	money spat right now. We don't want to hear about money. Just get it done. Get a proposal.
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